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Author : Roger Vadim
Publisher : New York : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
ISBN 13 : 9780151119066
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)
Download or read book Memoirs of the Devil written by Roger Vadim and published by New York : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. This book was released on 1977 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ngugi wa Thiong'o
Publisher : The New Press
ISBN 13 : 1620973340
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (29 download)
Download or read book Wrestling with the Devil written by Ngugi wa Thiong'o and published by The New Press. This book was released on 2018-03-06 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Editors’ Choice "A welcome addition to the vast literature produced by jailed writers across the centuries . . . [a] thrilling testament to the human spirit." —Ariel Dorfman, The New York Times Book Review "Wrestling with the Devil is a powerful testament to the courage of Ngũgĩ and his fellow prisoners and validation of the hope that an independent Kenya would eventually emerge." —Minneapolis Star Tribune "The Ngũgĩ of Wrestling with the Devil called not just for adding a bit of color to the canon’s sagging shelf, but for abolition and upheaval." —Bookforum An unforgettable chronicle of the year the brilliant novelist and memoirist, long favored for the Nobel Prize, was thrown in a Kenyan jail without charge Wrestling with the Devil, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o's powerful prison memoir, begins literally half an hour before his release on December 12, 1978. In one extended flashback he recalls the night, a year earlier, when armed police pulled him from his home and jailed him in Kenya's Kamĩtĩ Maximum Security Prison, one of the largest in Africa. There, he lives in a prison block with eighteen other political prisoners, quarantined from the general prison population. In a conscious effort to fight back the humiliation and the intended degradation of the spirit, Ngũgĩ—the world-renowned author of Weep Not, Child; Petals of Blood; and Wizard of the Crow—decides to write a novel on toilet paper, the only paper to which he has access, a book that will become his classic, Devil on the Cross. Written in the early 1980s and never before published in America, Wrestling with the Devil is Ngũgĩ's account of the drama and the challenges of writing the novel under twenty-four-hour surveillance. He captures not only the excruciating pain that comes from being cut off from his wife and children, but also the spirit of defiance that defines hope. Ultimately, Wrestling with the Devil is a testimony to the power of imagination to help humans break free of confinement, which is truly the story of all art.
Author : Graham Norton
Publisher : Hodder & Stoughton
ISBN 13 : 1444790277
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (447 download)
Download or read book The Life and Loves of a He Devil written by Graham Norton and published by Hodder & Stoughton. This book was released on 2014-10-23 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'I defy anyone not to snort, howl and recoil' The Sunday Times 'Full of wicked asides, tart observations and sharp remarks that could only have originated in Graham Norton's witty brain.' Terry Wogan Looking around the room I saw what life really was. It was made up of my passions. I saw my life reflected back at me. People I liked, people I loved, people I had shared half a century with. All the stories of my life were together in that one room and it made me very happy. Who wouldn't want a friend like Graham Norton? A little bit naughty, full of frank advice, bursting with gossip about the world's biggest stars - but most of all with an emphatic love of life and all its joys, big and small. Join him - glass of wine in hand, faithful doggy friend by your side - and delve in as he shares the loves of his life.
Author : Bernie Lau
Publisher : Bernie Lau
ISBN 13 : 9780615480466
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (84 download)
Download or read book Dance with the Devil written by Bernie Lau and published by Bernie Lau. This book was released on 2011-06-01 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sampson J. Goodfellow
Publisher : Shadowpaw Press
ISBN 13 : 1999382781
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (993 download)
Download or read book One Lucky Devil written by Sampson J. Goodfellow and published by Shadowpaw Press. This book was released on 2020-06-30 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born in Scotland, Sampson J. Goodfellow emigrated to Toronto as a child. Like many young Canadian men, he returned to Europe to serve his new country in the First World War, first as a truck driver, then as a navigator on Handley Page bombers. Over a span of just six years, Sam witnessed Canada’s deadliest-ever tornado, sparred with world-champion lightweight boxers, survived seasickness and submarines, came under artillery fire at Vimy Ridge, was bombed by German aircraft while unloading shells at an ammunition dump at Passchendaele, joined the Royal Flying Corps, was top of his class in observer school, became a navigator, faced a court-martial for allegedly shooting up the King’s horse-breeding stables, survived being shot down by anti-aircraft fire, was captured at bayonet point and interrogated, became a prisoner of war in Germany…and, in the midst of all that, got engaged. When Sam was listed as missing, the family of his fiancée went to a fortuneteller for news of his fate. “You couldn’t kill that devil,” she told them. “He is alive and trying to escape.” She was right. With a sharp eye, a keen mind, a strong body, and an acerbic tongue, Sam survived, as one RAF officer put it when he returned to England after the Armistice, “enough to be dead several times.” “You have been through hell,” a military doctor told him, “and you have been very lucky as a soldier and airman.” Sampson J. Goodfellow really was “one lucky devil.” This is his story, in his own words.
