Saul And Patsy

Author : Charles Baxter
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307427618

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Saul and Patsy by Charles Baxter Pdf

From the winner of the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence and “one of our most gifted writers” (Chicago Tribune), Saul and Patsy is "stunning, never predictable, glimmering fiction, full of mischief and insight" (The Los Angeles Times). Five Oaks, Michigan is not exactly where Saul and Patsy meant to end up. Both from the East Coast, they met in college, fell in love, and settled down to married life in the Midwest. Saul is Jewish and a compulsively inventive worrier; Patsy is gentile and cheerfully pragmatic. On Saul’s initiative (and to his continual dismay) they have moved to this small town–a place so devoid of irony as to be virtually “a museum of earlier American feelings”–where he has taken a job teaching high school. Soon this brainy and guiltily happy couple will find children have become a part of their lives, first their own baby daughter and then an unloved, unlovable boy named Gordy Himmelman. It is Gordy who will throw Saul and Patsy’s lives into disarray with an inscrutable act of violence. As timely as a news flash yet informed by an immemorial understanding of human character, Saul and Patsy is a genuine miracle.

Author : Charles Baxter
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2021-10-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781984899712

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The Sun Collective by Charles Baxter Pdf

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR • A timely and unsettling novel about the people drawn to—and unmoored by—a local activist group more dangerous than it appears. From the winner of the PEN/Malamud Award and “one of our most gifted writers” (Chicago Tribune). Once a promising actor, Tim Brettigan has gone missing. His father thinks he may have seen him among some homeless people. And though she knows he left on purpose, his mother has been searching for him all over their home city of Minneapolis. She checks the usual places— churches, storefronts, benches—and stumbles upon a local community group with lofty goals and an enigmatic leader. Christina, a young woman rapidly becoming addicted to a boutique drug that gives her a feeling of blessedness, is inexplicably drawn to the same collective by a man who’s convinced he may start a revolution. A vision of modern American society and the specters of the consumerism, fanaticism, and fear that haunt it, The Sun Collective captures both the mystery and the violence that punctuate our daily lives.

Author : Charles Baxter
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1998-09-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780679776536

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Believers by Charles Baxter Pdf

From the winner of the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short Story and “one of our most gifted writers” (Chicago Tribune) With his five previous books of fiction, Charles Baxter established himself as a contemporary literary master, in the traditions of Raymond Carver, William Maxwell, and Alice Munro. This radiant collection confirms Baxter's ability to revel in the surfaces of seemingly ordinary lives while uncovering their bedrock of passion, madness, levity and grief.

Author : Jennifer Levasseur
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : American fiction
ISBN : UCSC:32106015901504

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Novel Voices by Jennifer Levasseur Pdf

This collection provides a rare glimpse into the writing lives of 15 contemporary authors, including Charles Baxter, Elizabeth McCracken, and Charles Johnson. How-to sidebars on improving prose and breaking into publishing to guide readers in getting a jump start on publication.

Author : Charles Baxter
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2014-12-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101911662

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The Would-be Father by Charles Baxter Pdf

From the collection Gryphon, Charles Baxter’s luminous story of caretaking under any circumstance. Burrage never thought he’d be the responsible one. When his brother and sister-in-law die in a car accident, he becomes caretaker to his young nephew, a fragile boy who wants to know what the future will be. Burrage begins writing the boy’s horoscope—stars, trains, and hide-and-seek—until his predictions begin to fail, in a rowboat, in the middle of a lake. Charles Baxter is one of our finest short story writers, a modern master. “The Would-be Father” is one of his first published short stories. An eBook short.

Author : Philip A. Greasley
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 980 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2001-05-30
Category : Reference
ISBN : 0253108411

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Dictionary of Midwestern Literature, Volume 1 by Philip A. Greasley Pdf

The Dictionary of Midwestern Literature, Volume One, surveys the lives and writings of nearly 400 Midwestern authors and identifies some of the most important criticism of their writings. The Dictionary is based on the belief that the literature of any region simultaneously captures the experience and influences the worldview of its people, reflecting as well as shaping the evolving sense of individual and collective identity, meaning, and values. Volume One presents individual lives and literary orientations and offers a broad survey of the Midwestern experience as expressed by its many diverse peoples over time.Philip A. Greasley's introduction fills in background information and describes the philosophy, focus, methodology, content, and layout of entries, as well as criteria for their inclusion. An extended lead-essay, "The Origins and Development of the Literature of the Midwest," by David D. Anderson, provides a historical, cultural, and literary context in which the lives and writings of individual authors can be considered.This volume is the first of an ambitious three-volume series sponsored by the Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature and created by its members. Volume Two will provide similar coverage of non-author entries, such as sites, centers, movements, influences, themes, and genres. Volume Three will be a literary history of the Midwest. One goal of the series is to build understanding of the nature, importance, and influence of Midwestern writers and literature. Another is to provide information on writers from the early years of the Midwestern experience, as well as those now emerging, who are typically absent from existing reference works.

Author : Ted Kooser
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780803227699

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The Poetry Home Repair Manual by Ted Kooser Pdf

Provides instructions on writing and revising poems.

