Author: Carter Coleman
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
ISBN: 0446532193
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Told in the alternating voices of Cage, Harper, and their parents, Cages Bend is the story of a family damaged by tragedy and unfulfilled dreams and renewed by the unshakable bonds of love. Cage, Nick, and Harper appear to be the archetypal sons of the ideal American family of the 1960s and 70s. The firstborn, Cage, is the golden boystar athlete and scholar, adventurous, handsome, and preternaturally popular; Nick is the quiet, late-blooming middle son; and Harper, 10 years younger, chases after his older siblings, trying not to be left out. With the tragic death of Nick in the 1980s, the breakdown of the family begins. Cages guilt triggers incipient mental illness and the next two decades find him swinging between mania and depression, between grim institutions and comebacks. Harper, who has achieved early success on Wall Street, is torn between wanting to help his brother and seeking escape from his ghosts in an endless stream of women.
Cage's Bend
Author: Carter Coleman
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
ISBN: 0446532193
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Told in the alternating voices of Cage, Harper, and their parents, Cages Bend is the story of a family damaged by tragedy and unfulfilled dreams and renewed by the unshakable bonds of love. Cage, Nick, and Harper appear to be the archetypal sons of the ideal American family of the 1960s and 70s. The firstborn, Cage, is the golden boystar athlete and scholar, adventurous, handsome, and preternaturally popular; Nick is the quiet, late-blooming middle son; and Harper, 10 years younger, chases after his older siblings, trying not to be left out. With the tragic death of Nick in the 1980s, the breakdown of the family begins. Cages guilt triggers incipient mental illness and the next two decades find him swinging between mania and depression, between grim institutions and comebacks. Harper, who has achieved early success on Wall Street, is torn between wanting to help his brother and seeking escape from his ghosts in an endless stream of women.
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
ISBN: 0446532193
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Told in the alternating voices of Cage, Harper, and their parents, Cages Bend is the story of a family damaged by tragedy and unfulfilled dreams and renewed by the unshakable bonds of love. Cage, Nick, and Harper appear to be the archetypal sons of the ideal American family of the 1960s and 70s. The firstborn, Cage, is the golden boystar athlete and scholar, adventurous, handsome, and preternaturally popular; Nick is the quiet, late-blooming middle son; and Harper, 10 years younger, chases after his older siblings, trying not to be left out. With the tragic death of Nick in the 1980s, the breakdown of the family begins. Cages guilt triggers incipient mental illness and the next two decades find him swinging between mania and depression, between grim institutions and comebacks. Harper, who has achieved early success on Wall Street, is torn between wanting to help his brother and seeking escape from his ghosts in an endless stream of women.
Longfellow's poetical works
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 696
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Languages : en
Pages : 696
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THE CHIEF AMERICAN POETS
Author: CURTIS HIDDEN PAGE, PH. D.
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Languages : en
Pages : 778
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Languages : en
Pages : 778
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Darke
Author: Angie Sage
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1408806282
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 658
Book Description
In the Darkely fantastic penultimate book of this internationally bestselling series, Septimus and his friends find themselves attempting the impossible as Septimus begins his initiation into the sinister Darke Week
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1408806282
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 658
Book Description
In the Darkely fantastic penultimate book of this internationally bestselling series, Septimus and his friends find themselves attempting the impossible as Septimus begins his initiation into the sinister Darke Week
Proceedings of the United States National Museum
Author: United States National Museum
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1002
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1002
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Pamphlets on Biology
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Languages : en
Pages : 446
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Languages : en
Pages : 446
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Cathexis: Desecrator's Sword
Author: Philip Blood
Publisher: Philip Blood
ISBN: 146606899X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
Publisher: Philip Blood
ISBN: 146606899X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
The Blue Bedspread
Author: Raj Kamal Jha
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 0307819345
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
A midnight phone call awakens a man to inform him that his sister has died in childbirth. He is told he must keep the orphaned baby girl overnight, until her new, adopting parents can collect her. Over the course of that hot night in Calcutta, the man hurriedly writes stories to the baby sleeping on a blue bedspread in the next room: stories of the family she was born into, stories of the mother she will never know. Painting half-remembered scenes, he flits between past and present, recounting tales of the shared childhood of a boy and his sister who muffled their fears in the blueness of that very same bedspread. As the hours pass, the man gradually divulges a layered and transfixing confession of the darkest of family secrets. Described by John Fowles as "remarkable, almost a coming-of-age of the Indian novel," this powerful, penetrating debut by a young New Delhi journalist has already been recognized as an international literary event. In prose that is breathtaking and precise, Raj Kamal Jha discovers the hidden violence and twisted eroticism of an exotic, overcrowded old city. Unlike the India captured in the exotic prose of Salman Rushdie and Arundhati Roy, Jha writes in a spare, straightforward style that has prompted comparisons to American realists like Raymond Carver and Don DeLillo. The Blue Bedspread is a searingly honest story about the love and hope that can survive in the midst of family violence. It is a first novel of extraordinary power and humanity.
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 0307819345
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
A midnight phone call awakens a man to inform him that his sister has died in childbirth. He is told he must keep the orphaned baby girl overnight, until her new, adopting parents can collect her. Over the course of that hot night in Calcutta, the man hurriedly writes stories to the baby sleeping on a blue bedspread in the next room: stories of the family she was born into, stories of the mother she will never know. Painting half-remembered scenes, he flits between past and present, recounting tales of the shared childhood of a boy and his sister who muffled their fears in the blueness of that very same bedspread. As the hours pass, the man gradually divulges a layered and transfixing confession of the darkest of family secrets. Described by John Fowles as "remarkable, almost a coming-of-age of the Indian novel," this powerful, penetrating debut by a young New Delhi journalist has already been recognized as an international literary event. In prose that is breathtaking and precise, Raj Kamal Jha discovers the hidden violence and twisted eroticism of an exotic, overcrowded old city. Unlike the India captured in the exotic prose of Salman Rushdie and Arundhati Roy, Jha writes in a spare, straightforward style that has prompted comparisons to American realists like Raymond Carver and Don DeLillo. The Blue Bedspread is a searingly honest story about the love and hope that can survive in the midst of family violence. It is a first novel of extraordinary power and humanity.
The King's Own
Author: Frederick Marryat
Publisher:
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Category : Seafaring life
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Seafaring life
Languages : en
Pages : 380
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The King's Own. By the Author of “Peter Simple” [i.e. Frederick Marryat], Etc
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Languages : en
Pages : 444
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Languages : en
Pages : 444
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