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The Society of Others
Author | : William Nicholson |
Publsiher | : Anchor Canada |
Total Pages | : 246 |
Release | : 2011-01-21 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780385673051 |
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“He has nowhere to go. So he goes there.” T o escape the pressures of family life and alienation from his contemporaries, the unnamed narrator of this existential novel heads out from home to hitchhike without destination. But his journey soon turns into an orgy of violence. A truck picks him up and soon we are at a checkpoint in some totalitarian European state riddled with terrorists. The driver hands the narrator a slip of paper and then tells him to jump — he does, just before the driver is shot and the truck is blown up, revealing its cargo of books. Thus begins a novel that is part spy story, part philosophical treatise — one that sweeps the reader along. Hypnotic, intellectually challenging, with all the pace and thrust of a thriller, The Society of Others introduces an important novelist with a long career ahead.
Society of Others
Author | : Rupert Stasch |
Publsiher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 334 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780520256859 |
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"In this timely commentary on the ideas of difference, strangeness, and Western contact, Stasch weaves ethnographic materials together with theoretical framing in an exceptionally clear and compelling way. A highly original, important and, in fact, astonishing piece of scholarship."--Bambi Schieffelin, author of The Give and Take of Everyday Life "In this remarkable ethnography, Rupert Stasch takes us to the lowlands of West Papua and into the lives of people who have built a social world out of their relationships with strange and potentially dangerous others. The Korowai are classic inhabitants of the "savage slot," still dogged by their designation as Stone Age primitives. Instead of flipping the script and arguing that the Korowai are just like everyone else, Stasch draws far-reaching lessons from the particularities of Korowai life. Stasch writes with grace and clarity on the ambivalent ways in which the Korowai confront, evade, and embrace an otherness that resides not just in words, food, places, and human bodies, but also in the pasts and futures brought to mind by these material signs. Analyzing Korowai sign use as a concrete, historical process, he charts the passage between intimacy and alterity that Korowai undergo in their encounters not only with spirits and Indonesian soldiers, but also with children, husbands, and wives. Some of what Stasch describes may seem strange and even disturbing. But in pondering Stasch's findings, one gradually comes to see the making of persons and relationships in an entirely new light. Gone is the old debate between biological determination and cultural freedom; in its place is an approach that affirms the multiple histories that converge in and flow from a life. Erudite, empathetic, and unremittingly smart, Society of Others recasts the very meaning of kinship--and makes a case for the power of what anthropologists do."--Danilyn Rutherford, author of Raiding the Land of the Foreigners: The Limits of the Nation on an Indonesian Frontier
The Skinners Company Versus the Honourable the Irish Society and Others
Author | : Worshipful Company of Skinners |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 616 |
Release | : 1836 |
Genre | : Trials |
ISBN | : STANFORD:36105044119167 |
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The Jane Austen Society
Author | : Natalie Jenner |
Publsiher | : St. Martin's Press |
Total Pages | : 374 |
Release | : 2020-05-26 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781250248725 |
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* INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER * "This novel delivers sweet, smart escapism." —People "Fans of The Chilbury Ladies’ Choir and The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society will adore The Jane Austen Society... A charming and memorable debut, which reminds us of the universal language of literature and the power of books to unite and heal." —Pam Jenoff, New York Times bestselling author of The Lost Girls of Paris Just after the Second World War, in the small English village of Chawton, an unusual but like-minded group of people band together to attempt something remarkable. One hundred and fifty years ago, Chawton was the final home of Jane Austen, one of England's finest novelists. Now it's home to a few distant relatives and their diminishing estate. With the last bit of Austen's legacy threatened, a group of disparate individuals come together to preserve both Jane Austen's home and her legacy. These people—a laborer, a young widow, the local doctor, and a movie star, among others—could not be more different and yet they are united in their love for the works and words of Austen. As each of them endures their own quiet struggle with loss and trauma, some from the recent war, others from more distant tragedies, they rally together to create the Jane Austen Society. A powerful and moving novel that explores the tragedies and triumphs of life, both large and small, and the universal humanity in us all, Natalie Jenner's The Jane Austen Society is destined to resonate with readers for years to come.
The Skinners company versus The honourable the Irish society and others Proceedings upon the motion for a receiver at the suit of the Skinners company commencing November 23 1835 in his majesty s High court of chancery copied from the transcr of the short hand writer s notes
Author | : Skinners' company |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 618 |
Release | : 1836 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : OXFORD:590914996 |
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The Society
Author | : Jodie Andrefski |
Publsiher | : Entangled: Teen |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 2016-05-03 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9781633753273 |
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Welcome to Trinity Academy’s best-kept secret. The Society. You’ve been handpicked by the elite of the elite to become a member. But first you’ll have to prove your worth by making it through Hell Week. Do you have what it takes? It’s time to find out. Samantha Evans knows she’d never get an invite to rush the Society—not after her dad went to jail for insider trading. But after years of relentless bullying at the hands of the Society’s queen bee, Jessica, she’s ready to take down Jessica and the Society one peg at a time from the inside out. All it’ll take is a bit of computer hacking, a few fake invitations, some eager rushees...and Sam will get her revenge. Let the games begin.
The Society of Distinguished Lemmings
Author | : Julie Colombet |
Publsiher | : Kings Road Publishing |
Total Pages | : 42 |
Release | : 2018-06-14 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9781787414389 |
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This quirky, humorous picture book from French illustrator Julie Colombet is jam-packed with lemmings and sure to raise a laugh. When the lemmings encounter a bear, they are determined to help him be more 'distinguished' - just like they are. But little do they realise this bear could be exactly what they need to save them from themselves... With Julie Colombet's distinctive voice and beautiful illustrations, each spread is packed with detail to pore over. Think 'My Fair Lady' meets 'The Lemmings'.
Leave Society
Author | : Tao Lin |
Publsiher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2021-08-03 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781101974483 |
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From the acclaimed author of Taipei, a bold portrait of a writer working to balance all his lives—artist, son, loner—as he spins the ordinary into something monumental. An engrossing, hopeful novel about life, fiction, and where the two blur together. In 2014, a novelist named Li leaves Manhattan to visit his parents in Taipei for ten weeks. He doesn't know it yet, but his life will begin to deepen and complexify on this trip. As he flies between these two worlds--year by year, over four years--he will flit in and out of optimism, despair, loneliness, sanity, bouts of chronic pain, and drafts of a new book. He will incite and temper arguments, uncover secrets about nature and history, and try to understand how to live a meaningful life as an artist and a son. But how to fit these pieces of his life together? Where to begin? Or should he leave society altogether? Exploring everyday events and scenes--waiting rooms, dog walks, family meals--while investigatively venturing to the edges of society, where culture dissolves into mystery, Lin shows what it is to write a novel in real time. Illuminating and deeply felt, as it builds toward a stunning, if unexpected, romance, Leave Society is a masterly story about life and art at the end of history. A VINTAGE ORIGINAL