Author: Ardis Cameron
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 080145610X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
In this lively account of the writing, publication, and legacy of the 1956 bestselling novel, "Peyton Place," Ardis Cameron tells how the story of a patricide in a small New England village became a cultural phenomenon.
Unbuttoning America
Author: Ardis Cameron
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 080145610X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
In this lively account of the writing, publication, and legacy of the 1956 bestselling novel, "Peyton Place," Ardis Cameron tells how the story of a patricide in a small New England village became a cultural phenomenon.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 080145610X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
In this lively account of the writing, publication, and legacy of the 1956 bestselling novel, "Peyton Place," Ardis Cameron tells how the story of a patricide in a small New England village became a cultural phenomenon.
White Collar Girl
Author: Renée Rosen
Publisher: Berkley
ISBN: 045147497X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
The latest novel from the bestselling author of Dollface and What the Lady Wants takes us deep into the tumultuous world of 1950s Chicago where a female journalist struggles with the heavy price of ambition... Every second of every day, something is happening. There’s a story out there buried in the muck, and Jordan Walsh, coming from a family of esteemed reporters, wants to be the one to dig it up. But it’s 1955, and the men who dominate the city room of the Chicago Tribune have no interest in making room for a female cub reporter. Instead Jordan is relegated to society news, reporting on Marilyn Monroe sightings at the Pump Room and interviewing secretaries for the White Collar Girl column. Even with her journalistic legacy and connections to luminaries like Mike Royko, Nelson Algren, and Ernest Hemingway, Jordan struggles to be taken seriously. Of course, that all changes the moment she establishes a secret source inside Mayor Daley’s office and gets her hands on some confidential information. Now careers and lives are hanging on Jordan’s every word. But if she succeeds in landing her stories on the front page, there’s no guarantee she’ll remain above the fold.…
Publisher: Berkley
ISBN: 045147497X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
The latest novel from the bestselling author of Dollface and What the Lady Wants takes us deep into the tumultuous world of 1950s Chicago where a female journalist struggles with the heavy price of ambition... Every second of every day, something is happening. There’s a story out there buried in the muck, and Jordan Walsh, coming from a family of esteemed reporters, wants to be the one to dig it up. But it’s 1955, and the men who dominate the city room of the Chicago Tribune have no interest in making room for a female cub reporter. Instead Jordan is relegated to society news, reporting on Marilyn Monroe sightings at the Pump Room and interviewing secretaries for the White Collar Girl column. Even with her journalistic legacy and connections to luminaries like Mike Royko, Nelson Algren, and Ernest Hemingway, Jordan struggles to be taken seriously. Of course, that all changes the moment she establishes a secret source inside Mayor Daley’s office and gets her hands on some confidential information. Now careers and lives are hanging on Jordan’s every word. But if she succeeds in landing her stories on the front page, there’s no guarantee she’ll remain above the fold.…
Blowing up the Skirt of History
Author: Kym Bird
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0228023513
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
From history and politics to fantasy and farce, the first flourish of women's theatre in Canada questioned the discourses that formed and informed ideas of gender, sex, and sexuality. This book revives ten theatrical comedies that staged the promise of social change.
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0228023513
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
From history and politics to fantasy and farce, the first flourish of women's theatre in Canada questioned the discourses that formed and informed ideas of gender, sex, and sexuality. This book revives ten theatrical comedies that staged the promise of social change.
Confessions of a Barbarian
Author: David Petersen
Publisher: Big Earth Publishing
ISBN: 9781555662875
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
Iconoclast, activist, philosopher, and spiritual father of the environmental movement, the author of The Monkeywrench Gang was also an avid journal keeper. Here Abbey's longtime friend David Petersen showcases the best of these journals, complete with Abbey's philosophical musings, notes, character sketches, and illustrations.
Publisher: Big Earth Publishing
ISBN: 9781555662875
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
Iconoclast, activist, philosopher, and spiritual father of the environmental movement, the author of The Monkeywrench Gang was also an avid journal keeper. Here Abbey's longtime friend David Petersen showcases the best of these journals, complete with Abbey's philosophical musings, notes, character sketches, and illustrations.
Breaking the Engagement
Author: W. Coleman Parker
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 100
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Languages : en
Pages : 100
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Dogdom
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Category : Dogs
Languages : en
Pages : 1002
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Category : Dogs
Languages : en
Pages : 1002
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Key to North American Birds. Containing a Concise Account of Every Species of Living and Fossil Bird at Present Known from the Continent North of the Mexican and United States Boundary, Etc
Author: Elliott Coues
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 396
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Languages : en
Pages : 396
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New Peterson Magazine
Author: Ann Sophia Stephens
Publisher:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 988
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 988
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Life in Spain, etc
Author: George Walter THORNBURY
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 406
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Languages : en
Pages : 406
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The Dog Fancier
Author: Eugene Glass
Publisher:
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Category : Dogs
Languages : en
Pages : 588
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Category : Dogs
Languages : en
Pages : 588
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