Author : Herbert Asbury
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Up from Methodism written by Herbert Asbury and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Roger Vadim
Publisher : Arrow
ISBN 13 : 9780099166504
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (665 download)
Download or read book Memoirs of the Devil written by Roger Vadim and published by Arrow. This book was released on 1976 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Alexander Gerhardie
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Memoirs of Satan written by William Alexander Gerhardie and published by . This book was released on 1932 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Romeo Dallaire
Publisher : Vintage Canada
ISBN 13 : 0307371190
Total Pages : 585 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (73 download)
Download or read book Shake Hands With the Devil written by Romeo Dallaire and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2009-02-24 with total page 585 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the tenth anniversary of the date that UN peacekeepers landed in Rwanda, Random House Canada is proud to publish the unforgettable first-hand account of the genocide by the man who led the UN mission. Digging deep into shattering memories, General Dallaire has written a powerful story of betrayal, naïveté, racism and international politics. His message is simple and undeniable: “Never again.” When Lt-Gen. Roméo Dallaire received the call to serve as force commander of the UN intervention in Rwanda in 1993, he thought he was heading off on a modest and straightforward peacekeeping mission. Thirteen months later he flew home from Africa, broken, disillusioned and suicidal, having witnessed the slaughter of 800,000 Rwandans in only a hundred days. In Shake Hands with the Devil, he takes the reader with him on a return voyage into the hell of Rwanda, vividly recreating the events the international community turned its back on. This book is an unsparing eyewitness account of the failure by humanity to stop the genocide, despite timely warnings. Woven through the story of this disastrous mission is Dallaire’s own journey from confident Cold Warrior, to devastated UN commander, to retired general engaged in a painful struggle to find a measure of peace, reconciliation and hope. This book is General Dallaire’s personal account of his conversion from a man certain of his worth and secure in his assumptions to a man conscious of his own weaknesses and failures and critical of the institutions he’d relied on. It might not sit easily with standard ideas of military leadership, but understanding what happened to General Dallaire and his mission to Rwanda is crucial to understanding the moral minefields our peacekeepers are forced to negotiate when we ask them to step into the world’s dirty wars. Excerpt from Shake Hands with the Devil My story is not a strictly military account nor a clinical, academic study of the breakdown of Rwanda. It is not a simplistic indictment of the many failures of the UN as a force for peace in the world. It is not a story of heroes and villains, although such a work could easily be written. This book is a cri de coeur for the slaughtered thousands, a tribute to the souls hacked apart by machetes because of their supposed difference from those who sought to hang on to power. . . . This book is the account of a few humans who were entrusted with the role of helping others taste the fruits of peace. Instead, we watched as the devil took control of paradise on earth and fed on the blood of the people we were supposed to protect.
Author : Michael Mewshaw
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0374280487
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (742 download)
Download or read book Sympathy for the Devil written by Michael Mewshaw and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2015-01-13 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a memoir of friendship that is filled with anecdotes about expat life in Italy, the author presents an irresistible insider account of his relationship with Gore Vidal, a man who prided himself on being difficult to know.
