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501 Minutes to Christ
Author | : Poe Ballantine |
Publsiher | : Hawthorne Books |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2011-03-01 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780983304968 |
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DUE OUT SEPTEMBER 2007, POE BALLANTINE’S second collection of personal essays follows in the tradition of Things I Like About America. Stories range from "The Irving," which details Mr. Ballantine’s diabolical plan to punch John Irving in the nose after opening for him before an audience of 2,000 people that launched the literary festival, Wordstock; to "Wide-Eyed in the Gaudy Shop," which tells how, in Mexico, the narrator met and later married his wife, Cristina; to "Blessed Meadows for Minor Poets," the devastating tale of how after years of sacrifice and persistence, Mr. Ballantine finally secured a contract with a major publisher for a short story collection that never came to fruition. Ever present in this collection of essays are the odd jobs, eccentric characters, boarding houses, buses, and beer that populate Mr. Ballantine’s landscape and make his stories uniquely his own. The title story, "501 Minutes to Christ," was included in the Houghton Mifflin anthology, Best American Essays 2006.
Leaving Brooklyn
Author | : Lynne Sharon Schwartz |
Publsiher | : Hawthorne Books |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 2011-10-05 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780983850441 |
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An injury at birth left Audrey with a wandering eye. Though flawed, the bad eye functions well enough to permit her an idiosyncratic view of the world, one she welcomes in the stifling postwar Brooklyn of the 1950s. During a journey to Manhattan to see a doctor about her sight, she begins to explore the sexual rites of adulthood. But can her romance last? In this beautifully observed novel, Lynne Sharon Schwartz raises themes of innocence and escape while illuminating the rich inner life of a singular girl.
The Tsar s Dwarf
Author | : Peter H. Fogtdal |
Publsiher | : Hawthorne Books |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 2011-03-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780983304920 |
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A novel about the aberration and endurance of the human condition translated by Tiina Nunnally. Soerine, a deformed female dwarf from Denmark, is given as a gift to the Russian Tsar, Peter the Great because he is taken by her freakishness and intellect. Against her will Peter takes her to St. Petersburg where she becomes a jester in his court, Forced to live a life that both compels and repels her, she gives in to the attentions of the Tsar’s favorite dwarf, Lukas and carves out an existence for herself amidst the squalor and lice-ridden life of dwarfs in early 18th century. Disaster eventually strikes in the shape of a priest who wants to “save” her.
Faraway Places
Author | : Tom Spanbauer |
Publsiher | : Hawthorne Books |
Total Pages | : 112 |
Release | : 2011-10-20 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780983850458 |
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During a fateful summer, 13-year-old Jake Weber witnesses the brutal murder of a Native American woman by the town banker. Jake's parents forbid him to speak of the killing or name its perpetrator, even as the woman's African American lover stands falsely accused. The crime and what follows it forever alter Jake's view of his parents and the world around him. Faraway Places won widespread praise for its vivid narrative and incantatory style, and Spanbauer displays singular skill in inhabiting the mind of a troubled adolescent boy.
Clown Girl
Author | : Monica Drake |
Publsiher | : Hawthorne Books |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2010-08-24 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780979018886 |
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Clown Girl lives in Baloneytown, a seedy neighborhood where drugs, balloon animals, and even rubber chickens contribute to the local currency. Against a backdrop of petty crime, she struggles to live her dreams, calling on cultural masters Charlie Chaplin, Kafka, and da Vinci for inspiration. In an effort to support herself and her layabout performance-artist boyfriend, Clown Girl finds herself unwittingly transformed into a "corporate clown," trapping herself in a cycle of meaningless, high-paid gigs that veer dangerously close to prostitution. Monica Drake has created a novel that riffs on the high comedy of early film stars — most notably Chaplin and W. C. Fields — to raise questions of class, gender, economics, and prejudice. Resisting easy classification, this debut novel blends the bizarre, the humorous, and the gritty with stunning skill.
Library Journal
Author | : Melvil Dewey,Richard Rogers Bowker,L. Pylodet,Charles Ammi Cutter,Bertine Emma Weston,Karl Brown,Helen E. Wessells |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 846 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Electronic journals |
ISBN | : UOM:39015081490479 |
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Includes, beginning Sept. 15, 1954 (and on the 15th of each month, Sept.-May) a special section: School library journal, ISSN 0000-0035, (called Junior libraries, 1954-May 1961). Also issued separately.
Things I Like About America
Author | : Poe Ballantine |
Publsiher | : Hawthorne Books |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 2011-03-01 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780983304937 |
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POE BALLANTINE’S RISKY PERSONAL ESSAYS are populated with odd jobs, eccentric characters, boarding houses, buses, and beer. He takes us along on his Greyhound bus journey through small town America (including a detour to Mexico) exploring what it means to be human. Written with piercing intimacy and self-effacing humor, Ballantine’stories provide entertainment, social commentary, and completely compelling slices of life.
The Best American Essays
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : American essays |
ISBN | : UVA:X030151476 |
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