Download or read book Swerve A Novel of Divergence written by Vincent James and published by Astrophil Press. This book was released on 2021-02 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fiction. SWERVE is a dreamscape detective novel caught up in a multiversal calamity. SWERVE jostles and hums. SWERVE might be Galileo's cousin, Margaret Cavendish's niece, and Stephen Hawking's step-child. SWERVE is a once in a generation book that tells the story of three distinct detectives who move across the United States and beyond, uncovering pieces of a mercurial puzzle spanning space and time. As each section unfolds and is interpreted through the others, the detectives' stories begin to collapse, rewrite, and ultimately, illuminate each other. Taking on a set of constraints (involving dice, reference authors, and geographic points) reminiscent of an OULIPO novel, SWERVE invites readers to participate in the investigation alongside the characters, gathering clues, assembling narrative, and piecing together resonances. Come join the mystery--SWERVE will not disappoint. "Smart, strange, funny, intense, wild, stylish, unsettling, sexy, surprising and just, basically, so great, SWERVE by Vincent James, McCormick Templeman and Rowland Saifi is a must read for all fans of wildly inventive and gorgeously written ludic enterprise. Part Tlooth, part A Void, just that smidge of Ubu Roi, and plenty noir, Mathews, Perec and Jarry would have had a blast with this. I know I did. I can't recommend it highly enough."--Laird Hunt "SWERVE is a semi-submerged, transdimensional, supra-observable novel-like structure, co-architected for your pleasure and contusions. Put on your octopus-shaped dress and snorkel jacket, and don't forget to refuse all clues. In SWERVE, every fish is and is not a red herring. Come for the mermaids, stay for the $2.99 steak!"--Joanna Ruocco

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Download or read book Divergence written by Veronica Rothová and published by Cooboo. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Světový bestseller konečně v ČR! Poznejte příběh, který po celém světě uchvátil milióny čtenářů. Hlavní hrdinka Beatrice žije v Chicagu budoucnosti, kde je společnost rozdělena do 5 frakcí a každá z nich se věnuje pěstování určité ctnosti - Odevzdanost, Neohroženost, Sečtělost, Mírumilovnost a Upřímnost. Každý rok ve stanovený den si musí všichni šestnáctiletí vybrat jednu z frakcí, do níž budou patřit po celý svůj život. Beatrice se rozhoduje mezi tím, jestli zůstane s rodinou, nebo bude sama sebou - obojí mít nemůže...

Download or read book Satire History Novel written by Frank Palmeri and published by University of Delaware Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Narrative satire was one of the dominant literary forms of the 18th century, but it came to be displaced by novelistic and historical forms of narrative. Palmeri (English, U. of Miami) argues that these new forms defined themselves in opposition to satire, but also by appropriating elements of satir

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Download or read book Divergent written by Veronica Roth and published by Harper Fire. This book was released on 2024-04-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She turns to the future in a world that's falling apart. The No. 1 New York Times bestseller DIVERGENT - also a major motion picture. For sixteen-year-old Tris, the world changes in a heartbeat when she is forced to make a terrible choice. Turning her back on her family, Tris ventures out, alone, determined to find out where she truly belongs. Shocked by the brutality of her new life, Tris can trust no one. And yet she is drawn to a boy who seems to both threaten and protect her. The hardest choices may yet lie ahead.... The first book in the DIVERGENT series that has swept the globe - selling millions of copies world-wide.

Download or read book Divergence written by Veronica Roth and published by . This book was released on 2011-10 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chicago. Dans un futur proche mais sombre, Béatrice Prior, 16 ans, doit choisir à quelle des cinq factions de son monde moderne, régi par ces groupes d'individus programmés, elle désire appartenir pour le reste de ses jours. Or, ni le clan des Sincères, des Altruistes, des Audacieux, des Fraternels ou des Érudits ne semblent lui convenir bien qu'elle soit née dans une famille d'Altruistes. Et pendant que les concurrents se disputent de rudes épreuves initiatiques, Béatrice change de nom et se perd de vue tout en s'égarant dans le dédale de ses relations amicales et amoureuses. Elle réalise alors qu'un secret bien gardé par cette société trop parfaite pourrait bien menacer sa survie et celle des siens: sa divergence. [SDM].

