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Verlag: The University of Alabama Press, United States, Normal, 2014
ISBN 10: 1573661805ISBN 13: 9781573661805
Anbieter: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, Vereinigtes Königreich
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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. In this dazzling debut about life after loss, Luke B. Goebels heart-hurt, ultra-adrenalized alter ego, H. Roc, leads us on a raucous RV romp across whats left of postmodern America and beyond. Whether its gobbling magic cacti at a native ceremony in Northern California, burning bad manuscripts in a backyard bonfire in East Texas, or travelling at top speed to an infamous editors office in Manhattan (with a burnt-out barista and an illegal bald eagle as companions), scene by scene, story by story, Goebel plunges us into a madly original fictional realm characterized by heartbroken psychedelic cowboys on the brink - lonely men who wrestle wild dogs on cheap beaches and kick horses in the face to get ahead. Fourteen Stories, None of Them Are Yours is a rare book: Goebels ingenuity, humanity, and humor streak through every page. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Verlag: The University of Alabama Press, Normal, 2023
ISBN 10: 1573662038ISBN 13: 9781573662031
Anbieter: Grand Eagle Retail, Wilmington, DE, USA
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Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. There is a sense that, if only the pieces could be put together in the right way, some answer to a spill of unasked questions would become clear. There is Only One Ghost in the World follows the stories of a multilayered voice broken into fragments, an intimate witness that both delicately and bluntly reveals the best and the worst in all of us. The intricately woven voice(s) embark on a kaleidoscopic investigation into the loneliness of modern American life and family relationships, exploring the truths and lies we tell one another, and why, with empathy, grief, and humility. There is spiritual significance and consequence to these investigations, knit with the opaque vein of exploring language itself, the practice of etymological study wielded as one tool of unearthing. Inherently political, there is an unavoidable violence in this work, as stories travel from the oil-slicked beaches of California and the alleys of New Orleans to the steps of the Capitol. Here: the raw nerves of gender and identity; here: the lessons of heartbreak; here: true myths and old rumors; here: legacies of art and incisors of seasons. Incompletable Venn diagrams, sibling porn stars; addiction and climate change, the lyrics of disco and taxonomy of slot machines; last meals and unearthed mummies. There is Only One Ghost in the World is a book about what happened just before you woke up, and what happened just after. And what happened next. A rabbit hole of memory and longing. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Verlag: The University of Alabama Press, Normal, 2024
ISBN 10: 1573662046ISBN 13: 9781573662048
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Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. The mysterious houseboat Veronica motors across a postapocalyptic freshwater lake, inhabited by a black-haired witch and her young male ward. They explore an unfolding world of shape-shifting moons, vampire moths, and submerged witch cemeteriesa world where voluntary imprisonment holds its own appeal and the heart yearns for the delicate dance between blood and power, beauty and terror. Neither a pirate nor a mere witch, she is an artist, a master of water and time who shapes reality with her baffling powers. This lyrical and compelling novel beckons readers to explore the enigmatic depths of its prose, inviting them to traverse the waters of wonder and bewilderment. Embrace the bewitching allure of The Houseboat Veronica and lose yourself in its enchanting embrace. The haunting, mytho-poetic tale of a witch and her young ward aboard the houseboat Veronica, endlessly sculling the waters at farthest edges of the known world - and the edges of reason, beauty, and horror. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Verlag: The University of Alabama Press, Normal, 2024
ISBN 10: 1573662054ISBN 13: 9781573662055
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Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. Enter a world where time stands still and summer never ends. In the enchanted town of Tannery Bay, its July 37, and then July 2 again, but the year is a mystery. Trapped in an eternal loop, the residents embark on an extraordinary journey of self-discovery, unity, and defiance against the forces that seek to divide them. Otis and Joy, intrepid siblings, work with their family and friends to oppose a formidable adversary: The Owners. These cunning and ruthless old men, driven by insatiable greed, hold the town hostage, exploiting its resources and dividing its people. In this powerful #OwnVoices narrative, Tannery Bay is a captivating tale of Black Joy and Queer Joy and the ways in which family is both biological and chosen, where love transcends boundaries, and where art is a vehicle for change. A volume which explores Black Joy, Queer Joy, and the ways in which family is both biological and chosen. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Verlag: The University of Alabama Press, Normal, 2022
ISBN 10: 1573661961ISBN 13: 9781573661966
