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Twenty essays by veteran writers and master teachers offering advice on fundamental aspects of craft such as characterization, character names, first person point of view, and unreliable narrators, as well as consideration of more sophisticated topics, including imminence, creating tension, and the deliberate manipulation of information to create particular effects"--Provided by publisher.

«Abrígate y sube a bordo.» Times En las expediciones de mediados del XIX, las crónicas siempre retrataban al escritor como a un héroe. Pero ¿qué pasaba realmente allá arriba, en la larga oscuridad invernal, atrapados por el hielo? A través de Erasmus Darwin Welles, un erudito naturalista que forma parte de la expedición del Narwhal, conocemos a la tripulación y experimentamos los misterios del Ártico. Mientras, los esquimales son testigos de l...

In Fall 1916, Americans debate whether to enter the European war. "Preparedness parades" march and headlines report German spies. But in an isolated town in the Adirondacks, the danger is barely felt. At Tamarack Lake, the focus is on the sick. Wealthy tubercular patients live in private cure cottages, charity patients, mainly immigrants, fill the public sanatorium. An enterprising patient initiates a discussion group. When his well-meaning ef...

Here in the crisp, mountain air where wealthy tuberculosis patients recover in private cottages and charity patients, mostly European emigres, fill the sanatorium, time stands still.

È lo sguardo di Constantine Boyd ad aprire e chiudere questa raccolta: lo sguardo stupito e avido di conoscenza del dodicenne protagonista del primo racconto, "Gli sperimentatori", e quello vitreo per l'orrore del soldato Boyd, bloccato da una guerra incomprensibile nella città russa di Arcangelo nell'omonimo racconto finale. Entro il cerchio della sua esistenza si dipanano in una rete di rimandi incrociati le vicende degli altri personaggi, c...

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This book chronicles the most essential causes and implications of these trends, which have expanded international food assistance well beyond the simple shipment of donated food aid commodities. We pay particular attention to how these trends shape and are shaped by European Union (EU) and United States (U.S.) food assistance policy and practice, and highlight the principles to which donors can adhere to move international food assistance for...

Let the Smart Cookies show you how to eliminate debt, spend smarter, save better, and achieve financial freedom---without sacrificing your social life or your sanity! Canadian Listeners: Click on the Illustrations link below to print A Special Guidebook for Our Canadian Listeners.

Let the Smart Cookies show you how to eliminate debt, spend smarter, save better, and achieve financial freedom---without sacrificing your social life or your sanity! Canadian Listeners: Click on the Illustrations link below to print A Special Guidebook for Our Canadian Listeners.

The National Book Award-winning author of "Ship Fever" delivers her eagerly anticipated new novel, set in 1916, in an isolated town in the Adirondacks, far from the war raging in Europe.

Ranging across two centuries, and from the western Himalaya to an Adirondack village, these wonderfully imagined stories and novellas travel the territories of yearning and awakening, of loss and unexpected discovery. A mapper of the highest mountain peaks realizes his true obsession. A young woman afire with scientific curiosity must come to terms with a romantic fantasy. Brothers and sisters, torn apart at an early age, are beset by dreams o...

The elegant short fictions gathered hereabout the love of science and the science of love are often set against the backdrop of the nineteenth century. Interweaving historical and fictional characters, they encompass both past and present as they negotiate the complex territory of ambition, failure, achievement, and shattered dreams. In "Ship Fever, " the title novella, a young Canadian doctor finds himself at the center of one of history's mo...

Barrett's two previous novels won her comparisons to Gail Godwin and Anne Tyler. The Middle Kingdom--now available in trade paper--is the story of a dutiful wife in an unhappy marriage who accompanies her husband on a business trip to China. But once there she falls out of love with her husband and into love with the country and its culture.

This big, beautiful anthology of short fiction is for readers, writers, and anyone curious about the mysterious processes of literary minds. All contributors have been recent faculty members of the prestigious Warren Wilson Low Residency Program, including such literary favorites as Margot Livesey, Charles Baxter, Robert Boswell, Jim Shepard, Antonya Nelson, David Shields, and the editors themselves. Each writer was asked to submit an origina...

At the age of eighty, Brendan Auberon—formerly of the Order of Our Lady of the Valley, now confined to a nursing home—has one last wish: to see his 200 acres overlooking what used to be Paradise Valley, before the villages were drowned to provide water for the city of Boston. Now, Brendan's memories drift beneath the surface of the Stillwater Reservoir. When Brendan dupes his nephew, Henry, into hijacking the nursing home van for the journey, ...