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Prophecy
By Sandro Veronesi. 2023
FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE HUMMINGBIRD'The dawn will still be far away, and you will lift your eyes to…
the sky, and the sky will be as black as sackcloth and ashes'Addressed to a 'you' that encompasses the author, the reader and all of us at once, narrated in the future tense of apocalyptic texts and inspired by Sandro Veronesi's own experience of caring for his elderly parents, Prophecy is a powerful and unforgettable story of immense grief and infinite love.A visionary take on life by one of today's most remarkable writers.PRAISE FOR SANDRO VERONESI'S THE HUMMINGBIRDWinner of the Premio Strega | A Guardian and Spectator Book of the Year'Magnificent'GUARDIAN'A towering achievement'FINANCIAL TIMES'Inventive, bold, unexpected'SUNDAY TIMES'Masterly'IAN MCEWAN'Extraordinary'HOWARD JACOBSON'A real masterpiece'LEILA SLIMANIThe stories of Hans Christian Andersen: A New Translation From The Danish
By H. C Andersen. 2003
Modern English translation of twenty-two familiar and unfamiliar tales by Danish storyteller Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875). "The Little Mermaid" is…
told with its original dark ending. Contains notes on the stories and an essay introducing Andersen and his times. 2003The portable Dorothy Parker (The Viking portable library #No. 74)
By Dorothy Parker, Brendan Gill. 1973
Revised and enlarged edition of the original material first published in 1944. Contains the humorist's collected stories, poems, articles, and…
reviews. Dorothy Parker's work expresses tender humor, penetrating wit, and trenchant satireMy golden trades
By Ivan Klíma. 1994
In these six short stories, Klima writes about life under Communism in Prague, Czechoslovakia, between 1983 and 1987, when a…
dissident author is forced to find other work. He tells of his experience as an archaeologist who hears the voices of spirits in a 2,500-year-old burial ground, a painter who must render the likeness of a girl who has committed suicide, and a smuggler who does jobs for which he is not trainedMy century: A Novel (A Helen and Kurt Wolff Bk.)
By Günter Grass, Gunter Grass, Michael Henry Heim. 1999
Günter Grass, the 1999 winner of the Nobel Prize for literature, chronicles his own and Germany's centennium through one hundred…
short stories, one for each year of the twentieth century. For 1989 Grass recalls a parent-teacher association's concern about a schoolteacher's "obsession with the past." 1999Making it up
By Penelope Lively. 2005
Eight short works of fiction based on remembered experiences from Lively's own life--a genre she refers to as "confabulation." In…
"The Mozambique Channel" a nanny and her family evacuate Egypt during World War II. In "Comet" a middle-aged woman arranges a funeral for her unknown half-sister. Some strong language. 2005The complete short novels: Introduction by Richard Pevear (Everyman's Library Classics Series)
By Anton Chekhov, Larissa Volokhonsky, Richard Pevear, Anton Pavlovich Chekhov. 2004
Anton 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 one volume for the first time, in a new translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa VolokhonskyThe Keillor reader
By Garrison Keillor. 2014
Biography of E.B. White (1899-1985), who wrote that he "felt a kinship for animals that he never felt for people"…
and penned the 1952 children's novel featuring a spider. Discusses White's New Yorker magazine days, marriage to editor Katharine Angell, and Maine farm that inspired Charlotte's Web (DB 46839). 2011Civil War stories, tales of terror, and autobiographical pieces, as well as the subversive lexicon originally titled The Cynic's Word…
Book. Includes In the Midst of Life (Tales of Soldiers and Civilians); Can Such Things Be?; and Bits of Autobiography, which contains recollections of Shiloh and Chickamauga. Edited by S. T. Joshi. 2011Forgotten Fitzgerald: Echoes of a Lost America
By F. Scott Fitzgerald, Sarah Churchwell. 2014
While F. Scott Fitzgerald was writing the novels we remember him for today, he was also publishing short stories in…
popular magazines such as The Saturday Evening Post and Esquire. Although many of Fitzgerald's short stories are celebrated and anthologised today, more remain out of print than would be expected for a writer of his stature. Some of these forgotten stories deserve to be rediscovered by the many readers who love Fitzgerald's work. Sarah Churchwell, author of the acclaimed Careless People: Murder, Mayhem and the Invention of The Great Gatsby, has selected twelve forgotten stories from throughout Fitzgerald's career that refract, in different ways, his most familiar motifs: the changing meanings of America in the first decades of the twentieth century, and the desire to reconcile rich and poor through a romantic search for glamour, hope and wonder. Each of these stories offers a riff on the theme of America, a world we have lost, but can hear echoes of in Fitzgerald's characteristically rich, vivid prose.Beauty and Sadness