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Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. Meditations on the ways grief is felt and harvestedthe funny, the sorrowful, the surreal, and the unmentionable Winner of FC2s Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Prize The stories in My Haunted Home delve in startling ways into the lives of the obsessed, the grieving, and the truly haunted. Victoria Hood conjures a shifting range of narrators through an unstable range of worlds where mothers might be dead, girls compulsively shove peanuts inside their ears, agoraphobia traps people inside their houses, and cats wont eat your soup. In The Teeth, the Way I Smile, a daughter who looks like her dead mother manifests grief both in her house and her body. In Smelly Smelly, a woman slowly comes to realize her boyfriend has been dead for weeks. In You, Your Fault, we explore the unfolding love of two women who love every part of each otherincluding the parts that fixate on arson and murder. Each story is a bite-size piece of haunting candy on a necklace of obsession holding them together. Hood probes the worlds of what can be haunted, unpacking the ways in which hauntings can be manifested in physical forms, mentally harvested and lived through, and even a change in what is haunting. The stories in My Haunted Home delve in startling ways into the lives of the obsessed, the grieving, and the truly haunted. Victoria Hood conjures a shifting range of narrators through an unstable range of worlds. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Verlag: The University of Alabama Press, Normal, 2022
ISBN 10: 1573661929ISBN 13: 9781573661928
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Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. An enigmatic woman wanders from a pleasure mansion to a backyard wedding, upending the lives of everyone present No one knows the woman at the wedding. Not the caterer, an easy target, succumbing to her advances. Not the pregnant bride or her tangled family, trying to spin a fairytale wedding under a melting hot summer sun. Not even the brides stepsister, Charlotte, who, in the middle of the night and despite her better judgment, allows this wandering wedding crasher into her car. Crusted in dried blood and other bodily fluids, the woman exists in layers of sense and story, a nesting doll of pornographic tales in which fantasy and banality collide and blur. In this novel that is at once visceral, vivid, and spare, the uninvited guest gives each of those she meets what they want, whether they like it or not. Here writhe distinct bodies in distinct ecstasies, echoing and defying inherited American narratives about gender, shame, and pleasure. With an edge of humor and horror, Woods explores if and howwe consent to our own desires. A disturbed and sociopathic woman arrives unannounced and uninvited to an afternoon wedding, upending the lives of everyone present. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Verlag: The University of Alabama Press 2004-05-30, Normal [Ill.], 2004
ISBN 10: 1573661198ISBN 13: 9781573661195
Anbieter: Blackwell's, London, Vereinigtes Königreich
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paperback. Zustand: New. Language: ENG.
Verlag: The University of Alabama Press, Normal, 2021
ISBN 10: 1573661902ISBN 13: 9781573661904
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Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. A fiercely ecstatic tale of betrayal and self-sacrifice.Messiahs centers on two nameless lovers, a woman of east Asian descent and a former state prisoner, a black man who volunteered incarceration on behalf of his falsely convicted nephew, yet was exonerated after more than two years on death row. In this dystopian America, one can assume a relatives capital sentence as an act of holy reformthe proxy initiative, patterned after the Passion.The lovers begin their affair by exchanging letters, and after his release, they withdraw to a remote cabin during a torrential winter, haunted by their respective past tragedies. Savagely ostracized by her family for years, the woman is asked by her mother to take the proxy initiative for her brothercreating a conflict she cannot bear to share with her lover. Comprised of ten poetic paragraphs, Messiahs rigorous style and sustained intensity equals agony and ecstasy. A fiercely ecstatic tale of betrayal and self-sacrifice, Messiahs centres on two nameless lovers, a woman of east Asian descent and a former state prisoner, a black man who volunteered incarceration on behalf of his falsely convicted nephew, yet was exonerated after more than two years on death row. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Verlag: The University of Alabama Press, Normal, 2008
ISBN 10: 1573661465ISBN 13: 9781573661461
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Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. After burning up the blacktop in New Mexico with The Fast Red Road and rewriting Indian history on the Great Plains with The Bird is Gone, Stephen Graham Jones now takes us to Montana. Set on a Blackfeet Indian reservation, the life of one Indian boy, Doby Saxon, is laid bare through the eyes of those who witness it: his near-death experience, his suicide attempts, his brief glimpse of victory, and the unnecessary death of one of his best friends. But through Doby there emerges a connection to the past, to an Indian Agent who served the United States Government over a century before. This revelation leads to another and another until it becomes clear that the decisions of this single Indian Agent have impacted the lives of generations of Blackfeet Indians. And the life of Doby Saxon, a boy standing in the middle of the road at night, his hands balled into fists, the reservation wheeling all around him like the whole of Blackfeet history hurtling towards him. Joness beautifully complex novel is a story of life, death, love, and the ties that bind us not only to what has been, but what will be: the power of one moment, the weight of one decision, the inevitability of one outcome, and the price of one life. After burning up the blacktop in New Mexico with The Fast Red Road and rewriting Indian history on the Great Plains with The Bird is Gone, Stephen Graham Jones now takes us to Montana. Set on a Blackfeet Indian reservation, the life of one Indian boy, Doby Saxon, is laid bare through the eyes of those who witness it. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Verlag: The University of Alabama Press, Normal, 2023
