Download or read book Nights in Aruba written by Andrew Holleran and published by Plume. This book was released on 1984 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Nights in Aruba written by Andrew Holleran and published by Harper Perennial. This book was released on 2001-12-18 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This groundbreaking novel of gay life centers around Paul, an uneasy commuter between two parallel worlds. He is the dutiful son of aging, upper-middle-class parents living in Florida, and a homosexual man plunged deliriously into the world of New York City's bars, baths, and one-night stands. With wry humor and subtle lyricism, Holleran reveals the tragedy and comedy of one man's struggle to come to terms with middle age, homosexuality, truth, love, and life itself.
Download or read book Grief written by Andrew Holleran and published by Hyperion. This book was released on 2006-05-31 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Reeling from the recent death of his invalid mother, an exhausted, lonely professor comes to our nation's capital to escape his previous life." "What he finds there - in his handsome, solitary landlord; in the city's somber mood and sepulchral architecture; and in the strange and impassioned letters and journals of Mary Todd Lincoln - shows him unexpected truths about America and loss. As he seeks to engage with the living world around him - a challenging student, the mother of a dead friend, even his landlord's neglected dog - he comes to realize that his relationship to his grief is very different than he had thought." "In Grief, Holleran summons voices from the past that eerily echo and speak to our own troubled times. It is a masterwork by one of America's singular voices, a writer who is beloved for his depth of feeling, his humor, the elegance of his prose, and his unflinching honesty."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book New York Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1983-08-01 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York magazine was born in 1968 after a run as an insert of the New York Herald Tribune and quickly made a place for itself as the trusted resource for readers across the country. With award-winning writing and photography covering everything from politics and food to theater and fashion, the magazine's consistent mission has been to reflect back to its audience the energy and excitement of the city itself, while celebrating New York as both a place and an idea.
Download or read book Tropical Kiss written by Jan Coffey and published by MM Books. This book was released on 2018-11-16 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A summer in Aruba, on the beach, in the sun–what else could a girl want? Summer romance, of course! Imagine spending your entire summer vacation on the beautiful island of Aruba. Who could ask for anything more? Well, for Morgan Callahan, spending her entire summer in Aruba with the father, she hardly knows, is barely anything to look forward to. In fact, she is dreading the next few months. Nonetheless, she is in for the time of her life! From secret operatives to finding romance. Morgan is in for some international intrigue!
Download or read book Aruba a Brief History written by Ed McGlynn and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2017-11-27 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ed and family were part of Lago from 1929 until 1947. The book is not academic or scholarly, but it gives some of the basic facts in an entertaining way, I hope. Naturally, it deals with government, the oil refinery, and WWIII
Download or read book Good Night Aruba written by Adam Gamble and published by Good Night books. This book was released on 2017-10-24 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Good Night Aruba includes island beaches, coconut palm trees, snorkeling and scuba diving, boating, tropical fish and coral reefs, Natural Bridge, Butterfly Farm, Donkey Sanctuary, Natural Pool, Philip’s Animal Garden, and more. Aruba is one happy island. This tropical board book tours young readers around the scenic island to visit Aruba’s iconic landmarks and fun attractions. This book is part of the bestselling Good Night Our World series, which includes hundreds of titles exploring iconic locations and exciting, child-friendly themes.
Download or read book Forty Nights in Aruba written by Bea Ann Argh and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2024-06-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sara and Kathy Sweeney always counted the days until they returned to their island paradise of Aruba. For one week each year, they put their real lives on hold and played in the sparkling blue sea of the Caribbean. Life slowed down on the powder-like beaches and the biggest obstacle was where to dine each night. That all changed in May 2024, when Sara returned to the island on a mission to cleanse her soul. She would spend forty nights exploring the beauty of the island and its people. Sara's search for love would turn onto a twisted path as her new friends became valuable allies in her time of need. Lessons learned from Kathy would soon be put to the test during her Forty Nights In Aruba.
