Chen Sarah M (43 results)

Paperback. Condition: Fair. The item might be beaten up but readable. May contain markings or highlighting, as well as stains, bent corners, or any other major defect, but the text is not obscured in any way.

Condition: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Shannon Road Press, Published 2007. Paperback, 223 pp.; 23 cm; trade paperback original. In Very Good condition. Glossy illustrated wraps with mild shelf wear to edges and corners. Binding tight. Signed in ink by four contributors on title page (Kathleen Piche, Gayle Bartos-Pool, Gay Degani and Susan Lynn Kingsbury), and signed again by Piche, Kingsbury and Degani at the opening of their stories (pp. 14, 153, 175). A few small ink specks from the signing on blank page facing title page. Otherwise unmarked. Ten crime stories, most by members of the Los Angeles chapter of Sisters in Crime, issued by editor Loretta Scott Miller's own press; settings run from Los Angeles freeways and Hollywood's Roosevelt Hotel to a Lake District village. Several contributors went on to wider careers: Gay Degani, three-time Pushcart Prize nominee, founder of Flash Fiction Chronicles and author of the novel What Came Before (2016); Gayle Bartos-Pool, a former private investigator who writes as G.B. Pool (Gin Caulfield, Johnny Casino and Chance McCoy series); and Sarah M. Chen, whose noir novella Cleaning Up Finn was an Anthony Award finalist. Chen's early story here is unsigned. Contents: Introduction; Freeway Culture by Kathleen Piche; My Learned Friend by Heather Parker; Glitzville by Gayle Bartos-Pool; A Criminal Mind by Shelley Savran Houlihan; The Pool Room by Patricia L. Morin; All Roads Lead by Thomas Ward; Dough Boy by Sarah M. Chen; Waiting is Murder by Susan Lynn Kingsbury; Oh Hell by Gay Degani; Keeping the Peace by Loretta Scott Miller. Signed by Author.…

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hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy.

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Hardback. Condition: New. Literary History in and beyond China: Reading Text and World explores the idea of literary history across the long span of the Chinese tradition. Although much scholarship on Chinese literature may be characterized as doing the work of literary history, there has been little theoretical engagement with received literary historical categories and assumptions, with how literary historical judgments are formed, and with what it means to do literary history in the first place. The present collection of essays addresses these questions from perspectives emerging both from within the tradition and from without, examining the anthological histories that shape the concept of a particular genre, the interpretive positions that impel our aesthetic judgments, the conceptual categories that determine how literary history is framed, and the history of literary historiography itself. As such, the essays collectively consider what it means to think through the framework of literary history, what literary history affords or omits, and what needs to be theorized in terms of literary history's constraints and possibilities.…

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Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. Literary History in and beyond China: Reading Text and World explores the idea of literary history across the long span of the Chinese tradition. Although much scholarship on Chinese literature may be characterized as doing the work of literary history, there has been little theoretical engagement with received literary historical categories and assumptions, with how literary historical judgments are formed, and with what it means to do literary history in the first place. The present collection of essays addresses these questions from perspectives emerging both from within the tradition and from without, examining the anthological histories that shape the concept of a particular genre, the interpretive positions that impel our aesthetic judgments, the conceptual categories that determine how literary history is framed, and the history of literary historiography itself. As such, the essays collectively consider what it means to think through the framework of literary history, what literary history affords or omits, and what needs to be theorized in terms of literary history's constraints and possibilities. The essays in Literary History in and beyond China examine the anthological histories that shape the concept of a particular genre, the interpretive positions that impel our aesthetic judgments, the conceptual categories that determine how literary history is framed, and the history of literary historiography itself. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - The Fast Women and Neon Lights anthology is a wild romp of short stories inspired by eighties culture, crime, neo-noir movies, as well as the wacky, over-the-top eighties style and aesthetic. These eighteen crime short stories have something for all fans of 1980's nostalgia. Campy, emotional, and often hilarious, these 80's pop culture tales, written by some of today's top crime, noir, and mystery fiction authors will disturb you, make you laugh, and most of all, keep you highly entertained! Get ready for Cobra Kai, valley girls, Air Jordan heist stories, professional wrestlers brushing up with WWF greats, female wrestlers, Oingo Boingo-noir stories, cocaine cowboys, Crockett and Tubbs, and much more. The finest mystery short stories anthology to come along since the last time you did The Safety Dance. Fans of classic movies like Heat, Thief, basically anything from Michael Mann won't want to miss this. Get your fill of eighties culture and load up on all the eighties nostalgia you can handle while celebrating the inimitable 80's neo-noir style with Fast Women and Neon Lights.…

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Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 286 pages. 9.25x6.25x1.00 inches. In Stock.

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