Author: Alex Taylor
Publisher: Sarabande Books
ISBN: 1932511806
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
Like a room soaked in the scent of whiskey, perfume, and sweat, Alex Taylor's America is at once intoxicating, vulnerable, and full of brawn. The stories in The Name of the Nearest River reveal the hidden dangers in the coyote-infested fields, riverbeds, and abandoned logging trails of Kentucky. There we find tactile, misbegotten characters, desperate for the solace found in love, revenge, or just enough coal to keep an elderly woman's stove burning a few more nights. Echoing Flannery O'Connor and William Faulkner, Taylor manages fervor as well as humor in these dusky, shotgun plots, where, in one story, a man spends seven days in a johnboat with his fiddle and a Polaroid camera, determined to enact vengeance on the water-logged body of a used car salesman; and in another, a demolition derby enthusiast nicknamed "Wife" watches his two wild, burning love interests duke it out, only to determine he would rather be left alone entirely. Together, these stories present a resonant debut collection from an unexpected new voice in southern fiction. Book jacket.
The Name of the Nearest River
Author: Alex Taylor
Publisher: Sarabande Books
ISBN: 1932511806
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
Like a room soaked in the scent of whiskey, perfume, and sweat, Alex Taylor's America is at once intoxicating, vulnerable, and full of brawn. The stories in The Name of the Nearest River reveal the hidden dangers in the coyote-infested fields, riverbeds, and abandoned logging trails of Kentucky. There we find tactile, misbegotten characters, desperate for the solace found in love, revenge, or just enough coal to keep an elderly woman's stove burning a few more nights. Echoing Flannery O'Connor and William Faulkner, Taylor manages fervor as well as humor in these dusky, shotgun plots, where, in one story, a man spends seven days in a johnboat with his fiddle and a Polaroid camera, determined to enact vengeance on the water-logged body of a used car salesman; and in another, a demolition derby enthusiast nicknamed "Wife" watches his two wild, burning love interests duke it out, only to determine he would rather be left alone entirely. Together, these stories present a resonant debut collection from an unexpected new voice in southern fiction. Book jacket.
Publisher: Sarabande Books
ISBN: 1932511806
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
Like a room soaked in the scent of whiskey, perfume, and sweat, Alex Taylor's America is at once intoxicating, vulnerable, and full of brawn. The stories in The Name of the Nearest River reveal the hidden dangers in the coyote-infested fields, riverbeds, and abandoned logging trails of Kentucky. There we find tactile, misbegotten characters, desperate for the solace found in love, revenge, or just enough coal to keep an elderly woman's stove burning a few more nights. Echoing Flannery O'Connor and William Faulkner, Taylor manages fervor as well as humor in these dusky, shotgun plots, where, in one story, a man spends seven days in a johnboat with his fiddle and a Polaroid camera, determined to enact vengeance on the water-logged body of a used car salesman; and in another, a demolition derby enthusiast nicknamed "Wife" watches his two wild, burning love interests duke it out, only to determine he would rather be left alone entirely. Together, these stories present a resonant debut collection from an unexpected new voice in southern fiction. Book jacket.
The Geographical Magazine
Author: Sir Clements Robert Markham
Publisher:
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Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
The Story of My Mission Among the Native Tribes of South Eastern Africa
Author: William Shaw
Publisher:
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Category : Butterworth Mission Station
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Butterworth Mission Station
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
The Latin Dialect of the Ager Faliscus
Author: Gabriƫl C. L. M. Bakkum
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
ISBN: 9056295624
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 742
Book Description
Annotation. Although the Ager Faliscus lay between the areas where Etruscan, Latin and Sabellic languages were spoken, the inscriptions from the area from before c.150 bce show that it used a speech of its own, known as Faliscan. Most scholars agree that Faliscan is linguistically very close to Latin, but the hypothesis that it is in fact a Latin dialect has not been the subject of a major publication until now. In this work, the linguistic data on Faliscan provided by the inscriptions are analyzed and compared to the languages of the surrounding areas. Sociolinguistic aspects such as language contact and local identity are discussed as well. The main conclusion is that Faliscan can indeed be regarded as a dialect of Latin. The work includes a re-edition of all inscriptions, in many cases based on autopsy. This title can be previewed in Google Books - http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN9789056295622.
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
ISBN: 9056295624
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 742
Book Description
Annotation. Although the Ager Faliscus lay between the areas where Etruscan, Latin and Sabellic languages were spoken, the inscriptions from the area from before c.150 bce show that it used a speech of its own, known as Faliscan. Most scholars agree that Faliscan is linguistically very close to Latin, but the hypothesis that it is in fact a Latin dialect has not been the subject of a major publication until now. In this work, the linguistic data on Faliscan provided by the inscriptions are analyzed and compared to the languages of the surrounding areas. Sociolinguistic aspects such as language contact and local identity are discussed as well. The main conclusion is that Faliscan can indeed be regarded as a dialect of Latin. The work includes a re-edition of all inscriptions, in many cases based on autopsy. This title can be previewed in Google Books - http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN9789056295622.
Lando
Author: Paul Scott Williams
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780738552682
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
Photographs from a Chester County mill town.
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780738552682
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
Photographs from a Chester County mill town.
Bulletin of the Bureau of Fisheries
Author:
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Category : Fish-culture
Languages : en
Pages : 680
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Fish-culture
Languages : en
Pages : 680
Book Description
Rivers and Harbors Omnibus Bill (Title I--H.R. 9859).
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works
Publisher:
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Category : Beach erosion
Languages : en
Pages : 1168
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Beach erosion
Languages : en
Pages : 1168
Book Description
Various River and Harbor Bills and St. Lawrence Seaway Deicing
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works. Subcommittee on Rivers and Harbors
Publisher:
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Category : Dams
Languages : en
Pages : 54
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Dams
Languages : en
Pages : 54
Book Description
A Classical Dictionary
Author: Charles Anthon
Publisher:
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Category : Classical dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 664
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classical dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 664
Book Description
Geological Survey Water-supply Paper
Author:
Publisher:
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Category : Irrigation
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Irrigation
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description