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Book A Rage to Live

    Book Details:
  • Author : John O'Hara
  • Publisher : Random House
  • Release : 2012-10-31
  • ISBN : 1448161916
  • Pages : 728 pages

Download or read book A Rage to Live written by John O'Hara and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-10-31 with total page 728 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'O'Hara is the only American writer to whom America presents itself as a social scene in the way it once presented itself to Henry James, or France to Proust' The New York Times When the beautiful, imperious and moneyed Grace Caldwell Tate wants something she goes after it, men included. Her affair scandalises Pennsylvania's elite and she must face the costs to her marriage and the man she really loves. A bestseller on publication in 1949, A Rage to Live is a candid tale of idealists and libertines, tradesmen and crusaders, men of violence and goodwill, and women of fierce strength and tenderness.

Book A Rage to Live  A Biography of Richard and Isabel Burton

Download or read book A Rage to Live A Biography of Richard and Isabel Burton written by Mary S. Lovell and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2000-07-17 with total page 948 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An "extraordinary biography" (New York Times Book Review) of a brilliant pair of adventurers. Their marriage was both improbable and inevitable. Isabel Arundell was a schoolgirl, the scion of England's most distinguished Catholic family. When she first saw him while walking at a seaside resort, Richard Burton had already made his mark as a linguist (he was fluent in twenty-nine languages), scholar, soldier, and explorer--at once a symbol of Victorian England's vision of empire and an avowed rebel against its mores. When she turned and saw him staring after her, she decided that she would marry him. By their next meeting, Burton had become the first infidel to infiltrate Mecca as one of the faithful, and, in an expedition to discover the source of the Nile, would soon be the first white man to see Lake Tanganyika. After being married, the Burtons traveled and experienced the world, from diplomatic postings in Brazil and Africa to hair-raising adventures in the Syrian desert. In later life Richard courted further controversy as a self-proclaimed erotologist and the translator of The Kama Sutra. Based on previously unavailable archives, Mary Lovell has written a compelling joint biography that sets Isabel in her proper place as Burton's equal in daring and endurance, a fascinating figure in her own right.

Book A Rage to Live

    Book Details:
  • Author : John O'Hara
  • Publisher : Random House Trade
  • Release : 1949
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 608 pages

Download or read book A Rage to Live written by John O'Hara and published by Random House Trade. This book was released on 1949 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A momentous bestseller when it was first published in 1949, John O'Hara's sprawling novel A Rage to Live offers up a gorgeous pageant of idealists and libertines, tradesmen and crusaders, men of violence and goodwill, and women of fierce strength and tenderness. These memorable characters and their vital stories add up to a large-scale social chronicle of America, in what is perhaps the most ambitious work of O'Hara's career. "The range of O'Hara's knowledge of how Americans live was incomparably greater than that of any otherction writer of his time," judged "The New Yorker." "One would have to go back to Frank Norris, Stephen Crane, and Theodore Dreiser tond a novelist who had even the intention of acquiring knowledge on the scale that O'Hara acquired it."

Book A Rage for Order

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  • Author : Robert F. Worth
  • Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
  • Release : 2016-04-26
  • ISBN : 0374710716
  • Pages : 288 pages

Download or read book A Rage for Order written by Robert F. Worth and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2016-04-26 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive work of literary journalism on the Arab Spring and its troubled aftermath In 2011, a wave of revolution spread through the Middle East as protesters demanded an end to tyranny, corruption, and economic decay. From Egypt to Yemen, a generation of young Arabs insisted on a new ethos of common citizenship. Five years later, their utopian aspirations have taken on a darker cast as old divides reemerge and deepen. In one country after another, brutal terrorists and dictators have risen to the top. A Rage for Order is the first work of literary journalism to track the tormented legacy of what was once called the Arab Spring. In the style of V. S. Naipaul and Lawrence Wright, the distinguished New York Times correspondent Robert F. Worth brings the history of the present to life through vivid stories and portraits. We meet a Libyan rebel who must decide whether to kill the Qaddafi-regime torturer who murdered his brother; a Yemeni farmer who lives in servitude to a poetry-writing, dungeon-operating chieftain; and an Egyptian doctor who is caught between his loyalty to the Muslim Brotherhood and his hopes for a new, tolerant democracy. Combining dramatic storytelling with an original analysis of the Arab world today, A Rage for Order captures the psychic and actual civil wars raging throughout the Middle East, and explains how the dream of an Arab renaissance gave way to a new age of discord.

Book Bear and His Daughter

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  • Author : Robert Stone
  • Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Release : 1998
  • ISBN : 9780395901342
  • Pages : 244 pages

Download or read book Bear and His Daughter written by Robert Stone and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1998 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of short stories includes Miserere, in which a widowed and childless librarian becomes an avid participant in the anti-abortion movement, and the title story, about the relationship between a father and his growing daughter.

