Author: Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
ISBN: 9780826211408
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
Two essays and eleven short stories from a 1930s novelist who wrote on a variety of subjects, from war to the lot of the black man. In An American Citizen, a black man leaves America for another country to escape the humiliation he suffers, Through Pity and Terror is a war story set in France on a woman whose home is invaded by German soldiers, and in the title story the protagonist finally wins recognition as an artist.
Chemistry and Other Stories
Author: Ron Rash
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1466828064
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Chemistry and Other Stories, A Picador Paperback Original From the pre-eminent chronicler of this forgotten territory, stories that range over one hundred years in the troubled, violent emergence of the New South. In Ron Rash's stories, spanning the entire twentieth century in Appalachia, rural communities struggle with the arrival of a new era. Three old men stalk the shadow of a giant fish no one else believes is there. A man takes up scuba diving in the town reservoir to fight off a killing depression. A grieving mother leads a surveyor into the woods to name once and for all the county where her son was murdered by thieves. In the Appalachia of Ron Rash's stories, the collision of the old and new south, of antique and modern, resonate with the depth and power of ancient myths.
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1466828064
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Chemistry and Other Stories, A Picador Paperback Original From the pre-eminent chronicler of this forgotten territory, stories that range over one hundred years in the troubled, violent emergence of the New South. In Ron Rash's stories, spanning the entire twentieth century in Appalachia, rural communities struggle with the arrival of a new era. Three old men stalk the shadow of a giant fish no one else believes is there. A man takes up scuba diving in the town reservoir to fight off a killing depression. A grieving mother leads a surveyor into the woods to name once and for all the county where her son was murdered by thieves. In the Appalachia of Ron Rash's stories, the collision of the old and new south, of antique and modern, resonate with the depth and power of ancient myths.
The Bedquilt and Other Stories
Author: Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
ISBN: 9780826211408
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
Two essays and eleven short stories from a 1930s novelist who wrote on a variety of subjects, from war to the lot of the black man. In An American Citizen, a black man leaves America for another country to escape the humiliation he suffers, Through Pity and Terror is a war story set in France on a woman whose home is invaded by German soldiers, and in the title story the protagonist finally wins recognition as an artist.
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
ISBN: 9780826211408
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
Two essays and eleven short stories from a 1930s novelist who wrote on a variety of subjects, from war to the lot of the black man. In An American Citizen, a black man leaves America for another country to escape the humiliation he suffers, Through Pity and Terror is a war story set in France on a woman whose home is invaded by German soldiers, and in the title story the protagonist finally wins recognition as an artist.
Gay San Francisco
Author: Jack Fritscher
Publisher: Palm Drive Publishing
ISBN: 1890834394
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 734
Book Description
Built on all new information recently unearthed, this stylishly written and illustrated "timeline archive" of art, sex, obscenity, gender, culture wars, homophobia, pop culture, and the gay mafia, will get 21st-century readers and researchers up to speed fast on the serious fun of who did what to whom when and why.
Publisher: Palm Drive Publishing
ISBN: 1890834394
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 734
Book Description
Built on all new information recently unearthed, this stylishly written and illustrated "timeline archive" of art, sex, obscenity, gender, culture wars, homophobia, pop culture, and the gay mafia, will get 21st-century readers and researchers up to speed fast on the serious fun of who did what to whom when and why.
Boyhood Stories of Famous Men
Author: Katherine Dunlap Cather
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Artists
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Titian, Chopin, Andre del Sarto, Thorwaldsen, Mendelssohn, Mozart, Murillo, Stradivarius, Guido Reni, Claude Lorraine, Tintoretto & Rosa Bonheur, "Tomboy of Bordeaux"
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Artists
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Titian, Chopin, Andre del Sarto, Thorwaldsen, Mendelssohn, Mozart, Murillo, Stradivarius, Guido Reni, Claude Lorraine, Tintoretto & Rosa Bonheur, "Tomboy of Bordeaux"
Some Dance to Remember: A Memoir-Novel of San Francisco 1970-1982
Author: Jack Fritscher
Publisher: Palm Drive Publishing
ISBN: 189083405X
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 673
Book Description
