Closure And Other Stories

Author : Dorothy Whipple
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781903155646
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Closed Doors and Other Stories written by Dorothy Whipple and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dorothy Whipple's key theme is `Live and Let Live'. And what she describes throughout her short stories are people, and particularly parents, who defy this maxim. For this reason her work is timeless, like all great writing. It is irrelevant that Dorothy Whipple's novels were set in an era when middle-class women expected to have a maid; when fish knives were used for eating fish; when children did what they were told. The moral universe she creates has not changed: there are bullies in every part of society; people try their best but often fail; they would like to be unselfish but sometimes are greedy. Like George Eliot, like Mrs Gaskell, like EM Forster, Dorothy Whipple describes men and women in their social milieu, which in her case is the inter-war period, and shows them being all- too human. But her books are not nostalgia reads either, any more than reading George Eliot or Forster is a nostalgia read, nor are they old-fashioned or simplistic. Her prose, it is true, is pure, uncluttered, straightforward, pared down to the bone and never labours the point; her subtlety is the reason why so many people - generally those who have not read her - overlook her excellence.

Author : Jack Ketchum
Publisher : Amazon Difital Services LLC - Kdp Print Us
ISBN 13 : 9781937530723
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Closing Time and Other Stories written by Jack Ketchum and published by Amazon Difital Services LLC - Kdp Print Us. This book was released on 2014-03 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of bleak short stories of loss and pain"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Bill Dantini
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1728364280
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Closure and Other Stories written by Bill Dantini and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2020-06-21 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Married at nineteen, she was a war widow at twenty. Now 85 years old, Meara Sullivan is determined to reconnect with her husband who died during World War II on D-Day. They knew each other as husband and wife for only five days when Private 1st Class Paul Hughes shipped off for Europe, never to return. CLOSURE, the anchor story of this 7-story anthology, recounts Meara’s unlikely trail of discovery. Told in a series of flashbacks, CLOSURE captures life on the home front for Meara and Paul in 1940s Boston and offers a gripping account of the young soldier’s part in the greatest amphibious invasion in military history. Dan Celeste is both narrator and participant in each of the anthology’s seven tales. His personal story interlaces historical events, intriguing characters, and coming-of-age lessons. CLOSURE and Other Stories spans seven decades, beginning in 1943 and ending in 2011 when Meara completes her quest for renewal.

Author : Mark Kostabi
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sadness Because the Video Rental Store was Closed & Other Stories written by Mark Kostabi and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Barbara Wyatt Olson
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1504926390
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On the Rez and Other Stories written by Barbara Wyatt Olson and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2015-08-21 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifteen stories of quiet longing and desire, of second chances, and no chance at all. In On the Rez, when youre broken down and abandoned in Indian territory, on the dusty back roads of Kansas, there are certain to be monsters and fiends. In Ask for Anything, a family escaped into the Blue Ridge Mountains learns you do not always get what you think you want. In Florida Blues, a former lover on a prison visit must face regret, heartache, and frustration. While in California Quarter, a lady friend has not agreed to starving on the trip home.

Author : Hilary Lawson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134982631
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Closure written by Hilary Lawson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-07-05 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lawson's radical new study about the nature of ourselves and the world challenges the dominant faith of today - science. Drawing on practical examples of closure, it exposes the central questions of contemporary philosophy.

Author : Hilary Lawson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134982623
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Closure written by Hilary Lawson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-07-05 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For over 2000 years our culture has believed in the possibility of a single true account of the world. Now this age is coming to a close. As a result there is a deep unease. We are lost both as individuals, and as a culture. In the new relativistic, post-modern era, we have no history, no right or moral action, and no body of knowledge. In their place is a plethora of alternative, and sometimes incompatible theories from 'fuzzy logic' to 'consilience' proposing a theory of everything. Closure is a response to this crisis. It is a radically new story about the nature of ourselves and of the world. Closure exposes the central questions of contemporary philosophy: language and meaning, of the individual and identity, of truth and reality, but it is also philosophical in the broader everyday sense that it enables us to make sense of where and who we are. A central principle, the process of closure, is shown to be at the heart of experience and language. As a theory of knowledge it has dramatic consequences for our understanding of the sciences, involving a reinterpretation of what science does and how it is able to do it. It similarly proposes a profound shift in the role of art and religion. But, above all, it reshapes our understanding of ourselves and the organisation of society, our goals and our capacity to achieve them. A superb new account of how order is created out of disorder, Closure is an exhilarating work of conceptual geography.

Author : Ralph Henry Barbour
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3387053665
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The New Boy at Hilltop; And Other Stories written by Ralph Henry Barbour and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-09-16 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.

Author : Bill Dantini
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781728364278
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Closure and Other Stories written by Bill Dantini and published by . This book was released on 2020-06-21 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Married at nineteen, she was a war widow at twenty. Now 85 years old, Meara Sullivan is determined to reconnect with her husband who died during World War II on D-Day. They knew each other as husband and wife for only five days when Private 1st Class Paul Hughes shipped off for Europe, never to return. CLOSURE, the anchor story of this 7-story anthology, recounts Meara's unlikely trail of discovery. Told in a series of flashbacks, CLOSURE captures life on the home front for Meara and Paul in 1940s Boston and offers a gripping account of the young soldier's part in the greatest amphibious invasion in military history. Dan Celeste is both narrator and participant in each of the anthology's seven tales. His personal story interlaces historical events, intriguing characters, and coming-of-age lessons. CLOSURE and Other Stories spans seven decades, beginning in 1943 and ending in 2011 when Meara completes her quest for renewal.

Author : Henry McGilbert Wagstaff
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469650800
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wiley Buck and Other Stories of the Concord Community written by Henry McGilbert Wagstaff and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2018-11-15 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gifted teller of tales sketches a lively picture of his boyhood in the old tobacco section of Person County, North Carolina, just south of the Virginia line. All the white grown-ups of the boy's childhood were former slaveholders and former soldiers who had come through the Civil War and had met the need for readjustment. Originally published in 1953. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.