The Bigness of the World
Title | The Bigness of the World PDF eBook |
Author | Lori Ostlund |
Publisher | University of Georgia Press |
Total Pages | 234 |
Release | 2010-10-01 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0820336882 |
Set among such divergent places as a small-town in Minnesota, an Albuquerque airport, A Belizean café and a hotel swimming pool in Java, Ostlund's Flannery O'Connor Award (2008) winning debut collection depicts sexually and socially repressed Americans. Men and women who wind up feeling displaced when they fail to escape the influence of their past; ineffectual parents, fathers and lovers who disappear, teachers who struggle to connect with their students, and lifelong obsessions with language.
The Bigness of the World
Title | The Bigness of the World PDF eBook |
Author | Lori Ostlund |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | 272 |
Release | 2016-02-16 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1501117874 |
"In Lori Ostlund's award-winning debut collection, people seeking escape from situations at home venture out into a world that they find is just as complicated and troubled as the one they left behind"--
The Curse of Bigness
Title | The Curse of Bigness PDF eBook |
Author | Tim Wu |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 154 |
Release | 2018 |
Genre | BUSINESS & ECONOMICS |
ISBN | 9780999745465 |
From the man who coined the term "net neutrality" and who has made significant contributions to our understanding of antitrust policy and wireless communications, comes a call for tighter antitrust enforcement and an end to corporate bigness.
After the Parade
Title | After the Parade PDF eBook |
Author | Lori Ostlund |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | 352 |
Release | 2015-09-22 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1476790124 |
The debut novel from award-winning author Lori Ostlund—“smart, resonant, and imbued with beauty” (Publishers Weekly) that “provides considerable pleasure and emotional power” (The New York Times Book Review)—about a man who leaves his longtime partner in New Mexico for a tragicomic road trip deep into the mysteries of his own Midwestern childhood. Sensitive, bighearted, and achingly self-conscious, forty-year-old Aaron Englund long ago escaped the confinements of his Midwestern hometown, but he still feels like an outcast. After twenty years under the Pygmalion-like care of his older partner, Walter, Aaron at last decides it is time to take control of his own fate. But soon after establishing himself in San Francisco, Aaron sees that real freedom will not come until he has made peace with his memories of Mortonville, Minnesota: a cramped town whose four hundred souls form a constellation of Aaron’s childhood heartbreaks and hopes. After Aaron’s father died in the town parade, it was the larger-than life misfits of his childhood who helped Aaron find his place in a world hostile to difference. But Aaron’s sense of rejection runs deep: when Aaron was seventeen, Dolores—his loving yet selfish and enigmatic mother—vanished one night. And when, all these years later, a new friend in San Francisco offers Aaron a way to locate his mother, his past and present collide, forcing Aaron to rethink his place in the world. “Touching and often hilarious…Ostlund writes with acuity and refreshing honesty about the messy complexity of being a social animal in today’s world…” (Booklist, starred review). “Everything here aches, from the lucid prose to the sensitively treated characters to their beautiful and heartbreaking stories…An example of realism in its most potent iteration: not a nearly arranged plot orchestrated by an authorial god but an authentic, empathetic representation of life as it truly is” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review). After the Parade is a glorious anthem for the outsider.
The Curse of Bigness
Title | The Curse of Bigness PDF eBook |
Author | Tim Wu |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 192 |
Release | 2022-05-05 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9781838950873 |
The Food of the Gods
Title | The Food of the Gods PDF eBook |
Author | H. G. Wells |
Publisher | Hesperus Press |
Total Pages | 222 |
Release | 2013-12-01 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1780941978 |
Published in 1904, this forgotten classic is sci-fi and dystopia at its best, written by the creator and master of the genre Following extensive research in the field of "growth," Mr. Bensington and Professor Redwood light upon a new mysterious element, a food that causes greatly accelerated development. Initially christening their discovery "The Food of the Gods," the two scientists are overwhelmed by the possible ramifications of their creation. Needing room for experiments, Mr. Besington chooses a farm that offers him the chance to test on chickens, which duly grow monstrous, six or seven times their usual size. With the farmer, Mr. Skinner, failing to contain the spread of the Food, chaos soon reigns as reports come in of local encounters with monstrous wasps, earwigs, and rats. The chickens escape, leaving carnage in their wake. The Skinners and Redwoods have both been feeding their children the compound illicitly—their eventual offspring will constitute a new age of giants. Public opinion rapidly turns against the scientists and society rebels against the world's new flora and fauna. Daily life has changed shockingly and now politicians are involved, trying to stamp out the Food of the Gods and the giant race. Comic and at times surprisingly touching and tragic, Wells' story is a cautionary tale warning against the rampant advances of science but also of the dangers of greed, political infighting, and shameless vote-seeking.
How Big is It?
Title | How Big is It? PDF eBook |
Author | Ben Hillman |
Publisher | Scholastic Inc. |
Total Pages | 50 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Size judgment |
ISBN | 0439918081 |
Interesting facts about some of the world's biggest things.