Grief Is The Thing With Feathers
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Author |
: Max Porter |
Publisher |
: Graywolf Press |
Total Pages |
: 129 |
Release |
: 2016-06-07 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781555979379 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1555979378 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (79 Downloads) |
Synopsis Grief Is the Thing with Feathers by : Max Porter
Here he is, husband and father, scruffy romantic, a shambolic scholar--a man adrift in the wake of his wife's sudden, accidental death. And there are his two sons who like him struggle in their London apartment to face the unbearable sadness that has engulfed them. The father imagines a future of well-meaning visitors and emptiness, while the boys wander, savage and unsupervised. In this moment of violent despair they are visited by Crow--antagonist, trickster, goad, protector, therapist, and babysitter. This self-described "sentimental bird," at once wild and tender, who "finds humans dull except in grief," threatens to stay with the wounded family until they no longer need him. As weeks turn to months and the pain of loss lessens with the balm of memories, Crow's efforts are rewarded and the little unit of three begins to recover: Dad resumes his book about the poet Ted Hughes; the boys get on with it, grow up. Part novella, part polyphonic fable, part essay on grief, Max Porter's extraordinary debut combines compassion and bravura style to dazzling effect. Full of angular wit and profound truths, Grief Is the Thing with Feathers is a startlingly original and haunting debut by a significant new talent.
Author |
: Max Porter |
Publisher |
: Faber & Faber |
Total Pages |
: 122 |
Release |
: 2015-09-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780571323777 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0571323774 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (77 Downloads) |
Synopsis Grief Is the Thing with Feathers by : Max Porter
** Pre-order Shy, the new novel from Max Porter, now **A SUNDAY TIMES TOP 100 NOVEL OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURYWinner of the 2016 International Dylan Thomas Prize and the Sunday Times/Peter, Fraser + Dunlop Young Writer of the Year award and shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award and the Goldsmiths Prize.'Amazing and unforgettable.' THE TIMES 'Dazzlyingly good.' ROBERT MACFARLANE'Unlike anything I've read before.' GUARDIANIn a London flat, two young boys face the unbearable sadness of their mother's sudden death. Their father, a Ted Hughes scholar and scruffy romantic, imagines a future of well-meaning visitors and emptiness. In this moment of despair they are visited by Crow - antagonist, trickster, healer, babysitter. This sentimental bird is drawn to the grieving family and threatens to stay until they no longer need him. This extraordinary debut, full of unexpected humour and emotional truth, marks the arrival of a thrilling and significant new talent.
Author |
: Max Porter |
Publisher |
: Graywolf Press |
Total Pages |
: 189 |
Release |
: 2019-05-14 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781555978877 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1555978878 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (77 Downloads) |
Synopsis Lanny by : Max Porter
Longlisted for the 2019 Booker Prize An entrancing new novel by the author of the prizewinning Grief Is the Thing with Feathers There’s a village an hour from London. It’s no different from many others today: one pub, one church, redbrick cottages, some public housing, and a few larger houses dotted about. Voices rise up, as they might anywhere, speaking of loving and needing and working and dying and walking the dogs. This village belongs to the people who live in it, to the land and to the land’s past. It also belongs to Dead Papa Toothwort, a mythical figure local schoolchildren used to draw as green and leafy, choked by tendrils growing out of his mouth, who awakens after a glorious nap. He is listening to this twenty-first-century village, to its symphony of talk: drunken confessions, gossip traded on the street corner, fretful conversations in living rooms. He is listening, intently, for a mischievous, ethereal boy whose parents have recently made the village their home. Lanny. With Lanny, Max Porter extends the potent and magical space he created in Grief Is the Thing with Feathers. This brilliant novel will ensorcell readers with its anarchic energy, with its bewitching tapestry of fabulism and domestic drama. Lanny is a ringing defense of creativity, spirit, and the generative forces that often seem under assault in the contemporary world, and it solidifies Porter’s reputation as one of the most daring and sensitive writers of his generation.
Author |
: Max Porter |
Publisher |
: Strange Light |
Total Pages |
: 81 |
Release |
: 2021-09-14 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780771096372 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0771096372 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (72 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Death of Francis Bacon by : Max Porter
Madrid. Unfinished. Man dying. A great painter lies on his deathbed, synapses firing, writhing and reveling in pleasure and pain as a lifetime of chaotic and grotesque sense memories wash over and envelop him. In this bold and brilliant short work of experimental fiction by the author of Grief Is the Thing with Feathers and Lanny, Max Porter inhabits Francis Bacon in his final moments, translating into seven extraordinary written pictures the explosive final workings of the artist's mind. Writing as painting rather than about painting, Porter lets the images he conjures speak for themselves as they take their revenge on the subject who wielded them in life. The result is more than a biography: The Death of Francis Bacon is a physical, emotional, historical, sexual, and political bombardment--the measure of a man creative and compromised, erotic and masochistic, inexplicable and inspired.
