Black Glass
Title | Black Glass PDF eBook |
Author | Karen Joy Fowler |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 306 |
Release | 2015-06-23 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 069840548X |
An early work from PEN/Faulkner Award winner and Man Booker finalist Karen Joy Fowler, reissued and beautifully repackaged for new fans and old. First published in 1998 to high praise, and now reissued with the addition of a prefatory essay, Black Glass showcases the extraordinary talents of this prizewinning author. In fifteen gemlike tales, Fowler lets her wit and vision roam freely, turning accepted norms inside out and fairy tales upside down—pushing us to reconsider our unquestioned verities and proving once again that she is among our most subversive writers. So, then: Here is Carry Nation loose again, breaking up discos, smashing topless bars, radicalizing women as she preaches clean living to men more intent on babes and booze. And here is Mrs. Gulliver, her patience with her long-voyaging Lemuel worn thin: Money is short and the kids can’t even remember what their dad looks like. And what of Tonto, the ever-faithful companion, turning forty without so much as a birthday phone call from that masked man? It is a book full of great themes and terrific stories—but it is the way in which Fowler tells the tale, develops plot and character, plays with time, chance, and reality that makes these pieces so original.
The Claude Glass
Title | The Claude Glass PDF eBook |
Author | Arnaud Maillet |
Publisher | Mit Press |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9781890951481 |
A study of a largely forgotten optical device and its relation to notions of opacity, transparency, and imagination.
Children of the Black Glass
Title | Children of the Black Glass PDF eBook |
Author | Anthony Peckham |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 384 |
Release | 2024-04-02 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 1665913142 |
Howl’s Moving Castle meets Neil Gaiman in this “dark and flinty” (Booklist) middle grade fantasy, set in a world as mesmerizing as it is menacing, following children on a quest to save their father who get embroiled in the sinister agendas of rival sorcerers. In an unkind alternate past, somewhere between the Stone Age and a Metal Age, Tell and his sister Wren live in a small mountain village that makes its living off black glass mines and runs on brutal laws. When their father is blinded in a mining accident, the law dictates he has thirty days to regain his sight and be capable of working at the same level as before or be put to death. Faced with this dire future, Tell and Wren make the forbidden treacherous journey to the legendary city of Halfway, halfway down the mountain, to trade their father’s haul of the valuable black glass for the medicine to cure him. The city, ruled by five powerful female sorcerers, at first dazzles the siblings. But beneath Halfway’s glittery surface seethes ambition, violence, prejudice, blackmail, and impending chaos. Without knowing it, Tell and Wren have walked straight into a sorcerers’ coup. Over the next twelve days, they must scramble first to save themselves, then their new friends, as allegiances shift and prejudices crack open to show who has true power.
Black Glass
Title | Black Glass PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | Fremantle Press |
Pages | 366 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Aboriginal Australians |
ISBN | 192188813X |
Otherland: Mountain of Black Glass
Title | Otherland: Mountain of Black Glass PDF eBook |
Author | Tad Williams |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 658 |
Release | 2021-04-13 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0756417457 |
A cryptic message from an oddly familiar winged visitor is all Paul Jones has to help him survive in the conplex virtual reality world known as "Otherland."
Black Glasses Like Clark Kent
Title | Black Glasses Like Clark Kent PDF eBook |
Author | Terese Svoboda |
Publisher | Graywolf Press |
Pages | 205 |
Release | 2012-02-14 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1555970451 |
After her Uncle's suicide, Terese Svoboda investigates his stunning claim that MPs may have executed their own men during the occupation of Japan after World War II [Our captain] commended us for being good soldiers and doing our job well and having a minimum of problems. Then he dropped a bomb. He said the prison was getting overcrowded, terribly overcrowded. As a child Terese Svoboda thought of her uncle as Superman, with "Black Clark Kent glasses, grapefruit-sized biceps." At eighty, he could still boast a washboard stomach, but in March 2004, he became seriously depressed. Svoboda investigates his terrifying story of what happened during his time as an MP, interviewing dozens of elderly ex-GIs and visiting Japan to try to discover the truth. In Black Glasses Like Clark Kent, winner of the Graywolf Nonfiction Prize, Svoboda offers a striking and carefully wrought personal account of an often painful search for information. She intersperses excerpts of her uncle's recordings and letters to his wife with her own research, and shows how the vagaries of military justice can allow the worst to happen and then be buried by time and protocol
Black Glass
Title | Black Glass PDF eBook |
Author | Meg Mundell |
Publisher | Scribe Publications Pty Limited |
Pages | 288 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9781921640933 |
Sisters Tally and Grace have always dreamed of moving to the city: a bright, glamorous world full of luck and promise. Yet neither of them ever expected to be living there broke, homeless and alone as happens when they become separated after an accident. Now Tally and Grace must struggle to find each other - or just to survive.