Sea, Swallow Me and Other Stories
Title | Sea, Swallow Me and Other Stories PDF eBook |
Author | Craig Laurance Gidney |
Publisher | Lethe Press |
Pages | 206 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1590210662 |
Ancient folklore and modern myth come together in these stories by author Craig Laurance Gidney. Here are found the struggles of a medieval Japanese monk, seduced by a mischievous fairy, and a young slave who finds mystery deep within the briar patch of an antebellum plantation. Gidney offers readers a gay teen obsessed with his patron saint, Lena Horne, and, in the title story, an ailing tourist seeking escape at a distant shore but never reckons on encountering an African sea god. Rich, poetic, dark and disturbing, these are tales not soon forgotten. A finalist for the Lambda Literary Award.
Companion to Literature
Title | Companion to Literature PDF eBook |
Author | Abby H. P. Werlock |
Publisher | Infobase Publishing |
Pages | 859 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | American literature |
ISBN | 143812743X |
Praise for the previous edition:Booklist/RBB "Twenty Best Bets for Student Researchers"RUSA/ALA "Outstanding Reference Source"" ... useful ... Recommended for public libraries and undergraduates."
A Spectral Hue
Title | A Spectral Hue PDF eBook |
Author | Craig Laurance Gidney |
Publisher | |
Pages | 228 |
Release | 2019-06-18 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781939905505 |
For generations, the marsh-surrounded town of Shimmer, Maryland has played host to a loose movement of African-American artists, all working in different media, but all utilizing the same haunting color. Landscape paintings, trompe l'oeil quilts, decorated dolls, mixed-media assemblages, and more, all featuring the same peculiar hue, a shifting pigment somewhere between purple and pink, the color of the saltmarsh orchid, a rare and indigenous flower. Graduate student Xavier Wentworth has been drawn to Shimmer, hoping to study the work of artists like quilter Hazel Whitby and landscape painter Shadrach Grayson in detail, having experienced something akin to an epiphany when viewing a Hazel Whitby tapestry as a child. Xavier will find that others, too, have been drawn to Shimmer, called by something more than art, something in the marsh itself, a mysterious, spectral hue. From Lambda Literary Award-nominated author Craig Laurance Gidney (Sea, Swallow Me & Other Stories, Skin Deep Magic) comes A Spectral Hue, a novel of art, obsession, and the ghosts that haunt us all.
Orange World and Other Stories
Title | Orange World and Other Stories PDF eBook |
Author | Karen Russell |
Publisher | Vintage |
Pages | 288 |
Release | 2019-05-14 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0525656146 |
From the Pulitzer Finalist and universally beloved author of the New York Times best sellers Swamplandia! and Vampires in the Lemon Grove, a stunning new collection of short fiction that showcases Karen Russell’s extraordinary, irresistible gifts of language and imagination. Karen Russell’s comedic genius and mesmerizing talent for creating outlandish predicaments that uncannily mirror our inner in lives is on full display in these eight exuberant, arrestingly vivid, unforgettable stories. In“Bog Girl”, a revelatory story about first love, a young man falls in love with a two thousand year old girl that he’s extracted from a mass of peat in a Northern European bog. In “The Prospectors,” two opportunistic young women fleeing the depression strike out for new territory, and find themselves fighting for their lives. In the brilliant, hilarious title story, a new mother desperate to ensure her infant’s safety strikes a diabolical deal, agreeing to breastfeed the devil in exchange for his protection. The landscape in which these stories unfold is a feral, slippery, purgatorial space, bracketed by the void—yet within it Russell captures the exquisite beauty and tenderness of ordinary life. Orange World is a miracle of storytelling from a true modern master.
Encyclopedia of the American Short Story
Title | Encyclopedia of the American Short Story PDF eBook |
Author | Abby H. P. Werlock |
Publisher | Infobase Learning |
Pages | 3225 |
Release | 2015-04-22 |
Genre | American fiction |
ISBN | 1438140754 |
Two-volume set that presents an introduction to American short fiction from the 19th century to the present.
Like Water and Other Stories
Title | Like Water and Other Stories PDF eBook |
Author | Olga Zilberbourg |
Publisher | Wtaw Press |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2019 |
Genre | Emigration and immigration |
ISBN | 9780998801490 |
Fiction. California Interest. Short Stories. With settings that range from the Cuban Missile Crisis and Soviet-era Perestroika to present-day San Francisco, LIKE WATER AND OTHER STORIES, the first English-language collection from Leningrad-born author Olga Zilberbourg, looks at family and childrearing in ways both unsettling and tender, and characters who grapple with complicated legacies--of state, parentage, displacement, and identity. LIKE WATER is a unique portrayal of motherhood, of immigration and adaptation, and an inside account of life in the Soviet Union and its dissolution. Zilberbourg's stories investigate how motherhood reshapes the sense of self--and in ways that are often bewildering--against an uncharted landscape of American culture. In "Dandelion," a child turns into a novel and is shipped off to an agent in New York. In "Doctor Sveta," a young Soviet woman finds herself on a ship bound for Cuba at the onset of the Cuban Missile Crisis. In "Companionship," a young boy decides to return to his mother's uterus. Anthony Marra calls LIKE WATER "A book of succinct abundance, dazzling in its particulars, expansive in its scope," and of these stories, Karen E. Bender says, they "cast a clear, illuminating light on topics ranging from motherhood, the workplace, birth, death, ambition, and immigration, all explored through exquisitely wrought characters in Russia and the United States. Olga Zilberbourg is a writer to read right now."
Mauve's Quilt
Title | Mauve's Quilt PDF eBook |
Author | Craig L. Gidney |
Publisher | Wildside Press LLC |
Pages | 29 |
Release | 2022-10-09 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1479466697 |
His new life in a small town promises much the same for Quentin as his old—isolation, medication, music—until he finds a mysterious quilt in the attic.