Raymond and Hannah

Raymond and Hannah PDF Author: Stephen Marche
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780156032575
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 220

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Raymond and Hannah

Raymond and Hannah PDF Author: Stephen Marche
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780156032575
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 220

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Amuse Girl

Amuse Girl PDF Author: Hannah Raymond-Cox
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781911570608
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Hungry? Sad? Horny? Homesick? Lovesick? Hungry? Hungry? Hungry? Amuse Girl, Hannah Raymond-Cox's debut collection, is a full fine dining experience, from a poem for an oyster fork to a one about a slice of tomato. Weird, wonder-filled, and bittersweet, the book invites the reader to dip in and take a quick taste.

Ray

Ray PDF Author: Barry Hannah
Publisher: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN: 1555846459
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 132

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“A shorthand epic of extraordinary power . . . A novel of brilliant particulars and dizzying juxtapositions” from the acclaimed southern author of Geronimo Rex (Newsweek). Nominated for the American Book Award, Ray is the bizarre, hilarious, and consistently adventurous story of a life on the edge. Dr. Ray—a womanizer, small-town drunk, vigilante, poet, adoring husband—is a man trying to make sense of life in the twentieth century. In flight from the death he dealt flying over Vietnam, Dr. Ray struggles with those bound to him by need, sickness, lunacy, by blood and by love. “This novel hangs in the memory like a fishhook. It will haunt you long after you have finally put it down. Barry Hannah is a talent to reckon with, and I can only hope that Ray finds an audience it deserves.” —Harry Crews, The Washington Post Book World

Literature for the People

Literature for the People PDF Author: Raymond Gonzi
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 131

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Literature for the People was the inspiration and creation of Maltese journalist, writer and editor, Raymond Fenech Gonzi after many years of contributing poetry to among others, various Canadian, English, American, Cuban and Maltese newspapers, magazines and anthologies. Through this journey, he discovered Pablo Neruda and his famous love poems and Milton Acorn, the Canadian people's poet who believed: that poetry should be written in everyday language which everybody can understand and enjoy. More importantly the experiences shared in any writers works should allow readers to assimilate these to their own. The magazine is produced in Malta.

Yonder Stands Your Orphan

Yonder Stands Your Orphan PDF Author: Barry Hannah
Publisher: Grove Press
ISBN: 9780802138934
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 354

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Man Mortimer, "a pimp and casino playboy who resembles dead country singer Conway Twitty", seeks revenge against a small Mississippi community.

Shining at the Bottom of the Sea

Shining at the Bottom of the Sea PDF Author: Stephen Marche
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1440635021
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 260

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A virtuoso performance from a literary talent who crafts a vividly drawn history of an imaginary country. In this stylistic tour de force, Stephen Marche creates the entire culture of a place called Sanjania—its national symbols, political movements, folk heroes, a group of writers dubbed "fictioneers," a national airline called Sanjair, and a rich literary history. This richly detailed story takes you to an island nation whose English-speaking citizens draw upon the English, American, Australian, and Canadian literary traditions. Marche has compiled this brilliant anthology, guiding the reader from the rough-and-tumble pamphlets of 1870s Sanjania to the extraordinary longing of the writings of the Sanjanian Diaspora. These works develop into a Rashomon-like story, introducing us to illustrious Sanjanian figures such as the repentant prostitute Pigeon Blackhat and the magically talented couple Caesar and Endurance. The result is a vibrant evocation of a country—from the birth pangs of its first settlers and their hardy vernacular to its revolutionary years and all the way to the present.

Some of the Parts

Some of the Parts PDF Author: Hannah Barnaby
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 0553539655
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 304

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For fans of Love Letters to the Dead and I’ll Give You the Sun comes a heartrending story of a teen who sets out on an unusual quest. For months, Tallie McGovern has been coping with the death of her older brother the only way she knows how: by smiling bravely and pretending that she’s okay. She’s managed to fool her friends, her parents, and her teachers, yet she can’t even say his name out loud: “N—” is as far as she can go. Then Tallie comes across a letter in the mail, and it only takes two words to crack the careful façade she’s built up: ORGAN DONOR. Two words that had apparently been checked off on her brother’s driver’s license; two words that her parents knew about—and never revealed to her. All at once, everything Tallie thought she understood about her brother’s death feels like a lie. And although a part of her knows he’s gone forever, another part of her wonders if finding the letter might be a sign. That if she can just track down the people on the other end of those two words, it might somehow bring him back. Hannah Barnaby’s deeply moving novel asks questions there are no easy answers to as it follows a family struggling to pick up the pieces, and a girl determined to find the brother she wasn’t ready to let go of.

Underwriters of the United States

Underwriters of the United States PDF Author: Hannah Farber
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469663643
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 350

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Unassuming but formidable, American maritime insurers used their position at the pinnacle of global trade to shape the new nation. The international information they gathered and the capital they generated enabled them to play central roles in state building and economic development. During the Revolution, they helped the U.S. negotiate foreign loans, sell state debts, and establish a single national bank. Afterward, they increased their influence by lending money to the federal government and to its citizens. Even as federal and state governments began to encroach on their domain, maritime insurers adapted, preserving their autonomy and authority through extensive involvement in the formation of commercial law. Leveraging their claims to unmatched expertise, they operated free from government interference while simultaneously embedding themselves into the nation's institutional fabric. By the early nineteenth century, insurers were no longer just risk assessors. They were nation builders and market makers. Deeply and imaginatively researched, Underwriters of the United States uses marine insurers to reveal a startlingly original story of risk, money, and power in the founding era.

Hannah

Hannah PDF Author: Raymond W. Clarke
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780646525426
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 226

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Hannah is based on the life story of Hannah Stanley, a convict woman, born in Deptford, England in June 1788. Convicted of Grand Theft, her sentence is remitted from death to transportation for life to New South Wales. Hannah never again saw the land of her birth and the green hills of Kent. She lies in a lonely country cemetery where only the noisy, wheeling crows break the silence of the Australian bush that she learned to love...

The Half-Life

The Half-Life PDF Author: Jon Raymond
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 159691887X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 370

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When Cookie Figowitz, the cook for a party of volatile fur trappers trekking through the Oregon Territory in the 1820s, joins up with the refugee Henry Brown, the two begin a wild ride that takes them from the virgin territory of the West all the way to China and back again. One hundred and sixty years later, Tina Plank, an unhappy teenager, meets Trixie, a girl with a troubled past, and the two become fast friends. But when two skeletons are accidentally unearthed from their common ground, the lives of Tina and Trixie, Cookie and Henry are brought together in unexpected and startling ways. Jonathan Raymond attended Swarthmore College. He was an editor at Plazm magazine and received his M.F.A. from New School University. He currently lives in Brooklyn, New York. "A marvelous novel...a mystery as rich as the history of the Oregon territory itself."-Vanity Fair "Raymond nimbly interweaves these parallel tales and manages to surprise...[a] subtle portrait of friendship and loss...[from] an astute, patient observer."-Entertainment Weekly "Raymond's debut novel teems with carefully researched period details, intrigue...yet it never feels overstuffed."-Washington Post "With The Half-Life, [Raymond] has come home prospecting for literary gold ...Oregon has given him something back."-San Francisco Chronicle "Quietly stunning...Raymond is a kind of stealth bomber of the epic."-Newsday "Terrific...The Half-Life gazes upon those fierce but ephemeral attachments that evade the history books. Multiple plots elegantly veer across the sprawling terrain."-Village Voice