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| Author | : Dustin M. Hoffman |
| Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
| Total Pages | : 183 |
| Release | : 2016-09 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0803288980 |
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Rare voices in fiction, the lives of the working class consume this collection. Winner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction, One-Hundred-Knuckled Fist brings to life the narratives of midwestern blue-collar workers. In these sixteen stories, author Dustin M. Hoffman invites readers to peek behind the curtain of the invisible-but-ever-present “working stiff” as he reveals their lives in full complexity, offering their gruff voices—so often ignored—without censorship. The characters at the heart of these stories work with their hands. They strive to escape invisibility. They hunt the ghost of recognition. They are painters, drywall finishers, carpenters, roofers, oil refinery inspectors, and hardscapers, all aching to survive the workday. They are air force firemen, snake salesmen, can pickers, ice-cream truck drivers, and Jamaican tour guides, seething forth from behind the scenes. They are the underemployed laborers, the homeless, the retired, the fired, the children born to break their backs. One-Hundred-Knuckled Fist initiates readers into the secret nightmares and surprising beauty and complexity of a sweat-stained, blue-collar world.
| Author | : Dustin M. Hoffman |
| Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
| Total Pages | : 182 |
| Release | : 2016-09-01 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0803288549 |
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"Set in the Midwest, One-Hundred-Knuckled Fist tells the stories of everyday, blue-collar workers with dark humor and a gritty, experimental style, revealing the absurdity of the daily grind and its crushing reality" --
| Author | : Jennifer Latham |
| Publisher | : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers |
| Total Pages | : 384 |
| Release | : 2017-02-21 |
| Genre | : Young Adult Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0316384941 |
Download Dreamland Burning Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A compelling dual-narrated tale from Jennifer Latham that questions how far we've come with race relations. Some bodies won't stay buried. Some stories need to be told. When seventeen-year-old Rowan Chase finds a skeleton on her family's property, she has no idea that investigating the brutal century-old murder will lead to a summer of painful discoveries about the present and the past. Nearly one hundred years earlier, a misguided violent encounter propels seventeen-year-old Will Tillman into a racial firestorm. In a country rife with violence against blacks and a hometown segregated by Jim Crow, Will must make hard choices on a painful journey towards self discovery and face his inner demons in order to do what's right the night Tulsa burns. Through intricately interwoven alternating perspectives, Jennifer Latham's lightning-paced page-turner brings the Tulsa race riot of 1921 to blazing life and raises important questions about the complex state of US race relations--both yesterday and today.
| Author | : Wendell Mayo |
| Publisher | : Texas A&M University Press |
| Total Pages | : 148 |
| Release | : 2018-06-28 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1622882083 |
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Often humorous, always resonant, the ten stories in Survival House not only look back to the collective mind of doom in the atomic age of the 1950s and 1960s, but also address its legacy in our time—the emergence of new nuclear powers, polarizing politics, and the ever-tightening grip of corporations. In contemporary stories, such as “Doom Town,” a festival annually celebrates the survival of the human race by conducting riotous air raids. In “The Trans-Siberian Railway Comes to Whitehouse,” a bar owner desperately clings to a new all-things-Russian theme to save himself from financial ruin. Other stories, set in the 1960s, recast the Cuban Missile Crisis, Kennedy assassination, and Space Race in personal histories of the human heart that remind us what it takes to endure—both then, and now.
| Author | : Sara Batkie |
| Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
| Total Pages | : 144 |
| Release | : 2018-09-01 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1496211979 |
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Winner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction, the stories in Better Times focus on what’s happening in places people don’t think to look. Women, sometimes displaced, often lonely, are at the heart of these stories. In Better Times Sara Batkie focuses on the moments in women’s lives when the wider world is wrapped up in other matters: a father and daughter, separated by time and an ocean, dreaming of each other; a girl in a home for “troubled women” imagining the journey of the first dog in space; a phantom breast returning to haunt a woman after her mastectomy; a young woman giving birth to a litter of eggs. Such are the ordinary women weathering extraordinary circumstances in Better Times. Divided into three sections covering the recent past, our current era, and the world to come, the stories gathered here—with characters stymied by loneliness, motherhood, illness, even cataclysmic climate change—interrogate the idea that so-called better times ever existed, particularly for women.
| Author | : Del Raye |
| Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
| Total Pages | : 164 |
| Release | : 2023-09 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1496238222 |
Download Boundless Deep, and Other Stories Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
By turns introspective, surreal, and bitingly funny, this collection of linked short stories spans seven decades across Japan and the United States and shows a family's tenacity in the face of relationships fractured by language and distance.
| Author | : Janelle Bassett |
| Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
| Total Pages | : 184 |
| Release | : 2024 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1496240332 |
Download Thanks for This Riot Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Winner of the Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction Thanks for This Riot explores the limits of kindness, the weight of being needed, and the fear of being misunderstood. A group counselor is taunted by a truth-divining piano bench, a voice actor shouts her abortion at the state capitol, a tired caregiver tangles with a pair of stand-up comics, a small-town newspaper office shelters an otherworldly tattletale, a backwoods acupuncturist leans on her least-exciting offspring, a girl in a strapless bra takes a vengeful go-kart ride, and a woman gets surgery to lower her expectations (she thinks it went "okay"). Grouped by types of riot--external riots, internal riots, and laugh riots--Thanks for This Riot is a poignant and mordantly funny collection with a distinctly feminist viewpoint.
| Author | : Venita Blackburn |
| Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
| Total Pages | : 168 |
| Release | : 2017-09-01 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1496201868 |
Download Black Jesus and Other Superheroes Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Machine generated contents note: Acknowledgments -- Black Jesus -- Brim -- A Savior, Belief, Tupac, and Balloons -- We Buy Gold -- The Hurt Will Make You Stronger -- Chew -- Take Me to the Water -- In the Middle of Everything There Are Ribbons of Light -- String Theory -- A Brief Excerpt from the History of Salt -- Ephemeros -- Dog People -- Barbers -- End of the World -- Ways to Mourn an Asshole -- Rites -- They Only Look Like They're Smiling -- The Immolator -- There Are No Ninjas in the End -- Hold 'til Warm -- Ravished -- Not Like You, Not at All -- The Annie Oakley Gun Training for Women -- Scars -- Run Away Screaming
| Author | : Liz Breazeale |
| Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
| Total Pages | : 142 |
| Release | : 2019-09-01 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1496218302 |
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In this collection of short stories, Liz Breazeale explores the connections between humans and the natural world by examining the processes and history of our planet. A myriad of extinction events large and small have ruptured the history of the earth, and so it is with the women of this book, who struggle to define themselves amid their own personal cataclysms and those igniting the world around them. They are a mother watching the islands of the world disappear one by one, a new bride using alien abduction to get closer to her estranged parent, a daughter searching for her mother among the lost cities of the world, a sister trying and failing to protect her mythical continent-obsessed brother. Here extinction events come in all sizes and shapes: as volcanic eruptions and devastating plagues and meteor impacts, as estrangements and betrayals and losses. Dark, angry, and apocalyptic, Extinction Events is a compendium of all the ways in which life can be annihilated.
| Author | : Kristina Gorcheva-Newberry |
| Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
| Total Pages | : 266 |
| Release | : 2021-09 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1496229134 |
Download What Isn't Remembered Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The stories in this collection explore the burden, the power, and the nature of love between people who often feel misplaced and estranged from their deepest selves and the world, where they cannot find a home.
