Hall of Mirrors (Short Story) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Hall of Mirrors (Short Story) write by Kurt Vonnegut. This book was released on 2009-10-20. Hall of Mirrors (Short Story) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Look at the Birdie is a collection of fourteen previously unpublished short stories from one of the most original writers in all of American fiction. In this series of perfectly rendered vignettes, written just as he was starting to find his comic voice, Kurt Vonnegut paints a warm, wise, and often funny portrait of life in post–World War II America—a world where squabbling couples, high school geniuses, misfit office workers, and small-town lotharios struggle to adapt to changing technology, moral ambiguity, and unprecedented affluence. In this disquieting tale, the investigation into a string of mysterious disappearances turns surreal for two detectives, when they pay a visit to the home of a celebrated hypnotist. But who will turn the tables on whom when the final spell is cast? Hall of Mirrors and the thirteen other never-before-published pieces that comprise Look at the Birdie serve as an unexpected gift for devoted readers who thought that Kurt Vonnegut's unique voice had been stilled forever—and provide a terrific introduction to his short fiction for anyone who has yet to experience his genius.
Hall of Mirrors
Hall of Mirrors - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Hall of Mirrors write by Rita Lawrance. This book was released on 2011-04-01. Hall of Mirrors available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Look at the Birdie (Short Story)
Look at the Birdie (Short Story) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Look at the Birdie (Short Story) write by Kurt Vonnegut. This book was released on 2009-10-20. Look at the Birdie (Short Story) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Look at the Birdie is a collection of fourteen previously unpublished short stories from one of the most original writers in all of American fiction. In this series of perfectly rendered vignettes, written just as he was starting to find his comic voice, Kurt Vonnegut paints a warm, wise, and often funny portrait of life in post–World War II America—a world where squabbling couples, high school geniuses, misfit office workers, and small-town lotharios struggle to adapt to changing technology, moral ambiguity, and unprecedented affluence. How do you plan the perfect murder? Belly up to the bar with Vonnegut's narrator and listen as a self-proclaimed "murder counselor" outlines his fool-proof program for getting rid of your enemies—and assuring yourself a guaranteed annuity income for life. Look at the Birdie and the thirteen other never-before-published pieces that comprise Look at the Birdie serve as an unexpected gift for devoted readers who thought that Kurt Vonnegut's unique voice had been stilled forever—and provide a terrific introduction to his short fiction for anyone who has yet to experience his genius.
Liminality and the Short Story
Liminality and the Short Story - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Liminality and the Short Story write by Jochen Achilles. This book was released on 2014-12-05. Liminality and the Short Story available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book is a study of the short story, one of the widest taught genres in English literature, from an innovative methodological perspective. Both liminality and the short story are well-researched phenomena, but the combination of both is not frequent. This book discusses the relevance of the concept of liminality for the short story genre and for short story cycles, emphasizing theoretical perspectives, methodological relevance and applicability. Liminality as a concept of demarcation and mediation between different processual stages, spatial complexes, and inner states is of obvious importance in an age of global mobility, digital networking, and interethnic transnationality. Over the last decade, many symposia, exhibitions, art, and publications have been produced which thematize liminality, covering a wide range of disciplines including literary, geographical, psychological and ethnicity studies. Liminal structuring is an essential aspect of the aesthetic composition of short stories and the cultural messages they convey. On account of its very brevity and episodic structure, the generic liminality of the short story privileges the depiction of transitional situations and fleeting moments of crisis or decision. It also addresses the moral transgressions, heterotopic orders, and forms of ambivalent self-reflection negotiated within the short story's confines. This innovative collection focuses on both the liminality of the short story and on liminality in the short story.
FUBAR (Short Story)
FUBAR (Short Story) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook FUBAR (Short Story) write by Kurt Vonnegut. This book was released on 2009-10-20. FUBAR (Short Story) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The waters of renewal sometimes course through the unlikeliest of settings. In the short story, “FUBAR,” we’re taken to a desolate building in a drab industrial complex, where a lonely office worker gains a fresh perspective on life thanks to the intervention of his free-spirited new female assistant. “FUBAR” and the thirteen other never-before-published pieces that comprise Look at the Birdie serve as an unexpected gift for devoted readers who thought that Kurt Vonnegut’s unique voice had been stilled forever–and provide a terrific introduction to his short fiction for anyone who has yet to experience his genius.
