Download or read book Son of a Whore written by Herman Lategan and published by Penguin Random House South Africa. This book was released on 2023-10-03 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the runaway success of his Afrikaans memoir, Hoerkind, the contrarian journalist and writer Herman Lategan translated and updated his eventful life story, with no holds barred. Herman was conceived illegitimately one warm February night in 1964 in a boarding house in Cape Town. From an early age, he felt disposable, passed from one pair of unstable adult hands to the next, even ending up in an orphanage for a while. At thirteen he was caught in the web of a cunning paedophile, a well-known Afrikaans newspaperman. Shortly after his eighteenth birthday, when his abuser finished with him, Herman was unceremoniously dumped at the door of his alcoholic father. Conscription into the army and a dishonourable discharge followed. During his teenage years, Herman befriended Afrikaans poets like Sheila Cussons, Ina Rousseau, Barend J. Toerien and Casper Schmidt, and later, in New York, he followed Andy Warhol in the street and partied with a ‘smorgasbord of social butterflies’. Back in South Africa, Herman established himself as a journalist, but struggled with alcohol and drug addiction, and was homeless for a while. For many an employer, he became the nightmare they feared most. Son of a Whore is a gripping account of loss, hardship and overcoming both; it will make you laugh and, at times, break your heart. You will despair at the cruelty of a world in which the marginalised are forsaken but stand in awe at the extent of goodness surrounding us, because, ultimately, people depend on each other.
Download or read book Son of a Whore written by Michael Johnson and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2020-03-17 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marcus/Marsha, an 18 year old transsexual, can see no other future than street-walking in the footsteps of his prostitute mother when he meets a fantastic bisexual teenager called Gavin. Gavin moves in, becomes the lover of both mother and son/daughter and re-arranges their lives at least temporarily for the maximum convenience of all three. Things can’t last and when Gavin decrees a ban on sex-for-cash all three are caught up in a desperate pursuit of alternate sources of income. Son of a Whore breaks with current tendencies toward conformism and correctness to renew with the movement of innovation and liberation that characterized American literature in past decades.
Download or read book Son of a Whore written by Demetrye Isoldi and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-28 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: MY FATHER WAS A SERIAL RAPIST. MY MOTHER WAS A WHORE. MY BROTHER IS A SERIAL KILLER. I ESCAPED THEIR MADNESS AND FORGED MY PATH TO FREEDOM. From the slums of Georgia and the projects of New Jersey, Demetrye Isoldi climbed his way to the top of the world.Son of a Whore is a story of redemption and triumph. A story of how even though we might be broken, neglected, rejected, hurt, and abused, we do not have to struggle with our pain our entire life. We can find the power in us to unleash meaning, purpose, peace, and authenticity. Not despite the pain we lived through, but because of it. In this raw and evocative memoir, Demetrye, a survivor of childhood abuse and trauma, and co-author Elena Isoldi Medici empower you to:? Find freedom from the shadow of someone else's decisions and your own mistakes? Take charge of your emotions? Design your future purposefully? Become the architect of your lifeSo instead of feeling powerless and remaining a victim, you can shed the chains of your pain and trauma and soar to unimaginable heights. With a serial rapist for a father, a serial killer for a brother, and a whore for a mother, Demetrye chose to forge his path to freedom and happiness? and so can you.
Download or read book Son of a Whore written by Demetrye Isoldi and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-28 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: MY FATHER WAS A SERIAL RAPIST. MY MOTHER WAS A WHORE. MY BROTHER IS A SERIAL KILLER. I ESCAPED THEIR MADNESS AND? FORGED MY PATH TO FREEDOM.From the slums of Georgia and the projects of New Jersey, Demetrye Isoldi climbed his way to the top of the world.Son of a Whore is a story of redemption and triumph. A story of how even though we might be broken, neglected, rejected, hurt, and abused, we do not have to struggle with our pain our entire life. We can find the power in us to unleash meaning, purpose, peace, and authenticity. Not despite the pain we lived through, but because of it.In this raw and evocative memoir, Demetrye, a survivor of childhood abuse and trauma, along with co-author Elena Isoldi Medici, empower you to:? find freedom from the shadow of someone else's decisions and your own mistakes;? take charge of your emotions;? design your future purposefully; and? become the architect of your life.So instead of feeling powerless and remaining a victim, you can shed the chains of your pain and trauma and soar to unimaginable heights. With a serial rapist for a father, a serial killer for a brother, and a whore for a mother, Demetrye chose to forge his path to freedom and happiness? and so can you.
Download or read book Tis Pity She s A Whore written by John Ford and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-07-13 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The last decade has seen a revival of interest in John Ford and especially 'Tis Pity She's a Whore, his tragedy of religious scepticism, incestuous love, and revenge. This text in particular has provided a focus for scholarship as well as being the subject of a number of major theatrical productions. Simon Barker guides the reader through the full range of previous interpretations of the play; moving from an overview of traditional readings he goes on to enlarge upon new questions that have arisen as a consequence of critical and cultural theory.
Download or read book Whoreson written by Donald Goines and published by Holloway House. This book was released on 2021-10-26 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1972 by Holloway House.
Download or read book Soul of a Whore and Purvis written by Denis Johnson and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2012-06-05 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two plays—hilarious and searing in equal measure—by one of our most essential and original authors In his poetry, short stories, novels, and plays, the National Book Award-winning author Denis Johnson has explored the story of America—especially of the West, land of self-made men and self-perpetuating myths—with searing honesty and genuine sympathy. These two plays, written in verse at once hypnotic and clear, confirm his position as one of our great verbal stylists and a literary conscience for our times. In Soul of a Whore, a lively cast of characters—faith healers, pimps, strippers, actual demons—converge, with unexpected hilarity, as Bess Cassandra awaits execution for the murder of her infant daughter. Purvis's seven reverse-chronological scenes catalog the fall and rise of Melvin Purvis, the G-man who brought down John Dillinger and Charles Arthur "Pretty Boy" Floyd. Johnson takes us from Washington's back rooms to a Midwestern cornfield, dramatizing the seductive allure of power and our own human capacity for both pettiness and grace. In these furiously entertaining, occasionally terrifying works, Johnson chronicles and questions America's myths, heroes, and everyday realities with verve and elegance, revealing himself once again to be at the height of his linguistic and insightful powers.
