Author: David Jeness
Publisher: SCB Distributors
ISBN: 1948749335
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
This highly unusual book is a sequence of actual letters exchanged by two young men coming of age in the late 1950s and '60s. They are well-educated, intellectually eager, self-absorbed but also self-aware, and both go on to distinguished careers in the world of letters and scholarship. It is a candid and spirited relationship focused on their shared interest in reading, writing, ideas, and young women. In some ways, the creators of this joint memoir can be seen as members of a distinct cultural group, but their subjects transcend background and class, as does the honesty of their exchange through crisscrossing viewpoints and eras. Their letters trace two arcs of development–sometimes congruent, sometimes divergent–intersecting as each writer acts to intervene in and shape the other's life. Their exchanges are crammed with descriptions, wordplays, wisecracks, opinions, judgments, jokes, commiserations, exultations–whatever can be spewed forth from two loose and lively minds. And interspersed with the record of what they said "then" is the leavening of "now," as both writers look back in reflective comment on their half-forgotten selves–modern testimony to the lasting friendship of two people most unlike each other and yet similar in ways at their deepest core.
Two Smart Boys
Author: David Jeness
Publisher: SCB Distributors
ISBN: 1948749335
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
This highly unusual book is a sequence of actual letters exchanged by two young men coming of age in the late 1950s and '60s. They are well-educated, intellectually eager, self-absorbed but also self-aware, and both go on to distinguished careers in the world of letters and scholarship. It is a candid and spirited relationship focused on their shared interest in reading, writing, ideas, and young women. In some ways, the creators of this joint memoir can be seen as members of a distinct cultural group, but their subjects transcend background and class, as does the honesty of their exchange through crisscrossing viewpoints and eras. Their letters trace two arcs of development–sometimes congruent, sometimes divergent–intersecting as each writer acts to intervene in and shape the other's life. Their exchanges are crammed with descriptions, wordplays, wisecracks, opinions, judgments, jokes, commiserations, exultations–whatever can be spewed forth from two loose and lively minds. And interspersed with the record of what they said "then" is the leavening of "now," as both writers look back in reflective comment on their half-forgotten selves–modern testimony to the lasting friendship of two people most unlike each other and yet similar in ways at their deepest core.
Publisher: SCB Distributors
ISBN: 1948749335
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
This highly unusual book is a sequence of actual letters exchanged by two young men coming of age in the late 1950s and '60s. They are well-educated, intellectually eager, self-absorbed but also self-aware, and both go on to distinguished careers in the world of letters and scholarship. It is a candid and spirited relationship focused on their shared interest in reading, writing, ideas, and young women. In some ways, the creators of this joint memoir can be seen as members of a distinct cultural group, but their subjects transcend background and class, as does the honesty of their exchange through crisscrossing viewpoints and eras. Their letters trace two arcs of development–sometimes congruent, sometimes divergent–intersecting as each writer acts to intervene in and shape the other's life. Their exchanges are crammed with descriptions, wordplays, wisecracks, opinions, judgments, jokes, commiserations, exultations–whatever can be spewed forth from two loose and lively minds. And interspersed with the record of what they said "then" is the leavening of "now," as both writers look back in reflective comment on their half-forgotten selves–modern testimony to the lasting friendship of two people most unlike each other and yet similar in ways at their deepest core.
Smart Boys
Author: Barbara A. Kerr
Publisher: Gifted Unlimited
ISBN: 9780910707435
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Explores the relationship of special intellectual ability to the role of males in American society and describes the impact of giftedness on boys' academic and social adjustment.
Publisher: Gifted Unlimited
ISBN: 9780910707435
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Explores the relationship of special intellectual ability to the role of males in American society and describes the impact of giftedness on boys' academic and social adjustment.
Smart Boys & Fast Girls
Author: Stephie Davis
Publisher: SMOOCH
ISBN: 9780843953985
Category : Friendship
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The fourth book of a loosely linked, funny, and heartwarming series about four teenage friends who are learning how to deal with first dates, first kisses, and first loves. A cross-country runner is buddies with all the guys, but what happens when she wants to be more than that? Original.
Publisher: SMOOCH
ISBN: 9780843953985
Category : Friendship
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The fourth book of a loosely linked, funny, and heartwarming series about four teenage friends who are learning how to deal with first dates, first kisses, and first loves. A cross-country runner is buddies with all the guys, but what happens when she wants to be more than that? Original.
Annual Report of the Children's Village to the Legislature of the State and to the Board of Aldermen of the City of New York for the Year
Author: Children's Village (Dobbs Ferry, N.Y.)
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
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Languages : en
Pages : 140
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The Boys' Brigade Gazette
Author:
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Category : Boys
Languages : en
Pages : 630
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Category : Boys
Languages : en
Pages : 630
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Documents of the Assembly of the State of New York
Author: New York (State). Legislature. Assembly
Publisher:
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1408
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1408
Book Description
Annual Report of the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the State of New York for the Year ...
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Category : Labor
Languages : en
Pages : 878
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Publisher:
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Category : Labor
Languages : en
Pages : 878
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At Swim, Two Boys
Author: Jamie O'Neill
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0743222946
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 620
Book Description
Two young men, Jim, the naive, scholarly son of a Dublin shopkeeper, and Doyler, a rough working boy, struggle with issues of political, religious, and sexual identity in the year leading up to the Easter uprising of 1916.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0743222946
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 620
Book Description
Two young men, Jim, the naive, scholarly son of a Dublin shopkeeper, and Doyler, a rough working boy, struggle with issues of political, religious, and sexual identity in the year leading up to the Easter uprising of 1916.
Annual Report of the New-York Juvenile Asylum to the Legislature of the State, and to the Common Council of the City of New York
Author: New York (N.Y.) CHILDREN'S VILLAGE
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Annual Report
Author: New York (State) Bureau of Labor Statistics
Publisher:
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Category : Labor
Languages : en
Pages : 878
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Labor
Languages : en
Pages : 878
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