Never Love A Gambler New Directions Pearls

Author : Keith Ridgway
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0811222942
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Never Love a Gambler (New Directions Pearls) written by Keith Ridgway and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2014-05-27 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 'Never Love a Gambler,' the Irish writer Keith Ridgway flips conventional narrative with unconventional drama. His charcters negotiate their way through love and lust, religious obsession and ghost sightings, crimes and disappearance in stories told with innovative mastery and brightened by fiercely vivid dialogue. Here, Ridgway showcases his brilliance as a bracing and violently funny storyteller.

Author : Keith Ridgway
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780811221108
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Never Love a Gambler written by Keith Ridgway and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2014 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Never Love a Gambler is a showcase for the exceptional talents of Keith Ridgway. The Times (London) praised his stories as "flawlessly structured yarns told in lovingly crafted prose." Ridgway's characters negotiate their way through love, madness, lust, anger, religious obsession, crime, and absence in stories told with innovative mastery -- brightened by fiercely vivid dialogues. Never Love a Gambler is a mental rust-remover: refreshing, bracing, and often violently funny.

Author : Enrique Vila-Matas
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0811225704
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Because She Never Asked (New Directions Pearls) written by Enrique Vila-Matas and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2015-11-09 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A novella—half joke and half nightmare— by "Spain's most significant contemporary literary figure" (The New Yorker) Because She Never Asked is a story reminiscent of that reached by the travelers in Patricia Highsmith's Stranger on a Train. The author first writes a piece for the artist Sophie Calle to live out: a young, aspiring, French artist travels to Lisbon and the Azores in pursuit of an older artist whose work she’s in love with. The second part of the story tells what happens between the author and Calle. She eludes, him; he becomes blocked, and suffers physical collapse. “Something strange happened along the way,” Vila-Matas wrote. “Normally, writers try to pass a work of fiction off as being real. But in Because She Never Asked, the opposite occurred: in order to give meaning to the story of my life, I found that I needed to present it as fiction.”

Author : Keith Ridgway
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0811230864
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Shock written by Keith Ridgway and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2021-07-05 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ever since Keith Ridgway published his landmark cult novel Hawthorn & Child, his ardent fans have yearned for more Finally, Ridgway gives us A Shock, his thrilling and unsparing, slippery and shockingly good new novel. Formed as a rondel of interlocking stories with a clutch of more or less loosely connected repeating characters, it’s at once deracinated yet potent with place, druggy yet frighteningly shot through with reality. His people appear, disappear, and reappear. They’re on the fringes of London, clinging to sanity or solvency or a story by their fingernails, consumed by emotions and anxieties in fuzzily understood situations. A deft, high-wire act, full of imprecise yet sharp dialog as well as witchy sleights of hand reminiscent of Muriel Spark, A Shock delivers a knockout punch of an ending. Perhaps Ridgway’s most breathtaking quality is his scintillating stealthiness: you can never quite put your finger on how he casts his spell—he delivers the shock of a master jewel thief (already far-off and scot-free) stealing your watch: when at some point you look down at your wrist, all you see is that in more than one way you don’t know what time it is…

Author : Tommaso Landolfi
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780811200806
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gogol's Wife & Other Stories written by Tommaso Landolfi and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1963 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much admired in Europe, Landolfi has been called "the Italian Kafka"; he is often linked with the Surrealists, and in the intellectual quality of his fantasy there are certain affinities with Borges; but beyond these superficial comparisons, his is a truly unique--and fascinating--art. It is based in a prodigious imagination, a very curious sense of humor and a rare command of irony.

Author : Leonid Tsypkin
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780811215480
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Summer in Baden-Baden written by Leonid Tsypkin and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The narrator recounts his journey to Leningrad as the story of the 1867 travels of Fyodor Dostoyevsky and his new wife, Anna Grigoryevna, also unfolds.

Author : Keith Ridgway
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0811221679
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hawthorn & Child written by Keith Ridgway and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2013-09-23 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A mind-blowing adventure into a literary fourth dimension: part noir, part London snapshot, all unsettlingly amazing Hawthorn and his partner, Child, are called to the scene of a mysterious shooting in North London. The only witness is unreliable, the clues are scarce, and the victim, a young man who lives nearby, swears he was shot by a ghost car. While Hawthorn battles with fatigue and strange dreams, the crime and the narrative slip from his grasp and the stories of other Londoners take over: a young pickpocket on the run from his boss; an editor in possession of a disturbing manuscript; a teenage girl who spends her days at the Tate Modern; a pack of wolves; and a madman who has been infected by the former Prime Minister Tony Blair. Haunting these disparate lives is the shadowy figure of Mishazzo, an elusive crime magnate who may be running the city, or may not exist at all.

Author : Thomas Merton
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780811205863
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.6X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book My Argument with the Gestapo written by Thomas Merton and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1975 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of the full-length prose works that Thomas Merton wrote before he entered the Cistercian Order in 1941, only My Argument with the Gestapo has survived--perhaps in part because it was a book that Merton never ceased wanting to see in print.

Author : Yoon Ha Lee
Publisher : Disney Electronic Content
ISBN 13 : 1368015190
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dragon Pearl written by Yoon Ha Lee and published by Disney Electronic Content. This book was released on 2019-01-15 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rick Riordan Presents Yoon Ha Lee's space opera about thirteen-year-old Min, who comes from a long line of fox spirits. But you'd never know it by looking at her. To keep the family safe, Min's mother insists that none of them use any fox-magic, such as Charm or shape-shifting. They must appear human at all times. Min feels hemmed in by the household rules and resents the endless chores, the cousins who crowd her, and the aunties who judge her. She would like nothing more than to escape Jinju, her neglected, dust-ridden, and impoverished planet. She's counting the days until she can follow her older brother, Jun, into the Space Forces and see more of the Thousand Worlds. When word arrives that Jun is suspected of leaving his post to go in search of the Dragon Pearl, Min knows that something is wrong. Jun would never desert his battle cruiser, even for a mystical object rumored to have tremendous power. She decides to run away to find him and clear his name. Min's quest will have her meeting gamblers, pirates, and vengeful ghosts. It will involve deception, lies, and sabotage. She will be forced to use more fox-magic than ever before, and to rely on all of her cleverness and bravery. The outcome may not be what she had hoped, but it has the potential to exceed her wildest dreams. This sci-fi adventure with the underpinnings of Korean mythology will transport you to a world far beyond your imagination.

Author : NOFX
Publisher : Da Capo Press
ISBN 13 : 0306824787
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book NOFX written by NOFX and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2016-04-12 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The candid, hilarious, shocking, occasionally horrifying, and surprisingly moving New York Times bestselling autobiography of punk legends NOFX, their own story in their own words NOFX: The Hepatitis Bathtub and Other Stories is the first tell-all autobiography from one of the world's most influential and controversial punk bands. Alongside hilarious anecdotes about pranks and drunkenness and teenage failures-featuring the trademark NOFX sense of humor-the book also shares the ugliness and horror the band members experienced on the road to becoming DIY millionaires. Fans and non-fans alike will be shocked by stories of murder, suicide, addiction, counterfeiting, riots, bondage, terminal illness, the Yakuza, and pee...lots and lots of pee. Told by each of the band members (and two former members), NOFX looks back at more than thirty years of comedy, tragedy, and completely inexplicable success.