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Author : Jean Echenoz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781565844476
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (444 download)
Download or read book Big Blondes written by Jean Echenoz and published by . This book was released on 1998-03-01 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jean-Claude Kastner is assigned to find Gloire Stella, a popular singer who disappeared four years earlier
Author : Dorothy Parker
Publisher : Rare Treasure Editions
ISBN 13 : 177464360X
Total Pages : 22 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (746 download)
Download or read book Big Blonde written by Dorothy Parker and published by Rare Treasure Editions. This book was released on 2021-11-08T14:41:00Z with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Short story, winner of the 1929 O. Henry Award. The big blonde in question is Hazel Morse, who, when we meet her, is "a model in a wholesale dress establishment", whose thoughts are largely devoted to men. Then she meets Herbie Morse, an attractive man and a heavy drinker. Where will events now take her?
Author : Jean Echenoz
Publisher : New Press, The
ISBN 13 : 1620970023
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (29 download)
Download or read book Three By Echenoz written by Jean Echenoz and published by New Press, The. This book was released on 2014-06-03 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A single volume that gathers together three of the most remarkable novels from Jean Echenoz, the “most distinctive French voice of his generation” (The Washington Post), Three by Echenoz demonstrates the award-winning author's extraordinary versatility and elegant yet playful style at its finest. “A parodic thriller sparkling with wit” (L'Humanité), Big Blondes probes our universal obsession with fame as a television documentary producer tries to track down a renowned singer who has mysteriously disappeared. A darkly comedic, noir-style tour de force, it finally answers the age-old question: do blondes have more fun? “Fluid, never forced...like a garment that fits beautifully even inside-out” (Elle), Piano brings Dante's Inferno to contemporary Paris, following Max Delmarc, a concert pianist suffering from paralyzing stage fright and alchoholism, as he meets his untimely death and descends through purgatory—part luxury hotel, part minimum-security prison—into a modern vision of hell. Running is “a small wonder of writing and humanity” (L'Express)—a portrait of the legendary Czech athlete Emil Zátopek, who became a national hero, winning three gold medals at the 1952 Helsinki Olympics even as he was compelled to face the unyielding realities of life under an authoritarian regime.
Author : Jean Echenoz
Publisher : New Press, The
ISBN 13 : 159558983X
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (955 download)
Download or read book Three By Echenoz written by Jean Echenoz and published by New Press, The. This book was released on 2014-06-03 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A single volume that gathers together three of the most remarkable novels from Jean Echenoz, the “most distinctive French voice of his generation” (The Washington Post), Three by Echenoz demonstrates the award-winning author’s extraordinary versatility and elegant yet playful style at its finest. “A parodic thriller sparkling with wit” (L’Humanité), Big Blondes probes our universal obsession with fame as a television documentary producer tries to track down a renowned singer who has mysteriously disappeared. A darkly comedic, noir-style tour de force, it finally answers the age-old question: do blondes have more fun? “Fluid, never forced…like a garment that fits beautifully even inside-out” (Elle), Piano brings Dante’s Inferno to contemporary Paris, following Max Delmarc, a concert pianist suffering from paralyzing stage fright and alchoholism, as he meets his untimely death and descends through purgatory—part luxury hotel, part minimum-security prison—into a modern vision of hell. Running is “a small wonder of writing and humanity” (L’Express)—a portrait of the legendary Czech athlete Emil Zátopek, who became a national hero, winning three gold medals at the 1952 Helsinki Olympics even as he was compelled to face the unyielding realities of life under an authoritarian regime.
