What Remains and Other Stories

What Remains and Other Stories
Author: Christa Wolf
Publsiher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 303
Release: 1995-12
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780226904955

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What Remains collects Christa Wolf's short fiction, from early work in the sixties to the widely debated title story, first published in Germany in 1990. Addressing a wide range of topics, from sexual politics to the nature of memory, these powerful and often very personal stories offer a fascinating introduction to Wolf's work. What Remains and Other Stories . . . is clear and farsighted. The eight heartfelt stories in the book show why she has been respected as a serious author since her 1968 novel, The Quest for Christa T. . . . Wolf uses her own experiences and observations to create universal themes about the controls upon human freedom.—Herbert Mitgang, New York Times Christa Wolf has set herself nothing less than the task of exploring what it is to be a conscious human being alive in a moment of history.—Mary Gordon, New York Times Book Review The simultaneous publication of these two volumes offers readers here a generous sampling of the short fiction, speeches and essays that Wolf has produced over the last three decades.—Mark Harman, Boston Globe

What Remains

What Remains
Author: A. Lawrence Haskins
Publsiher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 100
Release: 2016-11-23
Genre: Electronic Book
ISBN: 1540629023

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PART I: THE MADMAN - From the stark and ignoble perch of captivity's iron embrace, the good boy turned MADMAN finally speaks of his role in the horrific and sordid events that left those he loved most laid waste in his vengeful and murderous wake. PART II: THE PEACE OFFICER - The French Quarter's hypnotic veil of revelrous merriment is torn utterly asunder when the PEACE OFFICER discovers there that things are very rarely as they seem, that the past is always present and that the dead do in fact live. PART III: THE CRIME ICON - In the mountains high above Shenzhen Province is where the illusive yet ubiquitous CRIME ICON emerges from the shadows just long enough to deliver a sinister and crushing blow to the heart of one of his most relentless, enduring and impudent foes. Three separate stories, one connected path. "WHAT REMAINS: A SHORT STORY TRILOGY" focuses individually on the life trajectories of Robert "Bobby" Dupree, Detective Kathryn O'Rourke and international crime icon William Chiang seven years after the pulse pounding events that took place in the acclaimed debut suspense thriller, "THE WHISPER OF SERPENTS."

Orange World

Orange World
Author: Karen Russell
Publsiher: Knopf
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2019
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780525656135

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"This is a Borzoi book published by Alfred A. Knopf"--Title page verso.

What Remains and Other Stories

What Remains and Other Stories
Author: Christa Wolf
Publsiher: New York : Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
Total Pages: 295
Release: 1993
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0374288887

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A collection of short stories attempts to balance reality and imagination by probing the memories of such complex characters as Max, the pet cat of an idealistic psychology professor, and an East German writer under the scrutiny of the secret police

The Beauty of What Remains

The Beauty of What Remains
Author: Steve Leder
Publsiher: Penguin
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2021-01-05
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 9780593187562

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The national bestseller From the author of the bestselling More Beautiful Than Before comes an inspiring book about loss based on his most popular sermon. As the senior rabbi of one of the largest synagogues in the world, Steve Leder has learned over and over again the many ways death teaches us how to live and love more deeply by showing us not only what is gone but also the beauty of what remains. This inspiring and comforting book takes us on a journey through the experience of loss that is fundamental to everyone. Yet even after having sat beside thousands of deathbeds, Steve Leder the rabbi was not fully prepared for the loss of his own father. It was only then that Steve Leder the son truly learned how loss makes life beautiful by giving it meaning and touching us with love that we had not felt before. Enriched by Rabbi Leder's irreverence, vulnerability, and wicked sense of humor, this heartfelt narrative is filled with laughter and tears, the wisdom of millennia and modernity, and, most of all, an unfolding of the profound and simple truth that in loss we gain more than we ever imagined.

What Remains

What Remains
Author: Helene Dunbar
Publsiher: North Star Editions, Inc.
Total Pages: 185
Release: 2015-05-08
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 9780738744742

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After a terrible accident, Cal Ryan loses his promising baseball career and Lizzie, one of his best friends. Everyone expects him to pick up the pieces and move on, but all that remains for Cal is an overwhelming sense that her death was his fault. Cal thought he could overcome any obstacle. But grief might be the one exception.

The Remains of the Day

The Remains of the Day
Author: Kazuo Ishiguro
Publsiher: Vintage
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2010-07-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780307576187

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BOOKER PRIZE WINNER • From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, here is “an intricate and dazzling novel” (The New York Times) about the perfect butler and his fading, insular world in post-World War II England. This is Kazuo Ishiguro's profoundly compelling portrait of a butler named Stevens. Stevens, at the end of three decades of service at Darlington Hall, spending a day on a country drive, embarks as well on a journey through the past in an effort to reassure himself that he has served humanity by serving the "great gentleman," Lord Darlington. But lurking in his memory are doubts about the true nature of Lord Darlington's "greatness," and much graver doubts about the nature of his own life.

Hero Strong and Other Stories

   Hero Strong    and Other Stories
Author: Mary Gibson
Publsiher: Univ. of Tennessee Press
Total Pages: 193
Release: 2014-08-30
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 9781621900511

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Challenging traditional gender expectations, thousands of girls of Gibson's generation not only aspired to public careers as writers, artists, educators, and even doctors but also began to experiment with new forms of "female masculinity" in attitude, bearing, behavior, dress, and sexuality--a pattern only gradually domesticated by the nonthreatening image of the "tomboy." Some, such as Gibson, at once realized and reenacted their dreams on the pages of antebellum story papers. This first modern scholarly edition of Mary Gibson's early fiction features ten tales of teenage girls (seemingly much like Gibson herself) who fearlessly appropriate masculine traits, defy contemporary gender norms, and struggle to fulfill high worldly ambitions.