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The story is told from a first-person point-of-view by of a young woman, who, though unnamed, is likely Porter herself, dramatizing a reminiscence from her youth.The narrator seeks a temporary sanctuary from unspecified difficulties, and is advised by a former classmate to spend her spring holiday in an East Texas agrarian community in the home of the Müllers, a prosperous family of second ...
My True Love Gave to Me: Twelve Holiday Stories is a 2014 anthology edited by Stephanie Perkins with twelve holiday stories contributed by Perkins, Holly Black, Ally Carter, Matt de la Peña, Gayle Forman, Jenny Han, David Levithan, Kelly Link, Myra McEntire, Rainbow Rowell, Laini Taylor and Kiersten White.
Image credits: TryNorth8139 The holiday season has a way of bringing out the best in people, with many going above and beyond to spread joy and kindness.. Catherine D’Souza, a warm-hearted 80 ...
Bettye Collier-Thomas, A Treasury of African American Christmas Stories [1] [6] David Sedaris, Holidays on Ice [1] J. R. R. Tolkien, Letters from Father Christmas [1] Jeanette Winterson, Christmas Days [1] [7]
Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikidata item; Appearance. ... The Clergyman's Daughter (short story) D. The Dead (Joyce short ...
One of the stories, "Home", was a 2011 Bram Stoker Award finalist. [1] Tenth of December was selected as one of the 10 Best Books of 2013 by the editors of The New York Times Book Review. [2] The collection also won The Story Prize (2013) for short-story collections [3] and the inaugural Folio Prize (2014). [4] [5] [6] [7]
Holidays on Ice is a 1997 collection of essays and stories about Christmas, some new and some previously published, by David Sedaris. Sedaris was named by The Economist as one of the funniest writers alive. [1] This is one of his first works, which was subsequently re-released with additional new passages.
This story, told in the third person, focuses on Petey Shropshrire, a friend of Johnny Rivers who wrestles junior varsity for Coho High School in Coho, Montana. The beginning of the story centers around a wrestling team meeting, in which Petey and Johnny's coach needs someone to wrestle Chris Byers, the best wrestler at the 119 weight class at ...