Able Muse - novel https://www.ablemuse.com/taxonomy/term/200/200? en Heidegger's Glasses: A Novel https://www.ablemuse.com/v9/books/thaisa-frank/heideggers-glasses-novel? <!--paging_filter--><p>Heidegger’s Glasses opens during the end of World War II in a failing Germany coming apart at the seams. The Third Reich’s strong reliance on the occult and its obsession with the astral plane has led to the formation of an underground compound of scribes—translators responsible for answering letters written to those eventually killed in the concentration camps.Into this covert compound comes a letter written by eminent philosopher Martin Heidegger to his optometrist, who is now lost in the dying thralls of Auschwitz. How will the scribes answer this letter?</p> <p><a href="https://www.ablemuse.com/v9/books/thaisa-frank/heideggers-glasses-novel?">read more</a></p> https://www.ablemuse.com/v9/books/thaisa-frank/heideggers-glasses-novel?#comments Books fiction heidegger&#039;s glasses novel story storybook thaisa frank v9 Wed, 11 Aug 2010 18:51:09 +0000 Administrator 755 at https://www.ablemuse.com Stories Of An Imaginary Childhood (Library of American Fiction) https://www.ablemuse.com/v9/books/melvin-jules-bukiet/stories-imaginary-childhood-library-american-fiction? <!--paging_filter--><p>In Stories of an Imaginary Childhood Melvin Jules Bukiet inscribes the world that might have been his own if not for the catastrophe that destroyed most of Jewish life in eastern Europe during the 1940s. Set before the Holocaust in the tiny Polish shtetl of Proszowice, each interconnected story follows the young protagonist through the pleasures and humiliations of childhood and the rites of manhood, as he fights against historical, social, and psychological forces that threaten to pull him down.</p> <p><a href="https://www.ablemuse.com/v9/books/melvin-jules-bukiet/stories-imaginary-childhood-library-american-fiction?">read more</a></p> https://www.ablemuse.com/v9/books/melvin-jules-bukiet/stories-imaginary-childhood-library-american-fiction?#comments Books book fiction library of american fiction melvin jules bukiet novel stories of an imaginary childhood story book v9 writer Fri, 23 Jul 2010 16:06:03 +0000 Administrator 740 at https://www.ablemuse.com While the Messiah Tarries: Stories (Library of Modern Jewish Literature) https://www.ablemuse.com/v9/books/melvin-jules-bukiet/while-messiah-tarries-stories-library-modern-jewish-literature? <!--paging_filter--><p>A collection of imaginative and humorous short stories by Melvin Jules Bukiet which often end in madness, death or religious epiphany.</p> https://www.ablemuse.com/v9/books/melvin-jules-bukiet/while-messiah-tarries-stories-library-modern-jewish-literature?#comments Books book fiction library of modern jewish literature melvin jules bukiet novel stories story book v9 while the messiah tarries writer Fri, 23 Jul 2010 16:05:59 +0000 Administrator 739 at https://www.ablemuse.com A Faker's Dozen: Stories https://www.ablemuse.com/v9/books/melvin-jules-bukiet/fakers-dozen-stories? <!--paging_filter--><p>The wicked exploits of an assortment of louts and losers occupy Melvin Jules Bukiet's profligate imagination in these delectable stories. The title of Melvin Jules Bukiet's latest collection hints at the deceitful nature of its multiple protagonists. An aspiring writer stalks Vladmir Nabokov across midtown Manhattan one afternoon in the summer of Watergate. A young co-ed's seduction of her elderly philosophy professor delivers her an A and him lasting happiness. Max, "a liar and a voyeur, like any true artist," wanders the East Village taking photographs of murder victims.</p> <p><a href="https://www.ablemuse.com/v9/books/melvin-jules-bukiet/fakers-dozen-stories?">read more</a></p> https://www.ablemuse.com/v9/books/melvin-jules-bukiet/fakers-dozen-stories?#comments Books a faker&#039;s dozen book fiction melvin jules bukiet novel stories story book v9 writer Fri, 23 Jul 2010 16:05:59 +0000 Administrator 738 at https://www.ablemuse.com Strange Fire: A Novel https://www.ablemuse.com/v9/books/melvin-jules-bukiet/strange-fire-novel? <!