Author: Jim Gavin
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1451649363
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
A powerful, funny, and wise debut from a writer Esquire praises as “the second coming of Denis Johnson.” In this widely acclaimed story collection, Jim Gavin delivers a hilarious and panoramic vision of California, in which a number of down-on-their-luck men, from young dreamers to old vets, make valiant forays into middle-class respectability. Each of the men in Gavin’s stories is stuck somewhere in the middle, caught halfway between his dreams and the often crushing reality of his life. A work of profound humanity that pairs moments of high comedy with searing truths about life’s missed opportunities, Middle Men brings to life unforgettable characters as they learn what it means to love and work and exist in the world as a man. Hailed as a “modern-day Dubliners” (Time Out ) and “reminiscent of Tom Perotta’s best work” (The Boston Globe), this stellar debut has the Los Angeles Review of Books raving, “Middle Men deserves its hype and demonstrates a top-shelf talent. . . . A brilliant sense of humor animates each story and creates a state of near-continuous reading pleasure.”
Middle Men
Author: Jim Gavin
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1451649363
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
A powerful, funny, and wise debut from a writer Esquire praises as “the second coming of Denis Johnson.” In this widely acclaimed story collection, Jim Gavin delivers a hilarious and panoramic vision of California, in which a number of down-on-their-luck men, from young dreamers to old vets, make valiant forays into middle-class respectability. Each of the men in Gavin’s stories is stuck somewhere in the middle, caught halfway between his dreams and the often crushing reality of his life. A work of profound humanity that pairs moments of high comedy with searing truths about life’s missed opportunities, Middle Men brings to life unforgettable characters as they learn what it means to love and work and exist in the world as a man. Hailed as a “modern-day Dubliners” (Time Out ) and “reminiscent of Tom Perotta’s best work” (The Boston Globe), this stellar debut has the Los Angeles Review of Books raving, “Middle Men deserves its hype and demonstrates a top-shelf talent. . . . A brilliant sense of humor animates each story and creates a state of near-continuous reading pleasure.”
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1451649363
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
A powerful, funny, and wise debut from a writer Esquire praises as “the second coming of Denis Johnson.” In this widely acclaimed story collection, Jim Gavin delivers a hilarious and panoramic vision of California, in which a number of down-on-their-luck men, from young dreamers to old vets, make valiant forays into middle-class respectability. Each of the men in Gavin’s stories is stuck somewhere in the middle, caught halfway between his dreams and the often crushing reality of his life. A work of profound humanity that pairs moments of high comedy with searing truths about life’s missed opportunities, Middle Men brings to life unforgettable characters as they learn what it means to love and work and exist in the world as a man. Hailed as a “modern-day Dubliners” (Time Out ) and “reminiscent of Tom Perotta’s best work” (The Boston Globe), this stellar debut has the Los Angeles Review of Books raving, “Middle Men deserves its hype and demonstrates a top-shelf talent. . . . A brilliant sense of humor animates each story and creates a state of near-continuous reading pleasure.”
The Middleman Economy
Author: Marina Krakovsky
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137530200
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
With the rise of the Internet, many pundits predicted that middlemen would disappear. But that hasn't happened. Far from killing the middleman, the Internet has generated a thriving new breed. In The Middleman Economy , Silicon Valley-based reporter Marina Krakovsky elucidates the six essential roles that middlemen play.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137530200
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
With the rise of the Internet, many pundits predicted that middlemen would disappear. But that hasn't happened. Far from killing the middleman, the Internet has generated a thriving new breed. In The Middleman Economy , Silicon Valley-based reporter Marina Krakovsky elucidates the six essential roles that middlemen play.
Middle Men
Author: Jim Gavin
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1451649312
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
Middle men Part I: The luau ; Part II: Costello.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1451649312
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
Middle men Part I: The luau ; Part II: Costello.
America's Middlemen
Author: Eric Grynaviski
Publisher:
ISBN: 1107162157
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
Explores how people at the margins of American politics (America's middlemen) have historically shaped war, peace, expansion, and empire.
Publisher:
ISBN: 1107162157
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
Explores how people at the margins of American politics (America's middlemen) have historically shaped war, peace, expansion, and empire.
The Middleman
Author: Olen Steinhauer
Publisher: Minotaur Books
ISBN: 1250036178
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
New York Times bestselling author Olen Steinhauer's next sweeping espionage novel traces the rise and fall of a domestic left-wing terrorist group.
