The Fat Man in History, and Other Stories
Author | : Peter Carey |
Publisher | : Random House (NY) |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Peter Carey |
Publisher | : Random House (NY) |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Peter Carey |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 234 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780702230202 |
Short stories.
Author | : Peter Carey |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 156 |
Release | : 1974 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
Short stories.
Author | : Peter Carey |
Publisher | : Vintage Canada |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2015-03-03 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0307367665 |
If, in some post-Marxist utopia, obesity were declared counterrevolutionary, how would a houseful of fat men strike back? If it were possible to win a new body by lottery, what kind of people would choose ugliness? If two gun-toting thugs decided to take over a business -- and run it through sheer terror -- how far would their methods take them? These are the questions that Peter Carey, author of The Tax Inspector and Oscar and Lucinda, brilliantly explores in this collection of stories. Exquisitely written and thoroughly envisioned, the tales in The Fat Man in History reach beyond their arresting premises to utter deep and often frightening truths about our brightest and darkest selves.
Author | : Ken Harmon |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 170 |
Release | : 2012-12-11 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1101623454 |
A satire of traditional Christmas stories and noir. A hardboiled elf is framed for murder in a North Pole world that plays reindeer games for keeps, and where favorite holiday characters live complex lives beyond December. Fired from his longtime job as captain of the Coal Patrol, two-foot-three inch 1,300-year-old elf Gumdrop Coal is angry. He's one of Santa's original elves, inspired by the fat man's vision to bring joy to children on that one special day each year. But somewhere along the way things went sour for Gumdrop. Maybe it was delivering one too many lumps of coal for the Naughty List. Maybe it's the conspiracy against Christmas that he's starting to sense down every chimney. Either way, North Pole disillusionment is nothing new: Some elves brood with a bottle of nog, trying to forget their own wish list. Some get better. Some get bitter. Gumdrop Coal wants revenge. Justice is the only thing he knows, and so he decides to give a serious wakeup call to parents who can't keep their vile offspring from landing on the Naughty List. But when one parent winds up dead, his eye shot out with a Red Ryder Carbine-Action Two-Hundred-Shot Range Model BB gun, Gumdrop Coal must learn who framed him and why. Along the way he'll escape the life-sucking plants of the Mistletoe Forrest, battle the infamous Tannenbomb Giant, and survive a close encounter with twelve very angry drummers and their violent friends. The horrible truth lurking behind the gingerbread doors of Kringle Town could spell the end of Christmas-and of the fat man himself. Holly Jolly!
Author | : Reginald Hill |
Publisher | : Seal Books |
Total Pages | : 529 |
Release | : 2009-12-15 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0307374947 |
There was no sign of life. But not for a second did Pascoe admit the possibility of death. Dalziel was indestructible. Dalziel is, and was, and forever shall be, world without end, amen. Chief constables might come and chief constables might go, but Fat Andy went on forever. Caught in the full blast of a huge explosion, Detective Superintendent Andy Dalziel lies on a hospital bed, with only a life support system and his indomitable will between him and the Great Beyond. His colleague, Detective Chief Inspector Peter Pascoe, is determined to bring those responsible to justice. Pascoe suspects a group called The Templars, and the deeper he digs, the more certain he is that The Templars are getting help from within the police force. The plot is complex, the pace fast, the jokes furious, and the climax astounding. And above it all, like a huge dirigible threatening to break from its moorings, hovers the disembodied spirit of Andy Dalziel.
Author | : Benjamin Hale |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2016-05-17 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1476776229 |
“Oddly beautiful and impossible to look away from” (Los Angeles Times), the stories in The Fat Artist are suffused with fear and desire, introducing us to a company of indelible characters reeling with love, jealousy, megalomania, and despair. In prose alternately stark, lush and hallucinatory, occasionally nightmarish and often absurd, the voices in Benjamin Hale’s The Fat Artist and Other Stories speak from the margins: a dominatrix whose longtime client, a US congressman, drops dead during a tryst in a hotel room; an addict in precarious recovery who lands a job driving a truck full of live squid; a heartbroken performance artist who attempts to eat himself to death as a work of art. From underground radicals hiding in Morocco to an aging hippy in Colorado in the summer before 9/11 to a young drag queen in New York at the cusp of the AIDS crisis, these stories rove freely across time and place, carried by haunting, peculiar narratives that form the vast tapestry of American life. “A steadily growing…talent” (Kirkus Reviews), Hale’s prize-winning fiction abounds with a love of language and a wild joy for storytelling, earning accolades from writers such as novelist Jonathan Ames, who compared discovering his work to watching Mickey Mantle play ball for the first time; Washington Post critic Ron Charles, who declared him “fully evolved as a writer,” and bestselling author Jodi Picoult, who simply called him “brilliant.” Pairing absurdity with philosophical musings on the unnerving intersections between life and death, art and ridicule, consumption and creation, “the audacious imagination evident in Hale’s acclaimed debut, The Evolution of Bruno Littlemore, shines again in this…provocative collection that takes a unique view of the human condition” (Booklist).
Author | : Naomi Benaron |
Publisher | : BkMk Press of the University of Missouri-Kansas City |
Total Pages | : 238 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781886157606 |
"A collection of short stories about family relationships and coming of age both in the United States and Rwanda during the 1990s Rwandan holocaust that offers a look at the wider subjects of race, religion, discrimination, and mental illness"--Provided by publisher.
Author | : Jack W. Germond |
Publisher | : Random House Trade Paperbacks |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 2002-01-08 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780375758676 |
For more than forty years, Jack Germond enjoyed an extraordinary career in political reporting. With his trademark no-nonsense style and tremendous wit in abundance, Fat Man in a Middle Seat remembers the personalities that dominated national politics during Germond’s career: Richard Nixon, Hubert Humphrey, Eugene McCarthy, George McGovern, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, and Bill Clinton. Germond writes about the real stuff of politics and captures the details of the reporter’s life on the road—the off-the-record briefings and strategy sessions, countless late nights in bars, and overcrowded Friday-night standby flights. In the words of Tim Russert, this is “quintessential Germond—candid, insightful, and irreverent.”
Author | : Peter Carey |
Publisher | : University of Queensland Press(Australia) |
Total Pages | : 191 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Australia |
ISBN | : 9780702223228 |
Originally published in 1980, this collection of ten short stories includes two of the author's best known: TThe Fat Man in History' (1974) and TWar Crimes' (1979). Winner of the Booker Prize, Miles Franklin and National Book Council awards, among others, Carey is the author of the novels TBliss' and TOscar and Lucinda'.