Author: Thomas Savage
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780896212268
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
This is the story of John Metlen and Martin Connard, both founding fathers of the town of Grayling, Montana, and their families. Beginning in 1890, the novel chronicles the complex relationship between two generations of these clans.
The Corner of Rife and Pacific
Author: Thomas Savage
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780896212268
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
This is the story of John Metlen and Martin Connard, both founding fathers of the town of Grayling, Montana, and their families. Beginning in 1890, the novel chronicles the complex relationship between two generations of these clans.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780896212268
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
This is the story of John Metlen and Martin Connard, both founding fathers of the town of Grayling, Montana, and their families. Beginning in 1890, the novel chronicles the complex relationship between two generations of these clans.
The Pass
Author: Thomas Savage
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Families
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
After death of wife and child, heartbroken man struggles on his prairie ranch against cold and hunger.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Families
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
After death of wife and child, heartbroken man struggles on his prairie ranch against cold and hunger.
Corner of Rife and Pacific 11-Copy
Author: Thomas Savage
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780147785947
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780147785947
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Tom's Midnight Garden
Author: Philippa Pearce
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780192717771
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
"Tom is not prepared for what is about to happen when he hears the grandfather clock strike thirteen. Outside the back door is a garden, which everyone tells him does not exist."--Page 4 de la couverture.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780192717771
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
"Tom is not prepared for what is about to happen when he hears the grandfather clock strike thirteen. Outside the back door is a garden, which everyone tells him does not exist."--Page 4 de la couverture.
The Sheep Queen
Author: Thomas Savage
Publisher: Back Bay Books
ISBN: 0316076716
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
An epic family saga set on the sprawling, beautiful ranches of the American West, from the author of The Power of the Dog, "a masterful novelist working at the peak of his form" (Washington Post). A Western family story at once intimate and epic, this rich, compelling, emotionally charged novel tells the story of the Sweringen family of Idaho: Emma, the matriarch, known as the Sheep Queen ("surely one of the most fascinating characters in current fiction" —Publishers Weekly); the daughter who disappoints her; the grandson who adores her; and the granddaughter, given up for adoption, who spends nearly half her life finding her way back to her family. "The Sheep Queen is marvelous...Her reign has a mythic grandeur." —New York Times Book Review "A fine novel...A sense of family as anchor and root and self-definition [gives] the book its considerable strength...Savage is a writer of the first order, and he possesses in abundance the novelist's highest art — the ability to illuminate and move." —The New Yorker
Publisher: Back Bay Books
ISBN: 0316076716
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
An epic family saga set on the sprawling, beautiful ranches of the American West, from the author of The Power of the Dog, "a masterful novelist working at the peak of his form" (Washington Post). A Western family story at once intimate and epic, this rich, compelling, emotionally charged novel tells the story of the Sweringen family of Idaho: Emma, the matriarch, known as the Sheep Queen ("surely one of the most fascinating characters in current fiction" —Publishers Weekly); the daughter who disappoints her; the grandson who adores her; and the granddaughter, given up for adoption, who spends nearly half her life finding her way back to her family. "The Sheep Queen is marvelous...Her reign has a mythic grandeur." —New York Times Book Review "A fine novel...A sense of family as anchor and root and self-definition [gives] the book its considerable strength...Savage is a writer of the first order, and he possesses in abundance the novelist's highest art — the ability to illuminate and move." —The New Yorker
The Power of the Dog
Author: Thomas Savage
Publisher: Little, Brown
ISBN: 0316082708
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Now an Academy Award-winning Netflix film by Jane Campion, starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Kirsten Dunst: Thomas Savage's acclaimed Western is "a pitch-perfect evocation of time and place" (Boston Globe) for fans of East of Eden and Brokeback Mountain. Set in the wide-open spaces of the American West, The Power of the Dog is a stunning story of domestic tyranny, brutal masculinity, and thrilling defiance from one of the most powerful and distinctive voices in American literature. The novel tells the story of two brothers — one magnetic but cruel, the other gentle and quiet — and of the mother and son whose arrival on the brothers’ ranch shatters an already tenuous peace. From the novel’s startling first paragraph to its very last word, Thomas Savage’s voice — and the intense passion of his characters — holds readers in thrall. "Gripping and powerful...A work of literary art." —Annie Proulx, from her afterword
Publisher: Little, Brown
ISBN: 0316082708
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Now an Academy Award-winning Netflix film by Jane Campion, starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Kirsten Dunst: Thomas Savage's acclaimed Western is "a pitch-perfect evocation of time and place" (Boston Globe) for fans of East of Eden and Brokeback Mountain. Set in the wide-open spaces of the American West, The Power of the Dog is a stunning story of domestic tyranny, brutal masculinity, and thrilling defiance from one of the most powerful and distinctive voices in American literature. The novel tells the story of two brothers — one magnetic but cruel, the other gentle and quiet — and of the mother and son whose arrival on the brothers’ ranch shatters an already tenuous peace. From the novel’s startling first paragraph to its very last word, Thomas Savage’s voice — and the intense passion of his characters — holds readers in thrall. "Gripping and powerful...A work of literary art." —Annie Proulx, from her afterword
Hot Silver
Author: Steven Lewis
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780980855951
Category : Railroad travel
Languages : en
Pages : 90
Book Description
"It's Bill Bryson meets Paul Theroux in Steven Lewis's hilarious review of his train journey across Australia on the Indian Pacific in the train's fortieth anniversary year. Hot Silver stops with the train in Broken Hill, Adelaide and Kalgoorlie and the almost abandoned town of Cook in the middle of the vast Nullarbor Plain. Along the way Lewis grapples with a space-age toilet, the world's biggest painting, and the best way to cook a kangaroo tail ..." -- Back cover.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780980855951
Category : Railroad travel
Languages : en
Pages : 90
Book Description
"It's Bill Bryson meets Paul Theroux in Steven Lewis's hilarious review of his train journey across Australia on the Indian Pacific in the train's fortieth anniversary year. Hot Silver stops with the train in Broken Hill, Adelaide and Kalgoorlie and the almost abandoned town of Cook in the middle of the vast Nullarbor Plain. Along the way Lewis grapples with a space-age toilet, the world's biggest painting, and the best way to cook a kangaroo tail ..." -- Back cover.
