The Tenderness Of Stones

Author : Marion Fayolle
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1681372983
Total Pages : 143 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Tenderness of Stones written by Marion Fayolle and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2019-09-03 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A surreal and stunningly beautiful graphic novel about death, mourning, and family by one of the most promising young artists working today. “We buried one of dad’s lungs,” announces the narrator of The Tenderness of Stones. The lung is so large it takes three men to carry it—and that is just the beginning. The family looks on as, under the dispassionate orders of anonymous white-clad strangers, their father is disassembled, piece by piece: His nose is removed from his face and tied, temporarily, to his neck; his other lung is pulled out and he is forced to lug it around in a cart; his mouth is pried off and stored away, leaving him mute. Beneath it all is one devastating truth: Soon, he will be gone entirely. Marion Fayolle is one of the most innovative young artists in contemporary comics, and in this startling, gorgeously drawn fable she offers a vision of family illness and grief that is by turns playful and profound, literal and lyrical. She captures the strange swirl of love, resentment, grief, and humor that comes as we watch a loved one transformed before our eyes, and learn to live without them.

Author : Ira Heinrich
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0615186955
Total Pages : 141 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Tenderness of Stone written by Ira Heinrich and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2008-04-03 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE TENDERNESS OF STONE is a memoir of the power of the Sacred Mountain operating in human spirituality, recounted in the histories of a particular place of power, the Middle Mountain (Sutter Buttes), a sharp cluster of old volcanoes rising from the center of California's Central Valley. It is also the story of one man's life-long obsession with the Mountain, as its lore and meaning are revealed in his experience. LORD OF THE VALLEY is a book filled with stories of ancient mythic wisdom, pioneer psychodrama, and the passions and people of the present day, as they have encountered this sacred place. But the real offering of this work is of a renewed vision of the eternal incarnation of truth and revelation in the Place of Sacred Power, exemplified in this remarkable place. This first volume is the intimate story of a boy's sudden absorption in the power of this mountain, and the shattering - and unifying - drama that resulted in his life-long exploration of its mysteries.

Author : Amy Uyematsu
Publisher : Copper Canyon Press
ISBN 13 : 1556592213
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stone Bow Prayer written by Amy Uyematsu and published by Copper Canyon Press. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uyematsu's poems articulate a distinct perspective--a life defined by poetry, mathematics and Asian identity.

Author : Magdalena Tulli
Publisher : Archipelago
ISBN 13 : 1935744372
Total Pages : 113 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dreams and Stones written by Magdalena Tulli and published by Archipelago. This book was released on 2011-08-15 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dreams and Stones is a small masterpiece, one of the most extraordinary works of literature to come out of Central and Eastern Europe since the fall of communism. In sculpted, poetic prose reminiscent of Bruno Schulz, it tells the story of the emergence of a great city. In Tulli’s hands myth, metaphor, history, and narrative are combined to magical effect. Dreams and Stones is about the growth of a city, and also about all cities; at the same time it is not about cities at all, but about how worlds are created, trans- formed, and lost through words alone. A stunning debut by one of Europe’s finest new writers.

Author : Derrick Austin
Publisher : BOA Editions
ISBN 13 : 9781950774395
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tenderness written by Derrick Austin and published by BOA Editions. This book was released on 2021-09-07 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The insights of a young, queer Black man from the South surviving depression and building a poet's life in modern-day America"--

Author : Tennessee Williams
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 081122046X
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone (New Directions Bibelot) written by Tennessee Williams and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2013-10-25 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tennessee Williams's first novel The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone is vintage Tennessee Williams. Published in 1950, his first novel was acclaimed by Gore Vidal as "splendidly written, precise, short, complete, and fine." It is the story of a wealthy, fiftyish American widow recently a famous stage beauty, but now "drifting." The novel opens soon after her husband's death and her retirement from the theatre, as Mrs. Stone tries to adjust to her aimless new life in Rome. She is adjusting, too, to aging. ("The knowledge that her beauty was lost had come upon her recently and it was still occasionally forgotten.") With poignant wit and his own particular brand of relish, Williams charts her drift into an affair with a cruel young gigolo: "As compelling, as fascinating, and as technically skillful as his play" (Publishers Weekly).

Author : William Sarabande
Publisher : Bantam
ISBN 13 : 055329105X
Total Pages : 609 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sacred Stones written by William Sarabande and published by Bantam. This book was released on 1991-09-01 with total page 609 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Courageous, passionate men and women battle for survival of their clans—in the shadow of the great mammoth who speaks with thunder . . . As the massive glaciers fade and the wide seas rise, the warm grasslands of the Americas bring prosperity to the gentle People of the Red World, followers of the Great Ghost Spirit, the White Mammoth. But farther north, where the harsh dry winds howl, another nation, the People of the Watching Star, are enmeshed with legends of an evil shaman and the man-eating monster called the wanawut. Relentlessly they have hunted the mammoth to near extinction. Now, as raiders and ravagers they are coming south to invade the villages of the People of the Red World. The only ones who can prevent the murder of innocents and the final slaughter of the mammoth are a young boy shaman to whom the animals speak, a man whose strength equals his conviction, and a woman who hopes that, beyond violence and cruelty, humankind will recognize a stronger power—the force of love.

Author : John Hay Keay
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.AY/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Medical Treatment of Gall-stones written by John Hay Keay and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Agustina Bazterrica
Publisher : Scribner
ISBN 13 : 1982150920
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tender Is the Flesh written by Agustina Bazterrica and published by Scribner. This book was released on 2020-08-04 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Working at the local processing plant, Marcos is in the business of slaughtering humans—though no one calls them that anymore. His wife has left him, his father is sinking into dementia, and Marcos tries not to think too hard about how he makes a living. After all, it happened so quickly. First, it was reported that an infectious virus has made all animal meat poisonous to humans. Then governments initiated the “Transition.” Now, eating human meat—“special meat”—is legal. Marcos tries to stick to numbers, consignments, processing. Then one day he’s given a gift: a live specimen of the finest quality. Though he’s aware that any form of personal contact is forbidden on pain of death, little by little he starts to treat her like a human being. And soon, he becomes tortured by what has been lost—and what might still be saved.

Author : Victor Montejo
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Piedras Labradas written by Victor Montejo and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The poems in Montejo's SCULPTED STONES give lyric expression to the feelings of exile and to the (sometimes comic) difficulties of living in a foreign culture. Throughout this book, Montejo extols the values of the Maya culture and denounces the Guatemalan government's attempts to destroy the Indian society. At times with tenderness, at times with humor, at times with scathing irony, Montejo examines nature, politics, and recorded history to get at the truths of the present and the past.