Author: William H. Ga
Publisher: Basic Book
Keywords: novellas, sonata, cartesian
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2000-01-28
List price: $17.00
ISBN-10: 0465026206
ISBN-13: 9780465026203
Reading William H. Gass’s fiction is a little like looking at oneself in a fractured mirror: the usual components are all there, but not necessarily in the right places. Take, for example, the title novella of Cartesian Sonata and Other Novellas: here Gass introduces us to Ella Bend, a sensitive clairvoyant married to a rather burdensome husband. But no sooner does Gass get us started with a very conventional opening, ("This is the story of Ella Bend Hess, of how she became clairvoyant and what she was able to see") than he injects himself into it ("Her gift was the gift of the gods ? in
Author: Nina Shope
Publisher: Starcherone Book
Keywords: novellas, three, hangings
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2005-08-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0970316534
ISBN-13: 9780970316530
Chosen as the best of more than 250 books submitted to Starcherone Books’s annual blind-judged competition, Nina Shope?s debut collection of three novellas demonstrate stunning range and intensity. In the title novella, a young woman learns that her mother is dying and finds herself stalked by nightmarish figures ? the hideously transformed maiden, Arachne, an upside-down man in a Miro painting, and the spiders that hatch and haunt the text like tumors ? all coinciding with the emergence of her own sexual awareness. With In Urbem, Shope imagines an archetypal ancient city, that city bene
Author: Su Tong
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Keywords: novellas, three, lantern, red, raise
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2004-07-01
List price: $12.99
ISBN-10: 0060596333
ISBN-13: 9780060596330
The brutal realities of the dark places Su Tong depicts in this collection of novellas set in 1930s provincial China -- worlds of prostitution, poverty, and drug addiction -- belie his prose of stunning and simplebeauty. The title novella, "Raise the Red Lantern," which became a critically acclaimed film, tells the story of Lotus, a young woman whose father’s suicide forces her to become the concubine of a wealthy merchant. Crushed by loneliness, despair, and cruel treatment, Lotus finds her descent into insanity both a weapon and a refuge. "Nineteen Thirty-Four Escapes" is an account of
Author: Jane Stevenso
Publisher: Mariner Book
Keywords: novellas, three, women
Number of Pages: 232
Published: 2006-01-06
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0618462171
ISBN-13: 9780618462179
Jane Stevenson enchanted readers with her first collection of novellas, Several Deceptions, which the New York Times lauded as an "elegant, surprising collection that delights with its verve and intelligence." With Good Women, she returns to the form that secured her reputation as a compelling and diabolically clever prose stylist. In this trio of audacious stories with a common theme, she investigates just what it means for a woman to be good. From a widow keen on gardening who becomes radicalized late in life, to a housewife on a murderous mission from God, to an adulterous couple who leave
Author: Gene Wolfe
Publisher: Orb Book
Keywords: novellas, three, cerberus, head, fifth
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 1994-03-15
List price: $15.99
ISBN-10: 0312890206
ISBN-13: 9780312890209
A brothel keeper’s sons discuss genocide and plot murder; a young alien wanderer is pursued by his shadow double; and a political prisoner tries to prove his identity, not least to himself. Gene Wolfe’s first novel consists of three linked sections, all of them elegant broodings on identity, sameness, and strangeness, and all of them set on the vividly evoked colony worlds of Ste. Croix and Ste. Anne, twin planets delicately poised in mutual orbit. Marsch, the victim in the third story, is the apparent author of the second and a casual visitor whose nave questions precipitate trag
Author: John Barth
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Keywords: novellas, meet, roads, three
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2005-11-21
List price: $23.00
ISBN-10: 0618610162
ISBN-13: 9780618610167
From the acclaimed John Barth, "one of the greatest novelists of our time" (Washington Post Book World) and "a master of language" (Chicago Sun-Times), comes a lively triad of tales that delight in the many possibilities of language and its users.The first novella, "Tell Me," explores a callow undergraduate’s initiation into the mysteries of sex, death, and the Heroic Cycle. The second novella, "I’ve Been Told," traces no less than the history of storytelling and examines innocence and modernity, ignorance and self-consciousness. And the three elderly sisters of the third novella,
Author: Gioia Timpanelli
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Keywords: sicily, novellas, soul, sometimes
Number of Pages: 183
Published: 1998-08-01
List price: $23.00
ISBN-10: 0393027449
ISBN-13: 9780393027440
For many years Gioia Timpanelli has crisscrossed the country (and the globe) collecting and then telling stories. In a world that is becoming increasingly dependent on information coming from the computer, television, and satellite dish, Timpanelli continues to communicate universal themes the old-fashioned way--through the oral tradition. In her first formal foray into the written word, Sometimes the Soul, she draws on the stories with which she has mesmerized audiences for years and crafts two fine novellas that explore within a traditional framework the lives of two highly untraditional wom
