Download e-book for iPad: Stars and Gods by Larry Niven

New PDF release: Million Dollar Baby: Stories from the Corner

F. X. Toole knew boxing. among bouts, he wrote, and years ahead of his demise he released this selection of tales, giving readers an remarkable examine the gritty existence round the ring.

He tells of a cutman with a candy teeth, younger warring parties with goals of superstar, and a skilled boxer who is going to Atlantic urban for his greatest bout, simply to be humiliated by means of the prejudices of a callous promoter. In "Million $$$ Baby," the muse for the Oscar-winning Clint Eastwood movie, an elderly coach takes on a feminine fighter, guiding her via unhappiness, ache, and tragedy. And in "Rope Burns," Toole realizes his epic imaginative and prescient, displaying that even the purest fighter can succumb to the pressures of the realm open air the game. all through those tales, boxing's violence is redeemed by means of the honor those women and men percentage, as they strap on gloves and get ready their our bodies for the final word test.

This publication positive aspects an illustrated biography of F. X. Toole together with infrequent photographs and never-before-seen records from the author's property.

Download e-book for iPad: After You've Gone by Alice Adams

A range of brief tales explores the effect and adjustment of people facing separation and the lack of fans, spouses, mom and dad, and friends.

From Library Journal

Adams's new selection of 14 brief tales indicates the various strengths and weaknesses of prior efforts (i. e. , go back journeys , LJ 8/85). That she is a very good wordsmith in a position to insightful touch upon the fun and sorrows of human relationships, there is not any doubt. She is additionally adept at analyzing the effect of reminiscence on our lives. In those tales, it's the reminiscence of someone--and, in a number of circumstances, "somecat," now absent--that stimulates the chain of occasions. Taken separately, the tales may be very evocative, but if regarded as a complete, the characters look all "of a type" and examining turns into an increasing number of tedious. definitely, the voice of the introspective, clever, upper-middle-class girl merits to be heard, but when Adams wishes her message to arrive a much wider viewers, she must extend her imaginative and prescient, to supply the reader a bit extra distinction. For public and bigger educational libraries.
- David W. Henderson, Eckerd Coll. Lib. , St. Petersburg, Fla.

New PDF release: Fox Tooth Heart

"A extra special expertise blazing up without notice at the horizon. . . . designated, extraordinary language that inspires with out ever having to provide an explanation for. . . . His transcendent imaginative and prescient offers us devastating glimpses. "—Elle
"John McManus writes visceral prose that explodes in the tight obstacles of the fast tale. those narratives own a sleek inner good judgment and have a variety of gritty characters rebelling opposed to an detached and sometimes brutal international. "—Bookforum
"The tales in John McManus's Born on a educate are powered by means of radiant prose. "—Vanity Fair
John McManus's lengthy awaited brief tale assortment encompasses the geographic limits of the US, from trailers hidden in deep Southern woods to an Arkansas ranch switched over into an elephant shelter. His lost-soul characters reel precariously among universal anxiousness and drug-enhanced paranoia, sober truth and fearsome hallucination. those 9 masterpieces of twisted humor and pathos re-establish McManus as probably the most bracing voices of our time.
John McManus is the writer of the radical sour Milk and the fast tale collections Born on a educate and prevent Breakin Down, all released through Picador. His paintings has seemed in Ploughshares, Tin apartment, American brief Fiction, The Oxford American, The Literary evaluation, Harvard evaluate, and plenty of different areas. he's the youngest-ever recipient of the Whiting Award.

Download e-book for kindle: Small Felonies: Fifty Mystery Short Shorts by Bill Pronzini

It is a selection of fifty brief tales via veteran secret and crime author invoice Pronzini, most sensible referred to as fhe author of 'The anonymous Detective' sequence. This assortment crosses over a wide variety of types and characters, settings and plots, exhibiting the breadth and intensity of Pronzini's prodigious expertise.