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Nobody's Home

Author : Dubravka Ugrešić
Publisher : Open Letter Books
ISBN 13 : 1934824003
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (348 download)

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Download or read book Nobody's Home written by Dubravka Ugrešić and published by Open Letter Books. This book was released on 2008 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her long career, Ugresic has published several novels (e.g., The Ministry of Pain), but she made her name with her essay collections, which have caused controversy and earned her the admiration of writers and critics abroad. In these latest musings, written over the course of several years, Ugresic leaves no stone unturned and no thought contained, doing what she does best: writing about the human condition through her own experience. Refusing to establish a central theme, she touches upon a wide range of topics: the paradox of multiculturalism, metaphors as our "defense against nightmares," the eerie similarities between capitalism and communism, and ways in which we try to rise hopelessly above our less-than-perfect existence. Along the way, she pays homage to the works of literature that have influenced her own creative process, in an effort to pay "a symbolic literary tax on narcissim" because "writing is not the humblest of vocations." Perhaps not, but Ugresic certainly knows how to balance being a critic with being criticized. Recommended for all libraries collecting cultural criticism.--Mirela Roncevic, Library Journal Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

Nobody's Home

Author : Thomas Edward Gass
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801472619
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (726 download)

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Download or read book Nobody's Home written by Thomas Edward Gass and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After caring for his mother at the end of her life, Thomas Gass took a job as a nursing home aide in a for-profit long term care home. This graphic, poignant & chilling book details his experiences in this 'warehouse' for the elderly & asks fundamental questions about care in American nursing homes.

Nobody's Home

Author : Thomas Gass
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801442438
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (424 download)

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Download or read book Nobody's Home written by Thomas Gass and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gass has applied his psychology degree in a variety of settings, including a three-and-a-half-year period working in a for-profit long- term-care facility in the Midwest, first as a nursing aide and then as a director of social services. He draws on that experience to take readers into the world of a nursing home, in an account that is intimate, stark, funny, and poignant--and a wake-up call to Americans of the need to act now to make nursing homes a better place to live and work. No subject index. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).

Nobody's Home

Author : Tim Powers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781596066700
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (667 download)

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Download or read book Nobody's Home written by Tim Powers and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the first time in his esteemed career, Tim Powers returns to the setting (and a central character) from his landmark time travel novel, "The Anubis Gates." Tracking the murderer of her fiancee through 19th century London's darkest warrens, Jacky Snapp has disguised herself as a boy but the disguise fails when, trying to save a girl from the ghost of her jealous husband, Jacky finds that she has made herself visible to the ghosts that cluster around the Thames And one of them is the ghost of her fiancee, who was poisoned and physically transformed by his murderer but unwittingly shot dead by Jacky herself. Jacky and the girl she rescued, united in the need to banish their pursuing ghosts, learn that their only hope is to flee upriver to the barge known as Nobody's Home where the exorcist whose name is Nobody charges an intolerable price.

Populate and Perish

Author : George Haddad
Publisher : Seizure
ISBN 13 : 1925143236
Total Pages : 55 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (251 download)

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Download or read book Populate and Perish written by George Haddad and published by Seizure. This book was released on 2016-09-01 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Nobody's Angel

Author : Thomas McGuane
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 030782201X
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Nobody's Angel written by Thomas McGuane and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2012-06-13 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A novel about a former soldier in Big Sky Country whose life is spiraling out of control, from the acclaimed author of Ninety-two in the Shade and Cloudbursts, who is "among the most arresting and fascinating [writers] of his generation" (San Francisco Chronicle). In McGuane's first novel set in his famed American West, Patrick Fitzpatrick is a former soldier, a fourth-generation cowboy, and a whiskey addict. His grandfather wants to run away to act in movies, his sister wants to burn the house down, and his new stallion is bent on killing him: all of them urgently require attention. But increasingly Patrick himself is spiraling out of control, into that region of romantic misadventure and vanishing possibilities that is Thomas McGuane's Montana. Nowhere has McGuane mapped that territory more precisely—or with such tenderhearted lunacy—than in Nobody's Angel, a novel that places him in a genre of his own.

Nobody's Home

Author : Arnold L. Weinstein
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 019508022X
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (95 download)

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Download or read book Nobody's Home written by Arnold L. Weinstein and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1993 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this broad-based study of American fiction, canonical and otherwise, Arnold Weinstein examines closely the strong ties between language, history and culture, with a particular focus on freedom of the self.

