Download or read book The Boy in the Green Suit written by Robert Hillman and published by . This book was released on 2019-07-11 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an unusual and beautifully written memoir -- an Australian classic that captures the vulnerability and ardour of youth, and the fragility and strength of parental love. It is 1965. Robert Hillman, a mere 16 years old, is planning an extraordinary adventure. Deserted by his mother, disliked by his stepmother, and puzzled by his father, Bobby needs comforting. His life in rural Victoria has offered no solace; his job at Melbourne's Myer Emporium, selling ladies' slippers, offers no prospects. So, inspired by his father's stories of a fabled island in the Indian Ocean, Bobby makes his escape; he boards a ship bound for Ceylon with no money, no return ticket, and, seemingly, no worries. What follows is an account -- by turns heartbreakingly tender and side-splittingly funny -- of an innocent abroad. Put ashore not in Ceylon but in Athens, Bobby barters his way to Istanbul, Tehran, and Kuwait, lurching from slums and brothels to an implausible job at a ritzy hotel in Shiraz. Finally, a long haul through the desert ends in a jail term on the Pakistan border where, ironically, Bobby finds the affection and acceptance that have always been the true objects of his quest. As it unfolds, Hillman's odyssey proves to be part of a larger family drama. Woven through his story is his father's tale of struggle and sorrow. As the mature writer now realises, 'I booked a ticket on a ship to install myself in a story my father had begun in his imagination.' The Boy in the Green Suitis an unforgettable, bittersweet tale of the artist as a bewildered young man.
Download or read book The Green Suit written by Dwight Allen and published by Algonquin Books. This book was released on 2000-09-08 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peter and his sister come from a "well-bred, reserved, intelligent, affluent" family in Kentucky, but Peter's floundering in "a little job in a publishing house" in New York City, and his sister is on her way to a nervous breakdown.--Jacket.
Download or read book The Negro Motorist Green Book written by Victor H. Green and published by Colchis Books. This book was released on with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Negro Motorist Green Book was a groundbreaking guide that provided African American travelers with crucial information on safe places to stay, eat, and visit during the era of segregation in the United States. This essential resource, originally published from 1936 to 1966, offered a lifeline to black motorists navigating a deeply divided nation, helping them avoid the dangers and indignities of racism on the road. More than just a travel guide, The Negro Motorist Green Book stands as a powerful symbol of resilience and resistance in the face of oppression, offering a poignant glimpse into the challenges and triumphs of the African American experience in the 20th century.
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Download or read book The Death of the Son written by Doug Brooks and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2016-02-29 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Benjamin Chriton has been traveling to other worlds in secret, on his own, for years, through a wormhole technology that he created called the 'space-stream'. Through the aid of an 'exo-suit', an advanced piece of armor technology that he has upgraded with alien technology, Benjamin is able to travel, and adaptively survive regardless of the alien environment on the other side. Now, for the first time, his son, Derek Chriton will aid him in his travels, after years of training, and go on his own solo mission. His father warns him not to fight anybody else's war, but when Derek is confronted by a powerful enemy, his promise, training, and survival are put to the test.
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Download or read book Color It True written by Murray Pomerance and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2021-12-16 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This often-startlingly original book introduces a new way of thinking about color in film as distinct from existing approaches which tend to emphasize either technical processes and/or histories of film coloration, or the meaning(s) of color as metaphor or symbol, or else part of a broader signifying system. Murray Pomerance's latest meditation on cinema has the author embed himself in various ways of thinking about color; not ways of framing it as a production trick or a symbolic language but ways of wondering how the color effect onscreen can work in the act of viewing. Pomerance examines many issues, including acuity, dreaming, interrelationships, saturations, color contrasts, color and performance (color as a performance aid or even performance substitute), and more. The lavender of the photographer's seamless in Antonioni's Blow-Up taken in itself as an explosion of color worked into form, and then considered both as part of the story and part of our experience. The 14 chapters of this book each discuss a single primary color as regards to our experience of cinema. After opening the idea of such an exploration in terms of the history of our apperception and the variation in our experience that color germinates, Color it True takes form.
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Download or read book The Chip written by George Jack and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2019-07-27 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A society plagued by terrorism and the sinister hunt for an innocent boy intensifies. The agents Dr. Warren hired to track down Stanley Ross was relentless in their pursuit. Unbeknown to Warren, these agents hold some unworldly secrets of their own. Like all real villains of our world, if you had a conversation with Dr. Warren, you would meet a man who believes everything he's done has been in the right and thus operates in the open, hiding in plain sight. After the transformation of Stanley into The Chip, some new challenges come as he tirelessly fights villains in the real and virtual world. Aside from fighting off Warren's minions, he also confronts a monster fit for destruction, created at the hands of a madman, battles the beautiful but the deadly Virus, and protects our world made vulnerable by technology. Aided by his uncle's years of cybernetics research, Stanley Ross, aka The Chip, has a good chance of bringing order to a society in chaos. The dramatic explosions of events will leave you mesmerized as the plots unfold. Author George Jack have once again met the expectations for action and adventure.
