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Book Native Tongue  and  Striptease

Download or read book Native Tongue and Striptease written by Carl Hiaasen and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 1028 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Native Tongue

    Book Details:
  • Author : Carl Hiaasen
  • Publisher : Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
  • Release : 2010-08-18
  • ISBN : 0307767426
  • Pages : 433 pages

Download or read book Native Tongue written by Carl Hiaasen and published by Vintage Crime/Black Lizard. This book was released on 2010-08-18 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the New York Times bestselling author comes a novel in which dedicated, if somewhat demented, environmentalists battle sleazy real estate developers in the Florida Keys. "Rips, zips, hurtles, keeping us turning the pages at breakfinger pace." —New York Times Book Review When the precious clue-tongued mango voles at the Amazing Kingdom of Thrills on North Key Largo are stolen by heartless, ruthless thugs, Joe Winder wants to uncover why, and find the voles. Joe is lately a PR man for the Amazing Kingdom theme park, but now that the voles are gone, Winder is dragged along in their wake through a series of weird and lethal events that begin with the sleazy real-estate agent/villain Francis X. Kingsbury and can end only one way....

Book Eve s Striptease

    Book Details:
  • Author : Julia Spicher Kasdorf
  • Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
  • Release : 1998-02-15
  • ISBN : 0822990903
  • Pages : 76 pages

Download or read book Eve s Striptease written by Julia Spicher Kasdorf and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 1998-02-15 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As its title proclaims, Eve’s Striptease delivers a female voice that seeks to “find out for (her)self/ all the desires a body can hold.” Through artful acts of revelation and concealment, these poems test experience against the notions of love and loss that tradition and religion have taught us. These narrative and lyric poems celebrate desire, marriage, and domestic life; they visit sexual terror and consider sickness and death. Construing all of life as a journey that takes us from innocence to knowledge, this work suggests that the maps that we need for this journey may be found written on our own bodies. Kasdorf writes of a life’s migrations, tracing paths that joyfully enlarge our definitions of love and longing - sometimes embracing conventional values and sometimes subverting them.

Book Strippers  Showgirls  and Sharks

Download or read book Strippers Showgirls and Sharks written by Peter Filichia and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2013-05-28 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In Strippers, Showgirls, and Sharks, popular syndicated theatre critic Peter Filichia chronicles the American musical by looking at those shows that did not win the Tony Award. Every spring the American Theatre Wing bestows its annual Tony Awards. Only those shows that have reached Broadway are nominated and while all Tonys are created equal, the universally acknowledged biggest prize is the Best Musical Tony. But did the best musical always win Best Musical? And were there other factors that kept a more deserving show from winning? Filichia answers these questions and more as he looks at all 153 previous Best Musical Nominees that didn't win. In 1959 when Ethel Merman and a variety of strippers took the stage, there was a tie between 'The Sound of Music' and 'Fiorello'. In 1971, Stephen Sondheim's 'Follies' and its ghostly showgirls lost to a 'groovy' re-tuning of 'Two Gentlemen of Verona' best forgotten. And, in 1957, 'West Side Story' was bested by the fine people of River City Iowa singing their Americana hearts out in 'The Music Man'."--Publisher description.

Book The Magic Striptease

    Book Details:
  • Author : George Garrett
  • Publisher : LSU Press
  • Release : 2003-02-01
  • ISBN : 9780807128749
  • Pages : 288 pages

Download or read book The Magic Striptease written by George Garrett and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2003-02-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ?

Book Miami

    Book Details:
  • Author : Nick Selby
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1999
  • ISBN : 9780864426536
  • Pages : 260 pages

Download or read book Miami written by Nick Selby and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: -- detailed coverage of the Caribbean enclaves of Little Haiti and Little Havana and the superstar playground at South Beach-- tips on day trips to the Florida Keys, Everglades and Fort Lauderdale-- extensive coverage of art galleries and Art Deco architecture-- where to please your palate, from Cuban food stalls to gourmet eateries

Book Comic Strippers

Download or read book Comic Strippers written by Mini Komix and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-02-19 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: British Sci-Fi Comics collects science-fiction funnies from across the pond. Golden and Silver Age all-stars like Captain Future, Space Commander Kerry, Red Avenger, Space Pilot, Captain Condor, and the Spacetroopers! 100 Big Pages of hi-tech futuristic fun!

