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Giovanni's Room

Author : James Baldwin
Publisher : Everyman Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781841593722
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (937 download)

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Download or read book Giovanni's Room written by James Baldwin and published by Everyman Publishers. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The groundbreaking novel by one of the most important twentieth-century American writers--now in an Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics hardcover edition. Giovanni's Room is set in the Paris of the 1950s, where a young American expatriate finds himself caught between his repressed desires and conventional morality. David has just proposed marriage to his American girlfriend, but while she is away on a trip he becomes involved in a doomed affair with a bartender named Giovanni. With sharp, probing insight, James Baldwin's classic narrative delves into the mystery of love and tells an impassioned, deeply moving story that reveals the unspoken complexities of the human heart. Introduction by Colm Toibin"--

Giovanni's Room

Author : James Baldwin
Publisher : Penguin Clothbound Classics
ISBN 13 : 9780241718599
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (185 download)

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Download or read book Giovanni's Room written by James Baldwin and published by Penguin Clothbound Classics. This book was released on 2024-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Le Berceau

Author : Julius Eks
Publisher : Bold Strokes Books Inc
ISBN 13 : 1635556880
Total Pages : 85 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (355 download)

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Download or read book Le Berceau written by Julius Eks and published by Bold Strokes Books Inc. This book was released on 2020-03-10 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ben considers himself lucky. He found Gabriel early in life and he is loved. But at twenty-one, he’s beginning to question if the boat of youthful independence will soon set sail without him. Will his devotion to Gabriel prevent him from exploring with other guys? Will he ever get to experience the heart-wavering thrill of falling in love again? Vacationing on Gabriel’s family boat on the French Riviera, Ben is unprepared for the arrival of Leo, a beautiful adolescent thriving in the noontide of carefree nonchalance. Over the course of a single day, Ben battles his burgeoning lust and intensifying guilt. Will he betray Gabriel, who has done nothing but love him? Or can he resist the carnal temptation of the most beautiful boy he has ever seen?

As Max Saw It

Author : Louis Begley
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 0307775941
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book As Max Saw It written by Louis Begley and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2010-12-15 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[A] perfectly constructed novel.... The time is 1974, and Max, who is fleeing from the wreckage of his first marriage, is a summer-house guest on Lake Como, where he encounters the two characters who will shape his life over the next 20 years: Charlie Swan, a Harvard classmate from the 1950s turned famous architect...and Toby, a poised and polymorphous teenager who is soon to become Charlie's protege and lover." --Time BONUS: This edition includes an excerpt from Louis Begley's Memories of a Marriage.

James Baldwin: Collected Essays (LOA #98)

Author : James Baldwin
Publisher : Library of America James Baldw
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 904 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book James Baldwin: Collected Essays (LOA #98) written by James Baldwin and published by Library of America James Baldw. This book was released on 1998-02 with total page 904 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Chronology. Notes.

Giovanni's Room and Other Stories

Author : Jamie Groccia
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1984579932
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (845 download)

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Download or read book Giovanni's Room and Other Stories written by Jamie Groccia and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2020-06-08 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There's no available information at this time. Author will provide once information is available.

Going to Meet the Man

Author : James Baldwin
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0804149755
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book Going to Meet the Man written by James Baldwin and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2013-09-17 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major collection of short stories by one of America’s most important writers—informed by the knowledge the wounds racism leaves in both its victims and its perpetrators. • “If Van Gogh was our 19th-century artist-saint, James Baldwin is our 20th-century one.” —Michael Ondaatje, Booker Prize-winner of The English Patient In this modern classic, "there's no way not to suffer. But you try all kinds of ways to keep from drowning in it." The men and women in these eight short fictions grasp this truth on an elemental level, and their stories detail the ingenious and often desperate ways in which they try to keep their head above water. It may be the heroin that a down-and-out jazz pianist uses to face the terror of pouring his life into an inanimate instrument. It may be the brittle piety of a father who can never forgive his son for his illegitimacy. Or it may be the screen of bigotry that a redneck deputy has raised to blunt the awful childhood memory of the day his parents took him to watch a black man being murdered by a gleeful mob. By turns haunting, heartbreaking, and horrifying, Going to Meet the Man is a major work by one of our most important writers.

