Author: O. HenryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Postscripts
Author: O. HenryPostscripts
Author: Robert RootPublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 0803243456
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Walt Whitman’s meditation on time is the undercurrent running through Postscripts, a series of reflections on finding one’s place in the endless chain of time. In linked essays, Robert Root ranges across American terrains and landscapes including locales as varied as Walden Pond and Mesa Verde, the mountains of Montana and the coastline of Maine, Great Lakes shorelines and Manhattan on the first day of the war with Iraq. Rich in “all that retrospection,” Postscripts chronicles moments of intimacy and arrival in the natural world while also charting intersections of natural, cultural, and personal history. Whether revisiting the first European settlement in Nova Scotia or seeking out the sites of E. B. White’s life and literature, exploring the only old-growth forest in lower Michigan or shifting perceptions at the birth of a granddaughter, Root offers readers a new perspective on the relationship between time and place, time and timelessness, history and personal history. If the past is prologue, his book suggests, the present is postscript.
Postscripts
Author: John BarthPublisher: Deep Vellum Publishing
ISBN: 1628974737
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Proving himself yet again a master of every form, Barth conquers in his latest the ruminative short essay—“jeux d’esprits,” as Barth describes them. These mostly one-page tidbits pay homage to Barth’s literary influences while retaining his trademark self-consciousness and willingness to play.
Da Nang Postscripts
Author: B. F. GaulmanPublisher: Author House
ISBN: 1481715887
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Dave Simms is a young black marine stationed at the Da Nang Air Base during the Vietnam War. Working as a supply clerk, he fights not only the Viet Cong but also everyday boredom and the absurdity of military life. In the face of those challenges, his search for personal identity leads him through a drunken and reefer-smoking year of ludicrous encounters. Simms finds himself in perilous surroundings and yet is protected from the worst of events in many waysbut not always. The horrors of war reach even him, leaving a mark that not even alcohol fueled nights can erase. Simms rarely meets the enemy, but his worst fears arise more from what the marines might do to him. The preposterous, bloodthirsty mind-set of the Marine Corps feeds his hatred for them and his determination to leave Vietnam not only alive and in one piece but also in his right minda goal that might prove impossible to achieve. In this military novel, a young marine serving in Vietnam struggles to stay alive and keep his sanity in the face of the brutality of war.
Postscripts on Independence
Author: Vineet ThakurPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199094055
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
India and South Africa, two states that bookended the process of twentieth-century decolonization, punched above their weight in global politics in their initial years of liberation. Postscripts on Independence analyses and compares the making of foreign policy ideas, identities, and institutions of postcolonial India and South Africa. It shows how both countries have responded to the contradictory demands of their freedom struggles against colonialism and pragmatic challenges of international politics. Vineet Thakur argues that the countries’ geopolitical positioning in South Asia and southern Africa make them regional powers, with similar sets of problems and prospects, as both continue to grapple with the idea of maintaining regional and/or continental hegemony. By undertaking a comparative analysis, Thakur explores a framework to understand the foreign policymaking fears, aspirations, and international behaviour of these two nation states.
Postscripts From An Old Address
Author: Onju BezbaruahPublisher: Blue Rose Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 103
Book Description
The title of the book is self-explanatory…. As I try to include some forgotten people, places, school college, teachers, events, my dear family, relatives and friends who touched and impacted our lives and left an indelible impression on us….we didn’t realize their true worth and took many things for granted as we thought that was the way of life in our sheltered world of simplicity and innocence .
Dorothea's Daughter and Other Nineteenth-Century Postscripts
Author: Barbara HardyPublisher: Victorian Secrets
ISBN: 1906469245
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
Dorothea's Daughter is a stunning new collection of short stories based on novels by Jane Austen, Charlotte Bront , Charles Dickens, George Eliot, and Thomas Hardy. They are postscripts, rather than sequels, entering into dialogues with the original narratives by developing suggestions in the text. The authors' conclusions are respected, with no changes made to the plot; instead, Barbara Hardy draws out loose threads in the original fabric to weave new material, imagining moments in the characters' future lives.
Postscripts
Author: Daryl HinePublisher: Knopf
ISBN: 9780679742746
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
Postscripts
Author: John Boynton PriestleyPublisher: Macmillan
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
Sunday evening talks over the radio.
Postscripts
Author: Viktor NekrasovPublisher: Quartet Books (UK)
ISBN:
Category : Russian fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Foreword by Richard Ingrams. Ronald Faulkner was born and raised for the first quarter of his life in Australia. He was a troubled child giving his mother a rough time after his father died hen he was just seven years old. Although dreaming of a career in the Australian Royal Navy, fate had othrt ideas and, through a series of chance encounters, he found himself embarking on a career in the theatre - not unlike his father, the silent film actor John Faulkner, and his mother, Sheila Whytock, a ballerina. This is his story, a fascinating tale of comedy, elation, sadness, and tremendous challenge.
