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Author | : Janet Lewis |
Publisher | : Ohio University Press |
Total Pages | : 223 |
Release | : 2019-08-27 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0804041083 |
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Good-bye, Son and Other Stories, Janet Lewis’s only collection of short fiction, was first published in 1946, but remains as quietly haunting today as it was then. Set in small communities of the upper Midwest and northern California in the ’30s and ’40s, these midcentury gems focus on the quiet cycles connecting youth and age, despair and hope, life and death. A mother’s encounters with her deceased son, an aging woman sitting with the new knowledge of her troubled older sister’s death, and a teenager disillusioned by her own mortality are among the characters, mostly women and girls, whom Lewis delivers. Her understated style and knack for unadorned observation embed us with them as they reckon with the disquieting forces—incomprehensible and destructive to some, enlightening to others—that move us from birth, through life, to death. In the process, Lewis has crafted a paean to the living.
Author | : Luis Alberto Urrea |
Publisher | : University of Arizona Press |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 9780816522705 |
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Born in Tijuana to a Mexican father and an Anglo mother, Urrea moved to San Diego at age three. In this memoir of his childhood, Urrea describes his experiences growing up in the barrio and his search for cultural identity.
Author | : Rachel Khong |
Publisher | : Henry Holt and Company |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2017-07-11 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1250109159 |
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Winner of the California Book Award for First Fiction Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist for First Fiction "A quietly brilliant disquisition . . . told in prose that is so startling in its spare beauty that I found myself thinking about Khong's turns of phrase for days after I finished reading."—Doree Shafrir, The New York Times Book Review Her life at a crossroads, a young woman goes home again in this funny and inescapably moving debut from a wonderfully original new literary voice. Freshly disengaged from her fiancé and feeling that life has not turned out quite the way she planned, thirty-year-old Ruth quits her job, leaves town and arrives at her parents’ home to find that situation more complicated than she'd realized. Her father, a prominent history professor, is losing his memory and is only erratically lucid. Ruth’s mother, meanwhile, is lucidly erratic. But as Ruth's father’s condition intensifies, the comedy in her situation takes hold, gently transforming her all her grief. Told in captivating glimpses and drawn from a deep well of insight, humor, and unexpected tenderness, Goodbye, Vitamin pilots through the loss, love, and absurdity of finding one’s footing in this life.
Author | : Adolfo Quezada |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 68 |
Release | : 1985-04 |
Genre | : Family & Relationships |
ISBN | : 9780870291968 |
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Author | : Michael Hainey |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2014-02-18 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1451676611 |
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"A decade in the writing, the haunting story of a son's quest to understand the mystery of his father's death--a universal memoir about the secrets families keep and the role they play in making us who we are. Michael Hainey had just turned six when his uncle knocked on his family's back door one morning with the tragic news: Bob Hainey, Michael's father, was found alone near his car on Chicago's North Side, dead, of an apparent heart attack. Thirty-five years old, a young assistant copy desk chief at the Chicago Sun-Times, Bob was a bright and shining star in the competitive, hard-living world of newspapers, one that involved booze-soaked nights that bled into dawn. And then suddenly he was gone, leaving behind a young widow, two sons, a fractured family--and questions surrounding the mysterious nature of his death that would obsess Michael throughout adolescence and long into adulthood. Finally, roughly his father's age when he died, and a seasoned reporter himself, Michael set out to learn what happened that night. Died after visiting friends, the obituaries said. But the details beyond that were inconsistent. What friends? Where? At the heart of his quest is Michael's all-too-silent, opaque mother, a woman of great courage and tenacity--and a steely determination not to look back. Prodding and cajoling his relatives, and working through a network of his father's buddies who abide by an honor code of silence and secrecy, Michael sees beyond the long-held myths and ultimately reconciles the father he'd imagined with the one he comes to know--and in the journey discovers new truths about his mother. A stirring portrait of a family and its legacy of secrets, After visiting friends is the story of a son who goes in search of the truth and finds not only his father, but a rare window into a world of men and newspapers and fierce loyalties that no longer exists"--Provided by publisher.
Author | : Louise Erdrich |
Publisher | : HarperCollins |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2021-11-16 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 0063064189 |
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This National Book Award finalist by Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Louise Erdrich is the first installment in an essential nine-book series chronicling 100 years in the life of one Ojibwe family, and includes beautiful interior black-and-white artwork done by the author. She was named Omakayas, or Little Frog, because her first step was a hop. Omakayas and her family live on an island in Lake Superior. Though there are growing numbers of white people encroaching on their land, life continues much as it always has. But the satisfying rhythms of their life are shattered when a visitor comes to their lodge one winter night, bringing with him an invisible enemy that will change things forever—but that will eventually lead Omakayas to discover her calling. By turns moving and humorous, this novel is a breathtaking tour de force by a gifted writer. The beloved and essential Birchbark House series by Louise Erdrich includes The Birchbark House, The Game of Silence, The Porcupine Year, Chickadee, and Makoons.
Author | : Pat Zietlow Miller |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 37 |
Release | : 2018-02-06 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 1626723214 |
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A thoughtful picture book illustrating the power of small acts of kindness, from the award-winning author of Sophie's Squash.
Author | : A. E. Coppard |
Publisher | : DigiCat |
Total Pages | : 206 |
Release | : 2022-06-13 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
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This is an anthology of short stories or folklore-style tales recognised as a sophisticated blend of modern fairy stories, folk narratives and ballads. The book include The Black Dog, Alas, poor Bollington!, The ballet girl, Simple Simon, The tiger, Mordecai and Cocking, The man from Kilsheelan, Tribute, The handsome Lady, The fancy dress ball, The cat, the dog, and the Bad Old Dame, The wife of Ted Wickham, Tanil, The devil in the churchyard, Huxley Rustem, Big game, The poor man, Luxury.
Author | : Library of Congress. Copyright Office |
Publisher | : Copyright Office, Library of Congress |
Total Pages | : 1760 |
Release | : 1975 |
Genre | : Copyright |
ISBN | : |
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Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 348 |
Release | : 1945 |
Genre | : Libraries |
ISBN | : |
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