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By Genevieve Sly Crane. 2018
Sisterhood is forever…whether you like it or not. Prep meets Girls in White Dresses in Genevieve Sly Crane’s deliciously addictive,…
voyeuristic exploration of female friendship and coming of age that will appeal to anyone who has ever been curious about what happens in a sorority house.Twinsets and pearls, secrets and kinship, rituals that hold sisters together in a sacred bond of everlasting trust. Certain chaste images spring to mind when one thinks of sororities. But make no mistake: these women are not braiding each other’s hair and having pillow fights—not by a long shot. What Genevieve Sly Crane has conjured in these pages is a blunt, in your face look behind the closed doors of a house full of contemporary women—and there are no holds barred. These women have issues: self-inflicted, family inflicted, sister-to-sister inflicted—and it is all on the page. At the center of this swirl is Margot: the sister who died in the house, and each chapter is told from the points of view of the women who orbit her death and have their own reactions to it. With a keen sense of character and elegant, observant prose, Crane details the undercurrents of tension in a world where perfection comes at a cost and the best things in life are painful—if not impossible—to acquire: Beauty. A mother’s love. And friendship… or at least the appearance of it. Woven throughout are glimmers of the classical myths that undercut the lives of women in Greek life. After all, the Greek goddesses did cause their fair share of destruction.By Pablo Montoya. 2016
Relatos de Par s de la pluma de Pablo Montoya Par s Ciudad musa…
Baudelaire dijo que toda desmesura crece all como una flor Pablo Montoya despu s de haber vivido diez a os en la ciudad luz nos asombra con Cuaderno de Par s Aunque desde el punto de vista formal se asemeja a Spleen de Par s relatos cortos urbanos sobresale un lirismo punzante brumoso de exiliados que alucinan en las calles sucias de un pasado deslumbrante de estatuas de personajes que ya se han ido de fantasmas que todav a se les siente caminar en el aire Y Par s inalterable observa indiferente c mo los hombres desde tiempos inmemoriales se sacian perplejos en sus entra asBy R. W. Gray. 2015
In his second collection of stories, author and filmmaker R.W. Gray (Crisp) once again finds the place where the beautiful,…
the strange, and the surreal all meet—sometimes meshing harmoniously, sometimes colliding with terrible violence, launching his characters into a redefined reality. A lovestruck man discovers the secret editing room where his girlfriend erases all her flaws; a massage artist finds that she can alleviate her clients’ pain in more ways than one; a beautiful man invites those who want him to do whatever they wish with his unconscious body; and a gay couple meets what appear to be the younger versions of themselves, and learns that history can indeed repeat itself. “R. W. Gray writes like nobody else; risky, edgy, erotic, subversive, even macabre short stories, very contemporary, coded with solitude, but reaching for myth, always beautiful and astonishing.” –Douglas Glover, author of Savage Love and ElleBy Jane Yolen. 1997
In these twelve modern myths and tales for the young and the young at heart, Jane Yolen transforms the impossible…
into the familiar and real. Among the outlandish wonders are an Alice grown tough in Wonderland, a dear--but dead--mother's homecoming, a bridge that longs for a goat-eating troll, and a mutiny among Peter Pan's troops.By Cristina Origone, Benedicte Dazy. 2018
Jusqu’où peuvent mener l’insécurité inhérente à l’existence humaine et la peur du jugement d’autrui ? Giovanni est un homme simple…
de cinquante-huit ans qui vit dans un petit village de l’arrière-pays ligure. Quand, un matin en se levant, il ne trouve pas Alina à ses côtés dans le lit, il ne s’en inquiète pas ; ce n’est pas la première fois qu’elle se lève tôt au lendemain d’une dispute pour aller acheter du pain et une focaccia chaude à la boulangerie du village afin de se faire pardonner. Mais au moment où il découvre qu’elle a disparu avec leurs économies, il est pris de vertige : Alina serait-elle retournée en Russie ? L’aurait-elle quitté ? Peinant d’abord à y croire, il finit par se rendre à l’évidence et, se sentant trahi et humilié, il cherche à dissimuler la situation en mentant à tout le monde. Ce mensonge l’entraînera alors dans un tourbillon de doutes qui le tourmenteront : qu’est-il arrivé à Alina ? Sa vie va changer, la paranoïa d’être jugé par les habitants du village le fera se méfier de tous, y compris de ses amis les plus proches, et le conduira à voir et entendre des choses qui ne sont pas. Jusqu’à la découverte de la vérité. Giovanni réussira-t-il à l’accepter ? Le roi est mort est un récit dramatique sur un homme se croyant le propriétaire absolu de sa femme, dont la disparition fera ressurgir ses propres limites et son inflexibilité qui entrave depuis toujours son rapport aux autres, le contraignant à se confronter à lui-même.By Anna Castelli, Claire Vovelle. 2018
Venise. Après avoir s’être vu refuser un contrat dans un théâtre, Jacopo tombe sur un drôle de personnage qui lui…
propose un travail dont le moins qu’on puisse dire est qu’il est original. Leur collaboration va donner des résultats inattendus.By Bryn Chancellor. 2015
Humans have always connected deeply to the idea of home. In Bryn Chancellor’s nine stories, home means, in part, the…
physical spaces: the buildings, cities and towns, the fragile, imperious landscapes of the region. But home is also profoundly rooted in intangibles. Set in urban and rural Arizona, home, for the characters in these stories, is love—familial, romantic, and unrequited. It is loss and grief. It is the memories that surface late at night. It is mystery and longing and a shining flicker of hope.In the title story, a locksmith prowls empty houses and befriends a young mother as he and his wife grapple with a tragedy perpetrated by their son. During an overseas trip, a daughter grieving for her father struggles with her mother’s altered appearance; an irrigation worker meets a troubled teenage girl in the darkness of her flooded yard; and a daughter and her estranged, ailing mother stay in a dilapidated cabin while a mountain lion stalks the woods. Through chance meetings between strangers, collisions within families, and confrontations with the self, characters leave and return, time and again, trying desperately to find their way home.By Jen Silverman. 2018
