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Book Synopsis A Russell Hoban Omnibus by : Russell Hoban
Download or read book A Russell Hoban Omnibus written by Russell Hoban and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 842 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Russell Hoban Omnibus presents four of Hoban's novels: the haunting The Lion of Boaz-Jachin and Jachin-Boaz; the popular Turtle Diary (which was made into a movie starring Glenda Jackson and Ben Kingsley); Pilgermann; and his newest work, Mr Rinyo-Clacton's Offer, a brilliant Faustian comedy published here for the first time in the United States. Book jacket.
Book Synopsis The Moment Under the Moment by : Russell Hoban
Download or read book The Moment Under the Moment written by Russell Hoban and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1992 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Her Name was Lola by : Russell Hoban
Download or read book Her Name was Lola written by Russell Hoban and published by Arcade Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Falling head over heels for the spirited Lola, who shares his musical tastes and complements him on every level, Max nevertheless pursues a secret second relationship when the unattainable high-school homecoming queen he loved years earlier reenters his life.
Download or read book Kleinzeit written by Russell Hoban and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2002-01-02 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Russell Hoban is one of our greatest, timeless novelists' The Times
Download or read book Pilgermann written by Russell Hoban and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 1983-01-01 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Pilgermann here. I call myself Pilgermann, it's a convenience. I don't know what I am now .'
Book Synopsis The Lion of Boaz-Jachin and Jachin-Boaz by : Russell Hoban
Download or read book The Lion of Boaz-Jachin and Jachin-Boaz written by Russell Hoban and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2021-03-25 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A piece of invention as original as any of Tolkien's or C.S. Lewis's' New Statesman 'I have gone to look for a lion.' In a world where lions have become extinct, the map-maker Jachin-Boaz nevertheless abandons his wife and son to find one, leaving just this note. But his decision has unexpected consequences. He will be pursued by his son, Boaz-Jachin, and by something else: a tawny-skinned, amber-eyed beast from another place and time, a bringer of life and death. 'Magic at work ... Funny as well as beautiful' Irish Times 'Hoban is unclassifiable, thank goodness. His narrative is so minutely and compellingly realistic that after a time you cease to notice that he has stood reality on its head' Sunday Times
Download or read book Riddley Walker written by Russell Hoban and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2012-05-24 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘Walker is my name and I am the same. Riddley Walker. Walking my riddels where ever theyve took me and walking them now on this paper the same. There aint that many sir prizes in life if you take noatis of every thing. Every time will have its happenings out and every place the same. Thats why I finely come to writing all this down. Thinking on what the idear of us myt be. Thinking on that thing whats in us lorn and loan and oansome.’ Composed in an English which has never been spoken and laced with a storytelling tradition that predates the written word, RIDDLEY WALKER is the world waiting for us at the bitter end of the nuclear road. It is desolate, dangerous and harrowing, and a modern masterpiece.
Download or read book The Turtle Diary written by Russell Hoban and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2012-06-18 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the aquarium at the London Zoo, three sea turtles swim endlessly in 'their little bedsitter of ocean'. Two lonely people, William G and Neaera H, become obsessed with the turtles' captivity, and resolve to rescue them and release them in to the sea. William's and Neaera's diaries tell the story of how they achieve the turtles' freedom, and in the process re-define their own lives.
Book Synopsis Mr Rinyo-Clacton's Offer by : Russell Hoban
Download or read book Mr Rinyo-Clacton's Offer written by Russell Hoban and published by Bloomsbury Publishing UK. This book was released on 2003-10-06 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sharp and witty, but written with affection, Mr Rinyo-Clacton's Offer reaches parts not previously reached by other Hoban novels.
Book Synopsis How Tom Beat Captain Najork and His Hired Sportsmen by : Russell Hoban
Download or read book How Tom Beat Captain Najork and His Hired Sportsmen written by Russell Hoban and published by David R. Godine Publisher. This book was released on 2006 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tom likes fooling around and is rather good at it, much to the annoyance of his Aunt Fidget Wonkham-Strong. So one day this fearsome lady decides to teach Tom a lesson and summons Captain Najork and his Hired Sportsmen to play womble, muck and sneedball. Can it possibly end well for all concerned?
