Author: Jonathan Lethem
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307789128
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 373
Book Description
NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER • A complusively readable riff on the classic detective novel from America's most inventive novelist. "A half-satirical cross between a literary novel and a hard-boiled crime story narrated by an amateur detective with Tourette's syndrome.... The dialogue crackles with caustic hilarity.... Unexpectedly moving." —The Boston Globe Brooklyn's very own self-appointed Human Freakshow, Lionel Essrog is an orphan whose Tourettic impulses drive him to bark, count, and rip apart our language in startling and original ways. Together with three veterans of the St. Vincent's Home for Boys, he works for small-time mobster Frank Minna's limo service cum detective agency. Life without Frank Minna, the charismatic King of Brooklyn, would be unimaginable, so who cares if the tasks he sets them are, well, not exactly legal. But when Frank is fatally stabbed, one of Lionel's colleagues lands in jail, the other two vie for his position, and the victim's widow skips town. Lionel's world is suddenly topsy-turvy, and this outcast who has trouble even conversing attempts to untangle the threads of the case while trying to keep the words straight in his head. Motherless Brooklyn is a brilliantly original, captivating homage to the classic detective novel by one of the most acclaimed writers of his generation.
Motherless Brooklyn
Author: Jonathan Lethem
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307789128
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 373
Book Description
NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER • A complusively readable riff on the classic detective novel from America's most inventive novelist. "A half-satirical cross between a literary novel and a hard-boiled crime story narrated by an amateur detective with Tourette's syndrome.... The dialogue crackles with caustic hilarity.... Unexpectedly moving." —The Boston Globe Brooklyn's very own self-appointed Human Freakshow, Lionel Essrog is an orphan whose Tourettic impulses drive him to bark, count, and rip apart our language in startling and original ways. Together with three veterans of the St. Vincent's Home for Boys, he works for small-time mobster Frank Minna's limo service cum detective agency. Life without Frank Minna, the charismatic King of Brooklyn, would be unimaginable, so who cares if the tasks he sets them are, well, not exactly legal. But when Frank is fatally stabbed, one of Lionel's colleagues lands in jail, the other two vie for his position, and the victim's widow skips town. Lionel's world is suddenly topsy-turvy, and this outcast who has trouble even conversing attempts to untangle the threads of the case while trying to keep the words straight in his head. Motherless Brooklyn is a brilliantly original, captivating homage to the classic detective novel by one of the most acclaimed writers of his generation.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307789128
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 373
Book Description
NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER • A complusively readable riff on the classic detective novel from America's most inventive novelist. "A half-satirical cross between a literary novel and a hard-boiled crime story narrated by an amateur detective with Tourette's syndrome.... The dialogue crackles with caustic hilarity.... Unexpectedly moving." —The Boston Globe Brooklyn's very own self-appointed Human Freakshow, Lionel Essrog is an orphan whose Tourettic impulses drive him to bark, count, and rip apart our language in startling and original ways. Together with three veterans of the St. Vincent's Home for Boys, he works for small-time mobster Frank Minna's limo service cum detective agency. Life without Frank Minna, the charismatic King of Brooklyn, would be unimaginable, so who cares if the tasks he sets them are, well, not exactly legal. But when Frank is fatally stabbed, one of Lionel's colleagues lands in jail, the other two vie for his position, and the victim's widow skips town. Lionel's world is suddenly topsy-turvy, and this outcast who has trouble even conversing attempts to untangle the threads of the case while trying to keep the words straight in his head. Motherless Brooklyn is a brilliantly original, captivating homage to the classic detective novel by one of the most acclaimed writers of his generation.
The Annenbergs
Author: John E. Cooney
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
"This is the colorful and dramatic biography of two of America's most controversial entrepreneurs: Moses Louis Annenberg, 'the racing wire king, ' who built his fortune in racketeering, invested it in publishing, and lost much of it in the biggest tax evasion case in United States history; and his son, Walter, launcher of TV Guide and Seventeen magazines and former ambassador to Great Britain."--Jacket.
