Download or read book Loner at the Ball written by Fred Lawrence Guiles and published by Turner. This book was released on 2022-02-22 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born Andrew Warhola in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1928, Andy Warhol was for some twenty-five years one of the most celebrated figures in New York society, and probably second only to Picasso as the world's best-known contemporary artist. His Pop Art painting o fa Campbell's Soup can and his silkscreen images of Marilyn Monroe are internationally recognized icons of modern art. The series of Factories where his silkscreens were produced became the haunt of misfits, drop-outs, and addicts but also of the most chic and wealthy New York society. In 1968 he narrowly escaped death when he was shot by Valerie Solanis, a disappointed actress and writer, an act that seemed to put the American Seal of Approval on the fame he had been seeking since adolescence. In Loner at the Ball, based on massive research and scores of interviews with Warhol's friends and associates, bestselling biographer Fred Lawrence Guiles gives us a complete view of a remarkable twentieth century life and an informed assessment of what Warhol's work represents in the history of art. He explores the paradoxical nature of a man who cultivated celebrity but whom television producers learned to avoid because he had so little to say; a man surrounded by a world of drugs and sex who was himself largely celibate, did not smoke or take drugs, and rarely drank; perhaps above all a man who spent most of his waking hours in the heart of a crowd but who felt that he himself was in a vacuum, a solitary observer, a loner at the ball.
Download or read book Remember You re a One Ball written by Quentin S. Crisp and published by Chomu Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ramsey Blake's first job as a teacher takes him back to the secluded village where he grew up. There he begins to remember the strange world of childhood and comes to realise that the adult world is equally as strange. At the centre of everyday life he discovers a nightmarish game of power and manipulation and is forced to choose sides. He is about to receive the ultimate object lesson in human cruelty. From the author of Morbid Tales, Shrike, and All God's Angels, Beware!, "Remember You're a One-Ball!" is - in its recognition of the suffering of outcasts, of the ugly and the forgotten - a work of great compassion.
Download or read book In Your Face written by Mandy Merck and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2000-10-01 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At a time when "sexy" can be an adjective for anything, when sexual awareness is declared to be advancing faster in months than in the past half century, and when pundits warn of sexual overload, the actual representation of sex is still deemed confrontational, aggressive, "in your face." While critics accuse the academy of an obsession with sexuality, they also complain that nothing that appears to refer to sex really does. In readings ranging across film, drama, opera, fine art, and critical theory, Mandy Merck considers these phenomena as well as the role of the dog in anti-porn propaganda, the unacknowledged significance of the lesbian hand, and the early retirement of the phallus. Other topics include the relationship of women's tennis and prostitution, the gendering of the wild and the tame in the age of AIDS, and the sexlessness of postmodern criticism. In Your Face ends with the face and its alleged desecration by fellatio. Germaine Greer's condemnation of Bill Clinton for "fucking the faces of little girls" is examined in the light of one of Monica Lewinsky's endearments for the President--"fuckface." In a country whose last great Presidential scandal revolved around a key witness known only as "Deep Throat" and whose current Chief Executive works in the "Oral Office," giving head is going down in history. Analyzing the strange relationship of Linda Lovelace, Camille Paglia, and Paul de Man, In Your Face concludes by considering desire and disgust in high and low places.
Download or read book Samedi the Deafness written by Jesse Ball and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2008-07-15 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One morning in the park James Sim discovers a man, crumpled on the ground, stabbed in the chest. In the man's last breath, he whispers his confession: Samedi. What follows is a spellbinding game of cat and mouse as James is abducted, brought to an asylum, and seduced by a woman in yellow. Who is lying? What is Samedi? And what will happen on the seventh day?
Download or read book The Loner s Secret Past written by Lorraine Beatty and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2022-12-27 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He built himself a whole new life But she might be the missing piece… Reclusive carpenter Luke McBride knows Sara Holden is trouble. The determined single mom is too curious and asks too many questions. But helping Sara fix up an antique shop makes it almost impossible to keep her at arm’s length. Worse, Luke might just be falling for her. Can he leave behind his solitary life…even though loving Sara means exposing his darkest secret? From Love Inspired: Uplifting stories of faith, forgiveness and hope.
Download or read book The Loner written by Paul Andrews and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2010 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An amusing and exciting tale of student life in Liverpool in the Swinging Sixties.Mark is a nervous student. He is ruled by an overwhelming, irrational fear of people – particularly girls – which shows itself in a bad stammer, and a terror of heights.Fiona is the girl of his dreams, but she is in a steady relationship with a lifelong boyfriend in Scotland. Mark realises he is never going to get anywhere in life or in love unless he undergoes a complete personality change. He is befriended by Bob, who has a passion for potholing (and free love), and a plan is hatched. If Mark can beat his fear of heights – an escapade down a cave or two should sort that one – maybe he can also overcome his fear of girls and win Fiona…So begins a whole series of madcap adventures, featuring a yacht race, horse riding, underground adventures in Yorkshire and Mendip caves, dances, parties and some wild and riotous student incidents, often involving too much alcohol and close shaves with the law.
Download or read book Loner written by Georgina Young and published by Text Publishing. This book was released on 2020-08-04 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sharp and unlikely coming-of-age debut novel from Australia’s Sally Rooney
Download or read book The Loner written by Diana Palmer and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2023-04-25 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "You just can't do better than a Diana Palmer story to make your heart lighter and smile brighter."—Fresh Fiction Dubbed the Queen of Western Romance, New York Times bestselling author Diana Palmer writes about passion & heartache, revenge & justice all set within a small-town community. Tanner Everett spends most of his time jet-setting around the world. But that hasn’t stopped innocent Stasie Bolton, the daughter of a neighboring rancher, from falling head-over-heels for the jet-setting playboy. So Stasie is secretly thrilled when both her father proposes linking the properties in matrimony…which means Tanner will be hers, for good. Despite his globetrotting ways, Tanner can’t help but be enthralled by the quiet girl next door. But as the embers between the two are fanned into flames, Tanner wonders if he’s found forever in the last place he ever expected.
Download or read book Emile de Antonio written by Randolph Lewis and published by . This book was released on 2000-10-31 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emile de Antonio (1919–1989) was the most important political filmmaker in the United States during the Cold War. Director of such controversial films as Point of Order (1963), In the Year of the Pig (1969), Millhouse: A White Comedy (1971), and Mr. Hoover and I (1989), de Antonio lived a remarkable life in dissent. De Antonio was a womanizing raconteur, upper-class Marxist, Harvard classmate of John F. Kennedy, World War II bomber pilot, and failed English professor, who lived a colorful life even before he stumbled headfirst into the New York art world of the 1950s. "Everything I learned about painting, I learned from De," Andy Warhol said about his friend, who famously drank himself unconscious in Warhol’s film Drink. De Antonio also was important to the early careers of Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenburg, and John Cage. Then, in 1959, de Antonio took on the chance to distribute the Beat film, Pull My Daisy, and discovered filmmaking. In the first book on de Antonio’s life and work, Randolph Lewis traces the turbulent development of the filmmaker’s career. Lewis follows de Antonio’s struggle to make films about Joseph McCarthy, Richard Nixon, and J. Edgar Hoover (under whose direction the FBI compiled a 10,000-page file on de Antonio) and to work with such political allies as Mark Lane, Martin Sheen, Bertrand Russell, Daniel Berrigan, and members of the Weather Underground, whose activities he documented in the film Underground. Blending biography with critical insights about art, literature, and film, Lewis offers de Antonio as a lens to focus on the complex terrain of post-World War II America.
Download or read book Mick Mannock Fighter Pilot written by A. Smith and published by Springer. This book was released on 2000-12-17 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mick Mannock, Fighter Pilot is the authoritative life story of Britain and Ireland's most successful fighter pilot of the First World War; a working class hero and staunch socialist who in the skies above the Western Front combined engineering prowess, tactical initiative, and grim determination to become an inspirational squadron commander.
Download or read book THE LONER written by Linda Turner and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2012-07-16 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dillon Cassidy Wants to Be Alone Burned out, fed up and with a bullet lodged in his back, the ex-DEA agent needs to go where no one knows his name. He's through with work—and with women. Because despite the charms of a lovely lady journalist, he knows he's a time bomb—and he never knows when he might go off…. Sydney O'Keefe Could Use Some Company Socially, anyway—though as far as her work goes, the determined investigative reporter is a solo act. But suddenly she and the intriguing Dillon are a team, and she is about to find out what the mysterious recluse has to hide—and why she could get caught in the cross fire….
Download or read book Project Hail Mary written by Andy Weir and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2021-05-04 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the author of The Martian, a lone astronaut must save the earth from disaster in this “propulsive” (Entertainment Weekly), cinematic thriller full of suspense, humor, and fascinating science—in development as a major motion picture starring Ryan Gosling. HUGO AWARD FINALIST • ONE OF THE YEAR’S BEST BOOKS: Bill Gates, GatesNotes, New York Public Library, Parade, Newsweek, Polygon, Shelf Awareness, She Reads, Kirkus Reviews, Library Journal • “An epic story of redemption, discovery and cool speculative sci-fi.”—USA Today “If you loved The Martian, you’ll go crazy for Weir’s latest.”—The Washington Post Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission—and if he fails, humanity and the earth itself will perish. Except that right now, he doesn’t know that. He can’t even remember his own name, let alone the nature of his assignment or how to complete it. All he knows is that he’s been asleep for a very, very long time. And he’s just been awakened to find himself millions of miles from home, with nothing but two corpses for company. His crewmates dead, his memories fuzzily returning, Ryland realizes that an impossible task now confronts him. Hurtling through space on this tiny ship, it’s up to him to puzzle out an impossible scientific mystery—and conquer an extinction-level threat to our species. And with the clock ticking down and the nearest human being light-years away, he’s got to do it all alone. Or does he? An irresistible interstellar adventure as only Andy Weir could deliver, Project Hail Mary is a tale of discovery, speculation, and survival to rival The Martian—while taking us to places it never dreamed of going.
