Literary
mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 1992-01-02 | Author:Joyce Carol Oates

THIRTEEN SUDDENLY THE SHACKLES that had once held Alan captive had fallen off. Without warning. Without explanation. Something about that should have disturbed him. But it didn’t. Instead he was ...
( Category: Literary March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-03-10 | Author:Alice Hoffman

LEVITATION ALWAYS keep mint on your windowsill in August, to ensure that buzzing flies will stay outside, where they belong. Don’t think the summer is over, even when roses droop ...
( Category: Family Saga March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 1999-05-08 | Author:Margaret Atwood

CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX When the night for the Ceremony came round again, two or three weeks later, I found that things were changed. There was an awkwardness now that there hadn’t ...
( Category: Dystopian March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1990-07-15 | Author:John Updike

"Let's just not talk about the money," she begs. "Why not? Just what is so fucking sacred about money, that everybody's scared to talk about it?" The tip of her ...
( Category: Family Saga March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2002-12-31 | Author:T. C. Boyle

“Sess!” Skid Denton was shouting over the uproar, waving a full shot glass as if he were proposing a toast. “Where’d you find these freaks, anyway—the Ringling Brothers’ circus?” “And ...
( Category: Satire March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 1987-01-02 | Author:Tom Wolfe

The Bavardages’ dining room walls had been painted with so many coats of burnt-apricot lacquer, fourteen in all, they had the glassy brilliance of a pond reflecting a campfire at ...
( Category: Satire March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2010-06-28 | Author:Martin Amis

'Columbia, Slick... Chicago, LA, wherever — in America our seats of learning are surrounded by the worst, the biggest, the most desperate ratshit slums in the civilized world. It seems ...
( Category: Books & Reading March 25,2014 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2009-08-31 | Author:Edwidge Danticat

I heard my grandmother's footsteps even before she reached the door to the yellow house. "If you tell her that I'm here, I can't go with you," I said. "Go ...
( Category: Cultural Heritage March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 1990-01-02 | Author:Tim O'Brien

The Man I Killed His jaw was in his throat, his upper lip and teeth were gone, his one eye was shut, his other eye was a star-shaped hole, his ...
( Category: Military March 25,2014 )
epub |eng | 2006-03-24 | Author:Alice Munro [Munro, Alice]

ON THE DAY OF Miss Tamblyn’s death it happened that Louisa was staying in the Commercial Hotel. She was a traveller then for a company that sold hats, ribbons, handkerchiefs ...
( Category: Short Stories March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2010-03-01 | Author:Carol Shields

Warren ‟How old are you?” Warren asks his mother. She is folding sheets and pillowcases and kitchen towels on the dining room table. ‟That’s for me to know and you ...
( Category: Domestic Life March 25,2014 )
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2011-11-08 | Author:Denis Johnson [Johnson, Denis]

We walked carefully down there and climbed through the busted fence and stood in the very back. The speakers, which I'd mistaken for grave markers, muttered in unison. Then there ...
( Category: Short Stories March 25,2014 )
epub, mobi, azw3, pdf |eng | 2004-01-02 | Author:Alan Hollinghurst [Hollinghurst, Alan]

He closed the door, locked the door, and reached out for Wani, who patted him and kissed him on the nose as he turned away. "Where's the stuff?" said Wani. ...
( Category: Satire March 25,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2000-12-15 | Author:Michael Chabon [Chabon, Michael]

PART V RADIOMAN 1 The loser at Lupe Velez was obliged to make his bed in the tunnels, out in the pandemonium of Dog-town. There were eighteen dogs, Alaskan malamutes ...
( Category: Jewish March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 1988-01-02 | Author:Kazuo Ishiguro

DAY THREE · MORNING Taunton, Somerset I lodged last night in an inn named the Coach and Horses a little way outside the town of Taunton, Somerset. This being a ...
( Category: African American Historical Fiction March 25,2014 )