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The Dog of the South

Author : Charles Portis
Publisher : Abrams
ISBN 13 : 1590206584
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book The Dog of the South written by Charles Portis and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2007-06-05 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “[Charles Portis] understood, and conveyed, the grain of America, in ways that may prove valuable in future to historians trying to understand what was decent about us as a nation.” --Donna Tartt, New York Times Book Review Ray Midge is waiting for his credit card bill to arrive. His wife, Norma, has run off with her ex-husband, taking Ray's cards, shotgun and car. But from the receipts, Ray can track where they've gone. He takes off after them, as does an irritatingly tenacious bail bondsman, both following the romantic couple's spending as far as Mexico. There Ray meets Dr Reo Symes, the seemingly down-on-his-luck and rather eccentric owner of a beaten up and broken down bus, who needs a ride to Belize. The further they drive, in a car held together by coat-hangers and excesses of oil, the wilder their journey gets. But they're not going to give up easily.

Gringos

Author : Charles Portis
Publisher : Abrams
ISBN 13 : 1590206541
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book Gringos written by Charles Portis and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2000-05-01 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles Portis’s fourth novel—a truly brilliant, wonderfully bizarre novel by one of our great American novelists. Jimmy Burns is an expatriate American living in Mexico who has an uncommonly astute eye for the absurd little details that comprise your average American. For a time, Jimmy spent his days unearthing pre-Colombian artifacts. Now he makes a living doing small trucking jobs and helping out with the occasional missing person situation—whatever it takes to remain “the very picture of an American idler in Mexico, right down to the grass-green golfing trousers.” But when Jimmy’s laid-back lifestyle is seriously imposed upon by a ninety-pound stalker called Louise, a sudden wave of “hippies” (led by a murderous ex-con guru) in search of psychic happenings, and a group of archaeologists who are unearthing (illegally) Mayan tombs, his simple South-of-the-Border existence faces a clear and present danger.

True Grit

Author : Charles Portis
Publisher : Abrams
ISBN 13 : 1590206509
Total Pages : 127 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book True Grit written by Charles Portis and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2010-11-05 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 New York Times bestseller “An epic and a legend” —Washington Post “Quite simply, an American masterpiece.” —Boston Globe “The dialogue in True Grit is exquisite.” —David Mamet “Charles Portis had a wonderful talent—original, quirky, exciting.” —Larry McMurtry Charles Portis has long been acclaimed as one of America’s most enduring and incomparable literary voices, and his novels have left an indelible mark on the American canon. True Grit, his most famous novel, was first published in 1968, and has garnered critical acclaim as well as enthusiastic praise from countless passionate fans for more than fifty years. This story of danger and adventure in the old west became the basis for two award-winning films, the first starring John Wayne, in his only Oscar-winning role, as Marshall Rooster Cogburn, and the widely praised remake by the Coen brothers, starring Jeff Bridges. True Grit tells the story of Mattie Ross, who is just fourteen when the coward Tom Chaney shoots her father in Fort Smith, Arkansas, and robs him of his life, his horse, and $150 cash. Filled with an unwavering urge to avenge her father’s blood, Mattie finds and, after some tenacious finagling, enlists one-eyed Rooster Cogburn, the meanest available US Marshal, as her partner in pursuit, and they head off into Indian Territory after the killer. True Grit is essential reading. Not just a classic Western, but an undeniable classic of American literature as eccentric, cool, funny, and unflinching as Mattie Ross herself. For fans of either the John Wayne classic or the more recent Coen brothers’ movie, it’s a chance to relive the story of Mattie and Rooster and experience their story as it was originally told. For fans of taut, funny storytelling, it will be a joy to experience in its original form. This edition includes an afterword by bestselling author Donna Tartt (The Secret History and The Goldfinch) and a reading group guide.

