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  • The Complete and Collected Stories of William Goyen

    de William Goyen ...
    This collection of William Goyen's short stories collects all of the stories found in his four earlier collections (including his Collected Stories) as well as nine additional stories, bringing all of his previously published stories into one collection for the first time. With an introduction from Goyen's biographer, Clark Davis, this collections lays out Goyen's work in short fiction in a ... Leer más

    $7.99 USD

  • The House of Breath

    de Reginald Gibbons, William Goyen ...
    Goyen passes on traditional conventions of plot and character. The House of Breath is an address to the people and places the narrator remembers from his childhood in small Texas town, Charity. The novel is a meditation on the nature of identity and origins, memory, and time's annihilation of life. This is the restored version, going back to Goyen's originally published version from 1950 with an ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD

  • William Goyen

    Selected Letters from a Writer’s Life

    de William Goyen, Sir Stephen Spender ...
    Proclaimed "one of the great American writers of short fiction" by the New York Times Book Review, William Goyen (1915-1983) had a quintessentially American literary career, in which national recognition came only after years of struggle to find his authentic voice, his audience, and an artistic milieu in which to create. These letters, which span the years 1937 to 1983, offer a compelling ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • Had I a Hundred Mouths: New and Selected Stories 1947-1983

    de William Goyen ...
    Goyen's final collection of stories, putting together selections from his long career as well as some of his newer works. Published in tandem with a new novel after about a decade of publishing silence. The title story won an O.Henry Prize. ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD

  • In a Farther Country

    de William Goyen ...
    William Goyen's second novel finds Marietta McGee-Chavez and her friends and acquaintances populate a world that is as much imagination as it is reality. And within it, they experience dreams and reality, sexual desire and loneliness, triumph and defeat.Subtitles, A Romance, In a Farther Country is an intense performance. Set in a Spanish arts factory in New York City, the novel develops through ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD

  • Half a Look of Cain

    de William Goyen ...
    Part fable and part rhapsodic exploration of desire and loss, Half a Look of Cain bears Goyen's unmistakable artistic signature on every page. Told as a series of nested episodes, the novel is narrated alternately by a male nurse, his patient, and a lighthouse keeper. As boundaries blur and connections between the men emerge, Half a Look of Cain becomes a meditation on communion and alienation, ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD

  • A Book of Jesus

    de William Goyen ...
    A non-fiction work by Goyen--his attempt to explain who Jesus Christ was utilizing Christ's own words. ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD

  • The Fair Sister

    de William Goyen ...
    Savata--a beautiful, fair-skinned young woman who leaves a career on the night club circuit to become high priestess of her own church in Brooklyn--is the creation of one of America's most original, evocative, and highly regarded writers. William Goyen offers a wonderful blend of bold satire and dignified pathos in this touching, funny, short novel. ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD

  • Come, the Restorer

    de William Goyen ...
    Goyen's fifth novel is a fable of sexuality, Texas country life in the first half of the twentieth century, religious revivalism, and the money madness and ecological destruction caused by the oil boom. The narrative is composed of the brief linked episodes and tales that are Goyen's trademark, and is written with an ear for the rhythms of regional speech that was his particular gift. ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD

  • Arcadio

    de William Goyen ...
    Completed while he was dying, William Goyen's Arcadio is one of the most affecting and imaginative farewells to life ever written. Arcadio, whose voice is inimitably Goyenesque, is a creature from beyond the normal walk of life. Half man, half woman, raised in a whorehouse and for years the veteran exhibitionist in an itinerant circus sideshow, he has escaped from the show and has been wandering ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD

  • Laziness in the Fertile Valley

    de Albert Cossery, Anna Della Subin ...
    Traducido por William Goyen ...
    A portrait of a family of proud layabouts who avoid work and sleep all day by the Egyptian writer often referred to as "the Voltaire of the Nile"Laziness in the Fertile Valley is Albert Cossery’s biting social satire about a father, his three sons, and their uncle — slackers one and all. One brother has been sleeping for almost seven years, waking only to use the bathroom and eat a meal. Another ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

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  • The Stories of Ray Bradbury

    de Ray Bradbury ...
    An extensive collection of imaginative short stories by a National Medal of the Arts–winning author of science fiction, fantasy, horror, and suspense.Fly to Mars and explore the mysteries of the red planet. Journey through time to futures ruled by cold computers and hear the deafening roar of dinosaurs in the past. Sing the body electric and look into the mechanical eyes of androids that want to ... Leer más

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