Author: Lance Perticone
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595369057
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Mario Spinelli is a Catholic, Italian-American young man from New York with a bright future in the paper industry. When the small paper mill where he is carving out his career is bought and then closed by industry giant Global Printing and Writing, he is forced to transfer to a huge, state-of-the-art mill in rural Arkansas to keep his career on track. His New York attitude quickly brings him trouble with the locals. He can't wait to escape his misery and return north until he meets and falls in love with a beautiful hometown engineer, Alisha Ann Reynolds. Mario joins in the antics of his coworkers, for whom bass fishing is the supreme entertainment. Through personal heroics and tragedy, he must rely on his steadfast faith in his struggle to win Alisha Ann's heart and acceptance with his peers.
Larry Lights the Way
Author: Mary Murray
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780717298426
Category : Ability
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
A lesson in helping others.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780717298426
Category : Ability
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
A lesson in helping others.
Light Man
Author: Larry Strauss
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780983818038
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
New York City, 1973 and the city is falling apart under the weight of crime and degradation. Al loves Trudy but doesn't understand her or how to be a man in this world. He hopes that angry Mike, a courageous and selfless father to a mentally crippled son, can enlighten and inspire him. But Mike, who spends his nights manning a spotlight outside Broadway theaters, has a dark side. He can keep those beams licking the dark heavens and he can fix any broken appliance you hand him, but he can't fix his broken son and it is killing him. The two men forge a friendship and try to work out their frustrations, paranoia, and rage as they grope for some standing in a city buried in uncollected garbage and uncontrolled vermin. Meanwhile, Mike's wife, Arlene, a classically trained actress, becomes a New York City folk hero portraying a distraught housewife in a television commercial trying to battle an onslaught of cockroaches. With passion, authenticity, and insight," along with wild humor and relentless humanity, Light Man digs into the psyche of a city on the edge and two men whose lopsided versions of heroism take them to the brink of catastrophe and their own contorted versions of redemption.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780983818038
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
New York City, 1973 and the city is falling apart under the weight of crime and degradation. Al loves Trudy but doesn't understand her or how to be a man in this world. He hopes that angry Mike, a courageous and selfless father to a mentally crippled son, can enlighten and inspire him. But Mike, who spends his nights manning a spotlight outside Broadway theaters, has a dark side. He can keep those beams licking the dark heavens and he can fix any broken appliance you hand him, but he can't fix his broken son and it is killing him. The two men forge a friendship and try to work out their frustrations, paranoia, and rage as they grope for some standing in a city buried in uncollected garbage and uncontrolled vermin. Meanwhile, Mike's wife, Arlene, a classically trained actress, becomes a New York City folk hero portraying a distraught housewife in a television commercial trying to battle an onslaught of cockroaches. With passion, authenticity, and insight," along with wild humor and relentless humanity, Light Man digs into the psyche of a city on the edge and two men whose lopsided versions of heroism take them to the brink of catastrophe and their own contorted versions of redemption.
The Desert Rose
Author: Larry McMurtry
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
ISBN: 1447274652
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
Bittersweet, funny and touching, Larry McMurtry's The Desert Rose is the story of Harmony, a Las Vegas showgirl. At night she's a lead dancer in a gambling casino; during the day she raises peacocks. She's one of a dying breed of dancers, faced with fewer and fewer jobs and an even bleaker future. Yet she maintains a calm cheerfulness in that arid neon landscape of supermarkets, drive-in wedding chapels, and all-night casinos. While Harmony's star is fading, her beautiful, cynical daughter Pepper's is on the rise. But Harmony remains wistful and optimistic through it all. She is the unexpected blossom in the wasteland, the tough and tender desert rose.
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
ISBN: 1447274652
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
Bittersweet, funny and touching, Larry McMurtry's The Desert Rose is the story of Harmony, a Las Vegas showgirl. At night she's a lead dancer in a gambling casino; during the day she raises peacocks. She's one of a dying breed of dancers, faced with fewer and fewer jobs and an even bleaker future. Yet she maintains a calm cheerfulness in that arid neon landscape of supermarkets, drive-in wedding chapels, and all-night casinos. While Harmony's star is fading, her beautiful, cynical daughter Pepper's is on the rise. But Harmony remains wistful and optimistic through it all. She is the unexpected blossom in the wasteland, the tough and tender desert rose.
