Download or read book All of Us with Our Pointless Worries and Inconsequential Dramas written by Garry Crystal and published by Garry Crystal. This book was released on 2018-11-20 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These stories are for anyone who has ever felt they were an outsider, marching to the beat of their own drum and trying to discover some reality hidden within the cliché of modern life, love and work. From the author of Leaving London For mature readers. Includes The Paris Quartet: Short Stories For the End of the World This is your life and you may just recognize yourself within these seventeen short stories and six plays. If you’ve ever been in a less than perfect relationship, been trapped in a meaningless job, have found yourself drunk, lost and alone in a new city on Christmas Eve or have simply spent years trying to escape from a situation of your own making then you may just find some comfort within these pages. Contemporary stories of doomed love affairs, cheating spouses and new beginnings in cities such as Paris, New York and London. A family dinner party where the elephant in the room threatens to reveal itself, girlfriends who leave, boyfriends who can’t commit and a reclusive anti-hero fighting a corporate giant all make an appearance within this collection of gritty and darkly humorous short stories. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Reviews This is a wonderful collection of short stories (and plays) which mine deeply emotional and personal territory, which is one of Crystal’s major strengths as a writer. All of these stories are deeply relatable and hyper-realistic – you either know these characters or perhaps you have found yourself in these very same situations. Each of them leaves the reader with much more than what is on the surface – ala Ernest Hemingway and/or Raymond Carver – and will have you thinking about them long after you finish reading them. - Julian Gallo, author of Breathe Garry Crystal's title for his collection of short stories and one scene plays aptly summarizes a dominant theme at the same time that it seems to dismiss the content as near meaningless. Most of these narratives depict the all too common scene for thirty-something people in the big city; struggles at recovery from ruined relationships, lapses into sloth, alcohol, drugs, casual, sometimes barely civil, sexual encounters and, of course, depression that blankets these scenes of urban discontent like a grey, palpable fog. For all this, I could not dismiss as dreary cliche' this highly entertaining and thought provoking collection. It was fun to read and at some points, downright intriguing. Dark humor and a conversational first person narrator style preserve the several stories of an alienated young urban male from triteness. Situations that, if our jaded narrator did not so masterfully depict them, might be all too familiar for interest. In "The Conversationalists", for example, he endures a mercifully short relationship with the beautiful, but totally self-absorbed Serena. It's the artful recreation of a scene that this reader and, I'm sure, many others have encountered in real life. The difference being that most of us do not in our suffering of a "me personality" interlocutor turn the encounter into a lively and entertaining short story. There are women characters who in dialogue express cogent insights as they relentlessly pursue an evasive and emotionally remote male incapable of authentic commitment. I would think that many women readers would find strong female characters like these quite satisfying. This collection has much to offer to readers from a broad band of tastes who enjoy good story telling. Those who enjoy nuanced meaning and dark ambiguities delivered by way of succinct narration and lively dialogue, these stories are the right stuff. - Online Book Club

Download or read book Reference Guide to American Literature written by Jim Kamp and published by Saint James Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 1264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Concise discussions of the lives and principal works of American writers, thinkers, and cultural figures, written by subject experts.

Download or read book The Sense of an Ending written by Julian Barnes and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-10-05 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BOOKER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A novel that follows a middle-aged man as he contends with a past he never much thought about—until his closest childhood friends return with a vengeance: one of them from the grave, another maddeningly present. A novel so compelling that it begs to be read in a single setting, The Sense of an Ending has the psychological and emotional depth and sophistication of Henry James at his best, and is a stunning achievement in Julian Barnes's oeuvre. Tony Webster thought he left his past behind as he built a life for himself, and his career has provided him with a secure retirement and an amicable relationship with his ex-wife and daughter, who now has a family of her own. But when he is presented with a mysterious legacy, he is forced to revise his estimation of his own nature and place in the world.

