Download or read book The Folks written by Ruth Suckow and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 1992-02 with total page 742 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is an introspective, poignant portrait of an American family during a time of sweeping changes. Now nearly sixty years after it first appeared, Suckow's finest work still displays a thorough realism in its characters' actions and aspirations; the uneasy compromises they are forced to make still ring true. Suckow's talent for retrospective analysis comes to life as she examines her own people—Iowans, descendants of early settlers—through the lives of the Ferguson family, living in the fictional small town of Belmond, Iowa. Using her gift of creating three-dimensional, living characters, Suckow focuses on personal differences within the family and each member's separate struggle to make sense of past and present, to confront a pervasive sense of loss as a way of life disappears.
Download or read book Real Folks written by Adeline Dutton Train Whitney and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Real Folks written by A. D. T. Whitney, Mrs. and published by Tutis Digital Pub. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fiction Is Folks written by Robert Peck and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-12-19 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is not plot, but character, that makes your story glisten. This book will show you how to flip over a rock and find folks for your fiction. How to recognize a character when you see him, or her, and then how to examine, calibrate, and hone a passel of personalities. Robert Newton Peck has written sixty-five books. In 1982, he received the Mark Twain Award for his humorous Soup series that features two boys who do much mischief in their small Vermont town. Although Peck grew up on a farm, he worked his way from lumberjack to marketing manager of a large New York company. As a writer, he moved to Florida and devoted his time to writing and entertaining audiences with his piano playing and story telling.
Download or read book Everyday Folks written by Billy Jones and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2004-12 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who are we? We are hardworking and focused. We are winners or defeaters. We fall in and out of love. Some of us own nice cars while others take the bus. We are immensely rich or exceedingly broke. We're not in tabloids or on covers of magazines. "We're common, Everyday Folks." Everyday Folks: Short Stories on the Common People takes a glimpse into the lives of people whose life stories would probably go unnoticed. The short stories warm our hearts or challenge our nerves. They chronicle the realities and complexities that many of us face on a day-to-day basis. Set in Miami, Florida, Everyday Folks gives the rest of the world a chance to see beneath the fleshy surface of people who build their lives around love, pain, and the inevitable. This book is dedicated to you...not to many but a small few...for the things you do in lieu of what you do... For it is derived from the essence of you. It captures the heart with episodes that only the common people will understand.
Download or read book Real Folks written by A.D.T. Whitney and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2018-04-05 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: Real Folks by A.D.T. Whitney
Download or read book Out There written by Kate Folk and published by Random House. This book was released on 2022-03-29 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thrilling new voice in fiction injects the absurd into the everyday to present a startling vision of modern life, “[as] if Kafka and Camus and Bradbury were penning episodes of Black Mirror” (Chang-Rae Lee, author of My Year Abroad). “Stories so sharp and ingenious you may cut yourself on them while reading.”—Kelly Link, author of Get In Trouble FINALIST FOR THE CALIFORNIA BOOK AWARD • ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Chicago Review of Books, Kirkus Reviews With a focus on the weird and eerie forces that lurk beneath the surface of ordinary experience, Kate Folk’s debut collection is perfectly pitched to the madness of our current moment. A medical ward for a mysterious bone-melting disorder is the setting of a perilous love triangle. A curtain of void obliterates the globe at a steady pace, forcing Earth’s remaining inhabitants to decide with whom they want to spend eternity. A man fleeing personal scandal enters a codependent relationship with a house that requires a particularly demanding level of care. And in the title story, originally published in The New Yorker, a woman in San Francisco uses dating apps to find a partner despite the threat posed by “blots,” preternaturally handsome artificial men dispatched by Russian hackers to steal data. Meanwhile, in a poignant companion piece, a woman and a blot forge a genuine, albeit doomed, connection. Prescient and wildly imaginative, Out There depicts an uncanny landscape that holds a mirror to our subconscious fears and desires. Each story beats with its own fierce heart, and together they herald an exciting new arrival in the tradition of speculative literary fiction.
Download or read book Little Folks Astray written by Sophie May and published by IndyPublish.com. This book was released on 1872 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prudy's cousin, Katie "Flyaway" Clifford is more the star of this series. The first book in the series opens just before Christmas at the home of Little Prudy's Aunt and Uncle Clifford, who live in Quinn, Indiana. The children's Aunt Madge invites Horace, Katie, Prudy and Alice Parlin to her house in New York City to spend Christmas with her.
