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Author : Amélie Rives
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Quick Or the Dead? written by Amélie Rives and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Joy Williams
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 030776382X
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)
Download or read book The Quick and the Dead written by Joy Williams and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2010-09-01 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • From one of our most heralded writers comes the “poetic, disturbing, yet very funny” (The Washington Post Book World) life-and-death adventures of three misfit teenagers in the American desert. Alice, Corvus, and Annabel, each a motherless child, are an unlikely circle of friends. One filled with convictions, another with loss, the third with a worldly pragmatism, they traverse an air-conditioned landscape eccentric with signs and portents—from the preservation of the living dead in a nursing home to the presentation of the dead as living in a wildlife museum—accompanied by restless, confounded adults. A father lusts after his handsome gardener even as he's haunted (literally) by his dead wife; a heartbroken dog runs afoul of an angry neighbor; a young stroke victim drifts westward, his luck running from worse to awful; a sickly musician for whom Alice develops an attraction is drawn instead toward darker imaginings and solutions; and an aging big-game hunter finds spiritual renewal through his infatuation with an eight-year-old—the formidable Emily Bliss Pickless. With nature thoroughly routed and the ambiguities of existence on full display, life and death continue in directions both invisible and apparent. Gloriously funny and wonderfully serious, The Quick and the Dead limns the vagaries of love, the thirst for meaning, and the peculiar paths by which all creatures are led to their destiny. A panorama of contemporary life and an endlessly surprising tour de force: penetrating and magical, ominous and comic, this is the most astonishing book yet in Joy Williams's illustrious career. Joy Williams belongs, James Salter has written, "in the company of Céline, Flannery O'Connor, and Margaret Atwood."
Author : Louis L'Amour
Publisher : Bantam
ISBN 13 : 0553899597
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (538 download)
Download or read book The Quick and the Dead written by Louis L'Amour and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2004-08-03 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Duncan McKaskel decided to move his family west, he knew he would face dangers, and he was prepared for them. He knew about the exhausting terrain, and he was expecting the punishing elements. What he worried about was having to use violence against other men—men who would follow him and try to steal the riches that he didn’t even possess. Yet bandits were only part of McKaskel’s worries. For a mysterious stranger, Con Vallian, had appeared one night and saved his life. But was Vallian’s true interest Duncan’s wife, Susanna? And, more important, how did she feel about him? As they push on into the wilderness, Duncan must discover who is the greater threat—the thieves outside his camp or the enigmatic stranger within. . . .
Author : Pavel Tsatsouline
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780989892421
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (924 download)
Download or read book The Quick and the Dead written by Pavel Tsatsouline and published by . This book was released on 2019-02 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Améllie (Rives) Chanler Troubetzkoy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Quick Or the Dead? written by Améllie (Rives) Chanler Troubetzkoy and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mairtin O Cadhain
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300262922
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)
Download or read book The Quick and the Dead written by Mairtin O Cadhain and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2021-10-26 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of the finest stories from the Irish author of The Dirty Dust, published fifty years after his death These colorful tales from renowned Irish author Máirtín Ó Cadhain (1906–1970) whisk readers to the salty western shores of Ireland, where close†‘knit farming communities follow the harsh rhythms of custom, family, and land, even as they dream together of a kinder world. In this collection, the resilient women and men of the Gaeltacht regions struggle toward self†‘realization against the brutal pressures of rural poverty, and later, the hollowing demands of modern city life. Weaving together tradition and modernity, and preserving the earthy cadence of the original language, this rich and heart-rending collection by one of Ireland’s most acclaimed fiction writers is a composite portrait of a country poised at the edge of irreversible transformation.
Author : Cynric Temple-Camp
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 177549182X
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (754 download)
Download or read book The Quick and the Dead written by Cynric Temple-Camp and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2020-07-01 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: True stories of life and death from a New Zealand pathologist From the number-one bestselling author of The Cause of Death comes a book about the unlikely, extraordinary, obscure and often tragic ways humans meet their end. A dead body without a trace of trauma; alien parasites; worms of the brain; crocodile attacks and bizarre eating disorders ... In The Quick and the Dead, pathologist Dr Cynric Temple-Camp takes readers into a world of disease and death as he seeks answers for those who were unlucky, and those still alive to tell the tale.
Author : Deanna Petherbridge
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520217386
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (173 download)
Download or read book The Quick and the Dead written by Deanna Petherbridge and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To study anatomy, many artists dissected the dead to better depict the living. "The Quick and the Dead" focuses on a range of artists from Leonardo da Vinci to Cindy Sherman to show the great richness and complexity that can result when art and science intersect. The drawings, prints, photographs, and objects in this book span five centuries and mark numerous cultural shifts, yet their imagery is as powerful today as when they were created. 92 illustrations, 31 in color.
Author : Richard van Emden
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408822458
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (88 download)
Download or read book The Quick and the Dead written by Richard van Emden and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2012-06-07 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the end of the First World War more than 192,000 wives had lost their husbands, and nearly 400,000 children had lost their fathers. Few people remained unscathed. The Quick and the Dead pays tribute to the families who were left behind while their husbands, fathers and sons went off to fight, and the generations that followed. Through a unique collection of more than fifty interviews, private diaries and a remarkable collection of unpublished letters written by the soldiers to their families back home, The Quick and the Dead is a history of those who are commonly forgotten and neglected when the fallen are remembered on Armistice Day.
Author : Janine Di Giovanni
Publisher : Phoenix
ISBN 13 : 9781857993332
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (933 download)
Download or read book The Quick and the Dead written by Janine Di Giovanni and published by Phoenix. This book was released on 1995 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Pete Kelley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (49 download)
Download or read book The Quick and the Dead written by Pete Kelley and published by . This book was released on 2020-01-30 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between May 13 and June 28, in the year 1858, seven Californios were hung by vigilantes at the San Luis Obispo Mission. Another Californio was hunted down and shot by the same vigilante posse. Previously citizens of Mexico, these men were all Americans when their necks were stretched. The official story is that the vigilantes rid the county of murderous bandits, the so-called Powers-Linares Gang. My story is a little different. I focus on three main players: Walter Murray, Pio Linares, and Jack Powers. Was Walter Murray "The Good?" Jack Powers "The Bad?" and Pio Linares "The Ugly?" Let us dig deeper into that tumultuous time when California was taken from Mexico and bring those events into sharper focus.
Author : Elizabeth Fischi
Publisher : White Wolf Pub
ISBN 13 : 9781565046139
Total Pages : 101 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (461 download)
Download or read book The Quick and the Dead written by Elizabeth Fischi and published by White Wolf Pub. This book was released on 1995-07 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mark E. Rogers
Publisher : Permuted Press
ISBN 13 : 1934861405
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (348 download)
Download or read book The Dead written by Mark E. Rogers and published by Permuted Press. This book was released on 2010-03-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A terrible judge comes like a thief in the night. Planes drop from the sky, machines sputter and stop, and the graves of the shrieking damned burst open. Angels from hell clothe themselves in the flesh of corpses to form an unholy army. Gary Holland is jolted awake to learn that his father is dead. The family gathers for the funeral... and confronts hell on earth.
Author : Jack Curtis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780671518981
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (189 download)
Download or read book The Quick and the Dead written by Jack Curtis and published by . This book was released on 1995-03 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brutal, brilliant saga of the Old West--now a major motion picture starring Gene Hackman and Sharon Stone. The bullet-ridden sign says Redemption, the lawless town where frontier justice is quick-draw sport--where one man holds a terrified community in his ruthless grip.
Author : Marcus Sedgwick
Publisher : Wendy Lamb Books
ISBN 13 : 0307433838
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)
Download or read book The Book of Dead Days written by Marcus Sedgwick and published by Wendy Lamb Books. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE DAYS BETWEEN Christmas and New Year’s Eve are dead days, when spirits roam and magic shifts restlessly just beneath the surface of our lives. A magician called Valerian must save his own life within those few days or pay the price for the pact he made with evil so many years ago. But alchemy and sorcery are no match against the demonic power pursuing him. Helping him is his servant, Boy, a child with no name and no past. The quick-witted orphan girl, Willow, is with them as they dig in death fields at midnight, and as they are swept into the sprawling blackness of a subterranean city on a journey from which there is no escape. Praise for The Book of Dead Days: “Beautifully paced and sometimes blood-soaked. . . . A very tangible sense of evil.”—The Guardian “Subtle menace and power.”—The Independent “Packed with drama, mystery, and intrigue.”—The Bookseller
Author : Kevin Brockmeier
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0375424237
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (754 download)
Download or read book The Brief History of the Dead written by Kevin Brockmeier and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2006-02-14 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Kevin Brockmeier, one of this generation's most inventive young writers, comes a striking new novel about death, life, and the mysterious place in between. The City is inhabited by those who have departed Earth but are still remembered by the living. They will reside in this afterlife until they are completely forgotten. But the City is shrinking, and the residents clearing out. Some of the holdouts, like Luka Sims, who produces the City’s only newspaper, are wondering what exactly is going on. Others, like Coleman Kinzler, believe it is the beginning of the end. Meanwhile, Laura Byrd is trapped in an Antarctic research station, her supplies are running low, her radio finds only static, and the power is failing. With little choice, Laura sets out across the ice to look for help, but time is running out. Kevin Brockmeier alternates these two storylines to create a lyrical and haunting story about love, loss and the power of memory.
Author : Jory John
Publisher : Chronicle Books
ISBN 13 : 1452114048
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (521 download)
Download or read book All My Friends Are Still Dead written by Jory John and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2012-02-24 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the authors of the breakout best seller All my friends are dead comes a brand-new illustrated compendium of the humorous existential ruminations of people, animals, legendary monsters, and inanimate objects.
