ISBN: 9780151010943 - we're in trouble: stories (9 Ergebnisse)

Hardback. Zustand: Very Good. Uncanny, clear-eyed . . . [Coake] is wildly engaging as he explores one theme love in the face of harrowing death (or near-death) from seemingly every angle. A-. Entertainment WeeklyFrom a wife waiting for news of her husband's latest death-defying climb to a sheriff thrown into turmoil after his close friend enacts a horrifying murder-suicide, Christopher Coake s unforgettable characters experience love staring in the face of death. As their love darkens and perseveres, it elicits either the best or the worst in them. With the complexity, depth, and narrative drive of a novel, Coake s extraordinary debut collection makes us feel the truth of his imperiled characters' lives and transforms it into cathartic art. We re in Trouble is at once suspenseful, empathic, and almost unbearably moving. Coake has . . . done something both alarming and amazing: He has taken his proximity to mortality's horrors, mined them for their truest nature, married them to a sure hand for storytelling and presented us all with a debut book of stories, We're in Trouble, that is both beautiful in its elegance and merciless in its intensity.--Star Tribune (Minneapolis) I've read more than a thousand stories a year for the past eight years and nothing nothing has surpassed the work of Mr. Coake. You will be stunned, you will have tears in your eyes, and you will remember these stories for the rest of your life. Otto Penzler, The Best American Mystery StoriesChristopher Coake lives in Reno, where he teaches creative writing at the University of Nevada.…

Hardback. Zustand: Fair. Uncanny, clear-eyed . . . [Coake] is wildly engaging as he explores one theme love in the face of harrowing death (or near-death) from seemingly every angle. A-. Entertainment WeeklyFrom a wife waiting for news of her husband's latest death-defying climb to a sheriff thrown into turmoil after his close friend enacts a horrifying murder-suicide, Christopher Coake s unforgettable characters experience love staring in the face of death. As their love darkens and perseveres, it elicits either the best or the worst in them. With the complexity, depth, and narrative drive of a novel, Coake s extraordinary debut collection makes us feel the truth of his imperiled characters' lives and transforms it into cathartic art. We re in Trouble is at once suspenseful, empathic, and almost unbearably moving. Coake has . . . done something both alarming and amazing: He has taken his proximity to mortality's horrors, mined them for their truest nature, married them to a sure hand for storytelling and presented us all with a debut book of stories, We're in Trouble, that is both beautiful in its elegance and merciless in its intensity.--Star Tribune (Minneapolis) I've read more than a thousand stories a year for the past eight years and nothing nothing has surpassed the work of Mr. Coake. You will be stunned, you will have tears in your eyes, and you will remember these stories for the rest of your life. Otto Penzler, The Best American Mystery StoriesChristopher Coake lives in Reno, where he teaches creative writing at the University of Nevada.…

Zustand: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Zustand: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Hardcover. Zustand: As New. No Jacket. Pages are clean and are not marred by notes or folds of any kind. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

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

Hardcover. Zustand: Like New. First Edition. First Edition, First Printing. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2005. Octavo. Hardcover. Book is like new. Dust jacket is like new.

Hardcover. Zustand: As New. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: As New. 1st Edition. New York: Harcourt [2005]. First edition. First printing, with full letter line to A. Hardbound. Review Copy. New/New. A pristine unread copy. Comes with mylar dust jacket protector. Smoke free shop. Shipped in box with bubblewrap. REVIEW COPY, with publicity letter. Fiction-Coake.…

hardcover. Zustand: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.