Author: Jeff Spoon
Publisher: Palibrio
ISBN: 1463347626
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 62
Book Description
A moving love story of a naked abandoned dog and a neglected bourgeois teenie, who try to escape their ghastly homes, to emigrate, to find happiness somewhere else on earth. Unfortunately the rusty emigration ship was sunk erroneously by a German submarine which escaped WW II. But Arthur, the poet, saved their lives, paddling along on his cello. After some discouraging adventures, where they stranded, they end up involuntarely as guinea pigs in a genetic laboratory. At last, Skeleton Barbies beautiful body could almost be restored, Arthur, the poet, joobbing as a nightporter of the Municipal Theatre, gives them shelter, washes the dishes and cheers them up, playing on his rotten cello at the wrong moments. But the longing for an ideal world forces forces our three brave companions inevitably back to the road, in their eternal search for happiness. This is a rather sarcastic black humored story, told and illustrated by Jeff Spoon the pseudonym of a rather wellknown theatre director and stage designer.
Bladder, the Naked Dog, Skeleton Barbie and the Poet
Author: Jeff Spoon
Publisher: Palibrio
ISBN: 1463347626
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 62
Book Description
A moving love story of a naked abandoned dog and a neglected bourgeois teenie, who try to escape their ghastly homes, to emigrate, to find happiness somewhere else on earth. Unfortunately the rusty emigration ship was sunk erroneously by a German submarine which escaped WW II. But Arthur, the poet, saved their lives, paddling along on his cello. After some discouraging adventures, where they stranded, they end up involuntarely as guinea pigs in a genetic laboratory. At last, Skeleton Barbies beautiful body could almost be restored, Arthur, the poet, joobbing as a nightporter of the Municipal Theatre, gives them shelter, washes the dishes and cheers them up, playing on his rotten cello at the wrong moments. But the longing for an ideal world forces forces our three brave companions inevitably back to the road, in their eternal search for happiness. This is a rather sarcastic black humored story, told and illustrated by Jeff Spoon the pseudonym of a rather wellknown theatre director and stage designer.
Publisher: Palibrio
ISBN: 1463347626
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 62
Book Description
A moving love story of a naked abandoned dog and a neglected bourgeois teenie, who try to escape their ghastly homes, to emigrate, to find happiness somewhere else on earth. Unfortunately the rusty emigration ship was sunk erroneously by a German submarine which escaped WW II. But Arthur, the poet, saved their lives, paddling along on his cello. After some discouraging adventures, where they stranded, they end up involuntarely as guinea pigs in a genetic laboratory. At last, Skeleton Barbies beautiful body could almost be restored, Arthur, the poet, joobbing as a nightporter of the Municipal Theatre, gives them shelter, washes the dishes and cheers them up, playing on his rotten cello at the wrong moments. But the longing for an ideal world forces forces our three brave companions inevitably back to the road, in their eternal search for happiness. This is a rather sarcastic black humored story, told and illustrated by Jeff Spoon the pseudonym of a rather wellknown theatre director and stage designer.
Sophie's World
Author: Jostein Gaarder
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 1466804270
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 599
Book Description
A page-turning novel that is also an exploration of the great philosophical concepts of Western thought, Jostein Gaarder's Sophie's World has fired the imagination of readers all over the world, with more than twenty million copies in print. One day fourteen-year-old Sophie Amundsen comes home from school to find in her mailbox two notes, with one question on each: "Who are you?" and "Where does the world come from?" From that irresistible beginning, Sophie becomes obsessed with questions that take her far beyond what she knows of her Norwegian village. Through those letters, she enrolls in a kind of correspondence course, covering Socrates to Sartre, with a mysterious philosopher, while receiving letters addressed to another girl. Who is Hilde? And why does her mail keep turning up? To unravel this riddle, Sophie must use the philosophy she is learning—but the truth turns out to be far more complicated than she could have imagined.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 1466804270
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 599
Book Description
A page-turning novel that is also an exploration of the great philosophical concepts of Western thought, Jostein Gaarder's Sophie's World has fired the imagination of readers all over the world, with more than twenty million copies in print. One day fourteen-year-old Sophie Amundsen comes home from school to find in her mailbox two notes, with one question on each: "Who are you?" and "Where does the world come from?" From that irresistible beginning, Sophie becomes obsessed with questions that take her far beyond what she knows of her Norwegian village. Through those letters, she enrolls in a kind of correspondence course, covering Socrates to Sartre, with a mysterious philosopher, while receiving letters addressed to another girl. Who is Hilde? And why does her mail keep turning up? To unravel this riddle, Sophie must use the philosophy she is learning—but the truth turns out to be far more complicated than she could have imagined.
