Portraits of a Few of the People I've Made Cry - 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 Portraits of a Few of the People I've Made Cry write by Christine Sneed. This book was released on 2013-02-12. Portraits of a Few of the People I've Made Cry available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Presents a collection of short stories that center around the theme of love and characters who must deal with its unpredictability and contradictions.
Portraits of a Few of the People I've Made Cry
Portraits of a Few of the People I've Made Cry - 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 Portraits of a Few of the People I've Made Cry write by Christine Sneed. This book was released on 2013-02-12. Portraits of a Few of the People I've Made Cry available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The ten stories in this debut collection examine the perils of love and what it means to live during an era when people will offer themselves, almost unthinkingly, to strangers. Risks and repercussions are never fully weighed. People leap and almost always land on rocky ground. May-December romances flourish in these stories, as do self-doubt and, in most cases, serious regret. Mysterious, dangerous benefactors, dead and living artists, movie stars and college professors, plagiarists, and distinguished foreign novelists are among the many different characters. No one is blameless, but villains are difficult to single out-everyone seemingly bears responsibility for his or her desires and for the outcome of difficult choices so often made hopefully and naively.
The Virginity of Famous Men
The Virginity of Famous Men - 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 The Virginity of Famous Men write by Christine Sneed. This book was released on 2016-09-13. The Virginity of Famous Men available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Virginity of Famous Men, award-winning story writer Christine Sneed's deeply perceptive collection on the human condition, features protagonists attempting to make peace with the choices--both personal and professional--they have so far made. In “The Prettiest Girls,” a location scout for a Hollywood film studio falls in love with a young Mexican woman who is more in love with the idea of stardom than with this older American man who takes her with him back to California. “Clear Conscience” focuses on the themes of family loyalty, divorce, motherhood, and whether “doing the right thing” is, in fact, always the right thing to do. In “Beach Vacation,” a mother realizes that her popular and coddled teenage son has become someone she has difficulty relating to, let alone loving with the same maternal fervor that once was second nature to her. The title story, “The Virginity of Famous Men,” explores family and fortune. Long intrigued by love and loneliness, Sneed leads readers through emotional landscapes both familiar and uncharted. These probing stories are explorations of the compassionate and passionate impulses that are inherent in--and often the source of--both abiding joy and serious distress in every human life.
Remarkable Women
Remarkable Women - 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 Remarkable Women write by Chicago Tribune Staff. This book was released on 2013-07-30. Remarkable Women available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A collection of articles from the Chicago Tribune's popular feature that profiles the life of a different Chicago-area woman every week, telling their most fascinating stories from youth through to the present. These women are everyday examples of inspiring, hardworking, and determined role models whose successes are too often overshadowed. These are stories of women who make a positive difference in society and their surrounding environments. From nonprofit organizers to business executives, local educators to community leaders, and athletes to artists, this book features an eclectic mix of women who run the professional gamut. What they all share, though, is what lends the series its name: they are simply remarkable.
A Little Life
A Little Life - 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 A Little Life write by Hanya Yanagihara. This book was released on 2016-01-26. A Little Life available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A stunning “portrait of the enduring grace of friendship” (NPR) about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves. A masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century. NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • MAN BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST • WINNER OF THE KIRKUS PRIZE A Little Life follows four college classmates—broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition—as they move to New York in search of fame and fortune. While their relationships, which are tinged by addiction, success, and pride, deepen over the decades, the men are held together by their devotion to the brilliant, enigmatic Jude, a man scarred by an unspeakable childhood trauma. A hymn to brotherly bonds and a masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century, Hanya Yanagihara’s stunning novel is about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves. Look for Hanya Yanagihara’s latest bestselling novel, To Paradise.
