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Download or read book Ken and Thelma written by Fletcher, Joel and published by Pelican Publishing. This book was released on 2005-03-31 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Ken has a real gift for mimicry and a refined sense of the absurd . . . the English faculty . . .both fear and court Ken because of his biting comic talent." --from Joel L. Fletcher's journal John Kennedy Toole's first published novel, A Confederacy of Dunces, which Walker Percy called a"gargantuan tumultuous human tragi-comedy," became a publishing phenomenon, with almost two million copies in print worldwide in eighteen languages. The book's outrageous protagonist, Ignatius Reilly, is an icon of contemporary American fiction. Now Ken and Thelma sheds new light on the tragic life story of the author, known as 'Ken' to his friends. Drawing on his own journals and personal letters, Joel L. Fletcher recreates his friendship with Ken in the early 1960s and his long association with Ken's indomitable mother, Thelma Ducoing Toole, after the book's publication. Ken and Thelma features personal photographs, many never before published.
Book Synopsis Butterfly in the Typewriter by : Cory MacLauchlin
Download or read book Butterfly in the Typewriter written by Cory MacLauchlin and published by Da Capo Press, Incorporated. This book was released on 2012-03-27 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The long-awaited biography of John Kennedy Toole ("A Confederacy of Dunces"), whose fascinating life and tragic death is one of the most amazing publishingstories in American literature.
Book Synopsis A Confederacy of Dunces by : John Kennedy Toole
Download or read book A Confederacy of Dunces written by John Kennedy Toole and published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc.. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize “A masterwork . . . the novel astonishes with its inventiveness . . . it is nothing less than a grand comic fugue.”—The New York Times Book Review A Confederacy of Dunces is an American comic masterpiece. John Kennedy Toole's hero, one Ignatius J. Reilly, is "huge, obese, fractious, fastidious, a latter-day Gargantua, a Don Quixote of the French Quarter. His story bursts with wholly original characters, denizens of New Orleans' lower depths, incredibly true-to-life dialogue, and the zaniest series of high and low comic adventures" (Henry Kisor, Chicago Sun-Times).
Book Synopsis Ignatius Rising by : René Pol Nevils
Download or read book Ignatius Rising written by René Pol Nevils and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2005-04-01 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The phenomenal success of John Kennedy Toole's comic masterpiece, A Confederacy of Dunces, is now legendary, a story that has long beckoned a deeper exploration into the life, imagination, and demise of the writer responsible for one of American literature's most memorable characters -- Ignatius J. Reilly. In Ignatius Rising, René Pol Nevils and Deborah George Hardy present the first biography of Toole, drawing upon scores of interviews with contemporaries of the writer and acquaintances of his influencing mother, Thelma, as well as unpublished letters, documents, and photographs. Frank yet sympathetic, Ignatius Rising deftly describes a life that is dark, tragic, bizarre, and amazing -- but luminous with the gift of laughter, a life not unlike those of Toole's beloved characters, now loved the world over.
Book Synopsis Theology and Geometry by : Leslie Marsh
Download or read book Theology and Geometry written by Leslie Marsh and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-01-29 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection, the first of its kind, brings together specially commissioned academic essays to mark fifty years since the death of John Kennedy Toole.
Book Synopsis The Return of Thelma the Unicorn by : Aaron Blabey
Download or read book The Return of Thelma the Unicorn written by Aaron Blabey and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thelma the Unicorn is back and more fabulous than ever! The whole wide world was overjoyed!Her fans all went berserk.But this time Thelma had her friendand that's what made it work.The world misses its favorite unicorn, but Thelma is reluctant to don her horn and sparkles again. However, with the support of her best friend Otis, she realizes the importance of spreading love and joy -- no matter what people think.Bestselling author Aaron Blabey's sweet and funny follow-up to Thelma the Unicorn will have young readers cheering for Thelma and Otis as they learn to love who they are... even if they don't have sparkles.
Download or read book Congo Solo written by Emily Hahn and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2011 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emily Hahn was one of the most prolific and enduring writers atThe New Yorker– her first by-line appeared there in 1926, her last in 1996. She was also the author of fifty-three books, and, had her 1933 travel memoir,Congo Solo, not been published in a censored version during the darkest days of the Great Depression, it might well have been hailed as a classic of the genre, alongside Dinesen'sOut of Africa. In many ways Hahn's vivid account of her eight-month sojourn in a remote medical clinic was years ahead of its time. A woman who lived life on her own terms, Hahn was an unknown and struggling writer whenCongo Solowas published. Here – restored to the form she had intended – is Hahn's unforgettable narrative, a vivid, provocative, and at times disturbing firsthand account of the racism, brutality, sexism, and exploitation that were everyday life realities under Belgium's iron-fisted colonial rule. Until now, the few copies ofCongo Soloin circulation were the adulterated version, which the author altered after pressure from her publisher and threats of litigation from the main character's family. This edition makes available a lost treasure of women's travel writing that shocks and impresses, while shedding valuable light on the gender and race politics of the period.
