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Float Up, Sing Down
Laird Hunt
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R583
R472
Discovery Miles 4 720
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From National Book Award Finalist Laird Hunt, a masterful
collection of interwoven stories capturing one summer's day in
Reagan-era Indiana. Candy Wilson has forgotten to buy the paprika.
Turner Davis needs to get his zinnias in. Della Dorner told her
mother she was going to Milky Freeze, but that's not where she's
really headed on her new Schwinn five-speed. Float Up, Sing Down is
the story of a single day. But in that day, how much teeming life!
The residents of this rural town have their routines, their
preferences, their joys, grudges, and regrets. The old-timers savor
past triumphs, cast back to lives circumscribed and defined by the
World Wars, wonder what might have been. Youngsters covet cars,
karate moves, kissing; they writhe in the first blushes of love or
pain or independence. Gossip is paramount. Lives are entwined.
Retired sheriffs climb corn bins and muse on lost love, French
teachers throw firecrackers out of barn windows, and teenagers
borrow motorcycles to ride the back roads. Each of the fourteen
stories of Float Up, Sing Down follows one character's
'day-in-the-life' in one of Hunt's most beloved and enduring
landscapes. As the book unfolds these lives echo and glance off of
one another with elegance and warmth, a tenderness born of
strength. In the tradition of Willa Cather, Sherwood Anderson,
Elizabeth Strout, and Edward P. Jones, this is a symphony of souls,
a masterful portrait of both loneliness and community by one of our
great limners of American experience.
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Float Up, Sing Down
Laird Hunt
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R733
R610
Discovery Miles 6 100
Save R123 (17%)
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In this darkest of fairy tales, a young woman sets off to pick
berries in the depths of the forest, but can't find her way home
again. Or perhaps she has fled or abandoned her family. Or perhaps
she's been kidnapped, and set loose to wander in the dense woods of
the north. Alone and possibly lost, she meets another woman who
offers her help. Then everything changes. On a journey that will
take her to the depths of the witch-haunted woods, through a deep
well wet with the screams of men, and on a living ship made of
human bones, our heroine may find that the evil she flees has been
inside her all along.
Once upon a time there was and there wasn't a woman who went to the
woods. In this dark fairy tale, a young woman sets off to pick
berries in the depths of the forest, but can't find her way home
again. Or perhaps she has fled or abandoned her family. Or perhaps
she's been kidnapped, and set loose to wander in the dense woods of
the north. Alone and possibly lost, she meets another woman who
offers her help. Then everything changes. On a journey that will
take her to the depths of the witch-haunted woods, through a deep
well wet with the screams of men, and on a living ship made of
human bones, our heroine may find that the evil she flees has been
inside her all along.
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Zorrie (Hardcover)
Laird Hunt
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R463
R376
Discovery Miles 3 760
Save R87 (19%)
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Ships in 9 - 15 working days
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Finalist for the 2021 National Book Award (Fiction) "It was
Indiana, it was the dirt she had bloomed up out of, it was who she
was, what she felt, how she thought, what she knew." As a girl,
Zorrie Underwood's modest and hardscrabble home county was the only
constant in her young life. After losing both her parents, Zorrie
moved in with her aunt, whose own death orphaned Zorrie all over
again, casting her off into the perilous realities and sublime
landscapes of rural, Depression-era Indiana. Drifting west, Zorrie
survived on odd jobs, sleeping in barns and under the stars, before
finding a position at a radium processing plant. At the end of each
day, the girls at her factory glowed from the radioactive material.
But when Indiana calls Zorrie home, she finally finds the love and
community that have eluded her in and around the small town of
Hillisburg. And yet, even as she tries to build a new life, Zorrie
discovers that her trials have only begun. Spanning an entire
lifetime, a life convulsed and transformed by the events of the
20th century, Laird Hunt's extraordinary novel offers a profound
and intimate portrait of the dreams that propel one tenacious woman
onward and the losses that she cannot outrun. Set against a harsh,
gorgeous, quintessentially American landscape, this is a deeply
empathetic and poetic novel that belongs on a shelf with the
classics of Willa Cather, Marilynne Robinson, and Elizabeth Strout.
