When Katherine Portienne (Kate), an innocent mid-western college graduate, lands her dream job in Los Angeles, she doesn't realize what kind of a ride she was in for… literally. Tonight wasn't the first time that she'd worked twelve hours straight since she took on the Junior Associate position at the law firm of Johnson, Smith, and Barnes, and she knew that it wouldn't be the last. Kate had big plans to remove the Junior in her title and do it fast. Matter of fact Kate had everything in her life planned and nothing, especially a man, was going to get in her way… or so she thought. However, she never expected that she would be kidnapped in her own car. Suddenly, she finds herself trapped with a desperate man on a mission… What follows is a seductive and passionate journey across country, as Kate faces the harsh reality that everything she thought she wanted in life, had now changed.
A Buzzfeed Best Fiction Book of 2017 • An Entropy magazine Best Book of 2017 “Jess Arndt’s Large Animals is wildly original, even as it joins in with the classics of loaded, outlaw literature. Acerbic, ecstatic, hilarious, psychedelic, and affecting in turn, this is an electric debut.” —Maggie Nelson, National Book Critics Circle Award–winning author of The Argonauts Jess Arndt's striking debut collection confronts what it means to have a body. Boldly straddling the line between the imagined and the real, the masculine and the feminine, the knowable and the impossible, these twelve stories are an exhilarating and profoundly original expression of voice. In “Jeff,” Lily Tomlin confuses Jess for Jeff, instigating a dark and hilarious identity crisis. In “Together,” a couple battles a mysterious STD that slowly undoes their relationship, while outside a ferocious weed colonizes their urban garden. And in “Contrails,” a character on the precipice of a seismic change goes on a tour of past lovers, confronting their own reluctance to move on. Arndt’s subjects are canny observers even while they remain dangerously blind to their own truest impulses. Often unnamed, these narrators challenge the limits of language—collectively, their voices create a transgressive new formal space that makes room for the queer, the nonconforming, the undefined. And yet, while they crave connection, love, and understanding, they are constantly at risk of destroying themselves. Large Animals pitches toward the heart, pushing at all our most tender parts—our sex organs, our geography, our words, and the tendons and nerves of our culture.
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Истории из жизни женщин трех поколений: борьба с жизненными трудностями, поиск своего места в жизни… Не просто складываются и отношения с любимыми мужчинами.... Содержит нецензурную брань.
Магический ритуал перенёс меня в другой мир, в тело Айлены Зандар, отданной в качестве откупа жестокому и надменному ректору Академии Горя и Радости. О нем шепчутся по углам и слагают легенды страшнее одна одной. Что из них правда, а что ложь придется разбираться самостоятельно. К тому же у меня неожиданно появился сильный покровитель, который обещает спасти из ректорского плена. Но… стоит ли ему верить?
Рассказ из жизни двух мужчин, для которых семья имеет немаловажное значение. Только у одного она есть, а другому всё ещё мешают предрассудки. Могут ли чувства преобладать над разумом, и в чём секрет семейного счастья? Рассказ "Неужели" о вечных вопросах в простой жизненной ситуации .
In ’n Heildronk op die liefde keer Nicolene terug uit Londen, en ontmoet weer haar jeugvriend Jacques. Hy het nog altyd maklik verveeld geraak met sy meisies en kort voor lank nuwe weivelde gaan soek; daarom wou Nicolene nog nooit ’n verhouding met hom aanknoop nie. Maar toe hy haar een aand onverwags soen, is die gort gaar . . .In Serenade vir ’n nagtegaal is sang Ann se hele bestaan, en haar sangdosent, Carl, is die liefde in haar lewe. Maar dan verbreek hy hul verhouding net wanneer sy op vertrek staan na Europa. En nou verskyn daar ’n donkerkop-man op die toneel wat haar letterlik oor haar eie voete laat val én geen deernis toon vir haar gekneusde ego nie…En in Hande wat heelmaak keer Libby terug na haar tuisdorp om as fisioterapeut te begin werk. Daar maak sy kennis met haar jong pasiënt, Nikolai, wie se ouers verongeluk het. Sy oom Andrew, ’n ortopeed, moet vir hom sorg. As tiener was Libby verlief op dié man… maar nou het hy so stug en afgetrokke geword. En tog, soms kan ou gevoelens teen die verwagting in herleef.