Author: Eliza Fenwick
Publisher: Litres
ISBN: 5040830750
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 65
Book Description
The Bad Family & Other Stories
Author: Eliza Fenwick
Publisher: Litres
ISBN: 5040830750
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 65
Book Description
Publisher: Litres
ISBN: 5040830750
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 65
Book Description
The Bad Family and Other Stories
Author: Mrs. Fenwick
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3752375876
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 50
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: The Bad Family and Other Stories by Mrs. Fenwick
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3752375876
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 50
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: The Bad Family and Other Stories by Mrs. Fenwick
Bad Dreams and Other Stories
Author: Tessa Hadley
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0062476688
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
Winner of the Edge Hill Short Story Prize A New York Times Notable Book of the Year An NPR Best Book of the Year The award-winning author of The Past once again "crystallizes the atmosphere of ordinary life in prose somehow miraculous and natural" (Washington Post), in a collection of stories that elevate the mundane into the exceptional. The author of six critically acclaimed novels, Tessa Hadley has proven herself to be the champion of revealing the hidden depths in the deceptively simple. In these short stories it’s the ordinary things that turn out to be most extraordinary: the history of a length of fabric or a forgotten jacket. Two sisters quarrel over an inheritance and a new baby; a child awake in the night explores the familiar rooms of her home, made strange by the darkness; a housekeeper caring for a helpless old man uncovers secrets from his past. The first steps into a turning point and a new life are made so easily and carelessly: each of these stories illuminate crucial moments of transition, often imperceptible to the protagonists. A girl accepts a lift in a car with some older boys; a young woman reads the diaries she discovers while housesitting. Small acts have large consequences, some that can reverberate across decades; private fantasies can affect other people, for better and worse. The real things that happen to people, the accidents that befall them, are every bit as mysterious as their longings and their dreams. Bad Dreams and Other Stories demonstrates yet again that Tessa Hadley "puts on paper a consciousness so visceral, so fully realized, it heightens and expands your own. She is a true master" (Lily King, author of Euphoria).
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0062476688
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
Winner of the Edge Hill Short Story Prize A New York Times Notable Book of the Year An NPR Best Book of the Year The award-winning author of The Past once again "crystallizes the atmosphere of ordinary life in prose somehow miraculous and natural" (Washington Post), in a collection of stories that elevate the mundane into the exceptional. The author of six critically acclaimed novels, Tessa Hadley has proven herself to be the champion of revealing the hidden depths in the deceptively simple. In these short stories it’s the ordinary things that turn out to be most extraordinary: the history of a length of fabric or a forgotten jacket. Two sisters quarrel over an inheritance and a new baby; a child awake in the night explores the familiar rooms of her home, made strange by the darkness; a housekeeper caring for a helpless old man uncovers secrets from his past. The first steps into a turning point and a new life are made so easily and carelessly: each of these stories illuminate crucial moments of transition, often imperceptible to the protagonists. A girl accepts a lift in a car with some older boys; a young woman reads the diaries she discovers while housesitting. Small acts have large consequences, some that can reverberate across decades; private fantasies can affect other people, for better and worse. The real things that happen to people, the accidents that befall them, are every bit as mysterious as their longings and their dreams. Bad Dreams and Other Stories demonstrates yet again that Tessa Hadley "puts on paper a consciousness so visceral, so fully realized, it heightens and expands your own. She is a true master" (Lily King, author of Euphoria).
Family Game Night and Other Catastrophes
Author: Mary E. Lambert
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 0545932009
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
A debut middle grade novel about throwing things out -- and letting people in. Family Game Night tackles a tough issue with a light, accessible touch and writing that sparkles with heart. Annabelle has a secret . . . a secret so big she won't allow friends within five miles of her home. Her mom collects things. Their house is overflowing with stuff. It gives Annabelle's sister nightmares, her brother spends as much time as he can at friends' houses, and her dad buries himself in his work.So when a stack of newspapers falls on Annabelle's sister, it sparks a catastrophic fight between their parents--one that might tear them all apart--and Annabelle starts to think that things at home finally need to change. Is it possible for her to clean up the family's mess? Or are they really, truly broken?Mary E. Lambert's moving and heart-breakingly funny debut novel about the things we hold dear--and the things we let go--will resonate with anyone whose life has ever felt just a little too messy.
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 0545932009
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
A debut middle grade novel about throwing things out -- and letting people in. Family Game Night tackles a tough issue with a light, accessible touch and writing that sparkles with heart. Annabelle has a secret . . . a secret so big she won't allow friends within five miles of her home. Her mom collects things. Their house is overflowing with stuff. It gives Annabelle's sister nightmares, her brother spends as much time as he can at friends' houses, and her dad buries himself in his work.So when a stack of newspapers falls on Annabelle's sister, it sparks a catastrophic fight between their parents--one that might tear them all apart--and Annabelle starts to think that things at home finally need to change. Is it possible for her to clean up the family's mess? Or are they really, truly broken?Mary E. Lambert's moving and heart-breakingly funny debut novel about the things we hold dear--and the things we let go--will resonate with anyone whose life has ever felt just a little too messy.
