My desert island books part 19
Discover the ultimate desert island books list, part 19—a curated mix of sci-fi, fiction, and philosophy. From Barry N. Malzberg's alien classic *On a Planet Alien* to Jean-Paul Sartre's *Being and Nothingness*, explore essential reads for solitary escapes.
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The Collected Stories
by William Trevor
A collection of short stories from celebrated author William Trevor in which he shines a light on the day-to-day life of Ireland and its citizens. From his debut collection, “The Day We Got Drunk on Cake,” published in 1968, to “Family Sins” (1990), William Trevor has crafted the short story to perfection, giving us brilliant and subtle stories full of the reversals, surprises, and shadowy truths we discover in life itself. To read this volume is not just to encounter an extraordinary literary stylist, but to understand life as surely as though we were looking through the eyes of his protagonists and—deeper still—into their hearts. William Trevor: The Collected Stories includes the tales from his seven previous books, as well as four stories that have never appeared in book form in America. They depict the comforts and frustrations of life in rural Ireland, the complexities of family relationships, and the elusive grace of love. They portray the almost invisible strands that bind people to each other as well as the chains that imprison them in solitary yearning.
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Being and Nothingness
by Jean-Paul Sartre
Sartre explains the theory of existential psychoanalysis in this treatise on human reality.
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On a Planet Alien
by Barry N. Malzberg
SCOPis the tale of a time traveller trying to stop some of history's worst moments before they happen. He has witnessed the last minutes of Jack Kennedy, King, Malcolm, Robert Kennedy. But Scop, in trying to alter, has merely reinforced the future. In the ENCLOSURE is the story of Quir, an alien forced to endure endless interrogations following the first meeting of creatures from space with the people of Earth. An alien whose only thoughts are of escape. For those arriving ON A PLANET ALIEN, the mission was to educate the native inhabitants of Folsom's planet and bring them withing the Federation. But something had happened on the voyage there. Could it be start some unknown force was controlling the crew's minds, a force that could bring disaster to the mission?
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The New American House 2: Innovations in Residential Design and Construction
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