Author : Jeremy Pascall
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780852237663
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (376 download)
Download or read book Satan written by Jeremy Pascall and published by . This book was released on 1988-01-01 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Charles Waring
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781527255494
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (554 download)
Download or read book God, the Devil & James Brown: Memoirs of a Funky Diva written by Charles Waring and published by . This book was released on 2020-01-06 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Baptized 'Soul Sister Number One' by her producer and mentor James Brown, Kansas City funk siren Marva Whitney was on the cusp of stardom in the late 1960s. During that time she scored three US R&B hit singles, released two albums, picked up a Golden Mike Award and was voted second in Record World magazine's readers' poll for the Most Promising Female R&B Vocalist of 1969. She also made numerous appearances on US television but just as her star seemed to be in the ascendant, Whitney's career took a spectacular turn for the worse after personal problems forced her to quit the James Brown organization in early 1970. She then spent 35 years in the wilderness before successfully reviving her career in 2005. In her absorbing and sometimes shockingly frank memoir, God, The Devil & James Brown, Marva Whitney - who died in 2012 at the age of 68 - tells her story with an unflinching, tell-it-like-it-is directness. Her detailed account of life with James Brown is particularly disturbing but leavened with a laugh-out-loud humor that makes Marva Whitney's autobiography a compelling page-turner. "(An) eye-opening life-story. Whitney is an engaging raconteur ... she recalls her struggles and triumphs vividly, with humility and humour." Terry Staunton, Record Collector "Her tenure with 'The Godfather' is remarkably honest and forthright; sometimes unbelievable even. After reading this, and her candid remarks about her life - particularly the period spent with James Brown - I feel I know her like a friend... it's a cracking read!" Sharon Davis, SoulMusic.com
Author : Ambrose Bierce
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Devil's Dictionary written by Ambrose Bierce and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 1911 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jennifer Traig
Publisher : Back Bay Books
ISBN 13 : 0316028568
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (16 download)
Download or read book Devil in the Details written by Jennifer Traig and published by Back Bay Books. This book was released on 2007-09-03 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jennifer Traig's memoir Devil in the Details paints a portrait of a well-meaning Jewish girl and her good-natured parents, and takes a very funny, very sharp look back at growing up with obsessive-compulsive disorder. Recalling the agony of growing up an obsessive-compulsive religious fanatic, Traig fearlessly confesses the most peculiar behavior like tirelessly scrubbing her hands for a full half hour before dinner, feeding her stuffed animals before herself, and washing everything she owned because she thought it was contaminated by pork fumes. Jennifer's childhood mania was the result of her then undiagnosed OCD joining forces with her Hebrew studies-what psychiatrists call scrupulosity While preparing for her bat mitzvah, she was introduced to an entire set of arcane laws and quickly made it her mission to follow them perfectly. Her parents nipped her religious obsession in the bud early on, but as her teen years went by, her natural tendency toward the extreme led her down different paths of adolescent agony and mortification. Years later, Jennifer remembers these scenes with candor and humor. In the bestselling tradition of Running with Scissors and A Girl Named Zippy, Jennifer Traig tells an unforgettable story of youthful obsession.
Author : Steve Kissing
Publisher : Crossroad Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780824521059
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (21 download)
Download or read book Running from the Devil written by Steve Kissing and published by Crossroad Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Running from the Devil" is Kissing's poignant and humorous memoir about the remarkable steps he took to hide his "possession"--later discovered to be epilepsy--and exorcise his demons. 20 illustrations.
Author : Drew Benbow
Publisher : Di Angelo Publications
ISBN 13 : 1955690030
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (556 download)
Download or read book The Devil's Politics written by Drew Benbow and published by Di Angelo Publications. This book was released on 2022-06-16 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Damion and Devon are identical twins. But it’s their differences that set them onto diverging life paths, resulting in their eventual estrangement. Devon grapples with his identity. He’s black, and a low-level aide to a Republican congressman. He’s forced to reckon with his politics and his social consciousness when one of the congressman’s past misdeeds lands them both in the center of a national scandal. Deemed a bad apple from childhood, Damion’s story collides with Devon’s when a pair of hit men track Damion from his Army base in Afghanistan all the way to Devon’s Washington, D.C. doorstep. Amid this all, a love triangle involving both brothers sparks an ember of rage in a woman that grows into a homicidal blaze. The Congressman’s scandal, Damion’s hit men and the woman’s scorn test the brothers’ already strained relationship. At its core, The Devil’s Politics challenges systems of power, suggesting a hot take alternative to contemporary black political participation, with the aim of strengthening black political empowerment in America.
Author : J.D. Bernal
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1786630931
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (866 download)
Download or read book The World, the Flesh and the Devil written by J.D. Bernal and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2018-01-23 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by the pioneering scientist, theorist and activist J. D. Bernal, this futuristic essay explores the radical changes to human bodies and intelligence that science may bring about, and suggests the impact of these developments on society. Bernal presents a far-reaching vision of the future that encompasses space research and colonization, material sciences, genetic engineering, and the technological hive mind. In his view, it will be possible for the conditions of civilization to reach a state of materialist utopia. For all three realms—the world, the flesh, and the devil—Bernal attempted to map out the utmost limit of technoscientific progress, and found that there are almost no limits. With a new introduction by McKenzie Wark.
