Those Who Make Us: Creature, Myth and Monster Stories, Kelsi Morris, Kaitlin Tremblay

Автор: Kipling Rudyard
Название: The Man Who Would Be King and Other Stories
ISBN: 0199536473 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199536474
Издательство: Oxford Academ
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Описание: This collection brings together seventeen of Kipling`s early stories, written between 1885 and 1888, when Kipling was working as a journalist in India. Wry comedies of British officialdom alternate with glimpses into the harsh lives of the common soldiers and the Indian poor, revealing Kipling`s legendary powers of observation and, in `Baa Baa, Black Sheep` his own miserable childhood. From Mrs Hauksbee`s Simla drawing-room to Mulvaney`s cot in barracks, to the wild hills of Kafiristan, Kipling re-creates the India he knew in stories by turns ironic and sentimental, compassionate and bitter, displaying the brilliance that has captivated readersfor over a century.

Автор: Slavin Julia
Название: The Woman Who Cut Off Her Leg at the Maidstone Club: And Other Stories
ISBN: 1504048644 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781504048644
Издательство: Неизвестно
Цена: 17460.00 T
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Описание: A New York Times Notable Book: Darkly comic fables of modern life from a "major discovery" whose "writing gets in your bloodstream like a fever" (The Washington Post Book World).

A housewife with a ravenous lust for the adolescent boy who mows her lawn swallows him whole. A woman nonchalantly hacks off her leg at a posh private club. A father babyproofs his house so thoroughly he never sees his wife and child. And a businessman passing through an airport risks it all to save a giant lobster from death.

In these "brisk, funny, stylish, original" stories, the award-winning author of Carnivore Diet merges the mundane with the unimaginable, and peels back the squeaky-clean fa ade of suburbia to expose the strangeness underneath (Elle). Combining biting wit, wild imagination, and "unsettling, hallucinatory" prose, Julia Slavin masterfully satirizes the world of upscale families and young professionals as they confront their greatest fantasies and most grotesque fears in unexpected, and often hilarious, ways (The New York Times Book Review).

Автор: Ehrlich David
Название: Who Will Die Last: Stories of Life in Israel
ISBN: 081561019X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780815610199
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: A translated collection of author David Ehrlich`s short stories originally written in Hebrew. The translators are writers, teachers, activists, doctors, or rabbis and they all bring a unique voice to stories of life and the search for meaning within it. Ehrich is the author of two short story collections and his bookstore Tmol Shilshom is a haven for avant-garde artists and writers.

Автор: Cortese Katie
Название: Make Way for Her: And Other Stories
ISBN: 0813175127 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780813175126
Издательство: Marston Book Services
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Описание: In this affecting collection, Katie Cortese explores the many faces of love and desire. Featuring female narrators that range in age from five to forty, the narratives in Make Way for Her speak to the many challenges and often bittersweet rewards of offering, receiving, and returning love as imperfect human beings.

Автор: Roger L. Welsch
Название: Why I`m an Only Child and Other Slightly Naughty Plains Folktales
ISBN: 0803284284 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780803284289
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: 2017 Nebraska Book Award Nonfiction: Folklore One day Roger Welsch ventured to ask his father a delicate personal question: “Why am I an only child?” His father’s answer is one of many examples of the delightful and laughter-inducing ribald tales Welsch has compiled from a lifetime of listening to and sharing the folklore of the Plains. More narrative than simple jokes, and the product of multiple retellings, these coarse tales were even delivered by such prudish sources as Welsch’s stern and fearsome German great-aunts. Speaking of cucumbers and sausages in a toast to a newly married couple, the prim and proper women of Welsch’s memory voice the obscene and unspeakable in stories fit for general company. Why I’m an Only Child and Other Slightly Naughty Plains Folktales is Welsch’s celebration of the gentle and evocative bits of humor reflecting the personality of the people of the Plains.