Margaret Atwood has frequently been cited as one of the foremost writers of our time. MORAL DISORDER, her moving new book of fiction, could be seen either as a collection of ten stories that is almost a novel or as a novel broken up into ten stories. It resembles a photograph album—a series of clearly observed moments that trace the course of a life,
Linda Hutcheon - The Politics of Postmodernism (New Accents)
Continuing the project begun in The Poetics of Postmodernism, the writer focuses on the politics of representation. Looking at both mass media and high art forms, she challenges the seeming transparency and apparent apolitical innocence of our visual images and verbal stories, asserting that these construct rather than reflect or express our experience of the world.
Added by: Kahena | Karma: 11526.37 | Fiction literature | 18 October 2010
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Mortal Coils
Mortal Coils is a collection of five short fictional pieces written in 1922. The stories all concern themselves with some sort of trouble, normally of an amorous nature, and often ending with disappointment.
Collection of Ray Bradbury short stories from the 40's, 50's, and 60's
*The Kilimanjaro Device * The Terrible Conflagration Up at the Place * Tomorrow's Child * The Women *The Inspired Chicken Motel * Downwind from Gettysburg * Yes, We'll Gather at the River * The Cold Wind and the Warm * Night Call, Collec * The Haunting of the New * I Sing the Body Electric! * The Tombling Day * Any Friend of Nicholas Nickleby's Is a Friend of Mine * Heavy-Set * The Man in the Rorschach Shirt * Henry the Ninth * The Lost City of Mars * Christus Apollo
In the 1980s Tim Winton made his mark with tough, spare stories about youth and promise, of early parenthood and the challenges of loyalty. Now, almost twenty years since his last collection, he returns to the form with seventeen overlapping stories of second thoughts and mid-life regret set in the brooding small-town world of coastal Western Australia.