Book Florida

    Book Details:
  • Author : Kimberly Grant
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2003
  • ISBN : 9781740591362
  • Pages : 578 pages

Download or read book Florida written by Kimberly Grant and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Want to swim with dolphins, witness a space shuttle liftoff and rub shoulders with Mickey and Minnie ? Whether you seek escape or adventure, this jam-packed guide delivers the goods on the Sunshine State, from the steamy Everglades to the warm, white sands of America's best beaches. Miami essentials - deco delights, Cuban cuisine, nonstop nightclubs ; in-depth coverage of Disney World and Cher major theme parks ; the lowdown on hiking, cycling, canoeing, fishing and more ; food and lodging options to please all budgets ; 53 detailed maps, including special Miami map section.

Book Wannabe

Download or read book Wannabe written by Badgwendel and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2001-04 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bookworm. Historian. Retail Survivor. Clever. Witty. Outrageous. Welcome to the inner mind of Badgwendel, the creator of the wicked web site, www.badgwendel.com. Includes EuroCulture ‘90:Paris and Buff Boyz: the Series, and brand new material not available on-line.

Book Mother Tongue

    Book Details:
  • Author : Wallis Wilde-Menozzi
  • Publisher : North Point Press
  • Release : 2020-03-17
  • ISBN : 0374720851
  • Pages : 376 pages

Download or read book Mother Tongue written by Wallis Wilde-Menozzi and published by North Point Press. This book was released on 2020-03-17 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A probing and poetic examination of language, food, faith, and family attachment in Italian life through the eyes of an American who moved to Parma with her husband and family. In the 1980s, the American writer Wallis Wilde-Menozzi moved permanently with her Italian husband and her daughter to Parma, a sophisticated city in northern Italy, where he became a professor of biology. Her search for rootedness in the city that was to be her home introduced her to complexities in her identity as she migrated into another language and looked for links beyond the joys of Verdi, Correggio, and Parmesan cheese, which visitors have rightly extolled for centuries. The local resistance to change perceived as individualistic led Wilde-Menozzi to explore the pull and challenge of difference and discover the backbone she needed for artistic freedom. In Mother Tongue, Wilde-Menozzi offers stories of far-sighted lives, remarkable Parma men and remarkable women, including the Renaissance abbess Giovanna Piacenza, the fighting Donella Rossi Sanvitale, and her own indefatigable mother-in-law. Framed with a new introduction by the author, and a new foreword by Patricia Hampl, this classic on diversity and tolerance, family, faith, and food in Italy and the United States is at once timeless and timely, a “large, beautiful window into the intelligent, literate, reflective life of Italy” (Shirley Hazzard).

Book Tourist Season

    Book Details:
  • Author : Carl Hiaasen
  • Publisher : Pan Macmillan
  • Release : 1992
  • ISBN : 9780330322362
  • Pages : 484 pages

Download or read book Tourist Season written by Carl Hiaasen and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 1992 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bizarre series of killings in Florida lead a one-time journalist onto the trail of a former colleague. The columnist is conducting a vendetta against tourists spoiling the beauty of the area. His headquarters are somewhere in the Everglades, his gang are a mixed-up bunch.

