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Misfortune and Fame

Author : Paul Berton
Publisher : Douglas & McIntyre
ISBN 13 : 177162373X
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (716 download)

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Download or read book Misfortune and Fame written by Paul Berton and published by Douglas & McIntyre. This book was released on 2023-10-07 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paul Berton, Canada’s antidote to the waste and excess of consumer culture, is back with another dose of satire at the expense of the rich, famous and totally miserable There is little argument that having enough money to meet needs is important. But beyond that, what makes us happy? Is a lot of money the answer? Is a glamorous life actually glamorous? Must we have thousands of followers on social media, only to have the internet rabble criticize us at every turn? Amid all the fun and frivolity, there is inevitable misery and madness. A double-edged sword. A poisoned chalice. That’s what this book is about: In ten punchy chapters full of anecdotes about the miseries and misfortunes of the affluent, Berton offers readers ten reasons NOT to wish for fame or fortune. Paul Berton’s previous book about consumerism, Shopomania, was described as “a must-read primer for understanding how our thirst for acquiring and showcasing things has exacted heavy tolls on our psychology, on our society, and on the environment. Cataloguing the symptoms of our shopaholic culture, Berton shares wisdom about breaking the shackles imposed by our possessions.” (Mark Cleveland, PhD, professor and Dancap Chair in Consumer Behavior, University of Western Ontario)

Signing Their Lives Away

Author : Denise Kiernan
Publisher : Quirk Books
ISBN 13 : 1594743304
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (947 download)

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Download or read book Signing Their Lives Away written by Denise Kiernan and published by Quirk Books. This book was released on 2009 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the lives, deaths, and scandals involving the fifty-six signers of the Declaration of Independence, including John Adams, John Hancock, and Thomas Jefferson.

Signing Their Rights Away

Author : Denise Kiernan
Publisher : Quirk Books
ISBN 13 : 159474520X
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (947 download)

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Download or read book Signing Their Rights Away written by Denise Kiernan and published by Quirk Books. This book was released on 2011 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book jacket unfolds to reveal a full-color reproduction of the U.S. Constitution.

Fame and Misfortune: Broken Hearts & Broken Rules

Author : Jan Mount
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780993329517
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (295 download)

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Download or read book Fame and Misfortune: Broken Hearts & Broken Rules written by Jan Mount and published by . This book was released on 2015-10-27 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Fame and Misfortune

Author : John Jones
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780582680968
Total Pages : 63 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Fame and Misfortune written by John Jones and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Shoot Out

Author : Peter Bart
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780571217311
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book Shoot Out written by Peter Bart and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hollywood thrives on shoot outs - that series of stand-offs, skirmishes and power struggles that mark every stage of the film-making process - be it a director insisting on final cut, a star demanding a bigger trailer, or a grip with a gripe. Shoot Out is about how movies are made - from the first pitch to the final cut. For film buffs, aspiring film-makers, students and anyone else intrigued by the inner workings of Hollywood, this is the quintessential take on the how, who, what and why of the film business. 'Packed with insider gossip and some astonishing revelations about the incompetence and self-indulgence that goes on, this is a truly engrossing read. Yet to the authors' credit, none of their stories smack of vindictiveness, whilst the snappy prose ensures that the pages skip by in an entertaining blur. In fact it could be said that this Shoot Out scores a bulls-eye!' Film Review (Book of the Month)

A Memoir of Misfortune

Author : Xiaokang Su
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0375709193
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (757 download)

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Download or read book A Memoir of Misfortune written by Xiaokang Su and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2002-07-09 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Su Xiaokang had faced calamity before: in 1989, after the Tiananmen Square massacre, he became the object of a government manhunt and was forced to flee China, leaving behind his wife and young son. Eventually his family was allowed to join him in exile in the United States, and he believed the worst was behind him. Then a terrible automobile accident left his wife, Fu Li, unable to move or speak. In this remarkably honest account, Su, who blamed himself for his family's disaster, writes wrenchingly of his inner torment and despair. He describes the pain of living in exile, his desperate search for a miracle cure for Fu Li, and his bemusement at his teenage son's increasing Americanization. Above all, Su's moving memoir invites us along on a deeply personal odyssey, as a man who had once been at the center of an international political drama dedicates himself to the far more demanding task of remaking an emotional world for his wife and son.