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
"This is the colorful and dramatic biography of two of America's most controversial entrepreneurs: Moses Louis Annenberg, 'the racing wire king, ' who built his fortune in racketeering, invested it in publishing, and lost much of it in the biggest tax evasion case in United States history; and his son, Walter, launcher of TV Guide and Seventeen magazines and former ambassador to Great Britain."--Jacket.
Suzanna and the Elders
Author: Lawrence Langner
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781258218966
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781258218966
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
A Fate Totally Worse Than Death
Author: Paul Fleischman
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
ISBN: 1620643901
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 103
Book Description
Welcome to Cliffside High, the school of your nightmares. It's run by the Huns, a ruthless clique of rich students—and, as poor Charity Chase discovers, messing with them can be murder. There's Tiffany, avid reader of every beauty magazine available; Brooke, desperate for a date; Danielle, Al Capone in Miss America's body, with her sights set firmly on a millionaire's son Drew. Unfortunately, like every other boy at Cliffside, Drew only has eyes for Helga, the ravishing new student from Norway ... wherever that may be. As far as Danielle is concerned, Helga could be from another world. In fact, if she doesn't lay off Drew—she just might be. Getting rid of her ought to be as easy as taking candy off a helpless old lady. Only something weird is happening to Danielle and her friends, something much nastier than the horror stories she loves to read, something that can only be described as a fate totally worse than death.
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
ISBN: 1620643901
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 103
Book Description
Welcome to Cliffside High, the school of your nightmares. It's run by the Huns, a ruthless clique of rich students—and, as poor Charity Chase discovers, messing with them can be murder. There's Tiffany, avid reader of every beauty magazine available; Brooke, desperate for a date; Danielle, Al Capone in Miss America's body, with her sights set firmly on a millionaire's son Drew. Unfortunately, like every other boy at Cliffside, Drew only has eyes for Helga, the ravishing new student from Norway ... wherever that may be. As far as Danielle is concerned, Helga could be from another world. In fact, if she doesn't lay off Drew—she just might be. Getting rid of her ought to be as easy as taking candy off a helpless old lady. Only something weird is happening to Danielle and her friends, something much nastier than the horror stories she loves to read, something that can only be described as a fate totally worse than death.
Builder 1 & C
Author: Carl G. Bauer
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Building
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Building
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
EMT-D
Author: Kenneth R. Stults
Publisher: Prentice Hall
ISBN:
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Publisher: Prentice Hall
ISBN:
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Junior Theory Level 1
Author: Joyce Ong
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780994299406
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Junior Theory Level 1 - a foundational music theory book specifically designed for children aged 4-7.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780994299406
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Junior Theory Level 1 - a foundational music theory book specifically designed for children aged 4-7.
Through My Eyes
Author: Alton Gansky
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781310913112
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
These are not mere dreams and visions: these are a calling.Six people. Five mind-numbing visions. Four ancient and mysterious artifacts. Two exotic locations. And one greedy man who will stop at nothing, not even murder, to achieve his goal.Rev. Adam Bridger and his wife, Dr. Rachel Tremaine are once again in the center of an adventure not of their making. And joing them are four total strangers who, along with Rachel, have seen visions that most mortals can't imagine. They have been called on a mission that will forever change the world--if they survive.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781310913112
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
These are not mere dreams and visions: these are a calling.Six people. Five mind-numbing visions. Four ancient and mysterious artifacts. Two exotic locations. And one greedy man who will stop at nothing, not even murder, to achieve his goal.Rev. Adam Bridger and his wife, Dr. Rachel Tremaine are once again in the center of an adventure not of their making. And joing them are four total strangers who, along with Rachel, have seen visions that most mortals can't imagine. They have been called on a mission that will forever change the world--if they survive.
Oral History Interview
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Industrialists
Languages : en
Pages : 213
Book Description
Recollections of Pierre S. du Pont. The interviews were conducted by Ed Edwin of the Columbia University Oral History Research Office on four occasions during 1982.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Industrialists
Languages : en
Pages : 213
Book Description
Recollections of Pierre S. du Pont. The interviews were conducted by Ed Edwin of the Columbia University Oral History Research Office on four occasions during 1982.