Author: Terry Sanville
Publisher: Austin Macauley Publishers
ISBN: 1638290156
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 181
Book Description
Open any door of a house along a dead-end street on Santa Barbara’s West Side and you’ll find lives full of desire, rage, loss, joy, and chaos. This collection tells their stories including The Opera Singer who practices more than her afternoon scales; the boyhood friends who build A Bridge Between Trees that brings tragedy and triumph; The Japanese Wife who struggles to raise a mentally disabled child at a time when they were shunned and labeled; a black couple who try to find A Better Neighborhood; a stressed-out lawyer riding his own personal Midnight Tornado; The Cabinetmaker trying to reach out to a neglected boy; and four young men Driving Without Lights into their uncertain futures. These 17 tales are written from the points of view of the young and old, the moral and questionable, from white-bread Americans and people of color. These are glimpses into lives both compelling and revealing.
Driving Without Lights and Other Stories
Author: Terry Sanville
Publisher: Austin Macauley Publishers
ISBN: 1638290156
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 181
Book Description
Open any door of a house along a dead-end street on Santa Barbara’s West Side and you’ll find lives full of desire, rage, loss, joy, and chaos. This collection tells their stories including The Opera Singer who practices more than her afternoon scales; the boyhood friends who build A Bridge Between Trees that brings tragedy and triumph; The Japanese Wife who struggles to raise a mentally disabled child at a time when they were shunned and labeled; a black couple who try to find A Better Neighborhood; a stressed-out lawyer riding his own personal Midnight Tornado; The Cabinetmaker trying to reach out to a neglected boy; and four young men Driving Without Lights into their uncertain futures. These 17 tales are written from the points of view of the young and old, the moral and questionable, from white-bread Americans and people of color. These are glimpses into lives both compelling and revealing.
Publisher: Austin Macauley Publishers
ISBN: 1638290156
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 181
Book Description
Open any door of a house along a dead-end street on Santa Barbara’s West Side and you’ll find lives full of desire, rage, loss, joy, and chaos. This collection tells their stories including The Opera Singer who practices more than her afternoon scales; the boyhood friends who build A Bridge Between Trees that brings tragedy and triumph; The Japanese Wife who struggles to raise a mentally disabled child at a time when they were shunned and labeled; a black couple who try to find A Better Neighborhood; a stressed-out lawyer riding his own personal Midnight Tornado; The Cabinetmaker trying to reach out to a neglected boy; and four young men Driving Without Lights into their uncertain futures. These 17 tales are written from the points of view of the young and old, the moral and questionable, from white-bread Americans and people of color. These are glimpses into lives both compelling and revealing.
No Other Story
Author: Cuthbert Soup
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1619631202
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
When Mr. Cheeseman and his three "smart, polite, and relatively odor-free" children journey to the not-so-distant past, they meet something utterly surprising--the alternate versions of themselves.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1619631202
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
When Mr. Cheeseman and his three "smart, polite, and relatively odor-free" children journey to the not-so-distant past, they meet something utterly surprising--the alternate versions of themselves.
City of Tiny Lights
Author: Patrick Neate
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141906057
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
***Now a film starring Riz Ahmed, James Floyd, Billie Piper, Cush Jumbo, Roshan Seth and Antonio Aakeel*** Meet Tommy Akhtar, Ugandan Asian cricket fan, devoted son, and not very successful private investigator with offices over his brother Gundappa's mini-cab firm in deepest West London. He's just woken up from his hangover (combing the parting on his toungue) when his next case comes through the door. It looks like just another investigation when hooker Melody comes into his office asking him to find her co-worker, Natasha, last seen meeting new client at a bar in Shepherd's Market. But as the search for Natasha intensifies, Tommy's world becomes increasingly sinister. He is drawn into a murder investigation, the criminal underworld, the world of fundamentalist religion and maybe even terrorist activities. Neate brilliantly explores the oddball underbelly and wierd cultural mix of London - The City of Tiny Lights - today and questions just what it really means to be British now. . .
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141906057
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
***Now a film starring Riz Ahmed, James Floyd, Billie Piper, Cush Jumbo, Roshan Seth and Antonio Aakeel*** Meet Tommy Akhtar, Ugandan Asian cricket fan, devoted son, and not very successful private investigator with offices over his brother Gundappa's mini-cab firm in deepest West London. He's just woken up from his hangover (combing the parting on his toungue) when his next case comes through the door. It looks like just another investigation when hooker Melody comes into his office asking him to find her co-worker, Natasha, last seen meeting new client at a bar in Shepherd's Market. But as the search for Natasha intensifies, Tommy's world becomes increasingly sinister. He is drawn into a murder investigation, the criminal underworld, the world of fundamentalist religion and maybe even terrorist activities. Neate brilliantly explores the oddball underbelly and wierd cultural mix of London - The City of Tiny Lights - today and questions just what it really means to be British now. . .
