Download or read book Only Yesterday written by S. Y. Agnon and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2019-02-26 with total page 691 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Israeli Nobel Laureate S. Y. Agnon published the novel Only Yesterday in 1945, it quickly became recognized as a major work of world literature, not only for its vivid historical reconstruction of Israel's founding society. The book tells a seemingly simple tale about a man who immigrates to Palestine with the Second Aliya--the several hundred idealists who returned between 1904 and 1914 to work the Hebrew soil as in Biblical times and revive Hebrew culture. This epic novel also engages the reader in a fascinating network of meanings, contradictions, and paradoxes all leading to the question, what, if anything, controls human existence? Seduced by Zionist slogans, young Isaac Kumer imagines the Land of Israel filled with the financial, social, and erotic opportunities that were denied him, the son of an impoverished shopkeeper, in Poland. Once there, he cannot find the agricultural work he anticipated. Instead Isaac happens upon house-painting jobs as he moves from secular, Zionist Jaffa, where the ideological fervor and sexual freedom are alien to him, to ultra-orthodox, anti-Zionist Jerusalem. While some of his Zionist friends turn capitalist, becoming successful merchants, his own life remains adrift and impoverished in a land torn between idealism and practicality, a place that is at once homeland and diaspora. Eventually he marries a religious woman in Jerusalem, after his worldly girlfriend in Jaffa rejects him. Led astray by circumstances, Isaac always ends up in the place opposite of where he wants to be, but why? The text soars to Surrealist-Kafkaesque dimensions when, in a playful mode, Isaac drips paint on a stray dog, writing "Crazy Dog" on his back. Causing panic wherever he roams, the dog takes over the story, until, after enduring persecution for so long without "understanding" why, he really does go mad and bites Isaac. The dog has been interpreted as everything from the embodiment of Exile to a daemonic force, and becomes an unforgettable character in a book about the death of God, the deception of discourse, the power of suppressed eroticism, and the destiny of a people depicted in all its darkness and promise.
Download or read book It Seems Like Only Yesterday written by Carolyn Reck and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2008-07 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a humorous memoir about the life of Carolyn Robbins Reck that was written with great love for her children and grandchildren in order for them to better know and understand their mother and grandmother. From early childhood on through young adulthood and marriage, travels from New York to California to Washington state and Arizona, three careers and retirement, the book describes, sometimes hilariously, this mother and grandmother's life. It is a great adventure. She now resides, with her husband, six months a year in Port Ludlow, Washington and six months in Surprise, Arizona.
Download or read book It Seems Like Only Yesterday written by Robert Lenon and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2004 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bob Lenon came from Nebraska to Yuma, in 1914, just two years after Arizona had become the 48th state. He remembers seeing the Colorado River when it had no highway bridges and traveling on a plank road across dunes where an Interstate Highway now runs. Because Bob grew up listening to neighbors' tales of gold in the hills, it was natural for him to make mining his life-as a prospector and as a mining engineer. He became an intrinsic part of the process by which copper, gold, and other metals were extracted from Arizona rock. In more than 90 years as an Arizonan, he has witnessed many changes, and, in fact, as a surveyor, he mapped a lot of them! In this second of two volumes, Bob describes his university years and his work for big mining companies in Bisbee and then as a smalltime entrepreneur in a region where mining had fallen upon hard times. He also recalls his service in World War II, after which, for 50 years, he was a mining consultant and owner of a surveying firm in Patagonia. In addition, he recounts tales told by a few of the historic maps in his vast collection.
Download or read book It Only Seems Like Yesterday written by Odis Stephenson and published by Urlink Print & Media, LLC. This book was released on 2019-05-20 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These Stories are based on the author's personal experience of growing up as a tenant farmer's son in North Carolina. Their straightforward style reflects the author's own memories of his boyhood. The Authors says, "If this book brings joy to any one for just a moment, if it takes someone back to a simpler time, back to their own child hood, back to a time of family value, the effort of this writing will be worthwhile." For a journey into a hard but love-filled lifestyle in a simpler time and place, these heart-warming stories are sure to please.
Download or read book Sailing Alone Around the Room written by Billy Collins and published by Random House Trade Paperbacks. This book was released on 2002-09-17 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sailing Alone Around the Room, by America’s Poet Laureate, Billy Collins, contains both new poems and a generous gathering from his earlier collections The Apple That Astonished Paris, Questions About Angels, The Art of Drowning, and Picnic, Lightning. These poems show Collins at his best, performing the kinds of distinctive poetic maneuvers that have delighted and fascinated so many readers. They may begin in curiosity and end in grief; they may start with irony and end with lyric transformation; they may, and often do, begin with the everyday and end in the infinite. Possessed of a unique voice that is at once plain and melodic, Billy Collins has managed to enrich American poetry while greatly widening the circle of its audience.
Download or read book John Bartlow Martin written by Ray E. Boomhower and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2015-03-18 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the 1940s and 1950s, one name, John Bartlow Martin, dominated the pages of the "big slicks," the Saturday Evening Post, LIFE, Harper's, Look, and Collier's. A former reporter for the Indianapolis Times, Martin was one of a handful of freelance writers able to survive solely on this writing. Over a career that spanned nearly fifty years, his peers lauded him as "the best living reporter," the "ablest crime reporter in America," and "one of America's premier seekers of fact." His deep and abiding concern for the working class, perhaps a result of his upbringing, set him apart from other reporters. Martin was a key speechwriter and adviser to the presidential campaigns of many prominent Democrats from 1950 into the 1970s, including those of Adlai Stevenson, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, Robert F. Kennedy, Hubert Humphrey, and George McGovern. He served as U.S. ambassador to the Dominican Republic during the Kennedy administration and earned a small measure of fame when FCC Chairman Newton Minow introduced his description of television as "a vast wasteland" into the nation's vocabulary.