The Happy Birthday of Death
Author: Gregory Corso
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811200271
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811200271
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
Comparing the Literatures
Author: David Damrosch
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691234558
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Paperback reprint. Originally published: 2020.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691234558
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Paperback reprint. Originally published: 2020.
Mean Baby
Author: Selma Blair
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 059308277X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
Selma Blair has played many roles: Ingenue in Cruel Intentions. Preppy ice queen in Legally Blonde. Muse to Karl Lagerfeld. Advocate for the multiple sclerosis community. But before all of that, Selma was known best as … a mean baby. In a memoir that is as wildly funny as it is emotionally shattering, Blair tells the captivating story of growing up and finding her truth. "Blair is a rebel, an artist, and it turns out: a writer."—Glennon Doyle, Author of the #1 New York Times Bestseller Untamed and Founder of Together Rising The first story Selma Blair Beitner ever heard about herself is that she was a mean, mean baby. With her mouth pulled in a perpetual snarl and a head so furry it had to be rubbed to make way for her forehead, Selma spent years living up to her terrible reputation: biting her sisters, lying spontaneously, getting drunk from Passover wine at the age of seven, and behaving dramatically so that she would be the center of attention. Although Selma went on to become a celebrated Hollywood actress and model, she could never quite shake the periods of darkness that overtook her, the certainty that there was a great mystery at the heart of her life. She often felt like her arms might be on fire, a sensation not unlike electric shocks, and she secretly drank to escape. Over the course of this beautiful and, at times, devasting memoir, Selma lays bare her addiction to alcohol, her devotion to her brilliant and complicated mother, and the moments she flirted with death. There is brutal violence, passionate love, true friendship, the gift of motherhood, and, finally, the surprising salvation of a multiple sclerosis diagnosis. In a voice that is powerfully original, fiercely intelligent, and full of hard-won wisdom, Selma Blair’s Mean Baby is a deeply human memoir and a true literary achievement.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 059308277X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
Selma Blair has played many roles: Ingenue in Cruel Intentions. Preppy ice queen in Legally Blonde. Muse to Karl Lagerfeld. Advocate for the multiple sclerosis community. But before all of that, Selma was known best as … a mean baby. In a memoir that is as wildly funny as it is emotionally shattering, Blair tells the captivating story of growing up and finding her truth. "Blair is a rebel, an artist, and it turns out: a writer."—Glennon Doyle, Author of the #1 New York Times Bestseller Untamed and Founder of Together Rising The first story Selma Blair Beitner ever heard about herself is that she was a mean, mean baby. With her mouth pulled in a perpetual snarl and a head so furry it had to be rubbed to make way for her forehead, Selma spent years living up to her terrible reputation: biting her sisters, lying spontaneously, getting drunk from Passover wine at the age of seven, and behaving dramatically so that she would be the center of attention. Although Selma went on to become a celebrated Hollywood actress and model, she could never quite shake the periods of darkness that overtook her, the certainty that there was a great mystery at the heart of her life. She often felt like her arms might be on fire, a sensation not unlike electric shocks, and she secretly drank to escape. Over the course of this beautiful and, at times, devasting memoir, Selma lays bare her addiction to alcohol, her devotion to her brilliant and complicated mother, and the moments she flirted with death. There is brutal violence, passionate love, true friendship, the gift of motherhood, and, finally, the surprising salvation of a multiple sclerosis diagnosis. In a voice that is powerfully original, fiercely intelligent, and full of hard-won wisdom, Selma Blair’s Mean Baby is a deeply human memoir and a true literary achievement.
