Author: Robert Lewis Taylor
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Cover features color illustration of a landscape scene.
The travels of Jaimie McPheeters
Author: Robert Lewis Taylor
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Cover features color illustration of a landscape scene.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Cover features color illustration of a landscape scene.
A Journey to Matecumbe
Author: Robert Lewis Taylor
Publisher: New York : Avon Books
ISBN:
Category : Florida
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
Publisher: New York : Avon Books
ISBN:
Category : Florida
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
Martin Dressler
Author: Steven Millhauser
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307763862
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • The author of Voices in the Night reveals the mesmerizing journey of an American dreamer as he walks a haunted line between fantasy and reality, madness and ambition, art and industry. “This wonderful, wonder-full book is a fable and phantasmagoria of the sources of our century.” —The New York Times Book Review Young Martin Dressler begins his career as an industrious helper in his father's cigar store. In the course of his restless young manhood, he makes a swift and eventful rise to the top, accompanied by two sisters--one a dreamlike shadow, the other a worldly business partner. As the eponymous Martin's vision becomes bolder and bolder, a sense of doom builds piece-by-hypnotic piece until this mesmerizing journey reaches its bitter-sweet conclusion.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307763862
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • The author of Voices in the Night reveals the mesmerizing journey of an American dreamer as he walks a haunted line between fantasy and reality, madness and ambition, art and industry. “This wonderful, wonder-full book is a fable and phantasmagoria of the sources of our century.” —The New York Times Book Review Young Martin Dressler begins his career as an industrious helper in his father's cigar store. In the course of his restless young manhood, he makes a swift and eventful rise to the top, accompanied by two sisters--one a dreamlike shadow, the other a worldly business partner. As the eponymous Martin's vision becomes bolder and bolder, a sense of doom builds piece-by-hypnotic piece until this mesmerizing journey reaches its bitter-sweet conclusion.
Vessel of Wrath
Author: Robert Lewis Taylor
Publisher: Dutton Adult
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
"In the long and painful annals of good works," Robert Lewis Taylor begins this dual portrait of a woman and an age, "no name leaps out with more concussive impact than that of Carry Nation." The Pulitzer-prize-winning novelist and biographer tells Nation's whole remarkable story--as well as the story of her turbulent era, raucous with hymn singing and gunfighting, rampant with high ideals and low politics. Carry Nation and her hatchet have long passed into legend, but at the turn of the century, this extraordinary phenomenon was the most discussed woman in the world. She was a force to be reckoned with, fought against, fled from, or fervently admired. Kansas tenaciously survived the Daltons, the James brothers, and Belle Starr, but its marshals, its judges, its rough-and-ready populace had never been called upon to deal with anyone quite like "stand up and fight" Carry Nation. America's most uninhibited crusader was born into a family of oddities. One of her aunts made repeated attempts to convert herself into a weathervane. Carry's mother firmly believed herself to be Queen Victoria. As a child, Carry had "visions"; as an adult, she was sane, if rigorously single-minded, in her determination to reform. She carried her free-swinging campaign against drink, tobacco, sex, the Masonic Lodge, William McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt, and many more, far and wide. Carry Nation swung her hatchet from the brawling Wichita of Wyatt Earp to the Tenderloin of New York, to the halls of Yale and Harvard, to the far corners of America, and overseas to a bemused Old World. Thanks to a masculine bias of the period against shooting women, she not only survived, she thrived to demolish saloons, insult judges, defy sheriffs, and terrorize bartenders. She invaded the most sacred of male preserves--and she inspired women everywhere to revolt. Even today, for readers accustomed to all the varieties of public protest, her exploits can only produce a kind of awed wonder. In magnificently capturing Carry Nation and her world, Robert Lewis Taylor has created a work no lover of true Americana can afford to miss. Marvelously detailed, delightfully witty, this is an altogether spellbinding biography by a major American author.--Adapted from jacket.
