Stink Eye And Other Stories

Author : Tom Smario
Publisher : Palmetto Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stink-Eye And Other Stories written by Tom Smario and published by Palmetto Publishing. This book was released on 2023-08-29 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Step into the wild world of Tom Smario in this unforgettable short story collection that will make you laugh, cry, feel anger or delight, and more. In this impactful collection of nineteen short stories, you'll encounter everyday people living through extraordinary experiences. Centered around the blue-collar workers who keep the engine of society well-oiled, each tale is grounded in lifelike realism. Designed to evoke distinct and powerful reactions, these stories will make readers laugh out loud, feel a deep sense of melancholy, or boil with anger at injustice. You'll encounter lovable characters that you'll cheer on toward their dreams, and others that cause you to shake your head in disbelief-each of them well-crafted and fully developed. Writing in a strong prose, Smario strives to defy the robotic drone that many realistic fiction collections take, instead opting for strong voice and colorful vocabulary. Regardless of each story's tone, every tale in this collection is easy to read, entertaining, and full of vibrant, creative use of the written word. What's more, they'll leave you thinking about the world in entirely new ways, thanks to the novel-but deeply human-events and experiences Smario uncovers. Stink-Eye And Other Stories is available for purchase now.

Author : Joyce Carol Oates
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN 13 : 0802194028
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Evil Eye written by Joyce Carol Oates and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2013-09-03 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A quartet of shrewd and unnerving novellas about toxic entanglements” from the National Book Award–winning author (Booklist). Joyce Carol Oates is one of the most prominent writers of her generation, and she is fearless when exploring the most disturbing corners of human nature. In Evil Eye, Oates offers four chilling tales about love so powerful that people might die—or kill—for it. In the title story, we meet Mariana, the young fourth wife of a prominent intellectual. When her husband’s first wife comes to visit, Mariana learns a terrible secret that threatens her marriage and sanity. In “So Near Any Times Always,” shy teenager Lizbeth meets Desmond, a charming older boy who offers the first spark of romance. Yet as their relationship blossoms, Lizbeth realizes that a menacing soul lies beneath Desmond’s perfect façade. In “The Execution,” spoiled college student Bart Hansen has planned the perfect crime to get back at his condescending parents. What he didn’t plan on was the resilience of his mother’s love, even in the face of death. And in “The Flatbed,” childhood trauma has prevented Cecelia from enjoying physical intimacy with a man. But when she meets the love of her life, Cecelia must confront the demon who stole her innocence long ago. With the razor-sharp prose that has made Joyce Carol Oates a living legend, Evil Eye shows love as sporadically magical, mysterious, and murderous. “A dazzling, disturbing, tour de force of Gothic suspense: four odd, compelling, ingeniously narrated tales that gain in power and resonance when read in conjunction with each other.” —The Boston Globe “Exquisitely suspenseful. . . . The relationships between the damaged, sometimes monstrous individuals who people these pages will keep the reader riveted.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review

Author : Natacha Stewart
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Evil Eye and Other Stories written by Natacha Stewart and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : H. Alan Tansson
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 144016066X
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Devil's Laugh and Other Stories written by H. Alan Tansson and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2009-11 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Devil's Laugh and Other Stories is a book of folktales to help you check out your philosophy of life. We all know you don't believe in ol Scratch, and you thought you knew what a sphincter was. You've never heard of the Quarry of Suffering, and can't imagine what it's like to have the evil eye yourself. Therefore, save this book for emergencies like the day you need to remember what it was like to discover the joy of reading. H. Alan Tansson has also written Captions to the Cartoons We Live: Vol. I We Think We Think (2010), and Vol. 2 Antidisestablishmentarianistically Speaking (2010). He earns his keep with a variety of jobs in corporate America and is occasionally retired.

Author : Gustaw Herling-Grudziński
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780811215299
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Noonday Cemetery and Other Stories written by Gustaw Herling-Grudziński and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selected by The Los Angeles Times Book Review as one of the Ten Best Fiction Books of 2003.

Author : Phillips, Jolyn
Publisher : Modjaji Books
ISBN 13 : 1928215173
Total Pages : 90 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tjieng Tjang Tjerries and other stories written by Phillips, Jolyn and published by Modjaji Books. This book was released on 2016-04-30 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A strikingly written debut collection of vivid short stories set in and around Gansbaai, a small coastal town in South Africa's Western Cape.

Author : John H. Elliott
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1498230725
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beware the Evil Eye Volume 4 written by John H. Elliott and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2017-04-25 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first full-scale study of the Evil Eye in the Bible and the biblical communities has traced in four volumes evidence of Evil Eye belief and practice in the ancient world from Mesopotamia (c. 3000 BCE) to Late Roman Antiquity (c. 600 CE). The fourth and final volume considers the literary and material evidence of the unabated thriving of Evil Eye belief and practice in Israel following the destruction of the Jerusalem temple in 70 CE (chapter 1) and in early Christianity (chapter 2) through Late Antiquity (500-600 CE), with a brief reference to Evil Eye lore in early Islam. Numerous cross-references relate the subject matter of this volume to that of the previous three. A concluding Epilogue (chapter 3) offers some final thoughts on this survey of Evil Eye belief and practice in antiquity and their role in conceptualizing and combatting the pernicious forces of evil in daily life. Beside presenting the first full-scale monograph on the Evil Eye in the Bible and the biblical communities (volumes 3 and 4), the volumes summarize a century of research since the milestone two-volume study of Siegfried Seligmann, Der bose Blick und Verwandtes (1910), and they describe the ecological, historical, social, and cultural contexts within which the biblical texts are best understood. Throughout the study, the Evil Eye in antiquity is treated not as an instance of vulgar superstition or deluded magic, but as a physiological, psychological, and moral phenomenon whose operation was deemed explicable on rational grounds.

Author : John H. Elliott
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1532638515
Total Pages : 1222 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beware the Evil Eye, 4-Volume Set written by John H. Elliott and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2017-09-20 with total page 1222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus of Nazareth makes reference to one of the oldest beliefs in the ancient world—the malignity of an Evil Eye. The Holy Scriptures in their original languages contain no less than twenty-four references to the Evil Eye, although this is obscured by most modern Bible translations. John H. Elliott’s Beware the Evil Eye describes this belief and associated practices, its history, its voluminous appearances in ancient cultures, and the extensive research devoted to it over the centuries in order to unravel this enigma for readers who have never heard of the Evil Eye and its presence in the Bible. The four volumes cover the ancient world from Sumer to the Middle Ages.

Author : John H Elliott
Publisher : James Clarke & Company
ISBN 13 : 0227905261
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beware the Evil Eye written by John H Elliott and published by James Clarke & Company. This book was released on 2016-04-28 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus of Nazareth makes reference to one of the oldest beliefs in the ancient world - the malignity of an Evil Eye. The Holy Scriptures in their original languages contain no less than twenty-four references to the Evil Eye, although this is obscured by most modern Bible translations. John H. Elliott's Beware the Evil Eye describes this belief and associated practices, its history, its voluminous appearances in ancient cultures, and the extensive research devoted to it over the centuries in order to unravel this enigma for readers who have never heard of the Evil Eye and its presence in the Bible. This is the first of a four-volume work on the Evil Eye.

Author : Grant Allen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Beckoning Hand and Other Stories written by Grant Allen and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: