Ergebnis für "A Life of Johnson" in Anthologien & Kurzgeschichten

Twenty-five years after Jesus’ Son, a haunting new collection of short stories on mortality and transcendence, from National Book Award winner and two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist Denis Johnson The Largesse of the Sea Maiden is the long-awaited new story collection from Denis Johnson...

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for his acclaimed novel about North Korea, The Orphan Master’s Son, Adam Johnson is one of America’s most provocative and powerful authors. Critics have compared him to Kurt Vonnegut, David Mitchell, and George Saunders, but Johnson’s new book will only further...

The Reality Beneath Book II Going Sideways on Life is a sequel to Johnson’s first book of short stories, The Reality Beneath - Old Fashioned Reality in the Modern word. It contains a completely new set of short stories written in the unique genre that he is known for. It is an insightful mixture of speculative fiction, science fiction, and fantasy. The stories take things we believe we know and understand in a new way. This gets us to think about the world that surrounds us in a new way to reveal a new understanding.

Garland Morris is an easygoing guy—eager to please, quick with a smile, and always interested in a good gamble. For years, he's enjoyed his job at the First Bank of Fairmont, especially since it provides him the stability he needs to be a little adventurous when it comes to hedging his bets. But when Charles Piper and Orpah Abraham, Fairview's most respected judge and one of Alabama's most prominent media figures, approach him, each asking for a "special request" regarding the bank's financial records, Morris finds himself stuck between a rock and a hard place.

Twelve years ago, Matthias Davidson left his broken home to find a better life, leaving his mama, brother, and sister behind. But a broken man only becomes more broken in a world without love and hope. Now Matthias is in trouble, and he desperately needs help. And he only has one place left to go. Home to Mama. Will Matthias be able to reconcile with his mother? Will he find a way out of his trouble - or will more trouble find him?

This award-winning series from LJ Evans should come with a warning label: Do not listen unless you are prepared to invest your heart and soul. It's about finding yourself and your path on this wild ride called life while overcoming loss, heartbreaks, and illness. It's about family and hope and love. Each book can be listened to as a stand-alone novel but comes with spoilers for the first book in the series.

When a man marries a woman because she becomes pregnant with his child, family matters to him. Dave and Phyllis dated in high school. When she got pregnant, he knew the honorable thing to do was to marry her. As the years went on, he stayed because of their daughter, getting along with his shrew of a wife as best he could. Then Dave left for a business trip, and came home to horrifying news; his teenage daughter got pregnant, and was forced into an abortion....by her mother. Now that Phyllis has crossed too far over the line what will he do? How does one live with the woman he stayed with because of obligation to family destroying his family?