A beautiful, inventive collection shot through with wildness and grace." -Maggie Nelson, author of On FreedomFrom Samantha Hunt, the award-winning author of The Dark Dark, comes The Unwritten Book, her first work of nonfiction, a genre-bending creation that explores the importance of books, the idea of haunting, and messages from beyond. I carry each book I've ever read with me, just as I carry my dead-those things that aren't really there, th...
From Samantha Hunt, the award-winning author of The Dark Dark, comes The Unwritten Book, a genre-bending nonfiction work that explores the idea of haunting-writ largeI carry each book I've ever read with me, just as I carry my dead-those things that aren't really there, those things that shape everything I am.A genre-bending work of nonfiction, Samantha Hunt's The Unwritten Book explores the broadest sense of ghosts, ghost stories, and hauntin...
Louisa is an imaginative and curious chambermaid who, while cleaning rooms at the New Yorker Hotel, stumbles across a man living permanently in room 3327, which he has transformed into a scientific laboratory.
National Bestseller "The Seas took me back to how I felt as a kid, when you're newly falling in love with literature, newly shocked by its capacity to cast a spell..." ?Maggie Nelson (from the Introduction) A Most Anticipated Book of Summer at BuzzFeed, NYLON, and more.
This debut collection of short stories deals with characters on thresholds between girlhood and womanhood, human and deer, corporeal form and ghost form and similar. A Best Book of the Year for "NPR", "The Chicago Review Of Books", "Kirkus" and others.
The Seas took me back to how I felt as a kid, when you're newly falling in love with literature, newly shocked by its capacity to cast a spell..." --Maggie Nelson (from the Introduction) A Most Anticipated Book of Summer at BuzzFeed, NYLON, and more.
In her first collection of stories, acclaimed author Hunt blends the literary and the fantastic and introduces characters on the verge--girls turning into women, women turning into deer, people doubling or becoming ghosts, and more.back.
In her first collection of stories, acclaimed author Hunt blends the literary and the fantastic and introduces characters on the verge--girls turning into women, women turning into deer, people doubling or becoming ghosts, and more.back.
This is the luminous story of an unlikely friendship between the eccentric inventor Nikola Tesla and a young hotel chambermaid named Louisa, who is determined to befriend the strange visionary genius.
Poetic and atmospheric' Sunday ExpressNat and Ruth are young orphans, living in a crowded foster home run by an eccentric religious fanatic. When a travelling conman comes knocking, they see their chance to escape and join him on the road, proclaiming they can channel the dead. Decades later, Cora is too clever for her office job, too scared of her abysmal lover to cope with her unplanned pregnancy, and she too is looking for a way out. So whe...
Nat and Rose are young orphans, living in a crowded foster home run by an eccentric religious fanatic. When a traveling con-man comes knocking, they see their chance to escape and join him on the road, proclaiming they can channel the dead - for a price, of courseDecades later, in a different time and place, Cora is too clever for her office job, too scared of her abysmal lover to cope with her unplanned pregnancy, and she too is looking for a...
A contemporary gothic from an author in the company of Kelly Link and Aimee Bender, Mr. Splitfoottracks two womenRuth (a scam-artist foster kid), and, decades later, Cora (her pregnant niece)as they march, each in her own time, toward a mysterious reckoning.
Eine Mutter reist ihrem Sohn quer durch Kalifornien hinterher, nachdem er sich entschieden hat die Schule abzubrechen und Surfer zu werden. Dramödie mit Helen Hunt.Jackie Durning (Helen Hunt) ist eine erfolgreiche Lektorin, aber recht verkrampfte Mutter. Sie lebt mit Sohn Angelo (Brenton Thwaites) alleinerziehend in New York. Zwischen Mutter und Sohn herrscht ein angespanntes Verhältnis, da Jackie sehr dominant ist. Angelo möchte Schriftstelle...