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Author : Gunnhild Øyehaug
Release : 2022-01-11
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 174/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Present Tense Machine by : Gunnhild Øyehaug
Download or read book Present Tense Machine written by Gunnhild Øyehaug. This book was released on 2022-01-11. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A playful and transcendent novel about language, family, and parallel universes"--
Author : Natalie Fergie
Release : 2017-04-17
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 246/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Sewing Machine by : Natalie Fergie
Download or read book The Sewing Machine written by Natalie Fergie. This book was released on 2017-04-17. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 100,000 copies sold 'A tapestry of strong characters and accomplished writing' Herald Scotland It is 1911, and Jean is about to join the mass strike at the Singer factory. For her, nothing will be the same again. Decades later, in Edinburgh, Connie sews coded moments of her life into a notebook, as her mother did before her. More than a hundred years after his grandmother’s sewing machine was made, Fred discovers a treasure trove of documents. His family history is laid out before him in a patchwork of unfamiliar handwriting and colourful seams. He starts to unpick the secrets of four generations, one stitch at a time.
Author : Anna Kavan
Release : 2020-02-18
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 153/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Machines in the Head by : Anna Kavan
Download or read book Machines in the Head written by Anna Kavan. This book was released on 2020-02-18. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enter the strange and haunting world of Anna Kavan, author of mind-bending stories that blend science fiction and the author's own harrowing experiences with drug addiction, in this new collection of her best short stories. Anna Kavan is one of the great originals of twentieth-century fiction, comparable to Leonora Carrington and Jean Rhys, a writer whose stories explored the inner world of her imagination and plumbed the depths of her long addiction to heroin. This new selection of Kavan’s stories gathers the best work from across the many decades of her career, including oblique and elegiac tales of breakdown and institutionalization from Asylum Piece (1940), moving evocations of wartime from I Am Lazarus (1945), fantastic and surrealist pieces from A Bright Green Field (1958), and stories of addiction from Julia and the Bazooka (1970). Kavan’s turn to science fiction in her final novel, Ice, is reflected in her late stories, while “Starting a Career,” about a mercenary dealer of state secrets, is published here for the first time. Kavan experimented throughout her writing career with results that are moving, funny, bizarre, poignant, often unsettling, always unique. Machines in the Head offers American readers the first full overview of the work of a fearless and dazzling literary explorer.
Author : Richard Peck
Release : 2006-04-06
Genre : Juvenile Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 401/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Past Perfect, Present Tense by : Richard Peck
Download or read book Past Perfect, Present Tense written by Richard Peck. This book was released on 2006-04-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Compiled for the first time, here are all of Newbery Award– winning author Richard Peck’s previously published short stories and two brand-new ones. From comedy to tragedy to historical to contemporary; from "Priscilla and the Wimps," Peck’s first short story, to "Shotgun Cheatham’s Last Night Above Ground," which inspired both A Long Way from Chicago and A Year Down Yonder, to "The Electric Summer," Peck’s jumping-off point for Fair Weather, readers will thrill at Peck’s engaging short fiction. Complete with the author’s own notes on the stories as well as tips and hints for aspiring writers and two new stories, this vibrant and varied collection offers something for everyone.
Author : Mark Helprin
Release : 2017-10-03
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 777/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Paris in the Present Tense by : Mark Helprin
Download or read book Paris in the Present Tense written by Mark Helprin. This book was released on 2017-10-03. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mark Helprin’s powerful, rapturous new novel is set in a present-day Paris caught between violent unrest and its well-known, inescapable glories. Seventy-four-year-old Jules Lacour—a maître at Paris-Sorbonne, cellist, widower, veteran of the war in Algeria, and child of the Holocaust—must find a balance between his strong obligations to the past and the attractions and beauties of life and love in the present. In the midst of what should be an effulgent time of life—days bright with music, family, rowing on the Seine—Jules is confronted headlong and all at once by a series of challenges to his principles, livelihood, and home, forcing him to grapple with his complex past and find a way forward. He risks fraud to save his terminally ill infant grandson, matches wits with a renegade insurance investigator, is drawn into an act of savage violence, and falls deeply, excitingly in love with a young cellist a third his age. Against the backdrop of an exquisite and knowing vision of Paris and the way it can uniquely shape a life, he forges a denouement that is staggering in its humanity, elegance, and truth.In the intoxicating beauty of its prose and emotional amplitude of its storytelling, Mark Helprin’s Paris in the Present Tense is a soaring achievement, a deep, dizzying look at a life through the purifying lenses of art and memory.
