City Of Stories

Author : Beth Nugent
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307800679
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book City of Boys written by Beth Nugent and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-10-05 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in New York City, middle America, the beaches of Florida and rural highways, suburban kitchens, and cross-country trains, the ten stories of City of Boys evoke a haunting landscape at once familiar and strange. A small-town girl flees her domineering mother and falls into an obsessive love affair with an older woman in New York City. A sixteen-year-old envies her cousin's sex appeal while avoiding the attentions of her middle-aged uncle. A brother tries to protect his sister by convincing her never to leave their apartment, but his control is threatened when he takes a new job. And there is more, in this stunning debut by a masterful new voice in American literature.

Author : Jen Knox
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780996777940
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Glass City written by Jen Knox and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of Prize Americana, Jen Knox's The Glass City and Other Stories employs weather as a mirror for the internal struggles of an indelible cast of characters. This shrewd yet playful collection of fabulist short fiction explores the dangers of extremes with subtle, elegant prose.

Author : James Phillips
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1474245579
Total Pages : 99 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book City Stories written by James Phillips and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-04-13 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happens when someone tells you that you're the answer to the riddle of life? What happens when a stranger in Starbucks gives you something that will change your world forever? What happens if the world starts to fall asleep, hour by hour? City Stories is a new type of cabaret drama, a sequence of interwoven love stories, and a love-letter to London. Composed up of five discrete yet interwoven stories, each taking the form of a monologue or duologue, and performed with specifically composed songs, City Stories looks at a variety of experiences of love and loss via a range of people living in the UK's capital. Elegantly written and beautifully constructed, these pieces look at the varieties of love and how it might save us, showing James Phillips's writing at his very best. City Stories received its world premiere at St James's Theatre, London, in 2013 and has since gone on to establish a year-long residency at the theatre.

Author : Wallace Earle Stegner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The city of the living written by Wallace Earle Stegner and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 9781475950946
Total Pages : 86 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cigar City Stories written by and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2012-09-28 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1885, Vincent Martinez Ybor, a Spanish entrepreneur, purchased forty acres east of Tampa and built a company town of tall red-brick factories and small wood-frame houses for the workers. Over the next forty years, this community of cigar-makers from Cuba, Spain, and Italy grew into a thriving industry that made Tampa the Cigar Capital of the World. The urban renewal of the 1960s, however, struck a deathblow to Ybor City; thousands of cigar-makers homes and businesses were leveled by bulldozers, and an interstate highway stormed through the dying neighborhood. The narratives, reflecting a coming-of-age in this colorful community that no longer exists, speak of a kidnapping, a hold-up, a shark attack, a deadly duel, and a murder. A teenager comes to grips with his sexual identity, an activist mother resists Jim Crow laws, and an unexpected baby changes everyones life. In Cigar City Stories, author Emilio Gonzalez-Llanes presents a collection of short stories that provides a snapshot of this lost island in time. Julian stood on that raised platform in the middle of the factory floor, reading to the workers: Anna Karenina, War and Peace, Les Miserables, writings of Cervantes, newspapers, and the poems of Jos Marti. He didnt just read the words; he took on the voice and mannerisms of the characters in the novels, like an actor in the theater. Good performances were followed by the sustained thumping roar of two hundred chavetas, or tobacco knives, repeatedly striking the workers tobacco-cutting boards. from El Lector

Author : M.W. Joyce
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1480965448
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Secret Keepers and Weber City Stories written by M.W. Joyce and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Secret Keepers and Weber City Stories by M.W. Joyce Secret Keepers is the story of a young woman’s irrational quest for revenge as she searches for her biological parents. Through the softening influence of others she meets along the way, she becomes open to the gospel of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Readers will be intrigued as Alistar ventures into astronomy, Arabian horse raising, and western lifestyle, all while traveling a slippery path that eventually leads her to find romance and the recognition of Christ in her life. Weber City Stories recalls the rural lifestyle during the 1920s through the early 1940s of a prominent family in a small community. The unique events in their lives will no doubt strike a chord of nostalgia with readers interested in learning about the times and seasons of the past.

Author : Todd Cinani
Publisher : BLKDOG Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Arc City Stories: A Cyberpunk Anthology written by Todd Cinani and published by BLKDOG Publishing. This book was released on 2020-05-23 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to Arc City. A city that exists in a world beyond governments, where war and climate change have destroyed the old order. Corporations are now the authorities of the surviving city states. The elite live in luxury above the clouds in their towers, everyone else lives further down, based on their corporate and economic worth. Arc City Stories is an exciting, action-packed collection of nine cyberpunk tales, written by eight authors, of various citizens each trying to survive, in their own way, this brave new world.

Author : Donna M. Kshir
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1365706664
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tent City: Stories from the Heart written by Donna M. Kshir and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : О. Генри
Publisher : Litres
ISBN 13 : 5457960978
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Истории большого города / Big City Stories. Индуктивный метод чтения written by О. Генри and published by Litres. This book was released on 2022-04-29 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: В этом издании неадаптированные тексты блистательных рассказов американского юмориста смогут читать даже те, кто пока не очень хорошо знает английский. К каждой странице текста дается словарь самых нужных слов и краткие грамматические комментарии. С их помощью читатели легко уследят за сюжетом и сами не заметят, как освоят немало новых слов и устойчивых выражений, научатся увереннее употреблять грамматические конструкции и без проблем доберутся до финала.Книга предназначена для тех, кто изучает английский язык на продолжающем уровне и стремится к его совершенствованию.

Author : Hope W. Jackson
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1793601852
Total Pages : 163 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Stories of Building the Black Beach Community of Ocean City, North Carolina written by Hope W. Jackson and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-11-16 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Stories of Building the Black Beach Community of Ocean City, North Carolina shares a provocative story about a small Black beach community on North Topsail Island, North Carolina. Hope Jackson argues that stories like these not only offer a rich, untold perspective about Black lives, but also shares the depth of this Black community despite originating under the threat of violence in the segregated South. Brick by Brick acknowledges the defiance of a group of Black individuals who, collectively, provided a recreational oceanfront haven. These radical Black folks created a safe harbor for Blacks to visit, live, worship, and recreate in the midst of de facto segregation. The author reveals an embedded narrative which highlights the rebelliousness of Ocean City women’s strategic mothering. Jackson shares how the impact of this location extended beyond a vacation by creating Christian worship opportunities and an Episcopal summer youth camp for Black youth. The Ocean City stories remind readers that despite Jim Crow’s demise, the need for a safe, recreational space remains necessary for Black people in today’s society.