What Is Man And Other Stories

Author : Yoshihiro Tatsumi
Publisher : Drawn and Quarterly
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2012-04-10
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 1770460764

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The Push Man and Other Stories by Yoshihiro Tatsumi Pdf

Thirty years before the advent of the literary graphic novel movement in the United States, Yoshihiro Tatsumi created a library of comics that draw parallels to modern prose fiction and today's alternative comics. The stories collected in The Push Man are simultaneously haunting, disturbing, and darkly humorous. A lone man travels the country, projecting pornographic films for private individuals while attempting to maintain a normal home life. The lives of two men become intertwined when one hires the other to observe his sexual escapades through a telescope. An auto mechanic's obsession with a female TV personality turns fatal after a chance meeting between the two

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Rizzoli Publications
Page : 610 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2021-09-14
Category : Design
ISBN : 9780847870776

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Juergen Teller by Anonim Pdf

Annotated in his wry, inimitable voice, Juergen Teller presents over three decades of fashion and editorial work in a groundbreaking volume that combines photography, collage, and candid (and often humorous) autobiography. One of the most influential photographers working today, Juergen Teller creates images that are instantly recognizable. Raw, often overexposed and displaying a spontaneity and candor, Teller’s visual language reflects a measured yet uncompromising sense of rebellion. This book includes landmark editorials with nearly every important fashion label of the era and celebrities from Kate Moss to Charlotte Rampling and Kurt Cobain to Yves Saint Laurent. Outtakes of iconic shoots (including infamous ones with Courtney Love, Cindy Sherman, Marc Jacobs, Victoria Beckham, and Björk) that have never been published will be included in this volume. Teller first broke into fashion in 1996 with a magazine cover of a naked Kristen McMenamy with the word Versace scrawled across her chest. Since then, his fashion photography has been featured in all the international Vogues, AnOther Magazine, Index, Self-Service, W, Details, Purple, i-D, and 032c, among others. A highly sought-after cult hero and the author of many iconic campaigns, Teller has collaborated with the likes of Helmut Lang, Raf Simons, Hedi Slimane, Nicolas Ghesquière, Phoebe Philo, Vivienne Westwood, Miuccia Prada, and Isabel Marant, and shot every season of Marc Jacobs’s ready-to-wear collections from 1998 to 2014.

Author : Sam Pink
Publisher : Catapult
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781593765934

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The Ice Cream Man and Other Stories by Sam Pink Pdf

“Pink is a keen observer of the culture of minimum-wage jobs and low-rent studio apartments that is the reality of life for all those who don't find a cog space in today’s hyper-capitalist economy.” —The Guardian Cone dealer, sunshine stealer, alleyway counselor, lunch lady to the homeless, friend to the dead, maker of sandwiches. Metal wrangler. Stag among stags. And so it goes—another journey through time spent punched in. A life's work of working for a living. Blood, death, and violence. Dirty dishes, dead roaches, and sparkler-lit nights. Nights ahead and no real fate. So open your mouths because the forecast calls for sprinkles. Thirteen delights, scooped and served. Let it melt down your hand. Let the sun burn your face. It's the ice cream man, and other stories.

Author : Alexander Trocchi
Publisher : Alma Books
Page : 51 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2019-03-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780714549538

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Holy Man and Other Stories by Alexander Trocchi Pdf

Above a disused bar, in a dilapidated Parisian hotel that houses an assortment of indigent, marginalized lost souls, one of the inhabitants, a mysterious, reclusive holy man, is the subject of much speculation from some of his fellow occupants and respectful reverence from others. As the tale unfolds, the dynamics of this precarious microcosm are laid bare, in a powerful portrayal of those society has forgotten.Written when the author of Cain's Book was at the height of his creative powers and enjoying an increasing reputation in avant-garde literary circles, 'The Holy Man' is here presented with 'A Being of Distances', 'Peter Pierce' and 'A Meeting', stories which similarly tackle themes of loneliness and disenfranchisement.

Author : Graham Greene
Publisher : Collector's Library
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1509828052

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The Third Man and Other Stories by Graham Greene Pdf

A broad selection of Graham Greene's masterful short stories, including Cold War classic novella, The Third Man. Rollo Martins, a failing novelist, is invited to Vienna by his best friend, Harry Lime. The city he arrives in is unrecognisable -- torn apart by the Second World War and shared between the occupying Allies. What's more, Harry is dead, and the circumstances look suspicious... Determined to uncover the truth, Martins must pick through the rubble of this broken city in search of answers.

Author : graf Leo Tolstoy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Russia
ISBN : OCLC:1287945020

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Master and Man and Other Parables and Tales by graf Leo Tolstoy Pdf

Author : Jo Nesbo
Publisher : Random House Canada
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2021-10-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781039001725

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The Jealousy Man and Other Stories by Jo Nesbo Pdf

A dark, thrilling collection of stories probing twisted minds and vengeful hearts from a true master of suspense. Jo Nesbo is the consummate mystery writer, and his talent for hair-raising suspense and shocking twists are on full display in this inventive and harrowing collection of stories. A detective with a nose for jealousy is on the trail of a man suspected of murdering his twin; a bereaved father must decide whether vengeance has a place in the new world order after a pandemic brings about the collapse of society; a woman finally overcomes her intimacy issues through a dark encounter with her Peeping Tom neighbour; a hired assassin pits his wits against his greatest adversary, another assassin, in a dangerous fight for survival; and an instantly electric connection between passengers on a flight to London may spell romance, or something much more sinister. Contained in this collection are stories of insatiable avarice, unscrupulous lovers, and heartrending fate. With Nesbo's gift for outstanding atmosphere and complex characters, this is a veritable crime lover's delight.