Download or read book In September the Light Changes written by Andrew Holleran and published by Plume Books. This book was released on 2000 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a surprising yet sensitive comic touch, the author of "Dancer from the Dance" has written his most mature work to date, a poignant, polished collection of 16 stories which journey across landscapes of regret and loss, shame and pride, loneliness and love.
Download or read book The Kingdom of Sand written by Andrew Holleran and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2022-06-07 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITOR'S CHOICE PICK ONE OF THE LONDON TIMES' TOP TWENTY-SIX FICTION BOOKS OF THE YEAR LA TIMES 5 BEST BOOKS OF 2022 BBC Culture’s 50 Best Books of 2022 "[Holleran's] new novel is all the more affecting and engaging because the images of isolation and old age here are haunted . . . in 1978 Holleran wrote the quintessential novel about gay abandon, the sheer, careless pleasure of it: Dancer From the Dance. Now, at almost 80 years of age, he has produced a novel remarkable for its integrity, for its readiness to embrace difficult truths and for its complex way of paying homage to the passing of time." —Colm Toibin, The New York Times Book Review "It’s rare to find fiction that takes this kind of dying of the light as its subject and doesn’t make its heroes feel either pathetic or polished with a gleam of false dignity . . . This sad, beautiful book captures the sensations Holleran’s characters are chasing — as well as the darkness that inevitably comes for them, and us." —Mark Athitakis, The Los Angeles Times One of the great appeals of Florida has always been the sense that the minute you get here you have permission to collapse. The Kingdom of Sand is a poignant tale of desire and dread—Andrew Holleran’s first new book in sixteen years. The nameless narrator is a gay man who moved to Florida to look after his aging parents—during the height of the AIDS epidemic—and has found himself unable to leave after their deaths. With gallows humor, he chronicles the indignities of growing old in a small town. At the heart of the novel is the story of his friendship with Earl, whom he met cruising at the local boat ramp. For the last twenty years, he has been visiting Earl to watch classic films together and critique the neighbors. Earl is the only person in town with whom he can truly be himself. Now Earl’s health is failing, and our increasingly misanthropic narrator must contend with the fact that once Earl dies, he will be completely alone. He distracts himself with sexual encounters at the video porn store and visits to Walgreens. All the while, he shares reflections on illness and death that are at once funny and heartbreaking. Holleran’s first novel, Dancer from the Dance, is widely regarded as a classic work of gay literature. Reviewers have described his subsequent books as beautiful, exhilarating, seductive, haunting, and bold. The Kingdom of Sand displays all of Holleran’s considerable gifts; it’s an elegy to sex and a stunningly honest exploration of loneliness and the endless need for human connection, especially as we count down our days.
Download or read book Hot in Aruba written by Marissa Campbell and published by . This book was released on 2017-12 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vulnerability is Samantha Mackay's kryptonite, and she keeps her emotions--and her men--at arm's length. But when her good friend Carlos Naldini invites her on an all-expense-paid trip to Aruba, her resolve waivers. Tired of being relegated to the friend zone, Carlos enacts his foolproof plan, inviting Samantha to join him in Aruba, hoping the trip to paradise will soften her reluctant heart. Samantha agrees to Carlos's proposal, giving him exactly ten days to prove he's boyfriend material. After some wild Aruba nights and hot, sexy days, things appear to be progressing swimmingly, until Carlos's ex-girlfriend arrives, exposing an intricate web of deception and betrayal. When news from home shatters Samantha's hopes further, she leaves Aruba, giving up on her dreams of happily ever after. Devastated, Carlos is determined to do whatever it takes to bring Samantha back to Aruba and into his arms. Secrets, lies, and heartbreak lurk in the shadows behind sunshiny days of sex on the beach, cocktails by the pool, laughter, and friends. It's getting hot in Aruba--but the sparks might just consume them.
