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Laura Warholic

Author : Alexander Theroux
Publisher : Fantagraphics Books
ISBN 13 : 1560977981
Total Pages : 878 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (69 download)

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Download or read book Laura Warholic written by Alexander Theroux and published by Fantagraphics Books. This book was released on 2007-12-21 with total page 878 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brilliant satire from one of the great novelists of his time. In his first novel in nearly twenty years, Alexander Theroux, National Book Award Nominee, returns with a compendious satire, a bold and inquisitorial circuit-breaking examination of love and hate, of rejection and forgiveness, of trust and romantic disappointment, of the terrors of contemporary life. Eugene Eyestones, an erudite sex columnist for a Boston cultural magazine, becomes enmeshed in the messy life of a would-be artist named Laura Warholic, who, repulsing and fascinating him at the same time, becomes a mirror in which he not only sees himself but through which he is forced to face his own demons. Not only does she inadvertently supply him with material for his columns, but she exemplifies all that Eugene considers wrong with contemporary America (of which the publishing profession and its recognizable denizens serves as a microcosm)a garish and dunce-filled Babylon that Theroux scorches with inventive and relentless satire. Nostalgic for the old days and old manners, a way of life lost to grace, loving from afar a mysterious beauty named Rapunzel Wisht, Eugene fights against the rising tide of stupidity, focusing on Laura in the hope that by saving her he can validate his ethical beliefs. But feckless Laura and the colorful but bizarre cast of characters surrounding Eugenebrilliant bigots, nihilists, Generation-X slackers and zanies of all sexual persuasionsthreaten to pull him under, leading to the novel's unforgettable conclusion, a climax of betrayal and redemption of Dostoevskyan power.

Darconville's Cat

Author : Alexander Theroux
Publisher : Holt Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 9780805043655
Total Pages : 728 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (436 download)

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Download or read book Darconville's Cat written by Alexander Theroux and published by Holt Paperbacks. This book was released on 1996-04-15 with total page 728 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The conflicts between love and hate, good and evil, and life and art are explored in a portrait of Alaric Darconville, a twenty-nine-year-old professor at Quinsy College--a women's college in Virginia--who falls in love with and is jilted by one of his students

The Grammar of Rock

Author : Alexander Theroux
Publisher : Fantagraphics Books
ISBN 13 : 1606996169
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (69 download)

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Download or read book The Grammar of Rock written by Alexander Theroux and published by Fantagraphics Books. This book was released on 2013-02-16 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Novelist and critic Alexander Theroux analyzes the pop song. National Book Award nominee, critic and one of America’s least compromising satirists, Alexander Theroux takes a comprehensive look at the colorful language of pop lyrics and the realm of rock music in general in The Grammar of Rock: silly song titles; maddening instrumentals; shrieking divas; clunker lines; the worst (and best) songs ever written; geniuses of the art; movie stars who should never have raised their voice in song but who were too shameless to refuse a mic; and the excesses of awful Christmas recordings. Praising (and critiquing) the gems of lyricists both highbrow and low, Theroux does due reverence to classic word-masters like Ira Gershwin, Jimmy Van Heusen, Cole Porter, and Sammy Cahn, lyricists as diverse as Hank Williams, Buck Ram, the Moody Blues, and Randy Newman, Dylan and the Beatles, of course, and more outré ones like the Sex Pistols, the Clash, Patti Smith, the Fall (even Ghostface Killa), but he considers stupid rhymes, as well ― nonsense lyrics, chop logic, the uses and abuses of irony, country music macho, verbal howlers, how voices sound alike and why, and much more. In a way that no one else has ever done, with his usual encyclopedic insights into the state of the modern lyric, Theroux focuses on the state of language ― the power of words and the nature of syntax ― in The Grammar of Rock. He analyzes its assaults on listeners’ impulses by investigating singers’ styles, pondering illogical lunacies in lyrics, and deconstructing the nature of diction and presentation in the language. This is that rare book of discernment and probing wit (and not exclusively one that is a critical defense of quality) that positively evaluates the very nature of a pop song, and why one over another has an effect on the listener.