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Zorrie (Paperback)
Laird Hunt
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R335
R272
Discovery Miles 2 720
Save R63 (19%)
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Ships in 9 - 15 working days
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Finalist for the 2021 National Book Award (Fiction) "It was
Indiana, it was the dirt she had bloomed up out of, it was who she
was, what she felt, how she thought, what she knew." As a girl,
Zorrie Underwood's modest and hardscrabble home county was the only
constant in her young life. After losing both her parents, Zorrie
moved in with her aunt, whose own death orphaned Zorrie all over
again, casting her off into the perilous realities and sublime
landscapes of rural, Depression-era Indiana. Drifting west, Zorrie
survived on odd jobs, sleeping in barns and under the stars, before
finding a position at a radium processing plant. At the end of each
day, the girls at her factory glowed from the radioactive material.
But when Indiana calls Zorrie home, she finally finds the love and
community that have eluded her in and around the small town of
Hillisburg. And yet, even as she tries to build a new life, Zorrie
discovers that her trials have only begun. Spanning an entire
lifetime, a life convulsed and transformed by the events of the
20th century, Laird Hunt's extraordinary novel offers a profound
and intimate portrait of the dreams that propel one tenacious woman
onward and the losses that she cannot outrun. Set against a harsh,
gorgeous, quintessentially American landscape, this is a deeply
empathetic and poetic novel that belongs on a shelf with the
classics of Willa Cather, Marilynne Robinson, and Elizabeth Strout.
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Float Up, Sing Down
Laird Hunt
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R415
R332
Discovery Miles 3 320
Save R83 (20%)
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Ships in 5 - 10 working days
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From National Book Award Finalist Laird Hunt, a masterful
collection of interwoven stories capturing one summer's day in
Reagan-era Indiana. Candy Wilson has forgotten to buy the paprika.
Turner Davis needs to get his zinnias in. Della Dorner told her
mother she was going to Milky Freeze, but that's not where she's
really headed on her new Schwinn five-speed. Float Up, Sing Down is
the story of a single day. But in that day, how much teeming life!
The residents of this rural town have their routines, their
preferences, their joys, grudges, and regrets. The old-timers savor
past triumphs, cast back to lives circumscribed and defined by the
World Wars, wonder what might have been. Youngsters covet cars,
karate moves, kissing; they writhe in the first blushes of love or
pain or independence. Gossip is paramount. Lives are entwined.
Retired sheriffs climb corn bins and muse on lost love, French
teachers throw firecrackers out of barn windows, and teenagers
borrow motorcycles to ride the back roads. Each of the fourteen
stories of Float Up, Sing Down follows one character's
'day-in-the-life' in one of Hunt's most beloved and enduring
landscapes. As the book unfolds these lives echo and glance off of
one another with elegance and warmth, a tenderness born of
strength. In the tradition of Willa Cather, Sherwood Anderson,
Elizabeth Strout, and Edward P. Jones, this is a symphony of souls,
a masterful portrait of both loneliness and community by one of our
great limners of American experience.
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Zorrie (Paperback)
Laird Hunt
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R416
R311
Discovery Miles 3 110
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What It Means To Be The Community Of God's People Among Men Today.
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Neverhome (Paperback)
Laird Hunt
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R567
R491
Discovery Miles 4 910
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Meet Ottie Lee Henshaw. Quick of mind and pleasing to the eye, she
navigates a stifling marriage, a lecherous boss, and on one day in
the summer of 1920, an odyssey across the countryside to witness a
dark and fearful celebration. Meet Calla Destry. A young black
woman desperate to escape a place where the stench of violence
hangs heavy in the air, and to find the lover who has promised her
a new life. Two remarkable women on the move through an America
riven by fear and hatred. Every road leads to the bedlam of Marvel.
There are buses laid on and Klan members gathering. Lives will
collide and be changed forever.
Winner of FC2's Catherine L. Doctorow Innovative Fiction Prize.
Stories that explore the potent and captivating boundaries between
the real and the imaginary. Aurelie Sheehan's Once into the Night
is a collection of 57 brief stories-a fictional autobiography made
of assumed identities and what-ifs. What is the difference between
fiction and a lie? These stories dwell in a netherworld between
memory and the imagination, exploring the nature of truthtelling.
Here the inner life is granted pride of place with authenticity
found in misremembered childhood notebooks, invisible tattoos, and
the love life of icemen. Radical in its conception of story, this
collection blurs the line between fiction, poetry, and essay,
reconceiving contemporary autofiction in its own witty, poignant
vernacular. The stories intersect with and deviate from a
""provable"" life-a twin distinction that becomes the source of
their power.
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