For readers of Miranda July Rebecca Lee and Mary Gaitskill a debut short-story collection that is a…
mesmerizing blend of wit transgression and heart A passive-aggressive couple in the midst of a divorce compete over whose new fling is more exotic A Russian migrant in Tokyo agonizes over the money her lover accepts from a yakuza A dead body on a drug dealer s floor leads to the strangest first date ever In this razor-sharp debut collection Jen Silverman delivers eleven interconnected stories that take place in expat bars artist colonies train stations and matchbox apartments in the United States and Japan Unforgettable characters crisscross through these transient spaces loving hurting and leaving each other as they experience the loneliness and dangerous freedom that comes with being an outsider In Maria of the Grapes a pair of damaged runaways get lost in the seductive underworld beneath Tokyo s clean streets in Pretoria a South African expatriate longs for the chaos of her homeland as she contemplates a marriage proposal in Girl Canadian Shipwreck a young woman in Brooklyn seeks permission to flee from her boyfriend and his terrible performance art in Maureen an aspiring writer realizes that her beautiful neurotic boss is lonelier than she lets on The Island Dwellers ranges near and far in its exploration of solitude and reinvention identity and sexuality family and home Jen Silverman is the rare talent who can evoke the landscape of a whole life in a single subtle phrase vital human truths that you may find yourself using as a map to your own heart Advance praise for The Island Dwellers Reading these stories feels like spying on lives you might never admit to living hilarious and painfully true I loved every one The Island Dwellers is thrilling addictive and wise and it made Jen Silverman my new favorite writer It will probably do the same for you Alexander Chee bestselling author of Queen of the Night and Edinburgh Jen Silverman s stories are at once specific and worldly contemporary and old-fashioned cool and heartfelt An archipelago of emotions The Island Dwellers captures the wonder and oddity of romantic relationships Sloane Crosley bestselling author of The Clasp and Look Alive Out There A shimmering collection that speaks with humor and ultimately tenderness Kirkus ReviewsBy Violet Heart, Alejandra J. Fernández L.. 2018
Lady Yasmine Hanswald no puede luchar contra su atracción por Lord Jorge Grauwolf, un sexy hombre lobo en busca de…
venganza. ¿La usará y la echará a un lado, o puede ella ganar su corazón y su mordisco?By Agatha Christie. 1939
Previously published in the print anthology The Regatta Mystery and Other Stories. A beautiful and bewitching woman wants Hercule Poirots…
help to exonerate her lover, accused of murdering her husband. The husbands body was found in a chest--now the question is: who put it there?By Agatha Christie. 1939
Previously published in the print anthology Poirots Early Cases. At a flower show, a mysterious woman gives Hercule Poirot an…
empty seed packet. The next day, she is found dead, and Poirot has his suspicions about the identity of the killer.By William Faulkner. 1976
I m a failed poet Maybe every novelist wants to write poetry first finds he can t and…
then tries the short story which is the most demanding form after poetry And failing that only then does he take up novel writing --William Faulkner P P Forty-two stories make up this magisterial collection by the writer who stands at the pinnacle of modern American fiction Compressing an epic expanse of vision into hard and wounding narratives Faulkner s stories evoke the intimate textures of place the deep strata of history and legend and all the fear brutality and tenderness of the human condition These tales are set not only in Yoknapatawpha County but in Beverly Hills and in France during World War I They are populated by such characters as the Faulknerian archetypes Flem Snopes and Quentin Compson as well as by ordinary men and women who emerge so sharply and indelibly in these pages that they dwarf the protagonists of most novels P Winner of the National Book AwardBy Agatha Christie. 1939
Previously published in the print anthology Poirots Early Cases. On a ship bound for Egypt, a woman is found stabbed…
to death in her cabin. Unfortunately for the murderer, Hercule Poirot is on board.By Agatha Christie. 1961
By Agatha Christie. 1951
Previously published in the print anthology Poirots Early Cases. Plans for Englands new submarine have been stolen from the aspiring…
Prime Minister. Hercule Poirot is summoned to crack the case, but none of the witnesses accounts are the same . . .By Agatha Christie. 1961
Previously published in the print anthology The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding. A priceless ruby is stolen from a Far…
Eastern prince while he is in England. The ruby is intended for the princes bride-to-be, and Hercule Poirot must find it before a scandal erupts.By Agatha Christie. 1951
Previously published in the print anthology Poirots Early Cases. The Lemesurier family is plagued by a medieval curse, ensuring that…
no firstborn son will ever receive his inheritance. Can Hercule Poirot solve the riddle of the curse?By Agatha Christie. 1961
Previously published in the print anthology Double Sin and Other Stories. At a garden party, Hercule Poirot realizes that a…
murder is being plotted and he must stop it before the fete comes to a fatal end.By Agatha Christie. 1951
Previously published in the print anthology Poirots Early Cases. A chef and a bank employee go missing on the same…
day, leading Hercule Poirot to believe a sinister plot is cooking.By Agatha Christie. 1951
Previously published in the print anthology Poirots Early Cases. A wife is convinced that her husband has been trying to…
poison her and run off with a younger woman, and she begs Hercule Poirot to save her.