D'autres livres qui pourraient vous intéresser

• 

  Likes

  Sarah Shun-Lien Bynum

  • 0
  • 1
  • 0

  "[Jean Ann] Douglass’ narration, intimate and bemused and every so often curling up with wryness at the end of a sentence, is a perfect match for Shun-lien Bynum’s delicate delights." -- Slate  A Buzz Book of Fall at Publishers Lunch * A WIRED Ultimate Summer Reading pickNational Book Award finalist Sarah Shun-lien Bynum’s highly anticipated return weaves together like and unlike, mythic and modernIn nine stories that range from the real to the unreal, strange to familiar, funny to frightening, Sarah Shun-lien Bynum reminds us why her wildly original debut, Madeleine Is Sleeping, and her masterful Ms. Hempel Chronicles have become contemporary classics--celebrated and beloved.In a nimble dance of lightness and gravity, Likes explores the full range and contradictions of our contemporary moment. Through unexpected visitors, Waldorf school fairs, aging indie-film stars, the struggle to gain a foothold in the capitalist shell-game of work, the Instagram posts of a twelve-year-old—these stories of friendship and parenthood, celebrity and obsession, race and class and the passage of time, form an engrossing collection that is both otherworldly and suffused with the deceitful humdrum of everyday life.For fans of Joy Williams, George Saunders, Lauren Groff, and Deborah Eisenberg, Likes helps us see into our unacknowledged desires and, in quick, artful, nearly invisible cuts, exposes the roots of our abiding terrors and delights.  A Macmillan Audio production from Farrar, Straus and Giroux

  Voir livre

• 

  A Waiter Made of Glass - Stories...

  Verlyn Flieger

  • 0
  • 0
  • 0

  Award-winning author Verlyn Flieger takes readers through a series of insightful short stories exploring tragic aspects of human nature. A few of the tales are dark, others a bit lighter, but all celebrate the creativity of storytelling. The second part of the book is a collection of new poetry unearthing the wonders of language, the mundane, and grief and mourning as part of life—the dark spot within the light. Death is the inevitable, inescapable result of mortality, and grief is the price the living pay for that condition. Readers are invited to join in the journey, take some comfort in the knowledge of shared darkness, and know that even within the dark moments, there is always at least a speck of splintered light.

  Voir livre

• 

  A Pair of Silk Stockings

  Kate Chopin

  • 0
  • 0
  • 0

  Kate Chopin is a widely considered a forerunner to the feminist authors of the twentieth century. Focusing on themes of race and gender, her short stories largely center on life in rural Louisiana. In “A Pair of Silk Stockings,” a young woman unexpected finds herself with fifteen dollars. Inspired by her newfound wealth, she ignores her natural impulses and indulges in a day of luxurious abandon. A wistful rumination on loss and the illusion of control, “A Pair of Silk Stockings” is Chopin at her absolute best.

  Voir livre

• 

  Black Is the Night

  M. W. Craven, Mason Cross, James...

  • 0
  • 0
  • 0

  A gritty and thrilling anthology of 28 new short stories in tribute to pulp noir master, Cornell Woolrich, author of 'Rear Window', the inspiration behind Alfred Hitchock's classic film.

  Voir livre

• 

  A Study In Scarlet

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  • 0
  • 0
  • 0

  In A Study in Scarlet, Holmes and Watson's first mystery, the pair are summoned to a south London house where they find a dead man whose contorted face is a twisted mask of horror. The body is unmarked by violence but on the wall a mysterious word has been written in blood.The police are baffled by the crime and its circumstances. But when Sherlock Holmes applies his brilliantly logical mind to the problem he uncovers a tragic tale of love and deadly revenge...

  Voir livre

• 

  Shadows In the Moonlight - Poems...

  Rachel Lawson

  • 0
  • 0
  • 0

  This is a mixture of other short stories and poems , dark, romantic and light themed read by the author and the Mortal Coil players 
  Good quotes from Stand and Deliver: In The Moonlight- 
  "Stand and deliver, your money or your life!" shouted the highwayman. 
  "I hear that you met a real highwayman the other day I wish I had been with you. They are so thrilling and romantic!" 
  "Hand over your loot! Either give it to me now or I will take it from your body!" Terrence the Terror said. 
  "I said give it back, Terry!" said Sir Justin. 
  "Tom your friend is a nut!" Mary said. 
  "What did he do murder the driver so he could drive the coach?" asked Sir Thomas. 
  "I bailed up the Terror and took your sister's stuff back as she was under my care!" said Sir Justin. 
  "New to this are you lad!" said one of them. 
  "Terry I think you killed him!" said one of the others he was the black-clad highwayman named the Ghost for his sudden appearances and disappearances. 
  "I just found her here, I was on my way to see you." 
  "I have never seen anything so beautiful! I could forget everything and live in this moment forever"

  Voir livre