A Home for Nobody's Princess

Author : Leanne Banks
Publisher : Harlequin
ISBN 13 : 037365698X
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (736 download)

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Download or read book A Home for Nobody's Princess written by Leanne Banks and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2012-09-18 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "How does it feel to be a princess?" Coco Jordan wished she knew the answer. Discovering she was the illegitimate daughter of the prince of Chantaine took some getting used to--especially when she was working as a nanny on a Texas ranch As much as she tried to focus on caring for baby Emma, her newfound fame kept getting in the way. Until help arrived from an unexpected--and handsome--source... Widowed rancher Benjamin Garner would do anything for his daughter--even fake an engagement to Coco to keep the paparazzi at bay. Princess or not, Coco's the best woman for his child's needs--and though he doesn't dare think about it too much, probably his own. Soon their "royal romance" is making headlines--but can their all-too-real love survive the pressure?

The Lights are on But Nobody's Home

Author : Amelia Wilson
Publisher : Michael Dowell
ISBN 13 : 9781513648668
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (486 download)

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Download or read book The Lights are on But Nobody's Home written by Amelia Wilson and published by Michael Dowell. This book was released on 2019-04-10 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book details the journey I took from losing friendships and losing myself, to finding my independence and ability to live for me. The poems in this book range from naive in tone, to dark, to empowering. This is a documentation of my growth as a person. I've been in many toxic relationships, and I have hidden my own power deep inside me for fear of losing what relationships I did have. This book showcases the importance of loving yourself in order to face your fears, and to escape the bonds that prevent you from living a prosperous life.

Nobody's Son

Author : Luis Alberto Urrea
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 9780816522705
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (227 download)

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Download or read book Nobody's Son written by Luis Alberto Urrea and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born in Tijuana to a Mexican father and an Anglo mother, Urrea moved to San Diego at age three. In this memoir of his childhood, Urrea describes his experiences growing up in the barrio and his search for cultural identity.

Nobody's Normal: How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness

Author : Roy Richard Grinker
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393531651
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (935 download)

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Download or read book Nobody's Normal: How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness written by Roy Richard Grinker and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2021-01-26 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compassionate and captivating examination of evolving attitudes toward mental illness throughout history and the fight to end the stigma. For centuries, scientists and society cast moral judgments on anyone deemed mentally ill, confining many to asylums. In Nobody’s Normal, anthropologist Roy Richard Grinker chronicles the progress and setbacks in the struggle against mental-illness stigma—from the eighteenth century, through America’s major wars, and into today’s high-tech economy. Nobody’s Normal argues that stigma is a social process that can be explained through cultural history, a process that began the moment we defined mental illness, that we learn from within our communities, and that we ultimately have the power to change. Though the legacies of shame and secrecy are still with us today, Grinker writes that we are at the cusp of ending the marginalization of the mentally ill. In the twenty-first century, mental illnesses are fast becoming a more accepted and visible part of human diversity. Grinker infuses the book with the personal history of his family’s four generations of involvement in psychiatry, including his grandfather’s analysis with Sigmund Freud, his own daughter’s experience with autism, and culminating in his research on neurodiversity. Drawing on cutting-edge science, historical archives, and cross-cultural research in Africa and Asia, Grinker takes readers on an international journey to discover the origins of, and variances in, our cultural response to neurodiversity. Urgent, eye-opening, and ultimately hopeful, Nobody’s Normal explains how we are transforming mental illness and offers a path to end the shadow of stigma.

Nobody's Son: A Memoir

Author : Mark Slouka
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393292312
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (932 download)

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Download or read book Nobody's Son: A Memoir written by Mark Slouka and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2016-10-18 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I have never before read anything except Nabokov’s Speak, Memory that so relentlessly and shrewdly exhausted the kindness and cruelty of recollection’s shaping devices." —Geoffrey Wolff Born in Czechoslovakia, Mark Slouka’s parents survived the Nazis only to have to escape the Communist purges after the war. Smuggled out of their own country, the newlyweds joined a tide of refugees moving from Innsbruck to Sydney to New York, dragging with them a history of blood and betrayal that their son would be born into. From World War I to the present, Slouka pieces together a remarkable story of refugees and war, displacement and denial—admitting into evidence memories, dreams, stories, the lies we inherit, and the lies we tell—in an attempt to reach his mother, the enigmatic figure at the center of the labyrinth. Her story, the revelation of her life-long burden and the forty-year love affair that might have saved her, shows the way out of the maze.

