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Book Synopsis The Long Italian Goodbye by : Robert Benedetti
Download or read book The Long Italian Goodbye written by Robert Benedetti and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Italian neighborhood surrounding Oakley Avenue on Chicago's West Side in 1948 is a Tuscan village transplanted from northern Italy thirty years before. Joey is ten, an only child born of the Great Depression, weaned on the lustrous myths of the neighborhood's gangster past, and reveling in the cooking of his Tuscan grandmothers. This is, for Joey, that special year when boyhood ends, a year of extremes of joy and grief. He earns money by delivering coffee to the black workers in the neighborhood factory, and becomes aware for the first time of the place of black people in his world. During the traditional summer retreat of the neighborhood's mothers and children to a rural Michigan lakefront town, he experiences the first stirrings of romantic love, but also the numbing pain of the death of his best friend. He comes to doubt the very existence of God, and learns that life is not what he had imagined, that even the joy of a kiss will be forever tinged with mortality. He returns to the city a changed person, his faith shaken but his conscience awakened, and he takes his first small stand against injustice. As the year ends, his family moves away from the old neighborhood and Joey leaves behind its sights, sounds, smells, and people, especially his first love Benita, and a big piece of himself.--Dust jacket.
Book Synopsis A Long Goodbye by : Artemy M. Kalinovsky
Download or read book A Long Goodbye written by Artemy M. Kalinovsky and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2011-05-16 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicles the Soviet Union's nine-year struggle to extricate itself from Afghanistan in the 1980s and compares it to the challenges the United States may face in withdrawing from the region.
Book Synopsis Short Letter, Long Farewell by : Peter Handke
Download or read book Short Letter, Long Farewell written by Peter Handke and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1974 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Short Letter, Long Farewell is one the most inventive and exhilarating of the great Peter Handke's novels. Full of seedy noir atmospherics and boasting an air of generalized delirium, the book starts by introducing us to a nameless young German who has just arrived in America, where he hopes to get over the collapse of his marriage. No sooner has he arrived, however, than he discovers that his ex-wife is pursuing him. He flees, she follows, and soon the couple is running circles around each other across the length of America---from Philadelphia to St. Louis to the Arizona desert, and from Portland, Oregon, to L.A. Is it love or vengeance that they want from each other? Everything's spectacularly unclear in a book that is travelogue, suspense story, domestic comedy, and Western showdown, with a totally unexpected Hollywood twist at the end. Above all, Short Letter, Long Farewell is a love letter to America, its landscapes and popular culture, the invitation and the threat of its newness and wildness and emptiness, with the promise of a new life---or the corpse of an old one---lying just around the corner.
Book Synopsis Starting with Goodbye by : Lisa Romeo
Download or read book Starting with Goodbye written by Lisa Romeo and published by University of Nevada Press. This book was released on 2018-05-01 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Starting with Goodbye begins with loss and ends with love, as a midlife daughter rediscovers her enigmatic father after his death. Lisa has little time for grief, but when her dead dad drops in for “conversations,” his absent presence invites Lisa to examine why the parent she had turned away from in life now holds her spellbound. Lisa reconsiders the affluent upbringing he financed (filled with horses, lavish vacations, bulging closets), and the emotional distance that grew when he retired to Las Vegas and she remained in New Jersey where she and her husband earn moderate incomes. She also confronts death rituals, navigates new family dynamics, while living both in memory and the unfolding moment. In this brutally honest yet compelling portrayal and tribute, Lisa searches for meaning, reconciling the Italian-American father—self-made textile manufacturer who liked newspapers, smoking, Las Vegas craps tables, and solitude—with the complex man she discovers influenced everything, from career choice to spouse. By forging a new father-daughter “relationship,” grief is transformed to hopeful life-affirming redemption. In poignant, often lyrical prose, this powerful, honest book proves that when we dare to love the parent who challenged us most, it’s never too late.
Book Synopsis Learn Italian: Must-Know Italian Slang Words & Phrases by : Innovative Language Learning
Download or read book Learn Italian: Must-Know Italian Slang Words & Phrases written by Innovative Language Learning and published by Innovative Language Learning. This book was released on 2019-04-29 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you want to learn Italian the fast, fun and easy way? And do you want to master daily conversations and speak like a native? Then this is the book for you. Learn Italian: Must-Know Italian Slang Words & Phrases by ItalianPod101 is designed for Beginner-level learners. You learn the top 100 must-know slang words and phrases that are used in everyday speech. All were hand-picked by our team of Italian teachers and experts. Here’s how the lessons work: • Every Lesson is Based on a Theme • You Learn Slang Words or Phrases Related to That Theme • Check the Translation & Explanation on How to Use Each One And by the end, you will have mastered 100+ Italian Slang Words & phrases!