Download or read book The Arabian Nights in Contemporary World Cultures written by Muhsin J. al-Musawi and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-08-26 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The stories in the Thousand and One Nights, or the Arabian Nights, are familiar to many of us: from the tales of Aladdin, Sinbad the Sailor, Ali Baba and his forty thieves, to the framing story of Scheherazade telling these stories to her homicidal husband, Shahrayar. This book offers a rich and wide-ranging analysis of the power of this collection of tales that penetrates so many cultures and appeals to such a variety of predilections and tastes. It also explores areas that were left untouched, like the decolonization of the Arabian Nights, and its archaeologies. Unique in its excavation into inroads of perception and reception, Muhsin J. al-Musawi's book unearths means of connection with common publics and learned societies. Al-Musawi shows, as never before, how the Arabian Nights has been translated, appropriated, and authenticated or abused over time, and how its reach is so expansive as to draw the attention of poets, painters, illustrators, translators, editors, musicians, political scientists like Leo Strauss, and novelists like Michel Butor, James Joyce and Marcel Proust amongst others. Making use of documentaries, films, paintings, novels and novellas, poetry, digital forums and political jargon, this book offers nuanced understanding of the perennial charm and power of this collection.
Download or read book Marvellous Thieves written by Paulo Lemos Horta and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2017-01-16 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although many of its stories originated centuries ago in the Middle East, the Arabian Nights is regarded as a classic of world literature by virtue of the seminal French and English translations produced in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Supporting the suspicion that the story collection is more Parisian than Persian, some of its most famous tales, including the stories of Aladdin and Ali Baba, appear nowhere in the original sources. Yet as befits a world where magic lamps may conceal a jinni and fabulous treasures lie just beyond secret doors, the truth of the Arabian Nights is richer than standard criticism suggests. “Marvellous Thieves, which draws on hitherto neglected sources, is a brilliant, fluent and original work of literary scholarship.” —Robert Irwin, Literary Review “This fine book...cogently probes an influential period in the knotted and at times sordid history of the Arabian Nights, serving as a fine example to those unraveling this promiscuous and forever malleable set of stories.” —Charles Shafaieh, Wall Street Journal “Intelligent and engrossing...The great merit of Horta’s book is that its interest always lies in the story of the story, in mapping out the complex network of the translators, editors and travellers behind the Arabian Nights, in ways that enrich our sense of this remarkable text.” —Shahidha Bari, Times Higher Education
Download or read book Stranger Magic written by Marina Warner and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2012-03-03 with total page 577 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our foremost theorist of myth, fairytale, and folktale explores the magical realm of the imagination where carpets fly and genies grant prophetic wishes. Stranger Magic examines the profound impact of the Arabian Nights on the West, the progressive exoticization of magic, and the growing acceptance of myth and magic in contemporary experience.
Download or read book An Island Away written by Daniel Putkowski and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three people on the island of Aruba come to terms with what they want and how they are going to get it.
Download or read book Stories from the Arabian Nights written by and published by London : Hodder and Stoughton. This book was released on 1907 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Aruba written by Lynne Sullivan and published by Hunter Publishing, Inc. This book was released on 2011-04-15 with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We travel to grow a€" our Adventure Guides show you how. Experience the places you visit more directly, freshly, intensely than you would otherwise a€" sometimes best done on foot, in a canoe, or through cultural adventures like art courses, cooking classes, learning the language, meeting the people, joining in the festivals and celebrations. This can make your trip life-changing, unforgettable. All of the detailed information you need is here about the hotels, restaurants, shopping, sightseeing. But we also lead you to new discoveries, turning corners you haven't turned before, helping you to interact with the world in new ways. That's what makes our Travel Adventure Guides unique. The author is fascinated with these islands and her passion comes across in the text, which is lively, revealing and a pleasure to read. Detailed town and regional maps make planning day-trips or city tours easy. Adventures covered range from town sightseeing tours and nature watching to sea kayaking and mountain climbing excursions. Travelers looking for a more relaxed vacation may want to sign up for dance lessons and take part in the local Carnaval or join a local cycling club and tackle some of Aruba's most scenic areas - these cultural adventures will introduce you to the people and afford you a truly unique travel experience. This guide focuses on Aruba primarily and is based on material found in our larger book, Aruba, Bonaire & Curacao Pocket Adventures.
