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Author : Jean Stafford
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)
Download or read book Children are Bored on Sunday written by Jean Stafford and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jean Stafford
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 1466896590
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)
Download or read book Children Are Bored on Sunday written by Jean Stafford and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2017-04-04 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Probably the best young prose writer in the U.S.," as Time oncecalled her, Jean Stafford made a selection of her favorite among the stories she published in The New Yorker and elsewhere since 1944. Children Are Bored on Sunday displays at its height the mordant wit and sensibility which has distinguished Miss Stafford's work since her first successful novel, Boston Adventure, appeared in 1944. The stories in this book vary in mood from the title piece, a satirical examination of avant-garde intellectual life in New York through the eyes of a self-styled "rube," to the quietly affecting novella "The Home Front," about a German doctor in an American defense plant town. The backgrounds of the stories are equally varied: one is set in the Virgin Islands, two in Germany, one in Oklahoma and one in Maine, and one - "The Interior Castle" - in the featureless ether-smelling world of a hospital where the heroine is recovering after a near-fatal accident. The central figure of one story is a fat girl who imagines herself to be twins and who cannot stop eating; in another we meet Jim Littlefield, an orphan Indian boy of 8, who has "come on the train barefoot all the way from Missouri." In "The Bleeding Heart" appears an invalid old lady whose speech has lost its verbs ("I her!" she cries), while her parrot, aged 48, has lost all speech, but the eternally reiterated, "Just a minute." The versatile forms of these stories - ranging from satire to interior monologues, from pathos to grotesquerie - are carried out in a style so consistently controlled, so full of imaginative power and so alive to nuance both verbal and pictorial, that the collection takes on a compelliing unity in its very diversity, and will add to the already impressive reputation Miss Stafford's three novels have won her
Author : Jean Stafford
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780374529932
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford written by Jean Stafford and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2005-09-14 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written from the 1940s through the 1960s, these stories represent the major short works of fiction by one of the most distinctively American stylists of her day. Jean Stafford wrote of men and, especially, women alone and adrift in New York City in such stories as "Children Are Bored on Sunday"; of children surrounded by the harshness of rural Colorado and of the adults around them in "In the Zoo"; and of a young woman from Nashville bewildered and then angered by her first experience of petty French society in "Maggie Meriwether's Rich Experience." Employing a spare style that is sometimes distant, sometimes ironic, sometimes unexpectedly sharp or hilarious, the writer communicates the small details of loneliness and connection, the search for freedom and the desire to belong, that not only capture the lives of her protagonists but also convey with an elegant economy of words the places and times in which they find themselves. This volume also includes the story "An Influx of Poets," which has never before appeared in book form. -- Adapted from page [4] of cover.
Author : Katherine Halligan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781788009058
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)
Download or read book National Trust: Sunday Funday: A Nature Activity for Every Weekend of the Year written by Katherine Halligan and published by . This book was released on 2021-10 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael Ian Black
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1442414030
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)
Download or read book I'm Bored written by Michael Ian Black and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-09-04 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a bored girl meets a potato who finds children tedious, she tries to prove him wrong by demonstrating all of the things they can do, from turning cartwheels to using their imaginations. Full color.
Author : Charlotte Margolis Goodman
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292759746
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)
Download or read book Jean Stafford written by Charlotte Margolis Goodman and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2013-11-04 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of America's best short story writers and author of three fine novels, Boston Adventure (1944), The Mountain Lion (1947), and The Catherine Wheel (1952), Jean Stafford has been rediscovered by another generation of readers and scholars. Although her novels and her Pulitzer Prize–winning short stories were widely read in the 1940s and 1950s, her fiction has received less critical attention than that of other distinguished contemporary American women writers such as Carson McCullers, Flannery O'Connor, and Eudora Welty. In this literary biography, Charlotte M. Goodman traces the life of the brilliant yet troubled Jean Stafford and reassesses her importance. Drawing on a wealth of original material, Goodman describes the vital connections between Stafford's life and her fiction. She discusses Stafford's difficult family relationships, her tempestuous first marriage to the poet Robert Lowell, her unresolved conflicts about gender roles, her alcoholism and bouts with depression—and her amazing ability to transform the chaotic details of her life into elegant works of fiction. These wonderfully crafted works offer insightful portraits of alienated and isolated characters, most of whom exemplify not only human estrangement in the modern world, but also the special difficulties of girls and women who refuse to play traditional roles. Goodman locates Jean Stafford within the literary world of the 1940s and 1950s. In her own right, and through her marriages to Robert Lowell, Life magazine editor Oliver Jensen, and journalist A. J. Liebling, Stafford associated with many of the major literary figures of her day, including the Southern Fugitives, the New York intellectual coterie, and writers for the New Yorker, to which she regularly contributed short stories. Goodman also describes Stafford's sustaining friendships with other women writers, such as Evelyn Scott and Caroline Gordon, and with her New Yorker editor, Katharine S. White. This highly readable biography will appeal to a wide audience interested in twentieth-century literature and the writing of women's lives.
Author : Christine Schneider
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780618657605
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)
Download or read book I'm Bored! written by Christine Schneider and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2006 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With no one to play with, Charlie is very bored one Sunday afternoon until he discovers that his toys feel the same way, and together they launch an attack against boredom.
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Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)
Download or read book Short Story Index written by and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James Mayhew
Publisher : Orchard (NY)
ISBN 13 : 9780439606783
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)
Download or read book Katie's Sunday Afternoon written by James Mayhew and published by Orchard (NY). This book was released on 2004 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a hot day, Katie and her grandmother visit the art museum, where Katie climbs into the paintings of pointillist artists Seurat, Pisarro, and Signac. Includes information about pointillism.
Author : Abby H. P. Werlock
Publisher : Infobase Learning
ISBN 13 : 1438140754
Total Pages : 3225 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)
Download or read book Encyclopedia of the American Short Story written by Abby H. P. Werlock and published by Infobase Learning. This book was released on 2015-04-22 with total page 3225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two-volume set that presents an introduction to American short fiction from the 19th century to the present.
