Let Nothing You Dismay

Let Nothing You Dismay
Author: Mark O'Donnell
Publsiher: Vintage
Total Pages: 211
Release: 2011-07-20
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780307801630

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In his brilliant new novel, the first since the widely enjoyed Getting Over Homer, Mark O'Donnell takes us on a wild and funny tour through the Christmas season's ultimate challenge: the day of too many parties. It's Christmas Eve Eve Eve Eve Eve in Manhattan--five days from the holiday Ground Zero--but Tad Leary, the most confused man on earth, doesn't know whether to celebrate or go crazy. He's just been fired, he's about to be evicted from his sublet, he's getting nowhere on his overdue folklore thesis, "Social Hierarchies of Imaginary Places," and on top of everything else--or rather underneath everything else--at age thirty-four (older than Christ), he's five-foot-one and still baby-faced, so he's treated like a child wherever he goes. Nonetheless, he's been invited to seven (a magic number one of his rivals is writing a thesis about) different Christmas parties that day, and he decides to explore every one of them for possible work, apartments, love, and just plain distraction. Tad's a walking punch bowl of joy and fear, goodwill and alienation, running a constant mental argument with himself throughout his long marathon. By midnight, he will have visited all parts of his past--from brunch with his rumpled Boston Irish parents and arguably more successful brothers, to dinner with his beautiful Swedish ex-girlfriend, to a fancy, colossal uptown bash where, by now dangerously looped, he bumps into an ex-boyfriend (more confusion!) looking as "glorious and golden as a roast turkey." A farcical, over-the-top feast of twisted one-liners and outrageous imagery, Let Nothing You Dismay depicts Tad's--and everyone's--struggle for survival, with a bracing combination of Darwinian theory and hallucinatory fairy-tale wonder. It's a Chekhov story told with P. G. Wodehouse flippancy, or a tale of Celtic mysticism as S. J. Perelman might have rendered it. Above all, the bright spots in this darkest night of the soul prove that comical epiphany isn't just for Christmas anymore.

Let nothing you dismay continued They were married

Let nothing you dismay  continued   They were married
Author: Sir Walter Besant
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 330
Release: 1883
Genre: Electronic Book
ISBN: HARVARD:HWE9VX

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The captain s room Let nothing you dismay

The captain s room  Let nothing you dismay
Author: Sir Walter Besant
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 320
Release: 1883
Genre: Electronic Book
ISBN: HARVARD:HWE9V8

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Let nothing you dismay

 Let nothing you dismay
Author: Norman Abbot
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 104
Release: 1920
Genre: Electronic Book
ISBN: UOM:39015063517323

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Let Nothing You Dismay

 Let Nothing You Dismay
Author: May Byron
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 52
Release: 1933
Genre: Faith
ISBN: HARVARD:HN6KRF

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Uncle Walt

Uncle Walt
Author: Walt Mason
Publsiher: BookRix
Total Pages: 125
Release: 2014-03-11
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9783730981764

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Uncle Walt [WALT MASON] written by Walt Mason. Published by George Matthew Adams in 1910. Registered in Canada in accordance with the copyright law. Entered at Stationers' Hall. Walt Mason's Prose Rhymes are read daily by approximately ten million readers. A newspaper service sells these rhymes to two hundred newspapers with a combined daily circulation of nearly five million, and assuming that five people read each newspaper—which is the number agreed upon by publicity experts—it may be called a fair guess to say that two out of every five readers of newspapers read Mr. Mason's poems. So the ten million daily readers is a reasonably accurate estimate. No other American verse-maker has such a daily audience. Walt Mason is, therefore, the Poet Laureate of the American Democracy. He is the voice of the people. Put to a vote, Walt would be elected to the Laureate's job, if he got a vote for each reader. And, generally speaking, men would vote as they read. The reason Walt Mason has such a large number of readers is because he says what the average man is thinking so that the average man can understand it.

This Son of Vulcan

This Son of Vulcan
Author: Walter Besant,James Rice
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 504
Release: 1887
Genre: Electronic Book
ISBN: IND:30000114936820

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This son of Vulcan a novel by the authors of Ready money Mortiboy

This son of Vulcan  a novel  by the authors of  Ready money Mortiboy
Author: sir Walter Besant
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 340
Release: 1876
Genre: Electronic Book
ISBN: OXFORD:600078682

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