Download or read book Goodbye to the Orchard written by Steven Cramer and published by Sarabande Books. This book was released on 2004 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry that finds sense in life through a confrontation with death.
Download or read book Crossing Borders Dissolving Boundaries written by Hein Viljoen and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2013 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Borders separate but also connect self and other, and literary texts not only enact these bordering processes, but form part of such processes. This book gestures towards a borderless world, stepping, as it were, with thousand-mile boots from south to north (even across the Atlantic), from South Africa to Scandinavia. It also shows how literary texts model and remodel borders and bordering processes in rich and meaningful local contexts. The essays assembled here analyse the crossing and negotiation of borders and boundaries in works by Nadine Gordimer, Ingrid Winterbach, Deneys Reitz, Janet Suzman, Marlene van Niekerk, A.S. Byatt, Thomas Harris, Frank A. Jenssen, Eben Venter, Antjie Krog, and others under different signs or conceptual points of attraction. These signs include a spiritual turn, eventfulness, self-understanding, ethnic and linguistic mobilization, performative chronotopes, the grotesque, the carceral, the rhetorical, and the interstitial. Contributors: Ileana Dimitriu, Heilna du Plooy, John Gouws, Anne Heith, Lida Krüger, Susan Meyer, Adéle Nel, Ellen Rees, Johan Schimanski, Tony Ullyatt, Phil van Schalkwyk, Hein Viljoen.
Download or read book The Orchard written by Kristina Gorcheva-Newberry and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2022-03-15 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four teenagers grow inseparable in the last days of the Soviet Union—but not all of them will live to see the new world arrive in this powerful debut novel, loosely based on Anton Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard. “Spectacular . . . intensely evocative and gorgeously written . . . will fill readers’ eyes with tears and wonder.”—Minneapolis Star Tribune ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: New York Post Coming of age in the USSR in the 1980s, best friends Anya and Milka try to envision a free and joyful future for themselves. They spend their summers at Anya’s dacha just outside of Moscow, lazing in the apple orchard, listening to Queen songs, and fantasizing about trips abroad and the lives of American teenagers. Meanwhile, Anya’s parents talk about World War II, the Blockade, and the hardships they have endured. By the time Anya and Milka are fifteen, the Soviet Empire is on the verge of collapse. They pair up with classmates Trifonov and Lopatin, and the four friends share secrets and desires, argue about history and politics, and discuss forbidden books. But the world is changing, and the fleeting time they have together is cut short by a sudden tragedy. Years later, Anya returns to Russia from America, where she has chosen a different kind of life, far from her family and childhood friends. When she meets Lopatin again, he is a smug businessman who wants to buy her parents’ dacha and cut down the apple orchard. Haunted by the ghosts of her youth, Anya comes to the stark realization that memory does not fade or disappear; rather, it moves us across time, connecting our past to our future, joys to sorrows. Inspired by Anton Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard, Kristina Gorcheva-Newberry’s The Orchard powerfully captures the lives of four Soviet teenagers who are about to lose their country and one another, and who struggle to survive, to save their friendship, to recover all that has been lost.
Download or read book I Love You Goodbye written by Amber Deckers and published by Orchard Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Follow Liberty Belle and her 'talking thoughts' on a fantastic story of a girl struggling to make sense of who she is.
Download or read book Good Housekeeping written by and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 796 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book It s in the Book written by Arthur Sager and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To earn money for university, work for almost two years during separate periods at B.C. gold mines, latterly as a mucker underground. The life and characters in an isolated mining camp in the Thirties. After getting a B.A., sign on as a deckhand on a Norwegian freighter. See something of life and the world, learn Norwegian, and pay off in England. Go broke trying and failing to become an actor in London, sleep in parks and avoid starvation by getting a job as a lift boy at posh flats near Buckingham Palace, bossed and mothered by a sweet cockney landlady in Stockwell. By a stroke of luck accepted on trial as a cub reporter on the Daily Mirror, then become a full reporter and, with promotion, transferred for experience from Fleet Street to Manchester. Giving up a good salary and secure future in journalism, become an actor in a Shakespearean company in Manchester and then join the reportory at the historic Theatre Royal in Margate as assistant stage manager and character actor. Ambition realized but war breaks out and although previously a pacifist apply for the RAF, picking apples in Kent orchards while waiting. Not accepted as lacking a birth certificate, mother refusing to send notarized statement of birth. On borrowed money return to Canada where, to pay off debts, work for ten months as a master in a boys school, duties master in a farm school for underprivileged English children and, again, as a mucker underground. Join the RCAF for training as a fighter pilot.