Author : Edna Ferber
Publisher : BEYOND BOOKS HUB
ISBN 13 : 2022041704
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (22 download)
Download or read book So Big written by Edna Ferber and published by BEYOND BOOKS HUB. This book was released on 1960 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Edna Ferber
Publisher : Standard Ebooks
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (4 download)
Download or read book So Big written by Edna Ferber and published by Standard Ebooks. This book was released on 2022-01-05T05:05:41Z with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selina Peake moves from Chicago to a rural Dutch farming area just outside the city to teach in a one room school. As she attempts to fit into the community, she learns about her own strength in adapting to rural life. She marries an uneducated but sweet Dutch farmer named Pervus DeJong and has a son, Dirk, nicknamed “So Big.” She wishes her son to have the same appreciation for the arts and education she has, and although he becomes an architect, his disillusionment with the architectural apprentice system leads him to a career as a successful bond salesman. He later regrets eschewing his architecture career when he meets a beautiful and eccentric artist. Ferber was not confident in the book’s prospects when it was first published. Nevertheless, it became very popular, won her the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1925, and was later made into three different motion pictures. This book is part of the Standard Ebooks project, which produces free public domain ebooks.
Author : William Stadiem
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1250014077
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Moneywood written by William Stadiem and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2013-01-15 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As wild and sexy and over the top as the decade it brings to life, author, William Stadiem, tells the inside story of Hollywood producers in the 80s. From hits like Beverly Hills Cop, Top Gun and Batman to flops like Heaven's Gate, Howard the Duck and Leonard Part 6, Hollywood was never more excessive than it was in the 1980s. In this, the Moneywood era, the purse strings were not controlled by reasonably consenting adults but by pop culture cowboys who couldn't balance their own checkbooks. What they could do was sweet talk the talent, seduce the starlets, snowball the Japanese and slither out of Dodge when the low grosses trickled in. Their out of control lifestyles and know-nothing, raging narcissistic personalities make the original brutal studio heads like Sam Goldwyn and Jack Warner seem like Oxford dons. Yet, for all their flops, these Scoundrels of Spago turned Hollywood into a Big Business that was catnip to Wall Street. They were The Producers, and they were way beyond anything Mel Brooks could dream up. The Moneywood cast of characters includes: -Simpson and Bruckheimer; Guber and Peters; Eisner/Katzenberg/Ovitz: An unusual fresh take on the usual subjects. -Ray Stark, the wizard of Holmby Hills, the most powerful producer of the 80s. -Mario Kassar and Andy Vajna, the Rambo boys, who went from making wigs to making blockbusters. -Menahem Golan-Yoram Globus, the Israeli schlockmeisters who proved that every star had a price. -David Begelman, the embezzler, gambler and sex addict who was rewarded for his sins by getting to run both Columbia and MGM. -Roland Betts, the aristocratic Silver Screen Partners founder and former Yale frat-mate of George W. Bush who was a master at playing the Reagan White House card. -Giancarlo Parretti, the Italian cannery worker who bought MGM, with a little help from his (Sicilian) friends. -David Puttnam The high-toned English advertising whiz who was supposed to raise the Hollywood bar, but ended up barred from Hollywood. Moneywood is the ultimate expose of the real hit men of Hollywood's go-go decade.
Author : Mike Valla
Publisher : Stackpole Books
ISBN 13 : 0811708330
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (117 download)
Download or read book The Founding Flies written by Mike Valla and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2013 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 43 American fly-tying masters, including Mary Orvis Marbury, Thaddeus Norris, and Theodore Gordon.
Author : Warren F. Motte
Publisher : Dalkey Archive Press
ISBN 13 : 9781564782847
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (828 download)
Download or read book Fables of the Novel written by Warren F. Motte and published by Dalkey Archive Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Readers of the contemporary novel in France are witnessing the most astonishing reinvigoration of narrative prose since the New Novel of the 1950s. In the last few years, bold, innovative, and richly compelling novels have been written by a variety of young writers. These texts question traditional strategies of character, plot, theme, and message; and they demand new strategies of reading, too. Choosing ten novels published during the 1990s as examples of that trend, Warren Motte traces the resurgence of the novel in France. He argues that each of the novels under consideration here, quite apart from what other stories it tells, presents a?fable?of the novel that deals with the genre's possibilities, limitations, and future as a cultural form.
