Never Love a Gambler (New Directions Pearls)
Title | Never Love a Gambler (New Directions Pearls) PDF eBook |
Author | Keith Ridgway |
Publisher | New Directions Publishing |
Pages | 96 |
Release | 2014-05-27 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0811222950 |
Marvelous stories by the Irish writer acclaimed by Zadie Smith as “idiosyncratic and fascinating” Never Love a Gambler is a showcase for the exceptional talents of Keith Ridgway. The Times (London) praised his stories as “flawlessly structured yarns told in lovingly crafted prose.” Ridgway’s characters negotiate their way through love, madness, lust, anger, religious obsession, crime, and absence in stories told with innovative mastery — brightened by fiercely vivid dialogues. Never Love a Gambler is a mental rust-remover: refreshing, bracing, and often violently funny.
Never Love a Gambler (New Directions Pearls)
Title | Never Love a Gambler (New Directions Pearls) PDF eBook |
Author | Keith Ridgway |
Publisher | New Directions Publishing |
Pages | 96 |
Release | 2014-05-27 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0811222942 |
In 'Never Love a Gambler,' the Irish writer Keith Ridgway flips conventional narrative with unconventional drama. His charcters negotiate their way through love and lust, religious obsession and ghost sightings, crimes and disappearance in stories told with innovative mastery and brightened by fiercely vivid dialogue. Here, Ridgway showcases his brilliance as a bracing and violently funny storyteller.
Because She Never Asked (New Directions Pearls)
Title | Because She Never Asked (New Directions Pearls) PDF eBook |
Author | Enrique Vila-Matas |
Publisher | New Directions Publishing |
Pages | 50 |
Release | 2015-11-09 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0811225704 |
A novella—half joke and half nightmare— by "Spain's most significant contemporary literary figure" (The New Yorker) Because She Never Asked is a story reminiscent of that reached by the travelers in Patricia Highsmith's Stranger on a Train. The author first writes a piece for the artist Sophie Calle to live out: a young, aspiring, French artist travels to Lisbon and the Azores in pursuit of an older artist whose work she’s in love with. The second part of the story tells what happens between the author and Calle. She eludes, him; he becomes blocked, and suffers physical collapse. “Something strange happened along the way,” Vila-Matas wrote. “Normally, writers try to pass a work of fiction off as being real. But in Because She Never Asked, the opposite occurred: in order to give meaning to the story of my life, I found that I needed to present it as fiction.”
Never Love a Gambler
Title | Never Love a Gambler PDF eBook |
Author | Keith Ridgway |
Publisher | New Directions Publishing |
Pages | 88 |
Release | 2014 |
Genre | Argentinian fiction |
ISBN | 9780811221108 |
Never Love a Gambler is a showcase for the exceptional talents of Keith Ridgway. The Times (London) praised his stories as "flawlessly structured yarns told in lovingly crafted prose." Ridgway's characters negotiate their way through love, madness, lust, anger, religious obsession, crime, and absence in stories told with innovative mastery -- brightened by fiercely vivid dialogues. Never Love a Gambler is a mental rust-remover: refreshing, bracing, and often violently funny.
The Boston Pearl
Title | The Boston Pearl PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 308 |
Release | 1836 |
Genre | American literature |
ISBN |
Short Story Index
Title | Short Story Index PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 656 |
Release | 1960 |
Genre | Short stories |
ISBN |
Short Story Index: 1969-1973
Title | Short Story Index: 1969-1973 PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 656 |
Release | 1974 |
Genre | |
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