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I m Dying Laughing
Author | : Christina Stead |
Publsiher | : Open Road Media |
Total Pages | : 776 |
Release | : 2012-10-23 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781453265239 |
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DIVChristina Stead’s unforgettable final novel—a profound examination of love and radicalism during the McCarthy era /divDIV In the wake of the Great Depression, Emily Wilkes, a young American journalist, travels to a Europe still scarred by World War I. During her crossing, she meets Stephen Howard, a charismatic and wealthy Communist who quickly converts Emily to his ideals when the two become lovers. Upon their return to the States, they marry and settle into a comfortable life in Hollywood as darlings of the American left. Emily shines as a screenwriter and novelist while Stephen dedicates himself to the Party line—but their radicalism soon finds them out of favor and retreating to Paris, where they tragically and bitterly unravel. Published posthumously by Christina Stead’s literary executor professor Ron Geering, I’m Dying Laughing is an unflinching look at political faith and romantic attachment./div
Brother I m Dying
Author | : Edwidge Danticat |
Publsiher | : Knopf |
Total Pages | : 221 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781400041152 |
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In a personal memoir, the author describes her relationships with the two men closest to her--her father and his brother, Joseph, a charismatic pastor with whom she lived after her parents emigrated from Haiti to the United States.
Die Laughing
Author | : William Novak |
Publsiher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2016-10-25 |
Genre | : Family & Relationships |
ISBN | : 9781501150791 |
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From the co-creator of the celebrated Big Book of Jewish Humor comes a laugh-out-loud collection of jokes about growing older that makes fun of memory loss, marriages, medicine, sex, the afterlife, and much more, making this the perfect gift for almost anyone who was born before you were. Growing older can be unsettling and surprising. (How on earth did this happen? Where did the years go?) So what better way to deal with this new stage of life than to laugh about your new reality? Die Laughing includes more than enough jokes (not to mention cartoons!) to let that laughter burst out. Whether it’s dealing with doctors, dating in one’s seventies, or unexpected bodily changes (not to mention funny noises), some things are easier to face with a smile of recognition. That’s why Die Laughing is the perfect gift for your parents, anyone celebrating a significant birthday, or any boomer with a sense of humor whose age begins with a six or higher.
Stories of the Heart
Author | : Nancy Siemers |
Publsiher | : Kirk House Publishers |
Total Pages | : 214 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 1886513147 |
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The Magic Phrase
Author | : Margaret Harris |
Publsiher | : Univ. of Queensland Press |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0702225061 |
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This is the first volume of essays by various hands on the work of the great Australian novelist Christina Stead (1902-83). It provides an overview of Stead criticism, including pioneering 'classic' essays, together with a selection from the burgeoning critical literature of the 1980s and '90s, and several articles not previously published.
The Man Who Loved Children
Author | : Christina Stead |
Publsiher | : Open Road Media |
Total Pages | : 733 |
Release | : 2012-10-23 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781453265253 |
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“This crazy, gorgeous family novel” written at the end of the Great Depression “is one of the great literary achievements of the twentieth century” (Jonathan Franzen, The New York Times). First published in 1940, The Man Who Loved Children was rediscovered in 1965 thanks to the poet Randall Jarrell’s eloquent introduction (included in this ebook edition), which compares Christina Stead to Leo Tolstoy. Today, it stands as a masterpiece of dysfunctional family life. In a country crippled by the Great Depression, Sam and Henny Pollit have too much—too much contempt for one another, too many children, too much strain under endless obligation. Flush with ego and chilling charisma, Sam torments and manipulates his children in an esoteric world of his own imagining. Henny looks on desperately, all too aware of the madness at the root of her husband’s behavior. And Louie, the damaged, precocious adolescent girl at the center of their clashes, is the “ugly duckling” whose struggle will transfix contemporary readers. Named one of the best novels of the twentieth century by Newsweek, Stead’s semiautobiographical work reads like a Depression-era The Glass Castle. In the New York Times, Jonathan Franzen wrote of this classic, “I carry it in my head the way I carry childhood memories; the scenes are of such precise horror and comedy that I feel I didn’t read the book so much as live it.”
Handbook of Australian Languages
Author | : R.M.W. Dixon,Barry J. Blake |
Publsiher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | : 557 |
Release | : 1983-12-31 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9789027273536 |
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This handbook makes available short grammatical sketches of Australian languages. Each grammar is written in a standard format, following guidelines provided by the editors, and includes a sample text and vocabulary text. The contributions to this volume are salvage studies, giving all the information that is available on four languages which are on the point of extinction, and an assessment of what linguistic impressions can be inferred from the scant material that is available on the extinct languages of Tasmania.
Encyclopedia of the Novel
Author | : Paul Schellinger |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 838 |
Release | : 2014-04-08 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781135918262 |
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The Encyclopedia of the Novel is the first reference book that focuses on the development of the novel throughout the world. Entries on individual writers assess the place of that writer within the development of the novel form, explaining why and in exactly what ways that writer is importnant. Similarly, an entry on an individual novel discusses the importance of that novel not only form, analyzing the particular innovations that novel has introduced and the ways in which it has influenced the subsequent course of the genre. A wide range of topic entries explore the history, criticism, theory, production, dissemination and reception of the novel. A very important component of the Encyclopedia of the Novel is its long surveys of development of the novel in various regions of the world.