Author: Jeffrey Asher Nesbit
Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
ISBN: 9781414300030
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Ryun is a self-centered soccer star, living it up his senior year in high school by cheating on his girlfriend with her best friend, smoking, drinking, stealing, and lying, until a serious car accident and its aftermath change everything.
Ryun's Story
Author: Jeffrey Asher Nesbit
Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
ISBN: 9781414300030
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Ryun is a self-centered soccer star, living it up his senior year in high school by cheating on his girlfriend with her best friend, smoking, drinking, stealing, and lying, until a serious car accident and its aftermath change everything.
Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
ISBN: 9781414300030
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Ryun is a self-centered soccer star, living it up his senior year in high school by cheating on his girlfriend with her best friend, smoking, drinking, stealing, and lying, until a serious car accident and its aftermath change everything.
A Story of Ruins
Author: Wu Hung
Publisher: Reaktion Books
ISBN: 1861899769
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
This richly illustrated book examines the changing significance of ruins as vehicles for cultural memory in Chinese art and visual culture from ancient times to the present. The story of ruins in China is different from but connected to “ruin culture” in the West. This book explores indigenous Chinese concepts of ruins and their visual manifestations, as well as the complex historical interactions between China and the West since the eighteenth century. Wu Hung leads us through an array of traditional and contemporary visual materials, including painting, architecture, photography, prints, and cinema. A Story of Ruins shows how ruins are integral to traditional Chinese culture in both architecture and pictorial forms. It traces the changes in their representation over time, from indigenous methods of recording damage and decay in ancient China, to realistic images of architectural ruins in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, to the strong interest in urban ruins in contemporary China, as shown in the many artworks that depict demolished houses and decaying industrial sites. The result is an original interpretation of the development of Chinese art, as well as a unique contribution to global art history.
Publisher: Reaktion Books
ISBN: 1861899769
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
This richly illustrated book examines the changing significance of ruins as vehicles for cultural memory in Chinese art and visual culture from ancient times to the present. The story of ruins in China is different from but connected to “ruin culture” in the West. This book explores indigenous Chinese concepts of ruins and their visual manifestations, as well as the complex historical interactions between China and the West since the eighteenth century. Wu Hung leads us through an array of traditional and contemporary visual materials, including painting, architecture, photography, prints, and cinema. A Story of Ruins shows how ruins are integral to traditional Chinese culture in both architecture and pictorial forms. It traces the changes in their representation over time, from indigenous methods of recording damage and decay in ancient China, to realistic images of architectural ruins in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, to the strong interest in urban ruins in contemporary China, as shown in the many artworks that depict demolished houses and decaying industrial sites. The result is an original interpretation of the development of Chinese art, as well as a unique contribution to global art history.
A River Runs Through It and Other Stories, Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition
Author: Norman Maclean
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226500772
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
Just as Norman Maclean writes at the end of "A River Runs through It" that he is "haunted by waters," so have readers been haunted by his novella. A retired English professor who began writing fiction at the age of 70, Maclean produced what is now recognized as one of the classic American stories of the twentieth century. Originally published in 1976, A River Runs through It and Other Stories now celebrates its twenty-fifth anniversary, marked by this new edition that includes a foreword by Annie Proulx. Maclean grew up in the western Rocky Mountains in the first decades of the twentieth century. As a young man he worked many summers in logging camps and for the United States Forest Service. The two novellas and short story in this collection are based on his own experiences—the experiences of a young man who found that life was only a step from art in its structures and beauty. The beauty he found was in reality, and so he leaves a careful record of what it was like to work in the woods when it was still a world of horse and hand and foot, without power saws, "cats," or four-wheel drives. Populated with drunks, loggers, card sharks, and whores, and set in the small towns and surrounding trout streams and mountains of western Montana, the stories concern themselves with the complexities of fly fishing, logging, fighting forest fires, playing cribbage, and being a husband, a son, and a father. By turns raunchy, poignant, caustic, and elegiac, these are superb tales which express, in Maclean's own words, "a little of the love I have for the earth as it goes by." A first offering from a 70-year-old writer, the basis of a top-grossing movie, and the first original fiction published by the University of Chicago Press, A River Runs through It and Other Stories has sold more than a million copies. As Proulx writes in her foreword to this new edition, "In 1990 Norman Maclean died in body, but for hundreds of thousands of readers he will live as long as fish swim and books are made."
