Author:
Publisher: Touchstone
ISBN: 9780671734367
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 578
Book Description
The short stories, essays, and poems in Pushcart's newest volume, selected from literary magazines and small presses across the country, represent some of the best and most innovative writing in America today. As always, this 17th edition of The Pushcart Prize offers "a fascinating peek at the vast and largely hidden world of noncommercial publishing" (Time).
The Pushcart Prize, XVII
Author:
Publisher: Touchstone
ISBN: 9780671734367
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 578
Book Description
The short stories, essays, and poems in Pushcart's newest volume, selected from literary magazines and small presses across the country, represent some of the best and most innovative writing in America today. As always, this 17th edition of The Pushcart Prize offers "a fascinating peek at the vast and largely hidden world of noncommercial publishing" (Time).
Publisher: Touchstone
ISBN: 9780671734367
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 578
Book Description
The short stories, essays, and poems in Pushcart's newest volume, selected from literary magazines and small presses across the country, represent some of the best and most innovative writing in America today. As always, this 17th edition of The Pushcart Prize offers "a fascinating peek at the vast and largely hidden world of noncommercial publishing" (Time).
Pushcart Prize XVII
Author: Bill Henderson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 584
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 584
Book Description
The Pushcart Prize XVIII
Author: Sybil Stenberg
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 584
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 584
Book Description
The Pushcart Prize
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 664
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 664
Book Description
The Pushcart Prize XX
Author: Bill Henderson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780916366636
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 580
Book Description
The most honored literary series in America celebrates two decades of continuous publication.. Winner of Publishers Weekly's Carey-Thomas Award, selected many times as the outstanding book of the year by the New York Times Book Review, and chosen for two Book-of-the-Month Club QPBC selections, the annual Pushcart Prize sets the standard of excellence for literary anthologies. Picking from thousands of nominations, each year it presents the most distinguished short stories, essays, and poetry first published by small presses and magazines nationwide; and each year it is hailed as a touchstone of literary discovery. This year the Pushcart Prize surpasses its own reputation with an astonishing diversity of writers, some renowned and many others destined for fame. Selected from hundreds of journals and presses, Pushcart Prize XX brings together the finest writing in America today and continues its tradition of introducing to a wider public the dazzling literary galaxy of the small press.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780916366636
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 580
Book Description
The most honored literary series in America celebrates two decades of continuous publication.. Winner of Publishers Weekly's Carey-Thomas Award, selected many times as the outstanding book of the year by the New York Times Book Review, and chosen for two Book-of-the-Month Club QPBC selections, the annual Pushcart Prize sets the standard of excellence for literary anthologies. Picking from thousands of nominations, each year it presents the most distinguished short stories, essays, and poetry first published by small presses and magazines nationwide; and each year it is hailed as a touchstone of literary discovery. This year the Pushcart Prize surpasses its own reputation with an astonishing diversity of writers, some renowned and many others destined for fame. Selected from hundreds of journals and presses, Pushcart Prize XX brings together the finest writing in America today and continues its tradition of introducing to a wider public the dazzling literary galaxy of the small press.
The Pushcart Prize XVIII
Author: Bill Henderson
Publisher: Touchstone
ISBN: 9780671734374
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 580
Book Description
Celebrating its 18th anniversary, The Pushcart Prize continues to present the most innovative fiction, poetry, and essays culled from independent and small presses across the country, offering readers who don't have time to read the small presses a bounty that is "a tribute to the different ways that writing can move, instruct, and entertain" (Booklist).
Publisher: Touchstone
ISBN: 9780671734374
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 580
Book Description
Celebrating its 18th anniversary, The Pushcart Prize continues to present the most innovative fiction, poetry, and essays culled from independent and small presses across the country, offering readers who don't have time to read the small presses a bounty that is "a tribute to the different ways that writing can move, instruct, and entertain" (Booklist).
