Ergebnis für "Alligatoren" in Anthologien & Kurzgeschichten

Colleen is a 17-year-old would-be ecoterrorist, drawn inexorably to the places where alligators thrive. Her mother, Beverly, is cloaked in grief after the death of her husband. Beverly's sister, Madeleine, is a driven, aging filmmaker who obsesses over completing her magnum opus before she dies.

John Updike reads six stories he has selected from the 100-odd he has published. Mr. Updike, when asked to described his method of reading aloud, said "I try to picture the things describes, and to speak the words distinctly, and to let the emotion come through on its own." The method works beautifully.

Ein deutscher Schausteller präsentiert in St. Petersburg dem Publikum seine Sensation: das Riesenkrokodil Karlchen. Der Beamte Iwan Matwejewitsch, seine Frau Jelena Iwanowna und ihr Hausfreund Semjon Semjonowitsch sind neugierig, das kuriose Tier zu sehen, und begeben sich an Ort und Stelle. Als Jelena Iwanowna die "Attraktion" schließlich sieht, ist sie enttäuscht und findet das Tier abscheulich. Außerdem glaubt sie gar nicht, dass es lebt; um sie vom Gegenteil zu überzeugen, neckt der Deutsche es mit einem Stöckchen.

The award-winning stories in Dima Alzayat's collection, Alligator and Other Stories, are luminous and tender, whether dealing with a woman preforming burial rites for her brother in "Ghusl", or the great-aunt struggling to explain cultural identity to her niece in "Once We Were Syrians". Alzayat's stories are rich and relatable, chronicling a sense of displacement through everyday scenarios. There is the intern in pre-#MeToo Hollywood of "Only Those Who Struggle Succeed", or the "dangerous" women of "The Daughters of Manāt" who struggle to assert their independence.

The Alligator and the Jackal is the story of a jackal who narrowly escapes being eaten by an alligator on the banks of a river. Following this incident, the alligator is determined to catch the cunning jackal. The Jackal is equally determined not to be eaten. A series of close escapes escalates the feud until the dramatic finale.