ISBN 10: 1573662011ISBN 13: 9781573662017
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Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. The stories in Victoria Lancelottas Ways to Disappear excavate the unexamined places between dread and desire, promise and threat, where the body is both prison and salvation. Populated by the grieving and the exultant and those who see no difference between the two, by men and women who are only a little bit broken and boys and girls who cant wait to be, by souls untethered, rootless, yet bound by blood and flesh, Lancelottas characters are driven by the irresistible need to be a bigger part of the worlds they each inhabit, by turns strange and commonplace. In language lush and jagged, never sentimental, these stories scrutinize the exhaustion and enchantment of the everyday: houses seething with resentment and devotion, cars dream-full and hurtling the children in them into a world they think they know but cant imagine; front porches, back yards, luxury hotels, and truck stops. Lancelotta understands that sometimes people check their wounds not to see if theyve healed, but to be sure theyre still there. The stories in Victoria Lancelottas Ways to Disappear excavate the unexamined places between dread and desire, promise and threat, where the body is both prison and salvation. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Verlag: The University of Alabama Press, Normal, 2021
ISBN 10: 1573661910ISBN 13: 9781573661911
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Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. Winner of FC2s Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Prize.A stunning look at the labor of obsession and the industry of self-destruction.In her lush, lyrical, and unflinching short fiction debut, JoAnna Novak examines the restless throb of desire amid the rote work of jobs and obligations, from the walk-ins of a New York banquet kitchen to the pier of Venice Beach. Fueled by jellyfish pad Thai and Necco wafers, Mountain Dew and Xiaolongbao, the characters in these stories defy boundaries and mores: In MEMO 19, a former anorectic, bored of recovery and her clerical job, invites an unparalleled act of sexual defilement and in Rio Grande, Wisconsin, a fleshly preteen fantasizes about Bill Murray on a family vacation to Wisconsin. Celebrating the grueling beauty of the shift and the ticking virtues of self-restraint, Meaningful Work is a pageant of formal experimentation, in fearless, glittering prose. In her lush, lyrical, and unflinching short fiction debut, JoAnna Novak examines the restless throb of desire amid the rote work of jobs and obligations, from the walk-ins of a New York banquet kitchen to the pier of Venice Beach. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Verlag: The University of Alabama Press, Normal, 2023
ISBN 10: 157366202XISBN 13: 9781573662024
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Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. Both an exorcism of contemporary academia and a comedic portrait of an artist seeking the means to survive At once angry and jubilant, Ray Levys School is a curse on life in a dying university system and an incantation for transforming the material of ones academic humbling into a vessel for capacious, creative selfhood. The novel incorporates a variety of forms, including a dissertation manuscript possessed by the spirit of Marquis de Sade, a lecture on psychoanalysis delivered as stand-up comedy by a dysphoric graduate student, a review of a found-footage horror movie thats also a YouTube video of a conference presentation on French theory, an interview with an avant-garde filmmaker thats really an invocation for conjuring your demon brother, and more. The whole functions as a caustic ritual. School overshares and withholds, cites and dEtournEs, chants and channels as it invokes the dead fathers of deconstruction for the black mass that occurs painfully and parodically across the pages. A hand-biting tale, one that chews off the finger instead of kissing the ring, School is a deeply unprofessional book about intellectual professions with reference to endless debt and neoliberalization, coercive seduction rites and fetishizations of authority, and the realization of a life in which you have not lostand, yes, you deserve the full horizon of possibility. Both a needed exorcism of academia and a comedic portrait of the artist seeking some means to survive. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Verlag: The University of Alabama Press 2000-11-30, Normal [Ill.], 2000
ISBN 10: 1573660884ISBN 13: 9781573660884
Anbieter: Blackwell's, London, Vereinigtes Königreich
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paperback. Zustand: New. Language: ENG.