Download or read book Real Folks written by A. Whitney and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-03-12 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1872. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
Download or read book The Ways of White Folks written by Langston Hughes and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-09-07 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of vibrant and incisive short stories depicting the sometimes humorous, but more often tragic interactions between Black people and white people in America in the 1920s and ‘30s. One of the most important writers to emerge from the Harlem Renaissance, Langston Hughes may be best known as a poet, but these stories showcase his talent as a lively storyteller. His work blends elements of blues and jazz, speech and song, into a triumphant and wholly original idiom. Stories included in this collection: "Cora Unashamed" "Slave on the Block" "Home" "Passing" "A Good Job Gone" "Rejuvenation Through Joy" "The Blues I'm Playing" "Red-Headed Baby" "Poor Little Black Fellow" "Little Dog" "Berry" "Mother and Child" "One Christmas Eve" "Father and Son"
Download or read book The Folks 2 written by Ray Garton and published by Crossroad Press. This book was released on 2019-10-14 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Andy Sayer is a new man. His external scars, left over from being badly burned as a child, are gone, and he has fallen in love. But he still lives with the Bollinger family, and Matthew Bollinger keeps a close eye on what Andy does with his life—and on who he loves. While Andy's outer scars have been surgically removed, his internal scars never heal. And Andy's hunger for revenge has receded over the last five years, but it is about to return in a big way.
Download or read book Folks from Dixie written by Paul Laurence Dunbar and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1899 Excerpt: ... THE ORDEAL AT MT. HOPE "And this is Mt. Hope," said the Rev. Howard Dokesbury to himself as he descended, bag in hand, from the smoky, dingy coach, or part of a coach, which was assigned to his people, and stepped upon the rotten planks of the station platform. The car he had just left was not a palace, nor had his reception by his fellowpassengers or his intercourse with them been of such cordial nature as to endear them to him. But he watched the choky little engine with its three black cars wind out of sight with a look as regretful as if he were witnessing the departure of his dearest friend. Then he turned his attention again to his surroundings, and a sigh welled up from his heart. "And this is Mt. Hope," he repeated. A note in his voice indicated that he fully appreciated the spirit of keen irony in which the place had been named. The colour scheme of the picture that met his eyes was in dingy blacks and grays. The building that held the ticket, telegraph, and train despatchers' offices was a miserably old ramshackle affair, standing well in the foreground of this scene of gloom and desolation. Its windows were so coated with smoke and grime that they seemed to have been painted over in order to secure secrecy within. Here and there a lazy cur lay drowsily snapping at the flies, and at the end of the station, perched on boxes or leaning against the wall, making a living picture of equal laziness, stood a group of idle Negroes exchanging rude badinage with their white counterparts across the street. After a while this bantering interchange would grow more keen and personal, a free-for-all friendly fight would follow, and the newspaper correspondent in that section would write it up as a "race war." But this had not happened yet that day. "This is Mt. ...
Download or read book Just Plain Folks written by Lorraine Johnson-Coleman and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2000-06-28 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By returning to the cotton fields, tobacco barns, & humble dwellings of her ancestral home in the rural South, this author learned firsthand what is missing from the history books between the pages on slavery & present-day African-American culture. It is the experience of ordinary people who, on second glance, have led truly extraordinary lives. She developed an appreciation for their words, wit, & wisdom & has made it her life's work to pass along their experiences. In this collection of original short stories, she pays homage to these ordinary folks through lyrical tributes, many of which have aired or will air on National Public Radio. Beginning late this year, her own program, Just Plain Folks: Wisdom from the Front Porch, will air weekly on NPR. Like her radio segments, the stories in Just Plain Folks are meant both to entertain & to educate. Each story concludes with an author's note that places it in its proper cultural context.
Download or read book Catalogue of Fiction Aug 1 1900 written by Norwich (Conn.). Otis Library and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Folks that Live on the Hill written by Kingsley Amis and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Folks from Dixie written by Paul Laurence Dunbar and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Little Folks of North America written by Mary Hazelton Blanchard Wade and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-06-18 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Little Folks of North America" from Mary Hazelton Blanchard Wade. American writer (1860-1936).