Larry Gets Lost in Alaska
Author: John Skewes
Publisher: Sasquatch Books
ISBN: 1570618593
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
Learn about the Iditarod, the northern lights, the Kodiak bear, and more with Larry the pup. While traveling on a cruise to Alaska, Larry the pup and his owner Pete observe the native wildlife and spectacular scenery of the Alaska coast. But when Larry finds himself on a sea plane ride after chasing down a tasty treat, the dog and his owner must race across Alaska to find each other. Now in paperback, Alaska visitors and locals can journey into the heart of the Alaskan wilderness with Larry as he encounters bald eagles, fishermen, the North Pole, polar bears, and a team of sled dogs before finally being reunited with Pete. From the Hardcover edition.
Publisher: Sasquatch Books
ISBN: 1570618593
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
Learn about the Iditarod, the northern lights, the Kodiak bear, and more with Larry the pup. While traveling on a cruise to Alaska, Larry the pup and his owner Pete observe the native wildlife and spectacular scenery of the Alaska coast. But when Larry finds himself on a sea plane ride after chasing down a tasty treat, the dog and his owner must race across Alaska to find each other. Now in paperback, Alaska visitors and locals can journey into the heart of the Alaskan wilderness with Larry as he encounters bald eagles, fishermen, the North Pole, polar bears, and a team of sled dogs before finally being reunited with Pete. From the Hardcover edition.
Pictures from Home
Author: Larry Sultan
Publisher: Mack
ISBN: 9781910164785
Category : Families
Languages : en
Pages : 167
Book Description
First published in 1992 to wide critical acclaim, Pictures From Home is Larry Sultan's pendant to his parents. Sultan returned home to Southern California periodically in the 1980s and the decade-long sequence moves between registers, combining contemporary photographs with film stills from home movies, fragments of conversation, Sultan's own writings and other memorabilia. The result is a narrative collage in which the boundary between the documentary and the staged becomes increasingly ambiguous. Simultaneously the distance usually maintained between the photographer and his subjects also slips in an exchange of dialogue and emotion that is unique to this work. Significantly increasing the page count of the original book, this MACK design of Pictures From Home clarifies the multiplicity of voices - both textual and pictorial - in order to afford a fresh perspective of this seminal body of work -- Provided by the publisher.
Publisher: Mack
ISBN: 9781910164785
Category : Families
Languages : en
Pages : 167
Book Description
First published in 1992 to wide critical acclaim, Pictures From Home is Larry Sultan's pendant to his parents. Sultan returned home to Southern California periodically in the 1980s and the decade-long sequence moves between registers, combining contemporary photographs with film stills from home movies, fragments of conversation, Sultan's own writings and other memorabilia. The result is a narrative collage in which the boundary between the documentary and the staged becomes increasingly ambiguous. Simultaneously the distance usually maintained between the photographer and his subjects also slips in an exchange of dialogue and emotion that is unique to this work. Significantly increasing the page count of the original book, this MACK design of Pictures From Home clarifies the multiplicity of voices - both textual and pictorial - in order to afford a fresh perspective of this seminal body of work -- Provided by the publisher.
Paper Cuts
Author: Lance Perticone
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595369057
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Mario Spinelli is a Catholic, Italian-American young man from New York with a bright future in the paper industry. When the small paper mill where he is carving out his career is bought and then closed by industry giant Global Printing and Writing, he is forced to transfer to a huge, state-of-the-art mill in rural Arkansas to keep his career on track. His New York attitude quickly brings him trouble with the locals. He can't wait to escape his misery and return north until he meets and falls in love with a beautiful hometown engineer, Alisha Ann Reynolds. Mario joins in the antics of his coworkers, for whom bass fishing is the supreme entertainment. Through personal heroics and tragedy, he must rely on his steadfast faith in his struggle to win Alisha Ann's heart and acceptance with his peers.
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595369057
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Mario Spinelli is a Catholic, Italian-American young man from New York with a bright future in the paper industry. When the small paper mill where he is carving out his career is bought and then closed by industry giant Global Printing and Writing, he is forced to transfer to a huge, state-of-the-art mill in rural Arkansas to keep his career on track. His New York attitude quickly brings him trouble with the locals. He can't wait to escape his misery and return north until he meets and falls in love with a beautiful hometown engineer, Alisha Ann Reynolds. Mario joins in the antics of his coworkers, for whom bass fishing is the supreme entertainment. Through personal heroics and tragedy, he must rely on his steadfast faith in his struggle to win Alisha Ann's heart and acceptance with his peers.