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226500772
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
Just as Norman Maclean writes at the end of "A River Runs through It" that he is "haunted by waters," so have readers been haunted by his novella. A retired English professor who began writing fiction at the age of 70, Maclean produced what is now recognized as one of the classic American stories of the twentieth century. Originally published in 1976, A River Runs through It and Other Stories now celebrates its twenty-fifth anniversary, marked by this new edition that includes a foreword by Annie Proulx. Maclean grew up in the western Rocky Mountains in the first decades of the twentieth century. As a young man he worked many summers in logging camps and for the United States Forest Service. The two novellas and short story in this collection are based on his own experiences—the experiences of a young man who found that life was only a step from art in its structures and beauty. The beauty he found was in reality, and so he leaves a careful record of what it was like to work in the woods when it was still a world of horse and hand and foot, without power saws, "cats," or four-wheel drives. Populated with drunks, loggers, card sharks, and whores, and set in the small towns and surrounding trout streams and mountains of western Montana, the stories concern themselves with the complexities of fly fishing, logging, fighting forest fires, playing cribbage, and being a husband, a son, and a father. By turns raunchy, poignant, caustic, and elegiac, these are superb tales which express, in Maclean's own words, "a little of the love I have for the earth as it goes by." A first offering from a 70-year-old writer, the basis of a top-grossing movie, and the first original fiction published by the University of Chicago Press, A River Runs through It and Other Stories has sold more than a million copies. As Proulx writes in her foreword to this new edition, "In 1990 Norman Maclean died in body, but for hundreds of thousands of readers he will live as long as fish swim and books are made."
A River Runs Through It and Other Stories
Author: Norman Maclean
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022647206X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
Collection of three Western stories, featuring the title piece about the relationship between a father and his two sons, bound together by love and fly fishing.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022647206X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
Collection of three Western stories, featuring the title piece about the relationship between a father and his two sons, bound together by love and fly fishing.
The Minsters and Abbey Ruins of the United Kingdom: Their History, Architecture, Monuments, and Traditions; with Notices of the Larger Parish Churches and Collegiate Chapels
Author: Mackenzie Edward C. Walcott
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Abbeys
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Abbeys
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Ruins and Other Short Stories
Author: Mary Brooks
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1543401392
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 91
Book Description
Ruins and Other Short Stories is another collection of short stories from Mary Brooks
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1543401392
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 91
Book Description
Ruins and Other Short Stories is another collection of short stories from Mary Brooks
Nineveh and its Ruins; or, the History of the Great City
Author: Rev. Robert FERGUSON (LL.D.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
Nineveh and Its Ruins: Or, the History of the Great City
Author: Robert Ferguson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Iraq
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Iraq
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
Ninevah and Its Ruins, Or, The History of the Great City
Author: Robert Ferguson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nineveh (Extinct city)
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nineveh (Extinct city)
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
Wesley's Adventures; "Who Runs Faster?" Stories;
Author: Dale M. Walsh
Publisher: Covenant Books, Inc.
ISBN: 1640035176
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 37
Book Description
Wesley loves to run. He considers himself the fastest thing on four feetaEUR"well, almost. Three Wesley's Adventures stories are selected, each about running fast and who runs faster. In the aEURoeWesley's Marvelous NoseaEUR story, Wesley, during a hike with Granddad, smells the scent of a rabbit ahead on the trail. As Wesley comes nearer sniffing the ground, Mr. Rabbit runs for his life. Wesley gives chase, slowly gaining on the exhausted rabbit. Mr. Rabbit tries to hide and rest. But Wesley's marvelous nose leads him to the hiding place, and the race continues. In the aEURoeWesley and the Roadrunner RacesaEUR story, a small voice brashly interrupts Wesley's nap challenging him to a footrace. This unusual challenger runs on two feet, not fouraEUR"thus begins a three-race series to see who runs faster. aEURoeOutrun by a dumb bird!aEUR Wesley mutters after the first race. The aEURoeWesley to the RescueaEUR story begins when an excited Mrs. Mockingbird brings news that an intruder is loose in Wesley's territory. Puzzled, Wesley rushes to investigate. What he discovers leads to a heart-thumping chase and a chilling confrontation fueled by ancient instincts that ends with. . . but that's for the story to tell.
Publisher: Covenant Books, Inc.
ISBN: 1640035176
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 37
Book Description
Wesley loves to run. He considers himself the fastest thing on four feetaEUR"well, almost. Three Wesley's Adventures stories are selected, each about running fast and who runs faster. In the aEURoeWesley's Marvelous NoseaEUR story, Wesley, during a hike with Granddad, smells the scent of a rabbit ahead on the trail. As Wesley comes nearer sniffing the ground, Mr. Rabbit runs for his life. Wesley gives chase, slowly gaining on the exhausted rabbit. Mr. Rabbit tries to hide and rest. But Wesley's marvelous nose leads him to the hiding place, and the race continues. In the aEURoeWesley and the Roadrunner RacesaEUR story, a small voice brashly interrupts Wesley's nap challenging him to a footrace. This unusual challenger runs on two feet, not fouraEUR"thus begins a three-race series to see who runs faster. aEURoeOutrun by a dumb bird!aEUR Wesley mutters after the first race. The aEURoeWesley to the RescueaEUR story begins when an excited Mrs. Mockingbird brings news that an intruder is loose in Wesley's territory. Puzzled, Wesley rushes to investigate. What he discovers leads to a heart-thumping chase and a chilling confrontation fueled by ancient instincts that ends with. . . but that's for the story to tell.