Résultats pour "The Heaven" dans Anthologies et nouvelles

In Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck’s beautifully rendered depictions of small yet fateful moments that transform ordinary lives, these twelve early stories introduce both the subject and style of artistic expression that recur in the most important works of his career. Each of these...

A teacher and his wife get caught up in the drama of election politics and a Channel 8 soap opera. An invalid house-sits for his sister and has to care for his nephew’s pampered pet pig. A daughter travels overseas to convince her elderly father to move home with her. An academic must navigate...

Brought to you by Penguin. Each of these delightful interconnected tales is devoted to a family living in a fertile valley on the outskirts of Monterey, California, and the effects that one particular family has on them all. Steinbeck tackles two important literary traditions here; American...

Once a week, Monroe County Reporter (Georgia) columnist Steve Reece surprises thousands of readers with his insight into a wide range of subjects reflective of the culture, history, and diversity of the South and America in general.

Set in modern-day America and France, Renaissance Italy and Boxer Rebellion China, these stories embrace whole lifetimes, much in the manner of Alice Munro and William Trevor. Joan Silber skilfully and subtly ties one story to the next, as a minor element in one becomes a major element in the...

Longlisted for the PEN/Faulkner Award Finalist for The Story Prize Finalist for the Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBTQ Fiction Finalist for the California Book Award Longlisted for the Carnegie Medal for Excellence, the Aspen Words Literary Prize, and the New American Voices Award...

This is a collection of 30 short stories, each with a message and storyline designed to be filling and rewarding in and of itself. 

Now, in this collection of interconnected short stories, Jennifer Haigh returns to the vividly imagined world of Bakerton, Pennsylvania, a coal mining town rocked by decades of painful transition. From its heyday during two World Wars through its slow decline, Bakerton is a town that refuses to give up gracefully, binding - sometimes cruelly - succeeding generations to the place that made them. A young woman glimpses a world both strange and familiar when she becomes a live-in maid for a Jewish family in New York City. A long-absent brother makes a sudden and tragic homecoming.

In The Wrong Heaven, Amy Bonnaffons draws us into a delightfully strange universe, in which her conflicted characters seek to solve their sexual and spiritual dilemmas in all the wrong places. The title story's heroine reckons with grief while arguing with Jesus and Mary lawn ornaments that come to life when she plugs them in. In 'Horse', we enter a world in which women transform themselves into animals through a series of medical injections. In 'Alternate', a young woman convinces herself that all she needs to revive a stagnant relationship is the perfect poster of the Dalai Lama.

For fans of George Saunders and Karen Russell, an "amazing, wildly inventive" collection of stories that straddles the line between the real and the fantastical (Kevin Wilson). In The Wrong Heaven, anything is possible: bodies can transform, inanimate objects come to life, angels appear and...

Sparking myths and legends from Asia to Europe, Africa to North America, dragons are the most universal and awe-inspiring of magical creatures. Whether they are fearsome, rampaging monsters or benevolent sages with much to teach humanity, dragons bring creation, destruction, and adventure in stories told all around the globe. In this landmark collection, award-winning editor Jonathan Strahan combines nearly thirty never-before-seen short stories and poems, written by modern masters of science fiction and fantasy, and illustrations by acclaimed artist Rovina Cai.

As counterintuitive as the notion may seem, we can only attain perpetual bliss through self-denial. Upon this realization and its conquest, we open the doors to a light and love so fulfilling, we become impenetrable to negativity in all its debilitating forms.....

The debut collection from New York Times bestselling author Rebecca Roanhorse—one “of the Indigenous novelists reshaping North American science fiction, horror, and fantasy” (The New York Times)—includes a new novella set in the world of Trail of Lightning alongside her award-winning...

This sampler pack brings together three stories by Hugo and Nebula nominee Nancy Fulda. From an isolated telepath who flees her destiny to a sentient computer struggling to behave ethically, this collection revisits questions initially posed by Asimov and Clarke, and casts the HAL 9000 story in an intriguing new light.

Jacob is a small-time criminal who dabbles in everything from drugs to prostitutes to illegal weapons. When he finds a gun that seems to be of supernatural origin, he begins to dream of the big time. His dream turns into a nightmare when he realizes some supernatural beings want their toy back.

Jake's life wasn't going according to plan. In fact, nothing was going according to plan. And, after a horrific plane crash, he finds himself on a journey through the afterlife in an effort to discover the meaning of his life.

El antiguo himno de los pescadores de la isla de Man da título a esta colección de relatos publicados de manera póstuma en 1961. Al compás de las olas del mar, Lowry nos embarca en un viaje por distintos destinos y escenarios, pero también por las profundidades dela existencia humana encarnada por sus clásicos personajes como el atormentado escritor Martin Trumbaugh, o bien, el matrimonio conformado por Primrose y Sigbjørn Wilderness, uno de los altergo ficcionales del autor.

Matthew Cahill is a simple man leading a quiet life... until he is tragically killed in an avalanche at a ski resort. Three months later his corpse is found and sent to the morgue - but then something inexplicable happens. He wakes up. Now he can see evil... as a festering rot that eats people alive from the inside out. And he can see Mr. Dark, the horrific figure who gleefully spreads it like a plague... and whois the only one who can tell Matt whether he is still a man... or the walking dead.For Matt, each day is a journey into a supernatural world he knows nothing about....

Heaven's Burning God gave Ted Erickson the power to freeze the sinful, so why does his own body keep growing numb? A prostitute. A dirty bum. They can't survive Ted's growing ability to exhale cold air from the Ninth Circle of Hell. So how can the suicidal teenager next door keep singing? At first Ted Erickson doesn't understand how or why he can freeze things just by blowing on them. He believes God gave him a mission to clean up the world of sinners.

Thirty years after his death, Capt. Stormfield is still speeding across the universe, on his way to the next life, though he doesn't know yet where or when his journey will end. It's not a spoiler to tell you that he does get into heaven (it's in the title after all), but you may be surprised at some of the customs, characters, and spectacles he finds there.