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Short Letter, Long Farewell

Author : Peter Handke
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0374263183
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (742 download)

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Download or read book Short Letter, Long Farewell written by Peter Handke and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1974 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Short Letter, Long Farewell is one the most inventive and exhilarating of the great Peter Handke's novels. Full of seedy noir atmospherics and boasting an air of generalized delirium, the book starts by introducing us to a nameless young German who has just arrived in America, where he hopes to get over the collapse of his marriage. No sooner has he arrived, however, than he discovers that his ex-wife is pursuing him. He flees, she follows, and soon the couple is running circles around each other across the length of America---from Philadelphia to St. Louis to the Arizona desert, and from Portland, Oregon, to L.A. Is it love or vengeance that they want from each other? Everything's spectacularly unclear in a book that is travelogue, suspense story, domestic comedy, and Western showdown, with a totally unexpected Hollywood twist at the end. Above all, Short Letter, Long Farewell is a love letter to America, its landscapes and popular culture, the invitation and the threat of its newness and wildness and emptiness, with the promise of a new life---or the corpse of an old one---lying just around the corner.

The Long Goodbye

Author : Raymond Chandler
Publisher : Important Books
ISBN 13 : 9788087888506
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (885 download)

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Download or read book The Long Goodbye written by Raymond Chandler and published by Important Books. This book was released on 2013-11 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Philip Marlowe befriends down-on-his-luck veteran Terry Lennox he gets more than he bargained for. With Lennox's wife dead and Lennox himself on the lam, Marlowe becomes the target for the local cops and a crazy gangster, while getting mixed up with alcoholic writer Roger Wade and his wife Eileen. Nothing is what it seems as Marlowe unravels the Wades' scheme to expose the truth behind Lennox's facade. The most autobiographical of his novels, The Long Goodbye was considered by Chandler to be his best work. One of the preeminent examples of hard-boiled detective fiction, The Long Goodbye has been adapted for radio, film and television, and received the 1955 Edgar Award for Best Novel. HarperPerennial Classics brings great works of literature to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperPerennial Classics collection to build your digital library.

The Long Farewell

Author : Gerald E. Kahler
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Long Farewell written by Gerald E. Kahler and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The news of the death of George Washington at Mount Vernon on December 14, 1799, was reported to have been "felt as an electric shock throughout the union." Martha Washington gave permission for Congress to have her husband's body reinterred under a marble monument to be constructed in the new capital in Washington, D.C. Grieving Americans organized and participated in over four hundred funeral processions and memorial services during the sixty-nine-day mourning period that culminated on February 22, 1800, the National Day of Mourning. Washington's death came in a highly contentious period in American political history, and a variety of groups and individuals tried to take advantage of the occasion to advance their own agendas. Federalist officials, including President John Adams and Alexander Hamilton, themselves at odds on a number of issues, took a leading role in ceremonies that included mock funerals with empty caskets orchestrated by Hamilton, who also used the occasion to advocate for a large standing army. Although Jefferson and his Democratic Republicans were about to knock the Federalists out of political contention, in what Jefferson termed the "Revolution of 1800," in 1799 Federalists predominated in ceremonial and print commemorations of Washington. Religious leaders, whose moral authority was on the wane, tried to Christianize Washington, while Masons used the most illustrious member of their secret brotherhood to rehabilitate an image tarnished by charges of religious infidelity and association with the excesses of the French Revolution. Women of various stations and political stripes also took advantage of the occasion to help legitimize their participation in public life. The biographical sketches included in over three hundred eulogies provide a unique historical perspective on who George Washington was in the eyes of his contemporaries.

The Long Farewell

Author : Don Charlwood
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book The Long Farewell written by Don Charlwood and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of a well-received historical account, first published in 1981, of the sea voyages from Britain to Australia during the 19th century. Based on more than 100 shipboard diaries written by both ships' crew and passengers. Includes footnotes, a bibliography and an index. The author has written several maritime histories, as well as two volumes of autobiography, 'March as to War' and 'Journeys into Night', and the classic, 'No Moon Tonight'.

