Battles In The Desert Other Stories

Author : José Emilio Pacheco
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780811210195
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Battles in the Desert & Other Stories written by José Emilio Pacheco and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1987 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intense, despairing accounts of life in Mexico City.

Author : Jose Emilio Pacheco
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0811225496
Total Pages : 107 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Battles in the Desert & Other Stories written by Jose Emilio Pacheco and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1987-05-17 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intense, despairing accounts of life in Mexico City. Seven stories depict harsh realities of life in urban Mexico and the tragedies of childhood innocence betrayed.

Author : Jose Emilio Pacheco
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0811230961
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Battles in the Desert (40th Anniversary Edition) written by Jose Emilio Pacheco and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2021-06-01 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This heart-breaking novella is a key work of 20th-century dystopian Mexican literature and sadly all too apropos today This landmark novella—one of the central texts of Mexican literature, is eerily relevant to our current dark times—offers a child’s-eye view of a society beset by dictators, disease, and natural disasters, set in “the year of polio, foot-and-mouth disease, floods.” A middle-class boy grows up in a world of children aping adults (mock wars at recess pit Arabs against Jews), where a child’s left to ponder “how many evils and catastrophes we have yet to witness.” When Carlos laments the cruelty and corruption, the evils of a vicious class system, his older brother answers: “So what, we are living up to our ears in shit anyway under Miguel Alemán’s regime,” with “the face of El Senor Presidente everywhere: incessant, private abuse.” Sound familiar? Woven into this coming-of-age saga is the terribly intense love Carlos cherishes for his friend’s young mother, which has the effect of driving the general cruelties further under the reader’s skin. The acclaimed translator Katherine Silver has greatly revised her original translation, enlivening afresh this remarkable work.

Author : Nigel Sellars
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595255736
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Confessions of Caliban and Other Stories written by Nigel Sellars and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2002-11-18 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the depths of outer space to the tight spaces of the inner mind, the short stories in this collection range from the confessions of a Shakespearian monster, to the rantings of a serial killer who exists outside time and space, and to the bemused thoughts of a man whose world is literally falling apart around him. Moving from the humorous The World, the Flesh, and Maxwell Harrison to the horrific Melissa's Bear and the cautionary Priorities, the Confession of Caliban and Other Stories seeks to go beyond the average science fiction or fantasy story and explore human experiences in a variety of writing styles, from the traditional to the experimental. Whether you come away with a smirk, a smile, or a decided chill up your spine, you will find these short stories an unforgettable experience.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1222 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Short Story Index written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 1222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jean-Paul Sartre
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0811219747
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Wall: (Intimacy) and Other Stories written by Jean-Paul Sartre and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2010-07-27 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of Sartre’s greatest existentialist works of fiction, The Wall contains the only five short stories he ever wrote. Set during the Spanish Civil War, the title story crystallizes the famous philosopher’s existentialism. 'The Wall', the lead story in this collection, introduces three political prisoners on the night prior to their execution. Through the gaze of an impartial doctor—seemingly there for the men's solace—their mental descent is charted in exquisite, often harrowing detail. And as the morning draws inexorably closer, the men cross the psychological wall between life and death, long before the first shot rings out. This brilliant snapshot of life in anguish is the perfect introduction to a collection of stories where the neurosis of the modern world is mirrored in the lives of the people that inhabit it . This is an unexpurgated edition translated from the French by Lloyd Alexander.

Author : Tennessee Williams
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780811202237
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book One Arm and Other Stories written by Tennessee Williams and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1967 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here are the eleven remarkable stories of Tennessee Williams's first volume of short fiction, originally published in 1948 and reissued as a paperbook in response to an increasingly insistent public demand. It was this book which established Williams as a short story writer of the same stature and interest he had shown as a dramatist. Each story has qualities that make it memorable. In "One Arm" we live through his last hours and memories with a 'rough trade" ex-prizefighter who is awaiting execution for murder. "The Field of Blue Children" explores some of the strange ways of the human heart in love, "Portrait of a Girl in Glass" is a luminous and nostalgic recollection of characters who figure in "The Glass Menagerie," while "Desire and the Black Masseur" is an excursion into the logic of the macabre. "The Yellow Bird," well known through the author's recorded reading of it, which tells of a minister's daughter who found a particularly violent but satisfactory way of expiating a load of inherited puritan guilt, may well become part of American mythology.

Author : Eric Zolov
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520215146
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Refried Elvis written by Eric Zolov and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1999-07-05 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book traces the history of rock 'n' roll in Mexico and the rise of the native countercultural movement La Onda (the wave). This story frames the most significant crisis of Mexico's postrevolution period: the student-led protests in 1968 and the government-orchestrated massacre that put an end to the movement".--BOOKJACKET.

Author : Anthony Vassiliadis
Publisher : Austin Macauley Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1398482854
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Highway Store and Other Stories written by Anthony Vassiliadis and published by Austin Macauley Publishers. This book was released on 2023-08-18 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trevor’s had a rough life. Growing up in the crime ridden suburb of Blacktown, struggling with PTSD from his tour in Afghanistan, and his girlfriend’s tragic overdose. All he wants is to get away from it all and find some peace. Opening a highway store in the remote outback seemed like a great opportunity for him. Little did he know, he wasn’t prepared for the unsavory characters that came his way. As these nefarious figures start to emerge, he is forced to confront a past he thought he had left behind.

Author : Jean-Paul Pallud
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781870067775
Total Pages : 592 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Desert War Then and Now written by Jean-Paul Pallud and published by . This book was released on 2013-04-15 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following Mussolini's declaration of war in June 1940, Italy faced only those British troops based in the Middle East but as the armed confrontation escalated, other nations were drawn in. Jean Paul Pallud begins his account when the initial shots were fired at the 11th Hussars as they approached Italian outposts near Sidi Omar in Libya.