Author: Adam Davies
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN:
Category : Domestic fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Against his better judgment, Jack succumbs to his mother's guilt-laden pleas that he see his estranged father. Should he walk away and leave his crazy family to solve their problems without him? Or should he try to mend fences that have been broken for as long as he can remember?
Goodbye Lemon
Author: Adam Davies
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN:
Category : Domestic fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Against his better judgment, Jack succumbs to his mother's guilt-laden pleas that he see his estranged father. Should he walk away and leave his crazy family to solve their problems without him? Or should he try to mend fences that have been broken for as long as he can remember?
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN:
Category : Domestic fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Against his better judgment, Jack succumbs to his mother's guilt-laden pleas that he see his estranged father. Should he walk away and leave his crazy family to solve their problems without him? Or should he try to mend fences that have been broken for as long as he can remember?
Mine All Mine
Author: Adam Davies
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9781594483141
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
A dazzling and funny romantic comedy from Adam Davies, the author of The Frog King and Goodbye Lemon. Otto Starks is a "pulse"—a highly specialized security guard who has hyperdeveloped senses and a nervous habit of popping tabs of cyanide. Otto was once a rising star but then he was rolled three times by the notorious Rat Burglar. Now, demoted and dangerously in debt to a loan shark, all he has left is Charlie Izzo, the woman he loves. Unfortunately, she is also the Rat Burglar's zealous advocate. That's bad enough. But then Otto gets robbed yet again and the cops pronounce him the prime suspect. When Charlie disappears and Otto becomes a fugitive, he realizes that the Rat Burglar has stolen much more from him than art. And to get it back he must break the law he has devoted his life to upholding. Mine All Mine is a nail-biting thriller about deception, betrayal, and ownership—in art and in love.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9781594483141
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
A dazzling and funny romantic comedy from Adam Davies, the author of The Frog King and Goodbye Lemon. Otto Starks is a "pulse"—a highly specialized security guard who has hyperdeveloped senses and a nervous habit of popping tabs of cyanide. Otto was once a rising star but then he was rolled three times by the notorious Rat Burglar. Now, demoted and dangerously in debt to a loan shark, all he has left is Charlie Izzo, the woman he loves. Unfortunately, she is also the Rat Burglar's zealous advocate. That's bad enough. But then Otto gets robbed yet again and the cops pronounce him the prime suspect. When Charlie disappears and Otto becomes a fugitive, he realizes that the Rat Burglar has stolen much more from him than art. And to get it back he must break the law he has devoted his life to upholding. Mine All Mine is a nail-biting thriller about deception, betrayal, and ownership—in art and in love.
Goodbye Lemon
Author: Adam Davies
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1440624216
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
Finally, after fifteen years, Jack Tennant is going home. Against his better judgment, he has succumbed to his mother’s guilt-laden pleas that he see his estranged father, who suffers from “locked-in syndrome,” a condition that leaves him fully intact mentally but unable to speak or move, save for blinking his eye. Jack’s do-gooder girlfriend believes that this trip is a chance for Jack to achieve peace with his family. But Jack’s no fool: He knows better—and he knows there’s a lot his girlfriend doesn’t realize about the Tennant family. She doesn’t know about Jack’s alcoholic brother, Pressman. And she doesn’t know the truth about his brother Dex, who drowned when Jack was very young—and about whom his parents have never said a word. With his family teetering on the brink, Jack finds himself in the uncomfortable position of having to make a decision he’s avoided for years. Should he walk away from his past and leave his crazy family to solve their problems without him? Or should he try to mend fences that have been broken for as long as he can remember? Jack has a lot of choices to make—and fast. If he doesn’t, he runs the risk of losing everything, including the woman he loves. “Adam Davies has a delicious command of the English language.”—St. Petersburg Times
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1440624216
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
Finally, after fifteen years, Jack Tennant is going home. Against his better judgment, he has succumbed to his mother’s guilt-laden pleas that he see his estranged father, who suffers from “locked-in syndrome,” a condition that leaves him fully intact mentally but unable to speak or move, save for blinking his eye. Jack’s do-gooder girlfriend believes that this trip is a chance for Jack to achieve peace with his family. But Jack’s no fool: He knows better—and he knows there’s a lot his girlfriend doesn’t realize about the Tennant family. She doesn’t know about Jack’s alcoholic brother, Pressman. And she doesn’t know the truth about his brother Dex, who drowned when Jack was very young—and about whom his parents have never said a word. With his family teetering on the brink, Jack finds himself in the uncomfortable position of having to make a decision he’s avoided for years. Should he walk away from his past and leave his crazy family to solve their problems without him? Or should he try to mend fences that have been broken for as long as he can remember? Jack has a lot of choices to make—and fast. If he doesn’t, he runs the risk of losing everything, including the woman he loves. “Adam Davies has a delicious command of the English language.”—St. Petersburg Times
Grief Girl
Author: Erin Vincent
Publisher: Delacorte Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 0385733534
Category : Bereavement in adolescence
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
The author describes how her parents were killed in a car accident when she was a teenager, and how she and her seventeen-year-old sister and three-year-old brother were left to deal with the pain and hardship while they struggled to survive on their own.
