The Quick and the Dead

The Quick and the Dead
Author: Joy Williams
Publsiher: Vintage
Total Pages: 319
Release: 2010-09-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780307763822

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PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • From one of our most heralded writers comes the “poetic, disturbing, yet very funny” (The Washington Post Book World) life-and-death adventures of three misfit teenagers in the American desert. Alice, Corvus, and Annabel, each a motherless child, are an unlikely circle of friends. One filled with convictions, another with loss, the third with a worldly pragmatism, they traverse an air-conditioned landscape eccentric with signs and portents—from the preservation of the living dead in a nursing home to the presentation of the dead as living in a wildlife museum—accompanied by restless, confounded adults. A father lusts after his handsome gardener even as he's haunted (literally) by his dead wife; a heartbroken dog runs afoul of an angry neighbor; a young stroke victim drifts westward, his luck running from worse to awful; a sickly musician for whom Alice develops an attraction is drawn instead toward darker imaginings and solutions; and an aging big-game hunter finds spiritual renewal through his infatuation with an eight-year-old—the formidable Emily Bliss Pickless. With nature thoroughly routed and the ambiguities of existence on full display, life and death continue in directions both invisible and apparent. Gloriously funny and wonderfully serious, The Quick and the Dead limns the vagaries of love, the thirst for meaning, and the peculiar paths by which all creatures are led to their destiny. A panorama of contemporary life and an endlessly surprising tour de force: penetrating and magical, ominous and comic, this is the most astonishing book yet in Joy Williams's illustrious career. Joy Williams belongs, James Salter has written, "in the company of Céline, Flannery O'Connor, and Margaret Atwood."

The Quick and the Dead

The Quick and the Dead
Author: Louis L'Amour
Publsiher: Bantam
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2004-08-03
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780553899597

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When Duncan McKaskel decided to move his family west, he knew he would face dangers, and he was prepared for them. He knew about the exhausting terrain, and he was expecting the punishing elements. What he worried about was having to use violence against other men—men who would follow him and try to steal the riches that he didn’t even possess. Yet bandits were only part of McKaskel’s worries. For a mysterious stranger, Con Vallian, had appeared one night and saved his life. But was Vallian’s true interest Duncan’s wife, Susanna? And, more important, how did she feel about him? As they push on into the wilderness, Duncan must discover who is the greater threat—the thieves outside his camp or the enigmatic stranger within. . . .

The Quick and the Dead

The Quick and the Dead
Author: Pavel Tsatsouline
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 135
Release: 2019-02
Genre: Electronic Book
ISBN: 0989892425

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The Quick and the Dead

The Quick and the Dead
Author: Jack Curtis
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 260
Release: 1995-03
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0671518984

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A brutal, brilliant saga of the Old West--now a major motion picture starring Gene Hackman and Sharon Stone. The bullet-ridden sign says Redemption, the lawless town where frontier justice is quick-draw sport--where one man holds a terrified community in his ruthless grip.

The Quick and the Dead

The Quick and the Dead
Author: Mairtin O Cadhain
Publsiher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 353
Release: 2021-10-26
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780300262926

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A collection of the finest stories from the Irish author of The Dirty Dust, published fifty years after his death These colorful tales from renowned Irish author Máirtín Ó Cadhain (1906–1970) whisk readers to the salty western shores of Ireland, where close†‘knit farming communities follow the harsh rhythms of custom, family, and land, even as they dream together of a kinder world. In this collection, the resilient women and men of the Gaeltacht regions struggle toward self†‘realization against the brutal pressures of rural poverty, and later, the hollowing demands of modern city life. Weaving together tradition and modernity, and preserving the earthy cadence of the original language, this rich and heart-rending collection by one of Ireland’s most acclaimed fiction writers is a composite portrait of a country poised at the edge of irreversible transformation.

The Quick and the Dead

The Quick and the Dead
Author: Cynric Temple-Camp
Publsiher: HarperCollins
Total Pages: 206
Release: 2020-07-01
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781775491828

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True stories of life and death from a New Zealand pathologist From the number-one bestselling author of The Cause of Death comes a book about the unlikely, extraordinary, obscure and often tragic ways humans meet their end. A dead body without a trace of trauma; alien parasites; worms of the brain; crocodile attacks and bizarre eating disorders ... In The Quick and the Dead, pathologist Dr Cynric Temple-Camp takes readers into a world of disease and death as he seeks answers for those who were unlucky, and those still alive to tell the tale.

The Quick and the Dead

The Quick and the Dead
Author: Richard van Emden
Publsiher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 384
Release: 2012-06-07
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781408822456

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At the end of the First World War more than 192,000 wives had lost their husbands, and nearly 400,000 children had lost their fathers. Few people remained unscathed. The Quick and the Dead pays tribute to the families who were left behind while their husbands, fathers and sons went off to fight, and the generations that followed. Through a unique collection of more than fifty interviews, private diaries and a remarkable collection of unpublished letters written by the soldiers to their families back home, The Quick and the Dead is a history of those who are commonly forgotten and neglected when the fallen are remembered on Armistice Day.

The Quick and the Dead

The Quick and the Dead
Author: Deanna Petherbridge,L. J. Jordanova,Hayward Gallery,South Bank Centre,Royal College of Art (Great Britain),Mead Gallery,Leeds (England). City Art Gallery
Publsiher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 128
Release: 1997-01-01
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0520217381

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To study anatomy, many artists dissected the dead to better depict the living. "The Quick and the Dead" focuses on a range of artists from Leonardo da Vinci to Cindy Sherman to show the great richness and complexity that can result when art and science intersect. The drawings, prints, photographs, and objects in this book span five centuries and mark numerous cultural shifts, yet their imagery is as powerful today as when they were created. 92 illustrations, 31 in color.