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Author : Joan Silber
Release : 2005-06-17
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 87X/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Ideas of Heaven: A Ring of Stories by : Joan Silber
Download or read book Ideas of Heaven: A Ring of Stories written by Joan Silber. This book was released on 2005-06-17. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of linked short stories, ranging in setting from modern-day America and France to Renaissance Italy and Boxer Rebellion China.-- back cover
Author : Joan Silber
Release : 2005-05-17
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 727/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Ideas of Heaven: A Ring of Stories by : Joan Silber
Download or read book Ideas of Heaven: A Ring of Stories written by Joan Silber. This book was released on 2005-05-17. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shortlisted for the National Book Award: "Joan Silber writes with wisdom, humor, grace, and wry intelligence. Her characters bear welcome news of how we will survive."—Andrea Barrett Intense in subject yet restrained in tone, these stories are about longings—often held for years—and the ways in which sex and religion can become parallel forms of dedication and comfort. Though the stories stand alone, a minor element in one becomes major in the next. In "My Shape", a woman is taunted by her dance coach, who later suffers his own heartache. A Venetian poet of the 1500s, another storyteller, is introduced to a modern traveler reading Rilke. His story precedes a mesmerizing narrative of missionaries in China. In the final story, Giles, born to a priesthood family, leans toward Buddhism after a grievous loss, and in time falls in love with the dancer of the first story. So deft and subtle is Joan Silber with these various perspectives that we come full circle surprised and enchanted by her myriad worlds. National Book Award finalist. Reading group guide included.
Author : Rick Moody
Release : 2015-11-10
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 698/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Ring of Brightest Angels Around Heaven by : Rick Moody
Download or read book The Ring of Brightest Angels Around Heaven written by Rick Moody. This book was released on 2015-11-10. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A spirited collection of stories revealing the extremes of the human experience from the author of The Ice Storm In his first story collection, Rick Moody provides readers with a poignant, brazenly honest glimpse into the lives of a wide array of characters, from a paranoid husband obsessively listening in on his wife’s phone calls to the junkies and sex addicts of New York City’s underworld. Whether they’re grasping for connection or struggling to survive in a dismal and indifferent environment, these individuals’ haunting voices and the evocative worlds they inhabit make for a diverse and powerful volume. Experimenting with form—one story is told as a term paper, another as an annotated bibliography—Moody demonstrates the vast range of his fascinations and talents, as well as his arresting command of language. Candid depictions of contemporary society and the inner-workings of distinctive characters’ minds bring these inquisitive, heartrending, and at times undeniably funny accounts to life. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Rick Moody including rare images from the author’s personal collection.
Author : Joan Silber
Release : 2008
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 090/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Size of the World by : Joan Silber
Download or read book The Size of the World written by Joan Silber. This book was released on 2008. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An engineer in Vietnam is shaken when he discovers why his company's planes are getting lost, a marriage between a Thai Muslim and an American woman sparks a terrible family fight, and a young woman in 1920s Siam experiences her brother's colonial stance.
Author : Joan Silber
Release : 2001-10-12
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 692/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Lucky Us by : Joan Silber
Download or read book Lucky Us written by Joan Silber. This book was released on 2001-10-12. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A love story of our time." —Ha Jin, author of The Boat Rocker Once upon a very recent time in New York City, there was a couple, two ordinary single people who met the way city people meet. Even though mismatched, they fell in love. And after some hesitations they decided, finally, to marry-only to look up and find their world caving in around them. Sexy, vivacious Elisa, of the miniskirts and tiny T-shirts, still in art school and just coming off an affair with a temper-driven fellow artist, initiated things. She came on to cool, quiet Gabe who wore his hair in a graying ponytail and kept a low profile. A good bit older than Elisa-more than twenty years older, in fact-he found himself buoyed by her youth and her brashness. To her great surprise, Elisa craved Gabe's watchfulness and solicitude. That Gabe's past included a successful drug dealing business bothered her not at all. And certainly he was unconcerned that Elisa's more current past included a lot of casual sex. Neither of them ever expected to have to answer for what had been so easy for Gabe and so enjoyable for Elisa. But truth be known, the one obvious thing they had in common was the burden their pasts suddenly put onto their future. Joan Silber has written a love story for the turn of the twenty-first century, one that takes into rich account the styles and pressures of contemporary urban life. But more than that, she has created two characters who throb with real-life personality, passion, and courage.
