Greasy Lake and Other Stories
Greasy Lake and Other Stories

Author: T.C. Boyle

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 1986-05-06

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13: 1101462183

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Mythic and realist, farcical and tragic, these fifteen “fables of contemporary life [are] so funny and acutely observed that they might have been written [for] Saturday Night Live” (The New York Times)—from the award–winning author of The Tortilla Curtain. “Boyle . . . owns a ferocious, delicious imagination, often darkly satirical and always infatuated with language.”—The Los Angeles Times Book Review In “The Hector Quesadilla Story,” T.C. Boyle writes of an aging Latin ballplayer, long past his best stuff, who on his birthday is put into an endless rotation in a game that goes on forever; in “All Shook Up,” he tells of the doomed affair between his narrator and the sweet, feckless wife of an aspiring Elvis Presley look-alike; in “On for the Long Haul,” he describes the grim scenarios enacted by a credulous survivalist and his family in their nuclear-holocaust-proof haven in the sticks; and in the title story, he portrays a terrifying and violent encounter between a bunch of late-adolescent layabouts and a murderous drug-dealing biker.

A Month by the Lake & Other Stories
A Month by the Lake & Other Stories

Author: Herbert Ernest Bates

Publisher: New Directions Publishing

Published: 1987

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 9780811210362

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"If we set H. E. Bates's best tales against the best of Chekhov's," Graham Greene declared, "I do not believe it would be possible, with any conviction, to argue that the Russian was the finer artist." The sampler of H. E. Bates stories presented here shows the merit of that praise and displays the range and aspects of Bates's work from his first published story, "The Flame," to one of his very last, "The Song of the Wren." In his long and prolific literary career, Bates (1905-1974) produced twenty-five novels, a three-volume autobiography, nine books of essays, several plays and children's books, as well as his important and perhaps most enduring achievement, twenty-three collections of short stories. A Month by the Lake & Other Stories displays Bates's extraordinary talent for concisely getting at the heart of the matter. Whether he is dealing with romance in middle age (the title story), or the almost painful clarity of a child's world ("The Cowslip Field"), or encapsulating the disintegration and tragedy of a man and a house and the era and class they represent ("The Flag")-Bates's compassion for humanity remains constant. As Anthony Burgess remarks in his introduction, Bates "achieved such sovereignty of what literary land he inherited that he deserves the homage of our uncomplicated enjoyment... Bates's affection for ordinary people is one of his shining virtues. But he himself, as I knew, and as this compilation should make clear, was, is, far from ordinary." Book jacket.

Lake Malibu and Other Stories
Lake Malibu and Other Stories

Author: Su-May Tan

Publisher:

Published: 2022

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781925052749

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Lake Malibu and other stories is a collection of short stories about various people from a small Malaysian town connected by a theme of escapism. Through the interlinked stories, we get to know the residents of Ipoh who struggle with various entanglements such as filial obligations, societal pressure, and increasing exposure to Western influences. Two young boys dream of greener pastures in a Western country. A teenage boy falls in love with his best friend's mother. An elderly lady reevaluates her relationship with her son who has settled down in Australia. A Malaysian woman who has moved to Melbourne with her family. The stories in the collection explore themes of cultural identity and migration in a world that is more globalised and fluid than ever. *Highly Commended, 2021 Carmel Digital Literary Award*

The Convict and Other Stories
The Convict and Other Stories

Author: James Lee Burke

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2010-07-13

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 1451618476

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One of the country’s most-acclaimed and popular novelists offers a selection of a dozen short stories set in James Lee Burke’s most beloved milieu, the Deep South. “America’s best novelist” (The Denver Post), two-time Edgar Award winner James Lee Burke is renowned for his lush, suspense-charged portrayals of the Deep South—the people, the crime, the hope and despair infused in the bayou landscape. This stunning anthology takes us back to where Burke's heart and soul beat—the steamy, seamy Gulf Coast—in complex and fascinating tales that crackle with violence and menace, meshing his flair for gripping storytelling with his urbane writing style.

At the Lake and Other Stories for Adult Emergent Readers
At the Lake and Other Stories for Adult Emergent Readers

Author: Shelley Hale Lee

Publisher:

Published: 2020-09-04

Total Pages: 166

ISBN-13: 9781938757846

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At the Lake integrates interactive reading instructional techniques and sound ESL methodology to help beginners acquire literacy skills in English. Focusing on phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension, At the Lake reinforces and extends the basic literacy instruction found in At the River.Short stories and multiple exercises offer scaffolded practice in the most commonly used sound-spelling patterns of long vowels in English. R-controlled vowels and other vowel variations are also taught directly. Students review short vowels, consonant blends, and consonant digraphs in each unit. At the Lake helps students build reading fluency and decoding skills, which foster vocabulary acquisition and comprehension skills.At the Lake enables ESL teachers of any experience level to teach reading in English to students with limited or interrupted formal education, or to any student who needs to improve spelling, decoding, pronunciation, and reading in English. A detailed teacher's guide and audio files are available free of charge on the Wayzgoose Press website.

The Beckoning Hand, and Other Stories
The Beckoning Hand, and Other Stories

Author: Grant Allen

Publisher: Good Press

Published: 2021-04-26

Total Pages: 267

ISBN-13:

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Grant Allen was born in Canada, educated in France and the United Kingdom and worked in many places including Jamaica, during his lifetime. He was primarily a scientist, turning only to literature in later life. This is a collection of stories full of melodrama and intrigue.

A Country Idyl, and Other Stories
A Country Idyl, and Other Stories

Author: Sarah Knowles Bolton

Publisher: DigiCat

Published: 2022-09-16

Total Pages: 175

ISBN-13:

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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "A Country Idyl, and Other Stories" by Sarah Knowles Bolton. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Oasis Tales of the Conjuror: and other stories
Oasis Tales of the Conjuror: and other stories

Author: Todd Walton

Publisher: BookLocker.com, Inc.

Published: 2020-11-10

Total Pages: 157

ISBN-13: 1647190312

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Todd Walton is the author of the acclaimed novels and short story collections Inside Moves, Forgotten Impulses, Louie & Women, Ruby & Spear, Buddha In A Teacup, Under the Table Books, and Little Movies. His many music CDs include Lounge Act In Heaven, Dream Of You, Mystery Inventions, and Incongroovity. A visionary science fiction novella, Oasis Tales of the Conjuror is a life-affirming response to the question: How will humans survive in the wake of societal and environmental calamity caused by the imbalance between human desires and the earth’s capacity to sustain those desires? Oasis Tales of the Conjuror may be science fiction, but the story may prove to be prophetic in the not-too-distant future. The challenges facing the citizens of the oasis are the same grave challenges facing humans on earth today, challenges we have faced many times before in the grand sweep of human history. The Golden Light is the story of two soldiers, as different from each other as two men can be, thrown together in the aftermath of a terrible battle, their quest for safety and enlightenment creating between them a profound friendship transcendent of their differences. Of Water and Melons is an uplifting family drama set in the hills of North Carolina during America’s Great Depression, a tale of hope and faith about a farmer and his family and their dream of one day being free of fear and want. When Is It Done and Clumsy Booby are two charming short stories starring the same young poet, a humble yet ambitious fellow named Theodore who wants nothing more than to be appreciated for his way with words.