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Poum and Alexandre

Author : Catherine de Saint Phalle
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780994395771
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (957 download)

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Download or read book Poum and Alexandre written by Catherine de Saint Phalle and published by . This book was released on 2016-10-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of two flawed eccentrics. Everything they do subverts their firm intention of keeping up appearances. They meet just after the war in liberated Paris but they cannot quite free themselves from the many strings attached to them - the old aunts, the sisters, the cousins, the nuns and the ominous concierges that dog their footsteps. Alexandre is a banker and a Resistant; he has never gone to school and lives in a world of numbers and Roman emperors. Poum has never darkened the threshold of a school either, signed a cheque or ever quite lived like other mothers do. She resides in the Odyssey and in her bed, hiding from the mysterious disapproval of their relatives, for they both seem to persist in some irreparable faux pas which has them wading through a lifetime pickle. Their daughter, Catherine, would like to help but she seems to be part of the problem. This is no ordinary childhood, and Catherine de Saint Phalle's acceptance of her parents, despite their prominent flaws, shines through, propelling us head first into their strange, yet beautiful, Parisian world. Poum and Alexandre is a searingly honest, humorous and moving ode to family and place, and a meditation on the ways they ultimately define us

The Changing Room

Author : Christine Sykes
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1920727965
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (27 download)

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Download or read book The Changing Room written by Christine Sykes and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2019-11-01 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘Vain trifles as they seem, clothes have, they say, more important offices than to merely keep us warm. They change our view of the world and the world’s view of us.' - Virginia Woolf Anna is in her sixties with her dream job and the man to match. Claire is a fourty-six-year-old philanthropist with a picture-perfect family. And then there is Molly, who has seen more strife in her twenty years than anyone should, but has more love to give than most. When their lives are turned upside down, these women must discover how to start over amid a world of pain. Guided by Suitability, a clothing an styling service for disadvantaged women, Anna, Claire and Molly find the courage to rebuild their lives – with a few outfit changes along the way. Inspired by the experiences of the women behind the charity Dress for Success, The Changing Room proves that sometimes losing everything leads you towards freedom, and that hope can be found even in the unlikeliest of places.

Etruscan Inscriptions Analysed Translated and Commented Upon, by Alex. Earl of Crawford & Barlcarres

Author : Alexander Crawford Lindsay Crawford
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Etruscan Inscriptions Analysed Translated and Commented Upon, by Alex. Earl of Crawford & Barlcarres written by Alexander Crawford Lindsay Crawford and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Etruscan Inscriptions Analysed, Translated and Commented Upon, by Alex. Earl of Crawford & Balcarres

Author : Alexander William Crawford
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Etruscan Inscriptions Analysed, Translated and Commented Upon, by Alex. Earl of Crawford & Balcarres written by Alexander William Crawford and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Broken Rules and Other Stories

Author : Barry Lee Thompson
Publisher : Transit Lounge
ISBN 13 : 192576057X
Total Pages : 167 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (257 download)

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Download or read book Broken Rules and Other Stories written by Barry Lee Thompson and published by Transit Lounge . This book was released on 2020-09-01 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These awards-listed, interlinked stories vividly capture the small, rarely spoken moments of our lives that reverberate with meaning, with darkness and with light. An adolescent son and his parents on their annual holiday at a Bournemouth guesthouse become intrigued with the glamour and otherness of an American family from Boston. An adult son and his mother navigate an unnerving relationship based on dependence and ritual. A woman transgresses her husband's rules and his distaste for parties. A sex-worker empathises with the life of an elderly client. From derelict industrial districts, to a lonely highway diner, to the faded charm of a British seaside resort, these are stories of growing up marginalised and living in working-class England and Australia. Thompson's writing is so clear and deep and lucid you can see every crumb on the tablecloth, every drop of water on a person's hair. Broken Rules and Other Stories´ nuanced play of character, psychology and language, and its focus on the mysteries we are all involved in when we are out of our depth, exposed to our emotions, our wonders and our longings, marks the emergence of a remarkable new talent. 'A voice in your head, full of texture and truth. Slices of life spliced to yours. Suddenly the stories in Broken Rules are happening to you, finding their way into your brain and heart. You feel as if you were walking with phantom limbs – those of Barry Lee Thompson. Magnificent writing – literature at its strongest, at its gentlest.' — Catherine de Saint Phalle, author of Poum and Alexandre and The Sea & Us 'In this accomplished debut, Barry Lee Thompson makes delicate inquiries into the passage of time through a series of loosely linked, often coming-of-age stories...Thompson cherishes the intimate, would-be mundane details all around. That exacting eye distinguishes these stories most, along with a sensitivity attuned to life's inevitable waystations.' — Doug Wallen, Books+Publishing 'This is a very accomplished collection by a gifted writer and is well worth reading.' — Westerly Mag