Book Popular Culture in the Age of White Flight

Download or read book Popular Culture in the Age of White Flight written by Eric Avila and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2006-04 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In Popular Culture in the Age of White Flight, Eric Avila offers a unique argument about the restructuring of urban space in the two decades following World War II and the role played by new suburban spaces in dramatically transforming the political culture of the United States. Avila's work helps us see how and why the postwar suburb produced the political culture of 'balanced budget conservatism' that is now the dominant force in politics, how the eclipse of the New Deal since the 1970s represents not only a change of views but also an alteration of spaces."—George Lipsitz, author of The Possessive Investment in Whiteness

Book The Case for Rage

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  • Author : Myisha Cherry
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2021-10-04
  • ISBN : 0197557341
  • Pages : 225 pages

Download or read book The Case for Rage written by Myisha Cherry and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-10-04 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Anger has a bad reputation. Many people think that it is counterproductive, distracting, and destructive. It is a negative emotion, many believe, because it can lead so quickly to violence or an overwhelming fury. And coming from people of color, it takes on connotations that are even more sinister, stirring up stereotypes, making white people fear what an angry other might be capable of doing, when angry, and leading them to turn to hatred or violence in turn, to squelch an anger that might upset the racial status quo"--

Book A Rage To Kill And Other True Cases

Download or read book A Rage To Kill And Other True Cases written by Ann Rule and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2001-01-18 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times bestselling author Ann Rule brings several riveting accounts of seemingly normal men and women who are compelled by a murderous rage to suddenly lash out in this installment of her Crime Files. Ann Rule dives into one of Seattle’s most infamous crimes: a city bus ride that turned into mayhem and murder at the hands of a gunman. With her signature “devastatingly accurate insight” (The New York Times Book Review), she unmasks the forces that drove quiet, clean-cut Silas Cool to shoot the driver, causing the bus to plunge off the Aurora Bridge into an apartment building. Included here are nine other cases that illuminate Rule’s unique and authoritative view of the human psyche gone temporarily berserk. In A Rage to Kill, Ann Rule frighteningly shows that none of us are truly protected from the flashes of irrational violence that can erupt from the killers among us.

Book Blow Your House Down

Download or read book Blow Your House Down written by Gina Frangello and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2022-04-12 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Good Morning America Recommended Book • A BuzzFeed Most Anticipated Book of the Year • A Lit Hub Most Anticipated Book of the Year • A Rumpus Most Anticipated Book of the Year • A Bustle Most Anticipated Book of the Month "A pathbreaking feminist manifesto, impossible to put down or dismiss. Gina Frangello tells the morally complex story of her adulterous relationship with a lover and her shortcomings as a mother, and in doing so, highlights the forces that shaped, silenced, and shamed her: everyday misogyny, puritanical expectations regarding female sexuality and maternal sacrifice, and male oppression." —Adrienne Brodeur, author of Wild Game Gina Frangello spent her early adulthood trying to outrun a youth marked by poverty and violence. Now a long-married wife and devoted mother, the better life she carefully built is emotionally upended by the death of her closest friend. Soon, awakened to fault lines in her troubled marriage, Frangello is caught up in a recklessly passionate affair, leading a double life while continuing to project the image of the perfect family. When her secrets are finally uncovered, both her home and her identity will implode, testing the limits of desire, responsibility, love, and forgiveness. Blow Your House Down is a powerful testimony about the ways our culture seeks to cage women in traditional narratives of self-sacrifice and erasure. Frangello uses her personal story to examine the place of women in contemporary society: the violence they experience, the rage they suppress, the ways their bodies often reveal what they cannot say aloud, and finally, what it means to transgress "being good" in order to reclaim your own life.

Book A Rage to Live

Download or read book A Rage to Live written by Mary S. Lovell and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2000 with total page 948 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the accomplishments of the British explorer and scholar, and the relationship between him and his unconventional wife.

Book A Rage To Live  Surviving The Holocaust So Hitler Would Not Win

Download or read book A Rage To Live Surviving The Holocaust So Hitler Would Not Win written by Victor Breitburg with Joseph G. Krygier and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Victor Breitburg is a survivor of the Lódz Ghetto, Auschwitz, Buchenwald, Rhemsdorf and Theresienstadt concentration camps. He was liberated with a group known as "The Boys". Their experiences have been documented in Sir Martin Gilbert's book, The Boys: Triumph Over Adversity. Victor's journey from Lódz, to the camps in Europe, to England, Scotland and the United States and his new life in America is the story told in this volume.

Book A Rage to Live

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  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2013
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book A Rage to Live written by and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Description: Movie Press Kits.

Book A Rage to Live

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  • Author : Roberta Latow
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1994
  • ISBN : 9781840673968
  • Pages : 504 pages

Download or read book A Rage to Live written by Roberta Latow and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Imperial Dictionary  English  Technological  and Scientific

Download or read book The Imperial Dictionary English Technological and Scientific written by John Ogilvie and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 1582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Rage to Possess

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  • Author : Abra Taylor
  • Publisher : Harlequin Treasury-Harlequin Superromance 90s
  • Release : 1982
  • ISBN : 9780373700387
  • Pages : 388 pages

Download or read book A Rage to Possess written by Abra Taylor and published by Harlequin Treasury-Harlequin Superromance 90s. This book was released on 1982 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Rage To Possess by Abra Taylor released on Sep 24, 1982 is available now for purchase.

Book The Living Age

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  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1906
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 844 pages

Download or read book The Living Age written by and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 844 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Blackwood s Magazine

Download or read book Blackwood s Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 900 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: