Download or read book Elegies for the Brokenhearted A Novel written by Christie Hodgen and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2010-07-09 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Deeply, satisfyingly original…Elegies is the literary equivalent of a hand grenade." —Joanna Smith Rakoff, New York Times Book Review Who are the people you’ll never forget? For Mary Murphy, there are five, eulogized here in an utterly unforgettable voice. Mary tells the story of her own life—her childhood spent trading one home and father figure for another, her efforts to track down her rebellious sister, and her winding search for purpose—through her experiences and encounters with the people who shaped her path. The result is an unconventional and moving story about identity, family, and belonging.
Download or read book Elegies for the Brokenhearted written by Christie Hodgen and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2011-07-18 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mary Murphy searches for identity and purpose as she tells the story of her erratic childhood, her runaway sister, and the histories of people with whom she's crossed paths.
Download or read book The Broken Heart written by Thomas Edward Clack and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 15 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Elegies of the Heart written by Garber R Pahkee and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2023-09-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Elegies of the Heart, we explore the depths of love, heartbreak, and the enduring power of the heart to heal. This collection of poignant and evocative poems offers an exploration of the many facets of love, from its joyous beginnings to the bittersweet farewells. Through lyrical verses and heartfelt prose, it delves into the complexities of relationships, memories, and the resilience of the human spirit. A literary journey that will resonate with anyone who has ever loved deeply, and who has had to navigate the challenging terrain of heartbreak and healing.
Download or read book Homeland Elegies written by Ayad Akhtar and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2020-09-15 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A "profound and provocative" new work by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Disgraced and American Dervish: an immigrant father and his son search for belonging—in post-Trump America, and with each other (Kirkus Reviews). One of the New York Times 10 Best Books of the Year One of Barack Obama's Favorite Books of 2020 Finalist for the 2021 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction A Best Book of 2020 * Washington Post * O Magazine * New York Times Book Review * Publishers Weekly "Passionate, disturbing, unputdownable." —Salman Rushdie A deeply personal work about identity and belonging in a nation coming apart at the seams, Homeland Elegies blends fact and fiction to tell an epic story of longing and dispossession in the world that 9/11 made. Part family drama, part social essay, part picaresque novel, at its heart it is the story of a father, a son, and the country they both call home. Ayad Akhtar forges a new narrative voice to capture a country in which debt has ruined countless lives and the gods of finance rule, where immigrants live in fear, and where the nation's unhealed wounds wreak havoc around the world. Akhtar attempts to make sense of it all through the lens of a story about one family, from a heartland town in America to palatial suites in Central Europe to guerrilla lookouts in the mountains of Afghanistan, and spares no one—least of all himself—in the process.
Download or read book Hello I Must Be Going written by Christie Hodgen and published by W. W. Norton. This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the suicide of her beloved father, ten-year-old Frankie, her younger brother Teddy, and her mother Gerry each deal with their grief in their own way.
Download or read book The Elegies written by John Donne and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Baxter s Explore the Book written by J. Sidlow Baxter and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2010-09-21 with total page 1846 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explore the Book is not a commentary with verse-by-verse annotations. Neither is it just a series of analyses and outlines. Rather, it is a complete Bible survey course. No one can finish this series of studies and remain unchanged. The reader will receive lifelong benefit and be enriched by these practical and understandable studies. Exposition, commentary, and practical application of the meaning and message of the Bible will be found throughout this giant volume. Bible students without any background in Bible study will find this book of immense help as will those who have spent much time studying the Scriptures, including pastors and teachers. Explore the Book is the result and culmination of a lifetime of dedicated Bible study and exposition on the part of Dr. Baxter. It shows throughout a deep awareness and appreciation of the grand themes of the gospel, as found from the opening book of the Bible through Revelation.
Download or read book Broken Hearted Poems written by R E D S Broken Heart and published by Publishamerica Incorporated. This book was released on 2004-10-01 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fact that I neglected myself all my life became apparent to me when I met someone who I finally cared about with all my heart. I was not ready to meet her, because I still hadn't found who I truly was. I was lost. I hated my job, my finances, my life, and myself. She, on the other hand, had found herself early in life. She was an outgoing, beautiful, smart, funny, genuinely nice person. I can't fault her for not returning my feelings, because she knew that it would take time for me to get over my past. My past made me sad, and I loved her so much that I shared all that I was with her. Unfortunately, I may have shared too much because I eventually scared her away. I tried to get too close too fast when she wasn't ready. It was my fault. This is my pain that I have to carry around with me. This book is the result of my pain. She inspired me to write like I've never written before. All the feelings that were there for her are in this book. I am so blessed to have met her, because through my pain, I learned,many things. I learned that I could love unconditionally. I loved her so much that I shared all that I was and how I felt at the risk of losing her. I learned to have patience. I learned that time heals all wounds. Most of all, I learned to take care of myself first so I can take care of others later. The only way that I can have someone in my life is if I can confidently say that I am happy with myself and who I am. For this, I thank her from the bottom of my heart. This book is the end of my sorrow. It is my closure. It is the beginning of the rest of my life!
Download or read book Gold Cell written by Sharon Olds and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2012-12-05 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dazzling collection of poems by the Pulitzer Prize and T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry winner, called "a poet for these times, a powerful woman who won’t back down" (San Francisco Chronicle). A collection by the much praised poet whose second book The Dead and the Living, was both the Lamont Poetry Selection for 1983 and winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award.
