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Wild Animus
Author: Rich ShaperoWild Animus
Author: Rich ShaperoPublisher: Outside Reading
ISBN: 1800788312
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 251
Book Description
How far would you go to find yourself? Wild Animus tracks the reckless quest of Ransom Altman, a young Berkeley graduate who—roused by his literary heroes and love for his girlfriend, Lindy—resolves to live in a new world of “inexhaustible desire.” Ransom’s deepening identification with the wild mountain ram, whose passion and wisdom he seeks, drives the young lovers north—first to Seattle, then to the remote Alaskan wilderness. Alone on the unforgiving ridges of Mt. Wrangell, his imagination increasingly unhinged, Ransom begins to devise and act out a dangerous animal mythos, which he documents in a first-person manuscript, and in songs or “chants” that detail his transformation and pursuit by a pack of strangely familiar wolves. The feverish hunt leads from the wilds to civilization and back again. And when the lovers return to brave the perilous mountain together, the truth behind Ransom’s imagined transformation emerges. What they discover in those frozen heights threatens their love as well as their sanity and their lives. Is Ransom inspired by a transcendent truth, or prey to a misguided fantasy? As his grip on reality weakens, the reader shares Ransom’s fears, his hopes, and his extraordinary discoveries. Wild Animus, Shapero’s debut novel, is a search for the primordial and a journey to the breaking point. It is a story of love and surrender, of monomania—of striving, at all costs, for a bliss beyond fear.
Dissolve
Author: Rich ShaperoPublisher: TooFar Media
ISBN: 1733525955
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 97
Book Description
Indulge the obsession of a dying man whose stubborn quest for an ecstatic send-off tests the liberating potentials of belief. Dare to believe in a rapturous transition between life and death that holds the potential to set us free. “Original ideas, strong prose, timelessness and universality . . . Dissolve offers a unique imagining of what might happen to the human soul after it’s left the body.” —Kirkus Reviews
Arms from the Sea
Author: Rich ShaperoPublisher: Rich Shapero
ISBN: 0971880174
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 163
Book Description
Escape with a disaffected young sculptor from a desert dystopia to “heaven,” a blue ocean realm ruled by a perverse, tentacled god with a mysterious purpose. Your trust may be outraged, but dive deeper and you’ll uncover clues to the creative sea change in our ideals that could redeem a desolate world.
Too Far
Author: Rich ShaperoPublisher: Rich Shapero
ISBN: 097188014X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
Blaze a trail with two wayward kids as they explore a private forest whose supernatural potentials illuminate the triumphs and follies of desperate imagination.
Wild Mind
Author: Bill PlotkinPublisher: New World Library
ISBN: 1608681785
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Depth psychologist Plotkin describes himself as a "psychologist gone wild." As a cultural visionary, author, and wilderness guide, he's been breaking trail for decades. Plotkin's revisioning of psychology invites readers into a conscious and embodied relationship with the more-than-human world.
Island Fruit Remedy
Author: Rich ShaperoPublisher: TooFar Media
ISBN: 1733525947
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 223
Book Description
Escape with a spurned romance writer and fantasist into an outrageous tropical burlesque, where a cast of metaphorical fruits dares you to surrender to an allegory with deeper resonances. The reward is an unexpectedly sober discovery about the creative act of finding and keeping love.
Balcony of Fog
Author: Rich ShaperoPublisher: Rich Shapero
ISBN: 1733525920
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 155
Book Description
Decamp with an innocent toiler and his mysterious female companion to a metaphoric world in the clouds—a strange, vertiginous perch that reveals startling insights about the twisted dynamics of love and power.
Lupus Animus
Author: D. GoodallPublisher: Createspace Independent Pub
ISBN: 9781499793635
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
'She was just eating her meal when she smelled a male wolf nearby - not one of her own. She watched him warily as he came slowly toward the three pups that were out the enclosure again.' Lost Mate, Terry Spear - US Today Bestseller Featuring poems, stories and haiku with the theme of wolves and the truth as each author perceives it. Discover wolves in a sci-fi setting, followed by in character views of wolves in their natural settings and in conflict with humans. All proceeds go to Artisan Rarebreeds. Registered Charity Number HMRC XT37297 With stories, poems and haiku from Ylva and Rose DelaWulf, Sherrill Willis, Zakira Salem, Krystal O'Brien, L. Anne Wooley, Shelley Walsh, Eleanor Musgrove, Delbert McGill, Michael E. Herman, Melina Turner, Caio Henrique Tavares, Yanick Zolnerciks, Paula Acton, Philip Tolhurst, John C. Scott, Jessica Kuilan Gonzalez, Dee Martin, Danielle Newman, James Don, Caryn Moya Block, Danielle Webster, Shawnee Luke, Jennifer Don, Dominique Goodall, Terry Spear, Jess Owen, Kim Mutch Emerson, A.M. Duvall, Jonathan Thurston, Becky-Elizabeth Searson, Hannah Pole and Lisa Miller.
Tree of Smoke
Author: Denis JohnsonPublisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780374279127
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 638
Book Description
Once upon a time there was a war . . . and a young American who thought of himself as the Quiet American and the Ugly American, and who wished to be neither, who wanted instead to be the Wise American, or the Good American, but who eventually came to witness himself as the Real American and finally as simply the Fucking American. That’s me. This is the story of Skip Sands—spy-in-training, engaged in Psychological Operations against the Vietcong—and the disasters that befall him thanks to his famous uncle, a war hero known in intelligence circles simply as the Colonel. This is also the story of the Houston brothers, Bill and James, young men who drift out of the Arizona desert into a war in which the line between disinformation and delusion has blurred away. In its vision of human folly, and its gritty, sympathetic portraits of men and women desperate for an end to their loneliness, whether in sex or death or by the grace of God, this is a story like nothing in our literature. Tree of Smoke is Denis Johnson’s first full-length novel in nine years, and his most gripping, beautiful, and powerful work to date. Tree of Smoke is the 2007 National Book Award Winner for Fiction.
