Drowning Lessons PDF Download
Are you looking for read ebook online? Search for your book and save it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Download Drowning Lessons PDF full book. Access full book title Drowning Lessons.
Author | : Peter Selgin |
Publisher | : University of Georgia Press |
Total Pages | : 250 |
Release | : 2011-03-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0820339695 |
Download Drowning Lessons Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The stories in Drowning Lessons engage water as both a vital and a potentially hazardous presence in our lives. "You can touch water," says Peter Selgin, "you can taste it and feel its temperature, you can even hold it in your hands. Still it remains elusive, ill-defined, shaped only by what surrounds or contains it." With empathy and wit Selgin introduces us to characters navigating the choppy waters of human relationships. In "Swimming" an avid swimmer fights the stasis in his marriage by prodding his out-of-shape but contented wife to take up the sport—with near-disastrous results. A pond is the setting of "The Wolf House," which tells of the reunion and dissolution of a group of high school friends brought together for a funeral. "The Sinking Ship Man" chronicles a day in the life of an African American caretaker in charge of the only remaining survivor of the Titanic disaster. In "El Malecón" a toothless old Dominican tries to recapture his lost dignity by "borrowing" a shiny Cadillac convertible and aiming it down the coastal highway toward his childhood village. In "The Sea Cure" two travelers in Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula confront death in the form of a mysterious woman living in an abandoned beachfront apartment complex. In all thirteen tales in Drowning Lessons, Selgin exhibits a keen eye for the forces that push people toward—and sometimes beyond—their very human limits, forces as intrinsic, elemental, and elusive as the liquid that makes up two-thirds of their bodies. These stories remind us that of all bodies of water, none is deeper or more dangerous than our own.
Author | : Peter Selgin |
Publisher | : University of Georgia Press |
Total Pages | : 250 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0820332100 |
Download Drowning Lessons Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The author introduces readers to the choppy waters of human relationships with empathy and wit in a provocative collection of thirteen tales that incorporates the presence of water as both a vital and a potentially hazardous element in our lives. Winner of the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction.
Author | : Anna M. Wiebalk |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 114 |
Release | : 1912 |
Genre | : English language |
ISBN | : |
Download An Outline of Progressive Lessons in Composition, Language and Spelling for the Third Grade ... Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 438 |
Release | : 1910 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Download The Trained Nurse and Hospital Review Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A monthly magazine of practical nursing, devoted to the improvement and development of the graduate nurse.
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1138 |
Release | : 1910 |
Genre | : Nurses |
ISBN | : |
Download The American Journal of Nursing Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Jane Shemilt |
Publisher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 277 |
Release | : 2015-09-24 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1405915323 |
Download The Drowning Lesson Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The chilling, gripping thriller from the author of the stunning Richard and Judy Book Club bestseller Daughter 'It's our son, Sam . . . someone took him. Please help us' Emma hoped that she and her family would return from their year abroad closer, with memories to last a lifetime. Instead, they returned minus one child. A year on, Emma is haunted by their son's disappearance, and feels further than ever from her husband. Is their child still out there somewhere? Will the mystery about what happened that night ever be unravelled? And, if the truth does come to light, will Emma's family be healed - or wrenched even further apart?
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 948 |
Release | : 1884 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Download The Reformed Presbyterian and Covenanter Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Peter Selgin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
Download Life Goes to the Movies Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A madcap romp of friendship, movie-making, insanity and salvation. Humorous and heartrending, brilliantly executed.
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 628 |
Release | : 1911 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : |
Download Educational Record Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Larissa MacFarquhar |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 338 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Altruism |
ISBN | : 1594204330 |
Download Strangers Drowning Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
What does it mean to devote yourself wholly to helping others? In Strangers Drowning, Larissa MacFarquhar seeks out people living lives of extreme ethical commitment and tells their deeply intimate stories; their stubborn integrity and their compromises; their bravery and their recklessness; their joys and defeats and wrenching dilemmas. A couple adopts two children in distress. But then they think: If they can change two lives, why not four? Or ten? They adopt twenty. But how do they weigh the needs of unknown children in distress against the needs of the children they already have? Another couple founds a leprosy colony in the wilderness in India, living in huts with no walls, knowing that their two small children may contract leprosy or be eaten by panthers. The children survive. But what if they hadn't? How would their parents' risk have been judged? A woman believes that if she spends money on herself, rather than donate it to buy life-saving medicine, then she's responsible for the deaths that result. She lives on a fraction of her income, but wonders: when is compromise self-indulgence and when is it essential? We honor such generosity and high ideals; but when we call people do-gooders there is skepticism in it, even hostility. Why do moral people make us uneasy? Between her stories, MacFarquhar threads a lively history of the literature, philosophy, social science, and self-help that have contributed to a deep suspicion of do-gooders in Western culture. Through its sympathetic and beautifully vivid storytelling, Strangers Drowning confronts us with fundamental questions about what it means to be human. In a world of strangers drowning in need, how much should we help, and how much can we help? Is it right to care for strangers even at the expense of those we are closest to? Moving and provocative, Strangers Drowning challenges us to think about what we value most, and why.