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The Other Side of Paradise

Author : Julia Cooke
Publisher : Seal Press
ISBN 13 : 1580055311
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book The Other Side of Paradise written by Julia Cooke and published by Seal Press. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Change looms in Havana, Cuba's capital, a city electric with uncertainty yet cloaked in cliché, 90 miles from U.S. shores and off-limits to most Americans. Journalist Julia Cooke, who lived there at intervals over a period of five years, discovered a dynamic scene: baby-faced anarchists with Mohawks gelled with laundry soap, whiskey-drinking children of the elite, Santería trainees, pregnant prostitutes, university graduates planning to leave for the first country that will give them a visa. This last generation of Cubans raised under Fidel Castro animate life in a waning era of political stagnation as the rest of the world beckons: waiting out storms at rummy hurricane parties and attending raucous drag cabarets, planning ascendant music careers and black-market business ventures, trying to reconcile the undefined future with the urgent today. Eye-opening and politically prescient, The Other Side of Paradise offers a deep new understanding of a place that has so confounded and intrigued us.

Paradise Lost, and Other Poems

Author : John Milton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (25 download)

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Download or read book Paradise Lost, and Other Poems written by John Milton and published by . This book was released on 1839 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Paradises

Author : Iosi Havilio
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781908276247
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (762 download)

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Download or read book Paradises written by Iosi Havilio and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young mother learns to survive among the snakes, sleaze, and slums of Buenos Aires.

Paradise Rot

Author : Jenny Hval
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 178663385X
Total Pages : 119 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (866 download)

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Download or read book Paradise Rot written by Jenny Hval and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2018-10-02 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jo is in a strange new country for university and having a more peculiar time than most. In a house with no walls, shared with a woman who has no boundaries, she finds her strange home coming to life in unimaginable ways. Jo's sensitivity and all her senses become increasingly heightened and fraught, as the lines between bodies and plants, dreaming and wakefulness, blur and mesh. This debut novel from critically acclaimed artist and musician Jenny Hval presents a heady and hyper-sensual portrayal of sexual awakening and queer desire.

Paradise Tales

Author : Geoff Ryman
Publisher : Small Beer Press
ISBN 13 : 193152064X
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Paradise Tales written by Geoff Ryman and published by Small Beer Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection that ranges from present-day Cambodia to the far future: this is science fiction and fantasy with a heart.

Another Side of Paradise

Author : Sally Koslow
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062696785
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (626 download)

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Download or read book Another Side of Paradise written by Sally Koslow and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2018-05-29 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Koslow’s imagined account of the real-life affair between [F. Scott Fitzgerald] and the seductive expat is captivating.” —People magazine In 1937 Hollywood, gossip columnist Sheilah Graham’s star is on the rise, while literary wonder boy F. Scott Fitzgerald’s career is slowly drowning in booze. But the once-famous author, desperate to make money penning scripts for the silver screen, is charismatic enough to attract the gorgeous Miss Graham, a woman who exposes the secrets of others while carefully guarding her own. Like Fitzgerald’s hero Jay Gatsby, Graham has meticulously constructed a life far removed from the poverty of her childhood in London’s slums. And like Gatsby, the onetime guttersnipe learned early how to use her charms to become a hardworking success; she is feted and feared by both the movie studios and their luminaries. With his mentally-ill wife Zelda away in a sanitorium, Fitzgerald fell hard for Sheilah, who would help revive his career until his tragic death three years later. Working from Sheilah’s memoirs, interviews, and letters, Sally Koslow revisits their scandalous love affair and Graham’s dramatic transformation in London, bringing Graham and Fitzgerald gloriously to life with the color, glitter, magic, and passion of 1930s Hollywood. “A stunning, utterly captivating read.” —Kathleen Grissom, New York Times–bestselling author of The Kitchen House and Glory Over Everything “Rich in historical detail, celebrity dish, and old-fashioned human drama.” —Good Housekeeping “You’ll be surprised by the nuance and new details that Another Side of Paradise brings to light.” —Meryl Gordon, New York Times–bestselling author of Bunny Mellon: The Life of an American Style Legend “Intoxicating.” —Publishers Weekly

No Other Paradise

Author : Kurt Brown
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781597094887
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (948 download)

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Download or read book No Other Paradise written by Kurt Brown and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "'I am going to keep death from entering this poem, ' Kurt Brown writes in No Other Paradise. These masterful poems are taut with the power of the unspoken. Their urgency is visceral. If the problem of our century is Hegel's dilemma of cognition and the will--the more we know, the less we can act--Brown is searching for a knowledge so immediate, so free of rhetoric, that our scary responsibilities will open the world up rather than paralyzing us. With a clear eye, zapping wit, and a mind haunted by the unfathomable future, Brown is creating fascinating poetry whose horizons lie far beyond the self. No Other Paradise leaves us in that strangest, richest moment, the human present." --D. Nurkse "At the climax of Kurt Brown's evocative meditations on everything from nature and news to baloney, there is his astonishing title poem. A walk through a teeming cityscape inhabited by the memorable likes of Miss Donna, "Mystical Astrologist," this Whitmanesque celebration of the turbulent here-and-now powerfully conveys Brown's vision of the fleeting, sensory moment, a view summed up in his echoing line: don't let go." --Kimiko Hahn

The Other Side of Paradise

Author : Staceyann Chin
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439159378
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book The Other Side of Paradise written by Staceyann Chin and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-04-14 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Staceyann Chin has appeared on television and radio discussing issues of race and sexuality, but it is her extraordinary voice that launched her career as a performer, poet, and activist—here, she shares her unforgettable story of triumph against all odds in this brave and fiercely candid memoir. No one knew Staceyann's mother was pregnant until a dangerously small baby was born on the floor of her grandmother's house in Lottery, Jamaica on Christmas Day. Staceyann's mother did not want her and her father was not present—no one, except her grandmother, thought Staceyann would survive. It was her grandmother who nurtured and protected and provided for Staceyann and her older brother in the early years. But when the three were separated, Staceyann was thrust, alone, into an unfamiliar and dysfunctional home in Paradise, Jamaica. There, she faced far greater troubles than absent parents. So, armed with a fierce determination and exceptional intelligence, she discovered a way to break out of this harshly unforgiving world. Staceyann Chin, acclaimed and iconic performance artist, now brings her extraordinary talents to the page in a brave, lyrical, and fiercely candid memoir about growing up in Jamaica. She plumbs tender and unsettling memories as she writes about drifting from one home to the next, coming out as a lesbian, and finding the man she believes to be her father and ultimately her voice. Hers is an unforgettable story told with grace, humor, and courage.

Paradise

Author : Toni Morrison
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307388115
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book Paradise written by Toni Morrison and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2007-07-24 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The acclaimed Nobel Prize winner challenges our most fiercely held beliefs as she weaves folklore and history, memory and myth into an unforgettable meditation on race, religion, gender, and a far-off past that is ever present—in prose that soars with the rhythms, grandeur, and tragic arc of an epic poem. “They shoot the white girl first. With the rest they can take their time.” So begins Toni Morrison’s Paradise, which opens with a horrifying scene of mass violence and chronicles its genesis in an all-black small town in rural Oklahoma. Founded by the descendants of freed slaves and survivors in exodus from a hostile world, the patriarchal community of Ruby is built on righteousness, rigidly enforced moral law, and fear. But seventeen miles away, another group of exiles has gathered in a promised land of their own. And it is upon these women in flight from death and despair that nine male citizens of Ruby will lay their pain, their terror, and their murderous rage. “A fascinating story, wonderfully detailed. . . . The town is the stage for a profound and provocative debate.” —Los Angeles Times

Others' Paradise

Author : Paul Leppin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Others' Paradise written by Paul Leppin and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fiction. Translated from the German by Stephanie Howard and Amy R. Nestor. Towards the end of his life Leppin wrote: "Prague remains my deepest experience. Its conflict, its mystery, its rat-catcher's beauty have ever provided my poetic efforts with new inspiration and meaning." OTHERS' PARADISE represents one of the most intense expressions of this experience. Beginning with the highly imagistic "The Doors of Life," the eight stories contained in this volume detail the contours of the lives and visions of a collection of Prague inhabitants, from a prostitute bound to the decay of the old Jewish Quarter, to a man caught in the memory of a lost love and a shoemaker whose knowledge of the owrkd has been constricted to the view from the window of his cellar workroom. Binding their personal histories, woven into their most intimate details, is Prague itself, the city whose nature, mythical and yet all-too-real, gives shape and force to their desires while simultaneously determining their frustrations.

The Other Side of Paradise

Author : Margaret Mayhew
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 055215492X
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (521 download)

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Download or read book The Other Side of Paradise written by Margaret Mayhew and published by Random House. This book was released on 2009 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She lived only for pleasure... until war forced her to find courage she did not know she had, and love where she least expected it. It is 1941, and while Britain is in the grip of war, life in the Far East is one of wealth and privilege. In Singapore Susan Roper, secure in the supremacy of the British Empire, enjoys dancing, clothes and fast cars.

Appletons' Journal

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 594 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Appletons' Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Forest and Stream

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 808 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Forest and Stream written by and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 808 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Paradise Lost ...

Author : John Milton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Paradise Lost ... written by John Milton and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Paradise

Author : Dante Alighieri
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Paradise written by Dante Alighieri and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Hypergraphia and Other Failed Attempts at Paradise

Author : Jennifer Metsker
Publisher : New Issues Poetry and Prose
ISBN 13 : 9781936970711
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book Hypergraphia and Other Failed Attempts at Paradise written by Jennifer Metsker and published by New Issues Poetry and Prose. This book was released on 2021-10-12 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of poems that delve into the experience of living with bipolar disorder. With Hypergraphia and Other Failed Attempts at Paradise, Jennifer Metsker reaches for an understanding of the ecstasy of madness, utilizing both lyric and prose forms that mimic the sublime state of mania through their engagement with language. Ordinary life becomes strange as these poems question what happens when the mind overthrows the body. At times playful and humorous, at times dark, above all these poems aim to approach mental illness from a personal and compassionate perspective.

A Paradise Built in Hell

Author : Rebecca Solnit
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101459018
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book A Paradise Built in Hell written by Rebecca Solnit and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010-08-31 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of Men Explain Things to Me explores the moments of altruism and generosity that arise in the aftermath of disaster Why is it that in the aftermath of a disaster? whether manmade or natural?people suddenly become altruistic, resourceful, and brave? What makes the newfound communities and purpose many find in the ruins and crises after disaster so joyous? And what does this joy reveal about ordinarily unmet social desires and possibilities? In A Paradise Built in Hell, award-winning author Rebecca Solnit explores these phenomena, looking at major calamities from the 1906 earthquake in San Francisco through the 1917 explosion that tore up Halifax, Nova Scotia, the 1985 Mexico City earthquake, 9/11, and Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans. She examines how disaster throws people into a temporary utopia of changed states of mind and social possibilities, as well as looking at the cost of the widespread myths and rarer real cases of social deterioration during crisis. This is a timely and important book from an acclaimed author whose work consistently locates unseen patterns and meanings in broad cultural histories.