Publisher: Delacorte Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 0385733534
Category : Bereavement in adolescence
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
The author describes how her parents were killed in a car accident when she was a teenager, and how she and her seventeen-year-old sister and three-year-old brother were left to deal with the pain and hardship while they struggled to survive on their own.
Crossing Space
Author: Angel Favazza
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0359516815
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
Crossing Space is an arresting collection of science fiction poetry by best-selling author, Angel Favazza. Here is a poet who is fully engaged in the world and with language, and who makes no concessions to political correctness or the industry of consolation. Instead, Favazza fearlessly explores outer space and the human condition through her own emotions, zestfully exposing the thoughts we usually hide from others and even ourselves. Favazza pushes the boundaries of traditional science fiction and can't keep herself from going right to those dark edges, whether she is writing about the entanglements of human life, the challenges of our place within the universe, or, as she so deftly does in several poems, both at once. The result is a poetry collection that is unforgiving, moving, and often very funny.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0359516815
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
Crossing Space is an arresting collection of science fiction poetry by best-selling author, Angel Favazza. Here is a poet who is fully engaged in the world and with language, and who makes no concessions to political correctness or the industry of consolation. Instead, Favazza fearlessly explores outer space and the human condition through her own emotions, zestfully exposing the thoughts we usually hide from others and even ourselves. Favazza pushes the boundaries of traditional science fiction and can't keep herself from going right to those dark edges, whether she is writing about the entanglements of human life, the challenges of our place within the universe, or, as she so deftly does in several poems, both at once. The result is a poetry collection that is unforgiving, moving, and often very funny.
Naked and Marooned
Author: Ed Stafford
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0698145747
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
What do you do after you walk the Amazon? Ed Stafford—adventurer extraordinaire and Guinness World Record holder for walking the length of the Amazon River—likes a challenge. Casting about for an adventure that would top the extraordinary feat he recounts in Walking the Amazon, Stafford decides to maroon himself on an uninhabited island in the South Pacific. His mission: to survive for sixty days equipped with nothing—no food, water, or even clothing—except the video cameras he would use to document his time. Detailing Stafford’s jaw-dropping sojourn on the island of Olourua, Naked and Marooned is a tale of unparalleled adventure and of one man’s will to push himself to the outer limits—and survive.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0698145747
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
What do you do after you walk the Amazon? Ed Stafford—adventurer extraordinaire and Guinness World Record holder for walking the length of the Amazon River—likes a challenge. Casting about for an adventure that would top the extraordinary feat he recounts in Walking the Amazon, Stafford decides to maroon himself on an uninhabited island in the South Pacific. His mission: to survive for sixty days equipped with nothing—no food, water, or even clothing—except the video cameras he would use to document his time. Detailing Stafford’s jaw-dropping sojourn on the island of Olourua, Naked and Marooned is a tale of unparalleled adventure and of one man’s will to push himself to the outer limits—and survive.
