Woodpecker Point & Other Stories

Woodpecker Point & Other Stories PDF Author: Carmel Bird
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811210720
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 174

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Woodpecker Point & Other Stories

Woodpecker Point & Other Stories PDF Author: Carmel Bird
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811210720
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 174

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Woodpecker Point and Other Stories

Woodpecker Point and Other Stories PDF Author: Carmel Bird
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Languages : en
Pages : 153

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Woodpecker Point & Other Stories

Woodpecker Point & Other Stories PDF Author: Carmel Bird
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811210737
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 164

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With this collection of twenty-four stories, New Directions introduces to American readers a wonderful new writing voice from Australia. Carmel Bird deftly walks the thin line between the ordinary world and the world of the imagination and the fantastic. As she has remarked: "When I read fiction I want the words to take my spirits into the places beneath the surface of the everyday world. I want the freshness of dreams to again be revealed to me." By turns Carmel Bird's tales are funny-sad, frightening-gentle, mysterious-matter of fact. Her prose is deceptive; lucid and seemingly artless, yet surprising--a left hook from a white kid glove. "Woodpecker Point," the center-piece of this collection, perhaps best evinces Carmel Bird's many special qualities in concert, above all her unique feeling for the materiality and color of things and for the mystery of the everyday. The assembled stories have been chosen from her first book, Birth, Death and Marriages (privately printed in Australia in 1983) on through her most recent work which shows in the concluding pieces, "Goczka" and "Every Home Should Have a Cedar Chest," a poetic dimension intimated in her earlier writing and now brought to full bloom.

Short Story Index

Short Story Index PDF Author:
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Category : Short stories
Languages : en
Pages : 1222

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The Woodpecker Toy Fact and Other Stories

The Woodpecker Toy Fact and Other Stories PDF Author: Carmel Bird
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Languages : en
Pages : 143

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The Luck of Roaring Camp, and Other Stories

The Luck of Roaring Camp, and Other Stories PDF Author: Bret Harte
Publisher:
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Category : Frontier and pioneer life
Languages : en
Pages : 294

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The luck of Roaring Camp, In the Carquinez Woods, and other stories and sketches

The luck of Roaring Camp, In the Carquinez Woods, and other stories and sketches PDF Author: Bret Harte
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Languages : en
Pages : 926

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Pitch Woman and Other Stories

Pitch Woman and Other Stories PDF Author: Coquelle Thompson
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 0803206224
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 329

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Despite the political instability characterizing twentieth-century Taiwan, the value of baseball in the lives of Taiwanese has been a constant since the game was introduced in 1895. The game first gained popularity on the island under the Japanese occupation, and that popularity continued after World War II despite the withdrawal of the Japanese and an official lack of support from the new state power, the Chinese Nationalist Party.

The Luck of Roaring Camp, and Other Stories. Including Earlier Papers, Spanish and American Legends, Tales of the Argonauts, etc.

The Luck of Roaring Camp, and Other Stories. Including Earlier Papers, Spanish and American Legends, Tales of the Argonauts, etc. PDF Author: Bret Harte
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385416973
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 422

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Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.

Barbara Hanrahan

Barbara Hanrahan PDF Author: Annette Stewart
Publisher: Wakefield Press
ISBN: 1862548242
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 338

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'It is a struggle ... to be me,' wrote Barbara Hanrahan, '... to accept ME, and my spiritual purpose.' This authoritative biography illuminates the life of a great Australian writer and artist. The story starts with Barbara Hanrahan's childhood in Adelaide, travels with her to 'swinging London' of the 1960s, and recounts her remarkable achievements in Britain and Australia in the following decades. Like the artists she most admired - among them, William Blake, Frida Kahlo and D.H. Lawrence - Barbara Hanrahan dedicated herself uncompromisingly to the life of the mind and spirit, producing a body of work that remains challenging and rewarding. Annette Stewart has drawn on a wealth of unpublished material, including the artist's letters, photographs, prints and diaries, as well as interviews with her friends and her partner, the sculptor Jo Steele. Barbara Hanrahan is beautifully illustrated with a number of Hanrahan's artworks, some of which have not been published before, and many photographs from her life.