Publisher: Dutton Adult
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
"In the long and painful annals of good works," Robert Lewis Taylor begins this dual portrait of a woman and an age, "no name leaps out with more concussive impact than that of Carry Nation." The Pulitzer-prize-winning novelist and biographer tells Nation's whole remarkable story--as well as the story of her turbulent era, raucous with hymn singing and gunfighting, rampant with high ideals and low politics. Carry Nation and her hatchet have long passed into legend, but at the turn of the century, this extraordinary phenomenon was the most discussed woman in the world. She was a force to be reckoned with, fought against, fled from, or fervently admired. Kansas tenaciously survived the Daltons, the James brothers, and Belle Starr, but its marshals, its judges, its rough-and-ready populace had never been called upon to deal with anyone quite like "stand up and fight" Carry Nation. America's most uninhibited crusader was born into a family of oddities. One of her aunts made repeated attempts to convert herself into a weathervane. Carry's mother firmly believed herself to be Queen Victoria. As a child, Carry had "visions"; as an adult, she was sane, if rigorously single-minded, in her determination to reform. She carried her free-swinging campaign against drink, tobacco, sex, the Masonic Lodge, William McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt, and many more, far and wide. Carry Nation swung her hatchet from the brawling Wichita of Wyatt Earp to the Tenderloin of New York, to the halls of Yale and Harvard, to the far corners of America, and overseas to a bemused Old World. Thanks to a masculine bias of the period against shooting women, she not only survived, she thrived to demolish saloons, insult judges, defy sheriffs, and terrorize bartenders. She invaded the most sacred of male preserves--and she inspired women everywhere to revolt. Even today, for readers accustomed to all the varieties of public protest, her exploits can only produce a kind of awed wonder. In magnificently capturing Carry Nation and her world, Robert Lewis Taylor has created a work no lover of true Americana can afford to miss. Marvelously detailed, delightfully witty, this is an altogether spellbinding biography by a major American author.--Adapted from jacket.
A Roaring in the Wind
Author: Robert Lewis Taylor
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 532
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 532
Book Description
Advise and Consent
Author: Allen Drury
Publisher: WordFire Press
ISBN: 9781614755746
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 706
Book Description
#1 New York Times bestseller and Pulitzer Prize winner. A seminal work of political fiction-as relevant today as when it was first published. A sweeping tale of corruption and ambition cuts across the landscape of Washington, DC, with the breadth and realism that only an astute observer and insider can convey.
Publisher: WordFire Press
ISBN: 9781614755746
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 706
Book Description
#1 New York Times bestseller and Pulitzer Prize winner. A seminal work of political fiction-as relevant today as when it was first published. A sweeping tale of corruption and ambition cuts across the landscape of Washington, DC, with the breadth and realism that only an astute observer and insider can convey.
Charles Bronson
Author: Michael R. Pitts
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476610355
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 377
Book Description
This work covers Bronson's entire output in film and on television, and includes many film stills and photographs. Alphabetical entries list film or episode, complete cast and credits, and year of release. Accompanying each entry's plot synopsis and discussion is a survey of the critical responses to the work. The great Charles Laughton once said Bronson "has the strongest face in the business, and he is also one of its best actors." Pretty high praise for an actor who, though loved by fans worldwide, has been consistently underestimated by critics. Bronson's career has spanned five decades, from such television appearances in The Fugitive, Rawhide, Bonanza and Have Gun, Will Travel as well as the telemovie A Family of Cops (1995) and its two sequels. He will long be remembered for his role as urban vigilante Paul Kersey in the Death Wish films. Bronson is one of the most enigmatic, and also most recognizable, of all film stars.
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476610355
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 377
Book Description
This work covers Bronson's entire output in film and on television, and includes many film stills and photographs. Alphabetical entries list film or episode, complete cast and credits, and year of release. Accompanying each entry's plot synopsis and discussion is a survey of the critical responses to the work. The great Charles Laughton once said Bronson "has the strongest face in the business, and he is also one of its best actors." Pretty high praise for an actor who, though loved by fans worldwide, has been consistently underestimated by critics. Bronson's career has spanned five decades, from such television appearances in The Fugitive, Rawhide, Bonanza and Have Gun, Will Travel as well as the telemovie A Family of Cops (1995) and its two sequels. He will long be remembered for his role as urban vigilante Paul Kersey in the Death Wish films. Bronson is one of the most enigmatic, and also most recognizable, of all film stars.