Author : Nancy L. Bunge
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2014-11-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781476617855

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The Midwestern Novel by Nancy L. Bunge Pdf

With Huckleberry Finn, American fiction changed radically and shifted its setting to the middle of the country. A focus on social issues replaced the philosophic and psychological explorations that dominated the work of Melville and Hawthorne. Colloquial speech rather than elevated language articulated these fresh ideas, while common folk rather than dramatic characters like Ahab and Hester Prynne played central roles. This transformation of American literature has been largely ignored, while during the 130 years since Huckleberry Finn the Midwest has continued to produce writers whose work, like Twain's, addresses injustice by portraying the decency of ordinary people. Since the end of the 19th century, Midwestern authors have dismissed the elite and celebrated those whom the power structure typically excludes: children, women, African-Americans and the lower classes. Instead of wealth and power, this literature values authenticity and compassion. The book explores this literary tradition by examining the work of 30 Midwestern writers including F. Scott Fitzgerald, Willa Cather, Ernest Hemingway, Richard Wright, Saul Bellow, Toni Morrison, Jonathan Franzen, Jane Smiley and Louise Erdrich.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : UM Libraries
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Cooking
ISBN : UOM:39015071120318

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The Michigan Alumnus by Anonim Pdf

In v.1-8 the final number consists of the Commencement annual.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Literature
ISBN : PURD:32754084919517

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Michigan Quarterly Review by Anonim Pdf

Author : Charles Baxter
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2009-02-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781400034406

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The Soul Thief by Charles Baxter Pdf

In this extraordinary novel of mischief and menace, we see a young man's very self vanishing before his eyes—from the winner of the PEN/Malamud Award and “one of our most gifted writers” (Chicago Tribune) "Entirely original.... So craftily construcyed that to appreciate how liberally Baxter plants creepy hints of what's to come a reader should really savor this book twice." —The Washington Post As a graduate student in upstate New York, Nathaniel Mason is drawn into a tangle of relationships with people who seem to hover just beyond his grasp. There's Theresa, alluring but elusive, and Jamie, who is fickle if not wholly unavailable. But Jerome Coolberg is the most mysterious and compelling. Not only cryptic about himself, he seems also to have appropriated parts of Nathaniel's past that Nathaniel cannot remember having told him about.

Author : Charles Baxter
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2009-05-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307565693

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The Feast of Love by Charles Baxter Pdf

National Book Award Finalist • A superb novel that delicately unearths the myriad manifestations of extraordinary love between ordinary people, from "one of our most gifted writers" (Chicago Tribune) and the winner of the PEN/Malamud Award "A near perfect book, as deep as it is broad in its humaneness, comedy and wisdom." —The Washington Post The Feast of Love is just that—a sumptuous work of fiction about the thing that most distracts and delights us. In a re-imagined Midsummer Night's Dream, men and women speak of and desire their ideal mates; parents seek out their lost children; adult children try to come to terms with their own parents and, in some cases, find new ones. In vignettes both comic and sexy, the owner of a coffee shop recalls the day his first wife seemed to achieve a moment of simple perfection, while she remembers the women's softball game during which she was stricken by the beauty of the shortstop. A young couple spends hours at the coffee shop fueling the idea of their fierce love. A professor of philosophy, stopping by for a cup of coffee, makes a valiant attempt to explain what he knows to be the inexplicable workings of the human heart Their voices resonate with each other—disparate people joined by the meanderings of love—and come together in a tapestry that depicts the most irresistible arena of life. Crafted with subtlety, grace, and power, The Feast of Love is a masterful novel.

Author : Charles Baxter
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2015-02-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101870020

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There's Something I Want You to Do by Charles Baxter Pdf

"There’s something I want you to do.” This request—sometimes simple, sometimes not—forms the basis for the ten interrelated short stories that comprise this latest penetrating and prophetic collection from the winner of the PEN/Malamud Award and “one of our most gifted writers” (Chicago Tribune). As we follow a diverse group of Minnesota citizens, each grappling with their own heightened fears, responsibilities, and obsessions, Baxter unveils the remarkable in what might otherwise be the seemingly inconsequential moments of everyday life.

Author : Charles Baxter
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0393322203

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A Relative Stranger by Charles Baxter Pdf

Set in the Michigan landscape that Charles Baxter has made his own, these thirteen exquisite stories illuminate the often curious connections of relatives and strangers. "You can't just get a brother off the street," says the narrator of the title story, but indeed he does. In another, a woman tries to elude her lover's voice by spending an entire day without words. A marriage is jostled by the departure of a friend during a snowstorm. Baxter's stories tend to be love stories, but it is love tinged with fear, even danger, where shock, comedy, and love combine in unexpected ways. Book jacket.

Author : David B. Hamilton
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0877455368

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Hard Choices by David B. Hamilton Pdf

As editor David Hamilton notes in his introduction to this eclectic anniversary volume of nearly eighty poems and stories, "To a considerable extent we have defined ourselves by them; thus Hard Choices, a generous sampling of the best and most interesting writing from the Iowa Review's first years, defines the past and the future of American literature.".