The Mookse The Gripes

Author : Milton Rokeach
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2011-04-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781590173985

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The Three Christs of Ypsilanti by Milton Rokeach Pdf

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE This landmark case study of three schizophrenic patients offers a “rare and eccentric journey” into madness, shining a light on the ethical dilemmas of institutionalized care in the mid-20th century (Slate) On July 1, 1959, at Ypsilanti State Hospital in Michigan, the social psychologist Milton Rokeach brought together three paranoid schizophrenics: Clyde Benson, an elderly farmer and alcoholic; Joseph Cassel, a failed writer who was institutionalized after increasingly violent behavior toward his family; and Leon Gabor, a college dropout and veteran of World War II. The men had one thing in common: each believed himself to be Jesus Christ. Their extraordinary meeting and the two years they spent in one another’s company serves as the basis for an investigation into the nature of human identity, belief, and delusion that is poignant, amusing, and at times disturbing. Displaying the sympathy and subtlety of a gifted novelist, Rokeach draws us into the lives of three troubled and profoundly different men who find themselves “confronted with the ultimate contradiction conceivable for human beings: more than one person claiming the same identity.”

Author : Alice Munro
Publisher : Random House
Page : 21 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2011-11-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781448128501

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What Is Remembered (Storycuts) by Alice Munro Pdf

A fleeting affair lingers in the memory of a woman. Thirty years after the event, when both husband and lover have died, she remembers one further detail. Part of the Storycuts series, this short story was previously published in the collection Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage.

Author : Penelope Fitzgerald
Publisher : HarperCollins publishers
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Booksellers and bookseeking
ISBN : 0008263027

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The Bookshop by Penelope Fitzgerald Pdf

Shortlisted for the Booker Prize. In a small East Anglian town, Florence Green decides, against polite but ruthless local opposition, to open a bookshop.

Author : Natsume Soseki
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781590176009

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The Gate by Natsume Soseki Pdf

An NYRB Classics Original A humble clerk and his loving wife scrape out a quiet existence on the margins of Tokyo. Resigned, following years of exile and misfortune, to the bitter consequences of having married without their families’ consent, and unable to have children of their own, Sōsuke and Oyone find the delicate equilibrium of their household upset by a new obligation to meet the educational expenses of Sōsuke’s brash younger brother. While an unlikely new friendship appears to offer a way out of this bind, it also soon threatens to dredge up a past that could once again force them to flee the capital. Desperate and torn, Sōsuke finally resolves to travel to a remote Zen mountain monastery to see if perhaps there, through meditation, he can find a way out of his predicament. This moving and deceptively simple story, a melancholy tale shot through with glimmers of joy, beauty, and gentle wit, is an understated masterpiece by one of Japan’s greatest writers. At the end of his life, Natsume Sōseki declared The Gate, originally published in 1910, to be his favorite among all his novels. This new translation captures the oblique grace of the original while correcting numerous errors and omissions that marred the first English version.

Author : Roberto Bolaño
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2012-05-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780811219914

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Antwerp (New Directions Pearls) by Roberto Bolaño Pdf

"Antwerp's" signature elements--crimes and campgrounds, drifters and poetry, sex and love, corrupt cops and misfits--mark this, his first novel, as pure Bolao. A elegantly produced, small collectible stamped cover-on-cloth edition.

Author : James Joyce,D'Ambrosio
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:3563534

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The Mookse and the Gripes by James Joyce,D'Ambrosio Pdf

Author : Alice Munro
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2009-09-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307487766

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The Love of a Good Woman by Alice Munro Pdf

In eight “riveting [and] lovely” (San Francisco Chronicle) stories, Nobel Prize–winning author Alice Munro stunningly explores the strange, often comical desires of the human heart. “Superb . . . dazzling . . . Munro’s feel for her own characters is as pure as Chekhov’s.”—The New York Times Book Review (Editors’ Choice) “Munro is indisputably a master. . . . A better book of stories can scarcely be imagined.”—The Washington Post Book World Mining the silences and dark discretions of provincial life, the eight tales in The Love of a Good Woman lay bare the seamless connections and shared guilt that bind even the loneliest of individuals. A stroke victim expresses his deepest secret to a young bride in what may be the last act of intimacy left in him. A daughter confronts her father with the open secret of his life. And in the riveting title story, a selfless nurse tending a dying patient discovers the social utility of lies. Sparklingly detailed, unwaveringly courageous, these are stories that extend the limits of fiction.

Author : Antonio Di Benedetto
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2022-02-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781681375632

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The Silentiary by Antonio Di Benedetto Pdf

In post-WWII South America, a struggling writer embarks on a murderous thought experiment to help kickstart his career in this next tale of longing from the author of Zama. The Silentiary takes place in a nameless Latin American city during the early 1950s. A young man employed in middle management entertains an ambition to write a book of some sort. But first he must establish the necessary precondition, which the crowded and noisily industrialized city always denies him, however often he and his mother and wife move in search of it. He thinks of embarking on his writing career with something simple, a detective novel, and ponders the possibility of choos- ing a victim among the people he knows and planning a crime as if he himself were the killer. That way, he hopes, his book might finally begin to take shape. The Silentiary, along with Zama and The Suicides, is one of the three thematically linked novels by Di Benedetto that have come to be known as the Trilogy of Expectation, after the dedication “To the victims of expectation” in Zama. Together they constitute, in Juan José Saer’s words, “one of the culminating moments of twentieth-century narrative fiction in Spanish.”

