In the Country of Last Things
Title | In the Country of Last Things PDF eBook |
Author | Paul Auster |
Publisher | Penguin |
Total Pages | 209 |
Release | 1988-05-02 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1101562595 |
From the author of the forthcoming 4 3 2 1: A Novel – a spare, powerful, intensely visionary novel about the bare-bones conditions of survival In a distant and unsettling future, Anna Blume is on a mission in an unnamed city of chaos and disaster. Its destitute inhabitants scavenge garbage for food and shelter, no industry exists, and an elusive government provides nothing but corruption. Anna wades through the filth to find her long-lost brother, a one-time journalist who may or may not be alive. New York Times-bestselling author Paul Auster (The New York Trilogy) shows us a disturbing Hobbesian society in this dystopian, post-apocalyptic novel.
Last Things
Title | Last Things PDF eBook |
Author | Jenny Offill |
Publisher | Vintage |
Total Pages | 272 |
Release | 2015-03-17 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 110187208X |
Grace's father believes in science and builds his daughter a dollhouse with lights that really work. Grace's mother takes her skinny-dipping in the lake and teaches her about African hyena men who devour their wives in their sleep. Grace's world, of fact and fiction, marvels and madness, is slowly unraveling because her family is coming apart before her eyes. Now eight-year-old Grace must choose between her two very different, very flawed parents, a choice that will take her on a dizzying journey, away from her home in Vermont to the boozy, flooded streets of New Orleans--and into the equally wondrous and frightening realm of her own imagination. With eloquence and compassion, Jenny Offill weaves a luminous story of a wounded family and of a young girl yearning to understand the difference between fiction, fact, and hope. A novel of vibrant imagination and searing intelligence, Last Things is a stunning literary achievement.
A Book of Country Things
Title | A Book of Country Things PDF eBook |
Author | Walter Needham |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 186 |
Release | 1965 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN |
Recollections of "Gramp's" early days (or those of Leroy L. Bond, his maternal grandfather, born 1833); his ways of farming, sugaring, logging, etc. a century ago in southeast Vermont.
In the Country of Last Things
Title | In the Country of Last Things PDF eBook |
Author | Paul Auster |
Publisher | Penguin |
Total Pages | 209 |
Release | 1988-05-02 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0140097058 |
From the author of the forthcoming 4 3 2 1: A Novel – a spare, powerful, intensely visionary novel about the bare-bones conditions of survival In a distant and unsettling future, Anna Blume is on a mission in an unnamed city of chaos and disaster. Its destitute inhabitants scavenge garbage for food and shelter, no industry exists, and an elusive government provides nothing but corruption. Anna wades through the filth to find her long-lost brother, a one-time journalist who may or may not be alive. New York Times-bestselling author Paul Auster (The New York Trilogy) shows us a disturbing Hobbesian society in this dystopian, post-apocalyptic novel.
The World that is the Book
Title | The World that is the Book PDF eBook |
Author | Aliki Varvogli |
Publisher | Liverpool University Press |
Total Pages | 200 |
Release | 2001-01-01 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780853236870 |
This critical analysis offers an in-depth study of Paul Auster's fiction. It explores the literary and cultural sources that Auster taps into, and it emphasises the continuity in Auster's writing.
Handbook of Urban Studies
Title | Handbook of Urban Studies PDF eBook |
Author | Ronan Paddison |
Publisher | SAGE |
Total Pages | 524 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9780803976955 |
The Handbook of Urban Studies provides the first comprehensive, up-to-date account of the urban condition, relevant to a wide readership from academics to researchers and policymakers. It provides a theoretically and empirically informed account embracing all the different disciplines contributing to urban studies. Leading authors identify key issues and questions and future trends for further research and present their findings so that, where appropriate, they are relevant to the needs of policymakers. Using the city as a unifying structure, the Handbook provides an holistic appreciation of urban structure and change, and of the theories by which we understand the structure, development and changing character
Beyond the Red Notebook
Title | Beyond the Red Notebook PDF eBook |
Author | Dennis Barone |
Publisher | University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | 220 |
Release | 1995 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780812215564 |
The novels of Paul Auster have captured the imagination of readers and the admiration of many critics of contemporary literature. In Beyond the Red Notebook, the first book devoted to the works of Auster, an international group of scholars provide a rich and insightful examination of Auster's writings.