Ghost Dogs

Ghost Dogs PDF Author: Andre Dubus
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781324105046
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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From the literary master and best-selling author of Townie, reflections on a life of challenges, contradictions, and fulfillments.

Ghost Dogs

Ghost Dogs PDF Author: Andre Dubus
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781324105046
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Book Description
From the literary master and best-selling author of Townie, reflections on a life of challenges, contradictions, and fulfillments.

Ghost Dogs: On Killers and Kin

Ghost Dogs: On Killers and Kin PDF Author: Andre Dubus III
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 1324000457
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 214

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From the literary master and best-selling author of Townie, reflections on a life of challenges, contradictions, and fulfillments. During childhood summers in Louisiana, Andre Dubus III’s grandfather taught him that men’s work is hard. As an adult, whether tracking down a drug lord in Mexico as a bounty hunter or grappling with privilege while living with a rich girlfriend in New York City, Dubus worked—at being a better worker and a better human being. In Ghost Dogs, Dubus’s nonfiction prowess is on full display in his retelling of his own successes, failures, triumphs, and pain. In his longest essay, “If I Owned a Gun,” Dubus reflects on the empowerment and shame he felt in keeping a gun, and his decision, ultimately, to give it up. Elsewhere, he writes of a violent youth and of settled domesticity and fatherhood, about the omnipresent expectations and contradictions of masculinity, about the things writers remember and those they forget. Drawing upon kindred literary spirits from Rilke to Rumi to Tim O’Brien, Ghost Dogs renders moments of personal revelation with emotional generosity and stylistic grace, ultimately standing as essential witness and testimony to the art of the essay.

Legend of the Ghost Dog

Legend of the Ghost Dog PDF Author: Elizabeth Cody Kimmel
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 0545469996
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 161

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A thrilling mystery set against a stark landscape and the inspiration of Nome's real-life dog hero, Balto. Twelve-year-old Tee has just moved to Nome, Alaska, with her writer father and sullen little brother, Jack. Jack isn't happy about the idea of living in the middle of nowhere, but Tee and her dog Henry are thrilled -- so much open space to run around and sniff! But on a walk near their new house, Henry spots something that has him seriously spooked. Tee sees a mysterious shadow, and it seems to be following them. Have they disturbed a restless spirit? And what other secrets might this dark place be holding?

House of Sand and Fog

House of Sand and Fog PDF Author: Andre Dubus
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393046974
Category : Domestic fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 507

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Book Description
The Oprah Book Club selection for November 2000.

The Garden of Last Days

The Garden of Last Days PDF Author: Andre Dubus
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393041651
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 556

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Book Description
Explosive elements coverge one early September night in a Florida men's club revealing the seamy underside of American life at the moment before the world changed.

Townie

Townie PDF Author: Andre Dubus
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393340678
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 401

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I've never read a better or more serious meditation on violence, its sources, consequences, and, especially, its terrifying pleasures, than "Townie." It's a brutal and, yes, thrilling memoir that sheds real light on the creative process of two of our best writers, Andre Dubus III and his famous, much revered father. You'll never read the work of either man in quite the same way afterward. You may not view the world in quite the same way either.--Richard Russo, author of "Empire Falls."

Dirty Love

Dirty Love PDF Author: Andre Dubus
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393064654
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 304

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Book Description
A collection of short stories examining the lives of suburbanites seeking solace and gratification in food, sex, work, and love.

Hungry Ghost

Hungry Ghost PDF Author: Stephen Leather
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
ISBN: 1844568679
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 300

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Hong Kong, 1991. The colony is preparing for Chinese rule. Geoff Howells, a government-trained killing machine, is brought out of retirement and sent to there. His brief: to assassinate Chinese Mafia leader, Simon Ng. Howells devises a dangerous and complicated plan to reach his intended victim - only to find himself the next target. Patrick Dugan, a Hong Kong policeman, has been held back in his career because of his family connections: his sister is married to Simon Ng. But when Ng's daughter is kidnapped and Ng himself disappears, Dugan gets caught up in a series of violent events and an international spy ring that has spun out of control . . . *********** PRAISE FOR STEPHEN LEATHER 'A master of the thriller genre' Irish Times 'As tough as British thrillers get . . . gripping' Irish Independent 'The sheer impetus of his story-telling is damned hard to resist' Sunday Express

Adultery & Other Choices

Adultery & Other Choices PDF Author: Andre Dubus
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 145329970X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 169

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This “haunting and subtle” collection of short stories offers a compassionate portrayal of man’s journey from childhood to maturity (Publishers Weekly). For the adolescents in Part One of Andre Dubus’s Adultery & Other Choices, youth is characterized by humiliation, alienation, and disappointment: A son struggles to connect with his distant father, and later he must overcome a schoolyard bully. Then, for the soldiers that inhabit Part Two, service is synonymous with sacrifice, as marriages and limbs falter and fail. But for the bitterly lonely wife of a promiscuous professor, a hopeless affair with a dying ex-priest provides her with the strength necessary to retake control of her life. In the aptly titled follow-up to Separate Flights, Dubus expertly traces the arc of human life, and honors the men and women he portrays with such faithful veracity. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Andre Dubus including rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the author’s estate.

Buzz Books2024: Spring/Summer

Buzz Books2024: Spring/Summer PDF Author:
Publisher: Publishers Lunch
ISBN: 1948586630
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1050

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Book Description
Buzz Books 2024: Spring/Summer is the 24th volume in our popular sampler series. This Buzz Books presents passionate readers with an insider’s look at nearly sixty of the buzziest books due out this season. Such major bestselling authors as Ally Condie, Christina Dodd, and Emiko Jean are featured, along with literary figures like Mateo Askaripour, Abi Daré, Alison Espach, Peter Nichols and more. Buzz Books has had a particularly stellar track record with highlighting the most talented, exciting and diverse debut authors, and this edition is no exception. Rita Bullwinkel, editor at large for McSweeney’s and deputy editor of The Believer, offers a novel on women boxer, while Lily Samson’s title has already been preempted by Sony Pictures Television. One YA and two nonfiction authors make their adult fiction debuts: Kristen Perrin, Mary Annaïse Heglar and Kate Young, respectively. Among others are Essie Chambers, Katelyn Doyle, Alejandro Puyana, and Rachel Rueckert. Our robust nonfiction section covers such important subjects as suicide and combating racist biases; several memoirs about harrowing childhoods and illnesses; and a biography of the first Asian-American woman pilot to fly during World War II. Finally, we present early looks at new work from young adult authors, including the New York Times bestselling Tracey Baptiste and Morgan Matson. The YA titles also represent more diversity than ever, with Aboriginal, Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Malaysian and Trinidadian novelists. And be sure to look out for Buzz Books 2024: Fall/Winter, coming in May, for next season’s most talked about books.