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At the Jim Bridger
Av Ron Carlson
Häftad, 2003
204 kr
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A collection of short stories: where strange beach towels turn up in a suburban living room; where the ordinary son of a family of geniuses spins a tale of happiness and disappointment; and where a desperate ex-con with a broken heart must hide out in a desert hotel, only to make a wild discovery.
Betrayed by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Av Ron Carlson
Häftad, 1984
290 kr
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In this tender, comic novel, Larry Boosinger—graduate student, writer, garage attendant, escaped convict (and perhaps a person)—has one foot in late adolescence while he searches frantically for a place to put the other. Beset by illusions, attracted by paradoxes, Larry carries on his allegorical …
Truants
A Novel
Av Ron Carlson
Häftad, 1987
329 kr
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Collin Elder is running away from a “home” for wayward teenagers. Louisa Holz is escaping from her father, a carnival daredevil. Heading west from Arizona, they meet a third member of the novel’s family—Will Clare, elderly and forgetful but full of rich memories.
Kind of Flying
Selected Stories
Av Ron Carlson
Häftad, 2003
411 kr
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Ron Carlson's stories, sometimes wicked or bittersweet, often zany, are rich with a hard-earned hopefulness frequently absent in contemporary fiction. In this generous gathering from collections no longer available, longtime fans and new readers alike can savor the development of a master of …
News of the World
Stories
Av Ron Carlson
Häftad, 1987
288 kr
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Whether it is a husband trying to bring his marriage back together or Bigfoot finally coming forward, Carlson's characters speak with radical honesty that is disarming. They are the men and women all around us who open the refrigerator at two in the morning and see the faces of missing children on …
Hotel Eden
Stories
Av Ron Carlson
Häftad, 1997
297 kr
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In the title story, a young man waiting in the Hotel Eden discovers—as others have—that Eden is not a permanent domicile. In "Zanduce at Second," a baseball player turned killer-by-accident undergoes a surprising transformation. We root for escaped felon Ray (“A Note on the Type”) as he carves his …
Plan B for the Middle Class
Stories
Av Ron Carlson
Häftad, 1992
320 kr
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Here are men and women in the middle--of life, of relationships. There is a difference between what they set out for and what they get. A single mother keeps house on an aircraft carrier. A new father finds himself seduced by a motorcycle. A lonely professor is forced to face a few truths. Braced …
Fast Facts on False Teachings
Av Ed Decker, Ron Carlson
E-bok, 2003
171 kr
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World-renown cult experts Ron Carlson and Ed Decker combine their extensive knowledge to give readers quick, clear facts on the major cults and false teachings of today. Short, informative chapters contrast the cults'' theologies with the truth found in God''s Word. Readers will discover the key …
Signal
A Novel
Av Ron Carlson
E-bok, 2009
82 kr
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" The Signal accelerates like an avalanche...If men can''t be brought back to fiction by books as fine as this one, it''s their own damn fault." - The Washington Post Ron Carlson, author of the critically acclaimed Five Skies , is an award-winning writer beloved by booksellers, reviewers, and …
Five Skies
Av Ron Carlson
E-bok, 2007
164 kr
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Beloved story writer Ron Carlson''s first novel in thirty years, Five Skies is the story of three men gathered high in the Rocky Mountains for a construction project that is to last the summer. Having participated in a spectacular betrayal in Los Angeles, the giant, silent Arthur Key drifts into …
Return to Oakpine
A Novel
Av Ron Carlson
E-bok, 2013
234 kr
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“ [A] moving novel about friendship, forgiveness, and mortality.” —Nancy Pearl, NPR’s Morning Edition Ron Carlson has always been a critics’ favorite, but Return to Oakpine shows the acclaimed writer at his finest. In this tender and nostalgic portrait of western American life, Carlson tells the …
Ron Carlson Writes a Story
Tips from a Master of the Craft
Av Ron Carlson
Häftad, 2023
244 kr
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Blue Box
Av Ron Carlson
Häftad, 2014
164 kr
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Ron Carlson is a master of the contemporary short story. In The Blue Box, he extends that mastery to the short short story, offering us a captivating glimpse of a writer at play. With that voice of his—sharp, sensitive, and wry, brimming with good humor—Carlson inhabits one standby after another of …
Into the Unknown
True Stories of a Pilot Cheating Death
Av Ron Carlson
Häftad, 2023
206 kr
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Room Service: Poems, Meditations, Outcries & Remarks
Poems, Meditations, Outcries & Remarks
Av Ron Carlson
Häftad, 2012
184 kr
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How did one of AmericaÆs most gifted fabulists come to write a collection of poetry? For thirty years, Ron Carlson has joked about writing one poem a year, and to look for his book of them in 2012. The joke came true: Room Service: Poems, Meditations, Outcries and Remarks is a genre-bending …