In One Person

Author : John Irving
Publisher : Knopf Canada
ISBN 13 : 0307361802
Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book In One Person written by John Irving and published by Knopf Canada. This book was released on 2012-05-08 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “My dear boy, please don’t put a label on me – don’t make me a category before you get to know me!” John Irving’s new novel is a glorious ode to sexual difference, a poignant story of a life that no reader will be able to forget, a book that no one else could have written. Told with the panache and assurance of a master storyteller, In One Person takes the reader along a dizzying path: from a private school in Vermont in the 1950s to the gay bars of Madrid’s Chueca district, from the Vienna State Opera to the wrestling mat at the New York Athletic Club. It takes in the ways that cross-dressing passes from one generation to the next in a family, the trouble with amateur performances of Ibsen, and what happens if you fall in love at first sight while reading Madame Bovary on a troop transport ship, in the middle of an Atlantic storm. For the sheer pleasure of the tale, there is no writer alive as entertaining and enthralling as John Irving at his best. But this is also a heartfelt, intimate book about one person, a novelist named William Francis Dean. By his side as he tells his own story, we follow Billy on a fifty-year journey toward himself, meeting some uniquely unconventional characters along the way. For all his long and short relationships with both men and women, Billy remains somehow alone, never quite able to fit into society’s neat categories. And as Billy searches for the truth about himself, In One Person grows into an unforgettable call for compassion in a world marked by failures of love and failures of understanding. Utterly contemporary and topical in its themes, In One Person is one of John Irving’s most political novels. It is a book that grapples with the mysteries of identity and the multiple tragedies of the AIDS epidemic, a book about everything that has changed in our sexual life over the last fifty years and everything that still needs to. It’s also one of Irving’s most sincere and human novels, a book imbued on every page with a spirit of openness that expands and challenges the reader’s world. A brand new story in a grand old tradition, In One Person stands out as one of John Irving’s finest works – and as such, one of the best and most important American books of the last four decades.

Nat the Rat

Author : Kd Chapman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781643720982
Total Pages : 30 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Nat the Rat written by Kd Chapman and published by . This book was released on 2018-12-25 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Nat the Rat" is the second story in the "Pat and Friends Early Reader Series." Designed to engage young- readers with intuitive rhymes and simple sentence structure, Nat the Rat will help children develop the confidence needed to continue the life-long adventure of reading. Illustrated by Kelly Stribling- Sutherland, "Nat the Rat" will capture the imagination of children and older readers alike as they meet Nat and his friends.

As Meat Loves Salt

Author : Maria McCann
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0007394446
Total Pages : 548 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book As Meat Loves Salt written by Maria McCann and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2011-04-28 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sensational tale of obsession and murder from a wonderful writer. ‘An outstanding novel, fresh and unusual [with] all the dirt, stink, rasp and flavour of the time.’ Daily Telegraph

Selected Short Stories

Author : William Faulkner
Publisher : Modern Library
ISBN 13 : 0307793567
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book Selected Short Stories written by William Faulkner and published by Modern Library. This book was released on 2011-04-20 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Modern Library’s new set of beautifully repackaged hardcover classics by William Faulkner—also available are Snopes, As I Lay Dying, The Sound and the Fury, Light in August, and Absalom, Absalom! William Faulkner was a master of the short story. Most of the pieces in this collection are drawn from the greatest period in his writing life, the fifteen or so years beginning in 1929, when he published The Sound and the Fury. They explore many of the themes found in the novels and feature characters of small-town Mississippi life that are uniquely Faulkner’s. In “A Rose for Emily,” the first of his stories to appear in a national magazine, a straightforward, neighborly narrator relates a tale of love, betrayal, and murder. The vicious family of the Snopes trilogy turns up in “Barn Burning,” about a son’s response to the activities of his arsonist father. And Jason and Caddy Compson, two other inhabitants of Faulkner’s mythical Yoknapatawpha County, are witnesses to the terrorizing of a pregnant black laundress in “That Evening Sun.” These and the other stories gathered here attest to the fact that Faulkner is, as Ralph Ellison so aptly noted, “the greatest artist the South has produced.” Including these stories: “Barn Burning” “Two Soldiers” “A Rose for Emily” “Dry September” “That Evening Sun” “Red Leaves” “Lo!” “Turnabout” “Honor” “There Was a Queen” “Mountain Victory” “Beyond” “Race at Morning”

The Story of Lucy Gault

Author : William Trevor
Publisher : Vintage Canada
ISBN 13 : 0307366049
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book The Story of Lucy Gault written by William Trevor and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2010-11-05 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Dear Readers and Booksellers: If you have not yet experienced the great pleasure of a story by William Trevor, I urge you to read this new novel, and to set it in pride of place in your stores. Because the haunting story of Lucy Gault will not fail to capture you with its mystery, its compassion, and the beauty of its writing.” -- Louise Dennys, Executive Publisher, Knopf Canada William Trevor is beloved around the world as one of the finest writers today -- and with just cause: his new novel is a masterpiece of love and loss, and lives suspended in time. Lucy Gault is nine when her parents are faced with the agonizing decision to flee Ireland to be safe from the violence that privilege and Lucy’s English mother have brought upon them -- or to stay in their home and risk losing it to the threat of arson. Lucy cannot bear the thought of leaving Lahardane’s beautiful pastureland, the seashore below pale clay cliffs, and the nameless dog that has become her companion. So she runs away into the nearby woods to convince her parents to stay. Instead, her actions begin the unravelling of her family when they find two bits of her clothing and conclude she has thrown herself into the sea. Now desperate to be rid of the place where their much-loved daughter has died, Captain and Heloise Gault set off to wander restlessly across Europe. In the Lahardane woods, two weeks after the Gaults have gone, the groundskeeper finds the child lying lame and half-dead. He and his wife become Lucy’s life companions as she keeps a 30-year vigil of love and guilt waiting for her parents’ return.