Significant Objects
Author: Joshua Glenn
Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
ISBN: 1606995251
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
100 EXTRAORDINARY STORIES ABOUT ORDINARY THINGS SIGNIFICANT OBJECTS: A Literary and Economic Experiment Can a great story transform a worthless trinket into a significant object? The Significant Objects project set out to answer that question once and for all, by recruiting a highly impressive crew of creative writers to invent stories about an unimpressive menagerie of items rescued from thrift stores and yard sales. That secondhand flotsam definitely becomes more valuable: sold on eBay, objects originally picked up for a buck or so sold for thousands of dollars in total — making the project a sensation in the literary blogosphere along the way. But something else happened, too: The stories created were astonishing, a cavalcade of surprising responses to the challenge of manufacturing significance. Who would have believed that random junk could inspire so much imagination? The founders of the Significant Objects project, that’s who. This book collects 100 of the finest tales from this unprecedented creative experiment; you’ll never look at a thrift-store curiosity the same way again. FEATURING ORIGINAL STORIES BY: Chris Adrian • Rob Agredo • Kurt Andersen • Rachel Axler • Rob Baedeker • Nicholson Baker • Rosecrans Baldwin • Matthew Battles • Charles Baxter • Kate Bernheimer • Susanna Breslin • Kevin Brockmeier • Matt Brown • Blake Butler • Meg Cabot • Tim Carvell • Patrick Cates • Dan Chaon • Susanna Daniel • Adam Davies • Kathryn Davis • Matthew De Abaitua • Stacey • D'Erasmo • Helen DeWitt • Doug Dorst • Mark Doty • Ben Ehrenreich • Mark Frauenfelder • Amy Fusselman • William Gibson • Myla Goldberg • Ben Greenman • Jason Grote • Jim Hanas • Jennifer Michael Hecht • Sheila Heti • Christine Hill • Dara Horn • Shelley Jackson • Heidi Julavits • Ben Katchor • Matt Klam • Wayne Koestenbaum • Josh Kramer • Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer • Neil LaBute • Victor LaValle • J. Robert Lennon • Jonathan Lethem • Todd Levin • Laura Lippman • Mimi Lipson • Robert Lopez • Joe Lyons • Sarah Manguso • Merrill Markoe • Tom McCarthy • Miranda Mellis • Lydia Millet • Maud Newton • Annie Nocenti • Stephen O’Connor • Stewart O’Nan • Jenny Offill • Gary Panter • Ed Park • James Parker • Benjamin Percy • Mark Jude Poirier • Padgett Powell • Bob Powers • Todd Pruzan • Dan Reines • Nathaniel Rich • Peter Rock • Lucinda Rosenfeld • Greg Rowland • Luc Sante • R.K. Scher • Toni Schlesinger • Matthew Sharpe • Jim Shepard • David Shields • Marisa Silver • Curtis Sittenfeld • Bruce Sterling • Scarlett Thomas • Jeff Turrentine • Deb Olin Unferth • Tom Vanderbilt • Matthew J. Wells • Joe Wenderoth • Margaret Wertheim • Colleen Werthmann • Colson Whitehead • Carl Wilson • Cintra Wilson • Sari Wilson • Douglas Wolk • John Wray
Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
ISBN: 1606995251
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
100 EXTRAORDINARY STORIES ABOUT ORDINARY THINGS SIGNIFICANT OBJECTS: A Literary and Economic Experiment Can a great story transform a worthless trinket into a significant object? The Significant Objects project set out to answer that question once and for all, by recruiting a highly impressive crew of creative writers to invent stories about an unimpressive menagerie of items rescued from thrift stores and yard sales. That secondhand flotsam definitely becomes more valuable: sold on eBay, objects originally picked up for a buck or so sold for thousands of dollars in total — making the project a sensation in the literary blogosphere along the way. But something else happened, too: The stories created were astonishing, a cavalcade of surprising responses to the challenge of manufacturing significance. Who would have believed that random junk could inspire so much imagination? The founders of the Significant Objects project, that’s who. This book collects 100 of the finest tales from this unprecedented creative experiment; you’ll never look at a thrift-store curiosity the same way again. FEATURING ORIGINAL STORIES BY: Chris Adrian • Rob Agredo • Kurt Andersen • Rachel Axler • Rob Baedeker • Nicholson Baker • Rosecrans Baldwin • Matthew Battles • Charles Baxter • Kate Bernheimer • Susanna Breslin • Kevin Brockmeier • Matt Brown • Blake Butler • Meg Cabot • Tim Carvell • Patrick Cates • Dan Chaon • Susanna Daniel • Adam Davies • Kathryn Davis • Matthew De Abaitua • Stacey • D'Erasmo • Helen DeWitt • Doug Dorst • Mark Doty • Ben Ehrenreich • Mark Frauenfelder • Amy Fusselman • William Gibson • Myla Goldberg • Ben Greenman • Jason Grote • Jim Hanas • Jennifer Michael Hecht • Sheila Heti • Christine