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Equal Love

By: Peter Ho Davies

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“Touching and funny” short fiction about family, estrangement, and dislocation from the award-winning author of A Lie Someone Told You About Yourself (Elizabeth McCracken, author of Bowlaway). Featuring “stories about the touchy relationships between parents and children and the necessary pain of letting go—both for parents with children who are becoming adults and for adults whose parents are aging,” this collection showcases the talent, wit, and wisdom that have earned the author of The Fortunes critical acclaim and multiple literary prizes (Library Journal). “With his variety of settings comes a variety of voices: the narrator of ‘Brave Girl,’ trying to help her father navigate the aftermath of divorce; a mathematician in ‘Small World,’ revisiting the scenes of his Irish-Catholic boyhood and his first love; a retired encyclopedia salesman who can’t stop selling himself in ‘Sales’; a junkie trying to regain custody of her son in ‘Everything You Can Remember in 30 Seconds Is Yours to Keep.’ Ho manages to convey all his characters’ predicaments with finesse, and his emotional and geographical range are equally wide.” —Booklist “I read Equal Love with great admiration.” —Penelope Fitzgerald, author of The Bookshop

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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0547630050

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A Lie Someone Told You about Yourself

By: Peter Ho Davies

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A Lie Someone Told You about Yourself

By: Peter Ho Davies

When does sorrow turn to shame? When does love become labor? When does chancebecome choice? And when does fact become fiction?

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Houghton Mifflin

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0544277716

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The Art of Revision

The Last Word

By: Peter Ho Davies

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The Art of Revision

The Last Word

By: Peter Ho Davies

The fifteenth volume in the Art of series takes an expansive view of revision—on the page and in life In The Art of Revision: The Last Word, Peter Ho Davies takes up an often discussed yet frequently misunderstood subject. He begins by addressing the invisibility of revision—even though it’s an essential part of the writing process, readers typically only see a final draft, leaving the practice shrouded in mystery. To combat this, Davies pulls examples from his novels The Welsh Girl and The Fortunes, as well as from the work of other writers, including Flannery O’Connor, Carmen Machado, and Raymond Carver, shedding light on this slippery subject. Davies also looks beyond literature to work that has been adapted or rewritten, such as books made into films, stories rewritten by another author, and the practice of retconning in comics and film. In an affecting frame story, Davies recounts the story of a violent encounter in his youth, which he then retells over the years, culminating in a final telling at the funeral of his father. In this way, the book arrives at an exhilarating mode of thinking about revision—that it is the writer who must change, as well as the writing. The result is a book that is as useful as it is moving, one that asks writers to reflect upon themselves and their writing.

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Graywolf Press

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1644451344

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9781644451342

The Welsh Girl

A Novel

By: Peter Ho Davies

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The Welsh Girl

A Novel

By: Peter Ho Davies

A WWII-era Welsh barmaid begins a secret relationship with a German POW in this “beautiful” novel by the author of A Lie Someone Told You About Yourself (Ann Patchett). Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize Set in the stunning landscape of North Wales just after D-Day, this critically acclaimed debut novel traces the intersection of disparate lives in wartime. When a prisoner-of-war camp is established near her village, seventeen-year-old barmaid Esther Evans finds herself strangely drawn to the camp and its forlorn captives. She is exploring the camp boundary when an astonishing thing occurs: A young German corporal calls out to her from behind the fence. From that moment on, the two begin an unlikely—and perilous—romance. Meanwhile, a German-Jewish interrogator travels to Wales to investigate Britain’s most notorious Nazi prisoner, Rudolf Hess. In this richly drawn and thought-provoking “tour de force,” all will come to question the meaning of love, family, loyalty, and national identity (The New Yorker). “If you loved The English Patient, there’s probably a place in your heart for The Welsh Girl.” —USA Today “Davies’s characters are marvelously nuanced.” —Los Angeles Times “Beautifully conjures a place and its people, in an extraordinary time . . . A rare gem.” —Claire Messud, author of The Woman Upstairs “This first novel by Davies, author of two highly praised short story collections, has been anticipated—and, with its wonderfully drawn characters, it has been worth the wait.” —Booklist, starred review

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HMH

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0547524900

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The Ugliest House in the World

Stories

By: Peter Ho Davies

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The Ugliest House in the World