Tests of Time

Author : William H. Gass
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226284064
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Tests of Time written by William H. Gass and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2003-06-16 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tests of Time brings us fourteen witty and elegant essays by novelist and literary critic William H. Gass, "the finest prose stylist in America" (Steven Moore, Washington Post). Whether he's exploring the nature of narrative, the extent and cost of political influences on writers, or the relationships between the stories we tell and the moral judgments we make, Gass is always erudite, entertaining, and enlightening.

Estonia

Author : Alexander Theroux
Publisher : Fantagraphics Books
ISBN 13 : 1606994654
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (69 download)

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Download or read book Estonia written by Alexander Theroux and published by Fantagraphics Books. This book was released on 2011-11-21 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Any journey with Alexander Theroux is an education. Possessed of a razor-sharp and hyperliterate mind, he stands beside Thomas Pynchon as one of the sharpest cultural commentators of our time. So when he decided to accompany his wife ― the artist Sarah Son-Theroux ― on her Fulbright Scholarship to Estonia, it occasioned this penetrating examination of a country that, for many, seems alien and distanced from the modern world. For Theroux, the country and its people become a puzzle. His fascination with their language, manners, and legacy of occupation and subordination lead him to a revelatory examination of Estonia’s peculiar place in European history. All the while, his trademark acrobatic allusions, quotations, and digressions ― which take us fromHamlet through Jean Cocteau to Married… with Children ― render his travels as much internal and psychical as they are external and physical. Through these obsessive references to Western culture, we come to appreciate how insular the country has become, yet also marvel at its fierce individuality and preternatural beauty ― such is the skill of Theroux’s gaze. This travelogue of his nine months abroad also brims with anecdotes of Theroux’s encounters with Estonian people and ― in some of its most bitterly comedic episodes ― his fellow Americans whom he at times feels more alienated from than the frosty, humorless Europeans. Estonia: A Ramble Through the Periphery is as biting and satirical as it is witty and urbane; as curious and lyrical as it is brash and irreverent. It marks a new highlight in an already stellar career and a book that continues Fantagraphics’ exceptional line of prose works.

Early Stories

Author : Alexander Theroux
Publisher : Tough Poets Press
ISBN 13 : 9780578918440
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (184 download)

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Download or read book Early Stories written by Alexander Theroux and published by Tough Poets Press. This book was released on 2021-08-10 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alexander Theroux has taught at Harvard, MIT, Yale, and the University of Virginia, where he took his doctorate in 1968. He is the author of four highly regarded novels, Three Wogs (1972), Darconville's Cat (1981), An Adultery (1987), and Laura Warholic (2007), as well as Collected Poems (2015) and other books of non-fiction. Both Three Wogs and Darconville's Cat were nominated for the National Book Award. Early Stories, the first book of Theroux's fiction to be published in fourteen years, constitutes an addition to one of modern American literature's most lauded and entertaining bodies of work. It is also the first volume in his story triad (Fables and Later Stories soon to follow). Nobody writing today has a keener instinct for obsession, hypocrisy, sexual jealousy, envy, human folly, the lineaments of vanity, greed, and romantic disappointment, and, yes, grace. A feast of comic joy awaits you in this long-awaited collection. Here, the sword arm of satire is swung high! We encounter an intractable woman who refuses to divulge the secret to her spaghetti sauce. A tourist discovers a modern Nestor in an English pub. An idealistic teacher who is also a broken-hearted lover leaves us speechless over his overwhelming fixation. A hide-bound feminist goes to Italy to learn pasta making. A beautiful Bostonian, becoming a fashion model, achieves a much different goal. What is the effect of summer camp on a sensitive youngster? How does a hunt in Cracow for the alpenstock of great Copernicus end up a comic farce? Does a young boy with a genius IQ fulfill his promise? What happens when a collector discovers the rarest autograph in American letters? Nothing prepares the reader for the twists and turns of these unsparing but brilliantly plotted stories. Language is, however, the subject, the splendid gift of one of the nation's word-masters, a magician who fashions words out of his fingertips. Satire, it is said, swipes off the noggin but leaves the head in place. Here, the head still manages to find its voice-to our great and continuing pleasure.

