Ben Marcus
Author
Series
Publisher
FalconGuides
Language
English
Description
"The Art of Stand Up Paddling" includes everything both new and not-so-new paddlers need to know--from buying a board and getting started on your local lake to paddling rivers and surfing waves in Hawaii. Also included is a fascinating and controversial history of stand up paddling, which, although new to many, actually dates back hundreds of years to Peruvian and Hawaiian fishermen.
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Thirteen transfixing new stories from one of the most innovative writers of his generation and one of the most vital and original voices of our time--for fans of George Saunders, Nathan Englander, and Elizabeth Strout. In these thirteen ingenious stories, Ben Marcus reveals moments of redemption in the sometimes nightmarish modern world. In "The Grow-Light Blues," a hapless, corporate drone finds love after being disfigured testing his employer's...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf, Inc
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Marcus creates a chilling world where the speech of children is killing their parents. After being forced to leave their daughter Esther to fend for herself, Sam and Claire end up at a government lab intent on creating non-lethal speech. But when Sam discovers the truth about what's going on there, he realizes reuniting with his daughter is the only way to keep his sanity.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
A collection of life-affirming tales includes the dystopian "Rollingwood," in which a divorced father struggles with employment while caring for an ailing infant; and the title story, in which a narrator's marriage and sanity unravel in a single breathless sentence.
Author
Publisher
Vintage Contemporaries
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
On a midwestern farm, an unusual couple attempts a radical experiment in child rearing by raising a boy without feelings, who narrates his own story and views of the hidden world of women, until the arrival of Jane Dark, a woman whose fierce belief in silence turns the family upside down.
7) The surfing handbook: mastering the waves for beginning and amateur surfers : + tips from the pros!
Author
Publisher
MVP Books
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
1995.
Language
English
Description
A collection of stories cataloging our culture. In Automobile, Watchdog, one reads: "The anterior, orfront surface of the auto is covered with the samemembrane that lines the horse-drawn carriage, the mostnotable difference being the absence of a neighing unit todeflect with snorts and brays the flow of air."
Author
Publisher
Sarabande Books
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sometimes calculating, other times bewildered, Catapult's characters orbit around each other enacting the deeply human tragicomedy of wit and misunderstanding and loss. With dexterous, atmospheric, and darkly comic prose, Fridlund conjures worlds where longing is open-ended, intentions misfire, and the line between comfort and cruelty is often difficult to discern. A gripping collection, unsettling in its familiar strangeness.