Verlag: The University of Alabama Press 1999-04-30, Normal, Ill., 1999
ISBN 10: 1573660752ISBN 13: 9781573660754
Anbieter: Blackwell's, London, Vereinigtes Königreich
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paperback. Zustand: New. Language: ENG.
Verlag: The University of Alabama Press, Normal, 1999
ISBN 10: 1573660787ISBN 13: 9781573660785
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Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. With his unerring ear for dialogue, transgressive high style, deadpan comedy, and narrative velocity, Harold Jaffe elaborates his harsh millenarian prophecy while it in a satire as fierce as that of Swift or Rabelais. At the same time, Jaffe seeks, as always, to uncover the principle of resistance that will keep us sensitive, sexual, and critical of a culture that would otherwise neuter us. An intricately connected series of texts, virtually a novel, these twelve extreme tales from a master guerilla storyteller will reverberate through our reading, infect our dreams, and bleed into our workday. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
Verlag: The University of Alabama Press, Normal, 1995
ISBN 10: 1573660000ISBN 13: 9781573660006
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Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
Verlag: The University of Alabama Press, Normal, 2017
ISBN 10: 1573660604ISBN 13: 9781573660600
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Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. Winner of the FC2 Catherine Doctorow Innovative Fiction PrizeA darkly comical horror lurks beneath the surface of everyday events in Refrigerated Music for a Gleaming Woman, a seductively poetic story collection of unusual brilliance and rare humor. In Aimee Parkisons Refrigerated Music for a Gleaming Woman, lovers find unexpected romance in cramped spaces, fast food addicts struggle through cheeseburger addiction, and the splendor of nature competes with the violence of television. All the while, a complicated and precarious present dawns onto a new world where wealthy women wear childrens eyes as jewelry and those in need of money hawk their faces only to forever mourn what parts of themselves they have sold to survive.Open the refrigerator door. Inside are antique jars. Open them to hear the music: Beethoven playing piano; slaves singing for freedom in plantation fields; mothers humming lullabies through the night to smallpox babies, knowing this song is the last sound their children will ever hear.As Stephen Graham Jones notes in his foreword to this prize-winning collection, The best books . . . fold you into a darkness sparkling with life. They lock you in the refrigerator but they also pipe in some music that never repeats, and when the door starts to open, you cling tight to it, so you can have just a few minutes more. This book, itll be over far too fast for you, yes. But even were it five times as thick as it is now, it would still be too short. Remember, though, the best books, theyre loops. They never stop. This one still hasnt, for me. A darkly comical horror lurks beneath the surface of everyday events in Refrigerated Music for a Gleaming Woman, a seductively poetic story collection of unusual brilliance and rare humour. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.
