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Download or read book The Amusing Life written by Song Sokze and published by Deep Vellum Publishing. This book was released on 2016-11-29 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Amusing Life is a collection of over forty stories, sketches, vignettes and fables that search out the comical, even the absurd, aspects of everyday life. Along the way, the conventions and mores of work, art, nation, love and family are examined and made newly strange. Two rival countries race to raise the tallest flag. A poet receives a grant letter that’s made to self-destruct. A world confederation of liars welcomes new members. Always instructive but never didactic, Song’s stories are characterized by a lightness of touch that allows laughter to accompany even the darkest truths in this collection.
Book Synopsis Amusing Ourselves to Death by : Neil Postman
Download or read book Amusing Ourselves to Death written by Neil Postman and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1986 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the effects of television culture on how we conduct our public affairs and how "entertainment values" corrupt the way we think.
Book Synopsis The Adventures of Allegra Fullerton, Or, A Memoir of Startling and Amusing Episodes from Itinerant Life by : Robert J. Begiebing
Download or read book The Adventures of Allegra Fullerton, Or, A Memoir of Startling and Amusing Episodes from Itinerant Life written by Robert J. Begiebing and published by Upne. This book was released on 1999 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert J. Begiebing's first novel, The Strange Death of Mistress Coffin, was hailed by Annie Proulx in the New York Times Book Review as "a striking and original work by a gifted writer with an extraordinary feeling for the past." Begiebing delivers on the promise of that first book with his new novel, a lively, colorful, and exciting "portrait of the artist as a young woman" set in the early years of the republic.
Book Synopsis The Amusing Companion, Or, Interesting Story Teller by :
Download or read book The Amusing Companion, Or, Interesting Story Teller written by and published by . This book was released on 1831 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 LSU Press. This book was released on 2004-09-01 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Released by Louisiana State University Press in 1980, A Confederacy of Dunces is nothing short of a publishing phenomenon. Rejected by countless publishers and submitted by the author's mother years after his suicide, the book won the 1981 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Today there are almost two million copies in print worldwide in eighteen languages. Now, for the first time, John Kennedy Toole's comic masterpiece is available in a large print edition. Toole's lunatic and sage novel introduces one of the most memorable characters in American literature, Ignatius Reilly, whom Walker Percy dubs "slob extraordinaire, a mad Oliver Hardy, a fat Don Quixote, a perverse Thomas Aquinas rolled into one." Set in New Orleans, A Confederacy of Dunces outswifts Swift, one of whose essays gives the book its title. As its characters burst into life, they leave the region and literature forever changed by their presence -- Ignatius and his mother; Miss Trixie, the octogenarian assistant accountant at Levi Pants; inept, wan Patrolman Mancuso; Darlene, the Bourbon Street stripper with a penchant for poultry; Jones the jivecat in spaceage dark glasses. Included here is the introduction that writer and New Orleans resident Andrei Codrescu composed for the book's twentieth anniversary. Set in oversized type for ease in reading, the large print edition will gratify both first-timers seeking to discover this modern-day classic and longtime afficionados wishing to reread a favorite novel.
Download or read book Life written by and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Amusing the Million by : John F. Kasson
Download or read book Amusing the Million written by John F. Kasson and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2011-04-01 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Coney Island: the name still resonates with a sense of racy Brooklyn excitement, the echo of beach-front popular entertainment before World War I. Amusing the Million examines the historical context in which Coney Island made its reputation as an amusement park and shows how America's changing social and economic conditions formed the basis of a new mass culture. Exploring it afresh in this way, John Kasson shows Coney Island no longer as the object of nostalgia but as a harbinger of modernity--and the many photographs, lithographs, engravings, and other reproductions with which he amplifies his text support this lively thesis.
Download or read book Wink @ Life written by Langdon Reid and published by . This book was released on 2014-11-27 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Langdon Reid has written a column for a number of years entertaining many with his relatable, insightful, and sometimes sardonic writing style that is sure to leave you with a smile or a tear, or at least, a chuckle. This collection of columns makes for a fun, easy and enjoyable read as Reid "winks at life" with his colorful observations.