My Summer of Love and Misfortune

Author : Lindsay Wong
Publisher : Simon Pulse
ISBN 13 : 1534443347
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (344 download)

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Download or read book My Summer of Love and Misfortune written by Lindsay Wong and published by Simon Pulse. This book was released on 2020-06-02 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crazy Rich Asians meets Love & Gelato in this hilarious, quirky novel about a Chinese-American teen who is thrust into the decadent world of Beijing high society when she is sent away to spend the summer in China. Iris Wang is having a bit of a rough start to her summer: Her boyfriend cheated on her, she didn’t get into any colleges, and she has no idea who she is or what she wants to do with her life. She’s always felt torn about being Chinese-American, feeling neither Chinese nor American enough to claim either identity. She’s just a sad pizza combo from Domino’s, as far as she’s concerned. In an attempt to snap her out of her funk, Iris’s parents send her away to visit family in Beijing, with the hopes that Iris would “reconnect with her culture” and “find herself.” Iris resents the condescension, but even she admits that this might be a good opportunity to hit the reset button on the apocalyptic disaster that has become her life. With this trip, Iris expects to eat a few dumplings, meet some family, and visit a tourist hotspot or two. Instead, she gets swept up in the ridiculous, opulent world of Beijing’s wealthy elite, leading her to unexpected and extraordinary discoveries about her family, her future, and herself.

Acute Misfortune

Author : Erik Jensen
Publisher : Black Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1922231800
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (222 download)

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Download or read book Acute Misfortune written by Erik Jensen and published by Black Inc.. This book was released on 2019-04-29 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2008, the artist Adam Cullen invited journalist Erik Jensen to stay in his spare room and write his biography. What followed were four years of intense honesty and a relationship that became increasingly claustrophobic. At one point Cullen shot Jensen, in part to see how committed he was to the book. At another, he threw Jensen from a speeding motorbike. The book contract Cullen used to convince Jensen to stay with him never existed. Acute Misfortune is a riveting account of the life and death of one of Australia’s most celebrated artists, the man behind the Archibald Prize–winning portrait of David Wenham. Jensen follows Cullen through drug deals and periods of deep self-reflection, onwards into his court appearance for weapons possession and finally his death in 2012 at the age of forty-six. After much critical acclaim, Acute Misfortune was developed into a feature film, winning The Age Critics Award at the Melbourne International Film Festival in 2018. The story is by turns tender and horrifying: a spare tale of art, sex, drugs and childhood, told at close quarters and without judgement. Winner of the 2015 Nib Waverley Library Award for Literature Shortlisted in the 2015 Victorian Premier's Literary Awards and for the 2015 Walkley Book Award ‘Erik Jensen is a Boswell or Vasari for our baffled, fractured, fucked-up times. Acute Misfortune is the most intimate, revealing, and original take on an artist’s life I know of.’ —Sebastian Smee ‘Erik Jensen gives us that ingenious place where biography is also art.’ —Jennifer Clement ‘This is supposed to be about an artist, a wild man, his lifetime, and it is; but Jensen has written such a beautiful window that all art and life is shining through. I'm supposed to be an artist but I cannot put this down.’ —DBC Pierre

A Ladder to the Sky

Author : John Boyne
Publisher : Hogarth
ISBN 13 : 1984823035
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (848 download)

