Author:
Publisher:
ISBN: 9788194586531
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 147
Book Description
The Lonesome Song
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN: 9788194586531
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 147
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9788194586531
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 147
Book Description
Singin' a Lonesome Song
Author: Gary Brown
Publisher: Taylor Trade Publishing
ISBN: 1461625629
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Texas convicts and inmates have made the Texas prison system the most colorful in the world over the past 150 years. T
Publisher: Taylor Trade Publishing
ISBN: 1461625629
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Texas convicts and inmates have made the Texas prison system the most colorful in the world over the past 150 years. T
Lonesome Song
Author: Elliott Light
Publisher: Bancroft Press
ISBN: 9781890862152
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
Reilly Heartwood, a famous country singer, is dead. His sister doesn't recognise the body. The local reverend has refused to bury him. The funeral home director plans on exhibiting Reilly -- and charging admission -- to his adoring fans from all over the country. The people of Lyle detest Reilly -- holding him responsible for unmade fortunes and lost investments. His death, to the concern of no one other than his sister, is ruled a suicide. Shep, 32-year-old divorced and disbarred lawyer, arrives to attend the funeral of the now deceased Reilly Heartwood, and finds all of this too puzzling, especially the part about Reilly killing himself. Shep is compelled to ask a few questions, then a few more. Before he knows it, he's drawn into a complicated web of grudges, half-truths, and misplaced good intentions that only a small town could weave. As he reconstructs the final destructive minutes of Reilly's life, Shep ultimately learns the startling truth about his mother, Reilly, and himself. Shep is surrounded by a cast of characters--Doc Adams, the Reverend Billy, the four residents of the local poor farm (Jamie, Carrie, Harry, and Cecil) and Rose Abernathy to name a few. And Shep's life is complicated when he meets Cali McBride, a reporter in need of a story. Besides the death of Reilly Heartwood, there are several old mysteries to unravel. Why does the town hate Reilly? What is the connection between Reilly and someone named C.C. Hollinger (the name under which Reilly recorded most of his music)? What is the old feud between Shep's mother and Rose about? And what had Reilly planned for the poor farm? Shep, the book's main character and its likeable narrator, comes easily to his new role of amateur sleuth. Because of his own recent experience, he's deeply distrustful of authority, having just spent three years in prison for a white collar crime he didn't commit. Yet, in digging out the particulars of Reilly's demise, he is neither bitter nor uncaring, and the book manages adroitly to be an engaging who-dunnit set in a small town. Woven into the story line are universal themes -- classic injustice, unrequited love, and consequences of an unforgiving heart.
Publisher: Bancroft Press
ISBN: 9781890862152
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
Reilly Heartwood, a famous country singer, is dead. His sister doesn't recognise the body. The local reverend has refused to bury him. The funeral home director plans on exhibiting Reilly -- and charging admission -- to his adoring fans from all over the country. The people of Lyle detest Reilly -- holding him responsible for unmade fortunes and lost investments. His death, to the concern of no one other than his sister, is ruled a suicide. Shep, 32-year-old divorced and disbarred lawyer, arrives to attend the funeral of the now deceased Reilly Heartwood, and finds all of this too puzzling, especially the part about Reilly killing himself. Shep is compelled to ask a few questions, then a few more. Before he knows it, he's drawn into a complicated web of grudges, half-truths, and misplaced good intentions that only a small town could weave. As he reconstructs the final destructive minutes of Reilly's life, Shep ultimately learns the startling truth about his mother, Reilly, and himself. Shep is surrounded by a cast of characters--Doc Adams, the Reverend Billy, the four residents of the local poor farm (Jamie, Carrie, Harry, and Cecil) and Rose Abernathy to name a few. And Shep's life is complicated when he meets Cali McBride, a reporter in need of a story. Besides the death of Reilly Heartwood, there are several old mysteries to unravel. Why does the town hate Reilly? What is the connection between Reilly and someone named C.C. Hollinger (the name under which Reilly recorded most of his music)? What is the old feud between Shep's mother and Rose about? And what had Reilly planned for the poor farm? Shep, the book's main character and its likeable narrator, comes easily to his new role of amateur sleuth. Because of his own recent experience, he's deeply distrustful of authority, having just spent three years in prison for a white collar crime he didn't commit. Yet, in digging out the particulars of Reilly's demise, he is neither bitter nor uncaring, and the book manages adroitly to be an engaging who-dunnit set in a small town. Woven into the story line are universal themes -- classic injustice, unrequited love, and consequences of an unforgiving heart.
