Raw Material Storycuts

Author : A S Byatt
Publisher : Random House
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2011-11-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781448128341

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Raw Material (Storycuts) by A S Byatt Pdf

A downtrodden creative writing teacher despairs at the efforts of his students, at turns nakedly autobiographical or fanciful beyond reason. When an elderly lady begins submitting work in accordance with his 'write what you know' directive, his enthusiasm for the craft re-emerges. However some sources are best left unexplored. Part of the Storycuts series, this short story was originally published in the collection Little Black Book of Stories.

Author : Irvine Welsh
Publisher : Random House
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2011-11-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781448129157

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If You Liked School, You'll Love Work... (Storycuts) by Irvine Welsh Pdf

Mickey Baker, an ex-pat English bar owner living in Spain, returns to England to see his daughter and mother but must face the wrath of his ex-wife, a woman who pulls no punches. Part of the Storycuts series, this short story was previously published in the collection If You Liked School, You'll Love Work.

Author : Irvine Welsh
Publisher : Random House
Page : 33 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2011-11-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781448129195

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The DOGS of Lincoln Park (Storycuts) by Irvine Welsh Pdf

Three young women - competitive, bitchy and moneyed - have lunch together at their favourite Korean restaurant every Friday. When the friendly chef from the restaurant moves into the same building as one of the girls, she strikes up a friendship with him. But the disappearance of her dog sparks suspicion of the Korean chef's motives, and his culinary ambitions. Part of the Storycuts series, this short story was previously published in the collection If You Liked School, You'll Love Work.

Author : A S Byatt
Publisher : Random House
Page : 27 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2011-11-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781448128327

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A Stone Woman (Storycuts) by A S Byatt Pdf

Following the death of her mother, an elderly woman begins to undergo a transfiguration. Her body grows flinty, toughens and crystallises. An Icelandic stonemason she meets in a graveyard becomes her sole confidant. As her inexorable metamorphosis continues, the stories he has to tell of his homeland and its legends begin to resonate. Part of the Storycuts series, this short story was originally published in the collection Little Black Book of Stories.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:312035955

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Raw Materials by Anonim Pdf

Author : A S Byatt
Publisher : Random House
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781448114474

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The Little Black Book of Stories by A S Byatt Pdf

A new collection of stories from A. S. Byatt is always a winner, and this one takes an unexpected turn, bringing shivers as well as delights. Leaves rustle underfoot in a dark wood: two middle-aged women walk into a forest, as they did when they were girls, confronting their fears and memories and the strange thing they saw in their childhood - or thought they saw - so long ago. A distinguished obstetrician and young woman artist find they have sharply contrasting ideas about body parts, birth and death; an innocent member of an evening class harbours unexpected view on 'raw material'. The stories in this marvellous collection are by turns funny, spooky, sparkling and haunting. The Little Black Book of Stories holds its secrets, adding a dark quality to Byatt's famous skill in mixing folk and fairy tale with everyday life.

Author : A S Byatt
Publisher : Random House
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781473521292

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Sugar And Other Stories by A S Byatt Pdf

It should come as no surprise that short stories by the author of the magical Possession are populated by erudite paranoiacs, witches, changelings, and the ghost of a dead child. A S Byatt's short fictions explore the fragile ties between generations, the dizzying abyss of loss and the elaborate memories we construct against it, resulting in a book that compels us to inhabit other lives and returns us to our own with new knowledge, compassion, and a sense of wonder.

Author : A S Byatt
Publisher : Random House
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2021-02-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781448162789

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Still Life by A S Byatt Pdf

Frederica Potter arrives at Cambridge University greedy for knowledge, sex and love. It isn’t long before she becomes infatuated with a mysterious and controlling poet. Back in Yorkshire, her sister Stephanie abandons academia and is confronted with the boredom and frustrations of motherhood. Meanwhile, their younger brother Marcus begins to recover from a nervous breakdown. Each sibling is desperate to shape their own future, but a horrifying event will soon change their lives forever.

Author : Les Logan
Publisher : Bantam Books
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1985-01-01
Category : Horror
ISBN : 0553252119

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The Game by Les Logan Pdf

Bitter because of the accident that left her confined to a wheelchair, Julie spends hours playing with her ouija board, until she inadvertently contacts a demon.

