Author: Su Tong
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1448125901
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
Weeping Willow was a place that survived by serving long-distance drivers, with petrol, food and girls. The truck driver was badly shaken as he arrived there in the dark and rain, but more shaken when he left. Part of the Storycuts series, this short story was previously published in the collection Madwoman on the Bridge.
Weeping Willow (Storycuts)
Author: Su Tong
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1448125901
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
Weeping Willow was a place that survived by serving long-distance drivers, with petrol, food and girls. The truck driver was badly shaken as he arrived there in the dark and rain, but more shaken when he left. Part of the Storycuts series, this short story was previously published in the collection Madwoman on the Bridge.
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1448125901
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
Weeping Willow was a place that survived by serving long-distance drivers, with petrol, food and girls. The truck driver was badly shaken as he arrived there in the dark and rain, but more shaken when he left. Part of the Storycuts series, this short story was previously published in the collection Madwoman on the Bridge.
The Private Banquet (Storycuts)
Author: Su Tong
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 144812588X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
Bao Qing was a classic example of what people in Maqiao meant when they spat out the word 'intellectual'. Coming home to his old town for the holidays was just as much trouble as not coming home, for this was a town where his old schoolmate Fatcat had every local business in his pocket. And Fatcat considered the returning 'professor' a celebrity. Bao Qing was about to get an invitation he could not refuse. Part of the Storycuts series, this short story was previously published in the collection Madwoman on the Bridge.
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 144812588X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
Bao Qing was a classic example of what people in Maqiao meant when they spat out the word 'intellectual'. Coming home to his old town for the holidays was just as much trouble as not coming home, for this was a town where his old schoolmate Fatcat had every local business in his pocket. And Fatcat considered the returning 'professor' a celebrity. Bao Qing was about to get an invitation he could not refuse. Part of the Storycuts series, this short story was previously published in the collection Madwoman on the Bridge.
How the Ceremony Ends/The Water Demon (Storycuts)
Author: Su Tong
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1448125790
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
In 'How the Ceremony Ends', it was last winter that the folklorist paid his visit to the village of Eight Pines. He wanted to collect folk tales and customs, to re-enact the ceremonies of life and death that only old men still remember. But somehow he managed to provoke the villagers. In 'The Water Demon', at the beginning, no-one noticed the little girl on the bridge. No-one knew what she was doing; she just stood and watched. She would call out loudly, 'Here comes the water demon! Get out of the water or he will get you by the feet!' and tear away out of sight. Then, one day, there was no little girl on the bridge. Part of the Storycuts series, these two short stories were previously published in the collection Madwoman on the Bridge.
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1448125790
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
In 'How the Ceremony Ends', it was last winter that the folklorist paid his visit to the village of Eight Pines. He wanted to collect folk tales and customs, to re-enact the ceremonies of life and death that only old men still remember. But somehow he managed to provoke the villagers. In 'The Water Demon', at the beginning, no-one noticed the little girl on the bridge. No-one knew what she was doing; she just stood and watched. She would call out loudly, 'Here comes the water demon! Get out of the water or he will get you by the feet!' and tear away out of sight. Then, one day, there was no little girl on the bridge. Part of the Storycuts series, these two short stories were previously published in the collection Madwoman on the Bridge.