Some Dance to Remember has been reviewed as ¿the gay Gone with the Wind.¿ But such popular praise does not do literary justice to this eyewitness classic of that ¿first golden decade after Stonewall.¿ This best-selling epic of San Francisco¿s Castro seethes with sex, drugs, panic, and passionate characters: a gay writer, a drop-dead gorgeous bodybuilder, a cabaret singer, a Vietnam vet, a Hollywood bitch, and a rough-trade porn mogul. Narrator Magnus Bishop channels Ryan O¿Hara, a writer pioneering a tell-all voice in the emerging subculture of gay magazines. When Ryan meets Quentin Crisp¿s ¿perfect man¿ in Kick Sorenson, lust and politics collide. Steroids rule Castro Street. Gender fascism divides queens versus clones into gay civil war over correct queer identity. White assassinates Milk. Gay rioters burn City Hall. Ryan, romancing the morphing trickster Kick, cruises through nightclubs, ecstatic sex, and leather rituals in legendary bathhouses. Sprung from Isherwood¿s Cabaret, 1970s San Francisco mirrored 1930s Berlin: decadent, dazzling, diverse, doomed. It¿s all here. A city. A murder. A plague. A lost civilization. A love story. Some Dance to Remember is dedicated to Jack Fritscher¿s 1970s bicoastal lover, Robert Mapplethorpe.¿My God, what a book! It¿s all there, done with Fritscher¿s usual élan and verve. I wouldn¿t be surprised if he has written what will be looked on as that period¿s Great American Gay Novel. What lovely stuff! ¿Sam Steward (Phil Andros)¿Jack Fritscher didn¿t invent the Castro. He just made it mythical. HEADY, EROTIC, COMIC....A comprehensive fictional chronicle of the best of times....If one can learn American history via the novels of Gore Vidal, one can learn gay American history through Some Dance.¿ ¿ The Advocate, David Perry¿Cinematic intensity....A brilliant record of gay life before AIDS....An astonishing spectrum of queer lives....This sprawling saga...has not lost a whit of its muscular passion, punchy immediacy, or transformative literary impact.¿ ¿ Books to Watch Out For, Richard Labonté¿STAGGERINGLY ORIGINAL and completely absorbing....Here is San Francisco¿s gay male scene in the 1970s and ¿80s as never told, or documented, before.¿ ¿ Michael Bronski, Author of Culture Clash: The Making of Gay Sensibility
Publisher: Palm Drive Publishing
ISBN: 189083405X
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 673
Book Description
Some Dance to Remember has been reviewed as ¿the gay Gone with the Wind.¿ But such popular praise does not do literary justice to this eyewitness classic of that ¿first golden decade after Stonewall.¿ This best-selling epic of San Francisco¿s Castro seethes with sex, drugs, panic, and passionate characters: a gay writer, a drop-dead gorgeous bodybuilder, a cabaret singer, a Vietnam vet, a Hollywood bitch, and a rough-trade porn mogul. Narrator Magnus Bishop channels Ryan O¿Hara, a writer pioneering a tell-all voice in the emerging subculture of gay magazines. When Ryan meets Quentin Crisp¿s ¿perfect man¿ in Kick Sorenson, lust and politics collide. Steroids rule Castro Street. Gender fascism divides queens versus clones into gay civil war over correct queer identity. White assassinates Milk. Gay rioters burn City Hall. Ryan, romancing the morphing trickster Kick, cruises through nightclubs, ecstatic sex, and leather rituals in legendary bathhouses. Sprung from Isherwood¿s Cabaret, 1970s San Francisco mirrored 1930s Berlin: decadent, dazzling, diverse, doomed. It¿s all here. A city. A murder. A plague. A lost civilization. A love story. Some Dance to Remember is dedicated to Jack Fritscher¿s 1970s bicoastal lover, Robert Mapplethorpe.¿My God, what a book! It¿s all there, done with Fritscher¿s usual élan and verve. I wouldn¿t be surprised if he has written what will be looked on as that period¿s Great American Gay Novel. What lovely stuff! ¿Sam Steward (Phil Andros)¿Jack Fritscher didn¿t invent the Castro. He just made it mythical. HEADY, EROTIC, COMIC....A comprehensive fictional chronicle of the best of times....If one can learn American history via the novels of Gore Vidal, one can learn gay American history through Some Dance.¿ ¿ The Advocate, David Perry¿Cinematic intensity....A brilliant record of gay life before AIDS....An astonishing spectrum of queer lives....This sprawling saga...has not lost a whit of its muscular passion, punchy immediacy, or transformative literary impact.¿ ¿ Books to Watch Out For, Richard Labonté¿STAGGERINGLY ORIGINAL and completely absorbing....Here is San Francisco¿s gay male scene in the 1970s and ¿80s as never told, or documented, before.¿ ¿ Michael Bronski, Author of Culture Clash: The Making of Gay Sensibility
The Writer and His Wife and Other Stories
Author: Rabindranath Maharaj
Publisher: Leeds, Yorkshire, England : Peepal Tree
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
'The way I see it, a country with a stupid shape like this one can't have too much smart people in it.' On the contrary, as Reuben's diatribe reveals, 'paper-bag shaped' Trinidad is full of schemers and dreamers. Maharaj's characters struggle heroically, though sometimes comically and oddly, to make their mark on the earth. It is as if the more frustrating their outward circumstances, the more intense their inner lives. Bashir Ali, the librarian, has developed an intimate relationship with his books, and a passionate hatred of their borrowers. 'Bhaji and rice! You put bhaji and rice on top of Virginia!' Hoobnath Hingoo, the metalwork technician, imagines a dire fate for the arrogant young engineers who lord it around the oil refinery. 'Barbecue the whole side of them. Grill them nice and black. Afterwards we could have a sale. Grill engineers. Going cheap. Eat as much as you like...' And of course there is Roop, the writer, who wants to escape from his gas station 'to write that book... about everything I ever thought of since I born.' Anyone who enjoys the comedies of V.S. Naipaul will find great pleasure in Maharaj's elegant and arresting style, but they will also find in Maharaj a profound empathy and understanding of his characters and their world. In the process, he gives a rewarding and insightful portrayal of the Indo-Trinidadian world in the late 20th century. Rabindranth Maharaj was born in Trinidad. He now lives and teaches in Toronto. Several further collections of his stories have been published in Canada.