Author |
: McCall Hoyle |
Publisher |
: Blink |
Total Pages |
: 288 |
Release |
: 2017-09-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780310758303 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0310758300 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (03 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Thing with Feathers by : McCall Hoyle
Emilie Day believes in playing it safe: she’s homeschooled, her best friend is her seizure dog, and she’s probably the only girl on the Outer Banks of North Carolina who can’t swim. Then Emilie’s mom enrolls her in public school, and Emilie goes from studying at home in her pj’s to halls full of strangers. To make matters worse, Emilie is paired with starting point guard Chatham York for a major research project on Emily Dickinson. She should be ecstatic when Chatham shows interest, but she has a problem. She hasn’t told anyone about her epilepsy. Emilie lives in fear her recently adjusted meds will fail and she’ll seize at school. Eventually, the worst happens, and she must decide whether to withdraw to safety or follow a dead poet’s advice and “dwell in possibility.” From Golden Heart award-winning author McCall Hoyle comes The Thing with Feathers, a story of overcoming fears, forging new friendships, and finding a first love, perfect for fans of Jennifer Niven, Robyn Schneider, and Sharon M. Draper.
Author |
: Emily Dickinson |
Publisher |
: Gibbs Smith |
Total Pages |
: 317 |
Release |
: 2019-02-12 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781423652830 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1423652835 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (30 Downloads) |
Synopsis Hope Is the Thing with Feathers by : Emily Dickinson
Part of a new collection of literary voices from Gibbs Smith, written by, and for, extraordinary women—to encourage, challenge, and inspire. One of American’s most distinctive poets, Emily Dickinson scorned the conventions of her day in her approach to writing, religion, and society. Hope Is the Thing with Feathers is a collection from her vast archive of poetry to inspire the writers, creatives, and leaders of today. Continue your journey in the Women’s Voices series with Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Bronte and The Feminist Papers by Mary Wollstonecraft.
Author |
: Ted Hughes |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 89 |
Release |
: 1995 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0571176550 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780571176557 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (50 Downloads) |
Synopsis Crow by : Ted Hughes
One of a series of titles first published by Faber between 1930 and 1990, and in a style and format planned with a view to the appearance of the volumes on the bookshelf. This was the Poet Laureate's fourth book of poems for adults, and represented a significant moment in his writing career.
Author |
: J. Patrick Lewis |
Publisher |
: Astra Publishing House |
Total Pages |
: 33 |
Release |
: 2017-03-28 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781590789216 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1590789210 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (16 Downloads) |
Synopsis Keep a Pocket in Your Poem by : J. Patrick Lewis
Thirteen classic poems by poets such as Robert Frost, Langston Hughes, Emily Dickinson, and David McCord are paired with parodies that honor and play off of the original poems in a range of ways. For example, "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" is paired with "Stopping by Fridge on a Hungry Evening" to hilarious effect, whereas the combination of Emily Dickinson's "'Hope' is the thing with feathers" with Lewis's "'Grief' is the thing with tissues" is profound, and both David McCord's "This Is My Rock" and Lewis's "This Is My Tree" hum with a sense of wonder. This playful introduction to classics will inspire imagination and wonder even as it tickles funny bones.
Author |
: Bill Hayes |
Publisher |
: Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages |
: 304 |
Release |
: 2017-02-14 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781620404959 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1620404958 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (59 Downloads) |
Synopsis Insomniac City by : Bill Hayes
Amazon's Best Biographies and Memoirs of the Year List A moving celebration of what Bill Hayes calls "the evanescent, the eavesdropped, the unexpected" of life in New York City, and an intimate glimpse of his relationship with the late Oliver Sacks. "A beautifully written once-in-a-lifetime book, about love, about life, soul, and the wonderful loving genius Oliver Sacks, and New York, and laughter and all of creation."--Anne Lamott Bill Hayes came to New York City in 2009 with a one-way ticket and only the vaguest idea of how he would get by. But, at forty-eight years old, having spent decades in San Francisco, he craved change. Grieving over the death of his partner, he quickly discovered the profound consolations of the city's incessant rhythms, the sight of the Empire State Building against the night sky, and New Yorkers themselves, kindred souls that Hayes, a lifelong insomniac, encountered on late-night strolls with his camera. And he unexpectedly fell in love again, with his friend and neighbor, the writer and neurologist Oliver Sacks, whose exuberance--"I don't so much fear death as I do wasting life," he tells Hayes early on--is captured in funny and touching vignettes throughout. What emerges is a portrait of Sacks at his most personal and endearing, from falling in love for the first time at age seventy-five to facing illness and death (Sacks died of cancer in August 2015). Insomniac City is both a meditation on grief and a celebration of life. Filled with Hayes's distinctive street photos of everyday New Yorkers, the book is a love song to the city and to all who have felt the particular magic and solace it offers.
Author |
: Jacqueline Woodson |
Publisher |
: Penguin |
Total Pages |
: 148 |
Release |
: 2009-01-08 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0142411981 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780142411988 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (81 Downloads) |
Synopsis Feathers by : Jacqueline Woodson
When a new, white student nicknamed "The Jesus Boy" joins her sixth grade class in the winter of 1971, Frannie's growing friendship with him makes her start to see some things in a new light.