Download or read book The Whore of Akron written by Scott Raab and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2011-11-15 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After 52 long years, the city of Cleveland finally has a new championship team, thanks to LeBron James and his Cavaliers. Scott Raab—Cleveland super-fan—has suffered for every one of those five decades of drought. In the tradition of Frederick Exley’s cult-classic sports book A Fan’s Notes, The Whore of Akron is Raab’s hilarious and unhinged plea for deliverance from all those years of pain. Traveling from Cleveland to Miami and back again, Raab heads out on an obsessive quest to uncover the soul of one of today’s greatest basketball players: LeBron James, the man who finally brought Cleveland out of sporting exile.
Download or read book Discovering Hamilton written by Michael E. Newton and published by Eleftheria Publishing. This book was released on 2019-07-11 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For over two centuries, Alexander Hamilton’s birth, youth, and family background have been shrouded in mystery. For the first time ever, Michael E. Newton has conducted a systematic examination of the primary source material to discover the truth about Alexander Hamilton’s early life. In the greatest and most significant collection of original Hamilton discoveries to be made in decades, Newton separates fact from fiction to create a new portrait of the tempestuous early years of America’s most remarkable and enigmatic Founding Father and the people that comprised his world. An icon in life and a legend in death, Alexander Hamilton continues to fascinate. Discovering Hamilton answers some of the most important and intriguing questions about Hamilton’s biography and introduces abundant new material about the lives of Alexander Hamilton, his family, friends, and colleagues.
Download or read book Filthy English written by Peter Silverton and published by Portobello Books. This book was released on 2011-11-03 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the Sex Pistols swore live on tea-time telly in 1976, there was outrage across Britain. Headlines screamed. Christians marched. TVs were kicked in. Thirty years on, all those words are media-mainstream - bandied about with impunity on TV and in the papers. This is the story of our bad language and its three-decade journey from the fringes of decency to the working centre of a more linguistically liberal nation. Silverton takes a clear, comprehensive and witty look at swearing and the impact of its new acceptability on our language, our manners and our society. He considers how we have become more openly emotional, yet more wary about insulting others. And how it's seemingly become alright to say **** and **** but not ****** or ****. This is the story of that cultural revolution, written by one who was there at the start, proudly striking some of the first blows in the long struggle for the right to reclaim filthy English and use it.
Download or read book The Whore s Child written by Richard Russo and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2003-07-08 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This irresistible collection of short stories from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Empire Falls reveals the imperfect bargains of marriage, the discoveries and disillusionments of childhood, and the unwinnable battles men and women insist on fighting with the past. “An author whose laid-back understatements can be as sharp as other writers’ boldest declarations….the architect of stories you can’t put down.” —The New York Times Richard Russo brings the same bittersweet wit, deep knowledge of human nature, and spellbinding narrative gifts that distinguish his best-selling novels. A cynical Hollywood moviemaker confronts his dead wife’s lover and abruptly realizes the depth of his own passion. As his parents’ marriage disintegrates, a precocious fifth-grader distracts himself with meditations on baseball, spaghetti, and his place in the universe. And in the title story, an elderly nun enters a college creative writing class and plays havoc with its tidy notions of fact and fiction. The Whore’s Child is further proof that Russo is one of the finest writers we have, unsparingly truthful yet hugely compassionate and capable of creating characters real that they seem to step off the page. Look for Richard Russo's new book, Somebody's Fool, coming soon.
Download or read book Rembrandt s Whore written by Sylvie Matton and published by Canongate Books. This book was released on 2020-02-06 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sensitive innocent, Hendrickje Stoffels escapes the harsh realities of her garrison home-town to take up a servant's role in Rembrandt's household. She soon becomes his lover and closest confidante, and plays witness to the highs and lows of the great artist's life. But Hendrickje is fated to discover the hypocrisy and greed of society in Amsterdam's Golden Age. In sensuous prose, Matton paints a powerful fictional portrait of this impassioned relationship through the eyes of a remarkable woman.
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Download or read book Love Infidelity and Drinking To Forget written by Elizabeth Gundy and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sara and Daniel, two New Yorkers used to the buzz of the Big Apple and the Metropolitan Museum, pack their books and cats in a pickup and set off for the backwoods of Atlantic Canada, their lovely young heads filled with lovely rustic dreams. From the start, things go haywire and the homesteading couple discover Law #1 of the wilderness: Nature goes its way and folks go crazy. The process is alternately hilarious and devastating. The main catalysts are the splendid locals, who first appear as uproarious rednecks, but gradually emerge as very affecting characters in their own right. Another is a much longed-for baby, who crystallizes Sara and Daniel's feeling for each other and the land. At the center of the book is the story of what happens to the child–a stunning section of quiet, simple intense writing that goes straight to the heart of what love is all about. Gundy draws deeply on her readers feelings; she is a writer who can make you weep on one page and laugh hilariously on the next. LOVE, INFIDELITY AND DRINKING TO FORGET chronicles a spiritual change that resonates long after the last page. "…a great pleasure. Elizabeth Gundy is such an intelligent and affecting writer. As she did in BLISS, she has created characters whose sorrows you suffer and whose joys you celebrate." –Hilma Wolitzer
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