Author: Russell Banks
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0062123246
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 219
Book Description
Hamilton Stark is a New Hampshire pipe fitter and the sole inhabitant of the house from which he evicted his own mother. He is the villain of five marriages and the father of a daughter so obsessed that she has been writing a book about him for years. Hamilton Stark is a boor, a misanthrope, a handsome man: funny, passionately honest, and a good dancer. The narrator, a middle-aged writer, decides to write about Stark as a hero whose anger and solitude represent passion and wisdom. At the same time that he tells Hamilton Stark's story, he describes the process of writing the novel and the complicated connections between truth and fiction. As Stark slips in and out of focus, maddeningly elusive and fascinatingly complex, this beguiling novel becomes at once a compelling meditation on identity and a thoroughly engaging story of life on the cold edge of New England.
Hamilton Stark
Author: Russell Banks
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0062123246
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 219
Book Description
Hamilton Stark is a New Hampshire pipe fitter and the sole inhabitant of the house from which he evicted his own mother. He is the villain of five marriages and the father of a daughter so obsessed that she has been writing a book about him for years. Hamilton Stark is a boor, a misanthrope, a handsome man: funny, passionately honest, and a good dancer. The narrator, a middle-aged writer, decides to write about Stark as a hero whose anger and solitude represent passion and wisdom. At the same time that he tells Hamilton Stark's story, he describes the process of writing the novel and the complicated connections between truth and fiction. As Stark slips in and out of focus, maddeningly elusive and fascinatingly complex, this beguiling novel becomes at once a compelling meditation on identity and a thoroughly engaging story of life on the cold edge of New England.
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0062123246
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 219
Book Description
Hamilton Stark is a New Hampshire pipe fitter and the sole inhabitant of the house from which he evicted his own mother. He is the villain of five marriages and the father of a daughter so obsessed that she has been writing a book about him for years. Hamilton Stark is a boor, a misanthrope, a handsome man: funny, passionately honest, and a good dancer. The narrator, a middle-aged writer, decides to write about Stark as a hero whose anger and solitude represent passion and wisdom. At the same time that he tells Hamilton Stark's story, he describes the process of writing the novel and the complicated connections between truth and fiction. As Stark slips in and out of focus, maddeningly elusive and fascinatingly complex, this beguiling novel becomes at once a compelling meditation on identity and a thoroughly engaging story of life on the cold edge of New England.
Literary Luxuries
Author: Joe David Bellamy
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
ISBN: 9780826210296
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
From the Iowa Writers Workshop to the halls of Congress and the National Endowment for the Arts, from the world of literary magazines and writers' conferences to the bizarre realm of the late-twentieth-century American English department, Literary Luxuries takes the reader on a guided tour of American literary life in our time--and the forces threatening its existence. Joe David Bellamy has been a significant figure on the literary scene during the last three decades; as a "literary Everyman," he offers in Literary Luxuries a distinctive and valuable perspective on the culture wars, on education and the imagination, on particular writers and major literary and aesthetic movements, on the role of government in fostering cultural development, and on the day-to-day strife of the writer's life in the United States. As director of the literature program of the National Endowment for the Arts, Bellamy had the unenviable task of trying to persuade Congress and ordinary citizens that American literature is worthy of support, and in Literary Luxuries he continues that debate and helps us to understand its implications: "Literature is our national treasury of language and style and our best reckoning about human life, as it is lived in this time and place." Part memoir, part critique, part impassioned defense of American literary culture and the values it espouses and struggles to uphold, Literary Luxuries offers unforgettable commentary on the literary life in the United States during the last decades of the twentieth century as described from the perspective of one of its key participants.
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
ISBN: 9780826210296
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
From the Iowa Writers Workshop to the halls of Congress and the National Endowment for the Arts, from the world of literary magazines and writers' conferences to the bizarre realm of the late-twentieth-century American English department, Literary Luxuries takes the reader on a guided tour of American literary life in our time--and the forces threatening its existence. Joe David Bellamy has been a significant figure on the literary scene during the last three decades; as a "literary Everyman," he offers in Literary Luxuries a distinctive and valuable perspective on the culture wars, on education and the imagination, on particular writers and major literary and aesthetic movements, on the role of government in fostering cultural development, and on the day-to-day strife of the writer's life in the United States. As director of the literature program of the National Endowment for the Arts, Bellamy had the unenviable task of trying to persuade Congress and ordinary citizens that American literature is worthy of support, and in Literary Luxuries he continues that debate and helps us to understand its implications: "Literature is our national treasury of language and style and our best reckoning about human life, as it is lived in this time and place." Part memoir, part critique, part impassioned defense of American literary culture and the values it espouses and struggles to uphold, Literary Luxuries offers unforgettable commentary on the literary life in the United States during the last decades of the twentieth century as described from the perspective of one of its key participants.
Stark and the Star Kings
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781893887169
Category : Science fiction, American
Languages : en
Pages : 625
Book Description
Collection of two classic science fiction authors' signature stories:Two novels by Edmond Hamilton:The Star KingsReturn to the StarsThree novelettes by Leigh Brackett"Queen of the Martian Catacombs""Enchantress of Venus""Black Amazon of Mars"and a short story (the only formal collaboration between the authors):"Stark and the Star Kings"
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781893887169
Category : Science fiction, American
Languages : en
Pages : 625
Book Description
Collection of two classic science fiction authors' signature stories:Two novels by Edmond Hamilton:The Star KingsReturn to the StarsThree novelettes by Leigh Brackett"Queen of the Martian Catacombs""Enchantress of Venus""Black Amazon of Mars"and a short story (the only formal collaboration between the authors):"Stark and the Star Kings"
Documents, Including Messages and Other Communications
Author: Ohio
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ohio
Languages : en
Pages : 676
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ohio
Languages : en
Pages : 676
Book Description
Message and Reports to the General Assembly and Governor of the State of Ohio for the Year ..
Author: Ohio
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 680
Book Description
Contains the annual reports of various Ohio state governmental offices including the Adjutant General, Governor, Secretary of State, Treasurer, Quartermaster, etc.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 680
Book Description
Contains the annual reports of various Ohio state governmental offices including the Adjutant General, Governor, Secretary of State, Treasurer, Quartermaster, etc.
Annual Report
Author: Ohio. Auditor of State
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Finance, Public
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Finance, Public
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Annual Report of the Auditor of State to the ... General Assembly
Author: Ohio. Auditor of State
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Finance, Public
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Finance, Public
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Williams' Cincinnati Directory ...
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cincinnati (Ohio)
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
Issues for 1860, 1866-67, 1869, 1872 include directories of Covington and Newport, Kentucky.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cincinnati (Ohio)
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
Issues for 1860, 1866-67, 1869, 1872 include directories of Covington and Newport, Kentucky.
Annual Report of the Trustees and Superintendent of the Institution for the Instruction of the Blind, of the State of Ohio
Author: Institution for the Instruction of the Blind (Columbus)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Blind
Languages : en
Pages : 518
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Blind
Languages : en
Pages : 518
Book Description
Canadian National Records for Sheep
Author: Canadian national live stock records office
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sheep
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sheep
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description