Author: Christine Schutt
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1480438472
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 121
Book Description
A powerful and vibrant collection of stories offering an intimate look into the souls of unforgettable characters, confused and oppressed by the realities of their lives Time passes relentlessly in the lives of the fragile characters populating the pages of Christine Schutt’s outstanding collection of stories, revealing much but often changing nothing. Whether it brings a grandfather to the sad realization that his daughter has passed on her lifelong emotional struggles to her own daughter, or allows a child to understand her mother’s tragic disconnect from reality, the passage of days, months, and years offers melancholy understanding for those caught in its drift. Yet there can be a certain grace in the painful wisdom brought by experience. These lyrical masterworks of short fiction from an acclaimed American literary artist provide poignant looks behind closed doors, where the lives of women and men, children and families are defined and diminished by love, loss, and misunderstanding.
A Day, a Night, Another Day, Summer
Author: Christine Schutt
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1480438472
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 121
Book Description
A powerful and vibrant collection of stories offering an intimate look into the souls of unforgettable characters, confused and oppressed by the realities of their lives Time passes relentlessly in the lives of the fragile characters populating the pages of Christine Schutt’s outstanding collection of stories, revealing much but often changing nothing. Whether it brings a grandfather to the sad realization that his daughter has passed on her lifelong emotional struggles to her own daughter, or allows a child to understand her mother’s tragic disconnect from reality, the passage of days, months, and years offers melancholy understanding for those caught in its drift. Yet there can be a certain grace in the painful wisdom brought by experience. These lyrical masterworks of short fiction from an acclaimed American literary artist provide poignant looks behind closed doors, where the lives of women and men, children and families are defined and diminished by love, loss, and misunderstanding.
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1480438472
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 121
Book Description
A powerful and vibrant collection of stories offering an intimate look into the souls of unforgettable characters, confused and oppressed by the realities of their lives Time passes relentlessly in the lives of the fragile characters populating the pages of Christine Schutt’s outstanding collection of stories, revealing much but often changing nothing. Whether it brings a grandfather to the sad realization that his daughter has passed on her lifelong emotional struggles to her own daughter, or allows a child to understand her mother’s tragic disconnect from reality, the passage of days, months, and years offers melancholy understanding for those caught in its drift. Yet there can be a certain grace in the painful wisdom brought by experience. These lyrical masterworks of short fiction from an acclaimed American literary artist provide poignant looks behind closed doors, where the lives of women and men, children and families are defined and diminished by love, loss, and misunderstanding.
Another Day
Author: David Levithan
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 0385756224
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Celebrate all the ways love makes us who we are with this enthralling and poignant follow-up to the New York Times bestseller Every Day--now a major motion picture. David Levithan turns his New York Times bestseller Every Day on its head by flipping perspectives in this exploration of love and how it can change you. Every day is the same for Rhiannon. She has accepted her life, convinced herself that she deserves her distant, temperamental boyfriend, Justin, even established guidelines by which to live: Don’t be too needy. Avoid upsetting him. Never get your hopes up. Until the morning everything changes. Justin seems to see her, to want to be with her for the first time, and they share a perfect day—a perfect day Justin doesn’t remember the next morning. Confused, depressed, and desperate for another day as great as that one, Rhiannon starts questioning everything. Then, one day, a stranger tells her that the Justin she spent that day with, the one who made her feel like a real person . . . wasn’t Justin at all.
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 0385756224
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Celebrate all the ways love makes us who we are with this enthralling and poignant follow-up to the New York Times bestseller Every Day--now a major motion picture. David Levithan turns his New York Times bestseller Every Day on its head by flipping perspectives in this exploration of love and how it can change you. Every day is the same for Rhiannon. She has accepted her life, convinced herself that she deserves her distant, temperamental boyfriend, Justin, even established guidelines by which to live: Don’t be too needy. Avoid upsetting him. Never get your hopes up. Until the morning everything changes. Justin seems to see her, to want to be with her for the first time, and they share a perfect day—a perfect day Justin doesn’t remember the next morning. Confused, depressed, and desperate for another day as great as that one, Rhiannon starts questioning everything. Then, one day, a stranger tells her that the Justin she spent that day with, the one who made her feel like a real person . . . wasn’t Justin at all.
