Dark Blue Suit and Other Stories
Author | : Peter Bacho |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 2015-08-17 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780295997391 |
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Author | : Peter Bacho |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 2015-08-17 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780295997391 |
Author | : Greg Egan |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Science fiction |
ISBN | : |
Features five science fiction stories dealing with the abuse of mathematical or physical concepts and the dire consequences on humanity's future.
Author | : Poornima Manco |
Publisher | : Mango Tree Publications |
Total Pages | : 214 |
Release | : 2020-01-04 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1916269974 |
Are damaged people destined to inflict damage? A young boy sidelined for being different, an artist unable to distance herself from her past, a famed actress past her prime, a Casanova who plays women but is acutely aware of his loneliness. These are some amongst the various tales of damaged people seeking escape, fulfilment or acceptance. Some long, some short, these sixteen stories have common themes of unhappy marriages; of secrets and lies, pleasure and guilt; of children letting down parents and vice versa; of women of a certain age, and whether they’ve still ‘got it’; of entitled and misogynistic men; and of the hypocrisy and double standards within Indian society. With original and unexpected angles, these tales explore the darkness that underpins the often ordinary lives of people. Thought-provoking, intense and evocative, these stories will transport you into the heart of India where tradition and modernity collide, often with devastating results.
Author | : Peter Bacho |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 149 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780295976372 |
The book opens with the annual spring dispatch, by the Seattle-based Filipino union, of thousands of Filipino workers to the Alaska salmon canneries. We meet characters who reappear throughout the stories: Vince, the tough but charming union foreman and "big shot" father to Buddy, our American-born narrator; Chris, the battle-scarred union president targeted by McCarthyism; Rico, the spirited young king of the neighborhood who will fall victim to Vietnam; Stephanie, the beautiful mestiza who marrie up; and many others who age and change in ironic counterpint to persistent themes of loyalty, fierce ethnic pride, and a willingness to struggle against hostile forces in society. There are wry twists of humor and surprising turns of plot; a long-lost love is renewed; a long-hidden family secret is revealed. We encounter the inevitable aging and passing of the Manong generation, but we sense as well the arrival of its vision. Babies are born. The migrant fisheries worker gets a nine-to-five job, and his children go to college. The conclusion builds to a quiet power that is essentially elegiac; an era closes, but the voices of the older generation are shouldered by the younger, to keep the history to retell the stories, and to pay homage.
Author | : Arushi Vats |
Publisher | : Notion Press |
Total Pages | : 51 |
Release | : 2020-08-22 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1649517777 |
The search for meaning and the importance of our life is one constant thought that always crosses everyone’s mind. It is not meaning that the individual searches for in their life, but at the ground level, what the person is seeking is hope, life-lessons, the truth and a dash of motivation every now and then. All this search makes one feel a sense of fulfilment in their life. Learning is a part of life and man’s quest for life-lessons will never cease until death. Presenting you a collection of short stories, which is an attempt to make you see life and its subtle messages through a different lens.
Author | : Sheng-mei Ma |
Publisher | : U of Minnesota Press |
Total Pages | : 214 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780816637119 |
Asian American resistance to Orientalism -- the Western tradition dealing with the subject and subjugation of the East -- is usually assumed. And yet, as this provocative work demonstrates, in order to refute racist stereotypes they must first be evoked, and in the process the two often become entangled. Sheng-mei Ma shows how the distinguished careers of post-1960s Asian American writers such as Maxine Hong Kingston, Amy Tan, Frank Chin, and David Henry Hwang reveal that while Asian American identity is constructed in reaction to Orientalism, the two cultural forces are not necessarily at odds. The vigor with which these Asian Americans revolt against Orientalism in fact tacitly acknowledges the family lineage of the two.
Author | : Matthew Hughes |
Publisher | : Gateway |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2019-01-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1473225477 |
In Old Earth's penultimate age, the corpulent master criminal Luff Imbry moves through the halfworld like a full-fleshed shark. Thief, forger, confidence man, and sometimes go-between, he maps out his illicit operations with exquisite care then carries them out with courage and panache. But, often, things don't go as Luff planned, and he must call upon a talent for improvisation and a ruthless will to survive. This collection brings together seven short stories and novelettes previously published in Postscripts, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, and the anthology Forbidden Planets, plus two novellas formerly only available in limited editions. It offers Luff Imbry in all his moods and guises. Finalist for the 2014 Endeavour Award.
Author | : Abby H. P. Werlock |
Publisher | : Infobase Learning |
Total Pages | : 3854 |
Release | : 2015-04-22 |
Genre | : American fiction |
ISBN | : 143814069X |
Praise for the print edition:" ... no other reference work on American fiction brings together such an array of authors and texts as this.
Author | : Seiwoong Oh |
Publisher | : Infobase Learning |
Total Pages | : 1292 |
Release | : 2015-04-22 |
Genre | : American literature |
ISBN | : 1438140584 |
Presents a reference on Asian-American literature providing profiles of Asian-American writers and their works.
Author | : Michael Yates |
Publisher | : Lulu.com |
Total Pages | : 175 |
Release | : 2013-08-23 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0956151345 |
In these six exciting stories, Branwell, the Bronte boy who ruled an imaginary childhood world, has failed as poet and painter and slips down the road of drink and despair; passionate Alice, searching for a man she can love as she once loved her father, ignores the desperate struggle of her daughter Maudie to make a life of her own; idealistic Mr Berry, trapped in a dead-end job in a failing boys' school, discovers the secret of an illiterate 11-year old, and is forced to re-examine his own life; John Poulson, corrupt Yorkshire architect imprisoned for bribing his way to success, determines to write a book to clear his name and identify the guilty men; simple-minded Mel recalls his best pal Adrian, killed in an accident, but fails to grasp the relationship between Adrian and his own wife Beatrice; and 50 years ago in Dallas, John F Kennedy narrowly escapes an assassin's bullet - and goes on to change the course of history.