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Category : Floods
Languages : en
Pages : 68
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Souvenir Views of Saginaw's Greatest Flood
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Category : Floods
Languages : en
Pages : 68
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Category : Floods
Languages : en
Pages : 68
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The Souvenir Museum
Author: Elizabeth McCracken
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1473594731
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 181
Book Description
'One of my favourite writers' Nick Hornby One of the most acclaimed writers of our day, award-winning author Elizabeth McCracken is an undisputed virtuoso of the short story, and this new collection features her most vibrant and heartrending work to date. A recent widower and his adult son ferry to a craggy Scottish island in search of puffins. An actress who plays a children's game-show villainess ushers in the New Year with her deadbeat half-brother. And on a trip to a water park with their son, two fathers each confront a deep-rooted personal fear. With sentences that crackle and spark and showcase her trademark wit, McCracken shows how the mysterious bonds of family are tested, transformed, fractured, and fortified. 'McCracken has a gift for spotting the comic potential in situations many of us have endured... Her prose is stippled with just-so observations' Observer 'McCracken is a totally assured performer: even seemingly throwaway perceptions are often memorably poetic, and there is a hint of melancholy under the comedy' Sunday Times 'This incisive, warm-blooded collection of stories is populated by outsiders... McCracken illuminates qualities of human nature through fragments of her characters' lives' New Yorker
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1473594731
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 181
Book Description
'One of my favourite writers' Nick Hornby One of the most acclaimed writers of our day, award-winning author Elizabeth McCracken is an undisputed virtuoso of the short story, and this new collection features her most vibrant and heartrending work to date. A recent widower and his adult son ferry to a craggy Scottish island in search of puffins. An actress who plays a children's game-show villainess ushers in the New Year with her deadbeat half-brother. And on a trip to a water park with their son, two fathers each confront a deep-rooted personal fear. With sentences that crackle and spark and showcase her trademark wit, McCracken shows how the mysterious bonds of family are tested, transformed, fractured, and fortified. 'McCracken has a gift for spotting the comic potential in situations many of us have endured... Her prose is stippled with just-so observations' Observer 'McCracken is a totally assured performer: even seemingly throwaway perceptions are often memorably poetic, and there is a hint of melancholy under the comedy' Sunday Times 'This incisive, warm-blooded collection of stories is populated by outsiders... McCracken illuminates qualities of human nature through fragments of her characters' lives' New Yorker
A Postcard View of Hell: One Doughboy’s Souvenir Album of the First World War
Author: Frank Jacob
Publisher: Vernon Press
ISBN: 1622735951
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
For many the postcard may seem trivial, little more than a mundane souvenir or a way to keep in touch with friends and relatives while on vacation. But if we look carefully, postcards offer valuable insights into the time periods in which they were created and the mentalities of those who bought or sent them. Frank Marhefka, while serving in the U.S. Army Motor Transportation Corps during the First World War, amassed a collection of more than 150 postcards and photographs while in France, and bound them into a souvenir album. Marhefka's collection provides a diverse and vivid look into a period of history that - in many soldiers' accounts - is not usually visualized with all its cruelties. Emphasizing the pictorial turn of the Great War, this album offers personal insight into a conflict that caused so much death and destruction. The book begins with an introduction providing a history of postcards and their extensive use by soldiers during the Great War. Then, after a biography of Marhefka, his postcard collection is presented in its entirety. Accompanying the images are brief texts that place them into historical context, as well as suggestions for further reading.As a visual artifact of the First World War and the perspective of one U.S. soldier, this book is aimed at students, scholars, postcard collectors, and general readers alike who have an interest in military history and popular culture.
Publisher: Vernon Press
ISBN: 1622735951
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
For many the postcard may seem trivial, little more than a mundane souvenir or a way to keep in touch with friends and relatives while on vacation. But if we look carefully, postcards offer valuable insights into the time periods in which they were created and the mentalities of those who bought or sent them. Frank Marhefka, while serving in the U.S. Army Motor Transportation Corps during the First World War, amassed a collection of more than 150 postcards and photographs while in France, and bound them into a souvenir album. Marhefka's collection provides a diverse and vivid look into a period of history that - in many soldiers' accounts - is not usually visualized with all its cruelties. Emphasizing the pictorial turn of the Great War, this album offers personal insight into a conflict that caused so much death and destruction. The book begins with an introduction providing a history of postcards and their extensive use by soldiers during the Great War. Then, after a biography of Marhefka, his postcard collection is presented in its entirety. Accompanying the images are brief texts that place them into historical context, as well as suggestions for further reading.As a visual artifact of the First World War and the perspective of one U.S. soldier, this book is aimed at students, scholars, postcard collectors, and general readers alike who have an interest in military history and popular culture.
Dictionary Catalogue of the Illinois State Library
Author: Illinois State Library
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Category : Catalogs, Dictionary
Languages : en
Pages : 814
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Category : Catalogs, Dictionary
Languages : en
Pages : 814
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The St. Louis and Canadian Photographer
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Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 798
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Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 798
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The Inland Printer
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Category : American periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 1182
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Category : American periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 1182
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Inland Printer, American Lithographer
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Category : Lithography
Languages : en
Pages : 1210
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Category : Lithography
Languages : en
Pages : 1210
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Quarterly Statement of Imported Merchandise Entered for Consumption in the United States and Duties Collected Thereon
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Languages : en
Pages : 258
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Languages : en
Pages : 258
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Catalogue of Copyright Entries
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1478
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1478
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Catalog of Copyright Entries. Part 1. [B] Group 2. Pamphlets, Etc. New Series
Author: Library of Congress. Copyright Office
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Languages : en
Pages : 632
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Languages : en
Pages : 632
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