Swell

Author : Corwin Ericson
Publisher : Dark Coast Press
ISBN 13 : 0984428887
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (844 download)

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Download or read book Swell written by Corwin Ericson and published by Dark Coast Press. This book was released on 2011-10 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Off the coast of a tiny island a mysterious package goes missing. Rival whaling factions reignite an ancient feud when their paths cross. Korean smugglers want to open a bed and breakfast. A privacy expert sets in motion her plan to create a cell phone network using migrating whales. . . . And Orange Whippey doesn't like any of it.

The Novel: An Alternative History

Author : Steven Moore
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1441133364
Total Pages : 705 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book The Novel: An Alternative History written by Steven Moore and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2013-09-17 with total page 705 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Encyclopedic in scope and heroically audacious, The Novel: An Alternative History is the first attempt in over a century to tell the complete story of our most popular literary form. Contrary to conventional wisdom, the novel did not originate in 18th-century England, nor even with Don Quixote, but is coeval with civilization itself. After a pugnacious introduction, in which Moore defends innovative, demanding novelists against their conservative critics, the book relaxes into a world tour of the pre-modern novel, beginning in ancient Egypt and ending in 16th-century China, with many exotic ports-of-call: Greek romances; Roman satires; medieval Sanskrit novels narrated by parrots; Byzantine erotic thrillers; 5000-page Arabian adventure novels; Icelandic sagas; delicate Persian novels in verse; Japanese war stories; even Mayan graphic novels. Throughout, Moore celebrates the innovators in fiction, tracing a continuum between these pre-modern experimentalists and their postmodern progeny. Irreverent, iconoclastic, informative, entertaining-The Novel: An Alternative History is a landmark in literary criticism that will encourage readers to rethink the novel.

Against the Day

Author : Thomas Pynchon
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101594667
Total Pages : 1584 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book Against the Day written by Thomas Pynchon and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-06-13 with total page 1584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Notable Book of the Year, a Washington Post Best Book of the Year Spanning the era between the Chicago World’s Fair of 1893 and the years just after World War I, and constantly moving between locations across the globe (and to a few places not strictly speaking on the map at all), Against the Day unfolds with a phantasmagoria of characters that includes anarchists, balloonists, gamblers, drug enthusiasts, mathematicians, mad scientists, shamans, spies, and hired guns. As an era of uncertainty comes crashing down around their ears and an unpredictable future commences, these folks are mostly just trying to pursue their lives. Sometimes they manage to catch up; sometimes it’s their lives that pursue them.

Rain Taxi Review of Books

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rain Taxi Review of Books written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Sea Above, Sun Below

Author : George Salis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781733256568
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (565 download)

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Download or read book Sea Above, Sun Below written by George Salis and published by . This book was released on 2019-11-26 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Upside-down lightning, a group of uncouth skydivers, resurrections, a mother's body overtaken by a garden, aquatic telepathy, a peeling snake-priest, and more. Sea Above, Sun Below is influenced by Western myths, some Greek, some with Biblical overtones, resulting in a fusion of fantastic dreams, bizarre yet beautiful nightmares, and multiple narrative threads that form a tapestry which depicts the fragility of characters teetering on the brink of madness.