Publisher: Leeds, Yorkshire, England : Peepal Tree
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
'The way I see it, a country with a stupid shape like this one can't have too much smart people in it.' On the contrary, as Reuben's diatribe reveals, 'paper-bag shaped' Trinidad is full of schemers and dreamers. Maharaj's characters struggle heroically, though sometimes comically and oddly, to make their mark on the earth. It is as if the more frustrating their outward circumstances, the more intense their inner lives. Bashir Ali, the librarian, has developed an intimate relationship with his books, and a passionate hatred of their borrowers. 'Bhaji and rice! You put bhaji and rice on top of Virginia!' Hoobnath Hingoo, the metalwork technician, imagines a dire fate for the arrogant young engineers who lord it around the oil refinery. 'Barbecue the whole side of them. Grill them nice and black. Afterwards we could have a sale. Grill engineers. Going cheap. Eat as much as you like...' And of course there is Roop, the writer, who wants to escape from his gas station 'to write that book... about everything I ever thought of since I born.' Anyone who enjoys the comedies of V.S. Naipaul will find great pleasure in Maharaj's elegant and arresting style, but they will also find in Maharaj a profound empathy and understanding of his characters and their world. In the process, he gives a rewarding and insightful portrayal of the Indo-Trinidadian world in the late 20th century. Rabindranth Maharaj was born in Trinidad. He now lives and teaches in Toronto. Several further collections of his stories have been published in Canada.
LGBTQ America Today [3 volumes]
Author: John Charles Hawley
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 031308730X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1430
Book Description
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer culture is a vibrant and rapidly evolving segment of the American mosaic. This book gives students and general readers a current guide to the people and issues at the forefront of contemporary LGBTQ America. Included are more than 600 alphabetically arranged entries on literature and the arts, associations and organizations, individuals, law and public policy concerns, health and relationships, sexual issues, and numerous other topics. Entries are written by distinguished authorities and cite works for further reading, and the encyclopedia closes with a selected, general bibliography. Students in social studies, history, and literature classes will welcome this book's illumination of American cultural diversity. LGBTQ Americans have endured many struggles, and during the last decade in particular they have made tremendous contributions to our multicultural society. Drawing on the expertise of numerous expert contributors, this book gives students and general readers a current overview of contemporary LGBTQ American culture. Sweeping in scope, the encyclopedia looks at literature and the arts, associations and organizations, individuals, law and public policy concerns, health and relationships, sexual practices, and various other areas. Entries cite works for further reading, and the encyclopedia closes with a selected, general bibliography. While extensive biographical entries give readers a sense of the lives of prominent lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer Americans, the many topical entries provide full coverage of the challenges and contributions for which these people are known. The encyclopedia supports the social studies curriculum by helping students learn about cultural diversity, and it supports the literature curriculum by helping students learn about LGBTQ writers and their works.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 031308730X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1430
Book Description
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer culture is a vibrant and rapidly evolving segment of the American mosaic. This book gives students and general readers a current guide to the people and issues at the forefront of contemporary LGBTQ America. Included are more than 600 alphabetically arranged entries on literature and the arts, associations and organizations, individuals, law and public policy concerns, health and relationships, sexual issues, and numerous other topics. Entries are written by distinguished authorities and cite works for further reading, and the encyclopedia closes with a selected, general bibliography. Students in social studies, history, and literature classes will welcome this book's illumination of American cultural diversity. LGBTQ Americans have endured many struggles, and during the last decade in particular they have made tremendous contributions to our multicultural society. Drawing on the expertise of numerous expert contributors, this book gives students and general readers a current overview of contemporary LGBTQ American culture. Sweeping in scope, the encyclopedia looks at literature and the arts, associations and organizations, individuals, law and public policy concerns, health and relationships, sexual practices, and various other areas. Entries cite works for further reading, and the encyclopedia closes with a selected, general bibliography. While extensive biographical entries give readers a sense of the lives of prominent lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer Americans, the many topical entries provide full coverage of the challenges and contributions for which these people are known. The encyclopedia supports the social studies curriculum by helping students learn about cultural diversity, and it supports the literature curriculum by helping students learn about LGBTQ writers and their works.