Author : Alice Munro
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307426192

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Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage by Alice Munro Pdf

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE® IN LITERATURE 2013 In the her tenth collection (the title story of which is the basis for the new film Hateship Loveship), Alice Munro achieves new heights, creating narratives that loop and swerve like memory, and conjuring up characters as thorny and contradictory as people we know ourselves. A tough-minded housekeeper jettisons the habits of a lifetime because of a teenager’s practical joke. A college student visiting her brassy, unconventional aunt stumbles on an astonishing secret and its meaning in her own life. An incorrigible philanderer responds with unexpected grace to his wife’s nursing-home romance. Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage is Munro at her best, tirelessly observant, serenely free of illusion, deeply and gloriously humane.

Author : W. G. Sebald
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2016-11-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780811221290

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The Emigrants by W. G. Sebald Pdf

A masterwork of W. G. Sebald, now with a gorgeous new cover by the famed designer Peter Mendelsund The four long narratives in The Emigrants appear at first to be the straightforward biographies of four Germans in exile. Sebald reconstructs the lives of a painter, a doctor, an elementary-school teacher, and Great Uncle Ambrose. Following (literally) in their footsteps, the narrator retraces routes of exile which lead from Lithuania to London, from Munich to Manchester, from the South German provinces to Switzerland, France, New York, Constantinople, and Jerusalem. Along with memories, documents, and diaries of the Holocaust, he collects photographs—the enigmatic snapshots which stud The Emigrants and bring to mind family photo albums. Sebald combines precise documentary with fictional motifs, and as he puts the question to realism, the four stories merge into one unfathomable requiem.

Author : James Joyce
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 184351740X

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The Mookse & the Gripes by James Joyce Pdf

The Mookse and the Gripes is the peculiar and hilarious re-telling of Aesop's ancient fable of 'The Fox and the Grapes', as presented in Joyce's 1939 classic.

Author : William Maxwell
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2011-04-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307789877

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So Long, See You Tomorrow by William Maxwell Pdf

In this magically evocative novel, William Maxwell explores the enigmatic gravity of the past, which compels us to keep explaining it even as it makes liars out of us every time we try. On a winter morning in the 1920s, a shot rings out on a farm in rural Illinois. A man named Lloyd Wilson has been killed. And the tenuous friendship between two lonely teenagers—one privileged yet neglected, the other a troubled farm boy—has been shattered. Fifty years later, one of those boys—now a grown man—tries to reconstruct the events that led up to the murder. In doing so, he is inevitably drawn back to his lost friend Cletus, who has the misfortune of being the son of Wilson's killer and who in the months before witnessed things that Maxwell's narrator can only guess at. Out of memory and imagination, the surmises of children and the destructive passions of their parents, Maxwell creates a luminous American classic of youth and loss.

Author : Alice Munro
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2011-12-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307814579

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Something I've Been Meaning to Tell You by Alice Munro Pdf

A “masterful” (Houston Post) collection of stories from Nobel Prize–winning author Alice Munro “A spellbinding tour through a world of love, menace, and surprise . . . [Munro] is a writer of enormous gifts and perception.”—Los Angeles Times The sisters, mothers and daughters, aunts, grandmothers, and friends in these thirteen stories, “a rich exploration of womanhood” (Ms.), shimmer with hope and love, anger and reconciliation, as they content with their histories and their present, and what they can see of the future. In her remarkable second collection, Alice Munro demonstrates the precise observation, straightforward prose style, and masterful technique hailed by John Updike, who wrote in the New York Times Book Review that “one must go back to Tolstoy and Chekhov . . . for comparable largeness.”

Author : Alice Munro
Publisher : Random House
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2011-11-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781448128471

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Post and Beam (Storycuts) by Alice Munro Pdf

Lorna finds herself strangely attracted to Lionel, a former maths prodigy and student of her husband's. When family affairs call him away and his absence coincides with the unwelcome visit of her cousin, she grows ill at ease. Part of the Storycuts series, this short story was previously published in the collection Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage.

Author : Joseph Campbell,Henry Morton Robinson
Publisher : New World Library
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781577314059

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A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake by Joseph Campbell,Henry Morton Robinson Pdf

Since its publication in 1939, countless would-be readers of "Finnegans Wake" - James Joyce's masterwork, which consumed a third of his life - have given up after a few pages, dismissing it as a "perverse triumph of the unintelligible." In 1944, a young professor of mythology and literature named Joseph Campbell, working with Henry Morton Robinson, wrote the first "key" or guide to entering the fascinating, disturbing, marvelously rich world of "Finnegans Wake." The authors break down Joyce's "unintelligible" book page by page, stripping the text of much of its obscurity and serving up thoughtful interpretations via footnotes and bracketed commentary. They outline the book's basic action, and then simplify -- and clarify -- its complex web of images and allusions. "A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake" is the latest addition to the "Collected Works of Joseph Campbell" series.