Author: Lia Purpura
Publisher: Sarabande Books
ISBN: 1936747340
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 141
Book Description
“All about looking: at a landscape, at language, at a sign . . . Purpura goes beneath the surface, writing not just about what she sees but what it means.” —Los Angeles Times Lia Purpura’s essays are full of joy in the act of intense observation; they’re also deliciously subversive and alert to the ways language gets locked and loaded by culture. These elegant, conversational excursions refuse to let a reader slide over anything, from the tiniest shards of beach glass to barren big-box wastelands. They detonate distractedness, superficiality, artificiality. In the process, Purpura inhabits many stances: metaphysician and biologist, sensualist and witness—all in service of illuminating that which Virginia Woolf called “moments of being”—previously unworded but palpably felt states of existence and knowing. Rough Likeness finds worlds in the minute, and crafts monuments to beauty and strangeness. “Lia Purpura is at the forefront of the New Essay, and this latest book (her best) takes us much closer into the rough terrain of her quirky mind than she has ever gone before. The surprises and insights keep coming. Rough Likeness is an astonishment—a book to savor, read slowly, smile at, sigh at, and cherish.” —Phillip Lopate
Rough Likeness
Author: Lia Purpura
Publisher: Sarabande Books
ISBN: 1936747340
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 141
Book Description
“All about looking: at a landscape, at language, at a sign . . . Purpura goes beneath the surface, writing not just about what she sees but what it means.” —Los Angeles Times Lia Purpura’s essays are full of joy in the act of intense observation; they’re also deliciously subversive and alert to the ways language gets locked and loaded by culture. These elegant, conversational excursions refuse to let a reader slide over anything, from the tiniest shards of beach glass to barren big-box wastelands. They detonate distractedness, superficiality, artificiality. In the process, Purpura inhabits many stances: metaphysician and biologist, sensualist and witness—all in service of illuminating that which Virginia Woolf called “moments of being”—previously unworded but palpably felt states of existence and knowing. Rough Likeness finds worlds in the minute, and crafts monuments to beauty and strangeness. “Lia Purpura is at the forefront of the New Essay, and this latest book (her best) takes us much closer into the rough terrain of her quirky mind than she has ever gone before. The surprises and insights keep coming. Rough Likeness is an astonishment—a book to savor, read slowly, smile at, sigh at, and cherish.” —Phillip Lopate
Publisher: Sarabande Books
ISBN: 1936747340
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 141
Book Description
“All about looking: at a landscape, at language, at a sign . . . Purpura goes beneath the surface, writing not just about what she sees but what it means.” —Los Angeles Times Lia Purpura’s essays are full of joy in the act of intense observation; they’re also deliciously subversive and alert to the ways language gets locked and loaded by culture. These elegant, conversational excursions refuse to let a reader slide over anything, from the tiniest shards of beach glass to barren big-box wastelands. They detonate distractedness, superficiality, artificiality. In the process, Purpura inhabits many stances: metaphysician and biologist, sensualist and witness—all in service of illuminating that which Virginia Woolf called “moments of being”—previously unworded but palpably felt states of existence and knowing. Rough Likeness finds worlds in the minute, and crafts monuments to beauty and strangeness. “Lia Purpura is at the forefront of the New Essay, and this latest book (her best) takes us much closer into the rough terrain of her quirky mind than she has ever gone before. The surprises and insights keep coming. Rough Likeness is an astonishment—a book to savor, read slowly, smile at, sigh at, and cherish.” —Phillip Lopate
Things Not Generally Known
Author: John Timbs
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Common fallacies
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Common fallacies
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
The Likeness
Author: Tana French
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780670018864
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 486
Book Description
A follow-up to In the Woods finds a traumatized detective Cassie Maddox struggling in her career and relationship with Sam O'Neill while investigating the unsettling murder of a young woman whose name matches an alias Cassie once had used as an undercover officer. 50,000 first printing.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780670018864
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 486
Book Description
A follow-up to In the Woods finds a traumatized detective Cassie Maddox struggling in her career and relationship with Sam O'Neill while investigating the unsettling murder of a young woman whose name matches an alias Cassie once had used as an undercover officer. 50,000 first printing.
