The Collected Stories Of Deborah Eisenberg

Author : Deborah Eisenberg
Publisher : Picador
Page : 997 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2010-08-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781429987226

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The Collected Stories of Deborah Eisenberg by Deborah Eisenberg Pdf

The Collected Stories of Deborah Eisenberg contains twenty-seven short stories by "a contemporary master" (New York Times). Since 1986 with the publication of her first story collection, Deborah Eisenberg has devoted herself to writing "exquisitely distilled stories" which "present an unusually distinctive portrait of contemporary American life" to quote the MacArthur Foundation. This one volume brings together Transactions in a Foreign Currency (1986), Under the 82nd Airborne (1992), All Around Atlantis (1997) and Twilight of the Superheroes (2006). "One of America's finest writers."—San Francisco Chronicle "Concentrated bursts of perfection."—The Times (London)

Author : Deborah Eisenberg
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2018-09-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780062688798

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Your Duck Is My Duck by Deborah Eisenberg Pdf

“[Eisenberg] reminds us in every line of certain saving virtues: wit, wild intelligence, great heart, the beauty of the inquiring human voice. If our culture can produce a writer this wonderful, there must be something beautiful about us yet.” — George Saunders Instead of forcing her characters’ stories into neat, arbitrary, preordained shapes, [Eisenberg] allows them to grow organically into oddly shaped, asymmetrical narratives—narratives that possess all the surprising twists and dismaying turns of real life.” — New York Times “Deborah Eisenberg, one of America’s finest writers, offers new ways of seeing and feeling, as if something were being perfected at the core.” — San Francisco Chronicle “Reading [Eisenberg] makes you wish, as you study the family in front of you in the grocery line, that you could see their thoughts rendered as one of Eisenberg’s stunning inner monologues.” — Los Angeles Times “...[S]uperlative and entertaining...Eisenberg is funny, grim, biting, and wise, but always with a light touch and always in the service of worlds that extend far beyond the page. A virtuoso at rendering the flickering gestures by which people simultaneously hide and reveal themselves, Eisenberg is an undisputed master of the short story.” — Publishers Weekly (starred review) “[Eisenberg] is always worth the wait...so instantly absorbing that it feels like an abduction...This book offers no palliatives to its characters or to its readers — no plan of action. But it is a compass.” — The New York Times “Eisenberg is a gorgeous writer...I thank my stars that there’s a writer in the increasingly imperiled world as smart and funny and blazingly moral and devastatingly sidelong as she is.” — New York Times Book Review “Every character is memorable, every situation seizes our attention, and not a single word is out of place...It’s my fervent hope...that someday we’ll have the opportunity to look back on the many more stories that Deborah Eisenberg has yet to write.” — Financial Times

Author : Deborah Eisenberg
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2011-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780374707798

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Under the 82nd Airborne by Deborah Eisenberg Pdf

Seven knowing, witty stories from the widely praised author of Transactions in a Foreign Currency.

Author : Deborah Eisenberg
Publisher : Picador
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2020-06-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1250771455

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Transactions in a Foreign Currency by Deborah Eisenberg Pdf

Author : Deborah Eisenberg
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0330444603

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Twilight of the Superheroes by Deborah Eisenberg Pdf

In her newest collection of short stories, Eisenberg demonstrates once again her virtuosic abilities in precisely distilled, perfectly shaped studies of human connection and disconnection.

Author : Deborah Eisenberg
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2010-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780374707774

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All Around Atlantis by Deborah Eisenberg Pdf

Deborah Eisenberg's deeply etched and mysterious stories focus on individuals grappling with dislocations, ironies, and compromises levied by ordinary reality and the vivid, troubling worlds her characters inhabit. With lyrical and gleaming prose, Eisenberg pries open daily life to explore the hidden mechanisms of human behavior. "Eisenberg is an influential presence in contemporary short fiction with her strong portrayals of characters dealing with the confusion of modern life." - Library Journal

Author : Gregor Von Rezzori
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2011-12-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781590175507

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Memoirs of an Anti-Semite by Gregor Von Rezzori Pdf

The elusive narrator of this beautifully written, complex, and powerfully disconcerting novel is the scion of a decayed aristocratic family from the farther reaches of the defunct Austro-Hungarian Empire. In five psychologically fraught episodes, he revisits his past, from adolescence to middle age, a period that coincides with the twentieth century’s ugliest years. Central to each episode is what might be called the narrator’s Jewish Question. He is no Nazi. To the contrary, he is apolitical, accommodating, cosmopolitan. He has Jewish friends and Jewish lovers, and their Jewishness is a matter of abiding fascination to him. His deepest and most defining relationship may even be the strange dance of attraction and repulsion that throughout his life he has conducted with this forbidden, desired, inescapable, imaginary Jewish other. And yet it is just this relationship that has blinded him to—and makes him complicit in—the terrible realities of his era. Lyrical, witty, satirical, and unblinking, Gregor von Rezzori’s most controversial work is an intimate foray into the emotional underworld of modern European history.

Author : Deborah Eisenberg
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1997-03-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0374524920

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The Stories (So Far) of Deborah Eisenberg by Deborah Eisenberg Pdf

Gathered now into one volume, Eisenberg's stories have an astonishing power and range. Her characters, whether they are walking the streets of Manhattan or seemingly abandoned in foreign countries, continually make disquieting and sometimes life-threatening discoveries about themselves, discoveries that illuminate not only their own lives but also the wider net of relationships in which they are enmeshed. Knowing, witty, and exact, Deborah Eisenberg's fiction is fashioned with a jeweler's eye for detail and a profound gift for evoking degrees of human interaction and anxiety.

