Author: Geoff W Hampton
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1469174022
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 107
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This is a true story that took place in Austin, Texas, in the eighties and early nineties. It is about an average man that ended up living the life that every male has had dreams about. The story has the romance that women spend their lives looking for. It is full of sex, romance, and broken hearts. This is about a man that became a gigolo, some of the women he met, and some surprises that happened along the way. Over the eight years of his career as a gigolo, he achieved way more than he could ever dream possible.
Author: Timothy Harris
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780440002185
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 228
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American gigolo Julian Kay speaks five or six languages, and is equally comfortable as a chauffeur for a wealthy middle-aged matron, and as a translator/companion for the lonely wife of an executive. But Julian's love-for-sale lifestyle turns deadly when a husband of a client is murdered and Julian becomes the prime suspect.
Author: Bret Easton Ellis
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0525656316
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 273
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Own it, snowflakes: you've lost everything you claim to hold dear. White is Bret Easton Ellis's first work of nonfiction. Already the bad boy of American literature, from Less Than Zero to American Psycho, Ellis has also earned the wrath of right-thinking people everywhere with his provocations on social media, and here he escalates his admonishment of received truths as expressed by today's version of "the left." Eschewing convention, he embraces views that will make many in literary and media communities cringe, as he takes aim at the relentless anti-Trump fixation, coastal elites, corporate censorship, Hollywood, identity politics, Generation Wuss, "woke" cultural watchdogs, the obfuscation of ideals once both cherished and clear, and the fugue state of American democracy. In a young century marked by hysterical correctness and obsessive fervency on both sides of an aisle that's taken on the scale of the Grand Canyon, White is a clarion call for freedom of speech and artistic freedom. "The central tension in Ellis's art—or his life, for that matter—is that while [his] aesthetic is the cool reserve of his native California, detachment over ideology, he can't stop generating heat.... He's hard-wired to break furniture."—Karen Heller, The Washington Post "Sweating with rage . . . humming with paranoia."—Anna Leszkiewicz, The Guardian "Snowflakes on both coasts in withdrawal from Rachel Maddow's nightly Kremlinology lesson can purchase a whole book to inspire paroxysms of rage . . . a veritable thirst trap for the easily microaggressed. It's all here. Rants about Trump derangement syndrome; MSNBC; #MeToo; safe spaces."—Bari Weiss, The New York Times
Author: Aaron Freundschuh
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 1503600971
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 267
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The intrigue began with a triple homicide in a luxury apartment building just steps from the Champs-Elyseés, in March 1887. A high-class prostitute and two others, one of them a child, had been stabbed to death—the latest in a string of unsolved murders targeting women of the Parisian demimonde. Newspapers eagerly reported the lurid details, and when the police arrested Enrico Pranzini, a charismatic and handsome Egyptian migrant, the story became an international sensation. As the case descended into scandal and papers fanned the flames of anti-immigrant politics, the investigation became thoroughly enmeshed with the crisis-driven political climate of the French Third Republic and the rise of xenophobic right-wing movements. Aaron Freundschuh's account of the "Pranzini Affair" recreates not just the intricacies of the investigation and the raucous courtroom trial, but also the jockeying for status among rival players—reporters, police detectives, doctors, and magistrates—who all stood to gain professional advantage and prestige. Freundschuh deftly weaves together the sensational details of the case with the social and political undercurrents of the time, arguing that the racially charged portrayal of Pranzini reflects a mounting anxiety about the colonial "Other" within France's own borders. Pranzini's case provides a window into a transformational decade for the history of immigration, nationalism, and empire in France.
Author: Dwayne S. Joseph
Publisher: Kensington Books
ISBN: 9781601620491
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 324
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Three notorious players--Carter, a gigolo who has found the perfect woman; Vernon, who is having an affair with his wife's best friend; and Rick, who wants to make it out of the game--must make some tough choices when they discover that love is more important than sex. Reprint.
Author: George Kouvaros
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252075080
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 186
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A searing study of an important American writer-director
Author: Linda Lappin
Publisher: PBS Publications
ISBN: 1545722315
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 238
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The search for the soul of place is one of my passions as traveler, writer, and writing teacher. My work is often inspired by places: islands, ruins, old houses and buildings, and the atmospheres found there. For several years, I have been researching the "genius loci," the spirit or soul of place. The Romans and the Etruscans believed that every place--every mountain, field, body of water--had an indwelling spirit or soul, which was beneficial or harmful to human activity. And every house and household was believed to have a tutelary spirit. The soul of place was a force which shaped the character and atmosphere of a place and at the same time, an entity with which human beings were constantly interacting and communicating. This idea has stimulated me for a long time, and it has greatly influenced my writing.
Author: Blair Underwood
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0743287320
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 339
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Struggling to hold on to his career while endeavoring to redeem a scandalous past that estranged him from his family, actor Tennyson Hardwick finds himself accused of murder in the aftermath of his strict LAPD captain father's stroke. Reprint.
Author: David Thomson
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 1101971029
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 370
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In this wholly original work of film criticism, David Thomson, celebrated author of The Biographical Dictionary of Film, probes the many ways in which sexuality has shaped the movies—and the ways in which the movies have shaped sexuality. Exploring the tangled notions of masculinity, femininity, beauty, and sex that characterize our cinematic imagination—and drawing on examples that range from advertising to pornography, Bonnie and Clyde to Call Me by Your Name—Thomson illuminates how film as art, entertainment, and business has historically been a polite cover for a kind of erotic séance. In so doing, he casts the art and the artists we love in a new light, and reveals how film can both expose the fault lines in conventional masculinity and point the way past it, toward a more nuanced understanding of what it means to be a person with desires.
Author: Paul Schrader
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 356
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Paul Schrader is US cinema's hardcore intellectual. This title collects three of his finest screenplays, Taxi Driver, American Gigolo and Light Sleeper, that form a kind of triptych devoted to a single, soulful character.
