Brian Castro's Fiction

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Publisher: Cambria Press
ISBN: 1621969703
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Languages : en
Pages : 234

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Brian Castro's Fiction

Brian Castro's Fiction PDF Author:
Publisher: Cambria Press
ISBN: 1621969703
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 234

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Shanghai Dancing

Shanghai Dancing PDF Author: Brian Castro
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ISBN: 9781885030429
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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By Brain Castro.

The Garden Book

The Garden Book PDF Author: Brian Castro
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ISBN: 9781885030078
Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Brian Castro's award-winning novel, The Garden Book, is a meditation on loneliness, addiction and exploitation. Set in the years between the Depression and the Second World War in Australia's Dandenong Ranges, it follows the emotionally turbulent life of the beautiful Swan Hay (born Shuang He)--her marriage to the passionate yet brutal Darcy Damon, her love affair with the aviator Jasper Zenlin and her rise to literary fame overseas after her poetry is translated into French without her knowledge. Fifty years after her disappearance into institutions and a life of poverty and despair, Norman Shih--a rare-book librarian and "expert in self-effacement"--begins to piece together the life and losses of Swan. Tracking down clues from guesthouse libraries, antiquarian bookshops and Swan's own haunted writings, Shih fills out a portrait of early twentieth-century Australian lives wracked by modernist impulses of racial prejudice.

Street to Street

Street to Street PDF Author: Brian Castro
Publisher: Giramondo Publishing
ISBN: 1922146242
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 178

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Street to Street is one of Brian Castro’s best books yet, a comic-tragic enactment of the anxieties of the writing life, in which the early twentieth-century Sydney poet Christopher Brennan plays a major role. A legendary figure, with a commanding knowledge of classical and European poetry, Brennan wrote some of the most powerful poems in Australian literature. He died an impoverished alcoholic at the age of sixty-one. Castro’s double portrait of the poet and his biographer, the writer-academic Brendan Costa, plays on the disappointment, the guilt, the lack of recognition, which troubles those who live by their imaginations. The novella is the perfect form for Castro’s purpose, its compression heightening the wit and energy of his prose, and his remarkable feel for the embarrassments of character.

Castro's Curveball

Castro's Curveball PDF Author: Tim Wendel
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803259577
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 308

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When an old scrapbook stirs memories, Billy Bryan looks back to the year 1947 when he was playing winter ball in Cuba, enjoying Havana's decadent nightlife, and dreaming of a major-league career.

Stepper

Stepper PDF Author: Brian Castro
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ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 332

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Birds of Passage

Birds of Passage PDF Author:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 200

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Escape from Castro's Cuba

Escape from Castro's Cuba PDF Author: Tim Wendel
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 149622292X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 264

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In this visionary sequel to Castro’s Curveball, former Minor League catcher Billy Bryan finds himself back in Havana in 2016 with a small film role. He soon realizes that this place and his past remain as star-crossed as when he played winter ball in the Cuban capital decades before.

Double-wolf

Double-wolf PDF Author: Brian Castro
Publisher: Allen & Unwin Australia
ISBN: 9780044423478
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 226

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This novel explores the life of Freud's most famous patient, the Wolf-Man. His story is used to examine the early views of psychoanalysis and to pose questions about society and culture, sanity and insanity, language and consciousness and the myths which underpin our daily lives. Awarded the TAge' Book of the Year Award for Fiction and the Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Fiction. Includes a bibliography. By the author of TBirds of Passage', joint winner of the Australian/Vogel Award in 1982, and TPomeroy'.

Castro's Secrets

Castro's Secrets PDF Author: Brian Latell
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1137000015
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 431

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“A conclusive, ground-breaking portrait, based on firsthand sources, of how the Cuban strongman . . . ran circles around the CIA.” —Daily Beast In Castro’s Secrets, intelligence analyst and Cuba expert Brian Latell offers an unprecedented view of Fidel Castro in his role as Cuba’s supreme spymaster. Based on interviews with high level defectors from Cuba’s intelligence and security services—including some who have never spoken on record before—Latell reveals long-buried secrets of Fidel’s nearly 50-year reign. While the CIA grossly underestimated his capabilities, Castro built one of the best and most aggressive intelligence systems in the world. Their sophisticated network ran moles and double agents who penetrated the highest levels of American Institutions. They also carried out numerous assassinations—some against foreign leaders. Latell also sheds new light on the CIA’s deplorable plots against Cuba—including previously obscure schemes to assassinate Castro—and presents shocking new conclusions about what Fidel actually knew of Lee Harvey Oswald prior to the assassination of John F. Kennedy.