Ocean of Words
Author: Ha Jin
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0804153523
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 223
Book Description
Winner of the PEN/Hemingway Award The place is the chilly border between Russia and China. The time is the early 1970s when the two giants were poised on the brink of war. And the characters in this thrilling collection of stories are Chinese soldiers who must constantly scrutinize the enemy even as they themselves are watched for signs of the fatal disease of bourgeois liberalism. In Ocean of Words, the Chinese writer Ha Jin explores the predicament of these simple, barely literate men with breathtaking concision and humanity. From amorous telegraphers to a pugnacious militiaman, from an inscrutable Russian prisoner to an effeminate but enthusiastic recruit, Ha Jin's characters possess a depth and liveliness that suggest Isaac Babel's Cossacks and Tim O'Brien's GIs. Ocean of Words is a triumphant volume, poignant, hilarious, and harrowing. “A compelling collection of stories, powerful in their unity of theme and rich in their diversity of styles.” —New York Times Book Review “Extraordinary. . . . [These stories are shot through with wit and offer glimpses of human motivation that defy retelling. . . . Read them all.” —Boston Globe “An exceptional new talent, capable of wringing rich surprises out of austere materials.” —Portland Oregonian
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0804153523
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 223
Book Description
Winner of the PEN/Hemingway Award The place is the chilly border between Russia and China. The time is the early 1970s when the two giants were poised on the brink of war. And the characters in this thrilling collection of stories are Chinese soldiers who must constantly scrutinize the enemy even as they themselves are watched for signs of the fatal disease of bourgeois liberalism. In Ocean of Words, the Chinese writer Ha Jin explores the predicament of these simple, barely literate men with breathtaking concision and humanity. From amorous telegraphers to a pugnacious militiaman, from an inscrutable Russian prisoner to an effeminate but enthusiastic recruit, Ha Jin's characters possess a depth and liveliness that suggest Isaac Babel's Cossacks and Tim O'Brien's GIs. Ocean of Words is a triumphant volume, poignant, hilarious, and harrowing. “A compelling collection of stories, powerful in their unity of theme and rich in their diversity of styles.” —New York Times Book Review “Extraordinary. . . . [These stories are shot through with wit and offer glimpses of human motivation that defy retelling. . . . Read them all.” —Boston Globe “An exceptional new talent, capable of wringing rich surprises out of austere materials.” —Portland Oregonian
The 1997 Pushcart Prize Xxi
Author: Bill Henderson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780916366964
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 625
Book Description
Presents an outstanding new collection of more than sixty short stories, essays, and poetry, representing the best in new writing from the small and independent presses.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780916366964
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 625
Book Description
Presents an outstanding new collection of more than sixty short stories, essays, and poetry, representing the best in new writing from the small and independent presses.
Pure
Author: Carol Frost
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 0810150042
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 77
Book Description
Pure is a fierce, passionate series of meditations on experience and consciousness, morals and customs, and on the natural world that surrounds and shapes human life. Frost's poems bear the stamp of a thoroughly original artistic vision and style - they are discursive yet filled with concrete images; they inquire into moral issues - pleasure, guilt, jealousy - without moralizing; they catch the echoes of western myths in domestic and quotidian events; they sharply diagnose relations between the sexes.
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 0810150042
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 77
Book Description
Pure is a fierce, passionate series of meditations on experience and consciousness, morals and customs, and on the natural world that surrounds and shapes human life. Frost's poems bear the stamp of a thoroughly original artistic vision and style - they are discursive yet filled with concrete images; they inquire into moral issues - pleasure, guilt, jealousy - without moralizing; they catch the echoes of western myths in domestic and quotidian events; they sharply diagnose relations between the sexes.
Hush Hush
Author: Steven Barthelme
Publisher: Melville House
ISBN: 1612191606
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
If you're up $16,000 at the casino and missing dinner with the woman you love, how do you find the strength to drive away? If you give up your career and your beautiful wife and find yourself drinking vodka and fixing cars for a living, is that necessarily a step down? In Hush Hush, Steven Barthelme gives us a simultaneously twisted, heartbreaking, and hilarious account of learning to quit when you're ahead. The collection, which includes the Pushcart Prize-winning "Claire," exposes the surprising dignity in lying on your belly in the pouring rain, in ringing your ex-girlfriend's doorbell at 4 A.M., in sleeping with your dead wife's best friend. Co-author with his brother Frederick of the brilliant and devastating casino memoir, Double Down: Reflections on Gambling and Loss, Steven Barthelme seems to cast an eye at his own history and the characters he's known. These are men and women who are down --- but stirringly, not quite out. An unmissable, arresting book from one of the most seminal short story writers of the last twenty years.
Publisher: Melville House
ISBN: 1612191606
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
If you're up $16,000 at the casino and missing dinner with the woman you love, how do you find the strength to drive away? If you give up your career and your beautiful wife and find yourself drinking vodka and fixing cars for a living, is that necessarily a step down? In Hush Hush, Steven Barthelme gives us a simultaneously twisted, heartbreaking, and hilarious account of learning to quit when you're ahead. The collection, which includes the Pushcart Prize-winning "Claire," exposes the surprising dignity in lying on your belly in the pouring rain, in ringing your ex-girlfriend's doorbell at 4 A.M., in sleeping with your dead wife's best friend. Co-author with his brother Frederick of the brilliant and devastating casino memoir, Double Down: Reflections on Gambling and Loss, Steven Barthelme seems to cast an eye at his own history and the characters he's known. These are men and women who are down --- but stirringly, not quite out. An unmissable, arresting book from one of the most seminal short story writers of the last twenty years.