Southern Cross the Dog

Author : Bill Cheng
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062225030
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (622 download)

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Download or read book Southern Cross the Dog written by Bill Cheng and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2013-05-07 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the tradition of Cormac McCarthy and Flannery O’Connor, Bill Cheng’s Southern Cross the Dog is an epic literary debut in which the bonds between three childhood friends are upended by the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927. In its aftermath, one young man must choose between the lure of the future and the claims of the past. Having lost virtually everything in the fearsome storm—home, family, first love—Robert Chatham embarks on an odyssey that takes him through the deep South, from the desperation of a refugee camp to the fiery and raucous brothel Hotel Beau-Miel and into the Mississippi hinterland, where he joins a crew hired to clear the swamp and build a dam. Along his journey he encounters piano-playing hustlers, ne’er-do-well Klansmen, well-intentioned whores, and a family of fur trappers, the L’Etangs, whose very existence is threatened by the swamp-clearing around them. The L’Etang brothers are fierce and wild but there is something soft about their cousin Frankie, possibly the only woman capable of penetrating Robert’s darkest places and overturning his conviction that he’s marked by the devil. Teeming with language that renders both the savage beauty and complex humanity of our shared past, Southern Cross the Dog is a tour de force that heralds the arrival of a major new voice in fiction.

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

Author : Mark Haddon
Publisher : Anchor Canada
ISBN 13 : 0307371565
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time written by Mark Haddon and published by Anchor Canada. This book was released on 2009-02-24 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bestselling modern classic—both poignant and funny—narrated by a fifteen year old autistic savant obsessed with Sherlock Holmes, this dazzling novel weaves together an old-fashioned mystery, a contemporary coming-of-age story, and a fascinating excursion into a mind incapable of processing emotions. Christopher John Francis Boone knows all the countries of the world and their capitals and every prime number up to 7,057. Although gifted with a superbly logical brain, Christopher is autistic. Everyday interactions and admonishments have little meaning for him. At fifteen, Christopher’s carefully constructed world falls apart when he finds his neighbour’s dog Wellington impaled on a garden fork, and he is initially blamed for the killing. Christopher decides that he will track down the real killer, and turns to his favourite fictional character, the impeccably logical Sherlock Holmes, for inspiration. But the investigation leads him down some unexpected paths and ultimately brings him face to face with the dissolution of his parents’ marriage. As Christopher tries to deal with the crisis within his own family, the narrative draws readers into the workings of Christopher’s mind. And herein lies the key to the brilliance of Mark Haddon’s choice of narrator: The most wrenching of emotional moments are chronicled by a boy who cannot fathom emotions. The effect is dazzling, making for one of the freshest debut in years: a comedy, a tearjerker, a mystery story, a novel of exceptional literary merit that is great fun to read.

Escape Velocity

Author : Charles Portis
Publisher : Abrams
ISBN 13 : 1468308491
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (683 download)

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Download or read book Escape Velocity written by Charles Portis and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2013-08-27 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collected here in Escape Velocity, edited by Jay Jennings, is his "miscellany" †“†“ journalism, short fiction, memoir, and even the play Delray's New Moon, published for the first time in this volume. Â Portis covers topics as varied as the civil rights movement, road tripping in Baja, and Elvis' s visits to his aging mother for publications such as the New York Herald Tribune and Saturday Evening Post. Â Fans of Portis’s droll Southern humor and quirky characters will be thrilled at this new addition to his library, and those not yet familiar with his work will find a great introduction to him here. Â Also included are tributes by accomplished authors including Donna Tartt and Ron Rosenbaum.

The Dog of the Marriage

Author : Amy Hempel
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1451604009
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (516 download)

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Download or read book The Dog of the Marriage written by Amy Hempel and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-06-15 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amy Hempel's compassion, intensity, and illuminating observations have made her one of the most distinctive and admired modern writers. In three stunning books of stories, she has established a voice as unique and recognizable as the photographs of Cindy Sherman or the brushstrokes of Robert Motherwell. The Dog of the Marriage, Hempel's fourth collection, is about sexual obsession, relationships gone awry, and the unsatisfied longings of everyday life. In "Offertory," a modern-day Scheherazade entertains and manipulates her lover with stories of her sexual encounters with a married couple as a very young woman. In "Reference # 388475848-5," a letter contesting a parking ticket becomes a beautiful and unnerving statement of faith. In "Jesus Is Waiting," a woman driving to New York sends a series of cryptically honest postcards to an old lover. And the title story is a heartbreaking tale about the objects and animals and unmired desires that are left behind after death or divorce. These nine stories teem with wisdom, emotion, and surprising wit. Hempel explores the intricate psychology of people falling in and out of love, trying to locate something or someone elusive or lost. Her sentences are as lean, original, and startling as any in contemporary fiction.