Download or read book Off the Cliff written by Becky Aikman and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017-06-27 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lively and revealing behind-the-scenes look at the making of one of history's most controversial and influential movies, drawing on exclusive interviews with the cast and crew. “You’ve always been crazy,” says Louise to Thelma, shortly after she locks a police officer in the trunk of his car. “This is just the first chance you’ve had to express yourself.” In 1991, Thelma & Louise, the story of two outlaw women on the run from their disenchanted lives, was a revelation. Suddenly, a film in which women were, in every sense, behind the wheel. It turned the tables on Hollywood, instantly becoming a classic, and continues to electrify audiences as a cultural statement of defiance. But if the film’s place in history now seems certain, at the time its creation was a long shot. Only through sheer hard work and more than a little good luck did the script end up in the hands of the brilliant English filmmaker Ridley Scott, who saw its huge potential. With Scott on board, a team willing to challenge the odds came together—including the stars Geena Davis and Susan Sarandon and a fresh-faced up-and-coming actor named Brad Pitt, as well as legends like actor Harvey Keitel, composer Hans Zimmer, and old-school studio chief Alan Ladd Jr.—to create one of the most controversial movies of all time. But before icons like Davis and Sarandon got involved, Thelma & Louise was just an idea in the head of Callie Khouri, a thirty-year-old music video production manager, who was fed up with working behind the scenes on sleazy sets. At four a.m. one night, sitting in her car outside the ramshackle bungalow in Santa Monica that she shared with two friends, she had a vision: two women on a crime spree, fleeing their dull and tedious lives—lives like hers—in search of a freedom they had never before been able to realize. But in the late 1980s, Hollywood was dominated by men, both on the screen and behind the scenes. The likelihood of a script by an unheard-of screenwriter starring two women in lead roles actually getting made was remote. But Khouri had one thing going for her—she was so inexperienced she didn't really know she would be attempting the nigh impossible. In Off the Cliff, Becky Aikman tells the full extraordinary story behind this feminist sensation, which crashed through barricades and upended convention. Drawing on 130 exclusive interviews with the key players from this remarkable cast of actors, writers, and filmmakers, Aikman tells an inspiring and important underdog story about creativity, the magic of cinema, and the unjust obstacles that women in Hollywood continue to face to this day.
Book Synopsis The Neon Bible by : John Kennedy Toole
Download or read book The Neon Bible written by John Kennedy Toole and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A moving evocation of the small-town South in the mid-twentieth century” that “belongs on the shelf with the works of Flannery O’Connor, Carson McCullers, and Eudora Welty” (Orlando Sentinel). John Kennedy Toole—who won a posthumous Pulitzer Prize for his best-selling comic masterpiece A Confederacy of Dunces—wrote The Neon Bible for a literary contest at the age of sixteen. The manuscript languished in a drawer and became the subject of a legal battle among Toole’s heirs. It was only in 1989, thirty-five years after it was written and twenty years after Toole’s suicide at thirty-one, that this amazingly accomplished and evocative novel was freed for publication. “Heartfelt emotion, communicated in clean direct prose . . . a remarkable achievement.” —Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times “John Kennedy Toole’s tender, nostalgic side is as brilliantly effective as his corrosive satire. If you liked To Kill A Mockingbird you will love The Neon Bible.” —Florence King “Shockingly mature. . . . Even at sixteen, Toole knew that the way to write about complex emotions is to express them simply.” —Kerry Luft, Chicago Tribune
Book Synopsis Writing the Short Film by : Patricia Cooper
Download or read book Writing the Short Film written by Patricia Cooper and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2012-09-10 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The short film is a unique narrative art form that, while lending itself to experimentation, requires tremendous discipline in following traditional filmic considerations. This book takes the student and novice screenwriter through the storytelling process- from conception, to visualization, to dramatization, to characterization and dialogue- and teaches them how to create a dramatic narrative that is at once short (approximately half an hour in length) and complete. Exercises, new examples of short screenplays, and an examination of various genres round out the discussion. NEW TO THE THIRD EDITION: new screenplays, a chapter on rewriting your script, and a chapter on the future of short films
Book Synopsis Goober in a Nutshell by : George Lindsey
Download or read book Goober in a Nutshell written by George Lindsey and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Triumphs and Tragedies by : Karl B. Mcmillen (Jr.)
Download or read book Triumphs and Tragedies written by Karl B. Mcmillen (Jr.) and published by . This book was released on 2013-08-06 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Death Glitch written by Ken Douglas and published by Bootleg Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Heart surgeon Isadora Eisenhower is seventy-seven and dying of cancer when she is shot dead. She wakes in the morgue with the body of an eighteen year old. Something brought her back to life, made her young again and some very bad people want to find out how it happened. However, being poked and prodded and having her new life sucked out of her in the name of science and so a few wealthy people can have eternal life doesn't sit too well with Dr. Eisenhower, so to save herself, she goes on the run. But the men behind her pursuit are powerful and bring the forces of Homeland Security and the FBI after her and it seems no matter where she runs, they're a jump ahead of her and soon she'll have no place to hide.
Download or read book The Convertible written by Ken Vose and published by . This book was released on 1999-09 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the road, and in film, art, and literature, the convertible is more than just a car--it's a state of mind, a way of life. Vose traces the evolution of the convertible as car and cultural icon. 125+ photos.
Download or read book Mayberry Memories written by Ken Beck and published by Thomas Nelson. This book was released on 2005-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents photographs of the cast, crew, and set of the popular television program.
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Download or read book I'm Proud to Call You My Friend written by and published by Thomas Nelson. This book was released on 2002 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To celebrate the warmth and loyalty that comes with true friendship and homespun wisdom, "Act Like Somebody" and "I'm Proud to Call You My Friend" contain meaningful quotations and carefully chosen photos from "The Andy Griffith Show."
Book Synopsis Hope for a Womans Soul by : Inspirio Staff
Download or read book Hope for a Womans Soul written by Inspirio Staff and published by . This book was released on 2006-05-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Hope for a Woman's Soul, " the newest in a line of gift books from Women of Faith, pours God's love into women's hearts. Encouraging Scripture verses from the NIV are combined with devotional thoughts from such bestselling authors as Barbara Johnson, Patsy Clairmont, Sheila Walsh, Marilyn Meberg, Luci Swindoll and Thelma Wells. This lovely book with colorful photos throughout is packaged in a padded cover with gilded pages and a ribbon marker.
