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Author | : Kathryn Scanlan |
Publisher | : MCD |
Total Pages | : 128 |
Release | : 2019-06-04 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0374719993 |
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A Paris Review Staff Pick, one of Chicago Tribune's 25 Hot Books of Summer, and one of The A.V. Club's 15 Most Anticipated Books of 2019 A stark, elegiac account of unexpected pleasures and the progress of seasons Fifteen years ago, Kathryn Scanlan found a stranger’s five-year diary at an estate auction in a small town in Illinois. The owner of the diary was eighty-six years old when she began recording the details of her life in the small book, a gift from her daughter and son-in-law. The diary was falling apart—water-stained and illegible in places—but magnetic to Scanlan nonetheless. After reading and rereading the diary, studying and dissecting it, for the next fifteen years she played with the sentences that caught her attention, cutting, editing, arranging, and rearranging them into the composition that became Aug 9—Fog (she chose the title from a note that was tucked into the diary). “Sure grand out,” the diarist writes. “That puzzle a humdinger,” she says, followed by, “A letter from Lloyd saying John died the 16th.” An entire state of mourning reveals itself in “2 canned hams.” The result of Scanlan’s collaging is an utterly compelling, deeply moving meditation on life and death. In Aug 9—Fog, Scanlan’s spare, minimalist approach has a maximal emotional effect, remaining with the reader long after the book ends. It is an unclassifiable work from a visionary young writer and artist—a singular portrait of a life revealed by revision and restraint.
Author | : Kathryn Scanlan |
Publisher | : MCD x FSG Originals |
Total Pages | : 112 |
Release | : 2020-04-07 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0374719985 |
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Named a Best Book of 2020 by The Guardian, Southwest Review, and Publishers Weekly "[The stories] are short, but their mood and imagery are lasting, and reflective of brutal truths of the commerce of human civilization . . . chilling, finely tuned pieces on power and survival." --Los Angeles Times A collection of innovative and ambitious short stories from a visionary young literary artist In The Dominant Animal—Kathryn Scanlan’s adventurous, unsettling debut collection—compression is key. Sentences have been relentlessly trimmed, tuned, and teased for maximum impact, and a ferocious attention to rhythm and sound results in a palpable pulse of excitability and distress. The nature of love is questioned at a golf course, a flower shop, an all-you-can-eat buffet. The clay head of a man is bought and displayed as a trophy. Interior life manifests on the physical plane, where characters—human and animal—eat and breathe, provoke and injure one another. With exquisite control, Scanlan moves from expansive moods and fine afternoons to unease and violence—and also from deliberate and generative ambiguity to shocking, revelatory exactitude. Disturbances accrue as the collection progresses. How often the conclusions open—rather than tie—up. How they twist alertly. No mercy, a character says—and these stories are merciless and strange and absolutely masterful.
Author | : Andre Dubus |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 507 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Domestic fiction |
ISBN | : 0393046974 |
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The Oprah Book Club selection for November 2000.
Author | : Julia L. Sauer |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 1986-10-07 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780140321630 |
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A Newbery Honor Book. Greta had always loved the fog—the soft gray mist that rolled in from the sea and drifted over the village. The fog seemed to have a secret to tell her. Then one day when Greta was walking in the woods and the mist was closing in, she saw the dark outline of a stone house against the spruce trees—a house where only an old cellar hole should have been. Then she saw a surrey come by, carrying a lady dressed in plum-colored silk. The woman beckoned for Greta to join her, and soon Greta found herself launched on an adventure that would take her back to a past that existed only through the magic of the fog.
Author | : Tomi Ungerer |
Publisher | : Phaidon Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2013-04-16 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780714865355 |
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" Top 10 Children’s Book 2013 – New York Times Book Review A Publishers Weekly Best Children’s Book of 2013 A New York Times Best Illustrated Children’s Book of 2013 "Tomi Ungerer has created another masterpiece." – Eric Carle In this imaginative tale from master storyteller Tomi Ungerer, two young siblings find themselves cast away on mysterious Fog Island. No one has ever returned from the island’s murky shores, but when the children begin to explore, they discover things are not quite as they expected. Ungerer’s captivating drawings evoke the eerie beauty and magic surrounding this timeless adventure. Selected by both The New York Times and Publishers Weekly as one of the year’s best children’s books, Fog Island is destined to become a modern classic. "
Author | : James Herbert |
Publisher | : Pan Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2011-04-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1447202392 |
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A chilling story of madness and murder, The Fog is a classic horror novel from James Herbert, author of The Rats. It begins with a crack that rips the earth apart. Peaceful village life shattered. But the disaster is just the beginning. Out of the bottomless pit creeps a malevolent fog. Spreading through the air it leaves a deadly, horrifying trail, destined to devastate the lives of all those it encounters . . .
