Author: Michael Andre-Driussi
Publisher: Sirius Fiction
ISBN: 1947614029
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 68
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Seven previously published pieces pertaining to the science fiction of American author Jack Vance, and his voyages around the world. Topics include the curious linkages between some of Vance's novels into a sort of "Future History;" an examination of a Vancean "hard sf" novel; a look at his various globe-trotting excursions and what he wrote while out on each one; and further delvings into the methods he employed to create such memorable fiction.
Author: Jack Vance
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1682995828
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 48
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Wilbur Murphy sought romance, excitement, and an impossible Horseman of Space. With polite smiles, the planet frustrated him at every turn—until he found them all the hard way!
Author: Michael Andre-Driussi
Publisher: Sirius Fiction
ISBN: 1947614118
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 155
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A guide to Gene Wolfe's series The Book of the New Sun, and the sequel The Urth of the New Sun, as well as four shorter "New Sun" works. Designed for use by first-time readers as well as those returning to the text.
Author: Jack Vance
Publisher: Spatterlight Press
ISBN: 1619470322
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 298
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Author: Jack Vance
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312864743
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 304
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A romantic tale follows a space swashbuckler and conman as he travels from world to world, plying his trade, drinking in wild bars, and flirting with women.
Author: Jack Vance
Publisher: Spatterlight Press
ISBN: 1619470357
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 199
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Author: Jack Vance
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Author: J. D. Vance
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0062872257
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 270
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THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER IS NOW A MAJOR-MOTION PICTURE DIRECTED BY RON HOWARD AND STARRING AMY ADAMS, GLENN CLOSE, AND GABRIEL BASSO "You will not read a more important book about America this year."—The Economist "A riveting book."—The Wall Street Journal "Essential reading."—David Brooks, New York Times Hillbilly Elegy is a passionate and personal analysis of a culture in crisis—that of white working-class Americans. The disintegration of this group, a process that has been slowly occurring now for more than forty years, has been reported with growing frequency and alarm, but has never before been written about as searingly from the inside. J. D. Vance tells the true story of what a social, regional, and class decline feels like when you were born with it hung around your neck. The Vance family story begins hopefully in postwar America. J. D.’s grandparents were “dirt poor and in love,” and moved north from Kentucky’s Appalachia region to Ohio in the hopes of escaping the dreadful poverty around them. They raised a middle-class family, and eventually one of their grandchildren would graduate from Yale Law School, a conventional marker of success in achieving generational upward mobility. But as the family saga of Hillbilly Elegy plays out, we learn that J.D.'s grandparents, aunt, uncle, sister, and, most of all, his mother struggled profoundly with the demands of their new middle-class life, never fully escaping the legacy of abuse, alcoholism, poverty, and trauma so characteristic of their part of America. With piercing honesty, Vance shows how he himself still carries around the demons of his chaotic family history. A deeply moving memoir, with its share of humor and vividly colorful figures, Hillbilly Elegy is the story of how upward mobility really feels. And it is an urgent and troubling meditation on the loss of the American dream for a large segment of this country.
Author: Jack Vance
Publisher: Spatterlight Press
ISBN: 1619470411
Category : Science fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 237
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Author: Jack Vance
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