Stapleton lara (12 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Very Good. Item in good condition. Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc.

Zustand: Very Good. Item in very good condition! Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc.

Paperback. Zustand: Fair. First Edition. The item might be beaten up but readable. May contain markings or highlighting, as well as stains, bent corners, or any other major defect, but the text is not obscured in any way.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. Former library book; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 195 pages. 8.25x5.25x0.50 inches. In Stock.

Zustand: New. In English.

Zustand: FINE. First printing, a trade paperback original. The first book by this award winning Filipina American writer, a collection of twelve short stories with settings ranging from Manila to the US Midwest. They "unerringly map that place in the human heart where exaltation and humiliation, hope and fear, merge." SIGNED by the author on the first page. 195 pp. Fine in illustrated wrappers. …

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - FINALIST, AMERICAN LEGACY BOOK AWARDS'The real pleasure of this book lies in Stapleton's irrepressible approach to narrative structure. Long, loose chains of events culminate in volta-like swerves. these endings refashion early meanderings in thrilling flashes.' -The New York Times'Stapleton's complex narrative structure will undoubtedly bedevil and enchant while wrestling with fundamental questions about identity.' -Politico'In Lara Stapleton's The Ruin of Everything, stories dealt with issues of bifurcated identities and self-confidence or the lack thereof in the lives of Filipino Americans and how they negotiate their conflicting, slippery claims on the New York and/or Manila states of mind.' -The News International'An Anaïs Nin of late capitalism's bohemia, Lara Stapleton writes like an oracle of an underworld-of miscegenated loves and translocated broken souls-of characters unaware or ruinously conscious-and she inscribes that world in us with lust and wit and always that deep joy that encompasses sorrows bred in the bone, the race, the colors of one's skin, the heart, and of course the tongue: the word.' -Gina Apostol, author of Insurrecto'With a keen eye for human ambitions and human frailties, Stapleton brings us the comic turmoil of characters steeped in the sorrows and absurdities of modern life; reaching for connection and erring, reaching for home and missing. Brimming with hard-edged loneliness, these stories reach into the underbellies of our deepest hopes and fears.' -Laurel Flores Fantauzzo, author of My Heart Underwater. …

Zustand: Very Good. First edition. Paperback. Octavo. 289pp. Original colour illustrated paper covers. Fine.

Zustand: New. KlappentextrnrnShort stories about off-beat New York personalities by a writer who lives and loves her characters.

Zustand: New.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In this collection of twelve unforgettable short stories, Lara Stapleton writes from the same precarious emotional plane where her characters live. She writes about people living in a world that forces them to recreate daily their small corner of hope. These are people who don't quite fit; who often seem just a little out of step with their circumstances; who have a past to run from but no clear future to run to; who live in the present with the pure ache of longing. They are complex: defiant and helpless, isolated and exposed, sometimes painfully self-aware, sometimes lagging behind the curve.…