Author : Jami Attenberg
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1594484996
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (944 download)
Download or read book The Melting Season written by Jami Attenberg and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-01-04 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From one of today's hottest novelists and author of the bestselling The Middlesteins -- a provocative story about friendship and self-discovery. Catherine Madison left her small town in Nebraska after her husband deserted her. She's also left behind her most shameful secrets-of a family and a marriage that have plagued her with self-doubt. On the road, she's trying to become a new person. But running away from the past isn't as easy as she'd hoped. Her journey leads her to Las Vegas, where she forms surprising new friendships that compel her to reveal what she'd sworn she'd keep hidden, and teach her what human connection really means.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 660 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Rain Taxi Review of Books written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Dominique Manotti
Publisher : Arcadia Books
ISBN 13 : 1908129220
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (81 download)
Download or read book Rough Trade written by Dominique Manotti and published by Arcadia Books. This book was released on 2004-10-07 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fast-moving story takes the reader rapidly along dark paths of sinister events in Le Sentier, the heart of Paris's rag trade. One spring morning a Thai girl is found dead in a fashion workshop. Another unlucky prostitute, or something more sinister? A club is uncovered where people secretly get filmed having sex - including some very distinguished men. This is the seedy underworld of Paris - the traffic in heroin, illegal immigrants without work permits, police officers' secret lives. A Turkish man - a police informer and leader of exploited immigrants rag-trader workers - is also Police Inspector Danquin's lover. This is a gripping morality tale of twentieth-century Paris. Dominique Manotti teaches nineteenth-century Economic History. "Rough Trade", her first novel, was awarded the top prize for the best thriller of the year by the French Crime Writers Association.
Author : Luis Harss
Publisher : Palibrio
ISBN 13 : 1506533493
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (65 download)
Download or read book Singers written by Luis Harss and published by Palibrio. This book was released on 2020-08-10 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Certain singers carry the music of the world in their voices. In these tales, a hairdresser in a mobile home park sings of love and death, a family of immigrants sings haunting memories of other lands and lives, and a street girl in the years of the great depression dreams of being an opera singer.
Author : Jean Echenoz
Publisher : New Press, The
ISBN 13 : 1595586709
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (955 download)
Download or read book Ravel written by Jean Echenoz and published by New Press, The. This book was released on 2011-05-31 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ravel is a beguiling and original evocation of the last ten years in the life of the musical genius Ravel, written by novelist Jean Echenoz. The book opens in 1928 as Maurice Ravel—dandy, eccentric, curmudgeon—crosses the Atlantic abroad the luxury liner the SS France to begin his triumphant grand tour of the United States. A “master magician of the French novel” (The Washington Post), Echenoz captures the folly of the era as well as its genius, including Ravel’s personal life—sartorially and socially splendid—as well as his most successful compositions from 1927 to 1937. Illuminated by flashes of Echenoz’s characteristically sly humor, Ravel is a delightfully quirky portrait of a famous musician coping with the ups and downs of his illustrious career. It is also a beautifully written novel that’s a deeply touching farewell to a dignified and lonely man going reluctantly into the night.
Author : Wade Miller
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1440540543
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (45 download)
Download or read book Deadly Weapon written by Wade Miller and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-02-15 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Her name was Shasta Lynn—a names as phony as the color of her golden hair. She was big and beautiful, and she knew how to tease when she stripped. She was so sensational no one noticed that an admirer in the last row wore a knife sticking in his heart. Curtains go up on a drama of murder, racketeering, dope-peddling, and double-dealing romance. And a smart San Diego cop calls the finale for one of the toughest killers ever to clear the stage for death.
