The Blue Lantern And Other Stories

Author : Victor Pelevin
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780811214346
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Blue Lantern and Other Stories written by Victor Pelevin and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1997 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comic stories by a Russian writer. In Hermit and Six Toes, chickens debate the nature of the world, which is ruled by bloodthirsty gods in white coats, while in Mid-Game, young Communist activists change sex to become hard-currency prostitutes.

Author : Viktor Pelevin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780571200184
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Blue Lantern written by Viktor Pelevin and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The short stories of Victor Pelevin are as individual, reality-warping and endlessly inventive as his novels, moving effortlessly between different genres and moods, bursting with absurd wit and existential satire. In The Blue Lantern he brings together sex-change prostitutes, melancholy animals and a cabinful of young boys obsessed by death. Sidestepping the world we take for granted, these stories show in miniature the fantastical talent for which the Observer acclaimed Pelevin's work as 'the real thing, fiction of world class'.

Author : Victor Pelevin
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780811215435
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Werewolf Problem in Central Russia and Other Stories written by Victor Pelevin and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Satirical stories by a Russian writer. The story, Vera Pavlovna's Ninth Dream, is on the transition from communism to capitalism as experienced by the cleaner of a public toilet, Bulldozer Driver's Day is on a hydrogen bomb assembly line, while The Ontology of Childhood compares childhood to prison. By the author of The Blue Lantern.

Author : Viktor Pelevin
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780811214919
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 4 by Pelevin written by Viktor Pelevin and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2001 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The literary voice of the post-Soviet generation." --The New York Times

Author : Viktor Pelevin
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780811213646
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Omon Ra written by Viktor Pelevin and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1998 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A satire about the Soviet space program finds Omon, who has dreamed of space flight all of his life, enrolled as a cosmonaut only to learn that his task will be piloting a supposedly unmanned lunar vehicle to the Moon and remaining there to die.

Author : Stuart Dybek
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 0374710546
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Paper Lantern written by Stuart Dybek and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2014-06-03 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new collection of short stories by a master of the form with a common focus on the turmoils of romantic love Ready! Aim! On command the firing squad aims at the man backed against a full-length mirror. The mirror once hung in a bedroom, but now it's cracked and propped against a dumpster in an alley. The condemned man has refused the customary last cigarette but accepted as a hood the black slip that was carelessly tossed over a corner of the mirror's frame. The slip still smells faintly of a familiar fragrance. So begins "Tosca," the first in this vivid collection of Stuart Dybek's love stories. Operatically dramatic and intimately lyrical, grittily urban and impressionistically natural, the varied fictions in Paper Lantern all focus on the turmoil of love as only Dybek can portray it. An execution triggers the recollection of a theatrical romance; then a social worker falls for his own client; and lovers part as giddily, perhaps as hopelessly, as a kid trying to hang on to a boisterous kite. A flaming laboratory evokes a steamy midnight drive across terrain both familiar and strange, and an eerily ringing phone becomes the telltale signature of a dark betrayal. Each story is marked with contagious desire, spontaneous revelation, and, ultimately, resigned courage. As one woman whispers when she sets a notebook filled with her sketches drifting out to sea, "Someone will find you." Some of Dybek's characters recur in these stories, while others appear only briefly. Throughout, they—and we—are confronted with vaguely familiar scents and images, reminiscent of love but strangely disconcerting, so that we might wonder whether we are looking in a mirror or down the barrel of a gun. "After the ragged discharge," Dybek writes, "when the smoke has cleared, who will be left standing and who will be shattered into shards?" Paper Lantern brims with the intoxicating elixirs known to every love-struck, lovelorn heart, and it marks the magnificent return of one of America's most important fiction writers at the height of his powers.

Author : Victor Pelevin
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101655844
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Buddha's Little Finger written by Victor Pelevin and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2001-12-01 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Russian novelist Victor Pelevin is rapidly establishing himself as one of the most brilliant young writers at work today. His comic inventiveness and mind-bending talent prompted Time magazine to proclaim him a "psychedelic Nabokov for the cyber-age." In his third novel, Buddha's Little Finger, Pelevin has created an intellectually dazzling tale about identity and Russian history, as well as a spectacular elaboration of Buddhist philosophy. Moving between events of the Russian Civil War of 1919 and the thoughts of a man incarcerated in a contemporary Moscow psychiatric hospital, Buddha's Little Finger is a work of demonic absurdism by a writer who continues to delight and astonish.

Author : Victor Pelevin
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101175265
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Homo Zapiens written by Victor Pelevin and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2002-12-31 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The collapse of the Soviet Union has opened up a huge consumer market, but how do you sell things to a generation that grew up with just one type of cola? When Tatarsky, a frustrated poet, takes a job as an advertising copywriter, he finds he has a talent for putting distinctively Russian twists on Western-style ads. But his success leads him into a surreal world of spin doctors, gangsters, drug trips, and the spirit of Che Guevera, who, by way of a Ouija board, communicates theories of consumer theology. A bestseller in Russia, Homo Zapiens displays the biting absurdist satire that has gained Victor Pelevin superstar status among today's Russian youth, disapproval from the conservative Moscow literary world, and critical acclaim worldwide.

Author : Michael D. Beil
Publisher : Knopf Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 0385753195
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lantern Sam and the Blue Streak Bandits written by Michael D. Beil and published by Knopf Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2014-04-08 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “An atmospheric late-1930s adventure with old-time cinematic appeal. Fans of fast-paced, far-fetched action will lap it up as enthusiastically as Sam swallows his favorite brand of sardines.” —Kirkus Reviews Lantern Sam is the wise-cracking, sarcastic, talking cat (for those who can hear him, that is) who lives on board the Lake Erie Shoreliner train and is one of the best detectives no one knows about. He doesn’t have much patience for humans (unless they bring him sardines), but when 10-year-old traveler Henry can’t find his new friend, the exuberant Ellie, Sam’s enlisted to help. A ransom note is soon discovered and just like that, Sam and Henry are on the case, with the help of Clarence the Conductor (who supplies Sam’s sardines). But is Ellie still on board the train? Did the salesman with his trunk full of samples sneak her off? And why does that couple keep acting so suspiciously? Veteran middle-grade mystery author Michael D. Beil has crafted a hilarious and appealing adventure set in the 1930s that’s chock-full of quirky characters and red herrings, and all with an irresistible cat at its center.

Author : L. M. Montgomery
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jane of Lantern Hill written by L. M. Montgomery and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Jane of Lantern Hill" by L. M. Montgomery. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.