Download or read book Character and the Individual Personality in English Renaissance Drama written by John E. Curran,, Jr. and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2014-08-20 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores representations of the individualistic character in drama, Shakespearean and non-Shakespearean, and some of the Renaissance ideas allowing for and informing them. Setting aside Shakespearean exceptionalism, the study reads a wide variety of plays to explain how intellectual context could allow for such characterization.

Download or read book Coming Home Again written by Geoffrey S. Proehl and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study focuses on the representation of the family in American drama, in particular, on various uses and conventions of the figure of the prodigal husband or son. It considers the lineage and function of this figure from the writings of Augustine, medieval iconography, Renaissance prodigal son plays, and temperance melodramas to such contemporary manifestations as television talk shows, the Recovery Movement, and plays by contemporary writers including Spalding Gray, Ntozake Shange, and Cherrie Moraga.

Download or read book Wrapped in Gray written by Todd Bunker and published by Upset Publishing. This book was released on 2002-08 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Blood of Elves written by Andrzej Sapkowski and published by Orbit. This book was released on 2009-05-01 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Andrzej Sapkowski’s New York Times bestselling Witcher series has inspired the hit Netflix show and multiple blockbuster video games, and has transported millions of fans around the globe to an epic, unforgettable world of magic and adventure. For over a century, humans, dwarves, gnomes, and elves have lived together in relative peace. But that peace has now come to an end. Geralt of Rivia, the hunter known as the Witcher, has been waiting for the birth of a prophesied child. The one who has the power to change the world for good—or for evil. As the threat of war hangs over the land and the child is pursued for her extraordinary powers, it will become Geralt’s responsibility to protect them all. And the Witcher never accepts defeat. Join Geralt of Rivia; his beloved ward and the child of prophecy, Ciri; and his ally and love, the powerful sorceress Yennefer as they battle monsters, demons, and prejudices alike in Blood of Elves, the first novel of The Witcher Saga. Witcher story collections The Last Wish Sword of Destiny Witcher novels Blood of Elves The Time of Contempt Baptism of Fire The Tower of Swallows Lady of the Lake Season of Storms (stand alone) Hussite Trilogy The Tower of Fools Warriors of God Light Perpetual Translated from original Polish by Danusia Stok

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Download or read book Rough Tumble written by Mark Bavaro and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2008-09-02 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by former NFL tight end Bavaro, "Rough & Tumble" is the gritty and dramatic novel of a season in the life of a professional football player as he navigates the brutal world of the NFL.

Download or read book The Routledge Companion to Ethics and Research in Ethnomusicology written by Jonathan P. J. Stock and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-11-30 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Companion to Ethics and Research in Ethnomusicology is an in-depth survey of the moral challenges and imperatives of conducting research on people making music. It focuses on fundamental and compelling ethical questions that have challenged and shaped both the history of this discipline and its current practices. In 26 representative cases from across a broad spectrum of geographical, societal, and musical environments, authors collectively reflect on the impacts of ethnomusicological research, exploring the ways our work may instantiate privilege or risk bringing harm, as well as the means that are available to provide recognition, benefit, and reciprocation to the musicians and others who contribute to our studies. In a world where differing ethical values are often in conflict, and where music itself is meanwhile a powerful tool in projecting moral claims, we aim to uncover the conditions and consequences of the ethical choices we face as ethnomusicologists, thereby contributing to building a more engaged, restructured discipline and a more globally responsible music studies. The volume comprises four parts: (1) sound practices and philosophies of ethics; (2) fieldwork encounters; (3) environment, trauma, collaboration; and (4) research in public domains.

Download or read book Sajjilu Arab American written by Louise Cainkar and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2022-08-04 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Both a summative description of the field and an exploration of new directions, this multidisciplinary reader addresses issues central to the fields of Arab American, US Muslim, and Southwest Asian and North African (SWANA) American studies. Taking a broad conception of the Americas, this collection simultaneously registers and critically reflects upon major themes in the field, including diaspora, migration, empire, race and racialization, securitization, and global South solidarity. The collection will be essential reading for scholars in Arab/SWANA American studies, Asian American studies, and race, ethnicity, and Indigenous studies, now and well into the future. Contributors include: Evelyn Alsultany, Carol W. N. Fadda, Hisham D. Aidi, Nadine Naber, Therí Pickens, Steven Salaita, Ella Shohat and Sarah M.A. Gualtieri.

