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Phase Six (Hardcover)
Jim Shepard
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"Jim Shepard is a fiction writer of peculiar but tantalizing
gifts." The New York Times In a tiny settlement on the west coast
of Greenland, 11-year-old Aleq and his best friend, frequent
trespassers at a mining site exposed to mountains of long-buried
and thawing permafrost, carry what they pick up back into their
village, and from there Shepard's harrowing and deeply moving story
follows Aleq, one of the few survivors of the initial outbreak,
through his identification and radical isolation as the likely
index patient. While he shoulders both a crushing guilt for what he
may have done and the hopes of a world looking for answers, we also
meet two Epidemic Intelligence Service investigators dispatched
from the CDC--Jeannine, an epidemiologist and daughter of Algerian
immigrants, and Danice, an MD and lab wonk. As they attempt to head
off the cataclysm, Jeannine--moving from the Greenland hospital
overwhelmed with the first patients to a Level 4 high-security
facility in the Rocky Mountains--does what she can to sustain Aleq.
Both a chamber piece of multiple intimate perspectives and a more
omniscient glimpse into the megastructures (political, cultural,
and biological) that inform such a disaster, the novel reminds us
of the crucial bonds that form in the midst of catastrophe, as a
child and several hyper-educated adults learn what it means to
provide adequate support for those they love. In the process, they
celebrate the precious worlds they might lose, and help to shape
others that may survive.
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Phase Six (Paperback)
Jim Shepard
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R310
R252
Discovery Miles 2 520
Save R58 (19%)
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Ships in 9 - 15 working days
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"Jim Shepard is a fiction writer of peculiar but tantalizing
gifts." The New York Times In a tiny settlement on the west coast
of Greenland, 11-year-old Aleq and his best friend, frequent
trespassers at a mining site exposed to mountains of long-buried
and thawing permafrost, carry what they pick up back into their
village, and from there Shepard's harrowing and deeply moving story
follows Aleq, one of the few survivors of the initial outbreak,
through his identification and radical isolation as the likely
index patient. While he shoulders both a crushing guilt for what he
may have done and the hopes of a world looking for answers, we also
meet two Epidemic Intelligence Service investigators dispatched
from the CDC--Jeannine, an epidemiologist and daughter of Algerian
immigrants, and Danice, an MD and lab wonk. As they attempt to head
off the cataclysm, Jeannine--moving from the Greenland hospital
overwhelmed with the first patients to a Level 4 high-security
facility in the Rocky Mountains--does what she can to sustain Aleq.
Both a chamber piece of multiple intimate perspectives and a more
omniscient glimpse into the megastructures (political, cultural,
and biological) that inform such a disaster, the novel reminds us
of the crucial bonds that form in the midst of catastrophe, as a
child and several hyper-educated adults learn what it means to
provide adequate support for those they love. In the process, they
celebrate the precious worlds they might lose, and help to shape
others that may survive.
A fantastic writer - compassionate, funny and fearless' George
Saunders 'One of the US's finest writers' according to Joshua
Ferris, Jim Shepard now delivers a new collection that spans
borders and centuries with unrivalled mastery. These ten stories
ring with voices as diverse as those belonging to Arctic explorers
in history's most nightmarish expedition, the Montgolfier brothers
competing to be the first man to fly, and two American
frontierswomen whose passionate connection is severed by jealous
husbands and a deadly snowstorm. In each case the personal is the
political as these humans, while falling in love or negotiating
marital pitfalls or simply coming to terms with their own failings,
face the tidal wave of nature's indifference and cruelty. History
has swept them from our sympathy; Jim Shepard has reached into the
past and sought them out. In his first collection to be published
in the UK, this celebrated master of the short story displays his
formidable acuity in imagining these wildly different worlds, and
what our various lives feel like in the grip of catastrophe.
**SHORTLISTED FOR THE CARNEGIE AWARD** 'Powerful . . . shattering .
. . a masterpiece' The Times 'Testament of love and sacrifice . . .
a masterpiece' Joshua Ferris, Guardian 'Transcendent and timeless .
. . masterpiece' Washington Post Aron is a nine-year-old Polish
Jew, and a troublemaker. His mother despairs of him. His father
beats him. He tries to be good. But in 1939, as the walls go up
around the Jewish ghetto in Warsaw, as lice and typhus rage,
families starve and fight, it is Aron who finds a way - however
dangerous, however treacherous - to survive. It isn't until he
lands at the feet of Janusz Korczak - orphanage director and
reluctant hero - that he learns of something greater than survival.
**With new exclusive endmatter, featuring a biography of Korczak
and questions for book clubs**
Following "Like You'd Understand, Anyway"--awarded the Story Prize
and a finalist for the National Book Award--Jim Shepard returns
with an even more wildly diverse collection of astonishingly
observant stories. Like an expert curator, he populates the
vastness of human experience--from its bizarre fringes and lonely,
breathtaking pinnacles to the hopelessly mediocre and desperately
below average--with brilliant scientists, reluctant soldiers,
workaholic artists, female explorers, depraved murderers, and
deluded losers, all wholly convincing and utterly fascinating.