St Mawr and Other Stories
Author: D. H. Lawrence
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521294256
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
St Mawr and Other Stories is newly edited from Lawrence's original manuscripts and typescripts.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521294256
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
St Mawr and Other Stories is newly edited from Lawrence's original manuscripts and typescripts.
Boyhood Stories of Famous Men
Author: Katherine Dunlap Cather
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3867414289
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
A colletion of tales that focus the childhood experiences of famous historical figures, including Titian, Chopin, Mozart, del Sarto and Murillo. "The facts that make up the tales have been gathered through many years and in many places, some from libraries in great American cities and universities, some from dusty manuscripts in museums and private collections across the sea, some from the lips of peasants who repeated legends handed down from the olden time. ... May they lead you into the fascinating world of melody and color; may they open magic gates for you." (Katherine Dunlap Cather). Reprint of the original edition from 1917. With illustrations from M. L. Bower.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3867414289
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
A colletion of tales that focus the childhood experiences of famous historical figures, including Titian, Chopin, Mozart, del Sarto and Murillo. "The facts that make up the tales have been gathered through many years and in many places, some from libraries in great American cities and universities, some from dusty manuscripts in museums and private collections across the sea, some from the lips of peasants who repeated legends handed down from the olden time. ... May they lead you into the fascinating world of melody and color; may they open magic gates for you." (Katherine Dunlap Cather). Reprint of the original edition from 1917. With illustrations from M. L. Bower.
LaWanda's Journey and Other Stories
Author: cynthia j. (c.j.) williams
Publisher: Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency
ISBN: 1681815303
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 78
Book Description
LaWanda’s Journey and Other Stories is a compilation of twelve individual short stories. These inspiring tales cover such issues as grief, loss, aging, abuse, and redemption. In the book’s short story titled “LaWanda’s Journey,” LaWanda is a young woman learning to overcome her past. Juanita, in “Christmas Star,” is dealing with grief over her dad’s passing by trying to be positive as she learns to let go. Althea, in “Handful of Quiet,” is rebooting her life. While cycling to work, she finds herself coping with traffic. “Queen of Starting Over” tells of dealing with age discrimination on the job, and how one woman makes a Robert Frost decision about “The Road Not Taken.” Society’s indifference with the displaced elderly is revealed in “Shoulda Followed My Notion.” Daphne, in “Unspoken,” chooses to pursue the joyful peace that comes from a positively focused attitude. “Where Angels Brightly Go” features Sandy, who as a child endured verbal abuse from her mother. Now she refuses to let her past influence her future. An elderly couple and their perspectives on life take center stage in “Reject.” And “Uniquely Me” shows how positive affirmation from family members can help a child become a star. This wonderful collection of Christian stories considers the many journeys we travel in life. Says the author, “I wrote this collection of short stories to reveal how God’s love can shine even in the little everyday things. I hope the reader takes away from it how to walk with shoes of peace in difficult times, or as Mother Theresa once said, “to do little things with great love.”
Publisher: Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency
ISBN: 1681815303
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 78
Book Description
LaWanda’s Journey and Other Stories is a compilation of twelve individual short stories. These inspiring tales cover such issues as grief, loss, aging, abuse, and redemption. In the book’s short story titled “LaWanda’s Journey,” LaWanda is a young woman learning to overcome her past. Juanita, in “Christmas Star,” is dealing with grief over her dad’s passing by trying to be positive as she learns to let go. Althea, in “Handful of Quiet,” is rebooting her life. While cycling to work, she finds herself coping with traffic. “Queen of Starting Over” tells of dealing with age discrimination on the job, and how one woman makes a Robert Frost decision about “The Road Not Taken.” Society’s indifference with the displaced elderly is revealed in “Shoulda Followed My Notion.” Daphne, in “Unspoken,” chooses to pursue the joyful peace that comes from a positively focused attitude. “Where Angels Brightly Go” features Sandy, who as a child endured verbal abuse from her mother. Now she refuses to let her past influence her future. An elderly couple and their perspectives on life take center stage in “Reject.” And “Uniquely Me” shows how positive affirmation from family members can help a child become a star. This wonderful collection of Christian stories considers the many journeys we travel in life. Says the author, “I wrote this collection of short stories to reveal how God’s love can shine even in the little everyday things. I hope the reader takes away from it how to walk with shoes of peace in difficult times, or as Mother Theresa once said, “to do little things with great love.”