Author : Sarah Shun-lien Bynum
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 135 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2020-09-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780374722302

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Likes by Sarah Shun-lien Bynum Pdf

A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: Library Journal, Electric Literature, The New York Public Library, PopMatters A Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the Story Prize National Book Award finalist Sarah Shun-lien Bynum’s highly anticipated return weaves together like and unlike, mythic and modern In nine stories that range from the real to the unreal, strange to familiar, funny to frightening, Sarah Shun-lien Bynum reminds us why her wildly original debut, Madeleine Is Sleeping, and her masterful Ms. Hempel Chronicles have become contemporary classics--celebrated and beloved. In a nimble dance of lightness and gravity, Likes explores the full range and contradictions of our contemporary moment. Through unexpected visitors, Waldorf school fairs, aging indie-film stars, the struggle to gain a foothold in the capitalist shell-game of work, the Instagram posts of a twelve-year-old—these stories of friendship and parenthood, celebrity and obsession, race and class and the passage of time, form an engrossing collection that is both otherworldly and suffused with the deceitful humdrum of everyday life. For readers of Joy Williams, George Saunders, Lauren Groff, and Deborah Eisenberg, Likes helps us see into our unacknowledged desires and, in quick, artful, nearly invisible cuts, exposes the roots of our abiding terrors and delights.

Author : Deborah Eisenberg
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0330458000

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PICADOR SHOTS - 'Some Other, Better Otto' by Deborah Eisenberg Pdf

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Author : Dezso Kosztolanyi
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1995-06-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9639116661

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Skylark by Dezso Kosztolanyi Pdf

Kosztolanyi's Skylark is a portrait of provincial life in the Austro-Hungarian monarchy at the turn of the century. Set in the autumn of 1899, it focuses on one extraordinary week in the otherwise uneventful lives of an elderly Hungarian couple and their ugly spinster daughter, Skylark.

Author : Deborah Harkness
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 610 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2011-02-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101475690

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A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness Pdf

Book one of the New York Times bestselling All Souls series, from the author of The Black Bird Oracle. “A wonderfully imaginative grown-up fantasy with all the magic of Harry Potter and Twilight” (People). Look for the hit series “A Discovery of Witches,” now streaming on AMC+, Sundance Now, and Shudder! Deborah Harkness’s sparkling debut, A Discovery of Witches, has brought her into the spotlight and galvanized fans around the world. In this tale of passion and obsession, Diana Bishop, a young scholar and a descendant of witches, discovers a long-lost and enchanted alchemical manuscript, Ashmole 782, deep in Oxford's Bodleian Library. Its reappearance summons a fantastical underworld, which she navigates with her leading man, vampire geneticist Matthew Clairmont. Harkness has created a universe to rival those of Anne Rice, Diana Gabaldon, and Elizabeth Kostova, and she adds a scholar's depth to this riveting tale of magic and suspense. The story continues in book two, Shadow of Night, book three, The Book of Life, and the fourth in the series, Time’s Convert.

Author : Cao Xueqin
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2012-08-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780141935164

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The Story of the Stone: The Golden Days by Cao Xueqin Pdf

The Story of the Stone (c.1760) is one of the greatest novels of Chinese literature. The first part of the story, The Golden Days, begins the tale of Bao-yu, a gentle young boy who prefers girls to Confucian studies, and his two cousins: Bao-chai, his parents' choice of a wife for him, and the ethereal beauty Dai-yu. Through the changing fortunes of the Jia family, this rich, magical work sets worldly events - love affairs, sibling rivalries, political intrigues, even murder - within the context of the Buddhist understanding that earthly existence is an illusion and karma determines the shape of our lives.

Author : Ben Marcus
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 778 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2015-07-21
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780804173544

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New American Stories by Ben Marcus Pdf

In New American Stories, the beautiful, the strange, the melancholy, and the sublime all comingle to show the vast range of the American short story . In this remarkable anthology, Ben Marcus has corralled a vital and artistically singular crowd of contemporary fiction writers. Collected here are practitioners of deep realism, mind-blowing experimentalism, and every hybrid in between. Luminaries and cult authors stand side by side with the most compelling new literary voices. Nothing less than the American short story renaissance distilled down to its most relevant, daring, and unforgettable works, New American Stories puts on wide display the true art of an American idiom.

Author : Charles Baxter
Publisher : Graywolf Press
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2013-07-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781555970963

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The Art of Subtext by Charles Baxter Pdf

Charles Baxter inaugurates The Art of, a new series on the craft of writing, with the wit and intelligence he brought to his celebrated book Burning Down the House: Essays on Fiction. Fiction writer and essayist Charles Baxter's The Art of Subtext: Beyond Plot discusses and illustrates the hidden subtextual overtones and undertones in fictional works haunted by the unspoken, the suppressed, and the secreted. Using an array of examples from Melville and Dostoyevsky to contemporary writers Paula Fox, Edward P. Jones, and Lorrie Moore, Baxter explains how fiction writers create those visible and invisible details, how what is displayed evokes what is not displayed. The Art of Subtext is part of The Art of series, a new line of books by important authors on the craft of writing, edited by Charles Baxter. Each book examines a singular, but often assumed or neglected, issue facing the contemporary writer of fiction, nonfiction, or poetry. The Art of series means to restore the art of criticism while illuminating the art of writing.