By Andre Alexis. 2010
HA!: A Self-Murder Mystery
By Gordon Sheppard. 2003
On 15 March 1977, with his wife's consent, celebrated writer and former terrorist Hubert Aquin blew his brains out on…
the grounds of a Montreal convent school. Shocked by this self-murder, a filmmaker friend feels compelled to understand why Aquin killed himself - and discovers, at the heart of the tragedy, an unforgettable love story. A "documentary fiction" - a category which includes In Cold Blood and The Executioner's Song - HA! is a seminal work that reinvents the audio-visual revolution of the last century. Interweaving photographs, documents, and images with testimony from Aquin's friends and contemporaries, Aquin himself, and the writers and artists who influenced him, this intriguing novel takes the reader on a Joycean tour of a metropolis in the midst of political and cultural turmoil.Historias conversadas
By Héctor Aguilar Camín. 2019
«Una obra de gran aliento narrativo que ha conquistado para la literatura mexicana actual arquetipos de la historia y la…
cultura del país.» Álvaro Ruiz Abreu En la novela Adiós a los padres, Héctor Aguilar Camín narra la historia de su familia, marcada por la ausencia de su padre. Para decir la verdad -ésa que está más allá de los datos-, el escritor sabía que sólo podía recurrir a la literatura. En este volumen de relatos replica la misma maniobra, pero llevándola al extremo: los quince cuentos de Historias conversadas pueden leerse como la autobiografía de un personaje de ficción que en cada capítulo se inventara, o se robara, una vida distinta. Estos cuentos, estas novelas condensadas, nos recuerdan que conversar es el origen primordial de la literatura. En cada uno, Héctor Aguilar Camín reproduce con maestría la lección de Sherezada: contar una historia dentro de una historia. Y así, mediante esta estrategia, pasa revista a las pasiones de toda una vida: la amistad, la familia, los reinos perdidos, el alcohol, el amor y el deseo, la imperfección de la historia... Historias conversadas es el volumen que completa la saga familiar de Héctor Aguilar Camín y el libro que lo confirma como uno de los mejores narradores mexicanos de nuestro tiempo.The Henry Miller Reader (Essay Index Reprint Ser.)
By Henry Miller, Lawrence Durrell. 1969
A collection of works spanning the entire career of great 20th-century American writer Henry Miller, edited and introduced by Lawrence…
Durrell. In 1958, when Henry Miller was elected to membership in the American Institute of Arts and Letters, the citation described him as: "The veteran author of many books whose originality and richness of technique are matched by the variety and daring of his subject matter. His boldness of approach and intense curiosity concerning man and nature are unequalled in the prose literature of our times." It is most fitting that this anthology of "the best" of Henry Miller should have been assembled by one of the first among Miller’s contemporaries to recognize his genius, the eminent British writer Lawrence Durrell. Drawing material from a dozen different books Durrell has traced the main line and principal themes of the "single, endless autobiography" which is Henry Miller’s life work. "I suspect," writes Durrell in his Introduction, "that Miller’s final place will be among those towering anomalies of authorship like Whitman or Blake who have left us, not simply works of art, but a corpus of ideas which motivate and influence a whole cultural pattern." Earlier, H. L. Mencken had said, "his is one of the most beautiful prose styles today," and the late Sir Herbert Read had written that "what makes Miller distinctive among modern writers is his ability to combine, without confusion, the aesthetic and prophetic functions." Included are stories, "portraits" of persons and places, philosophical essays, and aphorisms. For each selection Miller himself prepared a brief commentary which fits the piece into its place in his life story. This framework is supplemented by a chronology from Miller’s birth in 1891 up to the spring of 1959, a bibliography, and, as an appendix, an open letter to the Supreme Court of Norway written in protest of the ban on Sexus, a part of which appears in this volume.Devotion
By Patti Smith. 2017
From the renowned artist and author Patti Smith, an inspired exploration of the nature of creative invention A work of…