Black Glass
Author: Karen Joy Fowler
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 069840548X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
An early work from PEN/Faulkner Award winner and Man Booker finalist Karen Joy Fowler, reissued and beautifully repackaged for new fans and old. First published in 1998 to high praise, and now reissued with the addition of a prefatory essay, Black Glass showcases the extraordinary talents of this prizewinning author. In fifteen gemlike tales, Fowler lets her wit and vision roam freely, turning accepted norms inside out and fairy tales upside down—pushing us to reconsider our unquestioned verities and proving once again that she is among our most subversive writers. So, then: Here is Carry Nation loose again, breaking up discos, smashing topless bars, radicalizing women as she preaches clean living to men more intent on babes and booze. And here is Mrs. Gulliver, her patience with her long-voyaging Lemuel worn thin: Money is short and the kids can’t even remember what their dad looks like. And what of Tonto, the ever-faithful companion, turning forty without so much as a birthday phone call from that masked man? It is a book full of great themes and terrific stories—but it is the way in which Fowler tells the tale, develops plot and character, plays with time, chance, and reality that makes these pieces so original.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 069840548X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
An early work from PEN/Faulkner Award winner and Man Booker finalist Karen Joy Fowler, reissued and beautifully repackaged for new fans and old. First published in 1998 to high praise, and now reissued with the addition of a prefatory essay, Black Glass showcases the extraordinary talents of this prizewinning author. In fifteen gemlike tales, Fowler lets her wit and vision roam freely, turning accepted norms inside out and fairy tales upside down—pushing us to reconsider our unquestioned verities and proving once again that she is among our most subversive writers. So, then: Here is Carry Nation loose again, breaking up discos, smashing topless bars, radicalizing women as she preaches clean living to men more intent on babes and booze. And here is Mrs. Gulliver, her patience with her long-voyaging Lemuel worn thin: Money is short and the kids can’t even remember what their dad looks like. And what of Tonto, the ever-faithful companion, turning forty without so much as a birthday phone call from that masked man? It is a book full of great themes and terrific stories—but it is the way in which Fowler tells the tale, develops plot and character, plays with time, chance, and reality that makes these pieces so original.
Lola
Author: Melissa Scrivner Love
Publisher: Crown Publishing Group (NY)
ISBN: 0451496108
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
"An LA gang is secretly led by a brilliant young woman"--
Publisher: Crown Publishing Group (NY)
ISBN: 0451496108
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
"An LA gang is secretly led by a brilliant young woman"--
Unaccustomed Earth
Author: Jhumpa Lahiri
Publisher: Random House India
ISBN: 8184004842
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 279
Book Description
The stories of Unaccustomed Earth focus on second-generation immigrants making and remaking lives, loves and identities in England and America. We follow brothers and sisters, mothers and fathers, friends and lovers, in stories that take us from Boston and London to Bombay and Calcutta. Blending the individual and the generational, the exotic and the strikingly mundane, these haunting, exquisitely detailed and emotionally complex stories are intensely compelling elegies of life, death, love and fate. This is a dazzling work from a masterful writer.
Publisher: Random House India
ISBN: 8184004842
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 279
Book Description
The stories of Unaccustomed Earth focus on second-generation immigrants making and remaking lives, loves and identities in England and America. We follow brothers and sisters, mothers and fathers, friends and lovers, in stories that take us from Boston and London to Bombay and Calcutta. Blending the individual and the generational, the exotic and the strikingly mundane, these haunting, exquisitely detailed and emotionally complex stories are intensely compelling elegies of life, death, love and fate. This is a dazzling work from a masterful writer.