James Baldwin: Early Novels & Stories (LOA #97)

Author : James Baldwin
Publisher : Library of America James Baldw
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1002 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book James Baldwin: Early Novels & Stories (LOA #97) written by James Baldwin and published by Library of America James Baldw. This book was released on 1998-02 with total page 1002 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains 4 of James Baldwin's early works.

Fools of Fortune

Author : William Trevor
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101667214
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Fools of Fortune written by William Trevor and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2006-04-25 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Penguin Classics is proud to welcome William Trevor—"Ireland’s answer to Chekhov" (The Boston Globe) and "one of the best writers of our era" (The Washington Post)—to our distinguished list of literary masters. In this award-winning novel, an informer’s body is found on the estate of a wealthy Irish family shortly after the First World War, and an appalling cycle of revenge is set in motion. Led by a zealous sergeant, the Black and Tans set fire to the family home, and only young Willie and his mother escape alive. Fatherless, Willie grows into manhood while his alcoholic mother’s bitter resentment festers. And though he finds love, Willie is unable to leave the terrible injuries of the past behind. First time in Penguin Classics Winner of the Whitbread Novel of the Year Award

Women and Men

Author : Joseph McElroy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780979312397
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (123 download)

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Download or read book Women and Men written by Joseph McElroy and published by . This book was released on 2023-01-17 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning in childbirth and entered like a multiple dwelling in motion, Women and Men embraces and anatomizes the 1970s in New York - from experiments in the chaotic relations between the sexes to the flux of the city itself. Yet through an intricate overlay of scenes, voices, fact, and myth, this expanding fiction finds its way also across continents and into earlier and future times and indeed the Earth, to reveal connections between the most disparate lives and systems of feeling and power. At its breathing heart, it plots the fuguelike and fieldlike densities of late-twentieth-century life. McElroy rests a global vision on two people, apartment-house neighbors who never quite meet. Except, that is, in the population of others whose histories cross theirs believers and skeptics; lovers, friends, and hermits; children, parents, grandparents, avatars, and, apparently, angels. For Women and Men shows how the families through which we pass let one person's experience belong to that of many, so that we throw light on each other as if these kinships were refracted lives so real as to be reincarnate. A mirror of manners, the book is also a meditation on the languages, rich, ludicrous, exact, and also American, in which we try to grasp the world we're in. Along the kindred axes of separation and intimacy Women and Men extends the great line of twentieth-century innovative fiction.

Just Above My Head

Author : James Baldwin
Publisher : Delta
ISBN 13 : 0385334567
Total Pages : 594 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (853 download)

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Download or read book Just Above My Head written by James Baldwin and published by Delta. This book was released on 2000-06-13 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James Baldwin’s final novel is “the work of a born storyteller at the height of his powers” (The New York Times Book Review). “Not everything is lost. Responsibility cannot be lost, it can only be abdicated. If one refuses abdication, one begins again.” The stark grief of a brother mourning a brother opens this stunning, unforgettable novel. Here, in a monumental saga of love and rage, James Baldwin goes back to Harlem, to the church of his groundbreaking novel Go Tell It on the Mountain, to the forbidden passion of Giovanni’s Room, and to the political fire that enflames his nonfiction work. Here, too, the story of gospel singer Arthur Hall and his family becomes both a journey into another country of the soul and senses—and a living contemporary history of black struggle in this land.

Ordinary Mayhem

Author : Victoria Brownworth
Publisher : Bold Strokes Books Inc
ISBN 13 : 1626393192
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (263 download)

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Download or read book Ordinary Mayhem written by Victoria Brownworth and published by Bold Strokes Books Inc. This book was released on 2015-02-15 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Faye Blakemore is a photojournalist for a major New York newspaper. Faye has been taking photos since she was a small child, taught by her photographer grandfather, after spending hours in the strange blood-red light of his darkroom. Now Faye specializes in what one reviewer calls, “blood-and-guts journalism.” Her first book of photos is as celebrated as it is controversial—and as harrowing. Faye convinces her editor to send her to Afghanistan and the Congo to report on the acid burnings, the machete attacks, and the women survivors. Yet that series of assignments—each darker and more dangerous than the next—brings Faye closer to her both her own demons and to the family secrets that still haunt her and threaten to destroy her and the woman she loves.