Author | : Keith Robinson |
Publisher | : Unearthly Tales |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2013-03-16 |
Genre | : Fog |
ISBN | : 9780984390601 |
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"Eight children on a foggy island begin to experience frightening physical transformations. Are they freaks of nature, or subjects of a dark, sinister experiment?"--P. [4] of cover.
Author | : Elizabeth Gilpin |
Publisher | : Grand Central Publishing |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 2021-07-20 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1538735423 |
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A gripping chronicle of psychological manipulation and abuse at a “therapeutic” boarding school for troubled teens, and how one young woman fought to heal in the aftermath. At fifteen, Elizabeth Gilpin was an honor student, a state-ranked swimmer and a rising soccer star, but behind closed doors her undiagnosed depression was wreaking havoc on her life. Growing angrier by the day, she began skipping practices and drinking to excess. At a loss, her parents turned to an educational consultant who suggested Elizabeth be enrolled in a behavioral modification program. That recommendation would change her life forever. The nightmare began when she was abducted from her bed in the middle of the night by hired professionals and dropped off deep in the woods of Appalachia. Living with no real shelter was only the beginning of her ordeal: she was strip-searched, force-fed, her name was changed to a number and every moment was a test of physical survival. After three brutal months, Elizabeth was transferred to a boarding school in Southern Virginia that in reality functioned more like a prison. Its curriculum revolved around a perverse form of group therapy where students were psychologically abused and humiliated. Finally, at seventeen, Elizabeth convinced them she was rehabilitated enough to “graduate” and was released. In this eye-opening and unflinching book, Elizabeth recalls the horrors she endured, the friends she lost to suicide and addiction, and—years later—how she was finally able to pick up the pieces of her life and reclaim her identity.
Author | : T Fleischmann |
Publisher | : Coffee House Press |
Total Pages | : 127 |
Release | : 2019-06-04 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 1566895553 |
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W. G. Sebald meets Maggie Nelson in an autobiographical narrative of embodiment, visual art, history, and loss. How do the bodies we inhabit affect our relationship with art? How does art affect our relationship to our bodies? T Fleischmann uses Felix Gonzáles-Torres’s artworks—piles of candy, stacks of paper, puzzles—as a path through questions of love and loss, violence and rejuvenation, gender and sexuality. From the back porches of Buffalo, to the galleries of New York and L.A., to farmhouses of rural Tennessee, the artworks act as still points, sites for reflection situated in lived experience. Fleischmann combines serious engagement with warmth and clarity of prose, reveling in the experiences and pleasures of art and the body, identity and community.
Author | : Keith Robinson |
Publisher | : Unearthly Tales |
Total Pages | : 358 |
Release | : 2011-08-29 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
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Shapeshifters. Mermaids. And a shapeshifting mermaid! Sixteen years ago... Jolie was just a one-year-old baby when, as part of an experimental shapeshifter program, she transformed into a mermaid-like creature... and stuck in that form. Faced with the impossible challenge of raising her, the scientists had no choice but to hand her over to others of her kind, the mysterious miengu people of the lake. Present day... It’s rumored that these enchanting water spirits can heal the sick. Imagine if Jolie, now a teenager, can be brought back into the human world! She has the power to save lives — if she’s willing. That’s the task facing Hal and his shapeshifter friends. Jolie is beautiful, and the boys are utterly besotted. But the girls are certain there’s more to her than meets the eye. Is she delightful... or deadly? “Robinson has crafted one of his best characters yet — a nuanced and challenging individual who will keep Hal and company as well as readers guessing until the very end.” —ROGER ESCHBACHER, AUTHOR