--paging_filter--><p>Blind, homosexual, Russian émigré speechwriter Nathan Kazakov has enough problems even before his left ear is obliterated by a bullet presumably meant for the Israeli prime minister. Determined to solve the mystery, Nathan begins exploring a web of conspiracies involving messianic orthodox settlers, Arab terrorists, and the Israeli secret service. Was the bullet intended for Nathan after all? or perhaps for the prime minister's son Gabriel, an archaeologist who shuns his father's politics? One trail leads to Leviticus, another beneath the Temple Mount.</p> <p><a href="https://www.ablemuse.com/v9/books/melvin-jules-bukiet/strange-fire-novel?">read more</a></p> https://www.ablemuse.com/v9/books/melvin-jules-bukiet/strange-fire-novel?#comments Books book fiction melvin jules bukiet novel stories story book strange fire v9 writer Fri, 23 Jul 2010 16:05:58 +0000 Administrator 737 at https://www.ablemuse.com After: A Novel https://www.ablemuse.com/v9/books/melvin-jules-bukiet/after-novel? <!--paging_filter--><p>In 1945 the Allied forces are trekking across Europe, pausing incidentally to free the Jews from Hitler's camps. Newly emerged from the ashes, three ex-prisoners--a logician, a saint and a schemer--come together. Led by 19-year-old Isaac Kaufman, this trio joins forces in survival to exploit the only industry up and running in a crippled German town, the black market--until they discover and decide to steal a four foot cube: "18 tons of golden ingots created from the fillings pried from the teeth of the Jews of Eastern Europe.".</p> https://www.ablemuse.com/v9/books/melvin-jules-bukiet/after-novel?#comments Books after book fiction melvin jules bukiet novel stories story book v9 writer Fri, 23 Jul 2010 16:05:57 +0000 Administrator 736 at https://www.ablemuse.com The Call of the Wild and Selected Stories https://www.ablemuse.com/v7/books/tobey-hiller/call-wild-and-selected-stories? <!--paging_filter--><p>Robust tales of perilous adventure and animal cunning Includes Diable: A Dog, An Odyssey of the North, To the Man on the Trail, To Build a Fire, and Love of Life Out of the white wilderness, out of the Far North, Jack London, one of America’s most popular authors, drew the inspiration for the novel and five short stories included here. Swiftly paced and vividly written, they capture the main theme of London’s work: man’s instinctive reversion to primitive behavior when pitted against the brute force of nature.</p> https://www.ablemuse.com/v7/books/tobey-hiller/call-wild-and-selected-stories?#comments Books anthology fiction fiction book novel story the call of the wild and selected stories tobey hiller v7 Wed, 01 Jul 2009 17:09:11 +0000 Administrator 390 at https://www.ablemuse.com Oh, Don't Ask Why https://www.ablemuse.com/v7/books/dennis-must/oh-dont-ask-why? <!--paging_filter--> https://www.ablemuse.com/v7/books/dennis-must/oh-dont-ask-why?#comments Books dennis must fiction novel oh don&#039;t ask why story v7 Sun, 14 Jun 2009 21:11:36 +0000 Administrator 353 at https://www.ablemuse.com Banjo Grease https://www.ablemuse.com/v7/books/dennis-must/banjo-grease? <!--paging_filter--><p>Most of the stories in Dennis Must's provocative debut collection deal with characters from small towns in Pennsylvania factory towns with pottery plants and bronze foundries. These stories interlock to create a larger narrative about working-class people, whose lives are defined by the typical conflicts which shape most people's lives: marital conflicts, conflicts between relatives, inner conflicts over personal happiness and success, and struggles to understand the mysterious nature of life and death. The emotional mysteries of families is Must's domain.</p> <p><a href="https://www.ablemuse.com/v7/books/dennis-must/banjo-grease?">read more</a></p> https://www.ablemuse.com/v7/books/dennis-must/banjo-grease?#comments Books banjo grease dennis must fiction novel story v7 Sun, 14 Jun 2009 21:11:34 +0000 Administrator 352 at https://www.ablemuse.com Charlie's Exit https://www.ablemuse.com/v7/books/tobey-hiller/charlies-exit? <!--paging_filter--> https://www.ablemuse.com/v7/books/tobey-hiller/charlies-exit?#comments Books chalie&#039;s exit fiction fiction book novel story tobey hiller v7 Sat, 13 Jun 2009 06:57:07 +0000 Administrator 350 at https://www.ablemuse.com