Author: Francis Scott Fitzgerald
Publisher:
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Category : American essays
Languages : en
Pages : 256

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Author: Peter Handke
Publisher: Picador
ISBN: 9781250767264
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 96

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In Nobel Prize-winning author Peter Handke's The Afternoon of a Writer, a writer, fearful of losing his abilities and hence his connection with the world, takes an afternoon walk and has several encounters that reaffirm his confidence...

Author: Anthony Powell
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022618689X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 236

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A social comedy about "a company of giddyheads" and their wanderings in London's Bohemia.

Author: James Lasdun
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 132400195X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 108

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“Slippery, provoking and very timely.” —Wall Street Journal When an old flame accuses him of sexual assault, expat English journalist Marco Rosedale is brought rapidly to the brink of ruin. Marco confides in a close friend, the unnamed narrator, who finds himself caught between the obligations of friendship and an increasingly urgent desire to uncover the truth—until the question of his own complicity becomes impossible to avoid.

Author: Barbara Wilson
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1480455172
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 274

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A professional translator and amateur detective travels to Barcelona to find a missing man in this mystery hailed as a “high-spirited comic adventure” (The New York Times). American but with an Irish passport, the itinerant translator Cassandra Reilly is living in London when she receives an unexpected phone call. The voice on the other end belongs to Frankie Stevens, a San Francisco transplant with an unusual request. Her husband, Ben, has gone missing—presumably in Barcelona—and Frankie needs a translator to help her find him. Not one to pass up a well-paying gig or a free trip to Barcelona, Cassandra takes the job. But she quickly realizes that all is not as it seems. Frankie’s charm is matched only by her guile. As Cassandra chases down leads in search of Ben, she becomes increasingly tangled in a web of half-truths—and caught between former flames Ana and Carmen. Winner of the British Crime Writers’ Award for Best Mystery Based in Europe and the Lambda Literary Award for Best Lesbian Mystery, Gaudí Afternoon is the first book in the Cassandra Reilly Mystery series, which continues with Trouble in Transylvania and The Death of a Much-Travelled Woman, and concludes with The Case of the Orphaned Bassoonists.

Author: Miriam B. Mandel
Publisher: Camden House
ISBN: 9781571134097
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 364

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New, carefully focused essays providing a thorough examination of Hemingway's groundbreaking non-fictional work. Published in 1932, Death in the Afternoon reveals its author at the height of his intellectual and stylistic powers. By that time, Hemingway had already won critical and popular acclaim for his short stories and novels of the late twenties. A mature and self-confident artist, he now risked his career by switching from fiction to nonfiction, from American characters to Spanish bullfighters, from exotic and romantic settings to the tough world of theSpanish bullring, a world that might seem frightening and even repellant to those who do not understand it. Hemingway's nonfiction has been denied the attention that his novels and short stories have enjoyed, a state of affairs this Companion seeks to remedy, breaking new ground by applying theoretical and critical approaches to a work of nonfiction. It does so in original essays that offer a thorough, balanced examination of a complex, boundary-breaking, and hitherto neglected text. The volume is broken into sections dealing with: the composition, reception, and sources of Death in the Afternoon; cultural translation, cultural criticism, semiotics, and paratextual matters; and the issues of art, authorship, audience, and the literary legacy of Death in the Afternoon. The contributors to the volume, four men and seven women, lay to rest the stereotype of Hemingway as a macho writer whom women do not read; and their nationalities (British, Spanish, American, and Israeli) indicate that Death in the Afternoon, even as it focuses on a particular national art, discusses matters of universal concern. Contributors: Miriam B. Mandel, Robert W. Trogdon, Lisa Tyler, Linda Wagner-Martin, Peter Messent, Beatriz Penas Ibáñez, Anthony Brand, Nancy Bredendick, Hilary Justice, Amy Vondrak, and Keneth Kinnamon. MiriamB. Mandel teaches in the English Department of Tel Aviv University.

Author:
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 1204

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Author: Leonard Unger
Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons
ISBN: 9780684312491
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 664

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The four volume set consists of ninety-seven of the pamphlets originally published as the University of Minnesota pamphlets on American writers. Some have been revised and updated.

Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781973497479
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 24

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* Book : Afternoon of an Author* Biography* BibliographyWhen he woke up he felt better than he had for many weeks, a fact that became plain to him negatively he did not feel ill. He leaned for a moment against the door frame between his bedroom and bath till he could be sure he was not dizzy. Not a bit, not even when he stooped for a slipper under the bed.It was a bright April morning, he had no idea what time because his clock was long unwound but as he went back through the apartment to the kitchen he saw that his daughter had breakfasted and departed and that the mail was in, so it was after nine."I think I'll go out today," he said to the maid."Do you good--it's a lovely day." She was from New Orleans, with the features and coloring of an Arab."I want two eggs like yesterday and toast, orange juice and tea."

Author: William Henry Hills
Publisher:
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Category : Authorship
Languages : en
Pages : 330

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