The Javier Plays

The Javier Plays PDF Author: Carlos Murillo
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780989739344
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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The Javier Plays collects three plays by Chicago-based playwright Carlos Murillo.

The Javier Plays

The Javier Plays PDF Author: Carlos Murillo
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780989739344
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Book Description
The Javier Plays collects three plays by Chicago-based playwright Carlos Murillo.

Dark Play Or Stories for Boys

Dark Play Or Stories for Boys PDF Author: Carlos Murillo
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc
ISBN: 9780822222828
Category : Online identities
Languages : en
Pages : 100

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THE STORY: During a college sexual encounter, the girl in Nick's bed wants to know why his abdomen is covered in scars. Does Nick tell the truth, or does he do what he does so well--weave an elaborate tale? The question launches him into a memory. A

Aphasia

Aphasia PDF Author: Mauro Javier Cárdenas
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 0374719098
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 147

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Mauro Javier Cárdenas, the critically-acclaimed author of The Revolutionaries Try Again—“an original, insubordinate novel” (New York Times)—pens a profound story of literature about a man coming to terms with his dysfunctional Colombian family, as well as his own behavior, as an immigrant in America. Antonio wants to avoid thinking about his sister—even though he knows he won’t be able to avoid thinking about his sister—because his sister is on the run after allegedly threatening to shoot her neighbors, and has been claiming that Antonio, Obama, the Pentagon, and their mother are all conspiring against her. Nevertheless, Antonio is going to try his best to be as avoidant as possible, because he worries that what’s been happening to his sister might somehow infect his relatively contented, ordered American life, and destabilize the precarious arrangement with his ex-wife that’s allowed him to stay close to his two daughters. In fact, he’s busy doing everything except facing his problems head-on: transcribing recordings of his mother speaking about their troubled life in Colombia, transcribing recordings of his ex-wife speaking about her idyllic life in the Czech Republic; writing about former girlfriends whose words and deeds still recur in his mind; rereading stories by American writers that allow him to skirt the subject of his sister’s state of mind without completely destroying his own. Written in long, unravelling sentences that accommodate all the detritus of thought—scenes real and imagined, headphones and heartache, Toblerones and Thomas Bernhard—Aphasia captures the immensity of the present moment as well as the pain of the past. It cements Mauro Javier Cárdenas’s place as one of the most innovative and extraordinary novelists working today.

The Revolutionaries Try Again

The Revolutionaries Try Again PDF Author: Mauro Javier Cardenas
Publisher: Coffee House Press
ISBN: 1566894476
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 290

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Extravagant, absurd, and self-aware, The Revolutionaries Try Again plays out against the lost decade of Ecuador's austerity and the stymied idealism of three childhood friends—an expat, a bureaucrat, and a playwright—who are as sure about the evils of dictatorship as they are unsure of everything else, including each other. Everyone thinks they're the chosen ones, Masha wrote on Antonio's manuscript. See About Schmidt with Jack Nicholson. Then she quoted from Hope Against Hope by Nadezhda Mandelstam, because she was sure Antonio hadn't read her yet: Can a man really be held accountable for his own actions? His behavior, even his character, is always in the merciless grip of the age, which squeezes out of him the drop of good or evil that it needs from him. In San Francisco, besides the accumulation of wealth, what does the age ask of your so called protagonist? No wonder he never returns to Ecuador. Mauro Javier Cardenas grew up in Guayaquil, Ecuador, and graduated with a degree in Economics from Stanford University. Excerpts from his first novel, The Revolutionaries Try Again, have appeared in Conjunctions, the Antioch Review, Guernica, Witness, and BOMB. His interviews and essays on/with László Krasznahorkai, Javier Marias, Horacio Castellanos Moya, Juan Villoro, and Antonio Lobo Antunes have appeared in Music & Literature, San Francisco Chronicle, BOMB, and the Quarterly Conversation.

Patients of the State

Patients of the State PDF Author: Javier Auyero
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822352338
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 211

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Describes the power that can be imposed, and the misery that is caused, especially for the poor, by the simple act of waiting. This title also describes a variety of different situations, including waiting for national identity cards, for welfare agencies, and the endless waiting for relocation from the slums.

A Heart So White

A Heart So White PDF Author: Javier Marías
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811214520
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 300

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Book Description
Newly married Juan Ranz digs into his family's troubled past beginning with the suicide of his father's first wife, Juan's aunt, and finds parallels in his relationships marked by miscommunication and the need for human contact.

Theatre History Studies 2017, Vol. 36

Theatre History Studies 2017, Vol. 36 PDF Author: Sara Freeman
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
ISBN: 0817371117
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 371

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Book Description
Theatre History Studies is a peer-reviewed journal of theatre history and scholarship published annually since 1981 by the Mid-American Theatre Conference (MATC), a regional body devoted to theatre scholarship and practice.

Your Face Tomorrow

Your Face Tomorrow PDF Author: Javier Marías
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811217279
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 400

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Book Description
A daring masterwork by Javier Marias: "Spain's most subtle and gifted writer." (The Boston Globe)

The Infatuations

The Infatuations PDF Author: Javier Marías
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307960730
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 353

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INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE FINALIST • From the award-winning, internationally bestselling Spanish author of A Heart So White comes an immersive, provocative novel propelled by a seemingly random murder. "Sometimes startling, sometimes hilarious, and always intelligent ... Marías [has] a penetrating empathy."—The New York Times Book Review Each day before work María Dolz stops at the same café. There she finds herself drawn to a couple who is also there every morning. Observing their seemingly perfect life helps her escape the listlessness of her own. But when the man is brutally murdered and María approaches the widow to offer her condolences, what began as mere observation turns into an increasingly complicated entanglement. Invited into the widow's home, she meets—and falls in love with—a man who sheds disturbing new light on the crime. As María recounts this story, we are given a murder mystery brilliantly encased in a metaphysical enquiry, a novel that grapples with questions of love and death, chance and coincidence, and above all, with the slippery essence of the truth and how it is told.

Horse Play

Horse Play PDF Author: Jo Carnegie
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1409011941
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 612

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If you like Jilly Cooper, you will love this naughty, funny and deliciously addictive read from much loved author, Jo Carnegie. 'Funny, saucy escapism' -- Heat 'Sexy, sassy and scandalous' Glamour 'The sort of book you lose yourself in' -- ***** Reader review 'Total escapism and very, very funny' -- ***** Reader review 'Absolutely loved it' -- ***** Reader review 'A fantastic read' -- ***** Reader review ****************************************************************************************************** ANYTHING CAN HAPPEN IN THE COUNTRY...SO BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR! Churchminster village - picturesque, quaint, sleepy - OR NOT... A place where women know exactly what they want, and it's not cream tea with the vicar. And a place where the men had better behave . . . because the ladies won't take it lying down (well, not unless they want to!)