The Kite Runner
Author: Khaled Hosseini
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781594483172
Category : Afghanistan
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Traces the unlikely friendship of a wealthy Afghan youth and a servant's son in a tale that spans the final days of Afghanistan's monarchy through the atrocities of the present day.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781594483172
Category : Afghanistan
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Traces the unlikely friendship of a wealthy Afghan youth and a servant's son in a tale that spans the final days of Afghanistan's monarchy through the atrocities of the present day.
The Help
Author: Kathryn Stockett
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0425245136
Category : African American women
Languages : en
Pages : 546
Book Description
Original publication and copyright date: 2009.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0425245136
Category : African American women
Languages : en
Pages : 546
Book Description
Original publication and copyright date: 2009.
Prose Architectures
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781940696461
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"A book of pen-and-ink drawings by artist, poet, and fiction writer, Renee Gladman"--
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781940696461
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"A book of pen-and-ink drawings by artist, poet, and fiction writer, Renee Gladman"--
Calamities
Author: Renee Gladman
Publisher: Wave Books
ISBN: 1950268284
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 86
Book Description
WINNER of the 2017 Firecracker Award for Nonfiction from CLMP A collection of linked essays concerned with the life and mind of the writer by one of the most original voices in contemporary literature. Each essay takes a day as its point of inquiry, observing the body as it moves through time, architecture, and space, gradually demanding a new logic and level of consciousness from the narrator and reader.
Publisher: Wave Books
ISBN: 1950268284
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 86
Book Description
WINNER of the 2017 Firecracker Award for Nonfiction from CLMP A collection of linked essays concerned with the life and mind of the writer by one of the most original voices in contemporary literature. Each essay takes a day as its point of inquiry, observing the body as it moves through time, architecture, and space, gradually demanding a new logic and level of consciousness from the narrator and reader.
Houses of Ravicka
Author: Renee Gladman
Publisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 0997366664
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
“More Kafka than Kafka, Renee Gladman’s achievement ranks alongside many of Borges’ in its creation of a fantastical landscape with deep psychological impact.” —Jeff VanderMeer Since 2010 writer and artist Renee Gladman has placed fantastic and philosophical stories in the invented city-state of Ravicka, a Ruritanian everyplace with its own gestural language, poetic architecture, and inexplicable physics. As Ravicka has grown, so has Gladman's project, spilling out from her fiction—Event Factory, The Ravickians, and Ana Patova Crosses a Bridge—into her nonfiction (Calamities) and even visual art (Prose Architectures). The result is a project unlike any other in American letters today, a fictional world that spans not only multiple books but different genres, even different art forms. In Houses of Ravicka, the city's comptroller, author of Regulating the Book of Regulations, seems to have lost a house. It is not where it's supposed to be, though an invisible house on the far side of town, which corresponds to the missing house, remains appropriately invisible. Inside the invisible house, a nameless Ravickian considers how she came to the life she is living, and investigates the deep history of Ravicka—that mysterious city-country born of Renee Gladman's philosophical, funny, audacious, extraordinary imagination.
Publisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 0997366664
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
“More Kafka than Kafka, Renee Gladman’s achievement ranks alongside many of Borges’ in its creation of a fantastical landscape with deep psychological impact.” —Jeff VanderMeer Since 2010 writer and artist Renee Gladman has placed fantastic and philosophical stories in the invented city-state of Ravicka, a Ruritanian everyplace with its own gestural language, poetic architecture, and inexplicable physics. As Ravicka has grown, so has Gladman's project, spilling out from her fiction—Event Factory, The Ravickians, and Ana Patova Crosses a Bridge—into her nonfiction (Calamities) and even visual art (Prose Architectures). The result is a project unlike any other in American letters today, a fictional world that spans not only multiple books but different genres, even different art forms. In Houses of Ravicka, the city's comptroller, author of Regulating the Book of Regulations, seems to have lost a house. It is not where it's supposed to be, though an invisible house on the far side of town, which corresponds to the missing house, remains appropriately invisible. Inside the invisible house, a nameless Ravickian considers how she came to the life she is living, and investigates the deep history of Ravicka—that mysterious city-country born of Renee Gladman's philosophical, funny, audacious, extraordinary imagination.