No Aging in India
Author: Lawrence Cohen
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520925328
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
From the opening sequence, in which mid-nineteenth-century Indian fishermen hear the possibility of redemption in an old woman's madness, No Aging in India captures the reader with its interplay of story and analysis. Drawing on more than a decade of ethnographic work, Lawrence Cohen links a detailed investigation of mind and body in old age in four neighborhoods of the Indian city of Varanasi (Banaras) with events and processes around India and around the world. This compelling exploration of senility—encompassing not only the aging body but also larger cultural anxieties—combines insights from medical anthropology, psychoanalysis, and postcolonial studies. Bridging literary genres as well as geographic spaces, Cohen responds to what he sees as the impoverishment of both North American and Indian gerontologies—the one mired in ambivalence toward demented old bodies, the other insistent on a dubious morality tale of modern families breaking up and abandoning their elderly. He shifts our attention irresistibly toward how old age comes to matter in the constitution of societies and their narratives of identity and history.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520925328
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
From the opening sequence, in which mid-nineteenth-century Indian fishermen hear the possibility of redemption in an old woman's madness, No Aging in India captures the reader with its interplay of story and analysis. Drawing on more than a decade of ethnographic work, Lawrence Cohen links a detailed investigation of mind and body in old age in four neighborhoods of the Indian city of Varanasi (Banaras) with events and processes around India and around the world. This compelling exploration of senility—encompassing not only the aging body but also larger cultural anxieties—combines insights from medical anthropology, psychoanalysis, and postcolonial studies. Bridging literary genres as well as geographic spaces, Cohen responds to what he sees as the impoverishment of both North American and Indian gerontologies—the one mired in ambivalence toward demented old bodies, the other insistent on a dubious morality tale of modern families breaking up and abandoning their elderly. He shifts our attention irresistibly toward how old age comes to matter in the constitution of societies and their narratives of identity and history.
Bad Eminence (Paperback Edition)
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781913505714
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781913505714
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Family Jewels and Other Stories
Author: Dorothy Cannell
Publisher: Belgrave House
ISBN: 1610847407
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 307
Book Description
Eleven mystery short stories by Dorothy Cannell, including The Purloined Purple Pearl, Cupid’s Arrow, One Night at a Time, Telling George, The January Sale Stowaway, The Gentleman’s Gentleman, Come to Grandma, Fetch, Poor Lincoln, The High Cost of Living, and The Family Jewels: A Moral Tale. Mystery Short Stories by Dorothy Cannell; originally published by Five Star First Edition Mystery Series
Publisher: Belgrave House
ISBN: 1610847407
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 307
Book Description
Eleven mystery short stories by Dorothy Cannell, including The Purloined Purple Pearl, Cupid’s Arrow, One Night at a Time, Telling George, The January Sale Stowaway, The Gentleman’s Gentleman, Come to Grandma, Fetch, Poor Lincoln, The High Cost of Living, and The Family Jewels: A Moral Tale. Mystery Short Stories by Dorothy Cannell; originally published by Five Star First Edition Mystery Series
Family Happiness and Other Stories
Author: Leo Tolstoy
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486112306
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Rich in detail, shrewdly observed, and vividly narrated, these 6 tales include "Three Deaths," "The Three Hermits," "The Devil," "Father Sergius," "Master and Man," and the title story.
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486112306
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Rich in detail, shrewdly observed, and vividly narrated, these 6 tales include "Three Deaths," "The Three Hermits," "The Devil," "Father Sergius," "Master and Man," and the title story.
Boycotted, and Other Stories
Author: Talbot Baines Reed
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
'Boycotted, and Other Stories' is a collection of fictional short stories by the author Talbot Baines Reed. Quite a number of them, including 'Boycotted' are school adventure stories, for which Reed is famous. Others are adventure stories not in a school setting. However the common theme is that of young characters facing one dilemma or another and how they overcome the challenge.
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
'Boycotted, and Other Stories' is a collection of fictional short stories by the author Talbot Baines Reed. Quite a number of them, including 'Boycotted' are school adventure stories, for which Reed is famous. Others are adventure stories not in a school setting. However the common theme is that of young characters facing one dilemma or another and how they overcome the challenge.
Burning Embers and Other Stories of Marriage, Work, and Family
Author: Charlie Close
Publisher: Dog Ear Publishing
ISBN: 1598588184
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Publisher: Dog Ear Publishing
ISBN: 1598588184
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description