Author : Roald Dahl
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2013-05-30
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781101636305

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Skin and Other Stories by Roald Dahl Pdf

How would you get rid of a murder weapon without causing suspicion? Where would you hide a diamond where no one else would think of looking? What if you found out that the tattoo on your back was worth over a million dollars? You will discover that just about anything is possible in a Roald Dahl story, and here are eleven of his very best.

Author : Edith Wharton
Publisher : Lindhardt og Ringhof
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2022-06-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9788728127360

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The Descent of Man by Edith Wharton Pdf

‘The Descent of Man, and Other Stories,’ is a collection of short stories from the author of such greats as ‘The Age of Innocence,’ and ‘Ethan Frome.’ Through these sharply-observed tales, Wharton explores the nature of relationships and marriage, compromise, regret – and even throws in a ghost story for good measure. Her writing is peppered with incisive social detail, helping the backdrop to each story breathe as deeply as the characters. A superb book for those who want to get to know this extraordinary novelist a little better. Edith Wharton (1862 – 1937) was an American designer and novelist. Born in an era when the highest ambition a woman could aspire to was a good marriage, Wharton went on to become one of America’s most celebrated authors. During her career, she wrote over 40 books, using her wealthy upbringing to bring authenticity and detail to stories about the upper classes. She moved to France in 1923, where she continued to write until her death.

Author : Paul Yee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0888995873

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Dead Man's Gold and Other Stories by Paul Yee Pdf

Grade level: 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, e, i, s.

Author : Karen Russell
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2019-05-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780525656142

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Orange World and Other Stories by Karen Russell Pdf

From the Pulitzer Finalist and universally beloved author of the New York Times best sellers Swamplandia! and Vampires in the Lemon Grove, a stunning new collection of short fiction that showcases Karen Russell’s extraordinary, irresistible gifts of language and imagination. Karen Russell’s comedic genius and mesmerizing talent for creating outlandish predicaments that uncannily mirror our inner in lives is on full display in these eight exuberant, arrestingly vivid, unforgettable stories. In“Bog Girl”, a revelatory story about first love, a young man falls in love with a two thousand year old girl that he’s extracted from a mass of peat in a Northern European bog. In “The Prospectors,” two opportunistic young women fleeing the depression strike out for new territory, and find themselves fighting for their lives. In the brilliant, hilarious title story, a new mother desperate to ensure her infant’s safety strikes a diabolical deal, agreeing to breastfeed the devil in exchange for his protection. The landscape in which these stories unfold is a feral, slippery, purgatorial space, bracketed by the void—yet within it Russell captures the exquisite beauty and tenderness of ordinary life. Orange World is a miracle of storytelling from a true modern master.

Author : Fredrik Backman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2017-10-31
Category : FICTION
ISBN : 9781501193491

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The Deal of a Lifetime by Fredrik Backman Pdf

It's Christmas Even morning. Years ago a man abandoned his son to pursue professional success; now he wonders if it's too late to forge a relationship with him. One week earlier, in a hospital late at night, the man met a five-year-old girl with cancer. When the man is given the chance to do something selfless that could change the destiny of the little girl in the hospital bed, he needs to find out what his own life has actually been worth in the eyes of his son before he makes the deal of a lifetime.

Author : Nicole Krauss
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2020-11-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781443449427

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To Be a Man by Nicole Krauss Pdf

In a dazzling collection of stories, the New York Times–bestselling author of The History of Love, National Book Award finalist Nicole Krauss, explores what it means to be in that most perplexing of partnerships: a couple. In one of her strongest books of fiction, Nicole Krauss plunges fearlessly into the confusion of what it is to be a man and what it is to be a woman that has existed from the very beginning in all Western myths that inform our culture. Set in contemporary times in Switzerland New York, Tel Aviv, Los Angeles and South America, these stories open a window onto young women’s coming of age and their newfound, somewhat mysterious sexual power, as well as the opportunities and dangers it presents (“Switzerland”). In a Los Angeles of terrible wildfires, a high school student, distressed by her divorcing parents and determined to assert her agency in the intoxicating freedom of a dangerous environment, forges an original and surprising sexual path (“End Days”). Men play a key role in all these stories as fathers, lovers, friends, children, seducers—even as a husband who is not a husband (“The Husband”). The stories mirror one another and resonate beautifully with a balance so finely tuned that the book almost feels like a novel: aging parents and newborn babies; generation gaps and unexpected deliveries of strange new leases on life; mystery and wonder at a life lived or one still to come. The two stories that bookend the collection, “Switzerland” and “To Be a Man,” perfectly introduce and play out the author’s major themes: sex and violence, men and women, coming of age and growing older.

Author : Isaac Asimov
Publisher : Gollancz
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : American short stories
ISBN : 1857989325

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The Bicentennial Man by Isaac Asimov Pdf

This classic collection includes the title story, acclaimed as Asimov's single finest Robot tale, and now made into a Hollywood movie starring Robin Williams. Each of the eleven stories here sparkle with characteristic Asimov inventiveness and imagination.

Author : Robert A. Norman
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2014-04-25
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780520272866

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The Blue Man and Other Stories of the Skin by Robert A. Norman Pdf

Examines the body's largest organ, including its qualities, the history of its conditions and diseases, and the impact of its color and irregularity.