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Book Synopsis Memoirs of the Village Idiot by : Nandi Mhlongo
Download or read book Memoirs of the Village Idiot written by Nandi Mhlongo and published by Austin Macauley Publishers. This book was released on 2022-12-16 with total page 53 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘How is it possible that life, for the life of it, could be painful and joy-less? Yet it has survived for ages?’... Is the ability to see the world in its most unflattering state, without reason nor rhyme, a gift or a curse with a pinch of mental instability?
Book Synopsis It Takes a Village Idiot by : Jim Mullen
Download or read book It Takes a Village Idiot written by Jim Mullen and published by Simon & Schuster. This book was released on 2002-07-16 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finalist for the 2001 Thurber Prize for American Humor a Rocky Mountain News (Denver) Best Book of the Year Millions of people dream of abandoning the city routine for a simple country life. Jim Mullen was not one of them. He loved his Manhattan existence: parties, openings, movie screenings. He could walk to hundreds of restaurants, waste entire afternoons at the Film Forum, people-watch from his window. Then, one day, calamity. His wife quits smoking and buys a weekend house in the Catskill Mountains of upstate New York -- in a tiny town diametrically opposed to Manhattan in every way. Slowly, however, the man who once boasted, "Life is just a cab away," begins to warm to the place -- manure and compost and strangers who wave and all -- and to embrace the kind of life that once gave him the shakes.
Book Synopsis Slightly Above Average by : Sandi Marx
Download or read book Slightly Above Average written by Sandi Marx and published by Mandala Tree Press. This book was released on 2024-02-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Embark on a laughter-filled journey with Sandi Marx, a retired talent agent turned New York-based storyteller and comedian whose radiant energy lights up stages nationwide. A seven-time Moth StorySLAM champion, Sandi's storytelling prowess has graced iconic venues like The Tank in Brooklyn and the City Winery. "Hysterical. Sandi Marx is a national treasure and truly one of a kind." - Georgia Clark, author of Island Time. From headlining the Boston Comedy Festival to captivating audiences on nationally televised PBS shows like "Stories For The Stage," Sandi is a force to be reckoned with in the world of storytelling. Featured on numerous podcasts, including RISK! and Hot Mic with Dan Savage, she's become a fixture in the vibrant New York storytelling scene. "In her hilarious attempts to convince you of her mediocrity, Sandi Marx proves herself extraordinary." - Iman Hariri-Kia, author of A Hundred Other Girls. Her journey from talent agent to celebrated storyteller is brilliantly captured in the upcoming documentary "The Fabulist." Now, Sandi Marx invites you to join her in the pages of her book, Slightly Above Average: Memoir of a Successful Village Idiot, where her wit, humor, and tales of an unconventional life promise to entertain and inspire.
Book Synopsis The Village Idiot by : Jacquelyn Bayonne
Download or read book The Village Idiot written by Jacquelyn Bayonne and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis It Takes a Village Idiot by : Susan Florence
Download or read book It Takes a Village Idiot written by Susan Florence and published by . This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Village Idiot written by Steve Stern and published by Melville House. This book was released on 2022-09-13 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2022 "A frothy picaresque that ... vibrates to the “sweet celestial confusion” of Soutine’s painting: delirious and earthy, reverent and irreligious." -- The New York Times Book Review A wild, effervescent, absinthe-soaked novel that tells of the life of the extraordinary artist Chaim Soutine Steve Stern’s astonishing new novel The Village Idiot begins on a glorious spring day in Paris 1917. Amid the carnage of World War I, some of the foremost artists of the age have chosen to stage a boat race. At the head of the regatta is Amedeo Modigliani, seated regally in a bathtub pulled by a flock of canvasback ducks. But unbeknownst to the competition, he has a secret advantage: his young friend, the immigrant painter Chaim Soutine, is hauling the tub from underwater. Soutine, an unwashed, misfit artist (who incidentally can’t swim) has been persuaded by the Italian to don a ponderous diving suit and trudge along the floor of the river Seine. Disoriented and confused by the artificial air in his helmet Chaim stumbles through the events of his past and future life. It’s quite an extraordinary life. From his impoverished beginnings in an East European shtetl to his equally destitute days in Paris during the Années Folles, the Crazy Years, from the Cinderella patronage of the American collector Albert Barnes, who raises him from poverty to international attention, to his perilous flight from the Nazi occupation of France, Chaim Soutine remains driven by his unrelenting passion to paint. To be sure, there are notable distractions, such as his unlikely friendship with Modigliani, who drags him from brothels to midnight felonies to a duel at dawn; there are the romances with remarkable women who compete with and sometimes salvage his obsession. But there is also, always on the horizon, the coming storm that threatens to sweep away Chaim and a generation of gifted Jewish refugees from a tradition that would outlaw their longing to make art. Wildly inventive, as funny as it is heart-breaking, The Village Idiot is a luminous fever-dream of a novel, steeped in the heady atmosphere of a Paris that was the cultural capital of the universe, a place where anything seemed possible.