The Long Farewell

Author : Michael Innes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Long Farewell written by Michael Innes and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Long Goodbye

Author : Meghan O'Rourke
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101486554
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book The Long Goodbye written by Meghan O'Rourke and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-04-14 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Anguished, beautifully written... The Long Goodbye is an elegiac depiction of drama as old as life." -- The New York Times Book Review From one of America's foremost young literary voices, a transcendent portrait of the unbearable anguish of grief and the enduring power of familial love. What does it mean to mourn today, in a culture that has largely set aside rituals that acknowledge grief? After her mother died of cancer at the age of fifty-five, Meghan O'Rourke found that nothing had prepared her for the intensity of her sorrow. In the first anguished days, she began to create a record of her interior life as a mourner, trying to capture the paradox of grief-its monumental agony and microscopic intimacies-an endeavor that ultimately bloomed into a profound look at how caring for her mother during her illness changed and strengthened their bond. O'Rourke's story is one of a life gone off the rails, of how watching her mother's illness-and separating from her husband-left her fundamentally altered. But it is also one of resilience, as she observes her family persevere even in the face of immeasurable loss. With lyricism and unswerving candor, The Long Goodbye conveys the fleeting moments of joy that make up a life, and the way memory can lead us out of the jagged darkness of loss. Effortlessly blending research and reflection, the personal and the universal, it is not only an exceptional memoir, but a necessary one.

The Goodbye Book

Author :
Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 0316404950
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (164 download)

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Download or read book The Goodbye Book written by and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2015-11-03 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From bestselling author Todd Parr, a poignant and reassuring story about loss. Through the lens of a pet fish who has lost his companion, Todd Parr tells a moving and wholly accessible story about saying goodbye. Touching upon the host of emotions children experience, Todd reminds readers that it's okay not to know all the answers, and that someone will always be there to support them. An invaluable resource for life's toughest moments.

Goodbye to a River

Author : John Graves
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307773353
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book Goodbye to a River written by John Graves and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2010-11-10 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1950s, a series of dams was proposed along the Brazos River in north-central Texas. For John Graves, this project meant that if the stream’s regimen was thus changed, the beautiful and sometimes brutal surrounding countryside would also change, as would the lives of the people whose rugged ancestors had eked out an existence there. Graves therefore decided to visit that stretch of the river, which he had known intimately as a youth. Goodbye to a River is his account of that farewell canoe voyage. As he braves rapids and fatigue and the fickle autumn weather, he muses upon old blood feuds of the region and violent skirmishes with native tribes, and retells wild stories of courage and cowardice and deceit that shaped both the river’s people and the land during frontier times and later. Nearly half a century after its initial publication, Goodbye to a River is a true American classic, a vivid narrative about an exciting journey and a powerful tribute to a vanishing way of life and its ever-changing natural environment.

The Longest Farewell

Author : Nula Suchet
Publisher : Seren
ISBN 13 : 1781725195
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (817 download)

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Download or read book The Longest Farewell written by Nula Suchet and published by Seren. This book was released on 2019-07-19 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Nula's husband James becomes forgetful they put it down to the stress of his work. But his behaviour becomes more erratic and inexplicable, and he is eventually diagnosed with Pick's Disease, early onset and aggressive dementia. Their lives change from comfortable middle-class creatives through the shock of diagnosis, coping with the ongoing illness, not coping with the illness, to the indignities of care home life. The Longest Farewell is a moving description of James' utter mental and physical deterioration, and the effect that it had both on him and on the people from whom he was involuntarily retreating, particularly Nula. Her life is completely taken: her frustration at trying to cope, her guilt at handing over his care to professionals, are just part of her at times harrowing story.With seemingly little to do but wait for his death, Nula meets Bonnie, another resident at the care home suffering from the same condition. In turn she meets Bonnie's husband, the broadcaster John Suchet and the similarity of their positions becomes a bond between them. After the deaths of James and Bonnie, and some guilt-induced false starts, Nula's story takes a bitter-sweet turn: they become partners, and eventually marry. The Longest Farewell is a heartfelt yet inspiring account of dealing with dementia, and of unexpectedly finding a happy ending. "Moving, heart-breaking and terrifying. But best of all, from beginning to the best of endings, it's a book about love." – Sally Magnusson