Book Summary of Bill Bryson s The Mother Tongue

Download or read book Summary of Bill Bryson s The Mother Tongue written by Everest Media, and published by Everest Media LLC. This book was released on 2022-05-26T22:59:00Z with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 The English language is full of traps for the unwary foreigner. Any language where the unassuming word fly signifies an annoying insect, a means of travel, and a critical part of a gentleman’s apparel is asking to be mangled. #2 The world is expropriating words and phrases at a rapid rate, and English has become the most global of languages. For non-English speakers, English has become the common tongue. #3 The English language has a rich vocabulary that allows speakers to distinguish between different shades of meaning. Other languages, however, have words that allow them to differentiate between things that leak into and things that leak out of something. #4 English has a reputation for being an extremely flexible language. It is able to extract maximum work from a word by making it do double duty as both a noun and a verb.

Book Tongue Ties

Download or read book Tongue Ties written by G. Firmat and published by Springer. This book was released on 2003-10-16 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Before it becomes a political, social, or even linguistic issue, bilingualism is a private affair, intimate theater'. So writes Firmat in this ground-breaking study of the interweaving of life and languages in a group of bilingual Spanish, Spanish-American and Latino writers. Unravelling the 'tongue ties' of such diverse figures as the American philosopher George Santayana, the emigré Spanish poet Pedro Salinas, Spanish American novelists Guillermo Cabrera Infante and María Luisa Bombal, and Latino memoirists Richard Rodriguez and Sandra Cisneros, Firmat argues that their careers are shaped by a linguistic family romance that involves negotiating between the competing claims and attractions of Spanish and English.

Book Between Tongues

Download or read book Between Tongues written by Jennifer Lindsay and published by NUS Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between Tongues takes the subject of performance translation in a completely new direction. While the topic is often discussed in relation to the translation of dramatic texts, such as Shakespeare in Malay, the authors in this collection examine presentations of traditional and contemporary works in Asia in their original languages before audiences who do not share that language. They also discuss translation as a phenomenon inherent to much performance in Asia, particularly in multilingual settings.

Book The Mammoth Encyclopedia of Modern Crime Fiction

Download or read book The Mammoth Encyclopedia of Modern Crime Fiction written by Michael Ashley and published by Constable. This book was released on 2002 with total page 804 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A reference and overview of the genre of crime fiction, primarily covering the 1950s onwards, although major earlier writers, such as Agatha Christie and Raymond Chandler, also have entries.

Book Images of Language

Download or read book Images of Language written by William Jervis Jones and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume consists of six essays on interrelated themes, focusing on key aspects of language reflection during the period 1500-1800, with particular emphasis on the seventeenth century. German speakers are seen attempting to discover and define the nature of adjacent languages, whilst also shaping and demarcating the identity and image of their native tongue. The first essay outlines and illustrates what European linguists believed, in an age before the advent of comparative philology, about the historical-genetic position of German within the circle of Classical and modern European languages. Three further essays explore the surprisingly rich diversity of approach and method in earlier foreign-word purism, the puristic use of lexis and metaphor (with special reference to gender-specific imagery), and prominent reaction to the intrusive foreign word in German military usage. The last two essays span a wide range of attitudes and reaction to the French language among German speakers, and early German perceptions of that marginal (and in the popular view excessively contaminated) language, English. The work makes frequent reference to contemporary views of other languages, including Hebrew, Greek Latin, Italian and Spanish. Documented with much new material from about 300 original sources, these essays bring to light the ideas aired by many hitherto neglected personalities, whilst also deepening our understanding of better-known figures and their work.

Book Crystals Out of Chaos

    Book Details:
  • Author : Lesley Marx
  • Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
  • Release : 1997
  • ISBN : 9780838636619
  • Pages : 260 pages

Download or read book Crystals Out of Chaos written by Lesley Marx and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this new study of the novels of John Hawkes, author Lesley Marx has brought to light insights from the three novels Hawkes has published in the last ten years, as well as from his other works. According to Marx, all three of these new novels continue to attest to the fertility of Hawkes's imagination and the fine crafting of his prose. But at least two of the new works - Adventures in the Alaskan Skin Trade and Sweet William: A Memoir of Old Horse - also reveal an expansive and transformative vision that celebrates the shifting and fluid possibilities of authority, writing, storytelling, and gender.