Publisher: Minotaur Books
ISBN: 1250036178
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
New York Times bestselling author Olen Steinhauer's next sweeping espionage novel traces the rise and fall of a domestic left-wing terrorist group.
Men in the Middle
Author: Steffen Patzold
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110444488
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
This volume studies local priests as central players in small communities of early medieval Europe. As clerics living among the laity, priests played a double role within their communities: that of local representatives of the Church and religious experts, and that of owners of land and other goods. By virtue of their membership of both the ecclesiastical and the secular world, they can be considered as ‘men in the middle’: people who brought politico-religious ideas and ideals to secular communities, and who linked the local to the supra-local via networks of landownerhsip. This book addresses both roles that local priests played by approaching them via their manuscripts, and via the charters that record transactions in which they were involved. Manuscripts once owned by local priests bear witness to their education and expertise, but also indicate how, for instance, ideals of the Carolingian reforms reached the lowest levels of early medieval society. The case-studies of collections of charters, on the other hand, show priests as active members of networks of the locally powerful in a variety of European regions. Notwithstanding many local variations, the contributions to this volume show that local priests as ‘men in the middle’ are a phenomenon shared by the early medieval world as a whole.
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110444488
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
This volume studies local priests as central players in small communities of early medieval Europe. As clerics living among the laity, priests played a double role within their communities: that of local representatives of the Church and religious experts, and that of owners of land and other goods. By virtue of their membership of both the ecclesiastical and the secular world, they can be considered as ‘men in the middle’: people who brought politico-religious ideas and ideals to secular communities, and who linked the local to the supra-local via networks of landownerhsip. This book addresses both roles that local priests played by approaching them via their manuscripts, and via the charters that record transactions in which they were involved. Manuscripts once owned by local priests bear witness to their education and expertise, but also indicate how, for instance, ideals of the Carolingian reforms reached the lowest levels of early medieval society. The case-studies of collections of charters, on the other hand, show priests as active members of networks of the locally powerful in a variety of European regions. Notwithstanding many local variations, the contributions to this volume show that local priests as ‘men in the middle’ are a phenomenon shared by the early medieval world as a whole.
Educating the Middlemen
Author: Jan-Georg Deutsch
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3112402588
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
The refereed series ZMO-Studien publishes monographs and edited volumes which mirror the interdisciplinary research programme and approach of the Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient.
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3112402588
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
The refereed series ZMO-Studien publishes monographs and edited volumes which mirror the interdisciplinary research programme and approach of the Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient.
The Middleman
Author: Bharati Mukherjee
Publisher: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN: 0802196349
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
A National Book Critics Circle Award winner and New York Times Notable Book: “intelligent, versatile . . . profound” stories of migration in America (The Washington Post Book World). Illuminating a new world of people in migration that has transformed the essence of America, these collected stories are a dazzling display of the vision of this critically-acclaimed contemporary writer. An aristocratic Filipina negotiates a new life for herself with an Atlanta investment banker. A Vietnam vet returns to Florida, a place now more foreign than the Asia of his war experience. An Indian widow tries to explain her culture’s traditions of grieving to her well-intentioned friends. And in the title story, an Iraqi Jew whose travels have ended in Queens suddenly finds himself an unwitting guerrilla in a South American jungle. Passionate, comic, violent, and tender, these stories draw us into a cultural fusion in the midst of its birth pangs, expressing a “consummated romance with the American language” (The New York Times Book Review).
Publisher: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN: 0802196349
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
A National Book Critics Circle Award winner and New York Times Notable Book: “intelligent, versatile . . . profound” stories of migration in America (The Washington Post Book World). Illuminating a new world of people in migration that has transformed the essence of America, these collected stories are a dazzling display of the vision of this critically-acclaimed contemporary writer. An aristocratic Filipina negotiates a new life for herself with an Atlanta investment banker. A Vietnam vet returns to Florida, a place now more foreign than the Asia of his war experience. An Indian widow tries to explain her culture’s traditions of grieving to her well-intentioned friends. And in the title story, an Iraqi Jew whose travels have ended in Queens suddenly finds himself an unwitting guerrilla in a South American jungle. Passionate, comic, violent, and tender, these stories draw us into a cultural fusion in the midst of its birth pangs, expressing a “consummated romance with the American language” (The New York Times Book Review).
Famous Men of the Middle Ages
Author: John Henry Haaren
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Supplemental Security Income Fraud Involving Middlemen
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means. Subcommittee on Oversight
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description