The Island Of The Women And Other Stories
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The Island of the Women and Other Stories
Author | : George Mackay Brown,G Mackay Brown |
Publsiher | : John Murray |
Total Pages | : 263 |
Release | : 2014-03-27 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781848549463 |
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In these six stories George Mackay Brown leads us back along the sweep of Orkney's past and beyond even that to the remoteness of fable. He reveals the timelessness of the lived moment and the constants of island life in the harvest of sea and land and the compulsions of voyage and homecoming.
Happiness and Other Stories
Author | : Mary Lavin |
Publsiher | : Modern Irish Classics |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1848401043 |
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Five short stories set in Ireland. As in "Happiness", where a young widow defies local conventions in her determination to be happy, the central themes are concern for the survival of the human spirit, and the right of the individual to decide moral issues in the light of private conscience. a characteristic of the author's work is her ability to move successfully from tragedy to humane farce, often within the same story.
The Woman Novelist and Other Stories
Author | : Diana Gardner |
Publsiher | : Persephone Books |
Total Pages | : 148 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 1903155541 |
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The Girl Who Rode a Shark
Author | : Ailsa Ross |
Publsiher | : Pajama Press Inc. |
Total Pages | : 130 |
Release | : 2019-09-24 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9781772780987 |
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Now more than ever, the world is recognizing how strong women and girls are. How strong? In the early 1920s, Aboriginal Alaskan expeditioner Ada Blackjack survived for two years as a castaway on an uninhabited island in the Arctic Ocean before she was finally rescued. And she’s just one example. The Girl Who Rode a Shark: And Other Stories of Daring Women is a rousing collection of biographies focused on women and girls who have written, explored, or otherwise plunged headfirst into the pages of history. Undaunted by expectations, they made their mark by persevering in pursuit of their passions. The tales come from a huge variety of times and places, from a Canadian astronaut to an Indian secret agent and to a Balkan pirate queen who stood up to Ancient Rome. Author and activist Ailsa Ross gives readers a fun, informative piece of nonfiction that emphasizes the boundless potential of a new generation of women. Stunning portraits by artist Amy Blackwell accompany every biography in bold, vibrant colours.
Orange World and Other Stories
Author | : Karen Russell |
Publsiher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2019-05-14 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780525656142 |
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From the Pulitzer Finalist and universally beloved author of the New York Times best sellers Swamplandia! and Vampires in the Lemon Grove, a stunning new collection of short fiction that showcases Karen Russell’s extraordinary, irresistible gifts of language and imagination. Karen Russell’s comedic genius and mesmerizing talent for creating outlandish predicaments that uncannily mirror our inner in lives is on full display in these eight exuberant, arrestingly vivid, unforgettable stories. In“Bog Girl”, a revelatory story about first love, a young man falls in love with a two thousand year old girl that he’s extracted from a mass of peat in a Northern European bog. In “The Prospectors,” two opportunistic young women fleeing the depression strike out for new territory, and find themselves fighting for their lives. In the brilliant, hilarious title story, a new mother desperate to ensure her infant’s safety strikes a diabolical deal, agreeing to breastfeed the devil in exchange for his protection. The landscape in which these stories unfold is a feral, slippery, purgatorial space, bracketed by the void—yet within it Russell captures the exquisite beauty and tenderness of ordinary life. Orange World is a miracle of storytelling from a true modern master.
Falling Women and Other Stories
Author | : Ellen Herbert |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 152 |
Release | : 2012-01-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1619720000 |
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Award-winning short stories about families in turmoil and children in peril, from a homeless mother forced to put her son in foster care to a suburban mother afraid of passing her water phobia to her son. Braxton, North Carolina is the where in these stories, an imaginary coastal town adjacent to Camp Corregidor, a stopover for recruits on their way to Vietnam and later to Iraq. Braxton is the home front, where citizens battle alcoholism, marital breakups, and scandal. In Braxton, when a sister or father does wrong, the whole family shares the blame. Even Braxton's babysitters are dangerous, snooping, stealing secrets - and husbands. But love abounds. Sisters driven apart by scandal reunite when their father remarries. The babysitter who ran off with the mayor is welcomed back into her family when she returns to Braxton pregnant. A woman on the verge of being committed to an asylum for alcoholism is pulled back from the brink by a devoted friend. "The World As I Know It" won a PEN Syndicate Fiction Prize; "The Yellow Sneakers" won a Dexter Review Short Story Prize; "Jazzland" won the Lip Service Prose Prize; and an earlier version of "Falling Women" won a Virginia Fiction Fellowship for Ms. Herbert.
Dimanche and Other Stories
Author | : Irene Nemirovsky |
Publsiher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 2010-04-06 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780307739315 |
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A never-before-translated collection by the bestselling author of Suite Française Written between 1934 and 1942, these ten gem-like stories mine the same terrain of Némirovsky's bestselling novel Suite Française: a keen eye for the details of social class; the tensions between mothers and daughters, husbands and wives; the manners and mannerisms of the French bourgeoisie; questions of religion and personal identity. Moving from the drawing rooms of pre-war Paris to the lives of men and women in wartime France, here we find the beautiful work of a writer at the height of her tragically short career.
The Island of Dr Death and Other Stories and Other Stories
Author | : Gene Wolfe |
Publsiher | : Orb Books |
Total Pages | : 395 |
Release | : 1997-07-15 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781429966801 |
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A superb collection of science fiction and fantasy stories, The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories and Other Stories is a book that transcends all genre definitions. The stories within are mined with depth charges, explosions of meaning and illumination that will keep you thinking and feeling long after you have finished reading. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.