creative brilliance may seem like magic—its source a mystery, its impact unexpectedly stirring. How does an artist accomplish such an achievement, connecting deeply with an audience never met? In this groundbreaking book, one of our culture’s beloved artists offers a detailed account of her own creative process, inspirations, and unexpected connections. Patti Smith first presents an original and beautifully crafted tale of obsession—a young skater who lives for her art, a possessive collector who ruthlessly seeks his prize, a relationship forged of need both craven and exalted. She then takes us on a second journey, exploring the sources of her story. We travel through the South of France to Camus’s house, and visit the garden of the great publisher Gallimard where the ghosts of Mishima, Nabokov, and Genet mingle. Smith tracks down Simone Weil’s grave in a lonely cemetery, hours from London, and winds through the nameless Paris streets of Patrick Modiano’s novels. Whether writing in a café or a train, Smith generously opens her notebooks and lets us glimpse the alchemy of her art and craft in this arresting and original book on writing. The Why I Write series is based on the Windham-Campbell Lectures, delivered annually to commemorate the awarding of the Donald Windham-Sandy M. Campbell Literature Prizes at Yale University.Him, Me, Muhammad Ali
By Randa Jarrar. 2016
In her first story collection, Jarrar employs a particular, rather than rhetorical approach to race and gender. Thus we have…
"How Can I Be of Use to You," with its complicated relationship between a distinguished Egyptian feminist and her young intern, demonstrating that gender politics are never straightforward, and both generations-old and new-take advantage of each other. There's also a healthy dose of magic surrealism, as in the wild and witty story "Zelda the Halfie" which follows a breed of half Ibexes/half humans and their various tribulations. The writing is peppered with gorgeous imagery: a moon reflected in an ice cream scoop, breath that runs ahead of its body, and two apartments in a high rise whose tenants precisely mirror each other.Randa Jarrar is the author of a highly successful novel, A Map of Home, which received an Arab-American Book Award and was named one of the best novels of 2008 by the Barnes & Noble Review. She grew up in Kuwait and Egypt, and moved to the United States after the first Gulf War. Her work has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, the Utne Reader, Salon.com, Guernica, the Rumpus, the Oxford American, Ploughshares, and more. She blogs for Salon, and lives in California.Widow
By Michelle Latiolais. 2011
BELIEVER BOOK AWARD FINALIST"In prose shimmering with intelligence and compassion, Michelle Latiolais dissects the essentials of everyday life to find…
the heartbeat within."-Alice Sebold, author of The Lovely Bones"Widow is a hymn to reverence, simultaneously heartbroken and celebratory. Michelle Latiolais has given us the rarest item, a splendidly articulated masterpiece." -William Kittredge"In this luminous collection of stories, the gifted Michelle Latiolais writes of loss in all its surprising manifestations. Widow is a devastation and a wonder." -Christine Schutt"There is something mysterious about this book, as there always is in the writing that matters most. It eludes explanation. It illumines terrifying realities. Only because these pages seem nakedly willing to take the imprint of every emotion, no matter how ugly, do they possess this great beauty." -Elizabeth TallentThe stories of Widow conjure the nuances of inner sensations as if hitting the notes of a song, deftly played across human memory. These meditations bravely explore the physiology of grief through a masterful interweaving of tender insight and unflinching detail-reminding us that the inner life is best understood through the medium of storytelling. Among these stories of loss are interwoven other tales, creating a bridge to the ineffable pleasures and follies of life before the catastrophe. Throughout this collection, Latiolais captures the longing, humor, and strange grace that accompany life's most transformative chapters.Michelle Latiolais is the author of Widow: Stories, a New York Times Editor's Choice selection, and two previous novels, including A Proper Knowledge, also published by Bellevue Literary Press. She is the recipient of the Gold Medal for Fiction from the Commonwealth Club of California and an English professor and co-director of the Programs in Writing at the University of California at Irvine.An Aesthetic Underground
By John Metcalf. 2014
"John Metcalf has written some of the very best stories ever published in this country."--Alice MunroThe Argus-eyed editor; the magisterial…
prose stylist; the waggish, inflammatory cultural critic; the mentor and iconoclast. John Metcalf is a literary legend whose memoir maps the underground he labored tirelessly to establish.Subject to Change
By Renee Rodin. 2010
Composed of autobiographical stories that sketch the resonant heights and depths of a memoir, Subject to Change is a series…
of portraits along the road of a life well-lived. These stories are articulate, intelligent, passionate records of how encounters with others have changed and shaped the humanity, character and community - the "subject" - of the writer.