Resultados para "Pond" en Narrativa literaria

La solución, en las malas ficciones policíacas, es de orden material: una puerta secreta, una barba suplementaria. En las buenas, es de orden psicológico: una falacia, un hábito mental, una superstición. Ejemplo de las buenas y aun de las mejores es cualquier relato de Chesterton.

Originally published in The New Yorker in 1954, The Ponder Heart is easily Eudora Welty’s most comic novel, a lighthearted burlesque that rivals Caldwell’s Tobacco Road for capturing rural idioms, and the novels of Mark Twain for high farce.

When Melody Standish arrives in the small town of Embden, Maine, to teach three middle school grades in a portable classroom, she has no idea what that will look like. The literary terms she plans to introduce, words like Foreshadow, Irony, Moral, parable, emerge inside and out side the classroom. A revolving door of men enters Melody's life, all seemingly wanting something from her. The serene background of a freshwater pond and a basket of pebbles possibly dredged up from the deep provides enough rough water to keep the reader on task.

Young Ryan Jordan is exploring an old abandoned mining town with his father and sister on horseback. The empty wooden shacks, an old church, a cold wind rustling the sagebrush give the kids the creeps. On top of that, Ryan teases his sister about ghosts while holding in his own fear. After they ride through the Boot Hill graveyard, with its forgotten graves, they settle in to their camper for the evening where Ryan must come to grips with his fear.

Ryan Jordan invites a friend down to Guaymas, Mexico for a beach camping trip, to sail on his Hobie catamaran and snorkel in the warm waters of the Sea of Cortez. He hopes to get to know her better, more than just a friend, now that both are out of college and single. There are a few awkward moments leading up to Stephanie revealing a secret from her recent past. Then, flashes of light — a possible storm — interrupt the moment.

Joseph Manley, a blue-collar worker from Idaho, loses his job during the 2009 economic recession. A strange turn of events sets him off on a road trip to seek out the fictional sitcom families from Good Times and All in the Family. Haunted inns, abandoned houses, catastrophic weather, quirky couples, gangs, hippies, soldiers, loving dads, strong mothers — even an intuitive stray dog await Joe on his journey.