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Verlag: The University of Alabama Press, Normal, 1998
ISBN 10: 1573660477ISBN 13: 9781573660471
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Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. Meet Jay Marvin, the first great crime writer of the 21st century (Edward Bunker, author of Dog Eat Dog), who dips his pen into warm blood and shattered bone and paints his unflinching view of how it is out there. An honest voice in an age of whining, emotionless hacks. He's a friend and a valuable creative spirit (Tom Russell, poet and song writer). **Lightning Print On Demand Title "Meet Jay Marvin, the first great crime writer of the 21st century" (Edward Bunker, author of "Dog Eat Dog"), who "dips his pen into warm blood and shattered bone and paints his unflinching view of how it is out there. An honest voice in an age of whining, emotionless hacks. He's a friend and a valuable creative spirit" (Tom Russell, poet and song writer). **Lightning Print On Demand Title Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
Verlag: The University of Alabama Press, Normal, 2009
ISBN 10: 157366152XISBN 13: 9781573661522
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Zustand: new. You've never experienced a novel like this. ""TOC"" is a multimedia epic about time - the invention of the second, the beating of a heart, the story of humans connecting through time to each other and to the world. An evocative fairy tale with a steampunk heart, ""TOC"" is a breath-taking visual novel, an assemblage of text, film, music, photography, the spoken word, animation, and painting.It is the story of a man who digs a hole so deep he can hear the past, a woman who climbs a ladder so high she can see the future, as well as others trapped in the clockless, timeless time of a surgery waiting room: God's time. Theirs is an imagined history of people who are fixed in the past, those who have no word for the future, and those who live out their days oblivious to both. A new media hybrid, ""TOC"" re-imagines what the book is and can be. Produced as a DVD for playback on personal computers (both Macs and PCs), ""TOC"" retains the intimate, one-on-one experience that a reader can have with a book as it draws on the power of other art forms to immerse readers in an altogether new multimedia story. Presents the story of a man who digs a hole so deep he can hear the past, a woman who climbs a ladder so high she can see the future, as well as others trapped in the clockless, timeless time of a surgery waiting room: God's time. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
Verlag: The University of Alabama Press, Normal, 1996
ISBN 10: 1573660167ISBN 13: 9781573660167
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Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. These text are territories, dark forests, places to dwell. Sheets of language superimpose and recurrent words and images begin to fall upon one another like the bricks or sticks of an imagined palace waiting to be explored Where is this palace? Somewhere on an island between San Francisco, California and Medellin, Columbia. This palace is empty, the builder has left. But one can hear a melody drifting down its halls. If you have a little time, if you are one of the readership's unabashed children, take up your flashlight and enter this attempt to whistle things as they are, simultaneous and spiraling, full of leaves and laughter, women walking doodles in the morning, confusion as fusion considered, and the breeze that lifts us up into the trees. These text are territories, dark forests, places to dwell. Sheets of language superimpose and recurrent words and images begin to fall upon one another like the bricks or sticks of an imagined palace waiting to be explored Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
Verlag: The University of Alabama Press, Normal, 2010
ISBN 10: 1573661589ISBN 13: 9781573661584
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Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. The landscape of this novel in stories? Joseph Cardinales first book-length work of fiction is as familiar as childhood yet beguilingly surreal. The question of whether or not the child in the first fiction and the man in the last story are the same person?and whether any person is the same from one moment to the next?is perhaps the books main question. In prose as spare as it is meticulous, The Size of the Universe conjures an elegant labyrinth of time, space, and memory, in which a wavering self, a self on the verge of becoming nothing, seeks a safe haven from the throes of near-religious ecstasy. It is a debut work that is inviting, perplexing, and bold. The author's first book-length work of fiction that is as familiar as childhook yet beguilingly surreal. This book conjures an elegant labyrinth of time, space, and memory, in which a wavering self, a self on the verge of becoming nothing, seeks a safe haven from the throes of near-religious ecstasy. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
Verlag: The University of Alabama Press, Normal, 2004
ISBN 10: 1573661147ISBN 13: 9781573661140
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Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. If art imitated capitalism, it would look like Borges' Travel, Hemingway's Garage. In this secret guide to culture, Mark Axelrod has scoured Europe and the Americas photographing products and businesses that bear the great names of Western civilization and then has recounted the little-known turns of fate by which our immortals ended up in these mundane straits. For those who lament our culture's prostitution to capital, Borges' Travel, Hemingway's Garage offers definitive proof that art lives on. Learn the untold history of Rembrandt's Toothpaste, Van Gogh's Potatoes, Lautrec Handbags, and Kipling's Rucksacks. Dine on Fellini's Pollo La Strada in Brussels. Hear the great Czech fabulist kibitzing with his cooks at Kafka's Cafe, and find out about Christ's ""hidden years"" at the Taverne Chez Jesus. In this secret guide to culture, Mark Axelrod has scoured Europe and the Americas photographing products and businesses that bear the great names of Western civilization and then has recounted the little-known turns of fate by which our immortals ended up in these mundane straits. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