Thank You for Not Reading

Author : Dubravka Ugrešić
Publisher : Dalkey Archive Press
ISBN 13 : 9781564782984
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (829 download)

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Download or read book Thank You for Not Reading written by Dubravka Ugrešić and published by Dalkey Archive Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this collection of acerbic essays, Ugresic dissects the nature of the contemporary book industry, which she argues is so infected with the need to create and promote literature that will appeal to the masses--literally to everyone--that if Thomas Mann were writing nowadays, his books wouldn't even be published in the U.S. because they're not sexy enough. A playful and biting critique, Ugresic's essays hit on all of the major aspects of publishing: agents, subagents, and scouts, supermarket-like bookstores, Joan Collins, book fairs that have little to do with books, authors promoted because of sex appeal instead of merit, and editors trying to look like writers by having their photograph taken against a background of bookshelves. Thanks to cultural influences such as Oprah, "The Today Show," and Kelly Ripa, best-seller lists have become just a modern form of socialist realism, a manifestation of a society that generally ignores literature in favor of the next big thing.

Matt & Ben

Author : Mindy Kaling
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780573632754
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (327 download)

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Download or read book Matt & Ben written by Mindy Kaling and published by Samuel French, Inc.. This book was released on 2007 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: MATT & BEN depicts its Hollywood golden boys ¿ before J-Lo, before Gwyneth, before ¿Project Greenlight,¿ before Oscar¿before anyone actually gave a damn. When the screenplay for Good Will Hunting drops mysteriously from the heavens, the boys realize they¿re being tested by a Higher Power.

Nobody's Perfect

Author : Armando Galarraga
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN 13 : 0802195598
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book Nobody's Perfect written by Armando Galarraga and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2011-06-02 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Detroit Tigers, an umpire, a pitcher, and a mistake—one of the “classic, human, baseball stories” (Ken Burns, creator of the PBS mini-series Baseball). The perfect game is one of the rarest accomplishments in sports. In nearly four hundred thousand contests in over 130 years, it has happened only twenty times. On June 2, 2010, Armando Galarraga threw baseball’s twenty-first. Except that’s not how it entered the record books. That’s because Jim Joyce, voted the best umpire in the game in 2010 and 2011, missed the call on the final out. But rather than throwing a tantrum, Galarraga simply turned and smiled, went back to the mound, and finished the game. “Nobody’s perfect,” he said later in the locker room. “You might think everything that could have been said, replayed, and revealed about that night has already been uttered, logged, and exposed. You would, however, be as wrong as the unfortunate Mr. Joyce” (The Detroit News). In Nobody’s Perfect, Galarraga and Joyce come together to tell the personal story of a remarkable game that will live forever in baseball lore, and to trace their fascinating lives in sports. The result is “a masterpiece”, an absorbing insider’s look at two careers in baseball, a tremendous achievement, and an enduring moment of pure grace and sportsmanship (The Huffington Post).

Nobody's Fool

Author : Richard Russo
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307809927
Total Pages : 561 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Nobody's Fool written by Richard Russo and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-11-09 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Empire Falls, this slyly funny, moving novel about a blue-collar town in upstate New York—and about Sully, one of its unluckiest citizens, who has been doing the wrong thing triumphantly for fifty years—is a classic American story. "Remarkable.... A revelation of the human heart." —The Washington Post Divorced from his own wife and carrying on halfheartedly with another man's, saddled with a bum knee and friends who make enemies redundant, Sully now has one new problem to cope with: a long-estranged son who is in imminent danger of following in his father's footsteps. With its uproarious humor and a heart that embraces humanity's follies as well as its triumphs, Nobody's Fool, from Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Richard Russo, is storytelling at its most generous. Nobody’s Fool was made into a movie starring Paul Newman, Bruce Willis, Jessica Tandy, and Melody Griffith. Look for Everybody’s Fool, available now, and Somebody’s Fool, coming soon.

When the Lights Are on But Nobody's Home

Author : Phyllis Zuccarello
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781470039721
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (397 download)

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Download or read book When the Lights Are on But Nobody's Home written by Phyllis Zuccarello and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2012-08-02 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book gives you the opportunity to re-examine your life as the author takes you on a journey back to reality. Using a direct approach, she urges you to pay attention to what is most important and with clear insightful words why you should, in a variety of situations.