The Sunlight Dialogues
Author: John Gardner
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 722
ISBN-13: 9780811216708
DOWNLOAD EBOOKVivid, compassionate, and often disturbing, this expansive novel is John Gardner's masterpiece.
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The Sunlight Dialogues
Author: John Gardner
Publisher: Open Road Media
Published: 2010-09-21
Total Pages: 629
ISBN-13: 1453203664
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDIV DIVDIVJohn Gardner’s sweeping portrait of the collision of opposing philosophical perspectives in 1960s America, centering on the appearance of a mysterious stranger in a small upstate New York town/divDIV /div/divDIVOne summer day, a countercultural drifter known only as the Sunlight Man appears in Batavia, New York. Jailed for painting the word “LOVE” across two lanes of traffic, the Sunlight Man encounters Fred Clumly, a sixty-four-year-old town sheriff. Throughout the course of this impressive narrative, the dialogue between these two men becomes a microcosm of the social unrest that epitomized America during this significant historical period—and culminates in an unforgettable ending. /divDIV /divDIVBeautifully expansive and imbued with exceptional social insight, The Sunlight Dialogues is John Gardner’s most ambitious work andestablished him as one of the most important fiction writers in post–World War II America. /divDIV /divDIVThis ebook features a new illustrated biography of John Gardner, including original letters, rare photos, and never-before-seen documents from the Gardner family and the University of Rochester Archives./div /div
October Light
Author: John Gardner
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 1986
Total Pages: 498
ISBN-13: 9780394740584
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA story of an old man and an old woman--brother and sister--living together on a farm in Vermont.
Mickelsson's Ghosts
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Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 612
ISBN-13: 9780811216791
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe critically acclaimed final masterwork of John Gardner: an American novel haunted with macabre and cerebral elements.
Dialogues in Paradise
Author: 残雪
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Published: 1989-06
Total Pages: 187
ISBN-13: 0810108313
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe thirteen stories of Dialogues in Paradise are eloquent in a way the West associates with both the modern and the ancient: the dark oracles of Aeschylus and Sophocles, the paranoid mystery of Kafka, the moving stream of Woolf. The work of Can Xue (a pseudonym of Changsa writer Deng Xiao-hua) renews our consciousness of the long tradition of the irrational in our literature, where dreams and reality constitute one territory, its borders open, the passage back and forth barely discernible. She fuses lyrical purity with the darkest visions of the grotesque and the result is a unique literary experience.
The Wreckage of Agathon
Author: John Gardner
Publisher: Open Road Media
Published: 2010-09-21
Total Pages: 215
ISBN-13: 1453203869
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDIV DIVDIVA wonderful exploration into the maturation process across the course of human life/divDIV /div/divDIVLaid to waste by drink, Agathon, a seer, is a shell of a man. He sits imprisoned with his apprentice, Peeker, for his presumed involvement in a rebellion against the Spartan tyrant Lykourgos. Confined to a cell, the men produce extraordinary writings that illustrate the stories of their lives and give witness to Agathon’s deterioration and the growth of Peeker from a bashful young apprentice to a self-assured and passionate seer./divDIV /divDIVCaptivating and imaginative, The Wreckage of Agathon is a tribute to author John Gardner’s passion for ancient storytelling and those universal themes that span the course of all human civilization./divDIV /divDIV /divDIV /divDIVThis ebook features a new illustrated biography of John Gardner, including original letters, rare photos, and never-before-seen documents from the Gardner family and the University of Rochester Archives./div /div
Freddy's Book
Author: John Gardner
Publisher: Open Road Media
Published: 2010-09-21
Total Pages: 162
ISBN-13: 1453203184
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDIV DIVDIVThe bestselling story of a king’s crusade to vanquish the Devil and to defeat the monster in each of us/divDIV /div/divDIVA visiting lecturer is lured to the remote, gothic mansion of an estranged professor and his only son, who is described as a monster. But soon, the visitor enters an enchanting new world when he begins reading the son’s hidden manuscript. Part history, part myth, the story conjures a sixteenth-century Sweden in which good and evil clash for the ultimate prize. To attain the throne, the protagonist, Gustav Vasa, accepts the Devil’s counsel, but to remain in power and rule justly, he must drive the Devil underground. This sweeping, masterful tale transports us from the wasted mining hills of Dalarna to the frozen northern country of the Lapps—and into the very heart of the struggle over what it means to be human./divDIV /divDIVThis ebook features a new illustrated biography of John Gardner, including original letters, rare photos, and never-before-seen documents from the Gardner family and the University of Rochester Archives./div /div
Grendel
Author: John Gardner
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2010-06-02
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13: 0307756785
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis classic and much lauded retelling of Beowulf follows the monster Grendel as he learns about humans and fights the war at the center of the Anglo Saxon classic epic. "An extraordinary achievement."—New York Times The first and most terrifying monster in English literature, from the great early epic Beowulf, tells his own side of the story in this frequently banned book. This is the novel William Gass called "one of the finest of our contemporary fictions."
A Thousand Minutes to Sunlight
Author: Jen White
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Published: 2021-04-20
Total Pages: 225
ISBN-13: 0374300879
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJen White's A Thousand Minutes to Sunlight is a sensitively-written middle grade novel about a girl struggling with anxiety, family secrets, and the meaning of friendship. Cora is constantly counting the minutes. It's the only thing that stops her brain from rattling with worry, from convincing her that danger is up ahead. Afraid of the unknown, Cora spends her days with her feet tucked into sand, marveling at La Quinta beach's giant waves and her little sister Sunshine's boundless energy. And then danger really does show up at Cora's doorstep—her absentee uncle, whose sudden presence in the middle of the night makes her parents nervous and secretive. As dawn breaks once more, Cora must piece together her family and herself, one minute at a time. A Thousand Minutes to Sunlight is an endearing and revelatory middle-grade novel that is perfect for fans of Counting by 7s and Fish in a Tree.
The Dancing Dodo
Author: John Gardner
Publisher:
Published: 1984
Total Pages: 570
ISBN-13: 9780860095651
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