Download or read book Bloody Pollock written by T. Stuckey and published by Rocky D Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fresh off the streets of Detroit, Lavelle finds himself locked up in one of America's most dangerous prisons, U.S.P. Pollock. Realizing his hometown crew is at the mercy of Marvin, an inmate who is currently running the prison, Lavelle decides to take matters into his own hands and make a way for him and his crew to eat. His vision is realized when he catches the eye of Nikki, a nurse in the prison who is no stranger to the streets. His position of blood spill clean-up man makes it easier for Lavelle to navigate his way around the prison, and soon his crew is doing well. But not everyone is happy about the change in luck for the Michigan men, and some people will do anything to knock their hustle. When you enter Pollock it's like entering a whole new dimension where the only rule is: there ain't no rules. Lavelle and his crew take you on a journey through these deadly grounds in which author T. Stuckey walks every day.
Download or read book The Heavenly Table written by Donald Ray Pollock and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2016-07-12 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Donald Ray Pollock, author of the highly acclaimed The Devil All the Time and Knockemstiff, comes a dark, gritty, electrifying (and, disturbingly, weirdly funny) new novel that will solidify his place among the best contemporary American authors. It is 1917, in that sliver of border land that divides Georgia from Alabama. Dispossessed farmer Pearl Jewett ekes out a hardscrabble existence with his three young sons: Cane (the eldest; handsome; intelligent); Cob (short; heavy set; a bit slow); and Chimney (the youngest; thin; ill-tempered). Several hundred miles away in southern Ohio, a farmer by the name of Ellsworth Fiddler lives with his son, Eddie, and his wife, Eula. After Ellsworth is swindled out of his family's entire fortune, his life is put on a surprising, unforgettable, and violent trajectory that will directly lead him to cross paths with the Jewetts. No good can come of it. Or can it? In the gothic tradition of Flannery O'Connor and Cormac McCarthy with a healthy dose of cinematic violence reminiscent of Sam Peckinpah, Quentin Tarantino and the Coen Brothers, the Jewetts and the Fiddlers will find their lives colliding in increasingly dark and horrific ways, placing Donald Ray Pollock firmly in the company of the genre's literary masters.
Download or read book Sharon Pollock written by Anne F. Nothof and published by Guernica Editions. This book was released on 2000 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays is the first book on Sharon Pollock's work, a career which spans over thirty years and several cities. Essays by Anne F. Nothof, Malcolm Page, Robert Nunn, Diane Bessai, Susan Stratton, Heidi Holder, Craig Stewart Walker, and Kathy Chung. Sharon Pollock became the most controversial playwright in Canada with her plays.
Download or read book Ain t No Sunshine written by Renita Michelle Walker and published by Rocky D Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dramatic Revisions of Myths Fairy Tales and Legends written by Verna A. Foster and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2012-10-06 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These new essays explore the ways in which contemporary dramatists have retold or otherwise made use of myths, fairy tales and legends from a variety of cultures, including Greek, West African, North American, Japanese, and various parts of Europe. The dramatists discussed range from well-established playwrights such as Tony Kushner, Caryl Churchill, and Timberlake Wertenbaker to new theatrical stars such as Sarah Ruhl and Tarell Alvin McCraney. The book contributes to the current discussion of adaptation theory by examining the different ways, and for what purposes, plays revise mythic stories and characters. The essays contribute to studies of literary uses of myth by focusing on how recent dramatists have used myths, fairy tales and legends to address contemporary concerns, especially changing representations of women and the politics of gender relations but also topics such as damage to the environment and political violence.
Download or read book Thick Like Water written by Renita M. Walker and published by Rocky D Publishing. This book was released on 2009-10 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finding her mother dead at the hands of her father forever changed Sara, adding more devastation to her already poverty-stricken life. Just when she'd lost all hope, an honest hustla named Smooth came to her rescue. He took her from rags to hood riches. But little did they know, someone wanted to destroy the life they had created together--page 4 of cover.
Download or read book Monster Slayer written by Robert Scott and published by Pinnacle Books. This book was released on 2014-11-14 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evil Among Them "Skinwalker" is the Navajo term for a demon in human form. But no mythical beast was as frightening as the true-life fiend who for four years spread fear throughout the deserts of the Shiprock, New Mexico area. The nightmare began on Thanksgiving 1996, when a feast of horror was served up to Joseph Fleming, 24, and Matthew Trecker, 18. Both young men were stabbed and slashed to death in an alleged attempt to cover up a robbery. Body Count The reign of terror continued as a woman was subjected to a grotesque sexual assault--but somehow managed to escape with her life. Donald Tsosie, 40, wasn't so lucky. After leaving a local watering hole, he was savagely bludgeoned, stabbed, and left to die. On June 9, 2000, Betty Lee, 36, was stabbed and then slain with a sledgehammer after being stripped of her clothing. Desert Dragnet Justice finally arrived in the form of county detectives Bob Melton and Tyler Truby, whose investigation zeroed in on hulking, hate-ridden Robert "Bobby" Fry, a misfit with a taste for brutality. Aided by Navajo trackers, Melton and Truby conducted a sleepless two-and-a-half day manhunt to bag the killer before the trail went cold. Then, like the Hero Twins of local legend, they brought a monster's murderous rampage to an end. . . Includes 16 Pages Of Shocking Photos!