Hill • Dara Horn • Shelley Jackson • Heidi Julavits • Ben Katchor • Matt Klam • Wayne Koestenbaum • Josh Kramer • Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer • Neil LaBute • Victor LaValle • J. Robert Lennon • Jonathan Lethem • Todd Levin • Laura Lippman • Mimi Lipson • Robert Lopez • Joe Lyons • Sarah Manguso • Merrill Markoe • Tom McCarthy • Miranda Mellis • Lydia Millet • Maud Newton • Annie Nocenti • Stephen O’Connor • Stewart O’Nan • Jenny Offill • Gary Panter • Ed Park • James Parker • Benjamin Percy • Mark Jude Poirier • Padgett Powell • Bob Powers • Todd Pruzan • Dan Reines • Nathaniel Rich • Peter Rock • Lucinda Rosenfeld • Greg Rowland • Luc Sante • R.K. Scher • Toni Schlesinger • Matthew Sharpe • Jim Shepard • David Shields • Marisa Silver • Curtis Sittenfeld • Bruce Sterling • Scarlett Thomas • Jeff Turrentine • Deb Olin Unferth • Tom Vanderbilt • Matthew J. Wells • Joe Wenderoth • Margaret Wertheim • Colleen Werthmann • Colson Whitehead • Carl Wilson • Cintra Wilson • Sari Wilson • Douglas Wolk • John Wray
Keith Lemon's Big One
Author: Keith Lemon
Publisher: Orion
ISBN: 140915985X
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 613
Book Description
Two Keith Lemon'sss for the price of one! And some! Have you ever wondered how Keith Lemon from telly got to where he is today? If not, no worries. If you have then you'll find all the answers in this double whammy of LITTLE KEITH LEMON and BEING KEITH, with extra brand new chapters! The star of CELEBRITY JUICE, THROUGH THE KEYHOLE and THE KEITH LEMON SKETCH SHOW shares his incredible journey so far - from flogging Rhino Jeans on Leeds market to winning Northern Businessman of the Year, wrestling 'little people' in Mexico and finding himself sandwiched between Holly Willoughbooby and Fearne 'Nostrils' Cotton on ITV2's CELEBRITY JUICE. None of that made up stuff on Wikipedia, this is the gospel! Plus in a Bang Tidy update you can find out what it's like to write a children's book, peer through Kerry Katona's keyhole and become a Kardashian . . . Told in his own words, with photographs and illustrations from the 'strawberry blond' one himself, KEITH LEMON'S BIG ONE is the true life story of an unbelievably good lookin' lad from Leeds who became a national treasure.
Publisher: Orion
ISBN: 140915985X
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 613
Book Description
Two Keith Lemon'sss for the price of one! And some! Have you ever wondered how Keith Lemon from telly got to where he is today? If not, no worries. If you have then you'll find all the answers in this double whammy of LITTLE KEITH LEMON and BEING KEITH, with extra brand new chapters! The star of CELEBRITY JUICE, THROUGH THE KEYHOLE and THE KEITH LEMON SKETCH SHOW shares his incredible journey so far - from flogging Rhino Jeans on Leeds market to winning Northern Businessman of the Year, wrestling 'little people' in Mexico and finding himself sandwiched between Holly Willoughbooby and Fearne 'Nostrils' Cotton on ITV2's CELEBRITY JUICE. None of that made up stuff on Wikipedia, this is the gospel! Plus in a Bang Tidy update you can find out what it's like to write a children's book, peer through Kerry Katona's keyhole and become a Kardashian . . . Told in his own words, with photographs and illustrations from the 'strawberry blond' one himself, KEITH LEMON'S BIG ONE is the true life story of an unbelievably good lookin' lad from Leeds who became a national treasure.
Night Clerk at the Hotel of Both Worlds
Author: Angela Ball
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN: 0822990814
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 97
Book Description
Winner of the 2006 Donald Hall Prize in Poetry Selected by Terrance Hayes Winner of the 2008 Poetry Award from Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Angela Ball’s lyrical, wry, and rueful poems float on a river of incongruities on which we may find Ron Popeil, Lord Byron, and Rudyard Kipling sharing the same raft; they create a fascinating commerce between the sublime and the ridiculous.
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN: 0822990814
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 97
Book Description
Winner of the 2006 Donald Hall Prize in Poetry Selected by Terrance Hayes Winner of the 2008 Poetry Award from Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Angela Ball’s lyrical, wry, and rueful poems float on a river of incongruities on which we may find Ron Popeil, Lord Byron, and Rudyard Kipling sharing the same raft; they create a fascinating commerce between the sublime and the ridiculous.
The Publishers Weekly
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 750
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 750
Book Description