Download or read book Gob s Grief written by Chris Adrian and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2003-05-20 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the summer of 1863, Gob and Tomo Woodhull, eleven-year-old twin sons of Victoria Woodhull, agree to together forsake their home and family in Licking County, Ohio, for the glories of the Union Army. But on the night of their departure for the war, Gob suffers a change of heart, and Tomo is forced to leave his brother behind. Tomo falls in as a bugler with the Ninth Ohio Volunteers and briefly revels in camp life; but when he is shot clean through the eye in his very first battle, Gob is left to endure the guilt and grief that will later come to fuel his obsession with building a vast machine that will bring Tomo–indeed, all the Civil War dead–back to life. Epic in scope yet emotionally intimate, Gob’s Grief creates a world both fantastic and familiar and populates it with characters who breath on the page, capturing the spirit of a fevered nation populated with lost brothers and lost souls.
Download or read book Chekhov on the British Stage written by Patrick Miles and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1993-05-06 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book to consider the whole subject of Chekhov's impact on the British stage. Recently Chekhov's plays have come to occupy a place in the British classical repertoire second only to Shakespeare. The British, American and Russian authors of these essays examine this phenomenon both historically and synchronically. First they discuss why Chekhov's plays were so slow to find an audience in Britain, what the early productions were really like, and how Bernard Shaw, Peggy Ashcroft, the Moscow Art Theatre and politics influenced the British style of Chekhov. They then address the often controversial issues of directing, acting, designing and translating Chekhov in Britain today. The volume concludes with a selective chronology of British productions of Chekhov's plays and will be of interest to students and scholars of the theatre, as well as theatre-goers, theatre-practitioners and Russianists.
Download or read book Everyday Jews written by Yehoshue Perle and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2013-10-15 with total page 533 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Hailed as a modern Yiddish masterpiece . . . Explor[es] the harsh reality of life for a poor family in a provincial Polish town around the year 1900” (The Huffington Post). When Everyday Jews was first published in Poland in 1935, the Jewish Left was scandalized by the sex scenes, and I. B. Singer complained that the novel was too bleak to be psychologically credible. Yet within two years, Perle’s novel was heralded as a modern Yiddish masterpiece. Offering a unique blend of raw sexuality and romantic love, thwarted desire and spiritual longing, Everyday Jews is now considered Perle’s consummate achievement. The voice of Mendl, the novel’s twelve-year-old narrator, is precisely captured by this artfully simple translation. Mendl’s impoverished and dysfunctional family struggles to survive in a nameless Polish provincial town. In this unsettled world, most ordinary people yearn to be somewhere else—or someone else. As Mendl journeys to adulthood, Perle captures the complex interplay of Christians and Jews, weekdays and Sabbaths, town and country, dream and reality, against a relentless and never-ending battle of the sexes.
Download or read book Hello Goodbye Again written by Suzette Francis and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2011-10-31 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Francis tells the breathtaking story of what happens after a Voodoo Ladys prediction comes true and biracial Sadie Winter is left behind by her white country singing mother, Annie, and forced to live with her intolerant, hard-driving grandmother on a mountain in Tennessee. Through the narrative of this audaciously curious girl, light is shed on the bigotry of this small, southern town, as well as the history of hypocrisy and secrets within her own family. But as what was meant to be temporary becomes long-term and the years go by and a girl approaches womanhood, will the Voodoo Ladys other predictions also come true? What might another upheaval do to Sadies life?
