Author: Tony O'Neill
Publisher: Contemporary Press
ISBN: 0976657910
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Digging the Vein's unnamed narrator has a problem: He has a burgeoning drug habit and a wife he's only known for two days, but no job, no money, and no way out. As the narrator's life crumbles, the pills, booze, and problems multiply until he hits on a brilliant solution: heroin. Soon the narrator is associating with a cabal of street freaks. Just as the comedy is piling up, things go sour, making Digging the Vein a brutal look at a self-destructed, marginal life.
Digging the Vein
Author: Tony O'Neill
Publisher: Contemporary Press
ISBN: 0976657910
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Digging the Vein's unnamed narrator has a problem: He has a burgeoning drug habit and a wife he's only known for two days, but no job, no money, and no way out. As the narrator's life crumbles, the pills, booze, and problems multiply until he hits on a brilliant solution: heroin. Soon the narrator is associating with a cabal of street freaks. Just as the comedy is piling up, things go sour, making Digging the Vein a brutal look at a self-destructed, marginal life.
Publisher: Contemporary Press
ISBN: 0976657910
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Digging the Vein's unnamed narrator has a problem: He has a burgeoning drug habit and a wife he's only known for two days, but no job, no money, and no way out. As the narrator's life crumbles, the pills, booze, and problems multiply until he hits on a brilliant solution: heroin. Soon the narrator is associating with a cabal of street freaks. Just as the comedy is piling up, things go sour, making Digging the Vein a brutal look at a self-destructed, marginal life.
Digging Stars: A Novel
Author: Novuyo Rosa Tshuma
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 1324035188
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
A brilliant new novel from the award-winning author of House of Stone. With admission to The Program, Rosa fulfills her dream to continue her father’s research on Bantu geometries and Indigenous astronomies. Yet since his death during her childhood, she has been plagued by anxiety attacks that she dubs “The Terrors”—and by unresolved questions about her father’s life. Who is his mysterious friend Mr. C? Who was her father, really? Her cohort of talented Fellows includes Shaniqua, her roommate, studying melanin molecules and their capacity to conduct electricity in order to redefine how we think about race and biology; Richard, studying quantum mechanics; Mausi, focusing on Indigenous American scientific thought; and Peralte, a kind of stepbrother whose obsessive gaming has made him a programmer of virtual worlds—all of whom will challenge Rosa’s notions of ethnicity, identity, the ethics of technology, her adulation of her father, and what it means to be successful in America. Full of philosophical provocation and gorgeous writing about space, Digging Stars is a brilliantly original reflection on meritocracy and the narrow notions of success that alienate us from the cosmos—a gravity-defying novel both about unlimited aspiration and the importance of being grounded.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 1324035188
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
A brilliant new novel from the award-winning author of House of Stone. With admission to The Program, Rosa fulfills her dream to continue her father’s research on Bantu geometries and Indigenous astronomies. Yet since his death during her childhood, she has been plagued by anxiety attacks that she dubs “The Terrors”—and by unresolved questions about her father’s life. Who is his mysterious friend Mr. C? Who was her father, really? Her cohort of talented Fellows includes Shaniqua, her roommate, studying melanin molecules and their capacity to conduct electricity in order to redefine how we think about race and biology; Richard, studying quantum mechanics; Mausi, focusing on Indigenous American scientific thought; and Peralte, a kind of stepbrother whose obsessive gaming has made him a programmer of virtual worlds—all of whom will challenge Rosa’s notions of ethnicity, identity, the ethics of technology, her adulation of her father, and what it means to be successful in America. Full of philosophical provocation and gorgeous writing about space, Digging Stars is a brilliantly original reflection on meritocracy and the narrow notions of success that alienate us from the cosmos—a gravity-defying novel both about unlimited aspiration and the importance of being grounded.
