Huia Short Stories 10

Huia Short Stories 10

Author: Publishers Huia

Publisher: Huia Publishers

Published: 2014-05-28

Total Pages: 285

ISBN-13: 1775501515

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Here are the best short stories and novel extracts from the Pikihuia Awards for Māori writers 2013 as judged by Sir Mason Durie, Hana O'Regan and Reina Whaitiri. The book contains the stories from the finalists for Best Short Story written in English, Best Short Story written in Māori and Best Novel Extract. For over ten years, the Māori Literature Trust and Huia Publishers have organised this biennial writing competition to promote Māori stories and writers. The awards and the publication of finalists' stories have become popular as they uncover little-known writers.


To Bed at Noon

To Bed at Noon

Author: Ian Richards

Publisher: Auckland University Press

Published: 2013-11-01

Total Pages: 502

ISBN-13: 1775582213

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This volume examines the life and work of New Zealand author Maurice Duggan. His life was turbulent and difficult as he suffered from a "black Irish" personality, the lifelong trauma of an amputated leg, and battles with alcoholism, relationships and employment. This biography looks at the complexity of his life and offers a picture of literary life in New Zealand, and especially Auckland, in the 1950's and 1960's.


Big Lonesome

Big Lonesome

Author: Joseph Scapellato

Publisher: HarperCollins

Published: 2017-02-28

Total Pages: 195

ISBN-13: 0544770544

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An inventive, ranging debut story collection from a writer hailed by Charles Yu as "a stunningly original voice—warm, bleak, dark, ecstatic, full of silences and power and life" Reinventing a great American tradition through an absurdist, discerning eye, Joseph Scapellato uses these twenty-five stories to conjure worlds, themes, and characters who are at once unquestionably familiar and undeniably strange. Big Lonesome navigates through the American West—from the Old West to the modern-day West to the Midwest, from cowboys to mythical creatures to everything in between—exploring place, myth, masculinity, and what it means to be whole or to be broken. Though he works in the tradition of George Saunders and Patrick deWitt—writing subversive, surreal, and affecting stories that unveil the surprising inner lives of ordinary people and the mythic dimensions of our everyday lives—"Scapellato’s Big Lonesome is unlike anything else you’ve ever read" (Robert Boswell).


ANDY ADAMS Ultimate Western Collection – 5 Novels & 14 Short Stories

ANDY ADAMS Ultimate Western Collection – 5 Novels & 14 Short Stories

Author: Andy Adams

Publisher: e-artnow

Published: 2017-04-11

Total Pages: 1497

ISBN-13: 8026876512

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Andy Adams was an American writer of western fiction and was born in Indiana. Since childhood Andy used to help his parents with the cattle and horses on the family farm. Due to this Andy's works have been lauded widely for his first hand and authentic portrayal of the life of a cowboy unlike his contemporaries like Owen Wister who romanticized it. Content: Novels: The Log of a Cowboy: A Narrative of the Old Trail Days A Texas Matchmaker The Outlet Reed Anthony, Cowman: An Autobiography The Wells Brothers: The Young Cattle Kings Cattle Brands: A Collection of Western Camp-Fire Stories The Double Trail Rangering The Ransom of Don Ramon Mora Drifting North Seigerman's Per Cent "Bad Medicine" A Winter Round-Up A College Vagabond At Comanche Ford Around The Spade Wagon The Passing of Peg-Leg In The Hands of His Friends A Question of Possession The Story of a Poker Steer


A Companion to the Literature and Culture of the American West

A Companion to the Literature and Culture of the American West

Author: Nicolas S. Witschi

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2011-05-04

Total Pages: 582

ISBN-13: 1444396587

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A Companion to the Literature and Culture of the American West presents a series of essays that explore the historic and contemporary cultural expressions rooted in America's western states. Offers a comprehensive approach to the wide range of cultural expressions originating in the west Focuses on the intersections, complexities, and challenges found within and between the different historical and cultural groups that define the west's various distinctive regions Addresses traditionally familiar icons and ideas about the west (such as cowboys, wide-open spaces, and violence) and their intersections with urbanization and other regional complexities Features essays written by many of the leading scholars in western American cultural studies


Chronicles of Mirstone

Chronicles of Mirstone

Author: Richard Fierce

Publisher: Dragonfire Press

Published: 2018-11-02

Total Pages: 163

ISBN-13: 1947329073

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Six talented authors lend their voices to a tale of destruction, mistrust and ... hope. Two hundred years ago, the dwarven clans and the elvish houses of Mirstone were at peace. The king of the dwarves, in a selfish and greedy move, used his wizards to expand their mountain empire, raising new peaks from the forest floors of their elven neighbors. War and hatred ensue. The tales within offer a glimpse into the minds of the elves and dwarves who live in the aftermath. Come, journey into the world of Mirstone. Keywords: fantasy, epic fantasy, short stories, short story collections, fantasy anthologies, elves, dwarves, magic, sword and sorcery