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Download or read book Time Up written by Justin McLachlan and published by Boxfire Press. This book was released on 2011-08 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life used to be pretty simple for Dr. Van Jacobs, until a dead guy rolled into his emergency room and didnt have the courtesy to stay dead. From there, things got a little insane. Between the spacetime breaks and the wingnut cult and this thing sitting on the bottom of the ocean that the dead guy expects him to fix ... and Ben ... Van is barely hanging on. Not that he was hanging on much before, just kind of existing. But now, hes got a reason to exist a purpose just when it looks like all of existence might not be existing much longer.

Download or read book The Cult of Smart written by Fredrik deBoer and published by All Points Books. This book was released on 2020-08-04 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Named one of Vulture’s Top 10 Best Books of 2020! Leftist firebrand Fredrik deBoer exposes the lie at the heart of our educational system and demands top-to-bottom reform. Everyone agrees that education is the key to creating a more just and equal world, and that our schools are broken and failing. Proposed reforms variously target incompetent teachers, corrupt union practices, or outdated curricula, but no one acknowledges a scientifically-proven fact that we all understand intuitively: Academic potential varies between individuals, and cannot be dramatically improved. In The Cult of Smart, educator and outspoken leftist Fredrik deBoer exposes this omission as the central flaw of our entire society, which has created and perpetuated an unjust class structure based on intellectual ability. Since cognitive talent varies from person to person, our education system can never create equal opportunity for all. Instead, it teaches our children that hierarchy and competition are natural, and that human value should be based on intelligence. These ideas are counter to everything that the left believes, but until they acknowledge the existence of individual cognitive differences, progressives remain complicit in keeping the status quo in place. This passionate, voice-driven manifesto demands that we embrace a new goal for education: equality of outcomes. We must create a world that has a place for everyone, not just the academically talented. But we’ll never achieve this dream until the Cult of Smart is destroyed.

Download or read book Fiction Now written by Warren F. Motte and published by Dalkey Archive Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fiction Now reports on the current states of the novel in France, taking a series of soundings within the compass of innovative French writing since 2001. Chapters focus closely upon Jean Echenoz, Marie Redonnet, Christian Gailly, Lydie Salvayre, Gérard Gavarry, Hélène Lenoir, Patrick Lapeyre, and Christine Montalbetti. Each of the authors invoked exemplified in his or her work a different set of strategies, concerns, and approaches: one of them transposes the Book of Judith to the Parisian suburbs; another imagines the most taciturn of cowboys in the American West; still another goes well beyond death, into the afterlife of a concert pianist. Despite their diversity of theme and technique, these writers share a will to make French fiction new, and demonstrate compellingly that the novel as it is practiced in France today is an extremely vigorous, deeply enthralling, and richly plural cultural form.

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Download or read book The Little Woods written by McCormick Templeman and published by Schwartz & Wade Books. This book was released on 2012 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Entering St. Bede's Academy halfway through her junior year, Cally Wood is thrust into the complex social world of the upper echelon, but she is more interested in Iris, a girl whose recent disappearance is similar to that of Cally's own sister ten years earlier.

Download or read book How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia written by Mohsin Hamid and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-03-05 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Mr. Hamid reaffirms his place as one of his generation's most inventive and gifted writers." –Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times "A globalized version of The Great Gatsby . . . [Hamid's] book is nearly that good." –Alan Cheuse, NPR "Marvelous and moving." –TIME Magazine From the internationally bestselling author of The Reluctant Fundamentalist and Exit West, the boldly imagined tale of a poor boy’s quest for wealth and love His first two novels established Mohsin Hamid as a radically inventive storyteller with his finger on the world’s pulse. How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia meets that reputation—and exceeds it. The astonishing and riveting tale of a man’s journey from impoverished rural boy to corporate tycoon, it steals its shape from the business self-help books devoured by ambitious youths all over “rising Asia.” It follows its nameless hero to the sprawling metropolis where he begins to amass an empire built on that most fluid, and increasingly scarce, of goods: water. Yet his heart remains set on something else, on the pretty girl whose star rises along with his, their paths crossing and recrossing, a lifelong affair sparked and snuffed and sparked again by the forces that careen their fates along. How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia is a striking slice of contemporary life at a time of crushing upheaval. Romantic without being sentimental, political without being didactic, and spiritual without being religious, it brings an unflinching gaze to the violence and hope it depicts. And it creates two unforgettable characters who find moments of transcendent intimacy in the midst of shattering change.