Download or read book Go Teen Writers written by Stephanie Morrill and published by . This book was released on 2020-12-03 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You have a story to tell, don't you? Or maybe you simply want to try your hand at fiction writing. Perhaps you've given it your best effort, but simply didn't have enough tools in your tool box to finish that first draft. Wherever you're at with this novel-writing thing, popular bloggers Stephanie Morrill, Jill Williamson, and Shannon Dittemore totally understand. They know it's hard to finish a first draft. To stay motivated until the end. To feel like a "real" writer. They know because they've been there too. In Go Teen Writers: Write Your Novel, you'll learn: There is no such thing as one right way to write a novel. How to take an idea and give it a beginning, middle, and end. What story structure means and how it strengthens a book. Different approaches to plotting a novel. How to develop characters worth reading about. Strategies for creating memorable storyworlds and settings. What theme is and how to use it to enrich your story. What to do when your first draft is finished. There's no doubt about it. Learning to write a novel from beginning to end is a challenge. But with this book as your guide, you'll see that when you're in possession of the right tools, you're capable of finishing what you start. You'll be empowered and encouraged-as if you had a writing coach (or three!) sitting alongside you.
Download or read book Boy Meets Girl written by Christie Hodgen and published by Awp Award Series for the Novel. This book was released on 2022-04-16 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Told in two alternating timelines, this novel follows a friendship over twenty-five years. Boy Meets Girl is the story of a twenty-five-year friendship between Sammy Browne (young, idealistic, and broke) and Ben Eisenberg (older, jaded, and almost unimaginably rich)--two characters drawn together, and ultimately torn apart, by their differences. This novel tells the story of their relationship over the decades--from youthful flirtation to unrequited love, to long-term friendship that flourishes in middle age, to estrangement and then reunion. The novel unfolds in alternating chapters, toggling back and forth between Ben and Sammy as young people and in middle age, showing everything the characters hoped to become and how things turned out for them. Boy Meets Girl unfolds against the political and social backdrop of the last three decades, with Bill Clinton's election, the events of September 11, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and even the Trump era providing context and contrast for the personal stories of the main characters.
Download or read book The Routledge Companion to Death and Literature written by W. Michelle Wang and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-12-07 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Companion to Death and Literature seeks to understand the ways in which literature has engaged deeply with the ever-evolving relationship humanity has with its ultimate demise. It is the most comprehensive collection in this growing field of study and includes essays by Brian McHale, Catherine Belling, Ronald Schleifer, Helen Swift, and Ira Nadel, as well as the work of a generation of younger scholars from around the globe, who bring valuable transnational insights. Encompassing a diverse range of mediums and genres – including biography and autobiography, documentary, drama, elegy, film, the novel and graphic novel, opera, picturebooks, poetry, television, and more – the contributors offer a dynamic mix of approaches that range from expansive perspectives on particular periods and genres to extended analyses of select case studies. Essays are included from every major Western period, including Classical, Middle Ages, Renaissance, and so on, right up to the contemporary. This collection provides a telling demonstration of the myriad ways that humanity has learned to live with the inevitability of death, where “live with” itself might mean any number of things: from consoling, to memorializing, to rationalizing, to fending off, to evading, and, perhaps most compellingly of all, to escaping. Engagingly written and drawing on examples from around the world, this volume is indispensable to both students and scholars working in the fields of medical humanities, thanatography (death studies), life writing, Victorian studies, modernist studies, narrative, contemporary fiction, popular culture, and more.
Download or read book The Lines written by Anthony Varallo and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in the summer of 1979, when America was running out of gas, The Lines tells the story of a family of four--the mother, the father, the girl, and the boy--in the first months of a marital separation. Through alternating perspectives, we follow the family as they explore new territory, new living arrangements, and new complications. The mother returns to school. The father moves into an apartment. The girl squares off with her mother, while the boy struggles to make sense of the world. The Lines explores the way we are all tied to one another, and how all experience offers the possibility of love and connection as much as loss and change.
Download or read book Time Is a Mother written by Ocean Vuong and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2022-04-05 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times-bestselling collection of poems from the award-winning writer Ocean Vuong "Take your time with these poems, and return to them often.” —The Washington Post How else do we return to ourselves but to fold The page so it points to the good part In this deeply intimate second poetry collection, Ocean Vuong searches for life among the aftershocks of his mother’s death, embodying the paradox of sitting within grief while being determined to survive beyond it. Shifting through memory, and in concert with the themes of his novel On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, Vuong contends with personal loss, the meaning of family, and the cost of being the product of an American war in America. At once vivid, brave, and propulsive, Vuong’s poems circle fragmented lives to find both restoration as well as the epicenter of the break. The author of the critically acclaimed poetry collection Night Sky With Exit Wounds, winner of the 2016 Whiting Award, the 2017 T. S. Eliot Prize, and a 2019 MacArthur fellow, Vuong writes directly to our humanity without losing sight of the current moment. These poems represent a more innovative and daring experimentation with language and form, illuminating how the themes we perennially live in and question are truly inexhaustible. Bold and prescient, and a testament to tenderness in the face of violence, Time Is a Mother is a return and a forging forth all at once.
Download or read book The Half Life of Deindustrialization written by Sherry Lee Linkon and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2018-03-23 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines how contemporary American working- class literature reveals the long- term effects of deindustrialization on individuals and communities
Download or read book Garden for the Blind written by Kelly Fordon and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2015-04-01 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All readers of fiction will enjoy the nimble unfolding of Fordon's narrative in this collection.