Book Synopsis It Takes a Village Idiot by : Jim Mullen
Download or read book It Takes a Village Idiot written by Jim Mullen and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leaving Manhattan gave magazine writer Jim Mullen the heebie jeebies. He recounts his change from a trend-chasing, club-hopping, acid-tongued night owl to a manure-spreading, cow-dodging, aphorism-spouting farmer.
Book Synopsis The Village Idiot by : Dan Blanchfield
Download or read book The Village Idiot written by Dan Blanchfield and published by . This book was released on 2024 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout human history, man has not welcomed new knowledge coming into the world. The idea that one has something new to learn is too often an anathema to one's sense of importance. It was true of the good people of the Village of Crumbly as it is of individuals today. We may look down on the citizens of this village and think them fools, but how different are they from us?
Book Synopsis Global Village Idiot by : John O'Farrell
Download or read book Global Village Idiot written by John O'Farrell and published by Random House. This book was released on 2002 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Best of British newspaper columnist's pieces.
Book Synopsis Clifford Irving's The Global Village Idiot by : Clifford Irving
Download or read book Clifford Irving's The Global Village Idiot written by Clifford Irving and published by Anti-Advertising Agency. This book was released on 1973-01-01 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis More Memoirs by : George Brown Burgin
Download or read book More Memoirs written by George Brown Burgin and published by London : Hutchinson. This book was released on 1922 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Idiot written by Elif Batuman and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2018-02-13 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Book Review Notable Book • Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction • Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction “Easily the funniest book I’ve read this year.” —GQ “Masterly funny debut novel . . . Erudite but never pretentious, The Idiot will make you crave more books by Batuman.” —Sloane Crosley, Vanity Fair A portrait of the artist as a young woman. A novel about not just discovering but inventing oneself. The year is 1995, and email is new. Selin, the daughter of Turkish immigrants, arrives for her freshman year at Harvard. She signs up for classes in subjects she has never heard of, befriends her charismatic and worldly Serbian classmate, Svetlana, and, almost by accident, begins corresponding with Ivan, an older mathematics student from Hungary. Selin may have barely spoken to Ivan, but with each email they exchange, the act of writing seems to take on new and increasingly mysterious meanings. At the end of the school year, Ivan goes to Budapest for the summer, and Selin heads to the Hungarian countryside, to teach English in a program run by one of Ivan's friends. On the way, she spends two weeks visiting Paris with Svetlana. Selin's summer in Europe does not resonate with anything she has previously heard about the typical experiences of American college students, or indeed of any other kinds of people. For Selin, this is a journey further inside herself: a coming to grips with the ineffable and exhilarating confusion of first love, and with the growing consciousness that she is doomed to become a writer. With superlative emotional and intellectual sensitivity, mordant wit, and pitch-perfect style, Batuman dramatizes the uncertainty of life on the cusp of adulthood. Her prose is a rare and inimitable combination of tenderness and wisdom; its logic as natural and inscrutable as that of memory itself. The Idiot is a heroic yet self-effacing reckoning with the terror and joy of becoming a person in a world that is as intoxicating as it is disquieting. Batuman's fiction is unguarded against both life's affronts and its beauty--and has at its command the complete range of thinking and feeling which they entail. Named one the best books of the year by Refinery29 • Mashable One • Elle Magazine • The New York Times • Bookpage • Vogue • NPR • Buzzfeed •The Millions
Book Synopsis Memoirs of a midget by : Water John De La Mare