Digging in the Southwest
Author: Ann Axtell Morris
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
This book is about Jock Campbell's role in the shaping of British Guiana (Guyana) towards the end of the empire. Campbell, the head of the Booker Company which owned most of the sugar plantations in colonial Guyana, was a reformer whose Fabian socialist beliefs drove him to secure major benefits for sugar workers, in the 1950s-60s. It explores the interplay between Campbell's programme of reforms and the doctrinaire Marxism of Guyana's charismatic politician Cheddi Jagan. "Sweetening bitter sugar" is part biography, part history and politics.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
This book is about Jock Campbell's role in the shaping of British Guiana (Guyana) towards the end of the empire. Campbell, the head of the Booker Company which owned most of the sugar plantations in colonial Guyana, was a reformer whose Fabian socialist beliefs drove him to secure major benefits for sugar workers, in the 1950s-60s. It explores the interplay between Campbell's programme of reforms and the doctrinaire Marxism of Guyana's charismatic politician Cheddi Jagan. "Sweetening bitter sugar" is part biography, part history and politics.
Digging
Author: Amiri Baraka
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520943090
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 425
Book Description
For almost half a century, Amiri Baraka has ranked among the most important commentators on African American music and culture. In this brilliant assemblage of his writings on music, the first such collection in nearly twenty years, Baraka blends autobiography, history, musical analysis, and political commentary to recall the sounds, people, times, and places he's encountered. As in his earlier classics, Blues People and Black Music, Baraka offers essays on the famous—Max Roach, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, John Coltrane—and on those whose names are known mainly by jazz aficionados—Alan Shorter, Jon Jang, and Malachi Thompson. Baraka's literary style, with its deep roots in poetry, makes palpable his love and respect for his jazz musician friends. His energy and enthusiasm show us again how much Coltrane, Albert Ayler, and the others he lovingly considers mattered. He brings home to us how music itself matters, and how musicians carry and extend that knowledge from generation to generation, providing us, their listeners, with a sense of meaning and belonging.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520943090
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 425
Book Description
For almost half a century, Amiri Baraka has ranked among the most important commentators on African American music and culture. In this brilliant assemblage of his writings on music, the first such collection in nearly twenty years, Baraka blends autobiography, history, musical analysis, and political commentary to recall the sounds, people, times, and places he's encountered. As in his earlier classics, Blues People and Black Music, Baraka offers essays on the famous—Max Roach, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, John Coltrane—and on those whose names are known mainly by jazz aficionados—Alan Shorter, Jon Jang, and Malachi Thompson. Baraka's literary style, with its deep roots in poetry, makes palpable his love and respect for his jazz musician friends. His energy and enthusiasm show us again how much Coltrane, Albert Ayler, and the others he lovingly considers mattered. He brings home to us how music itself matters, and how musicians carry and extend that knowledge from generation to generation, providing us, their listeners, with a sense of meaning and belonging.
Digging Up Trouble
Author: Kitt Crowe
Publisher: Crooked Lane Books
ISBN: 164385769X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Perfect for fans of Jenn McKinlay and Joanne Fluke, a bitter discovery is made in a sweet-as-candy town, in Kitt Crowe's Sweet Fiction Bookshop series debut. Life is sweet when you live in Confection, Oregon. Or, at least, that's how it's supposed to be. But on a summer day, when tourists and locals alike gawk at the majestic mountains, quaint Craftsman houses, and lovely flowers--particularly the renowned Confection Rose--the last thing anyone has come to see is a dead body, unearthed from a shallow grave by a curious dog. A bathrobe-clad Lexi rushes next door to her neighbor's backyard to find her pooch, Cookie, stalwartly sitting watch over a body in the vegetable garden. Cookie, encrusted in dirt, grips a copper pipe between her teeth. Was this the murder weapon? And was Lexi the murderer? It sure looks that way, seeing as she was spotted squabbling with the victim just the day before. The case becomes all the more perplexing when the real murder weapon turns out to be a garden stake. Then where does the copper pipe fit in? And might a more likely suspect let Lexi off the hook? All the volumes in the Sweet Fiction Bookshop, and all the specials at Eats n' Treats, prove of little help in jogging Lexi's brain to find a solution. Fortunately, Cookie is not finished digging up clues. As the fur flies, can this trusty border collie mix save sweet Lexi from a bitter end?