Download or read book New York Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1979-04-16 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York magazine was born in 1968 after a run as an insert of the New York Herald Tribune and quickly made a place for itself as the trusted resource for readers across the country. With award-winning writing and photography covering everything from politics and food to theater and fashion, the magazine's consistent mission has been to reflect back to its audience the energy and excitement of the city itself, while celebrating New York as both a place and an idea.

Download or read book Musical Opinion and Music Trade Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 1018 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Other Book Two written by Troy Young and published by Troy Young. This book was released on with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joe Mills and Pete Ivalu are dead, and Dr. Adele Kramer is in a coma. Harjit Singh needs to replace them in his ongoing confrontation with The Other. He turns to Malcolm Mayweather, a firefighter injured by an escaping Shoggoth, freed by the fire started by Adele to destroy it. It draws Malcolm into the world of lost alien gods and terrifying creatures. As he gets drawn further into this fantastic realm, Malcolm deteriorates mentally and physically. But he must hold on because he is one of the key figures who will determine if the entirety of existence remains or is lost in an instant. While Malcolm struggles with these challenges, Adele faces her own. Left floating in orbit around the Blind Idiot God Azathoth at the centre of the universe, she learns the depth of Nyarlathotep’s plans and her part in it all. An event is approaching, but what is it? And can they stop it? This collection of linked short stories pulls the reader into a modern take on the world of H. P. Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos. It contains the following stories: The Rat King: Malcolm and his new partner Mindy travel to Saskatchewan to investigate sightings of mutated rats. The rats are the least of the town's problems. The Alien Gardener: Mindy relates her strangest case to Malcolm. She investigates a strange blight impacting Niagara when she encounters a mysterious plant in a greenhouse. Are the effects hallucinogenic, or is what she sees real? The Pyramid of the Black Pharaoh: In a show of international co-operation, Malcolm joins a group of investigators drawn from around the world to investigate a mysterious pyramid uncovered in the Egyptian desert. Their delve into a building hidden for thousands of years starts in motion a terrifying future. The Druid of Castle Rock: In this second international adventure, Malcolm travels to Scotland to aid a young researcher field test her invention that can track Other-related corruption. They use it to uncover an ancient cabal hidden in plain sight in Edinburgh. The Viking's Doom: Returning to Canada, Malcolm aids a Norwegian researcher trying to discover the real reason the Vikings left North America. The Tattered Lady: Malcolm rejoins Mindy as she searches Winnipeg's homeless population for a mysterious woman known only as The Tattered Lady. We find the lengths that Harjit will go to stop the influence of The Other. The Thing In The Customs House Written in H.P. Lovecraft's style, the reader is transported to Montreal in 1928 to learn of the incident that leads to the formation of the Department of Extraordinary Phenomena. This is book two of a trilogy.

Download or read book Problems of Communism written by and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 792 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Latin America and Existentialism written by Edwin Murillo and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2023-06-15 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Latin America and Existentialism is a preliminary intellectual history, prioritising literature and contextualising Latin American philosophical contributions from the 1860s to the late 1930s, decades that coincide with the canon’s foundational years. This study takes a Pan-American approach to move the critical focus away from the River Plate, a region that has received some critical attention. In doing so, it focuses on existentially-neglected writers such as Brazil’s Machado de Assis and Graciliano Ramos, José Asunción Silva from Colombia, Cuba’s Enrique Labrador Ruiz, and the Chilean María Luisa Bombal. Underappreciated Latin American philosophical voices and existentialism’s canonical perspectives allow the author to discuss the many problems concerning the experiencing ‘I’ of these authors, and to consider such existential themes as ethical vacuity, forlornness, the crisis of insufficiency, the conundrum of choice, and the enigma of authentic being. The concentration on Latin America’s existentially-hued interest in the human condition is an invitation to the reader to reconsider the peripheral status in the existentialism canon.

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