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Book Synopsis A Country Place No More by : Michael J. Birkner
Download or read book A Country Place No More written by Michael J. Birkner and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Town fathers focused their energies on balancing budgets and promoting growth, while largely ignoring the longer-term implications of rapid residential development.
Download or read book A Country Place written by Helen Hein and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2001-10 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A product of old money and a brilliant heart surgeon, Henry McLaughlan is condescending and pretentious, with a strong need for approval and a reputation for womanizing. Dark secrets from his youth contribute to his atheism, and Henry's medical skill alone has become his saving grace and the heart of his identity. Henry falls in love with Theresa Tabor, a widow and mother of two young children. "You're white water rafting and I'm a deep water port," Theresa jokes as they begin to work out their differences. Through her example and uncompromising confrontations, Henry gradually transcends past misery to yield his intrinsic decency and recover his faith in God. Unapologetic about her blue-collar, Catholic roots, Theresa marries Henry, then struggles with childbearing, a devastating accident, and his powerful family influences. A COUNTRY PLACE is a contemporary redemption story, and a tribute to the enduring bonds of love and family.
Download or read book Country Place written by Ann Petry and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2019-04-15 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1947, Ann Petry’s classic Country Place depicts a predominantly white community disillusioned by the indignities and corruption of small-town life. Johnnie Roane returns from four years of military service in World War II to his wife, Glory. They had been married just a year when he left Lennox, Connecticut, where both their families live and work. In his taxi ride home, Johnnie receives foreboding hints that all has not been well in his absence. Eager to mend his fraying marriage, Johnnie attempts to cajole Glory to recommit to their life together. But something sinister has taken place during the intervening years—an infidelity that has not gone unnoticed in the superficially placid New England town. Accompanied by a new foreword from Farah Jasmine Griffin on the enduring legacy of Petry’s oeuvre, Country Place complicates and builds on the legacy of a literary celebrity and one of the foremost African American writers of her time.
Book Synopsis Gardens for the New Country Place by : Paul Bennett
Download or read book Gardens for the New Country Place written by Paul Bennett and published by Watson-Guptill Publications. This book was released on 2003-09-01 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The work of landscape architects Edmund Hollander and Mary Ann Connelly is presented in a display of aerial and panoramic views of ocean views, pools, and garden splendor, along with the author's tips on choosing the right plants, materials, water features, and more as he painstakingly details plans and illustrations to achieve an extraordinary garden landscape.
Book Synopsis A Place in the Country by : W.G. Sebald
Download or read book A Place in the Country written by W.G. Sebald and published by Random House. This book was released on 2014-02-18 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Place in the Country is W. G. Sebald’s meditation on the six artists and writers who shaped his creative mind—and the last of this great writer’s major works to be translated into English. This edition includes more than 40 pieces of art, all originally selected by W. G. Sebald. This extraordinary collection of interlinked essays about place, memory, and creativity captures the inner worlds of five authors and one painter. In his masterly and mysterious style—part critical essay, part memoir—Sebald weaves their lives and art with his own migrations and rise in the literary world. Here are people gifted with talent and courage yet in some cases cursed by fragile and unstable natures, working in countries inhospitable or even hostile to them. Jean-Jacques Rousseau is conjured on the verge of physical and mental exhaustion, hiding from his detractors on the island of St. Pierre, where two centuries later Sebald took rooms adjacent to his. Eighteenth-century author Johann Peter Hebel is remembered for his exquisite and delicate nature writing, expressing the eternal balance of both the outside world and human emotions. Writer Gottfried Keller, best known for his 1850 novel Green Henry, is praised for his prescient insights into a Germany where “the gap between self-interest and the common good was growing ever wider.” Sebald compassionately re-creates the ordeals of Eduard Mörike, the nineteenth-century German poet beset by mood swings, depression, and fainting spells in an increasingly shallow society, and Robert Walser, the institutionalized author whose nearly indecipherable scrawls seemed an attempt to “duck down below the level of language and obliterate himself” (and whose physical appearance and year of death mirrored those of Sebald’s grandfather). Finally, Sebald spies a cognizance of death’s inevitability in painter Jan Peter Tripp’s lovingly exact reproductions of life. Featuring the same kinds of suggestive and unexplained illustrations that appear in his masterworks Austerlitz and The Rings of Saturn, and translated by Sebald’s colleague Jo Catling, A Place in the Country is Sebald’s unforgettable self-portrait as seen through the experiences of others, a glimpse of his own ghosts alongside those of the men who influenced him. It is an essential addition to his stunning body of work. Praise for A Place in the Country “Measured, solemn, sardonic . . . hypnotic . . . [W. G. Sebald’s] books, which he made out of classics, remain classics for now.”