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Download or read book A Ladder to the Sky written by John Boyne and published by Hogarth. This book was released on 2018-11-13 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A satire of writerly ambition wrapped in a psychological thriller . . . An homage to Patricia Highsmith, Oscar Wilde and Edgar Allan Poe, but its execution is entirely Boyne’s own.”—Ron Charles, The Washington Post NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST AND MINNEAPOLIS STAR TRIBUNE Maurice Swift is handsome, charming, and hungry for fame. The one thing he doesn’t have is talent—but he’s not about to let a detail like that stand in his way. After all, a would-be writer can find stories anywhere. They don’t need to be his own. Working as a waiter in a West Berlin hotel in 1988, Maurice engineers the perfect opportunity: a chance encounter with celebrated novelist Erich Ackermann. He quickly ingratiates himself with the powerful – but desperately lonely – older man, teasing out of Erich a terrible, long-held secret about his activities during the war. Perfect material for Maurice’s first novel. Once Maurice has had a taste of literary fame, he knows he can stop at nothing in pursuit of that high. Moving from the Amalfi Coast, where he matches wits with Gore Vidal, to Manhattan and London, Maurice hones his talent for deceit and manipulation, preying on the talented and vulnerable in his cold-blooded climb to the top. But the higher he climbs, the further he has to fall. . . . Sweeping across the late twentieth century, A Ladder to the Sky is a fascinating portrait of a relentlessly immoral man, a tour de force of storytelling, and the next great novel from an acclaimed literary virtuoso. Praise for A Ladder to the Sky “Boyne's mastery of perspective, last seen in The Heart's Invisible Furies, works beautifully here. . . . Boyne understands that it's far more interesting and satisfying for a reader to see that narcissist in action than to be told a catchall phrase. Each step Maurice Swift takes skyward reveals a new layer of calumny he's willing to engage in, and the desperation behind it . . . so dark it seems almost impossible to enjoy reading A Ladder to the Sky as much as you definitely will enjoy reading it.”—NPR “Delicious . . . spins out over several decades with thrilling unpredictability, following Maurice as he masters the art of co-opting the stories of others in increasingly dubious ways. And while the book reads as a thriller with a body count that would make Highsmith proud, it is also an exploration of morality and art: Where is the line between inspiration and thievery? To whom does a story belong?”—Vanity Fair

Misfortune's Daughters

Author : Joan Collins
Publisher : Robson Books Limited
ISBN 13 : 9781861058669
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (586 download)

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Download or read book Misfortune's Daughters written by Joan Collins and published by Robson Books Limited. This book was released on 2005-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: High charged family saga rich with sibling rivalry, insatiable ambition, eroticism and addiction. The story revovles around two sisters, Venetia and Atlanta, and traces the sisters' desperate struggles to find their own individual identities.Laura Marlowe the mother, is a Hollywood movie star and their father is Greek billionaire Nicholas Stephanolooplis a cold and cruel tycoon who controls and dominates his women as ruthlessly as he does his international business empire.

The Hous of Fame

Author : Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher : Oxford, Clarendon Press. 1893.
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Hous of Fame written by Geoffrey Chaucer and published by Oxford, Clarendon Press. 1893.. This book was released on 1893 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Treading the Winepress

Author : Clarissa Minnie Thompson Allen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780997404159
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book Treading the Winepress written by Clarissa Minnie Thompson Allen and published by . This book was released on 2019-12-27 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Every life hath its chapter of sorrow. No matter how rich the gilding or fair the pages of the volume, Trouble will stamp it with his sable signet."So begins the novel Treading the Winepress; or, A Mountain of Misfortune by Clarissa Minnie Thompson Allen, which, had it appeared in book form in 1885-1886 instead of serialized in The Boston Advocate, would have been the second novel published by a black woman in the United States. Instead, Allen has been mostly forgotten by literary history. Now, thanks to the painstaking efforts of editors Gabrielle Brown, Eric Willey, and Jean MacDonald, an edition of Allen's Treading the Winepress; or, A Mountain of Misfortune is available to readers for the first time as an open access, hybrid book from Downstate Legacies, part of its ongoing translation and lost books series, Undiscovered Americas. In this novel of manners set in Capitolia (a thinly veiled stand-in for Columbia, South Carolina, the author's hometown), Allen recounts the entangled lives of the De Vernes and the Tremaines, two well-to-do black families. The novel unfurls the stories of multiple tragedies endured by each family through episodes of romance, mystery, and murder. Chief among these is the love triangle involving protagonist Gertie Tremaine, esteemed doctor Will De Verne, and Gertie's sister Lenore "Gypsy" Tremaine. The intrigue that follows leads Gertie to lament the "mountains of misfortune" she and her family endure. Even though Allen regarded the novel as "a girlish protest against what seemed to be serious dangers threatening our race," she insists her "object was not to gain 'name and fame' but to call the attention of thinking people to these blots in our social firmament." It is with great excitement that we reintroduce this overlooked classic to contemporary readers.

