The Largesse of the Sea Maiden: Stories, Paperback - Denis Johnson

Reducere. DescriptionTwenty-five years after Jesus' Son, a haunting new collection of short stories on mortality and transcendence, from National Book Award ...

Twenty-five years after Jesus' Son, a haunting new collection of short stories on aging, mortality, and transcendence, from National Book Award win...

New short stories on mortality and transcendence from the author of }Jesus' Son{ acclaimed by many alongside Carver and Hemingway. Completed shortl...

"Perfection is not the basis of what I'm talking about, " says a member of the Cassandra family, which forms the center of Denis Johnson's plays, H...

An epic miniature of one man's life journey through the American West at the turn of the twentieth century.Publisher: Granta BooksAuthor(s): Denis ...

"A dazzling and savage first novel". (New York Times). Angels tells the story of two born losers. Jamie has ditched her husband and is running away...

Reducere. Tree of Smoke is the 2007 National Book Award Winner for Fiction.One of the New York Times 10 Best Books of the YearNamed a Best Book of the Year b...

Part political inquiry, part travel journal, part-self exploration, "Seek" is a collection of essays by an award-winning novelist out to explore hi...

Reducere. The most critically acclaimed, and first, of Denis Johnson's novels, Angels puts Jamie Mays -- a runaway wife toting along two kids -- and Bill Hou...

A new edition of the classic novel from Johnson, reissued to tie in with his latest book }Train Dreams{. Johnson won the National Book Award for }T...

Reducere. Hailed by the New York Times as "wildly ambitious" and "the sort of book that a young Herman Melville might have written had he lived today and stu...

Reducere. Jimmy Luntz is an innocent man, more or less. He's just leaving a barbershop chorus contest in Bakersfield, California, thinking about placing a fe...

Provincetown, Cape Cod: the last outpost of civilisation, the end of the earth. In the confused aftermath of a failed suicide attempt, Leonard Engl...

Reducere. Two plays--hilarious and searing in equal measure--by one of our most essential and original authors In his poetry, short stories, novels, and play...

Reducere. In acest volum postum, naratorii lui Denis Johnson sunt adesea blocati intr-un spatiu in timp ce-si spun povestile: masa din bucatarie, un centru d...

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It is very dangerous when a wound is so common in a culture that hardly anyone knows there is a problem. Such is the case right now with our wounde...

Reducere. A broken family, a house of secrets--an entrancing tale of love and courage set during the Second World War. After Rebecca's mother dies, she must ...

A collection of tales from the Middle Ages focused on otherworldly powers, magical animals, miracles, demonic apparitions, and supernatural eventsP...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Ken JohnsonAutobiographies from the Dead Sea Scrolls The Talmud teaches that the ancient patriarchs were all prophets, and ...

Hospitality and the Holy Spirit shares stories and perspectives by hotelier Denise Maiatico about what the Bible tells us about taking good care of...

Haroun's father is the greatest of all storytellers. His magical stories bring laughter to the sad city of Alifbay. But one day something goes wron...

The north shore of the Gulf of St Lawrence in Canada provides the setting for two boys who have each lost a parent to find respite in each other an...

Publisher: Page Publishing, Inc.Author(s): Devon KesslerNumber of pages: 84Publication date: 2015Dimensions: 150 x 230 x 6Cover type: Paperback / s...

Reducere. Sophie Lawson should be enjoying her sister's wedding day. But nothing could have prepared her to see the best man again.After her mother became be...

Three ancient story cycles of Inuit culture made available as poetry: Sedna the Sea Goddess, Kiviuq the Hunter, and The Old Woman Who Changed Herse...

IndieFab awardsFirst, I had to lie to my boss. (Sort of.) Then my parents had a fight. (They never fight.) The pint-sized lapdog that is treated be...

Haroun's father is the greatest storyteller. His magical stories bring laughter to the sad city of Alifbay. But one day something goes wrong and hi...

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A collection of stories from nations and cultures across our two continents--the Sea-Ringed World, as the Aztecs called it--from the Andes all the ...

Meet the high-seas risk-takers whose embrace of trade served billions!Dynasties of the Sea: The Untold Stories of the Postwar Shipping Pioneers tel...

Reducere. Description*Indie Next List Pick**Junior Library Guild Selection*"An appealing tribute and successful remedy to the lack of titles about the ground...

Reducere. DescriptionMeet the high-seas risk-takers whose embrace of trade served billions Dynasties of the Sea: The Untold Stories of the Postwar Shipping P...

Reducere. DescriptionThe most basic and natural way we seek to understand who we are, where we are, what is wrong with us (especially why we die), and how we...

'There's water in the engine, ' he said. 'The engine has stopped.' This changed everything...Illustrations: (1x8pp plates)

Reducere. "City of Stories is a full length poetry collection which explores the narratives we construct to shape our world. In three thematic sections, thes...

An anthology of dark, powerful and moving short stories from master storyteller David Almond, inspired by his childhood in the north-east of England.

The story of Uwe Johnson, one of Germany's greatest and most-influential post-war writers, and how he came to live and work in Sheerness, Kent in t...

Reducere. DescriptionGenesis 9 teaches that God gave moral law to all nations after the Flood. This is called Noahide Law. The apostle Paul taught that the L...

Reducere. For millennia, philosophers have spun tales about goodness and badness, yet in matters of ethics, agreement is curiously hard to find. Finding Our ...

Denise LaSalle's journey took her from rural Mississippi to an unquestioned reign as the queen of soul-blues. From her early R&B classics to bold a...

Reducere. DescriptionI glanced up. The captain had thrust his head and shoulders out of the pilot-house, and was staring intently into the fog as though by s...

Reducere. Historian and author M. B. Synge tells the reader the greatest and most compelling stories of antiquity; those of ancient Egypt, Greece, Rome and I...

One house, two women, many secrets... A novel about the lives of two women, seventy years apart, and the secrets that bind them together.

Reducere. Sea Stories: The Scuttlebutt ChroniclesBy: James WellsFrom people licking stripper booty in Spain to a guy burning himself while ironing his clothe...

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Vinyl 1: Side A: 1. Be Quick Or Be Dead2. From Here To Eternity3. Afraid To Shoot StrangersSide B: 1. Fear Is The Key2. Childhood's End3. Wasting L...

The first book in a new environmental epic fantasy series set in a world where ships kept afloat by magical hearthfires sail an endless grass sea. ...

Fiul lui Iisus este o cronica vizionara a visatorilor, a dependentilor, a sufletelor pierdute. Aceste povesti vorbesc despre vortexul suferintei, d...