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Going For a Beer: Selected Short Fictions

2018-02-06 Fiction
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Release : 2018-02-06
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 476/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Going For a Beer: Selected Short Fictions by : Robert Coover

Download or read book Going For a Beer: Selected Short Fictions written by Robert Coover. This book was released on 2018-02-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A mixtape of variations and a fugue on time from a postmodern master.… Familiar tales and conventional genres are made new, tinged with shuddering wonder and titillating humor.” —Yu-Yun Hsieh, The New York Times Book Review Robert Coover has been playing by his own rules for more than half a century, earning the 1987 Rea Award for the Short Story as “a writer who has managed, willfully and even perversely, to remain his own man while offering his generous vision and versions of America.” Here, in this selection of his best stories, you will find an invisible man tragically obsessed by an invisible woman; a cartoon man in a cartoon car who runs over a real man who is arrested by a real policeman with cartoon eyes; a stick man who reinvents the universe. While invading the dreams and nightmares of others, Coover cuts to the core of how realism works.

Varieties of Exile

2003-11-30 Fiction
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Release : 2003-11-30
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 601/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Varieties of Exile by : Mavis Gallant

Download or read book Varieties of Exile written by Mavis Gallant. This book was released on 2003-11-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mavis Gallant is the modern master of what Henry James called the international story, the fine-grained evocation of the quandaries of people who must make their way in the world without any place to call their own. The irreducible complexity of the very idea of home is especially at issue in the stories Gallant has written about Montreal, where she was born, although she has lived in Paris for more than half a century. Varieties of Exile, Russell Banks's extensive new selection from Gallant's work, demonstrates anew the remarkable reach of this writer's singular art. Among its contents are three previously uncollected stories, as well as the celebrated semi-autobiographical sequence about Linnet Muir—stories that are wise, funny, and full of insight into the perils and promise of growing up and breaking loose.

The Origin of the Brunists

2000 Fiction
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Release : 2000
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 432/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis The Origin of the Brunists by : Robert Coover

Download or read book The Origin of the Brunists written by Robert Coover. This book was released on 2000. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1969, Robert Coover's first novel instantly established his mastery. A coal-mine explosion in a small mid-American town claims ninety-seven lives. The only survivor, a peculiar man subject to religious visions, is adopted as a prophet and quickly gains a following. Rapidly disseminated through the magic of media exposure, the cult spreads across America, and as its members gather on the Mount of Redemption to await the apocalypse, Robert Coover lays bare the madness of religious frenzy and the sometimes greater madness of normal citizens. The Origin of the Brunists is vintage Coover -- comic, fearless, incisive, and brilliantly executed.

The Cat in the Hat for President

2018-04 Fiction
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Release : 2018-04
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 717/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis The Cat in the Hat for President by : Robert Coover

Download or read book The Cat in the Hat for President written by Robert Coover. This book was released on 2018-04. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifty years after the original release of Coover's satire, this rollicking fable of the grotesque, unhinged Cat in the Hat (and the stuffed shirts who bet on his success) makes for a bitterly funny indictment of politics-as-usual in 2017.

Stories of Your Life and Others

2010-10-26 Fiction
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Release : 2010-10-26
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Book Rating : 895/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Stories of Your Life and Others by : Ted Chiang

Download or read book Stories of Your Life and Others written by Ted Chiang. This book was released on 2010-10-26. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of Exhalation, an award-winning short story collection that blends "absorbing storytelling with meditations on the universe, being, time and space ... raises questions about the nature of reality and what it is to be human" (The New York Times). Stories of Your Life and Others delivers dual delights of the very, very strange and the heartbreakingly familiar, often presenting characters who must confront sudden change—the inevitable rise of automatons or the appearance of aliens—with some sense of normalcy. With sharp intelligence and humor, Chiang examines what it means to be alive in a world marked by uncertainty, but also by beauty and wonder. An award-winning collection from one of today's most lauded writers, Stories of Your Life and Others is a contemporary classic. Includes “Story of Your Life”—the basis for the major motion picture Arrival

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