Stories

By: Peter Ho Davies

Short stories from the author of A Lie Someone Told You About Yourself—“a writer to behold with real pleasure” (Gish Jen). In tales that travel from Coventry to Kuala Lumpur, from the past to the present, and from hilarity to tragedy, American bandits herd ostriches in Patagonia, British soldiers confront Zulus in Natal, and John Wayne leads the way for local revolutionaries in Southeast Asia. These are stories in which small lives are affected by consequential events. In “A Union,” a prolonged strike at a Welsh slate quarry plays mystifying tricks of time on a couple expecting a baby. In “The Silver Screen,” ragtag rebels join a communist revolution with all the flair of the Keystone Kops. In the heartbreaking title story, a rural community in North Wales copes with the accidental death of a child and learns the reaches of guilt. With its deep vein of humanism and pointed humor, this collection was a winner of the John Llewellyn Rhys and PEN/Macmillan Awards, and includes two entries that were selected for The Best American Short Stories. “A quiet clarity and an all-encompassing empathy that is without borders.” —Elle “Astounding . . . Peter Ho Davies has left a unique, definitive footprint in the soil of contemporary short fiction.” —The Washington Post

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0547346808

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Equal Love

Stories

By: Peter Ho Davies

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Equal Love

Stories

By: Peter Ho Davies

In his new collection, Davies' unforgettable characters--a Chinese son gambling with professional mourners, a mixed-race couple who experience a close encounter--strive for a love that transcends time, race, and sexuality.

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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0618006990

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The Ugliest House in the World

Stories

By: Peter Ho Davies

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A Lie Someone Told You about Yourself

By: Peter Ho Davies

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When does sorrow turn to shame? When does love become labor? When does chancebecome choice? And when does fact become fiction?

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The Art of Revision

The Last Word

By: Peter Ho Davies

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The Last Word

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The Welsh Girl

A Novel

By: Peter Ho Davies

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A Novel

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Twenty-first-century Fiction

A Critical Introduction

By: Peter Boxall

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Twenty-first-century Fiction

A Critical Introduction

By: Peter Boxall

The widespread use of electronic communication at the dawn of the twenty-first century has created a global context for our interactions, transforming the ways we relate to the world and to one another. This critical introduction reads the fiction of the past decade as a response to our contemporary predicament - one that draws on new cultural and technological developments to challenge established notions of democracy, humanity, and national and global sovereignty. Peter Boxall traces formal and thematic similarities in the novels of contemporary writers including Don DeLillo, Margaret Atwood, J. M. Coetzee, Marilynne Robinson, Cormac McCarthy, W. G. Sebald and Philip Roth, as well as David Mitchell, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Dave Eggers, Ali Smith, Amy Waldman and Roberto Bolaño. In doing so, Boxall maps new territory for scholars, students and interested readers of today's literature by exploring how these authors narrate shared cultural life in the new century"-- Provided by publisher.

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Cambridge University Press

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1107006910

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Encyclopedia of British and Irish Political Organizations

Parties, Groups and Movements of the 20th Century

By: Peter Barberis,John McHugh,Mike Tyldesley

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Encyclopedia of British and Irish Political Organizations

Parties, Groups and Movements of the 20th Century

By: Peter Barberis,John McHugh,Mike Tyldesley

This major, authoritative reference work embraces the spectrum of organized political activity in the British Isles. It includes over 2,500 organizations in 1,700 separate entries. Arrangement is in 20 main subject sections, covering the three main p

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A&C Black

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0826458149

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9780826458148

Staying Power

The History of Black People in Britain

By: Peter Fryer

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Staying Power

The History of Black People in Britain

By: Peter Fryer

‘For this retrieval of the lost histories of black Britain Mr Fryer has my deep gratitude. An invaluable book.’ --Salman Rushdie

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University of Alberta

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0861047494

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Book's by Peter Ho Davies

Equal Love

Equal Love

A Lie Someone Told You about Yourself

A Lie Someone Told You about Yourself

The Art of Revision

The Art of Revision

The Welsh Girl

The Welsh Girl

The Ugliest House in the World

The Ugliest House in the World

Equal Love

Equal Love

The Ugliest House in the World

The Ugliest House in the World

A Lie Someone Told You about Yourself

A Lie Someone Told You about Yourself

The Art of Revision

The Art of Revision

The Welsh Girl

The Welsh Girl

Twenty-first-century Fiction

Twenty-first-century Fiction

Encyclopedia of British and Irish Political Organizations

Encyclopedia of British and Irish Political Organizations

Staying Power

Staying Power

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