Verlag: The University of Alabama Press, Normal, 1999
ISBN 10: 1573660825ISBN 13: 9781573660822
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Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. This set of stories centres on the subject of rape. Told in the style of an online hypertext program, the narratives are as stark as the act of rape itself.' Juxtaposing savvy technical language and graphic scenes of sexual violence, the novel creates an alternative techno fictive space for representing lived experience. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
Verlag: The University of Alabama Press, Normal, 2012
ISBN 10: 1573661651ISBN 13: 9781573661652
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Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. Stark and vibrant, the two halves of this sutured book expose the Frankenstein-like scars of the assemblage we call 'human.' In 'Another Governess' a woman in a decaying manor tries to piece together her own story. In 'The Least Blacksmith' a man cannot help but fail his older brother as they struggle to run their father's forge. Each of the stories stands alone, sharing neither characters nor settings. But together, they ask the same question: What are the wages of being? The relentless darkness of these tales is punctured by hope - the violent hope of the speaking subject. Stark and vibrant, the two halves of this sutured book expose the Frankenstein-like scars of the assemblage we call human. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
Verlag: The University of Alabama Press, Normal, 2010
ISBN 10: 1573661546ISBN 13: 9781573661546
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Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. In Lynn K. Kilpatrick's ""In the House"", anything can happen. A collection of shorts - lists, character sketches, directions, scripts, and instructions - ""In the House"" reveals the often conspicuous, yet frequently overlooked, dangers of relationships gone awry. In a home suffused with fragility or in a kitchen surrounded by knives, Kilpatrick's men and women navigate around one another's eccentricities with caution, highlighting the unspoken desires and veiled needs of domestic routine. In these stories those desires collide, illuminating the dangers that can lurk in seemingly insignificant places such as the pantry, a basement, the Miss America pageant, dioramas, or in the mind of the one you love. Featuring a collection of shorts - lists, character sketches, directions, scripts, and instructions, this title reveals the often conspicuous, yet frequently overlooked, dangers of relationships gone awry. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
Verlag: The University of Alabama Press, Normal, 1999
ISBN 10: 1573660779ISBN 13: 9781573660778
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Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. Dedicated to the memory of the late Omar Castaneda, this collection of radical writings crosses the boundary of that which cannot be said. The work of Omar Castaneda epitomized the new era of Latino writing that combined heart and art: hyper-arte and hyper-corazon. This anthology fulfills his vision of a collection of fiction and cross-genre prose by contemporary Latino/a writers on "unspeakable" topics. These works upset and disturb the gentlemans agreement upon which some of the current politics of Latino identity are precariously based. These works also attain a new level of craft, a high style of writing to topple the current politics of aesthetics that threaten to oppress all writers. New pieces by Judith Ortiz Cofer, Lionel G. Garcia, Stephen Gutierrez, MacArthur Fellow Luis Alfaro, as well as scriptwriter Rick Najera, join the voices of newcomers and never-before-released work of the late Castaneda. Every entry catches the High Style of new thoughts, new forms, and killer prose that simultaneously sabotages the politics of the English and Spanglish languages. This writing brings together art and politics, and unites the best of several possible worlds under the Latino canopy of multi-multi-culturalism, an exponential-culturalism. The work of Omar Castaneda epitomized the new era of Latino writing that combined heart and art: hyper-arte and hyper-corazon. This anthology fulfills his vision of a collection of fiction and cross-genre prose by contemporary Latino/a writers on "unspeakable" topics. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
Verlag: The University of Alabama Press, Normal, 2012
ISBN 10: 1573661686ISBN 13: 9781573661683
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Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. When you step inside Patrick Lawler's Rescuers of Skydivers Search Among the Clouds, you will find yourself hovering in the clouds, among a family and a town, and in the world of one of fiction's most inventive writers. Patrick Lawler's latest novel is about resonance, echoes, and naming; about hiding inside of names; about standing completely still; and about the fractalization of family. Connect the dots. Connect the secrets. Mother. Father. Sisters. Brother. Every character wears a variety of masks, and every place is also someplace else. Rescuers of Skydivers Search Among the Clouds is a reconfiguring of narrative - how stories exist inside stories, how place exists inside self, how self exists inside others, and how parachutists exist inside clouds. Patrick Lawler's latest novel is about resonance, echoes, and naming; about hiding inside of names; about standing completely still; and about the fractalization of family. Connect the dots. Connect the secrets. Mother. Father. Sisters. Brother. Every character wears a variety of masks, and every place is also someplace else. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
