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Author : Monica Hughes
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0006481760
In 2154, sixteen-year-old Alison, eight-year-old Gordie, and their dissident parents are arrested and taken to a sterile dome in a hostile environment, but Gordie escapes and Alison follows him to the place he calls Xanadu.
Author : Sharr White
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : American drama
ISBN : 0822225395
THE STORY: Just as Juliana Smithton's research leads to a potential breakthrough, her life takes a disorienting turn. During a lecture to colleagues at an exclusive beach resort, she glimpses an enigmatic young woman in a yellow bikini amidst the c
Author : Michael Croley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1949467007
From Appalachia to South Korea and back, this stunning and relentless collection explores themes of home and displacement.
Author : Darren Dash
Publisher : Home of the Damned Ltd
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2016-12-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Get ready to enter the dark, disturbing waters of a dystopian sci-fi world in this widely-praised, mind-bending trip to An Other Place... where time and space are fluid... where the moon changes colour and savage beasts run wild... where teeth are used as currency and love-making is a perilous proposition... where cannibalism occasionally comes into fashion and the dead are swiftly forgotten... where strange sandmen offer sanctuary in times of danger and a mysterious Alchemist rules over all. When Newman Riplan’s flight into the unknown turns into a nightmarish slide between worlds, he must explore an unnamed city where unpredictable terrors are the norm. By the end of his first day adrift, his life has spun completely out of his control, but the most mind-twisting and soul-crushing revelations are only beginning. As he desperately searches for meaning and a way out, he starts to realise that perhaps only madness can provide him with the answers, while surrender might offer him his only true hope of escape... REVIEWS “This is, by far, the best book of 2016, possibly the best book of this decade... the illegitimate love child of Kafka and Rod Serling, throwing in a dash of Ray Bradbury for good measure. 5/5 -- brilliant. Just brilliant.” Kelly Smith Reviews. "An Other Place sees an imaginative writer at the top of his craft. It brings to mind The Twilight Zone, yet even Rod Serling himself would have struggled to come up with an alternate world so completely off-the-wall and yet oddly meaningful as Dash has here. 9/10 stars." Starburst. “Darren Dash has opened a new artery of terror... unlike any book I have ever read... hints of The Twilight Zone, Pines, and Station Eleven.” The Literary Connoisseur. "Its luckless hero moves from ghastly scenarios to even ghastlier scenarios with such horrid reliability that his story reads like extreme black comedy. 4/5 stars." SFX. "Lewis Carroll, L. Frank Baum, and Brett Easton Ellis may have written some weird stuff, but An Other Place tops all of it, both in terms of re-readability and overall scope." Dread Central. “This book really did blow my mind... each page turn was both chilling and thrilling in equal measure... the conclusion left me with goosebumps. 5/5!” Rachel Hobbs, author of Shadow-Stained. "Dash’s surreal tale has its share of unsettling moments. There’s also an abundance of intriguing peculiarities. An often baffling tale, but its protagonist’s wry commentary is undeniably entertaining." Kirkus -- a Recommended Read. "An Other Place is a deliciously quirky novel that is surreal and powerful in equal measure. This is by far Dash’s best work to date. It is challenging and absurd, artistically brave and politically conscious, but this abstract painting of a novel is one thing above all else… completely original." Books, Films & Random Lunacy. “This story had me hooked from the get go... an ending that sent my mind into a spin. 5 stars.” Reviews And Randomness. “This book is utterly unique... I was amazed at how well Dash could create this baffling world from scratch and draw me into it so completely. 5 stars.” A Place In Which Jessie Writes. "If Jonathan Swift wrote horror, he might have written An Other Place. Powerful, imaginative, and occasionally disturbing, An Other Place will linger in the reader’s mind long after the last page is turned." Safie Maken Finlay, author of The Galian Spear.
Author : Ibrahim Abdel Meguid
Publisher : American University in Cairo Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2006-09-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781617974069
The Other Place portrays the shallowness of the petrodollar culture and the price one pays for quick money. The protagonist of this prize-winning novel, an educated middle-class Egyptian from Alexandria, describes his experiences and those of migrant workers and professionals in one of the Gulf states, and their interaction with the oil-rich country's local elite and with agents of western businesses. The book pictures rather than states the desolation brought about when market values take over and the ravages that such an order causes to all who partake in it. Ibrahim Abdel Meguid succeeds in representing imaginatively the important phenomenon of migration and the barren landscape of the petrodollar culture, and at the same time penetrates the rationalizing mechanisms of the migrants and their psychological make-up. The Other Place was awarded the Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature in 1996.
Author : Mia Tanaka
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2011-05-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781462867790
What happens when you introduce the quirkiest, wise-cracking, modern-day human children into a fantastical and magical world full of wonder and awe? How will they react when they come across the most astonishing creatures and beings? How will they react to these children? Magical journeys for four siblings take them far beyond the reaches of imagination and plant them into an unbelievable world full of astounding beauty that most couldn’t even imagine and only few have seen as they face some unimaginable dangers alongside a wide range of friends, discovering different things about themselves along the way.
Author : J. California Cooper
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307427861
For generations Eula Too’s family has been making a journey North, year after year, step by painful step; and she’s determined to be the one to make it all the way to Chicago. In and out of school, taking care of her fourteen brothers and sisters, she can see no way out. But when a new family burden threatens to overwhelm her, she at last leaves for the city, only to find that her life gets even tougher. Ranging from the Deep South at the turn of the century, to a diverse contemporary town filled with people striving for a better life, Some People, Some Other Place is J. California Cooper at her irresistible, surprising best.
