Download or read book The Colour of Kerosene and Other Stories written by Cameron Raynes and published by Wakefield Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In these fourteen stories, Cameron Raynes traverses landscapes of regret, joy and redemption. In a country town, a woman plots to ruin her rival with an act steeped in racism. A welfare worker is asked to spy on a colleague. And in the award-winning title story, a taxi driver accepts a fare he knows he shouldn't: They headed east, the nude hills of the Geraldton plains, stripped of their trees a century before, leaning into them on both sides as the car climbed into the marginal country. Behind him, Luke heard the gurgle of fluid sluicing out of a bladder and into a cup, smelt the sweet stink of cheap wine. It occurred to him that it was not too late to turn back.
Download or read book COLOUR OF KEROSENE AND OTHER STORIES written by CAMERON. RAYNES and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Colour of Kerosene and Other Stories written by Cameron Raynes and published by . This book was released on 2021-04-16 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In these fourteen stories, Cameron Raynes traverses landscapes of regret, joy and redemption. In a country town, a woman plots to ruin her rival with an act steeped in racism. A welfare worker is asked to spy on a colleague. And in the award-winning title story, a taxi driver accepts a fare he knows he shouldn't: They headed east, the nude hills of the Geraldton plains, stripped of their trees a century before, leaning into them on both sides as the car climbed into the marginal country. Behind him, Luke heard the gurgle of fluid sluicing out of a bladder and into a cup, smelt the sweet stink of cheap wine. It occurred to him that it was not too late to turn back. 'Reading the stories in Kerosene will put dirt under your fingernails. Raynes's vision is hard-edged and sometimes downright brutal yet it's studded with empathy, compassion and truth.' - Patrick Allington
Download or read book The Wife of His Youth and Other Stories of The Color Line written by Charles Waddell Chesnutt and published by Prabhat Prakashan. This book was released on 2023-10-01 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Represents a 19th century American novel by an African American which is important to the study of American folklore, culture, anad literary history.
Download or read book The Wife of his Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line and Selected Essays written by Charles W. Chesnutt and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-11-25 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The Wife of His Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line, and Selected Essays' by Charles W. Chesnutt is a collection of realistic stories that offer a glimpse into the lives of Americans of mixed black and white ancestry in the years after the Civil War. With wit and candor, Chesnutt takes on the complex and often unjust social structure that governed black, white, and mixed-race relations during this period. 'The Wife of His Youth', a standout in the collection, explores the colorism and class prejudice within the black community. Chesnutt's writing is insightful and thought-provoking, offering a nuanced examination of the complexities of identity and belonging. This classic work is a must-read for anyone interested in the history of race relations in America.
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Download or read book Tales in Colour and Other Stories written by Kunzang Choden and published by Zubaan. This book was released on 2012-06-25 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These deceptively simple stories uncover both the complexity and irony of women’s lives in Bhutan today. They show how ordinary lives, choices and experiences are both remarkable and poignant. In ‘I am a Small Person’, a despised woman uses her femininity as a means to control a man; the young girl in ‘I Won’t ask Mother’ suddenly feels empowered and confident when she makes a decision without consulting her mother. All the stories take place in rural settings, to which creeping urbanisation brings gradual change, and tensions surface between the new and the old, or the traditional and the modern. For many rural women, being able to connect to the city and all its perceived power and glamour is a very real aspiration. This yearning is exemplified in ‘Look at her Belly Button,’ where a young woman effortlessly slips out of the role of a farmer to become a ‘real Bhutanese’ urbanite. Published by Zubaan.
Download or read book The Wife of his Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line and Selected Essays Volume 1 of 2 EasyRead Super Large 24pt Edition written by Chesnutt and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2022 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Dear Reader by Julie and other stories written by Reshma Cheknath Umesh and published by Ukiyoto Publishing. This book was released on 2022-02-28 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Masterly crafted Novella and two Short stories that restores Art in Literature. Protagonists, here are living a life led by their own feelings. Like a hummingbird they symbolize the enjoyment of life and lightness of being. Their adaptability, resilience, quality of being in the present moment, independence and playfulness adds joy in reader’s life and mind, indeed. Dear Reader, read and relish few free-spirited aesthetic moments!
Download or read book Fat Time and Other Stories written by Jeffery Renard Allen and published by Graywolf Press. This book was released on 2023-06-20 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Fat Time and Other Stories , Jimi Hendrix, Francis Bacon, the boxer Jack Johnson, Miles Davis, and a space-age Muhammad Ali find themselves in the otherworldly hands of Jeffery Renard Allen, reimagined and transformed to bring us news of America in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Along with them are characters of Allen's two teenagers in an unnamed big city who stumble through a down-low relationship; an African preacher visits a Christian religious retreat to speak on the evils of fornication in an Italian villa imported to America by Abraham Lincoln; and an albino revolutionary who struggles with leading his people into conflict. The two strands in this brilliant story collection speculative history and tender, painful depictions of Black life in urban America are joined by African notions of circular time in which past, present, and future exist all at once. Here the natural and supernatural, the sacred and the profane, the real and fantastical, destruction and creation are held in delicate and tense balance. Allen's work has been said to extend the tradition of Ralph Ellison, William Faulkner, Henry Roth, and Ishmael Reed, but he is blazing his own path through American literature. Fat Time and Other Stories brilliantly shows the range and depth of his imagination.
Download or read book Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg and Other Stories written by Mark Twain and published by Alma Books. This book was released on 2018-01-01 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of Twain's most celebrated novellas, 'The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg' is a satirical retelling of the Garden of Eden story in the Bible, in which the author, mocking the supposed honesty and incorruptibility of the inhabitants of an imaginary American town, shows how man is fundamentally bad and cannot resist the temptations of gold. This collection also includes another acclaimed novella, 'A Double-Barrelled Detective Story', a spoof of the mystery genre featuring Sherlock Holmes in the American West, as well as lesser-known narratives such as 'The Belated Russian Passport' and 'The Death Disk'. Together, these tales are a testament to Twain's inexhaustible gift for invention and his skills as a storyteller.
Download or read book The 30 000 Bequest and Other Stories written by Mark Twain and published by Cosimo Classics. This book was released on 1907 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Money had brought him misery, and he took his revenge upon us, who had done him no harm. He had his desire: with base and cunning calculation he left us but thirty thousand, knowing we would try to increase it, and ruin our life and break our hearts." -The $30,000 Bequest (1906) The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories (1906) is a collection of humorous tales by Mark Twain, covering his lifelong career. The title story is classic Twain, about an old man leaving a distant relative a life-changing sum of money, only to be collected under strict terms. Other stories include A Dog's Tale, Was it Heaven? Or Hell?, Does the Race of Man Love a Lord? and many others. This replica of the 1907 edition of The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories is a real treat for booklovers and fans of Mark Twain.
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