Book Synopsis The Goodbye Kiss by : Massimo Carlotto
Download or read book The Goodbye Kiss written by Massimo Carlotto and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The best living Italian crime writer."-Il Manifesto An unscrupulous womanizer, as devoid of morals now as he once was full of idealistic fervor, returns to Italy, where he is wanted for a series of crimes. To earn himself the guise of respectability, he is willing to go as far as murder.
Book Synopsis A Farewell to Arms by : Ernest Hemingway
Download or read book A Farewell to Arms written by Ernest Hemingway and published by Rare Treasure Editions. This book was released on 2025-01-01T00:00:00Z with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ''A Farewell to Arms'' is Hemingway's classic set during the Italian campaign of World War I. The book, published in 1929, is a first-person account of American Frederic Henry, serving as a Lieutenant ("Tenente") in the ambulance corps of the Italian Army. It's about a love affair between the expatriate American Henry and Catherine Barkley against the backdrop of the First World War, cynical soldiers, fighting and the displacement of populations. The publication of ''A Farewell to Arms'' cemented Hemingway's stature as a modern American writer, became his first best-seller, and is described by biographer Michael Reynolds as "the premier American war novel from that debacle World War I."
Book Synopsis Aristocrats in Bourgeois Italy by : Anthony L. Cardoza
Download or read book Aristocrats in Bourgeois Italy written by Anthony L. Cardoza and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-08-08 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A full account of the Italian nobility in the period after national unification.
Download or read book Goodbye Soldier written by Spike Milligan and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2012-12-13 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spike Milligan's legendary war memoirs are a hilarious and subversive first-hand account of the Second World War, as well as a fascinating portrait of the formative years of this towering comic genius, most famous as writer and star of The Goon Show. They have sold over 4.5 million copies since they first appeared. 'The most irreverent, hilarious book about the war that I have ever read' Sunday Express 'Brilliant verbal pyrotechnics, throwaway lines and marvelous anecdotes' Daily Mail 'Desperately funny, vivid, vulgar' Sunday Times 'My namer is Maria Antonoinetta Fontana, but everyone call me Toni.' 'I'm Spike, sometimes known as stop thief or hey you.' 'Yeser, I know.' The sixth volume of Spike Milligan's off-the-wall account of his part in World War Two sees our hero doing very little soldiering. Because it's 1946. Rather, he is now part of the Bill Hall Trio - a 'Combined Services Entertainment' inflicted on unsuspecting soldiers across Italy and Austria - and is largely preoccupied with the unbearably beautiful ballerina, Ms Toni Fontana ('Arghhhhhhhhh!). But he must enjoy it while he can before he is demobbed and sent home to Catford - so he does ... 'That absolutely glorious way of looking at things differently. A great man' Stephen Fry 'Milligan is the Great God to all of us' John Cleese 'The Godfather of Alternative Comedy' Eddie Izzard 'Manifestly a genius, a comic surrealist genius and had no equal' Terry Wogan 'A totally original comedy writer' Michael Palin 'Close in stature to Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear in his command of the profound art of nonsense' Guardian Spike Milligan was one of the greatest and most influential comedians of the twentieth century. Born in India in 1918, he served in the Royal Artillery during WWII in North Africa and Italy. At the end of the war, he forged a career as a jazz musician, sketch-show writer and performer, before joining forces with Peter Sellers and Harry Secombe to form the legendary Goon Show. Until his death in 2002, he had success as on stage and screen and as the author of over eighty books of fiction, memoir, poetry, plays, cartoons and children's stories.
Download or read book Waking Nanabijou written by Jim Poling and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2007-09-21 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Upon his mothers death, veteran journalist Jim Poling discovers papers that lead him to question her identity. A search that began in anger concludes with understanding.
Book Synopsis Looking for Dreamland by : Robert Benedetti
Download or read book Looking for Dreamland written by Robert Benedetti and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2008 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "When oral historian Emma Williams returns to Tulsa to care for her dying grandmother, she takes a job teaching high school social studies. She and her students find themselves caught up in a quest to uncover the long-buried secret of the greatest race riot in American history, the 1921 attack on Greenwood, a black town so prosperous it was called the Black Wall Street. In the process, Emma finds herself under attack and discovers a dark family secret"--Cover, p. [4].
Book Synopsis The Long-Player Goodbye by : Travis Elborough
Download or read book The Long-Player Goodbye written by Travis Elborough and published by Sceptre. This book was released on 2009-06-11 with total page 559 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For nearly 60 years, since the arrival of the long-playing record in 1948, the album has provided the soundtrack to our lives. Our record collections, even if they're on CD, or these days, an iPod, are personal treasure, revealing our loves, errors of jugdement and lapses in taste. Self-confessed music obsessive, Travis Elborough, explores the way in which particular albums are deeply embedded in cultural history, revered as works of art or so ubiqitous as to be almost invisible. But in the age of the iPod, when we can download an infinite number of single tracks and need never listen to a whole album ever again, does the concept of an album still mean anything? THE LONG-PLAYER GOODBYE is a brilliant piece of popular history and a celebration of the joy of records. If you've ever had a favourite album, you'll love Travis Elborough's warm and witty take on how vinyl changed our world.
Book Synopsis He Forgot to Say Goodbye by : Benjamin Alire Sáenz
Download or read book He Forgot to Say Goodbye written by Benjamin Alire Sáenz and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-06-17 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I mean, it's not as if I want a father. I have a father. It's just that I don't know who he is or where he is. But I have one." Ramiro Lopez and Jake Upthegrove don't appear to have much in common. Ram lives in the Mexican-American working-class barrio of El Paso called "Dizzy Land." His brother is sinking into a world of drugs, wreaking havoc in their household. Jake is a rich West Side white boy who has developed a problem managing his anger. An only child, he is a misfit in his mother's shallow and materialistic world. But Ram and Jake do have one thing in common: They are lost boys who have never met their fathers. This sad fact has left both of them undeniably scarred and obsessed with the men who abandoned them. As Jake and Ram overcome their suspicions of each other, they begin to move away from their loner existences and realize that they are capable of reaching out beyond their wounds and the neighborhoods that they grew up in. Their friendship becomes a healing in a world of hurt. San Antonio Express-News wrote, "Benjamin Alire Sáenz exquisitely captures the mood and voice of a community, a culture, and a generation"; that is proven again in this beautifully crafted novel.
Book Synopsis Good-Bye, Trieste by : Elsa M. Spencer
Download or read book Good-Bye, Trieste written by Elsa M. Spencer and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2008-08-22 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is no available information at this time.
Book Synopsis Life Is Seven Seconds Long by : J. Peter Meo
Download or read book Life Is Seven Seconds Long written by J. Peter Meo and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2009-12 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about the love of family and the truly remarkable adventures that goes along with life. About the sacrifices a young man made to give beauty back to the world. "Life is ten seconds long and you will be lucky to live seven" resonates throughout the tragedy and triumphs of an Italian immigrant family. Unlike the stories of millions of people in the early 20th Century, this young man was never bitter about how tough his life was and the burdens he carried. He inspired his brother who inspired the world with works of art that continue to have an impact. The readers will discover how precious every second is. It will make you laugh and cry. The story is unforgetable. The book you are about to read will inspire you and your family with stories you can relate to while measuring every second that goes by.
Download or read book Loving You written by Maureen Child and published by Maureen Child. This book was released on 2018-05-04 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Maureen Child infuses her writing with the perfect blend of laughter, tears and romance. "-Jill Marie Landis For the first time in his life, cameras aren't focused on football star—make that former football star—Nick Candellano, and he doesn't like it. Even so, scandal is not how he wants to return to the limelight, so when an 11-year-old claims Nick is his dad, Nick wants to keep it quiet before the press and his Italian mama find out, at least until he knows if Jonas really is his son. Tasha Flynn, Jonas's fiercely protective foster mother, won't let anyone hurt the boy she loves like a son, even a man who might be his father. But Nick's charms are hard to resist. The more time she spends with him, the more conflicted she feels. He's kind, good to Jonas, and his kisses set off a fire inside her—but he could be the reason she loses Jonas forever. How can a single beautician with no kin compete with a rich pro athlete, especially one of the close-knit Candellanos who can give Jonas the family he's always dreamed of?
Book Synopsis A History of Italian Colonialism, 1860–1907 by : Giuseppe Finaldi
Download or read book A History of Italian Colonialism, 1860–1907 written by Giuseppe Finaldi and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-11-10 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a narrative history of Italian colonialism from Italian unification in the 1860s to the first decade of the twentieth century; that is, it details Italy’s imperialism in the years of the Scramble for Africa. It deals with the factors that drove Italy to search for territory in Africa in the 1870s and 1880s and describes the reasoning behind the trajectories adopted and objectives pursued. The events that brought Italy to open conflict with the Ethiopian Empire culminating in the Italian defeat at Adowa in March 1896 are central to the book. However its scope is much broader, as it considers the establishment of Italian power in Eritrea as well as Somalia before and after the defeat. By telling its history, it explains why Italy emerged irresolute and humiliated in this, its first thrust into Africa, yet nonetheless determined to pursue expansion in the future. The seeds for the conquest of Libya in 1911 and Ethiopia in 1935 had been sown.
