That Distant Land
Title | That Distant Land PDF eBook |
Author | Wendell Berry |
Publisher | Catapult |
Total Pages | 464 |
Release | 2009-05-01 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1582439303 |
Originally published in 2005, That Distant Land brings together twenty–three stories from the Port William Membership. Arranged in their fictional chronology, the book is not an anthology so much as it is a coherent temporal mapping of this landscape over time, revealing Berry’s mastery of decades of the life lived alongside this clutch of interrelated characters bound by affection and followed over generations. This volume combines the stories found in The Wild Birds (1985), Fidelity (1992), and Watch with Me (1994), together with a map and a charting of the complex and interlocking genealogies.
The Distant Land of My Father
Title | The Distant Land of My Father PDF eBook |
Author | Bo Caldwell |
Publisher | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | 404 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780156027137 |
Anna had a charmed childhood in 1930s Shanghai with her smuggler father. Anna and her mother fled the Japanese occupation and settled in California, but her father stayed behind. Fifteen years later, Anna is grown with a family of her own in Los Angeles when her father reappears.
The Distant Lands
Title | The Distant Lands PDF eBook |
Author | Julien Green |
Publisher | Marion Boyars Publishers |
Total Pages | 905 |
Release | 1996-07-01 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780714530222 |
The second volume of Julian Green's autobiography. "A compelling drama of the 1850s South. . . A delicious immersion into time and place." -Booklist. "There lurks in the shade of each magnolia and is heard rustling in every crinoline the South's impendin
Letter from a Distant Land
Title | Letter from a Distant Land PDF eBook |
Author | Philip Booth |
Publisher | New York : Viking Press |
Total Pages | 98 |
Release | 1957 |
Genre | Poets, American |
ISBN |
Distant Lands and Near
Title | Distant Lands and Near PDF eBook |
Author | Mark Anthony Signorelli |
Publisher | Trafford Publishing |
Total Pages | 65 |
Release | 2012-08 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 1466950935 |
In this volume, the tradition of formal poetry comes to life again. Based on various stories drawn from "distant lands and near," the poems collected here draw their inspiration from the classic poetry of the past, while exploring themes that are timeless to human life.
Los Arabes of New Mexico
Title | Los Arabes of New Mexico PDF eBook |
Author | Monika Ghattas |
Publisher | Sunstone Press |
Total Pages | 188 |
Release | 2016-09-05 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1611394783 |
At the outset, Los Arabes (Arabic-speaking individuals) were peddlers, carrying a variety of wares that often included exotic items from the Holy Land. These skilled cross-cultural traders expected to strike it rich in the United States and then return to
A Long Stay in a Distant Land
Title | A Long Stay in a Distant Land PDF eBook |
Author | Chieh Chieng |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | 258 |
Release | 2008-12-01 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1596917407 |
The Lums are cursed. Their early deaths come randomly, strangely, and often, be it by tainted cheeseburger or speeding ice cream truck. The most recent victim is Louis Lum's mother. Now Louis must move back home with his gangsta rap-obsessed father, Sonny, to prevent him from enacting the revenge he promises. But soon Louis's concern shifts to his uncle Bo Lum, who has disappeared in Hong Kong. As Louis's search progresses, the tragicomic story of three generations of Lums in America is revealed. Chieh Chieng graduated from the creative writing program at the University of California, Irvine, and has been published in Glimmer Train, the Threepenny Review, and the Santa Monica Review. * Chosen for Barnes and Noble's Discover Great New Writers Program * "This is a dazzling debut: poignant, prickly, and deliciously absurd."-Booklist "[Chieng is] a fresh comic voice...a touching and auspicious debut."-Orange Country Register