Author : A S Byatt
Publisher : Random House
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2021-02-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781448192274

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Babel Tower by A S Byatt Pdf

After her husband becomes violent, Frederica Potter flees with her young son to London. There, she secures a teaching position in an art school, and finds herself surrounded by painters and poets with dreams of rebellion. Then Frederica meets Jude Mason, the strange and charismatic author of a wildly controversial novel. When her husband files for divorce and Jude becomes the target of a high-profile court case, Frederica’s life threatens to spiral out of control. THE THIRD FREDERICA POTTER NOVEL

Author : A S Byatt
Publisher : Random House
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781448162673

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The Matisse Stories by A S Byatt Pdf

Each story is in some way inspired by a painting of Henri Matisse, each is also about the intimate connection between seeing and feeling -- about the ways in which a glance we meant to be casual may suddenly call forth the deepest reserves of our being. Their subjects' lives unravel from simple beginnings -- a trip to the hair dresser, a cleaning woman's passion for knitting, lunch in a Chinese restaurant but gradually the veneer of ordinariness is peeled back to expose pain, reveal desire, or express the intensity of joy in color and creation. These stories are all about human beings: about how little we can know (or may care to know) about the people with whom we spend our lives, and how tragic the results of that ignorance or indifference can be.

Author : A S Byatt
Publisher : Random House
Page : 25 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2011-11-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781448128365

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The Thing in the Forest (Storycuts) by A S Byatt Pdf

Leaves rustle underfoot in a dark wood: two little girls, extracted from their homes in wartime London, encounter something terrifying in a forest. Later when they meet as grown women, they realise the experience has coloured their lives. A dark tale about the nature of stories themselves. Part of the Storycuts series, this short story was originally published in the collection Little Black Book of Stories.

Author : A. S. Byatt
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780593321591

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Medusa's Ankles by A. S. Byatt Pdf

A ravishing, luminous selection of short stories from the prize-winning imagination of A. S. Byatt, "a storyteller who could keep a sultan on the edge of his throne for a thousand and one nights" (The New York Times Book Review). With an introduction by David Mitchell, best-selling author of Cloud Atlas Mirrors shatter at the hairdresser's when a middle-aged client explodes in rage. Snow dusts the warm body of a princess, honing it into something sharp and frosted. Summer sunshine flickers on the face of a smiling child who may or may not be real. Medusa's Ankles celebrates the very best of A. S. Byatt's short fiction, carefully selected from a lifetime of writing. Peopled by artists, poets, and fabulous creatures, the stories blaze with creativity and color. From ancient myth to a British candy factory, from a Chinese restaurant to a Mediterranean swimming pool, from a Turkish bazaar to a fairy-tale palace, Byatt transports her readers beyond the veneer of the ordinary—even beyond the gloss of the fantastical—to places rich and strange and wholly unforgettable.

Author : A S Byatt
Publisher : Random House
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2021-02-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781448162611

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A Whistling Woman by A S Byatt Pdf

It is 1968 and Frederica Potter is surprised to find herself embarking on a new career in television. While she endeavours to navigate this fast-paced and occasionally bewildering industry, her lover John takes up a post working with a pair of unusual scientists. Yet in Frederica’s home county of Yorkshire, tumultuous events are unfolding. Soon her future, and that of the people closest to her, begins to look rather different. THE FOURTH FREDERICA POTTER NOVEL

Author : A S Byatt
Publisher : Random House
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2018-12-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781473521568

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Degrees of Freedom by A S Byatt Pdf

First published in 1965, A.S. Byatt's Degrees of Freedom examined the first eight novels of Iris Murdoch, identifying freedom as a central theme in all of them, and looking at Murdoch's interest in the relations between art and goodness, master and slave, and the novel of character in the nineteenth century sense. Drawing on Iris Murdoch's own critical and philosphical writing, A.S. Byatt discussed her interest in the thought of Sartre, Plato, Freud and Simone Weil, and related this to the form of the novels themselves. This edition of Degrees of Freedom has an added dossier of later essays and reviews of Iris Murdoch's work by A.S Byatt, taking us up to the publication of The Book and the Brotherhood in 1987. It also includes a substantial pamplet written for the British Council which follows Murdoch's fiction as far as The Good Apprentice.