A Concordance to the Poems of Emily Dickinson
Author: S. P. Rosenbaum
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501743139
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 933
Book Description
A Concordance to the Poems of Emily Dickinson is the third volume in the distinguished series "Cornell Concordances." Like the others, it was programmed on an IBM 704 electronic computer and provides an alphabetical list of all significant words—each word given in context. In order to provide variants, it was based on Thomas H. Johnson's three-volume edition of all the known texts of Emily Dickinson's poems. Included are an analytical preface by the editor and an index of words in the order of frequency.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501743139
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 933
Book Description
A Concordance to the Poems of Emily Dickinson is the third volume in the distinguished series "Cornell Concordances." Like the others, it was programmed on an IBM 704 electronic computer and provides an alphabetical list of all significant words—each word given in context. In order to provide variants, it was based on Thomas H. Johnson's three-volume edition of all the known texts of Emily Dickinson's poems. Included are an analytical preface by the editor and an index of words in the order of frequency.
Another Night, Another Day
Author: Sarah Rayner
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
ISBN: 1466859253
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
From the internationally bestselling author Sarah Rayner, Another Night, Another Day is the emotional story of a group of strangers who come together to heal, creating lifelong friendships along the way. Three people, each crying out for help. There's Karen, about to lose her father; Abby, whose son has autism and needs constant care; and Michael, a family man on the verge of bankruptcy. As each sinks under the strain, they're brought together at Moreland's Clinic. Here, behind closed doors, they reveal their deepest secrets, confront and console one another, and share plenty of laughs. But how will they cope when a new crisis strikes?
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
ISBN: 1466859253
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
From the internationally bestselling author Sarah Rayner, Another Night, Another Day is the emotional story of a group of strangers who come together to heal, creating lifelong friendships along the way. Three people, each crying out for help. There's Karen, about to lose her father; Abby, whose son has autism and needs constant care; and Michael, a family man on the verge of bankruptcy. As each sinks under the strain, they're brought together at Moreland's Clinic. Here, behind closed doors, they reveal their deepest secrets, confront and console one another, and share plenty of laughs. But how will they cope when a new crisis strikes?
Another Day Dead
Author: Michael Purdon
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595197108
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Several teenagers are murdered in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Strange symbols are carved into their necks. The only suspects are their best friends and even they do not know what happened. Ted and Dillon have only recently opened a private investigators agency and are called in by a friend to find the answers before more teens are murdered. This fast-paced mystery is their first case and they discover the truth in their own humorous way.
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595197108
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Several teenagers are murdered in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Strange symbols are carved into their necks. The only suspects are their best friends and even they do not know what happened. Ted and Dillon have only recently opened a private investigators agency and are called in by a friend to find the answers before more teens are murdered. This fast-paced mystery is their first case and they discover the truth in their own humorous way.
Philip Larkin
Author: R. J. C. Watt
Publisher: Georg Olms Verlag
ISBN: 9783487098012
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 696
Book Description
Publisher: Georg Olms Verlag
ISBN: 9783487098012
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 696
Book Description
The Complete Concordance to Shakspeare
Author: Mary Cowden Clarke
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 888
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 888
Book Description
The Complete Concordance to Shakespere: Being a Verbal Index to All the Passages in the Dramatic Works of the Poet
Author: Mary Victoria Cowden CLARKE
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 914
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 914
Book Description
The Night Before Summer Camp
Author: Natasha Wing
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0448446391
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
The first day of summer camp is almost here, and one little camper doesn’t know what to expect. For a while everything is hunkydory . . . until rest time rolls around and he gets a bad case of nervous butterflies. But an unlikely friend appears out of the crowd and reassures him that the best cure for the summertime blues is tons of summertime fun! A sweetly reassuring story, once again told in verse to the meter of Clement Moore’s classic.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0448446391
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
The first day of summer camp is almost here, and one little camper doesn’t know what to expect. For a while everything is hunkydory . . . until rest time rolls around and he gets a bad case of nervous butterflies. But an unlikely friend appears out of the crowd and reassures him that the best cure for the summertime blues is tons of summertime fun! A sweetly reassuring story, once again told in verse to the meter of Clement Moore’s classic.
The Complete Concordance to Shakespeare
Author: Mary Cowden Clarke
Publisher: London : Bickers
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 840
Book Description
Publisher: London : Bickers
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 840
Book Description