Book Synopsis Drama and Life by : Arthur Bingham Walkley
Download or read book Drama and Life written by Arthur Bingham Walkley and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Amusing Songster by : Joseph Edwards Carpenter
Download or read book The Amusing Songster written by Joseph Edwards Carpenter and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Fitness, Technology and Society by : Brad Millington
Download or read book Fitness, Technology and Society written by Brad Millington and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-18 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fitness industry is experiencing a new boom characterized by the proliferation of interactive and customizable technology, from exercise-themed video games to smartphone apps to wearable fitness trackers. This new technology presents the possibility of boundless self-tracking, generating highly personalized data for self-assessment and for sharing among friends. While this may be beneficial – for example, in encouraging physical activity – the new fitness boom also raises important questions about the very nature of our relationship with technology. This is the first book to examine these questions through a critical scholarly lens. Addressing key themes such as consumer experience, gamification, and surveillance, Fitness, Technology and Society argues that fitness technologies – by ‘datafying’ the body and daily experience – are turning fitness into a constant pursuit. The book explores the origins of contemporary fitness technologies, considers their implications for consumers, producers, and for society in general, and reflects on what they suggest about the future of fitness experience. Casting new light on theories of technology and the body, this is fascinating reading for all those interested in physical cultural studies, technology, and the sociology of sport.
Download or read book Life written by John Ames Mitchell and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 1184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Amusing Songster. Edited by J. E. Carpenter by : Joseph Edwards CARPENTER
Download or read book The Amusing Songster. Edited by J. E. Carpenter written by Joseph Edwards CARPENTER and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Amusing chronicle, a weekly repository for miscellaneous literature by :
Download or read book The Amusing chronicle, a weekly repository for miscellaneous literature written by and published by . This book was released on 1816 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Amusing Instructor: Or, a Key to the Italian Classics. L'Instruttor Giocondo, Etc by : Antonio MONTUCCI
Download or read book The Amusing Instructor: Or, a Key to the Italian Classics. L'Instruttor Giocondo, Etc written by Antonio MONTUCCI and published by . This book was released on 1792 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Choosing the Amusing by : Marilyn Meberg
Download or read book Choosing the Amusing written by Marilyn Meberg and published by W Publishing Group. This book was released on 1999 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anecdotes and advice demonstrate the redemptive powers of humor.
Book Synopsis The Future of Silence: Fiction by Korean Women by :
Download or read book The Future of Silence: Fiction by Korean Women written by and published by Zephyr Press. This book was released on 2018-04-20 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These nine stories span half a century of contemporary writing in Korea (1970s–2010s), bringing together some of the most famous twentieth-century women writers with a new generation of young, bold voices. Their work explores a world not often seen in the West, taking us into the homes, families, lives and psyches of Korean women, men, and children. In the earliest of the stories, Pak Wan-so, considered the elder stateswoman of contemporary Korean fiction, opens the door into two "Identical Apartments" where sisters-in-law, bound as much by competition as love, struggle to live with their noisy, extended families. O Chong-hui, who has been compared to Joyce Carol Oates and Alice Munro, examines a day in the life of a woman after she is released from a mental institution, while younger writers, such as Kim Sagwa, Han Yujoo and Ch'on Un-yong explore violence, biracial childhood, and literary experimentation. These stories will sometimes disturb and sometimes delight, as they illuminate complex issues in Korean life and literature. Internationally acclaimed translators Bruce and Ju-Chan Fulton have won several awards and fellowships for the numerous works of Korean literature they have translated into English. Featuring these authors and stories: Pak Wan-so: "Identical Apartments" Kim Chi-won: "Almaden" So Yong-un: "Dear Distant Love" O Chong-hui: "Wayfarer" Kong Son-ok: "The Flowering of Our Lives" Kim Ae-ran: "The Future of Silence" Han Yujoo: "I Am the Scribe—Or Am I" Kim Sagwa: "Today Is One of Those The-More-You-Move-the-Stranger-It-Gets Days, and It's Simply Amazing" Ch'on Un-yong: "Ali Skips Rope"