From this prodigiously talented writer comes a stunningly original
fictional life of the German director F. W. Murnau (1888-1931).
Murnau ranks as a founding father of the cinema, not least for his
legendary horror film, "Nosferatu." Here he is revealed as a
hermetic genius who turns against himself, becoming in a sense his
own vampire. What shadows Jim Shepard's Murnau--through the
airfields of the Great War to Berlin in the twenties and to the
virtual invention of filmmaking--is the conflict between his
impossibly high ideals and his heartbreaking memories of love
betrayed and love lost. From provincial Germany through Hollywood
in its early days to the South Seas, "Nosferatu" charts a life at
once artistic, intellectual, and deeply human. Ron Hansen provides
an introduction to this Bison Books edition.
"I've been a problem baby, a lousy son, a distant brother, an
off-putting neighbor, a piss-poor student, a worrisome seatmate, an
unreliable employee, a bewildering lover, a frustrating confidante
and a crappy husband. Among the things I do pretty well at this
point I'd have to list darts, re-closing Stay-Fresh boxes, and
staying out of the way.
"This is the self-eulogy offered early on by the unwilling hero of
the opening story in this collection, a dazzling array of work in
short fiction from a master of the form. The stories in Love and
Hydrogen--familiar to readers from publications ranging from
"McSweeney's" to "The""New Yorker" to "Harper's" to "Tin
House"--encompass in theme and compassion what an ordinary writer
would seem to need several lifetimes to imagine.
A frustrated wife makes use of an enterprising illegal-gun salesman
to hold her husband hostage; two hapless adult-education students
botch their attempts at rudimentary piano but succeed in a halting,
awkward romance; a fascinated and murderous Creature welcomes the
first human visitors to his Black Lagoon; and in the title story,
the stupefyingly huge airship Hindenburg flies to its doom,
representing in 1937 mankind's greatest yearning as well as its
titanic failure.
Generous in scope and astonishing in ambition, Shepard's voice
never falters; the virtuosity of Love and Hydrogen cements his
reputation as, in the words of Rick Bass, "a passionate writer with
a razor-sharp wit and an elephantine heart"--in short, one of the
most powerful talents at work today.
In this anthology twenty-six contemporary fiction writers and poets offer short essays on a single movie that inspired, seduced, horrified, or fascinated them, giving readers a rare glimpse of the writer's perspective on film.
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Phase Six (Paperback)
Jim Shepard
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R461
R295
Discovery Miles 2 950
Save R166 (36%)
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Ships in 9 - 15 working days
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"Jim Shepard is a fiction writer of peculiar but tantalizing
gifts." The New York Times In a tiny settlement on the west coast
of Greenland, 11-year-old Aleq and his best friend, frequent
trespassers at a mining site exposed to mountains of long-buried
and thawing permafrost, carry what they pick up back into their
village, and from there Shepard's harrowing and deeply moving story
follows Aleq, one of the few survivors of the initial outbreak,
through his identification and radical isolation as the likely
index patient. While he shoulders both a crushing guilt for what he
may have done and the hopes of a world looking for answers, we also
meet two Epidemic Intelligence Service investigators dispatched
from the CDC--Jeannine, an epidemiologist and daughter of Algerian
immigrants, and Danice, an MD and lab wonk. As they attempt to head
off the cataclysm, Jeannine--moving from the Greenland hospital
overwhelmed with the first patients to a Level 4 high-security
facility in the Rocky Mountains--does what she can to sustain Aleq.
Both a chamber piece of multiple intimate perspectives and a more
omniscient glimpse into the megastructures (political, cultural,
and biological) that inform such a disaster, the novel reminds us
of the crucial bonds that form in the midst of catastrophe, as a
child and several hyper-educated adults learn what it means to
provide adequate support for those they love. In the process, they
celebrate the precious worlds they might lose, and help to shape
others that may survive.
"The Writer's Notebook" combines the best craft seminars from the
Summer Writers Workshop's history with craft essays by some of Tin
House's favorite authors and features a list of contributors that
reads like a veritable who's who of contemporary poets and prose
writers. Jim Shepard, Aimee Bender, Steve Almond, D. A. Powell,
Chris Offutt, and others distill elements of writing and share
insights into the joys and pains of their own work. They explore a
wide range of topics, everything from writing dialogue to the do's
and don'ts of writing about sex. With how-tos, close readings, and
personal anecdotes, "The Writer's Notebook" offers aspiring
wordsmiths advice and inspiration to hone their own craft. Included
is a CD of workshop discussions and panels
n the wilderness of junior high, Edwin Hanratty is at the bottom of
the food chain. His teachers find him a nuisance. His fellow
students consider him prey. And although his parents are not
oblivious to his troubles, they can't quite bring themselves to
fathom the ruthless forces that demoralize him daily.
Sharing in these schoolyard indignities is his only friend, Flake.
Branded together as misfits, their fury simmers quietly in the
hallways, classrooms, and at home, until an unthinkable idea offers
them a spectacular and terrifying release.
From Jim Shepard, one of the most enduring and influential
novelists writing today, comes an unflinching look into the heart
and soul of adolescence. Tender and horrifying, prescient and
moving, Project X will not easily be forgotten.
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