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The Blind Accordionist

Author : C. D. Rose
Publisher : Melville House
ISBN 13 : 1612199178
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (121 download)

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Download or read book The Blind Accordionist written by C. D. Rose and published by Melville House. This book was released on 2021-06-15 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A supposedly long lost collection of fable-like stories supposedly written by the little-known middle European writer Maxim Guyavitch ... with a helpful intro and afterword making it hilariously clear that the keyword is "supposedly." In the novel WHO'S WHO WHEN EVERYONE IS SOMEONE ELSE, the character "C.D. Rose" (not to be confused with the author C.D. Rose) searches an unnamed middle-European city for the long-lost manuscript of a little-known writer named Maxim Guyavitch. That search was fruitless, but in THE BLIND ACCORDIONIST, "C.D. Rose" has found the manuscript--nine sparkling, fable-like short stories--and he presents them here with an (hilarious) introduction explaining the discovery, and an afterword providing (hilarious) critical commentary on the stories, and what they might reveal about the mysterious Guyavitch. THE BLIND ACCORDIONIST is another masterful book of world-making by the real C.D. Rose, absorbing in its mix of intelligence and light-heartedness, and its ultimate celebration of literature itself. It is the third novel in the series about "C.D. Rose," although the reader does not need to have read the previous two books. (The first in the series was THE BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY OF LITERARY FAILURE, containing portraits of dunsuccessful writers; the second was WHO'S WHO WHEN EVERYONE IS SOMEONE ELSE, in which the author of the DICTIONARY, "C.D. Rose," searches for the manuscript of his favorite dead writer, Maxim Guyavitch, while on a book tour for the DICTIONARY.) Like those books, THE BLIND ACCORDIONIST can be read both as a simple but wonderful collection of quirky stories, and as comedy--or as a beautiful and moving elegy on the nobility of writers wanting to be read.

Potato Face

Author : Carl Sandburg
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Potato Face written by Carl Sandburg and published by . This book was released on 1930 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twelve short stories involving the Potato Face Blind Man who likes to tell stories and philosophize.

Palmer-Hughes Accordion Course, Book 1

Author : Willard A. Palmer
Publisher : Alfred Music
ISBN 13 : 9781457416996
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (169 download)

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Download or read book Palmer-Hughes Accordion Course, Book 1 written by Willard A. Palmer and published by Alfred Music. This book was released on with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive method of music instruction enables the beginner to progress to an advanced stage of technical skill.

An Atlas of Extinct Countries

Author : Gideon Defoe
Publisher : Europa Editions
ISBN 13 : 1609456815
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book An Atlas of Extinct Countries written by Gideon Defoe and published by Europa Editions. This book was released on 2021-06-08 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Prisoners of Geography meets Bill Bryson: a funny, fascinating, beautifully illustrated—and timely—history of countries that, for myriad and often ludicrous reasons, no longer exist. “Countries are just daft stories we tell each other. They’re all equally implausible once you get up close.” Countries die. Sometimes it’s murder, sometimes it’s by accident, and sometimes it’s because they were so ludicrous they didn’t deserve to exist in the first place. Occasionally they explode violently. A few slip away almost unnoticed. Often the cause of death is either “got too greedy” or “Napoleon turned up.” Now and then they just hold a referendum and vote themselves out of existence. This is an atlas of 48 nations that fell off the map. The polite way of writing an obituary is: dwell on the good bits, gloss over the embarrassing stuff. This book refuses to do so, because these dead nations are so full of schemers, racists, and con men that it’s impossible to skip the embarrassing stuff. Because of this – and because treating nation-states with too much reverence is the entire problem with pretty much everything – these accounts are not concerned with adding to the earnest flag saluting in the world, however nice some of the flags might be."

The Ongoing Moment

Author : Geoff Dyer
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307539199
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book The Ongoing Moment written by Geoff Dyer and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2009-11-11 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Great photographs change the way we see the world; The Ongoing Moment changes the way we look at both. Focusing on the ways in which canonical figures like Alfred Stieglitz, Paul Strand, Walker Evans, André Kertész, Edward Weston, Dorothea Lange, Diane Arbus, and William Eggleston have photographed the same things—barber shops, benches, hands, roads, signs—award-winning writer Geoff Dyer seeks to identify their signature styles. In doing so, he constructs a narrative in which these photographers—many of whom never met—constantly encounter one another. The result is a kaleidoscopic work of extraordinary originality and insight.

