Resultados para "The Writer" en Narrativa literaria

In 1933 in the Shenandoah Valley, there isn't a place for Lum (short for Columbia), a 33-year-old intersex woman. She travels by schedule from one branch of the family to another, assisting with cooking, childcare, and housework. Always an outsider, even in her own family, Lum secretly collects postcards of people like the Dog-faced Girl, imagining their stories, and nurtures her lifelong friendship with Smiley, an African-American man who sells furniture, odds and ends, and a little moonshine.

In this tantalizing tale of Victorian ghost stories and family secrets, timid, solitary librarian Gerard Freeman lives for just two things: his elusive pen pal Alice and a story he found hidden in his mother's drawer years ago. Written by his great-grandmother Viola, it hints at his mother's role in a sinister crime. As he discovers more of Viola's chilling tales, he realizes that they might hold the key to finding Alice and unveiling his family's mystery - or will they bring about his untimely death, as they seem to foretell?

"Preferirei di no" ripete Bartleby, il famoso scrivano di Melville, per tutto il corso del romanzo che lo vede protagonista. A differenza di lui, condizionata anche da tutti i sì delle generazioni di donne che l'hanno preceduta, l'autrice di queste pagine a dire di no fa una fatica tremenda. Come fai a dire di no a tuo padre che adori, ma vorrebbe fare di te la nuova stella del calcio anche se tu non ne vuoi sapere? O al nuovo incarico che arriva dal tuo datore di lavoro, anche se ti paga costantemente in ritardo?

On the advice of a five-dollar psychic, Tina Martin, a zany, overworked mother of two, quits her high-powered job and moves her family to Shanghai. Tina yearns for this new setting to bring her the zen-like inner peace she’s always heard about on infomercials. Instead, she becomes a totally exasperated fish out of water. Fish Heads and Duck Skin will resonate with anyone who has ever wondered who they are, why they were put here, and how they ever lived before eating pan-fried pork buns.

Written with compassionate realism and wit, the stories in this mesmerizing collection depict the disparities of town and village life in South America, of the frightfully poor and outrageously rich, of memories and illusions, and of lost opportunities and present joys. Stories include "No One Writes to the Colonel", "Tuesday Siesta", "One of These Days", "There Are No Thieves in This Town", "Balthazar's Marvelous Afternoon", "Montiel's Widow", "One Day After Saturday", "Artificial Roses", and "Big Mama's Funeral".

Immerse yourself in a world where the wonderful Stephen Fry reads some of the more memorable short stories of our time. A brilliant combination of reader and writer come together in these seven short stories available on digital download only. Stephen writes “Saki remains, from a distance of a...

Where do writers go when they die? The forgotten ones, at least, go to the Café of Minor Authors where they drink endless cups of cappuccino, self-obsess, and nurse their shattered dreams. Some authors, it’s rumored, can escape Oblivion if they try hard enough to write something the universe can’t ignore, even after death. This is the story of one ambitious writer stuck in Oblivion who not only risks upturning his own fate but also the fate of his literary hero and that of his great grandmother, Hanna, an aspiring actor in the Yiddish theater in the Prague of 1911.

כתב כמויות מציע התבוננות מלאה רגישות, חמלה והומור על מערכות השלד, הקונסטרוקציות של הדברים, משחק עם הציפיות (המתוחכמות, השמרניות, המבולבלות) שלנו למפגש בין גברים ונשים, יהודים וערבים, ובוחן מושגים של בית, משפחה ואהבה.

First published in 1915, The Voyage Out marked the literary debut of one of the great pioneers of the modern novel. Virginia Woolf's extraordinary narrative follows a group of lively, eccentric British tourists embarking on a sea voyage from London to South America. Among them is Rachel Vinrace, a shy, motherless young woman who has been taken along under the wing of her Aunt Helen, so that she may learn "how to live".

El món de les lletres està podrit: enveges i plagis a tort i a dret, agents literaris corruptes, escriptors amb vanitats injustificades i editors sense escrúpols. Nil Barral, el primer investigador gai de Catalunya, haurà de resoldre un cas en aquest ambient tan tèrbol. I s’hi sentirà com a casa.

El que ha de ser l’escriptor més gran del món no acaba d’engegar els grans projectes literaris que té. Durant dos mesos d’estiu escriu un dietari divertit i inversemblant per rumiar sobre el seu bloqueig creatiu. A partir de l’observació de les persones del seu entorn, acaba explicant la història real de la nòvia de Bin Laden i el conflicte diplomàtic entre Alemanya, França i Andorra, la relació entre Caterina Howard i Enric VIII, el vincle desconegut entre Heròdot, Ramsès II i Bruce Willis i les angoixes i trifulgues del maharaja de Babalalipur.

A Most Anticipated Book of the Year: Time, The Washington Post, and Literary Hub A novel tracing a father’s disappearance across time, nations, and memory, from the author of Trust Exercise. One night, Louisa and her father take a walk on the beach. He’s carrying a flashlight. He cannot swim...

Autobiography.

Performed by Nancy Pearl, Jeff Schwager and a multi-cast that includes book contributors Luis Alberto Urrea, Siri Hustvedt, Laurie Frankel, Vendela Vida, and Richard Ford. The Writer’s Library audiobook also features real conversations with Michael Chabon, Ayelet Waldman, and Laila Lalami...

Ryan Trussell just wants to fit in. Uprooted in the bleakest time of the year at the very worst time of his life things don't sound promising. Ryan's only friend can't talk but does listen well. A new friend appears and things become less bleak. That friend reveals a possible problem in Ryan's house and what follows is a roller coaster of emotions and antics that will have you checking your own attic for more than pesky flies.

In 1964 the eccentric American novelist Patricia Highsmith is hiding out in a cottage in Suffolk, to concentrate on her writing and escape her fans. She has another motive, too - a secret romance with a married lover based in London. Unfortunately it soon becomes clear that all her demons have come with her. Prowlers, sexual obsessives, frauds, imposters, suicides and murderers: the tropes of her fictions clamour for her attention, rudely intruding on her peaceful Suffolk retreat.

The Modern-Day Jōb: An Amazing Fable of Truth is a gripping tale of faith, heartbreak, and triumph that will leave you reflecting on life’s deepest questions long after the finale.

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK A “clear-eyed and fearless” (The New York Times Book Review) collection of ten short stories from the award-winning author of Evening “Tender, precise, emotional, insightful, and funny.”—JULIANNE MOORE A writer dryly catalogs the myriad reasons she...

Nick Donaghue, a handsome young obituary writer for The Times, leads a charmed existence until he is caught up in one of Britain's worst ever train crashes. When he survives unscathed, his friends and colleagues consider him the luckiest man alive. Only Nick knows the truth - that he is tormented by horrific nightmares.

Anika Parrish has been considered an internet sensation with her Health and Beauty Product line SkinCosmos. She has the hottest products out and is on her way to billionaire status as the Biggest Bossette in the industry. However, Anika has not had the best luck in choosing men. She has given up dating and has substituted dating for what she calls favors. Come along this journey as Anika has scheduled appointments with men that satisfy her the way she thinks she needs to be pleased. Can Anika keep these scheduled favors going? Or will a love interest interrupt her scheduled plans?