American Mountain Songs
Author: Sigmund Spaeth
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Appalachians (People)
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Appalachians (People)
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
American Mountain Songs
Author: Ethel Park Richardson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Appalachians (People)
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Appalachians (People)
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Malian's Song
Author: Margaret M. Bruchac
Publisher: august house
ISBN: 9780916718268
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Presents the Abenaki perspective on the English attack of October 4, 1759 in which the Abenaki village was burned down by the raid carried out by Robert Rogers.
Publisher: august house
ISBN: 9780916718268
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Presents the Abenaki perspective on the English attack of October 4, 1759 in which the Abenaki village was burned down by the raid carried out by Robert Rogers.
Lonesome Words
Author: M. McGeachy
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137117656
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
The tenth-century Old English lament and twentieth-century blues song each speak the language of a distinct poetic tradition, yet the voices are remarkably similar in their emotive expression of loneliness. This innovative study juxtaposes the texts of each corpus to explore the features that characterize their vocal poetics
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137117656
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
The tenth-century Old English lament and twentieth-century blues song each speak the language of a distinct poetic tradition, yet the voices are remarkably similar in their emotive expression of loneliness. This innovative study juxtaposes the texts of each corpus to explore the features that characterize their vocal poetics
Lonesome
Author: Kevin Lewis
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 0857714473
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
'There is another loneliness', wrote the American poet Emily Dickinson: 'Not want of friend occasions it, but nature sometimes, sometimes thought'. For Kevin Lewis, that 'other loneliness' is uniquely expressive of a rich and resonant state of being that is distinctive to the American psyche as well as central to the mythology of America itself. He calls this state of being 'lonesomeness'. It evokes the luminous landscapes of the West and the cathedral-like space of the Great Plains. It lies at the root of personal identity and is inseparable from notions of personal discovery and of communion with the varied topography of the United States, whether it be rural hinterland or industrial urban rustbelt.In this continuously stimulating reflection, Kevin Lewis explores - in religion, poetry, fiction, country songwriting and art - the multiple meanings of that peculiarly American notion of solitariness. Discussing quintessential American writers like Henry David Thoreau, Walt Whitman, Jack Kerouac and Ernest Hemingway - creative artists who have all embraced positive conceptions of solitude and wilderness - Lewis finds the apex of American lonesomeness in the melancholic and reflective paintings of Edward Hopper. Lewis argues that in expressive works like "Nighthawks" and "Morning Sun" one sees Hopper's solitude redeemed by 'something more': by the notion that in isolation the individual may yet be touched by transcendence. Kevin Lewis argues that those echoes of 'something else' reveal a great deal about the American character that we would do well to heed, as well as deep rooted cultural attitudes towards religion, individualism and self-belief.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 0857714473
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
'There is another loneliness', wrote the American poet Emily Dickinson: 'Not want of friend occasions it, but nature sometimes, sometimes thought'. For Kevin Lewis, that 'other loneliness' is uniquely expressive of a rich and resonant state of being that is distinctive to the American psyche as well as central to the mythology of America itself. He calls this state of being 'lonesomeness'. It evokes the luminous landscapes of the West and the cathedral-like space of the Great Plains. It lies at the root of personal identity and is inseparable from notions of personal discovery and of communion with the varied topography of the United States, whether it be rural hinterland or industrial urban rustbelt.In this continuously stimulating reflection, Kevin Lewis explores - in religion, poetry, fiction, country songwriting and art - the multiple meanings of that peculiarly American notion of solitariness. Discussing quintessential American writers like Henry David Thoreau, Walt Whitman, Jack Kerouac and Ernest Hemingway - creative artists who have all embraced positive conceptions of solitude and wilderness - Lewis finds the apex of American lonesomeness in the melancholic and reflective paintings of Edward Hopper. Lewis argues that in expressive works like "Nighthawks" and "Morning Sun" one sees Hopper's solitude redeemed by 'something more': by the notion that in isolation the individual may yet be touched by transcendence. Kevin Lewis argues that those echoes of 'something else' reveal a great deal about the American character that we would do well to heed, as well as deep rooted cultural attitudes towards religion, individualism and self-belief.
Negro Workaday Songs
Author: Howard Washington Odum
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Catalog of Copyright Entries
Author: Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Copyright
Languages : en
Pages : 1118
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Copyright
Languages : en
Pages : 1118
Book Description