Author : Elizabeth McCracken
Publisher : Delta
ISBN 13 : 0440333911
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (43 download)
Download or read book Niagara Falls All Over Again written by Elizabeth McCracken and published by Delta. This book was released on 2002-11-26 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By turns graceful and knowing, funny and moving, Niagara Falls All Over Again is the latest masterwork by National Book Award finalist and author of The Giant’s House, Elizabeth McCracken. Spanning the waning years of vaudeville and the golden age of Hollywood, Niagara Falls All Over Again chronicles a flawed, passionate friendship over thirty years, weaving a powerful story of family and love, grief and loss. In it, McCracken introduces her most singular and affecting hero: Mose Sharp — son, brother, husband, father, friend ... and straight man to the fat guy in baggy pants who utterly transforms his life. To the paying public, Mose Sharp was the arch, colorless half of the comedy team Carter and Sharp. To his partner, he was charmed and charming, a confirmed bachelor who never failed at love and romance. To his father and sisters, Mose was a prodigal son. And in his own heart and soul, he would always be a boy who once had a chance to save a girl’s life — a girl who would be his first, and greatest, loss. Born into a Jewish family in small-town Iowa, the only boy among six sisters, Mose Sharp couldn’t leave home soon enough. By sixteen Mose had already joined the vaudeville circuit. But he knew one thing from the start: “I needed a partner,” he recalls. “I had always needed a partner.” Then, an ebullient, self-destructive comedian named Rocky Carter came crashing into his life — and a thirty-year partnership was born. But as the comedy team of Carter and Sharp thrived from the vaudeville backwaters to Broadway to Hollywood, a funny thing happened amid the laughter: It was Mose who had all the best lines offstage. Rocky would go through money, women, and wives in his restless search for love; Mose would settle down to a family life marked by fragile joy and wrenching tragedy. And soon, cracks were appearing in their complex relationship ... until one unforgivable act leads to another and a partnership begins to unravel. In a novel as daring as it is compassionate, Elizabeth McCracken introduces an indelibly drawn cast of characters — from Mose’s Iowa family to the vagabond friends, lovers, and competitors who share his dizzying journey — as she deftly explores the fragile structures that underlie love affairs and friendships, partnerships and families. An elegiac and uniquely American novel, Niagara Falls All Over Again is storytelling at its finest — and powerful proof that Elizabeth McCracken is one of the most dynamic and wholly original voices of her generation.
Author : Alexander von Eisenhart Rothe
Publisher : Booktango
ISBN 13 : 1468910337
Total Pages : 523 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (689 download)
Download or read book Golden Biker written by Alexander von Eisenhart Rothe and published by Booktango. This book was released on 2012-09-17 with total page 523 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brought together in India through a series of hare-brained adventures are Arthur, an old bohemian from Cologne; Albert, otherwise known as Bear, a snack bar owner who emigrated to Goa; Gerd, a German businessman with a mid-life crisis; and Sherie, a stunningly good-looking prostitute from Bombay. Together, they embark on a mission to find a mystic figure in the Himalayas: The Golden Biker, who supposedly cruises through the mountains on a golden motorbike, to punish the evildoers and give to those who mean well some of his not less mystical marihuana... known among aficionados as the best grass in the world. However, the route the foursome has to undertake riding some ancient motorbikes called Enfield Bullets, across all of India is rather long and full of danger. Increasingly so, if you have a gang of ill-tempered Indian Mafiosi, two permanently stoned Israeli secret service guys, a gang of politically correct gypsies, one involuntary guru, a stark-naked blowgun expert, a muddle brained but fanatical old Nazi including his private army, as well as two freelance killers from Bombay at your heels. And that is only the beginning of a spiral of misunderstandings and catastrophes, which almost lead up to an international incident. The four protagonists however face all obstacles and finally reach their goal, an until hitherto unknown valley in the Himalayas... where in a furious battle all involved parties fight amongst and against each other, culminating in a rather surprising finale. Existing locations and typical Indian peculiarities are woven into this crazy story turning it into a humorous adventure story Golden Biker is fast and furious, colourful and a sidesplitter throughout.