Verlag: The University of Alabama Press, Normal, 2016
ISBN 10: 157366054XISBN 13: 9781573660549
Anbieter: CitiRetail, Stevenage, Vereinigtes Königreich
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Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. In this melancholy novel about a man on the brink of suicide, Stanley Crawford allows readers to question what it really means to be close to a person. Intimacy follows an unnamed narrator planning his own death. His preparations become a trigger and occasion for him to revisit key moments in his life and his material possessions, which are the solid artifacts from his lifes journey.As sparrows in flight might form a single arrow, the life of the narrator comes into focus as a collage of fleeting events and images. Readers gain insights into tiny moments that slowly build into a picture of a man who seems to have very little, aside from material possessions, to lose.The narrative pulls the reader along a trail of digressionsabout running shoes, about the symbolism of ringsthat lead down a proverbial rabbit hole until we realize the narrators intentions. Despite our lack of concrete knowledge about the narrators life, he allows us to share his thought processes: how every thought leads to the next, how memories seep upward when he picks up a particular T-shirt, or when he glimpses his car keys. And alongside our growing understanding of the narrator comes a recognition of our own thought processes: how we, like him, relate to our bodies; how we, too, cannot break away from the constant motion of our thoughts.Intimacy is a brief, intense novel charged with the heightened sense of closeness that comes from watching a mans last hours. It illuminates how brief snapshots of memory can trace the outline of an entire life. In this melancholy novel about a man on the brink of suicide, Stanley Crawford allows readers to question what it really means to be close to a person. Intimacy follows an unnamed narrator planning his own death. His preparations become a trigger and occasion for him to revisit key moments in his life and his material possessions. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
Verlag: The University of Alabama Press, Normal, 2018
ISBN 10: 157366068XISBN 13: 9781573660686
Anbieter: CitiRetail, Stevenage, Vereinigtes Königreich
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Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. Lyric fictions by a master fabulist of America's Midwest.The Moon over Wapakoneta is vintage Michael Martone, the visionary oracle of the American Midwest with the gift for discovering the marvelous in the mundane. In these stories Martone shows us how traveling across time zones from Ohio to Indiana is a form of time travel; how a beer bottle can serve as a kind of telescope, how Amish might power their spaceships with windmills as they travel through space and time. These stories capture the paradox of feeling that one is in the heart of the country while at the same time in the middle of nowhere, of natives who find themselves strangers in their once familiar, but now strange, lands.On display is a love of obsolete technologies, small-town whimsy, home movies of proms and birthday parties, steam engines and baseball games. If Italo Calvino lived in Indiana rather than Italy, these are the fictions he might have made. Lyric fictions by a master fabulist of America's Midwest. The Moon over Wapakoneta is vintage Michael Martone, the visionary oracle of the American Midwest with the gift for discovering the marvelous in the mundane. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
Verlag: The University of Alabama Press, Normal, 2015
ISBN 10: 1573660531ISBN 13: 9781573660532
Anbieter: CitiRetail, Stevenage, Vereinigtes Königreich
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Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. Immigrants lost in the blistering expanse of the Sonoran Desert, problem bears, bats pollinating saguaros, a Good Samaritan filling tanks at emergency water stations, and the terrified runaway boy who shoots him pierce the heart and mind of Rosana Derais. Vanishings, the first story in Silence and Song, is a love letter, a prayer to these strangers whose lives penetrate and transform Rosanas own sorrow.In Translations, the prose poem connecting the two longer fictions, child refugees at a multilingual literacy center in Salt Lake City discover the merciful translation of dance and pantomime.The convergence of two disparate eventsa random murder in Seattle and the nuclear accident at Chernobylcatalyze the startling, eruptive form of the concluding piece,requiem: home: and the rain, after. Narrated in first person by the killers sister and plural first person by the liquidators who come to the Evacuation Zone to bury entire villages poisoned by radioactive fallout, requiem navigates the immediate trauma of murder and environmental disaster; personal and global devastation; and the remarkable recovery of the miraculously diverse more-than-human world. Immigrants lost in the blistering expanse of the Sonoran Desert, problem bears, bats pollinating saguaros, a Good Samaritan filling tanks at emergency water stations, and the terrified runaway boy who shoots him pierce the heart and mind of Rosana Derais. Silence and Song, is a love letter, a prayer to these strangers whose lives penetrate and transform Rosanas own sorrow. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.