Fever Dream
Fever Dream

Author: Samanta Schweblin

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2017-01-10

Total Pages: 194

ISBN-13: 0399184619

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“A wonderful nightmare of a book: tender and frightening, disturbing but compassionate. Fever Dream is a triumph of Schweblin’s outlandish imagination.” –Juan Gabriel Vasquez, author of The Sound of Things Falling and Reputations A young woman named Amanda lies dying in a rural hospital clinic. A boy named David sits beside her. She’s not his mother. He's not her child. Together, they tell a haunting story of broken souls, toxins, and the power and desperation of family. Fever Dream is a nightmare come to life, a ghost story for the real world, a love story and a cautionary tale. One of the freshest new voices to come out of the Spanish language and translated into English for the first time, Samanta Schweblin creates an aura of strange psychological menace and otherworldly reality in this absorbing, unsettling, taut novel.

Fever Dreams
Fever Dreams

Author: David Grace

Publisher: David Grace

Published: 2009-10-06

Total Pages: 285

ISBN-13: 1452386935

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Raphael LaFontaine's parents were "root workers," hoodoo practitioners who sold potions, infusions, vapors and spells in Beauregard Parish, Louisiana. Both before and while she was pregnant with Raphael, Malina LaFontaine ingested the herbs and roots that were her and her husband's stock and trade. Perhaps as a result of this, from early childhood Raphael was afflicted with strange visions and fever dreams. He grew up considering himself a freak masquerading as a normal person, but his spells sometimes allowed him to see deeply into other people's emotions and personalities. Both a curse and a gift, these talents have served Rafe well, first as a Baltimore police officer and then as private detective. The story begins with a frayed-at-the-edges lawyer who asks Rafe to help his client with a simple matter, a hard to get rid of ex-boyfriend who also happens to be a Baltimore cop. When Rafe sets out to meet his new client he is attacked and when he wakes up he finds that nothing is what it had seemed, and that he is suspected of murdering a complete stranger. Rafe soon becomes even more deeply entangled in a confusing web of lies and murder.

Dreams and Visions in the Early Middle Ages
Dreams and Visions in the Early Middle Ages

Author: Jesse Keskiaho

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2015-02-19

Total Pages: 341

ISBN-13: 1107082137

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A comprehensive overview of ideas about dreams and visions in the Christian cultures of the early Middle Ages.

City Made of Words
City Made of Words

Author: Paul Park

Publisher: PM Press

Published: 2019-06-01

Total Pages: 123

ISBN-13: 1629636614

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Paul Park is one of modern fiction’s major innovators. With exotic settings and characters truly alien and disturbingly normal, his novels and stories explore the shifting interface between traditional narrative and luminous dream, all in the service of a deeper humanism. “Climate Change,” original to this volume, is an intimate and erotic take on a global environmental crisis. “A Resistance to Theory” chronicles the passionate (and bloody) competition between the armed adherents of postmodern literary schools. “A Conversation with the Author” gives readers a harrowing look behind the curtains of an MFA program. In “A Brief History of SF” a fan encounters the ruined man who first glimpsed the ruined cities of Mars. “Creative Nonfiction” showcases a professor’s eager collaboration with a student intent on wrecking his career. The only nonfiction piece, “A Homily for Good Friday,” was delivered to a stunned congregation at a New England church. Plus: Our candid and colorful Outspoken Interview with one of today’s most accomplished and least conventional authors, in which personal truth is evaded, engaged, and altered, all in one shot.

The Message: Eight Stories of One Misunderstood Text
The Message: Eight Stories of One Misunderstood Text

Author: Andrew Allen

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2012-04-30

Total Pages: 251

ISBN-13: 0983074623

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Texts, chat, and tweets are making up an increasing amount of our communication these days -- even email has become blase. But how much meaning can get through in only 160 characters? Join in the exploration with eight stories from our collaborative authors, where we see how much trouble lies in a single poorly understood text message: "Remember 3/31? Need help desperately, not much time left. Please, you're the only one! 2713311869101001 You know what to do. - Alex" Can Alex be helped? Will they arrive in time? Does anyone even know what this is about? From spaceships to spies, and comic books to crime bosses, find out in the latest volume from Authors Rising: The Message.

Cavegirl Monologue
Cavegirl Monologue

Author: Heather Benjamin

Publisher:

Published: 2018-09-21

Total Pages: 188

ISBN-13: 9780999609910

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Cavegirl Monologue//Totally Ruined functions as a double release of Heather Benjamin's work from throughout her career 2008-present. Cavegirl Monologue, a larger full-color art book showcases recent work and unreleased full color paintings she has been making over the last year. It also has a selection from her recent Romantic Story collection that was wildly popular and is now out of print. Totally Ruined: Heather Benjamin Zines and Flyers 2008-2018 is a staple bound collection of highlights from her illustrations, zines and punk flyers from throughout her decade long practice, including much of her early material that is out of print, and is included with the release as an addendum.