Download or read book Anniversaries Volume 1 written by Uwe Johnson and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2021-07-27 with total page 913 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first volume of a titanic masterpiece of twentieth-century literature, named one of the best books of 2018 by The New York Times critics. Published to great acclaim as a two-part boxed set in 2018, Anniversaries is now available as two individual volumes. It is August 1967, and Gesine Cresspahl, born in Germany the year that Hitler came to power, a survivor of war, of Soviet occupation, and of East German Communism, has been living with her ten-year-old daughter, Marie, in New York City for six years. Mother and daughter find themselves caught up in the countless stories of the world around them: stories of work and school and their neighborhood, with its shifting and varied cast of characters, as well as the stories that Gesine reads in The New York Times every day—about Che Guevara, racial violence, the war in Vietnam, and the US elections to come. Now, with Marie growing up, Gesine has decided to tell her daughter the story of her own childhood in a small north German town in the 1930s and ’40s. Amid memories of Germany’s criminal and disastrous past and the daily barrage of news from a world in disarray, Gesine, conscientious, self-scrutinizing, with a sharp sense of humor, struggles to describe what she has learned over the years and what she hopes to pass on to Marie. Marie, articulate, quizzical, with a perspective that is very much her own, has plenty of questions, too. Uwe Johnson’s intimate portrait of a mother and daughter is also a panorama of past and present history and the world at large. Comparable in richness of invention and depth of feeling to Joyce’s Ulysses and Proust’s In Search of Lost Time, Anniversaries is one of the world’s great novels.
Download or read book Anniversaries written by Uwe Johnson and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2018-10-16 with total page 1713 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A landmark of 20th Century literature about New York in the late 1960s, now in English for the first time. Late in 1967, Uwe Johnson set out to write a book that would take the unusual form of a chapter for every day of the ongoing year. It would be the tale of Gesine Cresspahl, a thirty-four-year-old single mother who is a German émigré to Manhattan’s Upper West Side, and of her ten-year-old daughter, Marie—a story of work and school, of friends and lovers and the countless small encounters with neighbors and strangers that make up big-city life. An everyday tale, but also a tale of the events of the day, as gleaned by Gesine from The New York Times: Johnson could hardly foresee the convulsions of 1968, but some of the news—the racial unrest roiling America, the escalating war in Vietnam—was sure to be news for some time yet to come. Finally, it would be a tale told by Gesine to Marie about Gesine’s childhood in a small north German town, of her independent and enterprising father, of her troubled mother, of Nazi Germany (Gesine was born the year Hitler came to power) and World War II and Soviet retribution and the grimly regulated realities of Communist East Germany. An ambitious historical novel as well as a wonderfully observed New York novel, Anniversaries would take in the unsettled world of the present along with the twentieth century’s disastrous past, while vividly depicting the struggle of a loving, though hardly uncomplicated mother and a bright, indomitably curious girl to understand and care for each other and to shape a human world. Gesine and Marie are among the most memorable and engaging characters in literature, and Anniversaries, at once monumental and intimate, sweeping and full of incident, stylistically adventurous and endlessly absorbing, is quite simply one of the great books of our time.
Download or read book The Vinegar Anniversary Book written by Emily Thacker and published by James Direct, Inc.. This book was released on 2015-04-10 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brand new information on Mother Nature's Secret Weapon - apple cider vinegar!Completely updated with the latest research and brand new remedies and uses for apple cider vinegar. Handsome coffee table collector's edition.
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Download or read book The Legend of Drizzt 25th Anniversary Edition Book I written by R. A. Salvatore and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2013-09-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The legend starts here! The Legend of Drizzt® 25th Anniversary Edition, Book I collects the first three novels in this best-selling series: Homeland, Exile, and Sojourn in a new trade paperback edition. A great value for anyone who’s ready to experience the Legend of Drizzt. Drizzt Do’Urden made his first mistake the moment he was born: he was a boy. In the rigid matriarchy of the dark elf city of Menzoberranzan, that makes his life forfeit. But when his own mother tries but fails to kill him, Drizzt's path is set. He must find a way to escape the treacherous Underdark, even if that means setting out alone into the no less dangerous World Above.
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Download or read book The Legend of Drizzt 25th Anniversary Edition Book II written by R. A. Salvatore and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An outstanding value for Drizzt fans everywhere! A demonic artifact, hurled by an angel through the spaces between planes of existence to keep it out of the hands of a demon prince, has found its way to Faerûn. There it corrupts a young wizard, turning him into a power-mad invader. Only a small band of heroes, including the exiled dark elf Drizzt Do’Urden can stand in his way—and stir up a long list of enemies in the process. The Legend of Drizzt® 25th Anniversary Edition, Book II collects the fourth, fifth, and sixth novels in this best-selling series: The Crystal Shard, Streams of Silver, and The Halfling’s Gem in a trade paperback edition that is a great value for anyone who’s ready to continue the experience of the Legend of Drizzt.
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Download or read book The Baseball Hall of Fame 50th Anniversary Book written by Gerald Astor and published by Touchstone. This book was released on 1992 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents historical photographs and original essays on Hall of Fame players by nine of the country's finest baseball writers.
Download or read book I ll Get There It Better Be Worth The Trip written by John Donovan and published by North Star Editions, Inc.. This book was released on 2010-09-08 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I’ll Get There. It Better Be Worth the Trip. is best known as the first teen novel to address homosexuality. Set in 1969, Donovan’s seminal tale centers on Davy Ross, a lonely thirteen-year-old who moves to Manhattan to live with his estranged mother. Then he meets a boy and experiences something that changes his life.
Download or read book The Book of Runes 25th Anniversary Edition written by Ralph Blum and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2008-11-11 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Book of Runes is something very special: a part of the ancient past and, perhaps, a part of your future... Based on a tradition over one thousand years old, the Runes are seen by many as a contemporary Oracle and collectively, have established themselves as a remarkable aid in practical decision making. A huge success with over 900,000 copies sold, since its original publication in 1983, The Book of Runes has proved to be a modern classic. For this, the 25th anniversary of the work, Ralph H. Blum has expanded and refined the runic system, making the Runes one of the most profoundly useful self-help tools of the new century.
Download or read book The Calvin and Hobbes Tenth Anniversary Book written by Bill Watterson and published by Andrews McMeel Publishing. This book was released on 1995-09 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A retrospective of ten years of strips with comments by the author.
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Download or read book The Wizard of Oz written by Jay Scarfone and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2013-10-29 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Commemorating the seventy-fifth anniversary of The Wizard of Oz, this collectible edition delivers an interactive experience, transporting readers over the rainbow and into the Land of Oz with its host of unpublished artwork, behind-the-scenes stories from the stars, and removable special features. Open the door to the Land of Oz and travel down the Yellow Brick Road with Dorothy and her companions on the journey of a lifetime. Learn the filmmaking tricks and techniques behind the film's realistic tornado, why Dorothy's shoes were ruby-colored, and how the filmmakers got a fleet of Winged Monkeys to fly. Authors Jay Scarfone and William Stillman reveal filmmaking secrets and information on everything from the film's pre- and postproduction to early reviews and publicity to never-before-published stories from the cast and crew, making it the definitive book on the subject. Beautifully designed with an array of film stills, Technicolor™ test frames, rare artwork and photography, and costume and set illustrations, this collectible edition provides an unrivaled glimpse at the land where dreams come true.