The History of Wally Stokes

Author : Russel E. Higgins
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1412030129
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book The History of Wally Stokes written by Russel E. Higgins and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The History of Wally Stokes is the hilarious story of an unlikely hero who finds himself caught up in the turbulent events of a big city during the Great Depression. The setting is Hudson City, a New Jersey working-class city during the harsh winter of 1936. The whimsical mock-epic narrative is filled with fast-talking theatrical impresarios, over-the-hill vaudevillians, boarding-house eccentrics, inept union leaders, oddball newspaper writers, and a odd collection of felonious capitalists, blue-collar workers, and common vagabonds. Into this free-for-all steps Wally Stokes, a retiring correspondence-school graduate, whose life unexpectedly transformed on day in the waiting room of the Hudson City Evening Gazette.

Palmer-Hughes Accordion Course - Book 5

Author : Bill Hughes
Publisher : Alfred Music
ISBN 13 : 9781457418198
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (181 download)

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Download or read book Palmer-Hughes Accordion Course - Book 5 written by Bill Hughes and published by Alfred Music. This book was released on 2005-05-03 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive method of music instruction enables the beginner to progress to an advanced stage of technical skill.

Collected Stories

Author : Isaak Babelʹ
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9780140184624
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (846 download)

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Download or read book Collected Stories written by Isaak Babelʹ and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1994 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collects stories by Isaac Babel, including "In the Basement," "Awakening," "The Sun of Italy," and "My First Goose," and features notes on the text.

Domestic Engineering

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1352 pages
Book Rating : 4.U/5 (183 download)

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Download or read book Domestic Engineering written by and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 1352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Rootabaga Stories

Author : Carl Sandburg
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (57 download)

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Download or read book Rootabaga Stories written by Carl Sandburg and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-11-21 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rootabaga Stories is a is a children's book of interconnected short stories by Carl Sandburg. The quirky, at times gloomy stories, which often use nonsensical language, were initially created for his own daughters. Excerpt: "There was a Potato Face Blind Man used to play an accordion on the Main Street corner nearest the postoffice in the Village of Liver-and-Onions. Any Ice Today came along and said, "It looks like it used to be an 18 carat gold accordion with rich pawnshop diamonds in it; it looks like it used to be a grand accordion once and not so grand now." "Oh, yes, oh, yes, it was gold all over on the outside," said the Potato Face Blind Man, "and 42there was a diamond rabbit next to the handles on each side, two diamond rabbits." "How do you mean diamond rabbits?" Any Ice Today asked. "Ears, legs, head, feet, ribs, tail, all fixed out in diamonds to make a nice rabbit with his diamond chin on his diamond toenails. When I play good pieces so people cry hearing my accordion music, then I put my fingers over and feel of the rabbit's diamond chin on his diamond toenails, 'Attaboy, li'l bunny, attaboy, li'l bunny.'" "Yes I hear you talking but it is like dream talking. I wonder why your accordion looks like somebody stole it and took it to a pawnshop and took it out and somebody stole it again and took it to a pawnshop and took it out and somebody stole it again. And they kept on stealing it and taking it out of the pawnshop and stealing it again till the gold wore off so it looks like a used-to-be-yesterday."

Domestic Engineering and the Journal of Mechanical Contracting

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 760 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Domestic Engineering and the Journal of Mechanical Contracting written by and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 760 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Of Sunshine and Bedbugs

Author : Isaac Babel
Publisher : Pushkin Collection
ISBN 13 : 1782277811
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (822 download)

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Download or read book Of Sunshine and Bedbugs written by Isaac Babel and published by Pushkin Collection. This book was released on 2022-06-28 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new selection of Isaac Babel's 26 most vital and beautiful stories, in acclaimed translations by Boris Dralyuk Isaac Babel honed one of the most distinctive styles in all Russian literature. Brashly conversational one moment, dreamily lyrical the next, his stories exult in the richness of everyday speech and sensual pleasure only to be shaken by brutal jolts of violence. These stories take us from the underworld of Babel's native Odessa, city of gangsters and lowlives, of drunken brawls and bleeding sunsets, to the terror and absurdity of life as a soldier in the Polish-Soviet War. Selected and translated by the prize-winning Boris Dralyuk, this collection captures the irreverence, passion and coarse beauty of Babel's singular voice.

Red River Blues

Author : Bruce Bastin
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252065217
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (652 download)

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Download or read book Red River Blues written by Bruce Bastin and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This story of the origins and evolution of the American blues tradition draws on oral history interviews and research into neglected primary sources. Book jacket.

"Ces Forces Obscures de L'âme"

Author : Christine Margerrison
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9042023791
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book "Ces Forces Obscures de L'âme" written by Christine Margerrison and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2008 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In the first decade of a new century, this collection of bilingual essays examines Camus's continuing popularity for a new generation of readers. In crucial respects, the world Camus knew has changed beyond all recognition: decolonization, the fall of the Iron Curtain, a new era of globalization and the rise of new forms of terrorism have all provoked a reconsideration of Camus's writings. If the Absurd once struck a particular chord, Meursault is as likely now to be seen as a colonial figure who expresses the alienation of the settler from the land of his birth. Yet this increasing orthodoxy must also take account of the reasons why a new community of Algerian readers have embraced Camus. Equally, once isolated because of his anti-Communist stance, Camus has been taken up by disaffected members of the Left, convinced that new forms of totalitarianism are abroad in the world. This volume, which ranges from interpretations of Camus's literary works, his journalism and his political writings, will be of interest to all those seeking to re-evaluate Camus's work in the light of ethical and political issues that are of continuing relevance today."--BOOK JACKET.