Author : Ken Knight
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2013-06-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781481762991
A lonely angry man.and his newfound friends! Raleigh Garrett awoke in his jail cell on the morning of his sentencing date with the realistic expectation of getting many years for the violent assault that he committed. When the Judge sentenced him to just one years probation, Raleigh sets out to serve his probation time away from his racist skinhead cohorts and violent surroundings now in unfamiliar territory with total strangers to deal with on a daily basis, people whom are very friendly and giving toward him. Now the troubled young man in the Doc Marten boots cant imagine why hes suddenly being treated so kind by folks who dont know him and offered enjoyable opportunities that damn sure never came his way before. From the bubbly young woman named Sophie who shows him unwavering friendship from the moment they first met, to the busty brunette Deanna Marquez who is way too lenient and accommodating as his Probation Officer, to the interracial couple inviting him to their private End-of-Summer BBQ party, its as if he has stepped into another reality somehow. Only these newfound friends have something in store for Mister Garrett in lieu of his past misdeeds as well the murderous act he doesnt yet know he caused. This is the place to sort it all out..if it takes 6 days, 6 years, or 6 centuries!
Author : Mary Gaitskill
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2012-03-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781439127971
A collection of startling and breathtaking stories about people struggling with the disparity between what they want and what they know. A New York Times Notable Book A man tells a story to a woman sitting beside him on a plane, little suspecting what it reveals about his capacity for cruelty and contempt. A callow runaway girl is stranded in a strange city with another woman’s fractiously needy children. An uncomprehending father helplessly lashes out at the daughter he both loves and resents. In these raw, startling, and incandescently lovely stories, the author of Veronica yields twelve indelible portraits of people struggling with the disparity between what they want and what they know. Because They Wanted To is further evidence that Gaitskill is one of the fiercest, funniest, and most subversively compassionate writers at work today.
Author : Jeff Burton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Photography
ISBN : 1931885346
This oversize volume captures the lush atmosphere and isolation of the men and women working in the California pornographic industry through the eyes of one of its most brilliant observers.
Author : T. M. Scanlon
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2000-11-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780674004238
How do we judge whether an action is morally right or wrong? If an action is wrong, what reason does that give us not to do it? Why should we give such reasons priority over our other concerns and values? In this book, T. M. Scanlon offers new answers to these questions, as they apply to the central part of morality that concerns what we owe to each other. According to his contractualist view, thinking about right and wrong is thinking about what we do in terms that could be justified to others and that they could not reasonably reject. He shows how the special authority of conclusions about right and wrong arises from the value of being related to others in this way, and he shows how familiar moral ideas such as fairness and responsibility can be understood through their role in this process of mutual justification and criticism. Scanlon bases his contractualism on a broader account of reasons, value, and individual well-being that challenges standard views about these crucial notions. He argues that desires do not provide us with reasons, that states of affairs are not the primary bearers of value, and that well-being is not as important for rational decision-making as it is commonly held to be. Scanlon is a pluralist about both moral and non-moral values. He argues that, taking this plurality of values into account, contractualism allows for most of the variability in moral requirements that relativists have claimed, while still accounting for the full force of our judgments of right and wrong.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2024-03-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781787588387
Christi Nogle has established herself as a modern Ray Bradbury, this collection adds fantasy, slipstream, and fabulism to her canon. One Eye Opened in That Other Place collects Christi Nogle’s best weird and fantastical stories. The collection focuses on liminal spaces and the borders between places and states of mind. Though you might not find a traditional portal fantasy here, you will travel across thresholds and arrive at other places and times that are by turns disquieting, terrifying, and wonderful. Get up close with the local flora and fauna, peruse the weird art exhibits and special shows, and consider taking a dip in the mossy, snail-filled tank of water. Make sure to bring your special glasses This new collection will appeal to readers of Jeff VanderMeer, Charles Wilkinson, Steve Rasnic Tem, M. Rickert, Lynda E. Rucker and Stephen King’s novel Lisey’s Story. FLAME TREE PRESS is the imprint of long-standing independent Flame Tree Publishing, dedicated to full-length original fiction in the horror and suspense, science fiction and fantasy. The list brings together fantastic new authors and the more established; the award winners, and exciting, original voices. Learn more about Flame Tree Press at www.flametreepress.com and connect on social media @FlameTreePress
Author : Mary Gaitskill
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2017-04-04
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781101871775
In essays on matters literary, social, cultural, and personal, Mary Gaitskill explores date rape and political adultery, the transcendentalism of the Talking Heads, the melancholy of Björk, and the playfulness of artist Laurel Nakadate. She celebrates the clownish grandiosity and the poetry of Norman Mailer’s long career and maps the sociosexual cataclysm embodied by porn star Linda Lovelace. Witty, wide-ranging, tender, and beautiful, Somebody with a Little Hammer displays the same heat-seeking, revelatory understanding for which Gaitskill’s writing has always been known.
Author : Rachel Cusk
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2021-05-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780374720797
A haunting fable of art, family, and fate from the author of the Outline trilogy. A woman invites a famous artist to use her guesthouse in the remote coastal landscape where she lives with her family. Powerfully drawn to his paintings, she believes his vision might penetrate the mystery at the center of her life. But as a long, dry summer sets in, his provocative presence itself becomes an enigma—and disrupts the calm of her secluded household. Second Place, Rachel Cusk’s electrifying new novel, is a study of female fate and male privilege, the geometries of human relationships, and the moral questions that animate our lives. It reminds us of art’s capacity to uplift—and to destroy.
Author : Dionne Brand
Publisher : Vintage Canada
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2011-02-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307368546
Beautiful and meticulously wrought, set in both Toronto and the Caribbean, this astonishing novel gives voice to the power of love and belonging in a story of two women, profoundly different, each in her own spiritual exile.
