Sydney Bridge Upside Down: Text Classics

Sydney Bridge Upside Down: Text Classics PDF Author: David Ballantyne
Publisher: Text Publishing
ISBN: 1921961007
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 296

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A great, untamed story about childhood, a summer holiday and a sinister tragedy that looms over everything.

Sydney Bridge Upside Down: Text Classics

Sydney Bridge Upside Down: Text Classics PDF Author: David Ballantyne
Publisher: Text Publishing
ISBN: 1921961007
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 296

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A great, untamed story about childhood, a summer holiday and a sinister tragedy that looms over everything.

Sydney Bridge Upside Down

Sydney Bridge Upside Down PDF Author: David Ballantyne
Publisher:
ISBN: 9783423144230
Category :
Languages : de
Pages : 336

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Sydney Bridge Upside Down

Sydney Bridge Upside Down PDF Author: David Ballantyne
Publisher:
ISBN: 9783455810530
Category :
Languages : de
Pages : 0

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The Body in the Clouds

The Body in the Clouds PDF Author: Ashley Hay
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1501165119
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 320

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Originally published: Australia: Allen & Unwin, 2010.

Upside-Down Zen

Upside-Down Zen PDF Author: Susan Murphy
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 086171279X
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 298

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"Upside-Down Zen" invites readers to explore the vivid spirit of Zen Buddhism in fresh ways. Recalling, in another vein, the warm, lyrical style of Lin Jensen's "Bad Dog!, " author Susan Murphy offers a multifaceted take on the spiritual, grounded in the everyday. She uses her skills as storyteller, filmmaker, and poet to uncover the connections between Zen and Western cinema, as well as between Zen and traditions as diverse as Australian aboriginal beliefs and Jewish folktales. In the process, she finds spirituality where it has always belonged -- wherever life is happening. Murphy helps readers make sense of Zen koans, the often oversimplified and misunderstood teaching stories of the tradition, and highlights their wisdom for any reader on the spiritual path. A strong new voice in Western Buddhism, Murphy speaks for the many "unrecorded" women of Zen while bringing a lively, literate approach to a sometimes daunting genre.

Kate's Klassics

Kate's Klassics PDF Author: Kate Camp
Publisher: Penguin Global
ISBN: 9780143007524
Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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In Kate's Klassics, one of New Zealand's foremost poets, Kate Camp, gives an entertaining insight into 10 great literary classics. The book is based on a hugely popular Radio NZ show by the same name in which Kate Camp and Kim Hill attempt to answer some of the key questions of classic literature, like: Who was the most shaggable of Jane Austen's heroines? And Did Napoleon ever make it to Moscow? Each chapter begins with a synopsis of the work, and then Kate explores some of the central themes in her lively and entertaining style. This book is not just for classic literature buffs but also for anyone who wants to brush up on their knowledge of some of the great works of history and seem like an instant expert on everything from Jane Eyre, to War and Peace, to Moby Dick.

The New Zealand Collection

The New Zealand Collection PDF Author: Kevin Ireland
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 232

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"Where the Nightmares End and Real-Life Begins"

Author: Hamish Clayton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Discourse analysis, Narrative
Languages : en
Pages : 207

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The unreliable narrator is one of the most contested concepts in narrative theory. While critical debates have been heated, they have tended to foreground that the problem of the unreliable narrator is epistemological rather than ontological: it is agreed that narrators can be unreliable in their accounts, but not how the unreliable narrator ought to be defined, nor even how readers can be expected in all certainty to find a narration unreliable. As the wider critical discourse has looked to tighten its collective understanding of what constitutes unreliability and how readers understand and negotiate unreliable narration, previously divided views have begun to be reconciled on the understanding that, rather than deferring to either an implied author or reader, textual signals themselves might be better understood as the most fundamental markers of unreliability. Consequently, taxonomies of unreliable narration based on exacting textual evidence have been developed and are now widely held as indispensable. This thesis argues that while such taxonomies do indeed bring greater interpretive clarity to instances of unreliable narration, they also risk the assumption that with the right critical apparatus in place, even the most challenging unreliable narrators can, in the end, be reliably read. Countering the assumption are rare but telling examples of narrators whose reliability the reader might have reason to suspect, but whose unreliability cannot be reliably or precisely ascertained. With recourse to David Ballantyne's Sydney Bridge Upside Down, this thesis proposes new terminological distinctions to account for instances of such radical unreliability: namely the 'unsecured narrator', whose account is therefore an 'insecure narration'. Ballantyne's novel, published in 1968, has not received sustained critical attention to date, though it has been acclaimed by a small number of influential critics and writers in Ballantyne's native New Zealand.

The Origin of Me

The Origin of Me PDF Author: Bernard Gallate
Publisher: Random House Australia
ISBN: 0143789635
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 400

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Lincoln Locke’s fifteen-year-old life is turned upside down when he’s thrust into bachelor-pad living with his father, after his parents’ marriage breaks up, and into an exclusive new school. Crestfield Academy offers Lincoln a new set of peers – the crème de la crème of gifted individuals, who also happen to be financially loaded – and a place on the swim relay team with a bunch of thugs in Speedos. Homunculus, the little voice inside his head, doesn’t make life any easier; nor does Lincoln’s growing awareness of a genetic anomaly that threatens to humiliate him at every turn. On a search for answers to big LIFE questions, he turns to the school library, where he spies a nineteenth-century memoir, My One Redeeming Affliction by Edwin Stroud, a one-time star of Melinkoff’s Astonishing Assembly of Freaks. As Lincoln slowly reads this peculiar, life-changing book, the past reaches into his present in fascinating and alarming ways. Ways that defy imagination . . . Audacious, funny and wonderfully inventive, The Origin of Me is a song to friendship, to young love, to the joy of imagination, and to celebrating differences.

Brooklyn Bridge

Brooklyn Bridge PDF Author: Karen Hesse
Publisher: Feiwel & Friends
ISBN: 1429918012
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 241

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Karen Hesse has achieved many honors for her more than twenty books over the course of her award-winning career: the Newbery Medal, the Scott O'Dell Historical Fiction Award, the MacArthur Fellowship "Genius" Award, and the Christopher Medal. Her novels burn with intensity, and keenly felt, deeply researched, and are memorable for their imagination and intelligence. So it is with great pride and excitement that we present Karen Hesse's first novel in over five years: Brooklyn Bridge. It's the summer of 1903 in Brooklyn and all fourteen-year-old Joseph Michtom wants is to experience the thrill, the grandeur, and the electricity of the new amusement park at Coney Island. But that doesn't seem likely. Ever since his parents—Russian immigrants—invented the stuffed Teddy Bear five months ago, Joseph's life has turned upside down. No longer do the Michtom's gather family and friends around the kitchen table to talk. No longer is Joseph at leisure to play stickball with the guys. Now, Joseph works. And complains. And falls in love. And argues with Mama and Papa. And falls out of love. And hopes. Joseph hopes he'll see Coney Island soon. He hopes that everything will turn right-side up again. He hopes his luck hasn't run out—because you never know. Through all the warmth, the sadness, the frustration, and the laughter of one big, colorful family, Newbery Medalist Karen Hesse builds a stunning story of the lucky, the unlucky, and those in between, and reminds us that our lives—all our lives—are fragile, precious, and connected. Brooklyn Bridge is a 2009 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year.