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar
Author: Roald Dahl
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101652950
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
Seven superb short stories from the bestselling author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and The BFG! The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar is coming soon to Netflix! Meet the boy who can talk to animals and the man who can see with his eyes closed. And find out about the treasure buried deep underground. A clever mix of fact and fiction, this collection also includes how master storyteller Roald Dahl became a writer. With Roald Dahl, you can never be sure where reality ends and fantasy begins. "All the tales are entrancing inventions." —Publishers Weekly
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101652950
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
Seven superb short stories from the bestselling author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and The BFG! The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar is coming soon to Netflix! Meet the boy who can talk to animals and the man who can see with his eyes closed. And find out about the treasure buried deep underground. A clever mix of fact and fiction, this collection also includes how master storyteller Roald Dahl became a writer. With Roald Dahl, you can never be sure where reality ends and fantasy begins. "All the tales are entrancing inventions." —Publishers Weekly
Raise the Red Lantern
Author: Su Tong
Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks
ISBN: 9780060596330
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
The brutal realities of the dark places Su Tong depicts in this collection of novellas set in 1930s provincial China -- worlds of prostitution, poverty, and drug addiction -- belie his prose of stunning and simplebeauty. The title novella, "Raise the Red Lantern," which became a critically acclaimed film, tells the story of Lotus, a young woman whose father's suicide forces her to become the concubine of a wealthy merchant. Crushed by loneliness, despair, and cruel treatment, Lotus finds her descent into insanity both a weapon and a refuge. "Nineteen Thirty-Four Escapes" is an account of a family's struggles during one momentous year; plagued by disease, death, and the shady promise of life in a larger town, the family slowly disintegrates. Finally, "Opium Family" details the last years of a landowning clan whose demise is brought about by corruption, lust, and treachery -- fruits of the insidious crop they harvest.
Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks
ISBN: 9780060596330
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
The brutal realities of the dark places Su Tong depicts in this collection of novellas set in 1930s provincial China -- worlds of prostitution, poverty, and drug addiction -- belie his prose of stunning and simplebeauty. The title novella, "Raise the Red Lantern," which became a critically acclaimed film, tells the story of Lotus, a young woman whose father's suicide forces her to become the concubine of a wealthy merchant. Crushed by loneliness, despair, and cruel treatment, Lotus finds her descent into insanity both a weapon and a refuge. "Nineteen Thirty-Four Escapes" is an account of a family's struggles during one momentous year; plagued by disease, death, and the shady promise of life in a larger town, the family slowly disintegrates. Finally, "Opium Family" details the last years of a landowning clan whose demise is brought about by corruption, lust, and treachery -- fruits of the insidious crop they harvest.
Sweet Tea (Revised Edition)
Author: E. Patrick Johnson
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807872261
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
Sweet Tea
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807872261
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
Sweet Tea
Readings
Author: Hélène Cixous
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 1452900515
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 175
Book Description
Four striking and novel textual studies of major literary figures and emergent authors. Selected from Cixous's seminars taught between 1980 and 1986 at the Universite de Paris VIII (Saint-Denis) and at the College International de Philosphie, the texts chronicle the French intellectual scene with its shifting tastes over the decade following May 1968. Edited, translated, and introduced by Verena Andermatt Conley. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 1452900515
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 175
Book Description
Four striking and novel textual studies of major literary figures and emergent authors. Selected from Cixous's seminars taught between 1980 and 1986 at the Universite de Paris VIII (Saint-Denis) and at the College International de Philosphie, the texts chronicle the French intellectual scene with its shifting tastes over the decade following May 1968. Edited, translated, and introduced by Verena Andermatt Conley. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
The City in American Literature and Culture
Author: Kevin R. McNamara
Publisher:
ISBN: 1108841961
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
This book examines what literature and film reveal about the urban USA. Subjects include culture, class, race, crime, and disaster.
Publisher:
ISBN: 1108841961
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
This book examines what literature and film reveal about the urban USA. Subjects include culture, class, race, crime, and disaster.
Weeping Willow
Author: Mable Pollard
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1546245618
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 25
Book Description
Weeping Willow is a book about being shunned by others and how to believe in yourself.
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1546245618
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 25
Book Description
Weeping Willow is a book about being shunned by others and how to believe in yourself.
The Weeping Willow
Author:
Publisher: Brandi Davis
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 2
Book Description
This book is about a lonely willow tree who finds out he isn't as lonely as he thought.
Publisher: Brandi Davis
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 2
Book Description
This book is about a lonely willow tree who finds out he isn't as lonely as he thought.