Notebooks: 1936-1947

Author : Victor Serge
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1681372711
Total Pages : 673 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (813 download)

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Download or read book Notebooks: 1936-1947 written by Victor Serge and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2019-04-09 with total page 673 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Available for the first time, Victor Serge's intimate account of the last decade of his life gives a vivid look into the Franco-Russian revolutionary's life, from his liberation from Stalin's Russia to his "Mexico Years," when he wrote his greatest works. In 1936, Victor Serge—poet, novelist, and revolutionary—left the Soviet Union for Paris, the rare opponent of Stalin to escape the Terror. In 1940, after the Nazis marched into Paris, Serge fled France for Mexico, where he would spend the rest of his life. His years in Mexico were marked by isolation, poverty, peril, and grief; his Notebooks, however, brim with resilience, curiosity, outrage, a passionate love of life, and superb writing. Serge paints haunting portraits of Osip Mandelstam, Stefan Zweig, and “the Old Man” Trotsky; argues with André Breton; and, awaiting his wife’s delayed arrival from Europe, writes her passionate love letters. He describes the sweep of the Mexican landscape, visits an erupting volcano, and immerses himself in the country’s history and culture. He looks back on his life and the fate of the Revolution. He broods on the course of the war and the world to come after. In the darkest of circumstances, he responds imaginatively, thinks critically, feels deeply, and finds reason to hope. Serge’s Notebooks were discovered in 2010 and appear here for the first time in their entirety in English. They are a a message in a bottle from one of the great spirits, and great writers, of our shipwrecked time.

Or Orwell

Author : Alex Woloch
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674282485
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (742 download)

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Download or read book Or Orwell written by Alex Woloch and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2016-01-04 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction: Orwell's formalism, or A theory of socialist writing -- "Quite bare" ("A Hanging") -- "Getting to work" (The Road to Wigan Pier) -- "Semi-sociological" (Inside the Whale) -- The column as form -- Writing's outside -- First-person socialism -- Conclusion: Happy Orwell

Traces

Author : Niki de Saint-Phalle
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book Traces written by Niki de Saint-Phalle and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Autobiography of the French-American artist Niki de Saint Phalle, told in a combination of traditional printed text, handwritten text and poetry, handdrawn art, and hand-colored found photographs and prints.

The Museum of Modern Love

Author : Heather Rose
Publisher : Algonquin Books
ISBN 13 : 1616208872
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (162 download)

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Download or read book The Museum of Modern Love written by Heather Rose and published by Algonquin Books. This book was released on 2018-11-27 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Art will wake you up. Art will break your heart. There will be glorious days. If you want eternity you must be fearless.” —Heather Rose, The Museum of Modern Love Our hero, Arky Levin, has reached a creative dead end. An unexpected separation from his wife was meant to leave him with the space he needs to work composing film scores, but it has provided none of the peace of mind he needs to create. Guilty and restless, almost by chance he stumbles upon an art exhibit that will change his life. Based on a real piece of performance art that took place in 2010, the installation that the fictional Arky Levin discovers is inexplicably powerful. Visitors to the Museum of Modern Art sit across a table from the performance artist Marina Abramović, for as short or long a period of time as they choose. Although some go in skeptical, almost all leave moved. And the participants are not the only ones to find themselves changed by this unusual experience: Arky finds himself returning daily to watch others with Abramović. As the performance unfolds over the course of 75 days, so too does Arky. As he bonds with other people drawn to the exhibit, he slowly starts to understand what might be missing in his life and what he must do. This is a book about art, but it is also about success and failure, illness and happiness. It’s about what it means to find connection in a modern world. And most of all, it is about love, with its limitations and its transcendence.

Comics in French

Author : Laurence Grove
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 9781845455880
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (558 download)

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Download or read book Comics in French written by Laurence Grove and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2010 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whereas in English-speaking countries comics are for children or adults 'who should know better', in France and Belgium the form is recognized as the 'Ninth Art' and follows in the path of poetry, architecture, painting and cinema. The bande dessinée [comic strip] has its own national institutions, regularly obtains front-page coverage and has received the accolades of statesmen from De Gaulle onwards. On the way to providing a comprehensive introduction to the most francophone of cultural phenomena, this book considers national specificity as relevant to an anglophone reader, whilst exploring related issues such as text/image expression, historical precedents and sociological implication. To do so it presents and analyses priceless manuscripts, a Franco- American rodent, Nazi propaganda, a museum-piece urinal, intellectual gay porn and a prehistoric warrior who's really Zinedine Zidane.