The Strange Case of Edward Gorey

Author : Alexander Theroux
Publisher : Fantagraphics Books
ISBN 13 : 1606993844
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (69 download)

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Download or read book The Strange Case of Edward Gorey written by Alexander Theroux and published by Fantagraphics Books. This book was released on 2011-02-14 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing from a multitude of reference and his own personal relationship to Gorey, literary heavyweight Alexander Theroux has accomplished an amazing feat of illuminating the real Edward Gorey with ambiguity, wit, fervor and reverence, combined with honest and clear-eyed appraisals of his work. No Gorey fan can be without it. Black-and-white illustrations and photographs throughout.

If Research Were Romance and other implausible conjectures

Author : Manny Rayner
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1291375554
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (913 download)

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Download or read book If Research Were Romance and other implausible conjectures written by Manny Rayner and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-04 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why is Fifty Shades of Grey like the Higgs boson? Who would Kristen Stewart play in a movie of Ulysses? Is the answer 42? Would Jane Eyre prefer Hamlet or Claudius? And is research really like romance? You will find the answers to all the above questions, and many others, in this book

The Primary Colors

Author : Alexander Theroux
Publisher : Owl Books
ISBN 13 : 9780805047011
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book The Primary Colors written by Alexander Theroux and published by Owl Books. This book was released on 1996 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating cultural history, these splendid essays on the three primary colors--blue, yellow, and red--extend to the artistic, literary, linguistic, botanical, cinematic, aesthetic, religious, scientific, culinary, climatological, and emotional dimensions of each color. QBPC Selection.

The Way of Florida

Author : Russell Persson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780995705203
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book The Way of Florida written by Russell Persson and published by . This book was released on 2017-09-21 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Relentless, urgent and above all musical, this expertly crafted debut novel recasts the tragic story of the failed Narváez expedition--a calamitous attempt to establish Spanish colonies along the Gulf Coast--in bracing, beautiful language. A timely narrative of botched colonialism, The Way of Florida radically reimagines the parameters and responsibilities of the historical novel. Of the 300 crew sent inland to explore, only four survived an eight-year ordeal. Their story comes down to us via La Relación, the ofﬁcial report published in 1542, as well as many other subsequent retellings. Persson's The Way of Florida is arguably the most linguistically rich, sinuous, and maybe even heroic.

Collected Poems

Author : Alexander Theroux
Publisher : Fantagraphics Books
ISBN 13 : 1606998021
Total Pages : 673 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (69 download)

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Download or read book Collected Poems written by Alexander Theroux and published by Fantagraphics Books. This book was released on 2015-05-02 with total page 673 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a collection of the National Book Award-nominated author’s poems: sonnets, odes, ballads, and more. The publication of Alexander Theroux’s Collected Poems, a gathering of more than 660 poems, an astonishing creative output, will be among the major literary events of the year. Here is a full cornucopia of sonnets, odes, ballads, free verse, triolets, pure, satires, narratives, dramatic monologues, fanciful meditations, flytings and harangues, ruminations on death and lost love, and no end of lyrics both beautiful and fierce. Taken altogether they contrive to make up a record of the author’s deepest thoughts and reflect the dramatis personae of his life. Theroux captures in his work those rare, frail, but precious truths, inaccessible to the common run of men that would otherwise have vanished into nescience. Sardonic, astute, impertinent, tender, clever, warmhearted, delphic, truculent, comic, defiantly aggressive, and often achingly personal, he shows an intensity of observation and invention.

Peanuts Every Sunday Vol. 5

Author : Charles Schulz
Publisher : Fantagraphics Books
ISBN 13 : 1683960637
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (839 download)

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Download or read book Peanuts Every Sunday Vol. 5 written by Charles Schulz and published by Fantagraphics Books. This book was released on 2017-11-15 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since their original publication, Peanuts Sundays have almost always been collected and reprinted in black and white. But many who read Peanuts in their original Sunday papers remain fond of the striking coloring, which makes for a surprisingly different reading experience. Peanuts Every Sunday: 1971-1975 has been scrupulously re-colored to match the original syndicate coloring, and these early 1970s strips showcase Schulz at his philosophical and illustrative peak.