Prize Stories 1993
Author: William Miller Abrahams
Publisher:
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 454
ISBN-13: 9780385425315
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A collection of the best American short stories published in 1991 and 1992.
Author: William Miller Abrahams
Publisher:
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 454
ISBN-13: 9780385425315
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A collection of the best American short stories published in 1991 and 1992.
Author: William Miller Abrahams
Publisher:
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 432
ISBN-13: 9780385425315
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A collection of the best American short stories published in 1991 and 1992.
Author: Thom Jones
Publisher: Little, Brown
Published: 2016-11-08
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 0316438634
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Thom Jones made his literary debut in The New Yorker in 1991. Within six months his stories appeared in Harper's, Esquire, Mirabella, Story, Buzz, and in The New Yorker twice more. "The Pugilist at Rest" - the title story from this stunning collection - took first place in Prize Stories 1993: The O. Henry Awards and was selected for inclusion in Best American Short Stories 1992. He is a writer of astonishing talent. Jones's stories - whether set in the combat zones of Vietnam or the brittle social and intellectual milieu of an elite New England college, whether recounting the poignant last battles of an alcoholic ex-fighter or the hallucinatory visions of an American wandering lost in Bombay in the aftermath of an epileptic fugue - are fueled by an almost brutal vision of the human condition, in a world without mercy or redemption. Physically battered, soul-sick, and morally exhausted, Jones's characters are yet unable to concede defeat: his stories are infused with the improbable grace of the spirit that ought to collapse, but cannot. For in these extraordinary pieces of fiction, it is not goodness that finally redeems us, but the heart's illogical resilience, and the ennobling tenacity with which we cling to each other and to our lives. The publication of The Pugilist at Rest is a major literary event, heralding the arrival of an electrifying new voice in American fiction, and a writer of magnificent depth and range. With these eleven stories, Thom Jones takes his place among the ranks of this country's most important authors.
Author: Louise Erdrich
Publisher:
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 420
ISBN-13: 9780395636275
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Contains twenty of the best short stories of 1993.
Author: Geeta Dharmarajan
Publisher: Katha
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9788187649687
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →With Bani Basu`S Latest Novella On Kolkata, And M. Mukandan`S On Kalarippayattu, Katha Honours The Novella For The First Time. They Add Distinction To Six Other Outstanding Stories In This Annual Volume.
Author: Roddy Doyle
Publisher: Random House
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 41
ISBN-13: 0749399902
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Shortlisted for the 1991 Booker Prize, and set in a Dublin suburb during the 1990 World Cup, this completes a trilogy which began with The Commitments and The Snapper . Jimmy Rabitte Sr seeks refuge from the vicissitudes of unemployment by joining a friend in running a fish-and-chip van.
Author: Sherley Anne Williams
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 36
ISBN-13: 9780152014827
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A young black girl relates the daily events of her family's migrant life in the cotton fields of central California.
Author: William Miller Abrahams
Publisher: Doubleday Books
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 404
ISBN-13: 9780385471176
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A collection of the best American short stories published in 1993 and 1994
Author: Bob Shacochis
Publisher: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Published: 2007-12-01
Total Pages: 711
ISBN-13: 0802199313
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A vibrant portrait of love and politics in the tropics from the National Book Award–winning author: “the finest first novel I have read in many years” (William O’Rourke, Chicago Tribune). Winner of the National Book Award for First Fiction for Easy in the Islands, Bob Shacochis returns to the islands with Swimming in the Volcano, a “splendid first novel” that illuminates the beauty and life of the Caribbean (Library Journal). On the fictional island of St. Catherine, an American expatriate becomes unwittingly embroiled in an internecine war between rival factions of the government. Into this potentially explosive scene enters a woman he once loved and lost, but who remains a powerful temptation—one that proves impossible to resist. Both an enchanting love story and a sophisticated political novel about the fruits of imperialism in the twentieth century, Swimming in the Volcano is as brutal and seductive a novel as the world it evokes. “Scores of island people, from conspiring politicians to barbers on the beach, sprawl across the pages like oleander and hibiscus . . . each of [the book’s] scenes is expertly wrought.” —The New York Times Book Review
Author: David McCullough
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2003-08-20
Total Pages: 1409
ISBN-13: 0743260295
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Pulitzer Prize–winning biography of Harry S. Truman, whose presidency included momentous events from the atomic bombing of Japan to the outbreak of the Cold War and the Korean War, told by America’s beloved and distinguished historian. The life of Harry S. Truman is one of the greatest of American stories, filled with vivid characters—Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin, Eleanor Roosevelt, Bess Wallace Truman, George Marshall, Joe McCarthy, and Dean Acheson—and dramatic events. In this riveting biography, acclaimed historian David McCullough not only captures the man—a more complex, informed, and determined man than ever before imagined—but also the turbulent times in which he rose, boldly, to meet unprecedented challenges. The last president to serve as a living link between the nineteenth and the twentieth centuries, Truman’s story spans the raw world of the Missouri frontier, World War I, the powerful Pendergast machine of Kansas City, the legendary Whistle-Stop Campaign of 1948, and the decisions to drop the atomic bomb, confront Stalin at Potsdam, send troops to Korea, and fire General MacArthur. Drawing on newly discovered archival material and extensive interviews with Truman’s own family, friends, and Washington colleagues, McCullough tells the deeply moving story of the seemingly ordinary “man from Missouri” who was perhaps the most courageous president in our history.