Download or read book Deep Connections written by Sherria L. Grubbs and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-10-02 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is not a book just for one single group of people. This is for anyone who has feelings, and whose feelings are more than real. The words I right come from feelings that I have or have had, or from things that other people may feel. Not many people can write their feelings or even know their true feelings. Take a look at the words that I have written and see what you think. If you dont understand it the first time, then read it again, and you will find that these words come straight from the heart!
Download or read book Memories and Melancholy written by Richard S. Scarsella and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2005 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of social and cultural articles published in regional newspapers over the past decade.
Download or read book Over the Hillisms written by Cathy Hamilton and published by Andrews McMeel Publishing. This book was released on 2010-09-01 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cathy Hamilton calls them exactly as she sees them. Sometimes she's sharp, sometimes she cuts close to the bone, but always she's flat-out funny and insightful. Readers can't help but laugh.........even at themselves. Whether focused on motherhood, fatherhood, being a kid, dieting, dating, or friends, Hamilton hits her mark. That signature approach comes through clearly in Over-the-Hillisms, and the truth about the utterances of the "no-longer young" is revealed. Move over Mr. Webster. Cathy Hamilton is now helping readers discover what the message is. Following in the vein of her best-selling Momisms, Dadisms, and Kidisms, the author delivers Over-the-Hillisms: What They Say and What They Really Mean. No legitimate dictionary of American age-related remarks and comments could be funnier. Perfect material for everyone from forty-somethings on up, Over-the-Hillisms is full of those telling sayings that reveal they've finally gone over to the old side. Oldsters may not be history, but they've certainly got one, and that fact slips out in just about every comment and observation they make. They say, "They don't make 'em like that anymore," "When I was a kid........." or "Do they have an early bird special?" but Cathy knows-and shows-what they really mean. Consider "What is she wearing?" "This ism is typically used to comment on the more radical fashions of the day," Hamilton writes, "including sheer tops, low-low rise jeans, and extreme body piercings. Many seniors conveniently forget this same ism was used by their elders." Over-the-Hillisms captures quips on topics from reading glasses and VCRs to the younger generation and thriftiness, and spins them into right-on tongue-in-cheek truth.
Download or read book Yesterday s Child written by Wesley Hall and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2000-12 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jason Rhodes, convinced that he is the favorite of a lesser god, whose name will remain anonymous, has two driving ambitions. He must become a famous writer (He wisely does not ask for any prizes) and he must have Stephanie Howorth, a young Mississippi girl so endowed with attributes, both physical and mental, that Aphrodite would have wept at the sight of her. Jason's first ambition suffered major setbacks early on because he and Stephanie and three other service personnel become marooned on an island in the Fijis. This is just after WWII, when young aristocratic women occasionally gave the time of day to commoners like Jason (if they were handsome enough). Jason was not only handsome he was practically the only man around, and so his second driving ambition made great progress up until a Fiji chieftain decides to give them a ride to the nearest airport. By this time the baby has been born and is learning Fijian. In the States Jason's fortunes switch quickly. He loses Stephanie because of one part hardheadedness and two parts stubbornness. But his books, produced late at night in an attic, begin to sell like hotcakes....Click here for more.
Download or read book We Cry Out written by John DeFrain PH D and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2006 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How does a developmental disability affect an individual throughout the course of life? What impact does the disability have on the individual's family? What strengths do families use to cope with these disabilities? What do they do that works? And, what doesn't work? These are the kinds of questions we have been asking individuals and families in our research over the past 15 years. This book was written to report their stories, and to honor these people who have shared their lives and their cries from the heart with us. It is both a positive book and a realistic book: full of love and grief and tenderness and anger and kindness and sorrow and courage. It is as real as the people who gave us the gift of their lives.
Download or read book Until Glory Is Girded about Thy Soul written by Patricia Dent Carr and published by Tate Publishing. This book was released on 2007-09 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Until Glory Is Girded About Thy Soul will awaken your Christian spirits...Carr eloquently and poetically shares her sense of the world through her God-given inspiration and wisdom for the reader. You will actually feel the Lord inside your heart as she shares her poetry, which is ripened with life's challenges, including her personal memories and the hope she has for each of you! Experience for yourself the love that Christ has for you...savor the joy and relish in Carr's graceful words...
Download or read book The Next Best Man written by Michael Travers and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2001-06-13 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Next Best Man And 11 Other Short Stories is a collection of some of the funniest short stories you will ever read. From a trip to Mardi Gras, to a ten year reunion to a romance novelist covering baseball for a daily, The Next Best Man starts you laughing on page 1 until page 7 and then again on page 16 and well you get the idea, it can sometimes be funny. Give it a shot, the worst thing that can happen is that you might not enjoy the book. If this is the case, I will call you myself and apoligize.
Download or read book En Divina Luz written by Michael Wallis and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michael Wallis's straightforward text and Craig Varjabedian's unadorned photos capture the deep piety of the Penitente Brotherhood and their complex relationship with their history and the modern world.
Download or read book Completely Satisfied written by Danette Maroney and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2003-06-01 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Completely Satisfied, told through the voices of Imani Wright and Quinton Banks, is designed to take its readers on a fantastic voyage as they follow Imani and Quintion from adolescence to adulthood. Both Imani and Quinton learn from the School of Hard Knocks that its not about the material things to have the life they desperately seek. Coming from broken homes, Imani and Quinton cling to each other hoping to fill the voids created by their broken families. Through love, devotion and a whole lot of drama, Quinton and Imani must find that it takes so much more than love to make a relationship grow into something bigger and solid. To be Completely Satisfied they find that perfection is not always the key.
Download or read book Energy and Water Development Appropriations for 1996 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 1394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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