—Joshua Cohen, The New York Times Book Review “In Sebald’s writing, everything is connected, everything webbed together by the unseen threads of history, or chance, or fate, or death. The scholarly craft of gathering scattered sources and weaving them into a coherent whole is transformed here into something beautiful and unsettling, elevated into an art of the uncanny—an art that was, in the end, Sebald’s strange and inscrutable gift.”—Slate “Magnificent . . . The multiple layers surrounding each essay are seamless to the point of imperceptibility.”—New York Daily News “Sebald’s most tender and jovial book.”—The Nation “Reading [A Place in the Country is] like going for a walk with a beautifully talented, deeply passionate novelist from Mars.”—New York
Book Synopsis The Writings of Douglas Jerrold. Collected Edition by : Douglas William Jerrold
Download or read book The Writings of Douglas Jerrold. Collected Edition written by Douglas William Jerrold and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Country of Exiles by : William R. Leach
Download or read book Country of Exiles written by William R. Leach and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-08-10 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Country of Exiles, William Leach, whose Land of Desire was a finalist for the National Book Award, explores the troubling effects of our national love affair with mobility. He shows us how the impulse to pull up stakes and find a new frontier has always battled with the need to put down roots, and how a new cosmopolitanism has seized our national identity. Leach takes us across a featureless America, where strip malls homogenize a once varied and majestic landscape, and where casinos displace the Native American spiritual connection to the land. He shows us a culture where everyone, from CEOs to office temps, abandons the notion of company loyalty, and where rootless academics posit a world without borders. With compelling vision and insight, Leach reveals the profound but often hidden impact of America's disintegrating sense of place on our national and individual psyche.
Book Synopsis No Country for Old Men by : Cormac McCarthy
Download or read book No Country for Old Men written by Cormac McCarthy and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2007-11-29 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Road comes a "profoundly disturbing and gorgeously rendered" novel (The Washington Post) that returns to the Texas-Mexico border, setting of the famed Border Trilogy. The time is our own, when rustlers have given way to drug-runners and small towns have become free-fire zones. One day, a good old boy named Llewellyn Moss finds a pickup truck surrounded by a bodyguard of dead men. A load of heroin and two million dollars in cash are still in the back. When Moss takes the money, he sets off a chain reaction of catastrophic violence that not even the law—in the person of aging, disillusioned Sheriff Bell—can contain. As Moss tries to evade his pursuers—in particular a mysterious mastermind who flips coins for human lives—McCarthy simultaneously strips down the American crime novel and broadens its concerns to encompass themes as ancient as the Bible and as bloodily contemporary as this morning’s headlines. No Country for Old Men is a triumph. Look for Cormac McCarthy's latest bestselling novels, The Passenger and Stella Maris.
Book Synopsis The Writings by : Douglas William Jerrold
Download or read book The Writings written by Douglas William Jerrold and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Writings of Douglas Jerrold by : Douglas Jerrold
Download or read book The Writings of Douglas Jerrold written by Douglas Jerrold and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Writings of Douglas Jerrold: Punch's letters to his son; Punch's complete letter writer, & Sketches of the English by : Douglas Jerrold
Download or read book The Writings of Douglas Jerrold: Punch's letters to his son; Punch's complete letter writer, & Sketches of the English written by Douglas Jerrold and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The writings of Douglas Jerrold. Collected ed by : Douglas William Jerrold
Download or read book The writings of Douglas Jerrold. Collected ed written by Douglas William Jerrold and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Magazine of Horticulture, Botany, and All Useful Discoveries and Improvements in Rural Affairs by :
Download or read book Magazine of Horticulture, Botany, and All Useful Discoveries and Improvements in Rural Affairs written by and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Magazine of Horticulture, Botany, and All Useful Discoveries and Improvements in Rural Affairs by :
Download or read book The Magazine of Horticulture, Botany, and All Useful Discoveries and Improvements in Rural Affairs written by and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Cultivator and Country Gentleman written by and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 876 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Title The Works of Douglas Jerrold ; With an Introductory Memoir by His Son by : Douglas William Jerrold
Download or read book Title The Works of Douglas Jerrold ; With an Introductory Memoir by His Son written by Douglas William Jerrold and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Heads of the People, or, Portraits of the English by : William Makepeace Thackeray
Download or read book Heads of the People, or, Portraits of the English written by William Makepeace Thackeray and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-08-26 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1840.