The Masters of Atlantis

Author : Charles Portis
Publisher : Abrams
ISBN 13 : 1590206622
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book The Masters of Atlantis written by Charles Portis and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2000-03-01 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lamar Jimmerson is the leader of the Gnomon Society, the international fraternal order dedicated to preserving the arcane wisdom of the lost city of Atlantis. Stationed in France in 1917, Jimmerson comes across a little book crammed with Atlantean puzzles, Egyptian riddles, and extended alchemical metaphors. It's the Codex Pappus - the sacred Gnomon text. Soon he is basking in the lore of lost Atlantis, convinced that his mission on earth is to administer to and extend the ranks of the noble brotherhood.

Where Southern Cross the Dog

Author : Allen Whitley
Publisher : Greenleaf Book Group
ISBN 13 : 1934572411
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (345 download)

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Download or read book Where Southern Cross the Dog written by Allen Whitley and published by Greenleaf Book Group. This book was released on 2010 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late 1930s, Jim Crow walked unopposed in Mississippi, and Europe was preparing for war. But even though an ocean apart, the threads of hate and fear bound them together. Set in Clarksdale, Mississippi, Where Southern Cross the Dog begins with the tragic slaying of a day laborer and the chance meeting of its two main characters: Travis Montgomery, a new graduate of Millsaps College, and Hannah Morgan, a young, educated, affluent African-American woman who returns to the South to assist her ailing grandmother. As their initial wariness turns to friendship and then romance, Travis and Hannah unravel the secrets behind the murder which include a conspiracy that runs from Clarksdale to pre-war Europe.

Ghost Dogs of the South

Author : Randy Russell
Publisher : John F Blair Pub
ISBN 13 : 9780895872883
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (728 download)

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Download or read book Ghost Dogs of the South written by Randy Russell and published by John F Blair Pub. This book was released on 2001-10 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty haunting hound tales illustrated with reprints of nostalgic Victorian photographs

Norwood

Author : Charles Portis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Norwood written by Charles Portis and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Haunted Man's Report

Author : Robert Cochran
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
ISBN 13 : 1610758161
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Haunted Man's Report written by Robert Cochran and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 2024-04-30 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Cochran’s Haunted Man’s Report is a pioneering study of the novels and other writings of Arkansan Charles Portis (1933–2020), best known for the novel True Grit and its film adaptations. Hailed by one critic as “the author of classics on the order of a twentieth-century Mark Twain” and as America’s “least-known great novelist,” Portis has garnered a devoted fan base with his ear for language, picaresque characters, literary Easter eggs, and talent for injecting comedy into even the smallest turn of phrase. As a former Marine who served on the front lines of the Korean War and as a journalist who observed firsthand the violent resistance to the civil rights movement, Portis reported on atrocities that came to inform his fiction profoundly. His novels take aim at colonialism and notions of American exceptionalism, focusing on ordinary people, often vets, searching for safe havens in a fallen world. Haunted Man’s Report, a deeply insightful literary exploration of Portis’s singular and underexamined oeuvre, celebrates this novelist’s great achievement and is certain to prove a valuable guide for readers new to Portis as well as aficionados.

The Dog in Health and Disease, Etc. [With Engravings.]

Author : Stonehenge (pseud. [i.e. John Henry Walsh.])
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Dog in Health and Disease, Etc. [With Engravings.] written by Stonehenge (pseud. [i.e. John Henry Walsh.]) and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Dog

Author : William Youatt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 478 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Dog written by William Youatt and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The natural history of dogs, including also the genera hyaena and proteles

Author : Charles Hamilton Smith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 564 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book The natural history of dogs, including also the genera hyaena and proteles written by Charles Hamilton Smith and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Dog in Health and Disease; Comprising the Various Modes of Braeking and Using Him for Hunting (etc.) By Stonehenge (pseud.)

Author : John Henry Walsh
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.+/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book The Dog in Health and Disease; Comprising the Various Modes of Braeking and Using Him for Hunting (etc.) By Stonehenge (pseud.) written by John Henry Walsh and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Dog For The Job

Author : Noreen Clark
Publisher : Australian Self Publishing Group
ISBN 13 : 1922792446
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (227 download)

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Download or read book A Dog For The Job written by Noreen Clark and published by Australian Self Publishing Group. This book was released on 2022-07-01 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Noreen Clark has provided a history of the Cattle Dogs that fits snugly with colonial history. Her current research reveals a far more credible account of the development of Australia's Cattle Dogs than any previous publication.