The Long Farewell

Author : Michael Innes
Publisher : House of Stratus
ISBN 13 : 0755118154
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (551 download)

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Download or read book The Long Farewell written by Michael Innes and published by House of Stratus. This book was released on 2010-02-20 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lewis Packford, the great Shakespearean scholar, was thought to have discovered a book annotated by the Bard - but there is no trace of this valuable object when Packford apparently commits suicide. Sir John Appleby finds a mixed bag of suspects at the dead man's house.

A Long Farewell

Author : John Hagan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781597130813
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book A Long Farewell written by John Hagan and published by . This book was released on 2009-08 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Long Farewell, by John Hagan, explores themes that include friends and heroes, epiphany, coming of age, futile pursuit, lost love, arcane experience, and ironies of life. Although his stories are fictional, John endeavors to provide feasible characters, dynamics, places, and events. Relying on these characteristics, he strives for realistic slices of life, coupled with plausible resolutions. While Baby Boomers, Irish, educators, students, and horse lovers will find much of the familiar in A Long Farewell, all readers who have at times contemplated childhood memories, old flames, painful and pleasant reminders, weird phenomena, zany circumstances, and professional dilemmas may discover that each story touches something recognizable in their lives. Enter the world of John's characters and participate in experiences that sometimes reveal flawed but very human responses to the vicissitudes of life.

The Long farewell

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 14 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (221 download)

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Download or read book The Long farewell written by and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Short Letter, Long Farewell

Author : Peter Handke
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1590173066
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Short Letter, Long Farewell written by Peter Handke and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2009-03-31 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By Nobel Prize Winner Peter Handke Short Letter, Long Farewell is one the most inventive and exhilarating of the great Peter Handke’s novels. Full of seedy noir atmospherics and boasting an air of generalized delirium, the book starts by introducing us to a nameless young German who has just arrived in America, where he hopes to get over the collapse of his marriage. No sooner has he arrived, however, than he discovers that his ex-wife is pursuing him. He flees, she follows, and soon the couple is running circles around each other across the length of America—from Philadelphia to St. Louis to the Arizona desert, and from Portland, Oregon, to L.A. Is it love or vengeance that they want from each other? Everything’s spectacularly unclear in a book that is travelogue, suspense story, domestic comedy, and Western showdown, with a totally unexpected Hollywood twist at the end. Above all, Short Letter, Long Farewell is a love letter to America, its landscapes and popular culture, the invitation and the threat of its newness and wildness and emptiness, with the promise of a new life—or the corpse of an old one—lying just around the corner.

The Long Farewell

Author : Michael Innes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book The Long Farewell written by Michael Innes and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Living Age

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 842 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book The Living Age written by and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 842 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Text, Theory, Space

Author : Kate Darian-Smith
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134804555
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (348 download)

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Download or read book Text, Theory, Space written by Kate Darian-Smith and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-08-04 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Text, Theory, Space is a landmark in post-colonial criticism and theory. Focusing on two white settler societies, South Africa and Australia, the contributors investigate the meaning of 'the South' as an aesthetic, political, geographical and cultural space. Drawing upon a wide range of disciplines which include literature, history, urban and cultural geography, politics and anthropology, the contributors examine crucial issues including: * defining what 'the South' encompasses * investigating ideas of space, history, land and landscape * claiming, naming and possessing land * national and personal boundaries * questions of race, gender and nationalism

The Cento: a Collection of Poetry, Original and Select

Author : CENTO.
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book The Cento: a Collection of Poetry, Original and Select written by CENTO. and published by . This book was released on 1840 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: