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Author : Walter Herbert Sokel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (674 download)
Download or read book The Writer in Extremis written by Walter Herbert Sokel and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lindsey Hilsum
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0374720347
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (747 download)
Download or read book In Extremis written by Lindsey Hilsum and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2018-11-06 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice. Finalist for the Costa Biography Award and long-listed for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence. Named a Best Book of 2018 by Esquire and Foreign Policy. An Amazon Best Book of November, the Guardian Bookshop Book of November, and one of the Evening Standard's Books to Read in November "Now, thanks to Hilsum’s deeply reported and passionately written book, [Marie Colvin] has the full accounting that she deserves." --Joshua Hammer, The New York Times The inspiring and devastating biography of Marie Colvin, the foremost war reporter of her generation, who was killed in Syria in 2012, and whose life story also forms the basis of the feature film A Private War, starring Rosamund Pike as Colvin. When Marie Colvin was killed in an artillery attack in Homs, Syria, in 2012, at age fifty-six, the world lost a fearless and iconoclastic war correspondent who covered the most significant global calamities of her lifetime. In Extremis, written by her fellow reporter Lindsey Hilsum, is a thrilling investigation into Colvin’s epic life and tragic death based on exclusive access to her intimate diaries from age thirteen to her death, interviews with people from every corner of her life, and impeccable research. After growing up in a middle-class Catholic family on Long Island, Colvin studied with the legendary journalist John Hersey at Yale, and eventually started working for The Sunday Times of London, where she gained a reputation for bravery and compassion as she told the stories of victims of the major conflicts of our time. She lost sight in one eye while in Sri Lanka covering the civil war, interviewed Gaddafi and Arafat many times, and repeatedly risked her life covering conflicts in Chechnya, East Timor, Kosovo, and the Middle East. Colvin lived her personal life in extremis, too: bold, driven, and complex, she was married twice, took many lovers, drank and smoked, and rejected society’s expectations for women. Despite PTSD, she refused to give up reporting. Like her hero Martha Gellhorn, Colvin was committed to bearing witness to the horrifying truths of war, and to shining a light on the profound suffering of ordinary people caught in the midst of conflict. Lindsey Hilsum’s In Extremis is a devastating and revelatory biography of one of the greatest war correspondents of her generation.
Author : Tim Parks
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 1784705977
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (847 download)
Download or read book In Extremis written by Tim Parks and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2018-05-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas needs to speak to his mother before she dies. But he's set to give a talk to a conference of physiotherapists in the Netherlands; if he leaves now will he get to her deathbed in time? Will he be able to say what he couldn't say before? He can't concentrate on what is happening now: his mind won't sit still. Should he try to solve his friend's marital crisis? Should he reconsider his separation from his own wife? And why does he need to pee again? In Extremis is Tim Parks's masterwork: a darkly hilarious and deadly serious novel about infidelity, mortality and the frailties of the human body.
Author : Walter Herbert Sokel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book The Writer in Extremis written by Walter Herbert Sokel and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Walter H. Sokel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (185 download)
Download or read book The Writer in Extremis written by Walter H. Sokel and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Deborah Baker
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595140416
Total Pages : 510 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (951 download)
Download or read book In Extremis written by Deborah Baker and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2000-11 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Extremis is hte first major biography of a major 20th century modernist.
Author : Steve White
Publisher : Baen Publishing Enterprises
ISBN 13 : 1618248103
Total Pages : 880 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (182 download)
Download or read book Extremis written by Steve White and published by Baen Publishing Enterprises. This book was released on 2011-05-01 with total page 880 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Steve White, Vietnam vet, long-time David Weber collaborator and co-author, with Weber, of the New York Times best-seller The Shiva Option, joins with Analog contributor and military SF scholar Charles E. Gannon to carve another notch in the Starfire adventure saga. An implacable foe with telepathic cohesion in battle, near-immortality, and eons-advanced engineering skills threatens to wipe humanity from the galaxy. Whats more, theyve overcome their one weakness_no faster-than-light travel_and have followed humanity through our star gates and beyond. But humans are the master of adaption, and have got a counterpunch of devastating proportions in reserve. Now a hard-bitten and brilliant admiral must face down renewed alien attack and somehow communicate to the enemy that if he is forced to use his ultimate military option, galactic civilization itself may come to a fiery end. At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management).