Lindsay Anderson Diaries
Author: Lindsay Anderson
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1408150093
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 545
Book Description
The extraordinary and revealing diaries of the revolutionary British film and theatre director who became one of the major cultural figures of his time As a director, critic, writer and actor, Lindsay Anderson established a reputation as one of the most innovative, impassioned and fiercely independent British artists of the twentieth century. In directing films such as If, This Sporting Life and O Lucky Man he championed a new wave of social responsiveness in British cinema, while as director at the Royal Court he was responsible for establishing the reputation of a number of groundbreaking plays. Throughout his life Anderson stood in opposition to the establishment of his day. Published for the first time, his diaries provide a uniquely personal document of his artistic integrity and vision, his work, and his personal and public struggles. Peopled by a myriad of artists and stars - Malcolm McDowell, Richard Harris, Albert Finney, Anthony Hopkins Brian Cox, Karel Reisz, Arthur Miller, George Michael - the Diaries provide a fascinating account of one of the most creative periods of British cultural life. Gripping Daily Express "Vicious and velvety in roughly equal measure ... Demands reading at a single sitting" Daily Telegraph "the reader of this book is richly rewarded" Daily Mail
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1408150093
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 545
Book Description
The extraordinary and revealing diaries of the revolutionary British film and theatre director who became one of the major cultural figures of his time As a director, critic, writer and actor, Lindsay Anderson established a reputation as one of the most innovative, impassioned and fiercely independent British artists of the twentieth century. In directing films such as If, This Sporting Life and O Lucky Man he championed a new wave of social responsiveness in British cinema, while as director at the Royal Court he was responsible for establishing the reputation of a number of groundbreaking plays. Throughout his life Anderson stood in opposition to the establishment of his day. Published for the first time, his diaries provide a uniquely personal document of his artistic integrity and vision, his work, and his personal and public struggles. Peopled by a myriad of artists and stars - Malcolm McDowell, Richard Harris, Albert Finney, Anthony Hopkins Brian Cox, Karel Reisz, Arthur Miller, George Michael - the Diaries provide a fascinating account of one of the most creative periods of British cultural life. Gripping Daily Express "Vicious and velvety in roughly equal measure ... Demands reading at a single sitting" Daily Telegraph "the reader of this book is richly rewarded" Daily Mail
The Little Lark Still Sings
Author: Victoria Smith
Publisher: Morgan James Publishing
ISBN: 163195220X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 563
Book Description
In this memoir of life abroad, a married couple discovers the charms and challenges of Italy when they buy their Tuscan dream home. Happily married for two decades, Victoria and Larry decide to move to their favorite hilltown in Tuscany. But what begins as a romantic adventure soon becomes a drama of change and perseverance. Alongside Italy’s wonders—its beauty, art, architecture, food, and history—come the challenges of daily life in a foreign culture, surviving the chaos of construction, navigating narrow roads, longing for friends, stumbling with language, and so much more. As these struggles undermine Victoria’s confidence which, in turn, wears on Larry’s patience. Though they share a dream, they discover their personal goals are different. His are to study and write, hers are to create the perfect Italian home and make friends. He needs quiet time; she needs his help. From the joys and near disasters of renovating an ancient stone farmhouse to celebrating their first Italian dinner party, Victoria learns about Italy, herself, and their marriage. In The Little Lark Still Sings, she shares their humorous and character-stretching experiences with uplifting insight and wisdom.
Publisher: Morgan James Publishing
ISBN: 163195220X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 563
Book Description
In this memoir of life abroad, a married couple discovers the charms and challenges of Italy when they buy their Tuscan dream home. Happily married for two decades, Victoria and Larry decide to move to their favorite hilltown in Tuscany. But what begins as a romantic adventure soon becomes a drama of change and perseverance. Alongside Italy’s wonders—its beauty, art, architecture, food, and history—come the challenges of daily life in a foreign culture, surviving the chaos of construction, navigating narrow roads, longing for friends, stumbling with language, and so much more. As these struggles undermine Victoria’s confidence which, in turn, wears on Larry’s patience. Though they share a dream, they discover their personal goals are different. His are to study and write, hers are to create the perfect Italian home and make friends. He needs quiet time; she needs his help. From the joys and near disasters of renovating an ancient stone farmhouse to celebrating their first Italian dinner party, Victoria learns about Italy, herself, and their marriage. In The Little Lark Still Sings, she shares their humorous and character-stretching experiences with uplifting insight and wisdom.
Screwpiles
Author: Larry Saint
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781681841670
Category : Lighthouses
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
"A pictorial history book about screwpile lighthouses in Southeastern Virginia, Northeastern North Carolina, and Southern Maryland."--Provided by publisher.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781681841670
Category : Lighthouses
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
"A pictorial history book about screwpile lighthouses in Southeastern Virginia, Northeastern North Carolina, and Southern Maryland."--Provided by publisher.
The Best Short Plays 1972
Author: Edward Bond
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 506
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 506
Book Description