The Woman Who Cut Off Her Leg At The Maidstone Club

Author : Julia Slavin
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2018-01-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781504048620

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The Woman Who Cut Off Her Leg at the Maidstone Club by Julia Slavin Pdf

A New York Times Notable Book: Darkly comic fables of modern life from a “major discovery” whose “writing gets in your bloodstream like a fever” (The Washington Post Book World). A housewife with a ravenous lust for the adolescent boy who mows her lawn swallows him whole. A woman nonchalantly hacks off her leg at a posh private club. A father babyproofs his house so thoroughly he never sees his wife and child. And a businessman passing through an airport risks it all to save a giant lobster from death. In these “brisk, funny, stylish, original” stories, the award-winning author of Carnivore Diet merges the mundane with the unimaginable, and peels back the squeaky-clean façade of suburbia to expose the strangeness underneath (Elle). Combining biting wit, wild imagination, and “unsettling, hallucinatory” prose, Julia Slavin masterfully satirizes the world of upscale families and young professionals as they confront their greatest fantasies and most grotesque fears in unexpected, and often hilarious, ways (The New York Times Book Review).

Author : Julie Mellors
Publisher : Contemporary Authors
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2005-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0787678651

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Contemporary Authors by Julie Mellors Pdf

A biographical and bibliographical guide to current writers in all fields including poetry, fiction and nonfiction, journalism, drama, television and movies. Information is provided by the authors themselves or drawn from published interviews, feature stories, book reviews and other materials provided by the authors/publishers.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 990 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Short stories
ISBN : UOM:39015057946439

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Short Story Index by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Short story
ISBN : UOM:49015002921915

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Critical Survey of Short Fiction: Isaac Bashevis Singer by Anonim Pdf

Author : Rob Spillman
Publisher : Tin House Books
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2011-07-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781935639114

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Fantastic Women: 18 Tales of the Surreal and the Sublime from Tin House by Rob Spillman Pdf

Featuring work by some of the most exciting contemporary women writers in the United States, Fantastic Women comprises eighteen inventive, insightful narratives steeped in a heady potion of surrealism and macabre black comedy. Meet the daughters of Franz Kafka, Mary Shelley, the Brothers Grimm, and Angela Carter. Fantastic Women assembles the work of eighteen inventive, insightful women authors who steep their narratives in a heady potion of surrealism and macabre black comedy. The results are wildly creative stories that capture the truth about human nature far more than much of the fiction (or, for that matter, the nonfiction) being written today. Why just women? More and more women writers are creating work that not only pushes the envelope but also folds realistic fiction into an origami dragon, transporting readers into worlds we’ve never seen before and digging deeper into the psychic bedrock than their male counterparts. So slip into a pocket universe, drive through a family’s home, awake in the night to find you’ve become a deer, and dive into the ocean to join your mermaid mother. We can’t imagine ever wanting to escape this spellbinding world, but if you must, best leave a trail of crumbs along your way.

Author : New York Times Staff
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 1284 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1579580580

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The New York Times Book Reviews 2000 by New York Times Staff Pdf

This anthology examines Love's Labours Lost from a variety of perspectives and through a wide range of materials. Selections discuss the play in terms of historical context, dating, and sources; character analysis; comic elements and verbal conceits; evidence of authorship; performance analysis; and feminist interpretations. Alongside theater reviews, production photographs, and critical commentary, the volume also includes essays written by practicing theater artists who have worked on the play. An index by name, literary work, and concept rounds out this valuable resource.

Author : Courtney Eldridge
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2005-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0156032082

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Unkempt by Courtney Eldridge Pdf

In the seven stories and one novella collected in Unkempt, Courtney Eldridge gives life to characters of astounding originality. Probing the darker corners of the human psyche, she shows--with a sly and unexpected sense of humor--the neurotic mind at work, the skewed perspective of an alcoholic parent, the nature of sexual conquest, and the hazards of working in retail. Fresh, funny, and candid, Eldridge's writing delivers a new and marvellous vision of life.

Author : Amy Bright
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2012-11-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781443843430

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“Curious, if True” by Amy Bright Pdf

The fantastic has occupied the literary imagination of readers and scholars across historical, theoretical, and cultural contexts. Representations of the fantastic in literature rely on formal and generic types, tropes, and archetypes to mediate between depictions of “fantasy” and “reality.” Present in myth and folklore, the gothic and neo-gothic, and contemporary and mainstream fantasy, the fantastic reach stretches into many conceptions of literature over time. “Curious, if True”: The Fantastic in Literature presents recent articles by graduate students on the fantastic and makes connections across category, genre, and historical periods. Fantasy is used as an organizing topic, a genre that has always allowed for a broad interpretation of its meaning. From magic realism, to high fantasy, sci-fi to the Gothic, this collection furthers the reach of fantasy in the study of English literature. The authors value tradition in their reading and their writing but are not afraid to reach across genre borders to show their understanding of “the fantastical in literature.” The ideas presented span years and literary periods, texts and genres, and show the undeniable value of interdisciplinary study to expand perspectives in the field of English.

Author : Julia Slavin
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2006-08-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780393328752

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Carnivore Diet: A Novel by Julia Slavin Pdf

With this story of a politician's wife who is desperately trying to hold her family together, Slavin has unleashed a hilarious and disturbing tale where the reach of fantasy is as long as the arm of the federal government. "Haunting and inventive."--"Harper's Bazaar."

Author : Rebecca Wolff
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1934200042

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A Best of Fence: Fiction & nonfiction by Rebecca Wolff Pdf

Ever idiosyncratic, Fence evades the tedium of the decade with this anthology, co-edited by all thirteen of Fence's editors, past and present, including founding editor Rebecca Wolff and current coeditor Charles Valle; fiction edits Jonathan Lethem, Ben Marcus, and Lynne Tillman; poetry editors Caroline Crumpacker, Anthony Hawley, Katy Lederer, Matthew Rohrer, Christopher Stackhouse, and Max Winter; and nonfiction editors Frances Richard and Jazon Zuzga. In addition to presenting a stunningly eclectic compendium of poetry, short fiction, criticism, and creative nonfiction, much of it by younger writers who appeared in Fence at the beginning of careers that went on to be dazzling, this volume includes reflective essays by editors on their experiences with selected texts, with authors, with the magazine as a collective, and with their own editorial identities, and serves as an indispensable record of the inception and continuation of one of the most influential literary journals of its time.

Author : Briton Hadden,Henry Robinson Luce
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 872 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Current magazines
ISBN : UOM:39015045947960

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Time by Briton Hadden,Henry Robinson Luce Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 660 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Arts, Modern
ISBN : STANFORD:36105113359884

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Rain Taxi Review of Books by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 900 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : American literature
ISBN : UCSD:31822034958819

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The Publishers Weekly by Anonim Pdf

Author : Alexander Hopkins McDannald
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN : UOM:39015046793975

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The Americana Annual by Alexander Hopkins McDannald Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 598 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Economic history
ISBN : UCSC:32106012448574

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The Economist by Anonim Pdf