Gone with the Mind
Title | Gone with the Mind PDF eBook |
Author | Mark Leyner |
Publisher | Little, Brown |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2016-03-08 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780316323253 |
The blazingly inventive fictional autobiography of Mark Leyner, one of America's "rare, true original voices" (Gary Shteyngart) Dizzyingly brilliant, raucously funny, and painfully honest, GONE WITH THE MIND is the story of Mark Leyner's life, told as only Mark Leyner can tell it. In this utterly unconventional novel-or is it a memoir?-Leyner gives a reading in the food court of a New Jersey shopping mall. The "audience" consists of Mark's mother and some stray Panda Express employees, who ask a handful of questions. The action takes place entirely at the food court, but the territory covered in these pages has no bounds. A joyride of autobiography, cultural critique, DIY philosophy, biopolitics, video games, demagoguery, and the most intimate confessions, GONE WITH THE MIND is both a soulful reckoning with mortality and the tender story of the relationship between a complicated mother and an even more complicated son. At once nostalgic and acidic, deeply humane and completely surreal, GONE WITH THE MIND is a work of pure, hilarious genius.
My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist
Title | My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist PDF eBook |
Author | Mark Leyner |
Publisher | Vintage |
Pages | 161 |
Release | 2012-03-28 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0307819612 |
Welcome to Mark Leyner's America, where you can order gallium arsenide sushi at a roadside diner, get loaded on a cocktail of growth hormones and anabolic steroids, and support your habit by appearing on TV game shows. Welcome to a wildly post-Einsteinian fictional universe where the locals include a speech pathologist with a waterbug fetish, a kamikaze airline pilot, and the lead singer for Brazil's most notoriously nihilistic samba band.
Gone with the Wind
Title | Gone with the Wind PDF eBook |
Author | Margaret Mitchell |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 1476 |
Release | 2008-05-20 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1416548947 |
The story of the tempestuous romance between Rhett Butler and Scarlet O'Hara is set amid the drama of the Civil War.
Imagine Me Gone
Title | Imagine Me Gone PDF eBook |
Author | Adam Haslett |
Publisher | Little, Brown |
Pages | 328 |
Release | 2016-05-03 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 031626136X |
From a Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist, a ferociously intimate story of a family facing the ultimate question: how far will we go to save the people we love the most? When Margaret's fiancée, John, is hospitalized for depression in 1960s London, she faces a choice: carry on with their plans despite what she now knows of his condition, or back away from the suffering it may bring her. She decides to marry him. Imagine Me Gone is the unforgettable story of what unfolds from this act of love and faith. At the heart of it is their eldest son, Michael, a brilliant, anxious music fanatic who makes sense of the world through parody. Over the span of decades, his younger siblings -- the savvy and responsible Celia and the ambitious and tightly controlled Alec -- struggle along with their mother to care for Michael's increasingly troubled and precarious existence. Told in alternating points of view by all five members of the family, this searing, gut-wrenching, and yet frequently hilarious novel brings alive with remarkable depth and poignancy the love of a mother for her children, the often inescapable devotion siblings feel toward one another, and the legacy of a father's pain in the life of a family. With his striking emotional precision and lively, inventive language, Adam Haslett has given us something rare: a novel with the power to change how we see the most important people in our lives. "Haslett is one of the country's most talented writers, equipped with a sixth sense for characterization"-Wall Street Journal "Ambitious and stirring . . . With Imagine Me Gone , Haslett has reached another level."-New York Times Book Review
The Gone World
Title | The Gone World PDF eBook |
Author | Tom Sweterlitsch |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 402 |
Release | 2019-02-05 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0425278905 |
Inception meets True Detective in this science fiction thriller of spellbinding tension and staggering scope that follows a special agent into a savage murder case with grave implications for the fate of mankind.... “I promise you have never read a story like this.”—Blake Crouch, New York Times bestselling author of Dark Matter Shannon Moss is part of a clandestine division within the Naval Criminal Investigative Service. In western Pennsylvania, 1997, she is assigned to solve the murder of a Navy SEAL's family—and to locate his vanished teenage daughter. Though she can't share the information with conventional law enforcement, Moss discovers that the missing SEAL was an astronaut aboard the spaceship U.S.S. Libra—a ship assumed lost to the currents of Deep Time. Moss knows first-hand the mental trauma of time-travel and believes the SEAL's experience with the future has triggered this violence. Determined to find the missing girl and driven by a troubling connection from her own past, Moss travels ahead in time to explore possible versions of the future, seeking evidence to crack the present-day case. To her horror, the future reveals that it's not only the fate of a family that hinges on her work, for what she witnesses rising over time's horizon and hurtling toward the present is the Terminus: the terrifying and cataclysmic end of humanity itself. Luminous and unsettling, The Gone World bristles with world-shattering ideas yet remains at its heart an intensely human story.
The Wind Done Gone
Title | The Wind Done Gone PDF eBook |
Author | Alice Randall |
Publisher | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Pages | 228 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780618219063 |
A parody of Gone with the wind, this novel tells the story of Cynara, the mulatto half-sister born into slavery who eventually triumphs.
Scarlett
Title | Scarlett PDF eBook |
Author | Alexandra Ripley |
Publisher | Grand Central Publishing |
Pages | 696 |
Release | 2011-11-24 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0446502979 |
In this #1 bestselling sequel to Gone With The Wind, Scarlett O'Hara's story continues, beautifully capturing the spirit of Margaret Mitchell's timeless tale. Who can forget the most popular, beloved American historical novel ever written? Gone With the Wind is unparalleled in its portrayal the American South during the Civil War era. Now, Alexandra Ripley brings us back to Tara and reintroduces us to the characters we remember so well: Rhett, Ashley, Mammy, Suellen, Aunt Pittypat, and, of course, the unforgettable Scarlett O'Hara. The greatest fictional love affair is reignited as the passion between Scarlett O'Hara and Rhett Butler reaches its startling culmination. Rich with surprises at every turn and new emotional, breathtaking adventures, Scarlett will find an eternal place in our hearts. #1 New York Times bestseller #1 Chicago Tribune bestseller #1 Los Angeles Times bestseller #1 Publishers Weekly bestseller #1 Washington Post bestseller