Author: Richard Warner
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Languages : en
Pages : 260

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Author: Rick Moody
Publisher: Little, Brown
ISBN: 0316088900
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 696

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Montese Crandall is a downtrodden writer whose rare collection of baseball cards won't sustain him, financially or emotionally, through the grave illness of his wife. Luckily, he swindles himself a job churning out a novelization of the 2025 remake of a 1963 horror classic, The Crawling Hand. Crandall tells therein of the United States, in a bid to regain global eminence, launching at last its doomed manned mission to the desolation of Mars. Three space pods with nine Americans on board travel three months, expecting to spend three years as the planet's first colonists. When a secret mission to retrieve a flesh-eating bacterium for use in bio-warfare is uncovered, mayhem ensues. Only a lonely human arm (missing its middle finger) returns to earth, crash-landing in the vast Sonoran Desert of Arizona. The arm may hold the secret to reanimation or it may simply be an infectious killing machine. In the ensuing days, it crawls through the heartbroken wasteland of a civilization at its breaking point, economically and culturally -- a dystopia of lowlife, emigration from America, and laughable lifestyle alternatives. The Four Fingers of Death is a stunningly inventive, sometimes hilarious, monumental novel. It will delight admirers of comic masterpieces like Slaughterhouse-Five, The Crying of Lot 49, and Catch-22.

Author: Eneas Sweetland Dallas
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Category : General
Languages : en
Pages : 580

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Author: Ida L. White
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Languages : en
Pages : 224

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Languages : en
Pages : 122

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Languages : en
Pages : 90

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Category : Commerce
Languages : en
Pages : 780

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Pages : 36

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Author: Richard Warner
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Languages : en
Pages : 516

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Author: Philip Gooden
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0802718264
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 244

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"Have you ever been embarassed by the bons mots that some people toss casually into conversation, or wished that you had a clever retort?" "Faux Pas offers insight into hundreds of these phrases that readers will (or might not) want to use in writing or conversation once they know their correct meanings and usage. Entries include both familiar terms and phrases that are new, curious, or even just amusing. Each expression is "translated" and denotes the language of origin, pronunciation, and usefulness. A Pretentiousness Index is included for many expressions to assist you in avoiding inappropriate usage." Whether you are a linguaphile or a professional wordsmith, or just want to impress your friends with a few well-chosen apercus, Philip Gooden's guide can rescue you from potential language land mines and help you to maintain your sangfroid. Full of examples drawn from everyday contexts, Faux Pas will make sure that you don't upset any honchos with your chutzpah.