Viper

Author : Maurizio de Giovanni
Publisher : Europa Editions
ISBN 13 : 1609452615
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book Viper written by Maurizio de Giovanni and published by Europa Editions. This book was released on 2015-03-03 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Commissario Ricciardi, “one of the most interesting and well-drawn detectives in fiction,” returns in this historical mystery by the author of By My Hand (The Daily Beast). It is one week before Easter, Naples, 1932. At the high-class brothel in the center of town known as Paradiso, Viper, the most famous prostitute of all, is found dead. Suffocated with a pillow. Her last client swears that when he left her she was alive and well. But when her next client arrived, he found her dead. Who killed her and why? Ricciardi has to untangle a complex knot of greed, frustration, jealousy, and rancor in order to solve the riddle of Viper’s death. As he does so, he will discover no end of conflicting emotions just beneath the surface of a city that lives on passion. De Giovanni’s mysteries unfold with such sinuous ease that they seem to write themselves. They enchant, surprise; they hold readers enthralled. Commissario Ricciardi, whose dubious gift of being able to see and hear the last seconds in the lives of those who have suffered a violent death, is one of the most fascinating investigators to make his appearance in the world of international crime fiction in recent years. And in Viper, the lustful and boisterous city of Naples has never been more seductive. “Engaging . . . melancholy Ricciardi, Brigadier Raffaele Maione, and other characters are compellingly drawn. New readers and returning fans should savor this novel like a Neapolitan pastiera.” —Publishers Weekly “De Giovanni is a fantastic discovery and I’m looking forward to reading the series from the start as there’s plenty here to enthrall the reader.” —Crimepieces

The Heroic City

Author : Rosemary Wakeman
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226870170
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (268 download)

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Download or read book The Heroic City written by Rosemary Wakeman and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2009-12-15 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Heroic City is a sparkling account of the fate of Paris’s public spaces in the years following Nazi occupation and joyful liberation. Countering the traditional narrative that Paris’s public landscape became sterile and dehumanized in the 1940s and ’50s, Rosemary Wakeman instead finds that the city’s streets overflowed with ritual, drama, and spectacle. With frequent strikes and protests, young people and students on parade, North Africans arriving in the capital of the French empire, and radio and television shows broadcast live from the streets, Paris continued to be vital terrain. Wakeman analyzes the public life of the city from a variety of perspectives. A reemergence of traditional customs led to the return of festivals, street dances, and fun fairs, while violent protests and political marches, the housing crisis, and the struggle over decolonization signaled the political realities of postwar France. The work of urban planners and architects, the output of filmmakers and intellectuals, and the day-to-day experiences of residents from all walks of life come together in this vibrant portrait of a flamboyant and transformative moment in the life of the City of Light.

The Seventh Gate

Author : Richard Zimler
Publisher : Parthian Books
ISBN 13 : 1913640760
Total Pages : 607 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (136 download)

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Download or read book The Seventh Gate written by Richard Zimler and published by Parthian Books. This book was released on 2023-02-08 with total page 607 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A gripping, heartbreaking and beautiful thriller... unforgettable' Simon Sebag Montefiore 'capitvating... stark and unflinching' Publishers Weekly BERLIN, 1932 Intelligent, artistic and precocious, fourteen-year-old Sophie Riedesel dreams of nothing more than becoming an actress and spending time with her beloved Jewish neighbour, Isaac Zarco. But when her father and boyfriend become Nazi collaborators and Hitler's meteoric rise to power gathers momentum, she is forced to lead a double life to protect those closest to her. Invited by Isaac into the Ring, a secret circle of underground activists working against the government, Sophie soon learns the ways of espionage and subterfuge. But when a series of sterilisations, murders and disappearances threatens to destroy the group, Sophie must fight to expose the traitor in their midst and save all that she loves about Germany – whatever the price. Thrilling, suspenseful and evocative, The Seventh Gate is at once a love story, a tale of fierce heroism and a horrifying study of the Nazis' war against the disabled. 'The Seventh Gate is not only a superb thriller but an intelligent and moving novel about the heartbreaking human condition.' Alberto Manguel 'gripping, consuming, and shocking... The reader will be haunted by these brave characters and the stirring murder mystery.' New York Journal of Books '[A] powerfully understated saga' Kirkus Reviews