Author: Funom Theophilus Makama
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 352
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Don, Larissa and Rachael meet in the Fresh blood party amidst weird circumstances and being a wordsmith, Don displays his verbal skills to Rachael, leading her to an embarrassing situation. This prompts a dangerous reaction from her as she physically assaults him, becoming the first in a line-up of incidences between these three young people. Subsequently, the two girls fall in love with him, and this does not go well with Rachael's ex, the notorious Pontius Pirlate and as well, her longtime admirer, the well-built Mahmud Mustapha, who's also an excellent poet. Don joins the Soul Talkers Poetry contest and his prowess makes him even more famous but also having a devastating effect on his rivalry with Pontius Pirlate and his relationships with the two girls. Circumstances get messy at the semi-finals of the poetry contest between him and Larissa, giving Rachael the opportunity to pounce as she tries winning his heart by all means. Don on the other hand gets more confused, increasing the uncertainty of making a decision. With the finals just around the corner and situations becoming even more intriguing (rivalry becomes friendship and friendship becomes 'soft-enmity'), Don is faced with the up-hill task of claiming two prices, or just one, or nothing at all. His fans are in great expectation, likewise his family and friends, but above all, his heart expects much more. How would it be? Will he disappoint anyone?The Soul Talkers is not your typical kind of thriller as its story beams intrigue which increases in intensity from page one to the end. A curiosity burner, highly sophisticated with top-notch poetry, football, emotional rivalry and strong personality display, all in a London-based Campus, is this book; unique and rare. This highly entertaining masterpiece is an excitement trigger, expertly crafted in creativity and brilliance to, in no doubt, leave any contemporary reader in Awe.
Author: Josh Weil
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN: 0802199895
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 408
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From the author of The Great Glass Sea, three linked novellas set between the Virginias about men confronting love, loss, and personal demons. Set in the hardscrabble hill country between the Virginias, The New Valley contains characters striving to forge new lives in the absence of those they have loved. Told in three varied and distinct voices—a soft-spoken middle-aged beef farmer struggling to hold himself together after his dad’s death; a health-obsessed single father desperate to control his reckless, overweight daughter; and a developmentally delayed man who falls in love with a married woman intent on using him in a scheme that will wound them both—each story explores survival, isolation, and the deep, consuming ache for human connection. As the men battle against grief and solitude, their heartache leads them all to commit acts that will bring both ruin and salvation, in these tales “full of tenderness and looming menace” (The New York Times Book Review). “Stark and haunting . . . Delivers great beauty” —Publishers Weekly, starred review “[Weil’s] language is exquisite, his sentences glorious. . . . Refreshing and engaging.” —Ploughshares
Author: Brandon McNulty
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781952703003
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 384
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When guitarist Ash Hudson suffers a career-ending hand injury, she seeks out the only thing that can heal it--her hometown's darkest secret. The secret involves an organ-swapping demon who has trapped Ash's family within the town for decades. Now Ash must bargain with the demon as she attempts to heal both her hand and her broken relationships.
Author: Patricia Leavy
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1315428474
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 278
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The turn to fiction as a social research practice is a natural extension of what many researchers and writers have long been doing. Patricia Leavy, a widely published qualitative researcher and a novelist, explores the overlaps and intersections between these two ways of understanding and describing human experience. She demonstrates the validity of literary experimentation to the qualitative researcher and how to incorporate these practices into research projects. Five short stories and excerpts from novellas and novels show these methods in action. This book is an essential methodological introduction for those interested in studying or practicing arts-based research.
Author: Robert Shapard
Publisher: W. W. Norton
ISBN: 9780393328011
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 368
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SHAPARD/NEW SUDDEN FICTION
Author: Donald Ray Pollock
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 0385525400
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 226
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"More engaging than any new fiction in years." —Chuck Palahniuk An unforgettable work of fiction that peers into the soul of a tough Midwestern American town to reveal the sad, stunted but resilient lives of its residents. Knockemstiff is a genuine entry into the literature of place. Spanning a period from the mid-sixties to the late nineties, the linked stories that comprise Knockemstiff feature a cast of recurring characters who are irresistibly, undeniably real. A father pumps his son full of steroids so he can vicariously relive his days as a perpetual runner-up body builder. A psychotic rural recluse comes upon two siblings committing incest and feels compelled to take action. Donald Ray Pollock presents his characters and the sordid goings-on with a stern intelligence, a bracing absence of value judgments, and a refreshingly dark sense of bottom-dog humor.
Author: Joseph S. M. Lau
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231042031
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 634
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Brings together some of the best and most historically significant works of short fiction written in China in this century -including such important figures in the development of Chinese modernism as Lu Hsün, Mao Tun, Ting Ling, and Shen Ts' ung-wen. The companion volume to the highly acclaimed (Columbia, 1978), this new volume presents modernist short fiction from the thirty-year period leading up to the Communist revolution of 1949, after which Chinese literature entered a new phase of development. The stories range in setting from the late Ch'ing dynasty through the Sino-Japanese War and the early Communist years, and range in length from brief tales to substantial short novels. Though a large number of the writers represented are leftists, works of all political viewpoints have been included to provide the full literary panorama of one of the most fertile periods of Chinese creative activity.
Author: Adrian Tchaikovsky
Publisher: Solaris
ISBN: 1786182998
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 154
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FIREWALKERS ARE BRAVE FIREWALKERS ARE RESOURCEFUL FIREWALKERS ARE EXPENDABLE The Earth is burning. Nothing can survive at the Anchor; not without water and power. But the ultra-rich, waiting for their ride off the dying Earth? They can buy water. And thanks to their investment, the sun can provide power. But someone has to repair the solar panels when they fail, down in the deserts below. Kids like Mao, and Lupé, and Hotep; kids with brains and guts but no hope. The Firewalkers. “This is a must-read for fans of dystopian and climate change fiction.” - Publishers Weekly, Starred Review
Author: Anton Chekhov
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 030742829X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 578
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(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) Aanton Chekhov, widely hailed as the supreme master of the short story, also wrote five works long enough to be called short novels–here brought together in one volume for the first time, in a masterly new translation by the award-winning translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. The Steppe–the most lyrical of the five–is an account of a nine-year-old boy’s frightening journey by wagon train across the steppe of southern Russia. The Duel sets two decadent figures–a fanatical rationalist and a man of literary sensibility–on a collision course that ends in a series of surprising reversals. In The Story of an Unknown Man, a political radical spying on an important official by serving as valet to his son gradually discovers that his own terminal illness has changed his long-held priorities in startling ways. Three Years recounts a complex series of ironies in the personal life of a rich but passive Moscow merchant. In My Life, a man renounces wealth and social position for a life of manual labor. The resulting conflict between the moral simplicity of his ideals and the complex realities of human nature culminates in a brief apocalyptic vision that is unique in Chekhov’s work.
Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0684842505
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 11
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Together, these forty-three stories compose a vivid picture of a lost era, but their brilliance is timeless.