Download or read book The Man Who Saw Her Beauty The Loner s Guarded Heart written by Michelle Douglas and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2012-05-01 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blair MacIntyre's daily routine: put on her brave face, and try not to be so distracted by unnervingly gorgeous Nick Conway… All Blair wants is to be normal. To be the Blair B.C.—before cancer. She's determined to show her friends she's okay…even if it means bluffing. There's only one person who doesn't treat her with kid gloves. In fact, Nick Conway doesn't treat her with any gloves whatsoever—especially when saying exactly what he thinks of her helping his daughter in a beauty contest! Soon Nick is getting under Blair's skin—and defences. Maybe he's the one to show her she's just as beautiful as before?
Download or read book He Shall Not Pass This Way Again written by Stephen L. Wasby and published by University of Pittsburgh Pre. This book was released on 2010-11-23 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After a successful career as a law professor and government regulator, William O. Douglas was appointed to the Supreme Court by Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1939. During his thirty-six years on the court, he became known as one of its most outspoken and controversial members. In this volume, which was originally published for the William O. Douglas Institute, distinguished scholars examine four major aspects of Justice Douglas's work: his relations with his colleagues; his views on civil liberties, which primarily led to his reputation as a liberal; his stance as an environmentalist; and his views as an internationalist.
Download or read book The Loner Girl is an Existentialist written by J. Guzmán and published by J. Guzmán. This book was released on 2020-07-30 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Loner Girl is an Existentialist is volume two of the series On Being. On Being is an astrological, metaphysical, self-referential, self-psychoanalytic case history, narrated in first person by the protagonist Ana, who is the real life author J. Guzmán. On Being is the evolution of J. Guzmán’s consciousness throughout Time, and it is meant to aid in astrological research and study (and those of other disciplines like psychology and philosophy). A detailed explanation of what this entails can be found on her website https://jguzman.space/. On Being is open-ended, in that it will continue until the death of J. Guzmán. On Being is not a series about how to use astrology correctly. It does not directly explain or outline its concepts, theories, or symbols. Rather, it is the raw data in the form of archived diary entries that an astrologer can use to apply practically astrology’s techniques for investigative and teaching purposes. If you have Ana’s birth information and her compiled life history including dates, times, and locations, you can see how the astrology works systematically in the background. Ana discovers astrology in book nine, and comes to use it to aid her self-psychoanalysis. In volume two, The Loner Girl is an Existentialist, Ana describes her existential frustrations as her college soccer career seems to go downhill from the very start. Caught in heavy, often conflicting emotions, Ana explores new relationships and struggles to redefine herself in what she perceives as a stressful and unsatisfactory environment.
Download or read book Hide and Seek written by James Patterson and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 1996-12-01 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world's favorite singer is on trial for murdering a glamorous athlete . . . but in a ruthless world of power and privilege, life and death aren't what they seem. It was the trial that electrified the world. Not just because of the defendant, Maggie Bradford, the woman whose songs captivated the world's heart. Not just because of the victim, Will Shepard, the world's most glamorous athlete. But also because everyone said Maggie had murdered not just one husband, but two. And because in Maggie's world -- the world she feared and despised but could not escape, the world of the powerful, the rich, and the ruthless -- both death and life could never be what they seemed. From James Patterson, bestselling author of the Alex Cross and Women's Murder Club series, comes a brilliantly realized thriller that will shatter your expectations . . . and hold every last one of your nerves in thrall with each twist of the plot and every turn of the page.
Download or read book The Loner written by Bradley G. Andrus and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2002-10-27 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some killers kill for money. Some kill for fame. Still others kill for revenge. The Loner had a different motive. He killed to prove his point. For too many years, he sat by, as things remained the same. The Loner wanted to change the way things were and when the opportunity presented itself, he decided he had to take IT. Detective Darnell Simms is in charge of finding this serial killer and bringing him to justice, dead or alive. Darnell prefers to take the killer alive, but when the case takes a turn and those people closest to him are affected, Darnell no longer cares if the killer is found alive.