Host Bibliographic Record for Boundwith Item Barcode 30112113998758

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Host Bibliographic Record for Boundwith Item Barcode 30112113998758 written by and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 712 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints written by and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Unlikely Warriors

Author : Richard Baxell
Publisher : Aurum
ISBN 13 : 1781310823
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (813 download)

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Download or read book Unlikely Warriors written by Richard Baxell and published by Aurum. This book was released on 2012-09-06 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a Nationalist military uprising was launched in Spain in July 1936, the Spanish Republic’s desperate pleas for assistance from the leaders of Britain and France fell on deaf ears. Appalled at the prospect of another European democracy succumbing to fascism, volunteers from across the Continent and beyond flocked to Spain’s aid, many to join the International Brigades. More than 2,500 of these men and women came from Britain, Ireland and the Commonwealth, and contrary to popular myth theirs was not an army of adventurers, poets and public school idealists. Overwhelmingly they hailed from modest working class backgrounds, leaving behind their livelihoods and their families to fight in a brutal civil war on foreign soil. Some 500 of them never returned home. In this inspiring and moving oral history, Richard Baxell weaves together a diverse array of testimony to tell the remarkable story of the Britons who took up arms against General Franco. Drawing on his own extensive interviews with survivors, research in archives across Britain, Spain and Russia, as well as first-hand accounts by writers both famous and unknown, Unlikely Warriors presents a startling new interpretation of the Spanish Civil War and follows a band of ordinary men and women who made an extraordinary choice.

The Impact of the Spanish Civil War on Britain

Author : Tom Buchanan
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 1837641366
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (376 download)

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Download or read book The Impact of the Spanish Civil War on Britain written by Tom Buchanan and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2006-11-27 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the relationship between Britain and the Spanish Civil War. This book explains the war's legacy and longer-term impact on Britain, and presents a chronological progression from the Civil War to the post-war Franco era. It also provides a discussion of the importance of loss and memory.

The Making of Modern Jewish Identity

Author : Motti Inbari
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429648596
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (296 download)

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Download or read book The Making of Modern Jewish Identity written by Motti Inbari and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-05-30 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores the processes that led several modern Jewish leaders – rabbis, politicians, and intellectuals – to make radical changes to their ideology regarding Zionism, Socialism, and Orthodoxy. Comparing their ideological change to acts of conversion, the study examines the philosophical, sociological, and psychological path of the leaders’ transformation. The individuals examined are novelist Arthur Koestler, who transformed from a devout Communist to an anti-Communist crusader following the atrocities of the Stalin regime; Norman Podhoretz, editor of Commentary magazine, who moved from the New Left to neoconservative, disillusioned by US liberal politics; Yissachar Shlomo Teichtel, who transformed from an ultra-Orthodox anti-Zionist Hungarian rabbi to messianic Religious-Zionist due to the events of the Holocaust; Ruth Ben-David, who converted to Judaism after the Second World War in France because of her sympathy with Zionism, eventually becoming a radical anti-Israeli advocate; Haim Herman Cohn, Israeli Supreme Court justice, who grew up as a non-Zionist Orthodox Jew in Germany, later renouncing his belief in God due to the events of the Holocaust; and Avraham (Avrum) Burg, prominent centrist Israeli politician who served as the Speaker of the Knesset and head of the Jewish Agency, who later became a post-Zionist. Comparing aspects of modern politics to religion, the book will be of interest to researchers in a broad range of areas including modern Jewish studies, sociology of religion, and political science.

Stalin's Agent

Author : Boris Volodarsky
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199656584
Total Pages : 832 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)

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Download or read book Stalin's Agent written by Boris Volodarsky and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2015 with total page 832 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the true story behind General Alexander Orlov, the man who never was, now revealed in full for the first time: Stalinist henchman, Soviet spy, celebrated defector to the West, and central character in the greatest KGB deception ever.

Dying: A Memoir

Author : Cory Taylor
Publisher : Tin House Books
ISBN 13 : 1941040713
Total Pages : 78 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book Dying: A Memoir written by Cory Taylor and published by Tin House Books. This book was released on 2017-08-01 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Bracing and beautiful . . . Every human should read it." —The New York Times A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice and 2017 Critics' Pick One of Barack Obama's Favorite Books of 2017 At the age of sixty, Cory Taylor is dying of melanoma-related brain cancer. Her illness is no longer treatable: she now weighs less than her neighbor’s retriever. As her body weakens, she describes the experience—the vulnerability and strength, the courage and humility, the anger and acceptance—of knowing she will soon die. Written in the space of a few weeks, in a tremendous creative surge, this powerful and beautiful memoir is a clear-eyed account of what dying teaches: Taylor describes the tangle of her feelings, remembers the lives and deaths of her parents, and examines why she would like to be able to choose the circumstances of her death. Taylor’s last words offer a vocabulary for readers to speak about the most difficult thing any of us will face. And while Dying: A Memoir is a deeply affecting meditation on death, it is also a funny and wise tribute to life.