The Crane
Title | The Crane PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | New York Review of Books |
Total Pages | 104 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 9781590170755 |
In an ever-expanding city, one young man claims the job of his dreams, operator of the tallest crane around. Since others envy his position, he never leaves his crane, always eager for the day—and work—to begin. As the seasons pass, man and machine almost become one. "The crane was a giant with iron sinews, and the craneman was its heart." Then people begin to hoard their goods, grinning ravens multiply throughout the land, and war is at hand. But the craneman never falters, remaining at his post even when the land is flooded, ready for reconstruction to begin.
The Crane Wife
Title | The Crane Wife PDF eBook |
Author | CJ Hauser |
Publisher | Anchor |
Total Pages | 321 |
Release | 2023-06-27 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0593312880 |
A memoir in essays that expands on the viral sensation “The Crane Wife” with a frank and funny look at love, intimacy, and self in the twenty-first century. From friends and lovers to blood family and chosen family, this “elegant masterpiece” (Roxane Gay, New York Times bestselling author of Hunger) asks what more expansive definitions of love might offer us all. A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: TIME, THE GUARDIAN, GARDEN & GUN "Hauser builds their life's inventory out of deconstructed personal narratives, resulting in a reading experience that's rich like a complicated dessert—not for wolfing down but for savoring in small bites." —The New York Times “Clever, heartfelt, and wrenching.” —Time “Brilliant.” —Oprah Daily Ten days after calling off their wedding, CJ Hauser went on an expedition to Texas to study the whooping crane. After a week wading through the gulf, they realized they'd almost signed up to live someone else's life. What if you released yourself from traditional narratives of happiness? What if you looked for ways to leave room for the unexpected? In Hauser’s case, this meant dissecting pop culture touchstone, from The Philadelphia Story to The X Files, to learn how not to lose yourself in a relationship. They attended a robot convention, contemplated grief at John Belushi’s gravesite, and officiated a wedding. Most importantly, they mapped the difference between the stories we’re asked to hold versus those we choose to carry. Told with the late-night barstool directness of your wisest, most bighearted friend, The Crane Wife is a book for everyone whose path doesn't look the way they thought it would; for everyone learning to find joy in the not-knowing and to build a new sort of life story, a new sort of family, a new sort of home to live in.
The Crane Wife
Title | The Crane Wife PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | 36 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 9780152163501 |
A retelling of the traditional Japanese tale about a poor sail maker who gains a beautiful but mysterious wife skilled at weaving magical sails.
The Crane Wife
Title | The Crane Wife PDF eBook |
Author | Patrick Ness |
Publisher | Harper Collins |
Total Pages | 269 |
Release | 2014-01-21 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 144342014X |
The extraordinary happens every day . . . George Duncan is an American living and working in London. He is divorced, the owner of a small print shop, and lonelier than he realizes. One night he is woken by an extraordinary sound coming from his garden. A great white crane has tumbled to earth, its wing shot through by a giant arrow. Unexpectedly moved, George pulls out the arrow and frees the crane, and from the moment he watches it fly off, his life is transformed. The very next day, he meets an enigmatic woman, an artist who transforms the lives of everyone around her, including Amanda, George’s angry--and very funny--daughter, Amanda’s adorable French son and George himself. Wise, romantic, sublime and laugh-out-loud funny, The Crane Wife is hugely entertaining but also resonates on a deep, dreamlike, mythic level. Above all it’s a celebration of the disruptive and redemptive power of love.
The Crane Bag
Title | The Crane Bag PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Graves |
Publisher | Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
Total Pages | 262 |
Release | 1969 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN |
The Crane Girl
Title | The Crane Girl PDF eBook |
Author | Curtis Manley |
Publisher | Shen's Books |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2023-11-07 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 9781643796840 |
In this magical retelling of a Japanese folktale, a mysterious girl weaves silk to help repay the kindness of a boy and his father until the father's greed finally exposes her secret.
The Paper Crane
Title | The Paper Crane PDF eBook |
Author | Molly Bang |
Publisher | Harper Collins |
Total Pages | 34 |
Release | 1987-07-15 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 0688073336 |
Business returns to a once prosperous restaurant when a mysterious stranger pays for his meal with a magical paper crane that comes alive and dances.