Small Crimes In An Age Of Abundance

Author : Matthew Kneale
Publisher : Anchor Canada
ISBN 13 : 0385672845
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Small Crimes in an Age of Abundance written by Matthew Kneale and published by Anchor Canada. This book was released on 2010-08-20 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of the award-winning novel English Passengers takes readers around the world in twelve deftly crafted stories that illuminate the uncertainties of life at home and abroad. Matthew Kneale received high praise for the prize-winning English Passengers, an epic romp on the high seas and across nineteenth-century cultures, ingeniously woven together by a multitude of narrators. In Small Crimes In An Age of Abundance, Kneale brings his mastery of storytelling to our present morally ambiguous world. Set in lands ranging from England to China, South America, the Middle East, and Africa, these powerfully themed stories follow ordinary people as they try to survive and make sense of their worlds. We follow a well-intentioned English family who leave their tour group in China to travel alone, and collide with the ruthless side of the country, slowly becoming complicit in its violence; a ploddingly respectable London lawyer who chances upon a stash of cocaine and realizes it offers the wealth and status he hungers for; a salesman in Africa who becomes caught up in a riot that turns his life upside down; a self-doubting suicide bomber. Kneale transports readers across continents in a nanosecond, reaching to the heart of faraway societies with rare perceptiveness. As the stories gain momentum — tense, funny, and always compassionate — they make readers see the world in a new way. At times reminiscent of Julian Barnes’s A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters, at times Primo Levi’s The Periodic Table, Small Crimes In An Age of Abundance is a groundbreaking book, by a master narrator of the uncertainties of our time.

Author : Dave Zeltserman
Publisher : Serpent's Tail
ISBN 13 : 1847656242
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Small Crimes written by Dave Zeltserman and published by Serpent's Tail. This book was released on 2014-07-03 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chosen by NPR and the Washington Post as one of the best crime & mystery novels of 2008, Small Crimes is now a major film starring Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (Game of Thrones' Jaime Lannister) Bent copper Joe Denton gets out of prison suspiciously early after disfiguring the district attorney. Nobody wants Joe to hang around, not his ex-wife, his parents or his former colleagues - if he had any decency he'd get out of town and start over. Unfortunately, Joe has precious little decency - and a whole lot of unfinished business to attend to. A tale of redemption and revenge as dark and violent as it's bitterly comic, Small Crimes is the UK debut of hard-boiled hotshot Dave Zeltserman.

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Total Pages : 692 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Literary Review written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Melvil Dewey
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Total Pages : 904 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Library Journal written by Melvil Dewey and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 904 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes, beginning Sept. 15, 1954 (and on the 15th of each month, Sept.-May) a special section: School library journal, ISSN 0000-0035, (called Junior libraries, 1954-May 1961). Also issued separately.

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Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Total Pages : 908 pages
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Total Pages : 1844 pages
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Download or read book The Book Review Digest written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 1844 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Matthew Kneale
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Powder written by Matthew Kneale and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2006 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In June, 2006, Picador launch Picador Shots, a new series of pocket-sized books priced at £1. The Shots aim to promote the short story as well as the work of some Picador's greatest authors. They will be contemporarily packaged but ultimately disposable books that are the ideal literary alternative to a magazine. Matthew Kneale's 'Powder' is to be one of the first Picador Shots. One of the stories from his recent collection, Small Crimes In An Age of Abundance, 'Powder' is an effecting, darkly funny story about Peter, a middle of the road, solicitor, who lives in a suburban street in London. His kids are leaving home and he is finding it hard to keep up with the neighbours and his colleagues at work, until, one day on his local common he discovers a large bag with a mobile phone and hundreds of plastic bags full of cocaine inside. What Peter decides to do with this bag, a decision he makes in a split second, will change his life for ever. In 'Powder' Matthew Kneale has vividly captured the life on an ordinary person as he struggles to survive and do the ‘right thing’, and, in the end, managing neither.

Author : Colm Tóibín
Publisher : Picador Australia
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Use of Reason written by Colm Tóibín and published by Picador Australia. This book was released on 2006 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A small time criminal finds himself in too deep by stealing not just cash or jewellery, but four valuable paintings. How do you quickly get rid of a Rembrandt, Gainborough and two Guardis without getting caught, particularly in the climate of 1980's Dublin where you are being watched at all times? Can he trust his friends, or his partners?

Author : Matthew Kneale
Publisher : Picador USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book When We Were Romans written by Matthew Kneale and published by Picador USA. This book was released on 2007 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nine-year-old Lawrence is the man in his family. He watches protectively over his mother and his wilful little sister Jemima. He is the one who keeps things in order, especially when, quite suddenly, his mother decides the three of them must leave their life in England behind. Their destination is Rome, where she lived when she was young, and as they drive through the night in a car filled to bursting, the excitement takes them back to those happier days. For Lawrence, fascinated by stories of popes and emperors, Rome is an adventure. Though short of money, and passed from one to another of his mother's old friends, it seems that little by little their new life is beginning to take shape. But the mystery that brought them to Italy will not quite leave them in peace. When We Were Romans is a haunting psychological novel, another masterful work from the author of the prize-winning English Passengers . Powerfully evoking the feelings of childhood -- the triumphs, the jealousies, the fears, the possessions, the love -- it is most of all the story of Lawrence, of how, with a wisdom well in advance of his years, he strives to keep his family together, as everything he understands is turned upside down.