Publisher: Crooked Lane Books
ISBN: 164385769X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Perfect for fans of Jenn McKinlay and Joanne Fluke, a bitter discovery is made in a sweet-as-candy town, in Kitt Crowe's Sweet Fiction Bookshop series debut. Life is sweet when you live in Confection, Oregon. Or, at least, that's how it's supposed to be. But on a summer day, when tourists and locals alike gawk at the majestic mountains, quaint Craftsman houses, and lovely flowers--particularly the renowned Confection Rose--the last thing anyone has come to see is a dead body, unearthed from a shallow grave by a curious dog. A bathrobe-clad Lexi rushes next door to her neighbor's backyard to find her pooch, Cookie, stalwartly sitting watch over a body in the vegetable garden. Cookie, encrusted in dirt, grips a copper pipe between her teeth. Was this the murder weapon? And was Lexi the murderer? It sure looks that way, seeing as she was spotted squabbling with the victim just the day before. The case becomes all the more perplexing when the real murder weapon turns out to be a garden stake. Then where does the copper pipe fit in? And might a more likely suspect let Lexi off the hook? All the volumes in the Sweet Fiction Bookshop, and all the specials at Eats n' Treats, prove of little help in jogging Lexi's brain to find a solution. Fortunately, Cookie is not finished digging up clues. As the fur flies, can this trusty border collie mix save sweet Lexi from a bitter end?
Dig Dig Digging
Author: Margaret Mayo
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 1408328879
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
All the favourites are here in this bright, bold picture book for machine-mad little ones - from diggers and tractors, to cranes, bulldozers and more! With fun, rhyming text and vibrant artwork, this is perfect for sharing and reading aloud. Children will love spotting all the details on each page and joining in with all the different sounds; as tractors 'squelch' through the mud and dumper trucks go 'crash!'. Part of the best-selling Awesome Engines range.
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 1408328879
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
All the favourites are here in this bright, bold picture book for machine-mad little ones - from diggers and tractors, to cranes, bulldozers and more! With fun, rhyming text and vibrant artwork, this is perfect for sharing and reading aloud. Children will love spotting all the details on each page and joining in with all the different sounds; as tractors 'squelch' through the mud and dumper trucks go 'crash!'. Part of the best-selling Awesome Engines range.
Digging Up the Bones
Author: Dale Marlowe
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780985881245
Category : Addicts
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Eleven interconnected stories reveal three generations of the barbarous Nash family from 1960s to the present.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780985881245
Category : Addicts
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Eleven interconnected stories reveal three generations of the barbarous Nash family from 1960s to the present.
Digging to China
Author: Donna Rawlins
Publisher: Orchard Books (NY)
ISBN: 9780531058145
Category : Holes
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Hearing her friend Marj, the elderly lady next door, speak wistfully of China, Alexis digs a hole all the way through the earth to that exotic country and brings back a postcard for Marj's birthday.
Publisher: Orchard Books (NY)
ISBN: 9780531058145
Category : Holes
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Hearing her friend Marj, the elderly lady next door, speak wistfully of China, Alexis digs a hole all the way through the earth to that exotic country and brings back a postcard for Marj's birthday.
Digging in
Author: Loretta Nyhan
Publisher: Center Point
ISBN: 9781683249573
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"A widow discovers an unexpected chance to start over when she boldly flouts neighborhood-association bylaws and decides to turn her entire yard into a vegetable garden. With the help of new friends, a charming local cop, and the transformative power of the soil, she starts to see potential in the chaos of her life"--
Publisher: Center Point
ISBN: 9781683249573
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"A widow discovers an unexpected chance to start over when she boldly flouts neighborhood-association bylaws and decides to turn her entire yard into a vegetable garden. With the help of new friends, a charming local cop, and the transformative power of the soil, she starts to see potential in the chaos of her life"--
The Dallas Women's Guide to Gold Digging with Pride
Author: Jennifer Beth Conklin
Publisher: Random House Digital, Inc.
ISBN: 9780345492944
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Arriving in Dallas to take a new job, Jenny Barton, a half-Jewish, single girl from New York, is plunged into the foreign world of Texas, where her roommate Aimee and her friends introduce her to the fine art of gold digging, Texas-style.
Publisher: Random House Digital, Inc.
ISBN: 9780345492944
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Arriving in Dallas to take a new job, Jenny Barton, a half-Jewish, single girl from New York, is plunged into the foreign world of Texas, where her roommate Aimee and her friends introduce her to the fine art of gold digging, Texas-style.