A Gathering of Old Men
Author: Ernest J. Gaines
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307830381
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
A powerful depiction of racial tensions arising over the death of a Cajun farmer at the hands of a black man--set on a Louisiana sugarcane plantation in the 1970s. The Village Voice called A Gathering of Old Men “the best-written novel on Southern race relations in over a decade.”
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307830381
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
A powerful depiction of racial tensions arising over the death of a Cajun farmer at the hands of a black man--set on a Louisiana sugarcane plantation in the 1970s. The Village Voice called A Gathering of Old Men “the best-written novel on Southern race relations in over a decade.”
The Accidental Tourist
Author: Anne Tyler
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307416836
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the beloved Pulitzer Prize–winning author—an irresistible novel exploring the slippery alchemy of attracting opposites, and the struggle to rebuild one’s life after unspeakable tragedy Travel writer Macon Leary hates travel, adventure, surprises, and anything outside of his routine. Immobilized by grief, Macon is becoming increasingly prickly and alone, anchored by his solitude and an unwillingness to compromise his creature comforts. Then he meets Muriel, an eccentric dog trainer too optimistic to let Macon disappear into himself. Despite Macon’s best efforts to remain insulated, Muriel up-ends his solitary, systemized life, catapulting him into the center of a messy, beautiful love story he never imagined. A fresh and timeless tale of unexpected bliss, The Accidental Tourist showcases Tyler’s talents for making characters—and their relationships—feel both real and magical. “Incandescent, heartbreaking, exhilarating…One cannot reasonably expect fiction to be much better than this.” —The Washington Post
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307416836
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the beloved Pulitzer Prize–winning author—an irresistible novel exploring the slippery alchemy of attracting opposites, and the struggle to rebuild one’s life after unspeakable tragedy Travel writer Macon Leary hates travel, adventure, surprises, and anything outside of his routine. Immobilized by grief, Macon is becoming increasingly prickly and alone, anchored by his solitude and an unwillingness to compromise his creature comforts. Then he meets Muriel, an eccentric dog trainer too optimistic to let Macon disappear into himself. Despite Macon’s best efforts to remain insulated, Muriel up-ends his solitary, systemized life, catapulting him into the center of a messy, beautiful love story he never imagined. A fresh and timeless tale of unexpected bliss, The Accidental Tourist showcases Tyler’s talents for making characters—and their relationships—feel both real and magical. “Incandescent, heartbreaking, exhilarating…One cannot reasonably expect fiction to be much better than this.” —The Washington Post
Gatherings
Author: Marina Rust
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
"What went wrong? This is young Meredith's question as she steps into her family's fairy tale of ease and beauty. Why had her mother fled? Why had her uncle died?" "The Frasers move as in eras past, drifting with the seasons. Holidays are spent on a sheltered island off the coast of Maine, at a South Carolina shooting plantation, in Park Avenue drawing rooms. Through Meredith's eyes, we watch as her cousins Pearce and Felicity come of age in these sheltered haunts." "As Meredith enters into a fragile alliance with Felicity and a dangerous liaison with Pearce, ghosts from the past reassert themselves. Patterns of destruction repeat, cries for help go unanswered, muffled by manners and gentle beach breezes. When tragedy strikes, Meredith and her cousins must reconcile their vanishing world with their expanding dreams." "A haunting portrait of a family debilitated by wealth, Gatherings is the stunning debut of an eloquent new voice in American fiction."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
"What went wrong? This is young Meredith's question as she steps into her family's fairy tale of ease and beauty. Why had her mother fled? Why had her uncle died?" "The Frasers move as in eras past, drifting with the seasons. Holidays are spent on a sheltered island off the coast of Maine, at a South Carolina shooting plantation, in Park Avenue drawing rooms. Through Meredith's eyes, we watch as her cousins Pearce and Felicity come of age in these sheltered haunts." "As Meredith enters into a fragile alliance with Felicity and a dangerous liaison with Pearce, ghosts from the past reassert themselves. Patterns of destruction repeat, cries for help go unanswered, muffled by manners and gentle beach breezes. When tragedy strikes, Meredith and her cousins must reconcile their vanishing world with their expanding dreams." "A haunting portrait of a family debilitated by wealth, Gatherings is the stunning debut of an eloquent new voice in American fiction."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved