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PICADOR SHOTS - 'Sonata'

Author : Jackie Kay
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1447206614
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (472 download)

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Download or read book PICADOR SHOTS - 'Sonata' written by Jackie Kay and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2012-03-22 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In June, 2006, Picador launch Picador Shots, a new series of pocket-sized books priced at £1. The Shots aim to promote the short story as well as the work of some Picador's greatest authors. They will be contemporarily packaged but ultimately disposable books that are the ideal literary alternative to a magazine. Jackie Kay's 'Sonata' will be one of the first Picador Shots and comes from her new collection, WISH I WAS HERE. In 'Sonata', Two strangers meet on a train and connect in a way that one only can when you know that you only have a few hours together, and that anything you do or say will never be held against you. One is a good listener and one is a good talker – they are the perfect combination. One tells the other about her recent loss of love whilst the other watches on, falling, secretly, in love. What will become of them? Will this journey be the sum of their relationship?

Narratives of Community in the Black British Short Story

Author : Bettina Jansen
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319948601
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (199 download)

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Download or read book Narratives of Community in the Black British Short Story written by Bettina Jansen and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-08-16 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Narratives of Community in the Black British Short Story offers the first systematic study of black British short story writing, tracing its development from the 1950s to the present with a particular focus on contemporary short stories by Hanif Kureishi, Jackie Kay, Suhayl Saadi, Zadie Smith, and Hari Kunzru. By combining a postcolonial framework of analysis with Jean-Luc Nancy’s deconstructive philosophy of community, the book charts key tendencies in black British short fiction and explores how black British writers use the short story form to combat deeply entrenched notions of community and experiment with non-essentialist alternatives across differences of ethnicity, culture, religion, and nationality.

In Cold Ink

Author : David Robinson
Publisher : Birlinn
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book In Cold Ink written by David Robinson and published by Birlinn. This book was released on 2008 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracing the blurred line between life and literature has taken David Robinson to places as far afield as west Kansas and the edge of the Kalahari. It's also taken him on journeys of discovery into the minds of some of the most gifted writers alive. This beautifully produced collection of essays and interviews is based on his articles in The Scotsman newspaper and is a record of those fascinating encounters--a book that starts in a couple of dozen other books and takes the reader on the road to even more. If you've ever found yourself enthralled underneath the canvas of a book festival tent--or if you've only wished for the chance--In Cold Ink is the perfect recreation, taking you straight to your best-loved authors and helping you discover new favorites!

Sonata de Primavera

Author : Ramón del Valle-Inclán
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486440710
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book Sonata de Primavera written by Ramón del Valle-Inclán and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspired by the similarities between human existence and the seasons, Ramón del Valle-Inclán created 4 modernist stories known as the Sonatas tetralogy. From that highly regarded series comes this 1904 masterpiece. It chronicles a Don Juan's passion for a beguiling young aristocratic woman who intends to take the veil. The only available dual-language edition.

Picador Shots: Death of the Pugilist, or The Famous Battle of Jacob Burke and Blindman McGraw

Author : Daniel Mason
Publisher : Picador
ISBN 13 : 1743286430
Total Pages : 45 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (432 download)

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Download or read book Picador Shots: Death of the Pugilist, or The Famous Battle of Jacob Burke and Blindman McGraw written by Daniel Mason and published by Picador. This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 45 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 8 new intoxicating short stories from Picador's most exciting writers Death of the Pugilist, or The Famous Battle of Jacob Burke & Blindman McGraw Rising from a childhood of rough dockside brawls, a young bare-knuckle fighter faces off against a legendary behemoth. The Ecstasy of Alfred Russel Wallace In the jungles of the Malay Archipelago, a botanist is struck by an epiphany that will change not only his own life, but the course of science.

Listen to This

Author : Alex Ross
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 1429977612
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Listen to This written by Alex Ross and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2010-09-28 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of The Telegraph's Best Music Books 2011 Alex Ross's award-winning international bestseller, The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century, has become a contemporary classic, establishing Ross as one of our most popular and acclaimed cultural historians. Listen to This, which takes its title from a beloved 2004 essay in which Ross describes his late-blooming discovery of pop music, showcases the best of his writing from more than a decade at The New Yorker. These pieces, dedicated to classical and popular artists alike, are at once erudite and lively. In a previously unpublished essay, Ross brilliantly retells hundreds of years of music history—from Renaissance dances to Led Zeppelin—through a few iconic bass lines of celebration and lament. He vibrantly sketches canonical composers such as Schubert, Verdi, and Brahms; gives us in-depth interviews with modern pop masters such as Björk and Radiohead; and introduces us to music students at a Newark high school and indie-rock hipsters in Beijing. Whether his subject is Mozart or Bob Dylan, Ross shows how music expresses the full complexity of the human condition. Witty, passionate, and brimming with insight, Listen to This teaches us how to listen more closely.

Seven Pleasures

Author : Willard Spiegelman
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 1429958707
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Seven Pleasures written by Willard Spiegelman and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2009-04-27 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does it mean to be happy? Americans have had an obsession with "the pursuit of happiness" ever since the Founding Fathers enshrined it—along with life and liberty—as our national birthright. Whether it means the accumulation of wealth or a more vaguely understood notion of self-fulfillment or self-actualization, happiness has been an inevitable, though elusive, goal. But it is hard to separate "real" happiness from the banal self-help version that embraces mindless positive thinking. And though we have two booming "happiness industries"—religion, with its promise of salvation, and psychopharmacology, with its promise of better living through chemistry—each comes with its own problems and complications. In Seven Pleasures, Willard Spiegelman takes a look at the possibilities for achieving ordinary secular happiness without recourse to either religion or drugs. In this erudite and frequently hilarious book of essays, he discusses seven activities that lead naturally and easily to a sense of well-being. One of these—dancing—requires a partner, and therefore provides a lesson in civility, or good citizenship, as one of its benefits. The other six—reading, walking, looking, listening, swimming, and writing—are things one performs alone. Seven Pleasures is a marvelously engaging guide to the pursuit of happiness, and all its accompanying delights.

Reality, Reality

Author : Jackie Kay
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1447204409
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (472 download)

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Download or read book Reality, Reality written by Jackie Kay and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2012-05-10 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The women of Reality, Reality are mesmerizing, whether in love or in solitude. Full of compassion, generosity, sorrow and joy, their fifteen unforgettable stories explore the power of the imagination to make things real, and celebrate, most of all, those who dare to dream.

The Lamplighter

Author : Jackie Kay
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 152903986X
Total Pages : 123 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book The Lamplighter written by Jackie Kay and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2020-08-06 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘Ambitious, defiant, angry and gripping . . . the bitter story of slavery through the experience of four women’ Guardian 'Jackie Kay’s work, formally expansive and inclusive . . . is always about the opening up of our notions of identity' Ali Smith, author of How to Be Both In The Lamplighter award-winning poet and Scottish Makar Jackie Kay takes us on a journey into the dark heart of Britain’s legacy in the slave trade. First produced as a play, on the page it reads as a profound and tragic multi-layered poem. We watch as four women and one man tell the story of their lives through slavery, from the fort, to the slave ship, through the middle passage, following life on the plantations, charting the growth of the British city and the industrial revolution. Constance has witnessed the sale of her own child; Mary has been beaten to an inch of her life; Black Harriot has been forced to sell her body; and our lead, the Lamplighter, was sold twice into slavery from the ports in Bristol. Their different voices sing together in a rousing chorus that speaks to the experiences of all those brutalised by slavery, and lifts in the end to a soaring and powerful conclusion. Stirring, impassioned and deeply affecting, The Lamplighter remains as essential today as the day it was first performed. This is an essential work by one of our most beloved writers.

Picador Shots: Sonata

Author : Jackie Kay
Publisher : Picador
ISBN 13 : 1743295758
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (432 download)

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Download or read book Picador Shots: Sonata written by Jackie Kay and published by Picador. This book was released on 2006-08-01 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Sonata, two strangers meet on a train and connect in a way that one only can when you know that you only have a few hours together, and that anything you do or say will never be held against you. One is a good listener and one is a good talker -they are the perfect combination. One tells the other about her recent loss of love whilst the other watches on, falling, secretly, in love. What will become of them? Will this journey be the sum of their relationship?

Waking the Spirit

Author : Andrew Schulman
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1250055776
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Waking the Spirit written by Andrew Schulman and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2016-08-02 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes the music for Sarabande by J. S. Bach, arranged for 8-string guitar by Andrew Schulman.

On Photography

Author : Susan Sontag
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book On Photography written by Susan Sontag and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Swann's Way (International Student Edition) (Norton Critical Editions)

Author : Marcel Proust
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393614816
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (936 download)

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Download or read book Swann's Way (International Student Edition) (Norton Critical Editions) written by Marcel Proust and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2016-04-04 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In its centennial year, Marcel Proust’s masterpiece of literary imagination is available in a Norton Critical Edition. Marcel Proust’s seven-volume masterpiece, In Search of Lost Time (A la recherche du temps perdu), has inspired many superlatives, among them “the greatest novel ever written” and “the greatest novel of the first half of the twentieth century.” Swann’s Way, the first volume of the Recherche and the most widely read and taught of all the volumes, is the ideal introduction to Proust’s inventive genius. This Norton Critical Edition is based on C. K. Scott Moncrieff’s translation, which introduced the English-speaking world to Proust and was published during the author’s lifetime. It is accompanied by Susanna Lee’s introduction, note on the text, and explanatory annotations. Marcel Proust was forty-two years old when Swann’s Way was published, but its foundational ideas and general shape had been evolving for decades. “Contexts” includes a 1912 reader’s report of the manuscript that exemplifies publishers’ complicated reactions to Proust’s new form of writing. Also included are three important post-publication reviews of the novel, by Elie-Joseph Bois, Lucien Daudet, and Paul Souday, as well as André Arnyvelde’s 1913 interview with Proust. The fourteen critical essays and interpretations of Swann’s Way in this volume speak to the novel’s many facets—from the musical to the artistic to its representations of Judaism and homosexuality. Contributors include Gérard Genette, whose “Metonymy in Proust” appears here in English translation for the first time, along with Gilles Deleuze, Roger Shattuck, Claudia Brodsky, Julia Kristeva, Margaret E. Gray, and Alain de Botton, among others. The edition also includes a Chronology of Proust’s Life and Work, a Selected Chronology of French Literature from 1870 to 1929, and a Selected Bibliography.

Babayaga

Author : Toby Barlow
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 0374709599
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (747 download)

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Download or read book Babayaga written by Toby Barlow and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2013-08-06 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the author of Sharp Teeth, a novel of love, spies, and witches in 1950s Paris—and a cop turned into a flea Will is a young American ad executive in Paris. Except his agency is a front for the CIA. It's 1959 and the cold war is going strong. But Will doesn't think he's a warrior—he's just a good-hearted Detroit ad guy who can't seem to figure out Parisian girls. Zoya is a beautiful young woman wandering les boulevards, sad-eyed, coming off a bad breakup. In fact, she impaled her ex on a spike. Zoya, it turns out, has been a beautiful young woman for hundreds of years; she and her far more traditionally witchy-looking companion, Elga, have been thriving unnoticed in the bloody froth of Europe's wars. Inspector Vidot is a hardworking Paris police detective who cherishes quiet nights at home. But when he follows a lead from a grisly murder to the abode of an ugly old woman, he finds himself turned into a flea. Oliver is a patrician, fun-loving American who has come to France to start a literary journal with the help of friends in D.C. who ask a few favors in return. He's in well over his head, but it's nothing that a cocktail can't fix. Right? Add a few chance encounters, a chorus of some more angry witches, a strung-out jazzman or two, a weaponized LSD program, and a cache of rifles buried in the Bois de Bologne—and that's a novel! But while Toby Barlow's Babayaga may start as just a joyful romp though the City of Light, it quickly grows into a daring, moving exploration of love, mortality, and responsibility.

The Terrible

Author : Yrsa Daley-Ward
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 1846149835
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (461 download)

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Download or read book The Terrible written by Yrsa Daley-Ward and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2018-06-05 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: **WINNER of the 2019 PEN Ackerley Prize** 'A major literary talent . . . speaks about the power and powerlessness that young women are subject to in a wholly fresh, clear-eyed way . . . you'll find it hard to come away from The Terrible without a stab of recognition in your chest' Stylist 'You may not run away from the thing that you are because it comes and comes and comes as sure as you breathe.' This is the story of Yrsa Daley-Ward, and all the things that happened - 'even the Terrible Things (and God, there were Terrible Things)'. It's about her childhood in the north-west of England with her beautiful, careworn mother and her little brother who sees things written in the stars. It's also about growing up and discovering the power and fear of sexuality, about pitch grey days of pills and powder: going under, losing yourself, and finding your voice. 'Yrsa's work is like holding the truth in your hands' Florence Welch

Pansegrouw's Crossword Dictionary

Author : Louisa Pansegrouw
Publisher : Pearson South Africa
ISBN 13 : 9780636019577
Total Pages : 836 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (195 download)

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Download or read book Pansegrouw's Crossword Dictionary written by Louisa Pansegrouw and published by Pearson South Africa. This book was released on 1994-10-04 with total page 836 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With over 90 000 entries in alphabetical order, this crossword dictionary is a comprehensive yet easy to use reference with material from a wide range of sources.

Samuel Beckett

Author : Laura Salisbury
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748649700
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (486 download)

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Download or read book Samuel Beckett written by Laura Salisbury and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2012-04-04 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ranging widely over Beckett's fiction, drama and critical writings, the book demonstrates that it is through Beckett's comic timing that we can understand the double gesture of his art: the ethical obligation to represent the world how it is while, at the