Author : Jacob M. Appel
Publisher : Able Muse Press
ISBN 13 : 177349015X
Total Pages : 78 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (734 download)
Download or read book The Cynic in Extremis written by Jacob M. Appel and published by Able Muse Press. This book was released on 2018-03 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Roberta Silman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781640089006
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Secrets and Shadows written by Roberta Silman and published by . This book was released on 2018-03-05 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Secrets and Shadows is a novel about how the events of the Second World War can re-verberate into the future. Silman uses the fall of the Berlin Wall to explore the long marriage and divorce of her protagonists, Eve and Paul. When Eve agrees to accompany her former husband to Berlin, Paul recalls and narrates the past he has never been able to share with his wife. Eve begins to see how Paul's hidden childhood in Nazi Germany, shaped and influenced their marriage, and how his trauma exacted a price in their relationship. The novel is about the complexities of guilt, anger, love and lust, and above all forgiveness as Eve and Paul help each other confront a bitter past and move forward in their lives.
Author : C. Morgan Babst
Publisher : Algonquin Books
ISBN 13 : 1616207639
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (162 download)
Download or read book The Floating World written by C. Morgan Babst and published by Algonquin Books. This book was released on 2017-10-17 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Set in New Orleans, this important and powerful novel follows the Boisdoré family . . . in the months after Katrina. A profound, moving and authentically detailed picture of the storm’s emotional impact on those who lived through it.” —People In this dazzling debut about family, home, and grief, C. Morgan Babst takes readers into the heart of Hurricane Katrina and the life of a great city. As the storm is fast approaching the Louisiana coast, Cora Boisdoré refuses to leave the city. Her parents, Joe Boisdoré, an artist descended from freed slaves who became the city’s preeminent furniture makers, and his white “Uptown” wife, Dr. Tess Eshleman, are forced to evacuate without her, setting off a chain of events that leaves their marriage in shambles and Cora catatonic—the victim or perpetrator of some violence mysterious even to herself. This mystery is at the center of Babst’s haunting and profound novel. Cora’s sister, Del, returns to New Orleans from the successful life she built in New York City to find her hometown in ruins and her family deeply alienated from one another. As Del attempts to figure out what happened to her sister, she must also reckon with the racial history of the city and the trauma of a disaster that was not, in fact, some random act of God but an avoidable tragedy visited on New Orleans’s most vulnerable citizens. Separately and together, each member of the Boisdoré clan must find the strength to remake home in a city forever changed. The Floating World is the Katrina story that needed to be told—one with a piercing, unforgettable loveliness and a vivid, intimate understanding of this particular place and its tangled past.
Author : Daniel Feldman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (651 download)
Download or read book Poesis in Extremis written by Daniel Feldman and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2024-02-08 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can genocide be witnessed through imaginative literature? How can the Holocaust affect readers who were not there? Reading the work of major figures such as Elie Wiesel, Paul Celan, Avrom Sutzkever, Ida Fink, Wladyslaw Szlengel, Itzhak Katzenelson, and Czeslaw Milosz, Poesis in Extremis poses fundamental questions about how prose and poetry are written under extreme conditions, either in real time or immediately after the Holocaust. Framed by discussion of literary testimony, with Wiesel's literary memoir Night as an entry point, this innovative study explores the blurred boundary of fact and fiction in Holocaust literature. It asks whether there is a poetics of the Holocaust and what might be the criteria for literary witnessing. Wartime writing in particular tests the limits of “poesis in extremis” when poets faced their own annihilation and wrote in the hope that their words, like a message in a bottle, would somehow reach readers. Through Poesis in Extremis, Daniel Feldman and Efraim Sicher probe the boundaries of Holocaust literature, as well as the limits of representation.
Author : Warren Ellis
Publisher : Marvel Entertainment
ISBN 13 : 0785170731
Total Pages : 163 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (851 download)
Download or read book Iron Man written by Warren Ellis and published by Marvel Entertainment. This book was released on 2010-04-14 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Renowned scribe Warren Ellis joins forces with acclaimed illustrator Adi Granov to redefine the armored avenger's world for the 21st century - a landscape of terrifying new technologies that threaten to overwhelm fragile mankind! What is Extremis, who has unleashed it, and what does its emergence portend for the world? Collects Iron Man (2004) #1-6.
Author : Christofer Emgard
Publisher : Dark Horse Comics
ISBN 13 : 1506710425
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (67 download)
Download or read book Tom Clancy's The Division: Extremis Malis written by Christofer Emgard and published by Dark Horse Comics. This book was released on 2019-07-23 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The perfect introduction to the post-pandemic world of Ubisoft's record-breaking video game series, this graphic novel follows Division agent Caleb Dunne from New York City to Washington, D.C. in pursuit of the mysterious woman who murdered his partner. This prequel to Tom Clancy's The Division 2 is a must-have for fans of intrigue and tales of survival. Months after a bioweapon attack devastated New York City, the Division agents are the last hope of a United States struggling to hold itself together. During a mission gone horribly wrong, Division agent Caleb Dunne's partner is gruesomely killed and Dunne vows to track down the mysterious woman responsible. Known only as Mantis, Dunne pursues her to Philadelphia, Fort Meade, and eventually Washington, D.C., enlisting the help of fellow agents Heather Ward and Brian Johnson along the way. Together, this newly-formed group of agents uncover a much larger scheme that poses a grave threat to a nation already on the brink of total collapse.
Author : Deborah Baker
Publisher : Graywolf Press
ISBN 13 : 1555979947
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (559 download)
Download or read book The Last Englishmen written by Deborah Baker and published by Graywolf Press. This book was released on 2018-08-21 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sumptuous biographical saga, both intimate and epic, about the waning of the British Empire in India John Auden was a pioneering geologist of the Himalaya. Michael Spender was the first to draw a detailed map of the North Face of Mount Everest. While their younger brothers—W. H. Auden and Stephen Spender—achieved literary fame, they vied to be included on an expedition that would deliver Everest’s summit to an Englishman, a quest that had become a metaphor for Britain’s struggle to maintain power over India. To this rivalry was added another: in the summer of 1938 both men fell in love with a painter named Nancy Sharp. Her choice would determine where each man’s wartime loyalties would lie. Set in Calcutta, London, the glacier-locked wilds of the Karakoram, and on Everest itself, The Last Englishmen is also the story of a generation. The cast of this exhilarating drama includes Indian and English writers and artists, explorers and Communist spies, Die Hards and Indian nationalists, political rogues and police informers. Key among them is a highborn Bengali poet named Sudhin Datta, a melancholy soul torn, like many of his generation, between hatred of the British Empire and a deep love of European literature, whose life would be upended by the arrival of war on his Calcutta doorstep. Dense with romance and intrigue, and of startling relevance for the great power games of our own day, Deborah Baker’s The Last Englishmen is an engrossing story that traces the end of empire and the stirring of a new world order.
Author : A.S. HAMRAH
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781732294110
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (941 download)
Download or read book EARTH DIES STREAMING. written by A.S. HAMRAH and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Arthur Kleinman
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0525559337
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (255 download)
Download or read book The Soul of Care written by Arthur Kleinman and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-09-17 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A moving memoir and an extraordinary love story that shows how an expert physician became a family caregiver and learned why care is so central to all our lives and yet is at risk in today's world. When Dr. Arthur Kleinman, an eminent Harvard psychiatrist and social anthropologist, began caring for his wife, Joan, after she was diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer's disease, he found just how far the act of caregiving extended beyond the boundaries of medicine. In The Soul of Care: The Moral Education of a Husband and a Doctor, Kleinman delivers a deeply humane and inspiring story of his life in medicine and his marriage to Joan, and he describes the practical, emotional and moral aspects of caretaking. He also writes about the problems our society faces as medical technology advances and the cost of health care soars but caring for patients no longer seems important. Caregiving is long, hard, unglamorous work--at moments joyous, more often tedious, sometimes agonizing, but it is always rich in meaning. In the face of our current political indifference and the challenge to the health care system, he emphasizes how we must ask uncomfortable questions of ourselves, and of our doctors. To give care, to be "present" for someone who needs us, and to feel and show kindness are deep emotional and moral experiences, enactments of our core values. The practice of caregiving teaches us what is most important in life, and reveals the very heart of what it is to be human.
Author : Jordan Silversmith
Publisher : Gival Press
ISBN 13 : 9781940724317
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (243 download)
Download or read book Redshift, Blueshift written by Jordan Silversmith and published by Gival Press. This book was released on 2021-10 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Gival Press Novel Award When a prisoner in an unnamed labor camp finds his journal of memories taken from his cell, he sets out to console himself and perhaps find in his past a way to reclaim his freedom by again writing down what he can remember. As the prisoner writes and passes through the vivid world of a distant life, he is eventually confronted by a strange memory that, if true, questions the reliability of his memories and whether what he remembers was really his own life or, somehow, someone else's.