She Proclaims

Author : Jennifer Palmieri
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
ISBN 13 : 153875066X
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (387 download)

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Download or read book She Proclaims written by Jennifer Palmieri and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2020-07-21 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Take action and shatter the glass ceiling with this empowering and optimistic feminist guide from the #1 New York Timesbestselling author of Dear Madam President. In an era marked by a frustrating sense of stagnation for women, Jennifer Palmieri has found a way to move beyond the bounds of patriarchy. Building on the lessons shared in Dear Madam President, Palmieri argues that women have gone as far as they can in a world made for men, and it is time to break from it. She Proclaims declares what most women know in their souls but have yet to say out loud-that they deserve something better than a life where men hold a vast majority of power and women continue to be undervalued. It is a manifesto for the second century of feminism that no longer chases a man's elusive path but proclaims the value, ambition, and emotion women have had all along to change their world by changing how they engage in it. This book celebrates the accomplishments and history of the women's movement, and through personal reflections and stories of other inspirational female leaders, Jennifer shares concrete advice and insights she's learned from her journey out of a man's world that will inspire you to boldly chart your own course in life.

The Accidental Fame and Lack of Fortune of West Tennessee's David Crockett

Author : R. Scott Williams
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780998699745
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (997 download)

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Download or read book The Accidental Fame and Lack of Fortune of West Tennessee's David Crockett written by R. Scott Williams and published by . This book was released on 2021-07 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Experience the thrilling journey of West Tennessee's David Crockett as he rises from frontier to fame to international icon. Using his wits, sense of humor, and common sense, David Crockett rose from the West Tennessee frontier during the divisive Jacksonian Era to become the first American celebrity. Early newspaper editors quickly found that his name and exploits-often exaggerated-led to increased sales, while the first biography about his life, printed while he was still living, became an instant bestseller. He even brokered some of the first licensing deals that reproduced his image and signature on prints and made them available to his fans. Talented men and women who were creating the American arts from scratch found in Crockett a muse who reflected how many in the country wanted to see themselves. They put him in books, plays, songs, and poems. Then, Americans made him a superhero. And there was substance to his style. As a member of Congress, he had a front-row seat as second and third generations of Americans took the torch of Democracy from the country's founding fathers and mothers and struggled to keep it burning. His list of friends and enemies was long and included notables like Andrew Jackson, Sam Houston, Henry Clay, and James K. Polk. As with celebrities who would come later like James Dean, Marilyn Monroe, and Elvis Presley, Crockett's tragic death would occur too early and fuel his transition from celebrity to icon. Decades later, Walt Disney introduced his own version of "Davy" and ignited a licensed product phenomenon unlike anything that had ever been seen before and rarely since. In The Accidental Fame and Lack of Fortune of West Tennessee's David Crockett, R. Scott Williams uncovers what propelled this meteoric rise from frontier to fame, while also examining the birth of Tennessee during one of the most fascinating periods in American history.

Fame and Misfortune

Author : Qyesha Smith
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 : 9781082862533
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (625 download)

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Download or read book Fame and Misfortune written by Qyesha Smith and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-07-26 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ****STANDALONE BOOK****It is not easy trying to make a name for yourself, especially in the world of entertainment. ArDreeka Johnson finds out the hard way that fame has a price, much closer to home that she realizes. The irony of fame has her name written all over it. She will be the next hottest thing out of New York, but it comes at the cost of drama.Gina is ArDreeka's sister. She wants nothing more than for her sister to succeed. Being the opposite of ArDreeka's, Gina takes a risk to ensure her sister hits the big screen by any means necessary.The real lesson to be learned is that sometimes those rooting for you in your face, are the same ones hiding the knife behind their back. Be careful of those around you, not everyone can see your vision, sometimes your life becomes its own movie.

Feelings Poetry

Author : Gary McLauchlan
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1469170167
Total Pages : 137 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (691 download)

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Download or read book Feelings Poetry written by Gary McLauchlan and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-05-03 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All poetry, no matter what genre, has to come from the heart. For without feeling behind the words then the words are but shallow empty shells upon the page. Poetry has to be felt by the writer in order to pass on that same feeling to the reader of the piece. In Feelings Poetry, author Gary Mclauchlan presents a poignant collection of poems that expresses his innermost feelings deep within his heart.