Download or read book Memoirs of a midget written by Water John De La Mare and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Zoo Memoirs written by Gerald Durrell and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2018-03-13 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The British naturalist and bestselling author of the Corfu Trilogy—the inspiration for the Masterpiece production The Durrells in Corfu—founds a zoo. In this trio of delightful memoirs, British wildlife preservation pioneer and national bestselling author Gerald Durrell recounts the ups and downs he faces in transforming his lifelong dream of creating a new kind of zoo into a reality. A Zoo in My Luggage: In 1957, Durrell and his wife travel to the British Cameroons in West Africa to begin assembling his menagerie. The greater challenge proves to be in safely transporting their exotic animals back to Britain and finding a home for them. “Animals come close to being Durrell’s best friends. . . . He writes about them with style, verve, and humor.” —Time The Whispering Land: On an eight-month journey in South America to expand his menagerie, Durrell and his wife travel across windswept Patagonian shores and through tropical forests in the Argentine, encountering fur seals, ocelots, penguins, parrots, pumas, and more. “An amusing writer who transforms this Argentine backcountry into a particularly inviting place.” —San Francisco Chronicle Menagerie Manor: In 1959, on the grounds of an old manor house on the Channel Island of Jersey, Durrell finally opens the Jersey Zoo—now known as the Durrell Wildlife Park. Along with the satisfaction of providing a safe habitat for rare and endangered species come the trials of operating a fledgling zoo, including overdrawn bank accounts and escaped animals. “No one can be funnier than Mr. Durrell in relating his own adventures or the antics of the claw and paw set.” —The Christian Science Monitor
Book Synopsis Memoirs of an Addicted Brain by : Marc Lewis
Download or read book Memoirs of an Addicted Brain written by Marc Lewis and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2012-03-06 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marc Lewis's relationship with drugs began in a New England boarding school where, as a bullied and homesick fifteen-year-old, he made brief escapes from reality by way of cough medicine, alcohol, and marijuana. In Berkeley, California, in its hippie heyday, he found methamphetamine and LSD and heroin. He sniffed nitrous oxide in Malaysia and frequented Calcutta's opium dens. Ultimately, though, his journey took him where it takes most addicts: into a life of addiction, desperation, deception, and crime. But unlike most addicts, Lewis recovered and became a developmental psychologist and researcher in neuroscience. In Memoirs of an Addicted Brain, he applies his professional expertise to a study of his former self, using the story of his own journey through addiction to tell the universal story of addictions of every kind. He explains the neurological effects of a variety of powerful drugs, and shows how they speak to the brain -- itself designed to seek rewards and soothe pain -- in its own language. And he illuminates how craving overtakes the nervous system, sculpting a synaptic network dedicated to one goal -- more -- at the expense of everything else.
Book Synopsis The Memoirs of a Midget (World's Classics Series) by : Walter de la Mare
Download or read book The Memoirs of a Midget (World's Classics Series) written by Walter de la Mare and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-12-01 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Walter de la Mare's 'The Memoirs of a Midget' is a captivating exploration of the life of a unique and eccentric protagonist, Miss M. With a poetic and lyrical writing style, de la Mare delves deep into the inner workings of Miss M's mind as she navigates the challenges and triumphs of her small stature in a vast world. Set in the late Victorian era, this novel combines elements of fantasy, social commentary, and psychological depth to create a rich and thought-provoking narrative. The eloquent prose and vivid imagery transport the reader into a world of dreams and realities, blurring the lines between the two. De la Mare's masterful storytelling and nuanced character development make 'The Memoirs of a Midget' a timeless classic that continues to resonate with readers today. Walter de la Mare, known for his lyrical poetry and supernatural fiction, drew inspiration from his own fascination with the complexities of human nature and the mysteries of the imagination. His background as a poet and fiction writer shines through in this novel, adding a layer of depth and richness to the narrative. The Memoirs of a Midget is recommended to readers who enjoy intricate character studies, lyrical writing, and a touch of whimsical fantasy woven into a poignant story.
Book Synopsis Memoirs of an Idiot by : David Svien
Download or read book Memoirs of an Idiot written by David Svien and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2014-11-28 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From neighborhood wars as a kid to a string of questionable jobs as an adult, I've spent 43 years shooting myself in the foot. Sometimes literally. Come along for the slightly twisted tale of one guy's search for the easy life. Stay for the stories. Try and resist the urge to slap me in the face.
