Contemporary Literature & Fiction
azw3 |eng | 1992-01-01 | Author:M. John Harrison [Harrison, M. John]

NINE The Place of the Cure of the Soul We are so quick to look for closure, for the clear termination of sections of our life, that we often invent ...
( Category: Contemporary Literature & Fiction October 18,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 2007-05-28 | Author:Leonard Michaels

Only about twenty days before the wedding and we had a fight. Not worse than other fights but, the wedding so close, it felt more bitter, more wrong. I tried ...
( Category: Christian Living October 18,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 2000-01-01 | Author:Raymond Carver

The cold was bad. The dead numbness of the toes, the cold slowly working its way up into the calves of his legs and setting in under his knees. His ...
( Category: Poetry October 18,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 1967-01-01 | Author:Michel Bernanos

Chapter 8 I WOKE UP suffering from terrible stomach cramps. The day had scarcely dawned and the sun was still hidden behind the tall, mysterious mountains which were gradually becoming ...
( Category: Action & Adventure Fiction October 18,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 1985-01-01 | Author:Patrick Süskind [Süskind, Patrick]

28 And so it went, day in day out, week in week out, month in month out. So it went for seven long years. Meanwhile war raged in the world ...
( Category: Genre Literature & Fiction October 18,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 2009-01-01 | Author:Roland Barthes [Barthes, Roland]

June 12, 1978 An onset of grief. I cry. June 13, 1978 Not to suppress mourning (suffering) (the stupid notion that time will do away with such a thing) but ...
( Category: Memoirs October 18,2021 )
azw3, pdf |eng | 2015-09-14 | Author:Maurice Blanchot [Blanchot, Maurice]

Notes 1. L’Arrét de mort (Paris: Gallimard, 1948), trans. Lydia Davis under the title Death Sentence (Barrytown, N.Y.: Station Hill Press, 1978). 2. This definition recalls Heidegger’s alèthéia, in “The ...
( Category: Social Sciences October 18,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 2019-03-26 | Author:Amy Hempel

Acknowledgments With great thanks to my editor, Nan Graham, for her close attention, galvanizing suggestions, and unerring wisdom; to Susan Moldow, for her valuable support; and to my agent Liz ...
( Category: Contemporary Literature & Fiction October 18,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 2000-02-25 | Author:Haruki Murakami & Jay Rubin (translator)

super-frog saves tokyo Katagiri found a giant frog waiting for him in his apartment. It was powerfully built, standing over six feet tall on its hind legs. A skinny little ...
( Category: Contemporary Literature & Fiction October 18,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 2003-01-01 | Author:J.G. Ballard

19 The Siege of Broadcasting House UNPREDICTABLE AS EVER, the police had decided not to intervene. I stood in the crowd of demonstrators outside Broadcasting House, waiting in vain for ...
( Category: Contemporary Literature & Fiction October 18,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 2020-02-11 | Author:Amina Cain [Cain, Amina]

AND THAT MEANT something, didn’t it? For indeed I was a part of people’s lives. They were a part of mine. In the middle of the winter, Dana’s family went ...
( Category: Contemporary Literature & Fiction October 18,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 2014-03-20 | Author:Karl Ove Knausgaard

The music lifted me at once, I beat the air with one hand and rocked my head backwards and forwards, happy to the core. Bettåh, bettåh, bettåh! I sang. Bettåh, ...
( Category: Contemporary Literature & Fiction October 18,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 1954-01-01 | Author:Alexander Trocchi [Trocchi, Alexander]

INSERTION BY MAJOR PIERRE JAVET, ADJUTANT, GHARDAÏA. I regret the necessity of having to interrupt the account of Mlle. Helen Smith at this point. Unfortunately, there appear to be a ...
( Category: Contemporary Romance October 18,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 1925-01-01 | Author:T.F. Powys

Chapter 16 THE WHITE MICE PEOPLE, although they may believe in God, often think very differently about Him. Mr. Pattimore believed in His Name, which Name he surrounded with attributes ...
( Category: Contemporary Literature & Fiction October 18,2021 )
epub |eng | 2021-10-04 | Author:Jon Hill [Hill, Jon]

20 He woke up from the dream to discover that he’d fallen off the couch. The dream—unreachable moonlight shimmering through depths of liquid darkness—lingered for a while after, and relief ...
( Category: Memoirs October 15,2021 )