Early Stories

preview-18
  • Early Stories Book Detail

  • Author : Alexander Theroux
  • Release Date : 2021-08-10
  • Publisher : Tough Poets Press
  • Genre : Fiction
  • Pages : 358
  • ISBN 13 : 9780578918440
  • File Size : 84,84 MB

Early Stories by Alexander Theroux PDF Summary

Book Description: Alexander Theroux has taught at Harvard, MIT, Yale, and the University of Virginia, where he took his doctorate in 1968. He is the author of four highly regarded novels, Three Wogs (1972), Darconville's Cat (1981), An Adultery (1987), and Laura Warholic (2007), as well as Collected Poems (2015) and other books of non-fiction. Both Three Wogs and Darconville's Cat were nominated for the National Book Award. Early Stories, the first book of Theroux's fiction to be published in fourteen years, constitutes an addition to one of modern American literature's most lauded and entertaining bodies of work. It is also the first volume in his story triad (Fables and Later Stories soon to follow). Nobody writing today has a keener instinct for obsession, hypocrisy, sexual jealousy, envy, human folly, the lineaments of vanity, greed, and romantic disappointment, and, yes, grace. A feast of comic joy awaits you in this long-awaited collection. Here, the sword arm of satire is swung high! We encounter an intractable woman who refuses to divulge the secret to her spaghetti sauce. A tourist discovers a modern Nestor in an English pub. An idealistic teacher who is also a broken-hearted lover leaves us speechless over his overwhelming fixation. A hide-bound feminist goes to Italy to learn pasta making. A beautiful Bostonian, becoming a fashion model, achieves a much different goal. What is the effect of summer camp on a sensitive youngster? How does a hunt in Cracow for the alpenstock of great Copernicus end up a comic farce? Does a young boy with a genius IQ fulfill his promise? What happens when a collector discovers the rarest autograph in American letters? Nothing prepares the reader for the twists and turns of these unsparing but brilliantly plotted stories. Language is, however, the subject, the splendid gift of one of the nation's word-masters, a magician who fashions words out of his fingertips. Satire, it is said, swipes off the noggin but leaves the head in place. Here, the head still manages to find its voice-to our great and continuing pleasure.

Disclaimer: www.yourbookbest.com does not own Early Stories books pdf, neither created or scanned. We just provide the link that is already available on the internet, public domain and in Google Drive. If any way it violates the law or has any issues, then kindly mail us via contact us page to request the removal of the link.

Early Stories

Early Stories

File Size : 87,87 MB
Total View : 4015 Views
DOWNLOAD

Alexander Theroux has taught at Harvard, MIT, Yale, and the University of Virginia, where he took his doctorate in 1968. He is the author of four highly regarde

Three Early Stories

Three Early Stories

File Size : 58,58 MB
Total View : 4641 Views
DOWNLOAD

Three formative short stories by one of the most significant American writers of the twentieth century. A cocktail party conversation is most revealing in what

The Early Stories

The Early Stories

File Size : 64,64 MB
Total View : 5093 Views
DOWNLOAD

A grand collection of John Updike's inimitable early stories. Gathering together almost all the short fiction that John Updike published between 1953 and 1975,

Founders at Work

Founders at Work

File Size : 87,87 MB
Total View : 9649 Views
DOWNLOAD

Now available in paperback—with a new preface and interview with Jessica Livingston about Y Combinator! Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days is a

The Early Stories of Truman Capote

The Early Stories of Truman Capote

File Size : 1,1 MB
Total View : 4686 Views
DOWNLOAD

The early fiction of one of the nation’s most celebrated writers, Truman Capote, as he takes his first bold steps into the canon of American literature Recent