Popular Errors Explained and Illustrated
Author: John Timbs
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Common fallacies
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Common fallacies
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Old England: Its Scenery, Art, and People
Author: James Mason Hoppin
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 556
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 556
Book Description
Old England
Author: James Mason Hoppin
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
The Mariner's Mirror
Author: Leonard George Carr Laughton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
Beauty Sleeping
Author: Beate Sigriddaughter
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1304564509
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Portrait of an artist finding her path between duty, passion, and love.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1304564509
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Portrait of an artist finding her path between duty, passion, and love.
The Lymond Chronicles Box Set: Books 1 - 3
Author: Dorothy Dunnett
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 059308120X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1912
Book Description
Combining all the political intrigue of Game of Thrones with the sweeping romanticism of Outlander, Dorothy Dunnett’s legendary Lymond Chronicles have enthralled readers for decades and amassed legions of devoted fans. The journey begins with the three books included in this set: The Game of Kings, Queens' Play, and The Disorderly Knights. In 1547, Francis Crawford of Lymond is disgraced and newly escaped from captivity. Returning to his beloved Scotland, he soon embarks on a fantastic journey that will take him from the castles and glens of his ancestral home, to the decadent French Court, to the battlegrounds of crusading knights in Malta—a quest which will require him to risk everything in order to redeem his reputation and protect his homeland.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 059308120X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1912
Book Description
Combining all the political intrigue of Game of Thrones with the sweeping romanticism of Outlander, Dorothy Dunnett’s legendary Lymond Chronicles have enthralled readers for decades and amassed legions of devoted fans. The journey begins with the three books included in this set: The Game of Kings, Queens' Play, and The Disorderly Knights. In 1547, Francis Crawford of Lymond is disgraced and newly escaped from captivity. Returning to his beloved Scotland, he soon embarks on a fantastic journey that will take him from the castles and glens of his ancestral home, to the decadent French Court, to the battlegrounds of crusading knights in Malta—a quest which will require him to risk everything in order to redeem his reputation and protect his homeland.
Lora’s Journey
Author: Edith Webster
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1491770139
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 231
Book Description
Lora Fitzgerald gets word from her parents attorney, Mason Kile, that she must cross the Oregon territory and return home. While Kile is reluctant to send for Lora, he sees no other way: He is only seeking to fulfill the last will and testament of the Fitzgeralds. Good intentions wont make the journey for Lora easier, but she does have a mountain man from Montana and a blacksmith-turned-farmer who is closer than a brother as traveling companions. Although shes reluctant to go, she travels from grassland to seashore, by stagecoach, barge, and railroad as she bravely seeks to get to her final destinationFitz Landingthe home her deceased parents so carefully tended. Even if she arrives unharmed, it will be an unfamiliar world inhabited by seamen who are capable of killing just for the fun of it. Plus, a swarthy old man named Boggs wants nothing more than to destroy Lora once and for all.
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1491770139
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 231
Book Description
Lora Fitzgerald gets word from her parents attorney, Mason Kile, that she must cross the Oregon territory and return home. While Kile is reluctant to send for Lora, he sees no other way: He is only seeking to fulfill the last will and testament of the Fitzgeralds. Good intentions wont make the journey for Lora easier, but she does have a mountain man from Montana and a blacksmith-turned-farmer who is closer than a brother as traveling companions. Although shes reluctant to go, she travels from grassland to seashore, by stagecoach, barge, and railroad as she bravely seeks to get to her final destinationFitz Landingthe home her deceased parents so carefully tended. Even if she arrives unharmed, it will be an unfamiliar world inhabited by seamen who are capable of killing just for the fun of it. Plus, a swarthy old man named Boggs wants nothing more than to destroy Lora once and for all.