Download or read book Murda Mitten written by Renita M. Walker and published by Rocky D Publishing. This book was released on 2010-02 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bonita was willing to do whatever it took to get out of the murderous city of Detroit. Witnessing her parents and best friend Krystal become a statistic in the murder mitten gave birth to her alter ago "Bo" and made her even more determined to relocate and start a new life. While shuffling the three men in her life and a dangerous new profession, Bo's goal was to stack a million and leave the city and all her ghosts behind. But is it possible to make a clean getaway when you're deep in the crime-ridden streets of Detroit?--P. [4] of cover
Download or read book Modernity Community and Place in Brian Friel s Drama written by Richard Rankin Russell and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2022-09-29 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modernity, Community, and Place in Brian Friel’s Drama shows how the leading Irish playwright explores a series of dynamic physical and intellectual environments, charting the impact of modernity on rural culture and on the imagined communities he strove to create between readers, and script, actors and audience.
Download or read book Quiz written by James Graham and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-06-11 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I have to believe in the institutions we trust to be fair, and functional. Whether that be the judiciary, the police, the media ... That they should all be able to resist the temptations of a more entertaining lie, over a less extraordinary truth. April 2003. Army Major Charles Ingram, his wife and coughing accomplice are convicted for cheating on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? The evidence is damning. The nation is gripped by the sheer audacity of the plot to snatch the £1,000,000 jackpot. But was he really guilty? It's time for you to decide. Question everything you think you know in James Graham's provocative new play. Olivier Award-nominee James Graham returns with a sharp, fictional imagination of one of the most famous quiz show controversies to date. The production premiered at Chichester Festival Theatre and this edition was published this edition was published to coincide with the West End opening at the Nöel Coward Theatre in April 2018.
Download or read book The Good Life Part 3 written by Dorian Sykes and published by Urban Books. This book was released on 2021-12-28 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "When he learns that his father is a hood legend who ran the city in the late 80s and early 90s, Saw has no interest in meeting this man who has been in prison for the last twenty years despite their mutual thirst for the good life"--
Download or read book Brian Friel Collected Plays Volume 1 written by Brian Friel and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2016-07-07 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first collection of Brian Friel's dramatic work contains: The Enemy Within (1962) Philadelphia, Here I Come! (1964) The Loves of Cass McGuire (1966) Lovers (Winners and Losers) (1967) Crystal and Fox (1968) The Gentle Island (1971)
Download or read book Like Night Day written by Renita M. Walker and published by Rocky D Publishing. This book was released on 2009-03 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Goldie was lucky in everything. Nothing could knock her hustle, and she would do anything to keep it that way. A chance meeting with a d-boy that had Detroit on lock could set her up for life. Getting him in her bed was the easy part but trying to get rid of him was easier said than done--P. [4] of cover.
Download or read book Selected Plays written by Brian Friel and published by CUA Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contents: Philadelphia, Here I Come; The Freedom of the City; Living Quarters; Aristocrats; Faith Healer; Translations Brian Friel was born in County Tyrone in 1929 and worked as a teacher before turning to full-time writing in 1960. His first stage success was in 1964 with Philadelphia, Here I Come, which established his claim as heir to such distinguished predecessors as Yeats, Synge, O'Casey, and Behan. In 1979 he and actor Stephen Rea formed the Field Day Theatre Company, whose first theatrical production was Friel's Translations in 1980. Also included in this selection are The Freedom of the City, set in Londonderry in 1970; Living Quarters, which Desmond MacAvok in the Evening Presscalled "one of the most fascinating and, in the end, truly moving evenings. . .in Irish Theatre"; Faith Healer, a metaphoric depiction of the artist and his gift' and Aristocrats, "as fine and as stimulating and as warm a piece of writing as had appeared on the Irish stage for many years," according to David Nowland, the Irish Times. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Download or read book The Irish Play on the New York Stage 1874 1966 written by John P. Harrington and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-11-21 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the years American—especially New York—audiences have evolved a consistent set of expectations for the "Irish play." Traditionally the term implied a specific subject matter, invariably rural and Catholic, and embodied a reductive notion of Irish drama and society. This view continues to influence the types of Irish drama produced in the United States today. By examining seven different opening nights in New York theaters over the course of the last century, John Harrington considers the reception of Irish drama on the American stage and explores the complex interplay between drama and audience expectations. All of these productions provoked some form of public disagreement when they were first staged in New York, ranging from the confrontation between Shaw and the Society for the Suppression of Vice to the intellectual outcry provoked by billing Waiting for Godot as "the laugh sensation of two continents." The inaugural volume in the series Irish Literature, History, and Culture, The Irish Play on the New York Stage explores the New York premieres of The Shaughraun (1874), Mrs. Warren's Profession (1905), The Playboy of the Western World (1911), Exiles (1925), Within the Gates (1934), Waiting for Godot (1956), and Philadelphia, Here I Come! (1966).
Download or read book The Detective Up Late written by Adrian McKinty and published by Blackstone Publishing. This book was released on 2023-08-08 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Adrian McKinty is a gifted storyteller I love to read, and Sean Duffy is a character you will never forget.” – Don Winslow, #1 internationally bestselling author From New York Times bestselling author Adrian McKinty comes the next thrilling mystery in the Edgar Award–winning Sean Duffy detective series Slamming the door on the hellscape of 1980s Belfast, Detective Inspector Sean Duffy hopes that the 1990s are going to be better for him and the people of Northern Ireland. As a Catholic cop in the mainly Protestant RUC he still has a target on his back, and with a steady girlfriend and a child the stakes couldn’t be higher. After handling a mercurial triple agent and surviving the riots and bombings and assassination attempts, all Duffy wants to do now is live. But in his final days in charge of Carrickfergus CID, a missing persons report captures his attention. A fifteen-year-old traveler girl has disappeared and no one seems to give a damn about it. Duffy begins to dig and uncovers a disturbing underground of men who seem to know her very well. The deeper he digs the more sinister it all gets. Is finding out the truth worth it if DI Duffy is going to get himself and his colleagues killed? Can he survive one last case before getting himself and his family out over the water?
Download or read book After the Irish Renaissance written by Robert Goode Hogan and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1968 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