Download or read book The Eye of Love written by Margery Sharp and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2016-04-12 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Margery Sharp’s enchanting New York Times–bestselling novel about the profound ways that love can change our view of other people and the world around us Miss Dolores Diver and Harry Gibson have been passionately in love ever since they met at the Chelsea Arts Ball: He came as a brown paper parcel, she as a Spanish dancer. Only the eye of love could have transformed plain Dolores into a Spanish rose and stout Harry into the man of Dolores’s dreams. But ten years later, during the Great Depression, Harry must marry his colleague’s daughter in order to save his nearly bankrupt business. The course of true love never runs smoothly but with some inadvertent help from Dolores’s keenly observant nine-year-old niece, Martha, Harry’s grasping fiancée, and Dolores’s calculating lodger, Harry might succeed in both averting financial ruin and reclaiming his beloved.
Book Synopsis Parnassus on Wheels by : Christopher Morley
Download or read book Parnassus on Wheels written by Christopher Morley and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-12-01 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christopher Morley's story "Parnassus on Wheels" is a joy. Helen McGill, a middle-aged spinster, has spent her life caring for her brother Andrew and their lucrative traveling bookshop known as "Parnassus." This book is classified as historical fiction, and it is a brilliant collection of ideas compacted into a single draft for readers of all ages to read. With an eye-catching new cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of "Parnassus on Wheels" is both current and legible. She, on the other hand, yearns for adventure and freedom. Helen's life takes an unexpected turn when Roger Mifflin, an interesting and strange story salesman, appears at her door with an offer to buy Parnassus. Fearing that her brother is wasting his life on the road, Helen decides to sell the bookstore and embark on her own creative trip. As she meets new people and navigates the world of bookselling, she rapidly realizes that living on the road can be both exciting and challenging. Helen and Roger form an unusual and touching friendship as they travel together, discovering not only literary delights but additionally the joys of company.
Book Synopsis The Mouse and His Child by : Russell Hoban
Download or read book The Mouse and His Child written by Russell Hoban and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2016-01-26 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Like the fantasies of Tolkien, Thurber, E. B. White, The Mouse and His Child is filled with symbolism and satire, violence and vengeance, tears and laughter." -- The New York Times The images stay with you long after the book is done: the toy mouse and his father, on a journey together joined hand in hand; Manny Rat, the nefarious lord of the junkyard, stalking the toy mice for their clockwork parts; Uncle Frog, spouting wisdom and nonsense from within a glove; and the Bonzo Dog Food dog, repeating himself endlessly on a label, fading away to the last visible dog...Russell Hoban's novel is many things: a stirring adventure story, a sharp-witted comedy, and the moving tale of a father and son struggling to return to a state of grace.Called one of the great works of children's literature of the twentieth century -- but with an audience that spans ages and times -- The Mouse and His Child has been lovingly re-illustrated by Caldecott Medalist David Small for a new generation and a new millennium.
Book Synopsis Russell Hoban/Forty Years by : Alida Allison
Download or read book Russell Hoban/Forty Years written by Alida Allison and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-08 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited volume reviews the long career of Russell Hoban, an American writer residing in England who writes for children and adults. The Forty Years in the title refers to the length of Hoban's career to date. Hoban's contribution specifically to children's literature is commemorated in this volume of essays by international scholars,
Download or read book Beyond the Page written by Quentin Blake and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this work Blake writes about his projects since 2000, vividly describing his working processes, his collaborators, his travels and his various projects and commissions, including his 'illustrated walls' projects for hospitals in the UK and France.
Book Synopsis The Big Purple Book of Beginner Books by : P.D. Eastman
Download or read book The Big Purple Book of Beginner Books written by P.D. Eastman and published by Random House Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2012-08-07 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Calling all P. D. Eastman fans! What could be a better than six Beginner Books written and/or illustrated by P. D.—or son Peter—Eastman? Six of them for less than the price of two! At only $15.99, The Big Purple Book of Beginner Books is an incredible value and includes the full, unabridged text and illustrations for A Fish Out of Water by Helen Palmer, I'll Teach My Dog 100 Words by Michael Frith, Fred and Ted Go Camping by Peter Eastman, Snow by P. D. Eastman and Roy McKie, and Flap Your Wings and Big Dog . . . Little Dog by P. D. Eastman, all bound together in one sturdy, hardcover omnibus. Perfect for birthdays and holidays, this is a classic, affordable gift the whole family can enjoy together.
Download or read book Soonchild written by Russell Hoban and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2012-08-14 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discovering that his soon-to-be-born first offspring, a soonchild, cannot hear the World Songs from her mother's womb, Sixteen-Face John, an Arctic Circle shaman, embarks on a fantastical journey to different eras and in the forms of animals and demons to find the songs that will inspire the soonchild's birth.