Driving the Heart and Other Stories
Author: Jason Brown
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393047219
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Thirteen stories, some on medical themes. The story, Detox, describes a detoxification clinic which caters to children, while The Coroner's Report deals with the routine in a morgue.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393047219
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Thirteen stories, some on medical themes. The story, Detox, describes a detoxification clinic which caters to children, while The Coroner's Report deals with the routine in a morgue.
The Steppe and Other Stories, 1887-91
Author: Anton Chekhov
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141915706
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
This collection of Chekhov's finest early writing reveals a young writer mastering the art of the short story. 'The Steppe', which established his reputation, is the unforgettable tale of a boy's journey to a new school in Kiev, travelling through majestic landscapes towards an unknown destiny. 'Gusev' depicts an ocean voyage, where the sea takes on a terrifying, primeval power; 'The Kiss' portrays a shy soldier's failed romantic encounter; and in 'The Duel' two men's enmity ends in farce. Haunting and highly atmospheric, all the stories in this volume show a writer emerging from the shadow of his masters - Tolstoy, Turgenev and Gogol - and discovering his own voice. They also illustrate Chekhov's genius for evoking the natural world and exploring inner lives.
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141915706
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
This collection of Chekhov's finest early writing reveals a young writer mastering the art of the short story. 'The Steppe', which established his reputation, is the unforgettable tale of a boy's journey to a new school in Kiev, travelling through majestic landscapes towards an unknown destiny. 'Gusev' depicts an ocean voyage, where the sea takes on a terrifying, primeval power; 'The Kiss' portrays a shy soldier's failed romantic encounter; and in 'The Duel' two men's enmity ends in farce. Haunting and highly atmospheric, all the stories in this volume show a writer emerging from the shadow of his masters - Tolstoy, Turgenev and Gogol - and discovering his own voice. They also illustrate Chekhov's genius for evoking the natural world and exploring inner lives.
Going Home in the Rain and Other Stories
Author: Monideepa Sahu
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789810934033
Category : Short stories, English
Languages : en
Pages : 101
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789810934033
Category : Short stories, English
Languages : en
Pages : 101
Book Description
The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories
Author: Leo Tolstoy
Publisher: Oxford Paperbacks
ISBN: 0199555796
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 513
Book Description
These four novellas, each unique in form, show Tolstoy at his creative height. Written over a period of almost fifty years, they reflect his changing views on art and sexuality, women and marriage, nationalism and ethnicity, war and empire, and the central Tolstoyan theme of love. This edition uses the famous and superior Maude translations. Contains: Family Happiness; The Kreutzer Sonata; The Cossacks; Hadji Murád.
Publisher: Oxford Paperbacks
ISBN: 0199555796
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 513
Book Description
These four novellas, each unique in form, show Tolstoy at his creative height. Written over a period of almost fifty years, they reflect his changing views on art and sexuality, women and marriage, nationalism and ethnicity, war and empire, and the central Tolstoyan theme of love. This edition uses the famous and superior Maude translations. Contains: Family Happiness; The Kreutzer Sonata; The Cossacks; Hadji Murád.
The Deportees and Other Stories
Author: Roddy Doyle
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780670018451
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Depicts the immigrant experience in contemporary Ireland as reflected in the stories of a father who confronts his prejudices when his daughter brings home a black man, an African boy's first day in a new school, and a nanny who plots against her charge's older sisters.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780670018451
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Depicts the immigrant experience in contemporary Ireland as reflected in the stories of a father who confronts his prejudices when his daughter brings home a black man, an African boy's first day in a new school, and a nanny who plots against her charge's older sisters.
Poor Love & Other Stories
Author: Labriola, Anthony
Publisher: Anaphora Literary Press
ISBN: 1681140233
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
These stories, in all their narrative voicings, deal with sorrow and still seek to find life’s joys. Despite conflicts, contradictions, sacrifices, surprises and ironies, the haunted and hunted characters try to comprehend death in detail. In so doing, the human spirit rises up and triumphs against the incomprehensible and bewildering aspects of life, love and death.
Publisher: Anaphora Literary Press
ISBN: 1681140233
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
These stories, in all their narrative voicings, deal with sorrow and still seek to find life’s joys. Despite conflicts, contradictions, sacrifices, surprises and ironies, the haunted and hunted characters try to comprehend death in detail. In so doing, the human spirit rises up and triumphs against the incomprehensible and bewildering aspects of life, love and death.
By the Barrow River and Other Stories
Author: Edmund Leamy
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3752433280
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: By the Barrow River and Other Stories by Edmund Leamy
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3752433280
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: By the Barrow River and Other Stories by Edmund Leamy