Download or read book Passages Through Grief written by Ph. D. Mary Ann Lippincott and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-09-28 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We experience any number of losses through death, relationships, health, or community. Usually, we feel alone in our grief. It doesn't have to be that way. Dr. Mary Ann Lippincott and grief counselor Susan H. Williams have designed a program called Passages ...through grief, a healing process that helps the bereaved respond to loss. This manual, Passages ... through grief, follows the program and is designed for group members and individuals who want guidance in healing. This book helps those grieving all kinds of life's losses. Lippincott and Williams offer helpful, practical, step-by-step guidance and counsel with compassion and knowledge of this vital, intricate, and complicated process. Exercises and reflections aid in identifying and facing the many tumultuous feelings that arise during grief.
Download or read book The Orchard Corner written by Ruth Kennedy and published by Lapwing Publications. This book was released on 2006 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Paul Baker and the Integration of Abilities written by Robert Flynn and published by TCU Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Irritating, arrogant, nuts--and a genius." That's what Charles Laughton said of Paul Baker. He also said, "Paul Baker is one of the most important minds in the world theater today. He seems to have invented new ways of doing things, and I think something big will come out of it." Something big did come out of it. Stage productions such as Othello, Hamlet, and A Cloud of Witnesses brought critics including Henry Hewes of Saturday Review and photographers such as Eliot Eliosofon of Life magazine to Baylor Theater in Waco. Baker's production of Eugene McKinney's A Different Drummer received an invitation from CBS TV's cultural program, Omnibus, to present the play live from their New York studio. Baker's production of As I Lay Dying, Robert Flynn's adaptation of William Faulkner's novel, brought an invitation to present the play at the Theater of Nations in Paris, the first non-Broadway production to compete there, where it won a Special Jury Award. That was Paul Baker the theater director. Equally important was Baker's role as teacher and mentor in the arts. Architect Arthur Rogers stated, "No single person has contributed more to (theater architecture) development than Paul Baker." Baker's architectural visions at Baylor Theater, the Dallas Theater Center, and Trinity University's Ruth Taylor Theater have inspired similar constructions not only in the United States but in places such as Manila and Seoul. Baker's teaching philosophy, based on his famous class "The Integration of Abilities," has been inspirational. In education Baker has been founder, mentor, or director of children's theaters where children are the creators of the drama; of the Booker T. Washington School of the Arts; of the Learning About Learning Foundation, a retail line of interactive kits that included books and toys; and dozens of creative programs for children, parents, and educators. In Paul Baker and the Integration of Abilities, Baker tells how a summer in Paris gave him a new way of looking at theater. Eugene McKinney describes Baker's development of writers, and Glenn Allen Smith demonstrates the use of the elements in creating a play. In other chapters on acting, directing, speech, and design, Baker's ideas gave roots and wings to his students and colleagues. Despite invitations from theaters in other places, including Austria, Germany, Yugoslavia, and New Zealand, and offers of positions at other universities, Baker chose to remain in Texas where he was born and where he lives today.
Download or read book Good Housekeeping Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Anton Chekhov at the Moscow Art Theatre written by and translated by Vera Gottlieb and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-06-15 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moscow Art Theatre is recognized as having more impact on modern theatre, than any other company. This facsimile edition of a Russian journal documents, photographically, the premieres of all of Anton Chekhov's plays produced by the MAT.
Download or read book Orchard of Hope The Heart of Hollyhill Book 2 written by Ann H. Gabhart and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 2007-03-01 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is 1964, and 14-year-old Jocie Brooke is about to have an unforgettable summer. Her father has found a new love, her hippie sister is about to have a baby, and her aunt is finally pleasurable to live with. But, when a black family from Chicago moves into the quiet hamlet of Holly County, Kentucky, Jocie finds herself befriending a boy that some townspeople shun. Due to the unspoken racial lines in this southern town, the presence of these newcomers sparks a smoldering fire of unrest that will change Holly County--and Jocie--forever. Orchard of Hope, the riveting sequel to The Scent of Lilacs, takes readers along to experience unexpected love, fear, forgiveness, new life, and a deeper understanding of the value of each individual's story.
Download or read book The Dark Comedy written by J. L. Styan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1968-07 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anyone who takes an intelligent interest in theatre-going will find profit and stimulus in this book.
