Author: Jon Fosse
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781910695531
Category : FICTION
Languages : en
Pages : 153
Book Description
A haunting collection from one of Norway's most celebrated writers.
Scenes from a Childhood
Author: Jon Fosse
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781910695531
Category : FICTION
Languages : en
Pages : 153
Book Description
A haunting collection from one of Norway's most celebrated writers.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781910695531
Category : FICTION
Languages : en
Pages : 153
Book Description
A haunting collection from one of Norway's most celebrated writers.
Murillo
Author: Xanthe Brooke
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
American Girl
Author: Mary Cantwell
Publisher: Penguin Mass Market
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Mary Cantwell, an editor and a popular columnist for the The New York Times, recalls her childhood in the small seaside town of Bristol, Rhode Island, during the 1940s and 50s. Here, too, is the story of a small town girl who loved her home, but felt drawn to a wider world.
Publisher: Penguin Mass Market
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Mary Cantwell, an editor and a popular columnist for the The New York Times, recalls her childhood in the small seaside town of Bristol, Rhode Island, during the 1940s and 50s. Here, too, is the story of a small town girl who loved her home, but felt drawn to a wider world.
Scenes from Early Life
Author: Philip Hensher
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 0865477620
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
From the Man Booker–short-listed author of The Northern Clemency, a family and a nation—Bangladesh—are forged through storytelling, conversation, jokes, feuds, blood, songs, bravery, and sacrifice In late 1970 a boy named Saadi is born into a large, defiantly Bengali family in eastern Pakistan. Months later the country splits in two, in what will become one of the most ferocious twentieth-century civil wars. Saadi tells the story of his childhood and of the ingenious ways his family survived the violence and conflicts: from his aunts stuffing him endlessly with sweets to stop marauding soldiers from hearing him cry, to street games based on American television shows; from the basement compartment his grandfather built to hide his treasured books, pictures, and music until after the war, to the daily gossip about each and every one of the relatives, servants, and neighbors. Scenes from Early Life is a beautifully detailed novel of profound empathy—an attempt to capture the collective memory of a family and a country. At once heartbreaking and surprisingly funny, Scenes from Early Life is based on the life of Philip Hensher's husband, and as such it is at once a memoir, a novel, and a history. As this remarkable writer brings the past to life, we come to feel, vividly and viscerally, that Saadi's family—and its struggles and triumphs—are our own. Scenes form Early Life is the winner of the 2013 Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize for a distinguished work of fiction, non-fiction or poetry, evoking the spirit of a place.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 0865477620
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
From the Man Booker–short-listed author of The Northern Clemency, a family and a nation—Bangladesh—are forged through storytelling, conversation, jokes, feuds, blood, songs, bravery, and sacrifice In late 1970 a boy named Saadi is born into a large, defiantly Bengali family in eastern Pakistan. Months later the country splits in two, in what will become one of the most ferocious twentieth-century civil wars. Saadi tells the story of his childhood and of the ingenious ways his family survived the violence and conflicts: from his aunts stuffing him endlessly with sweets to stop marauding soldiers from hearing him cry, to street games based on American television shows; from the basement compartment his grandfather built to hide his treasured books, pictures, and music until after the war, to the daily gossip about each and every one of the relatives, servants, and neighbors. Scenes from Early Life is a beautifully detailed novel of profound empathy—an attempt to capture the collective memory of a family and a country. At once heartbreaking and surprisingly funny, Scenes from Early Life is based on the life of Philip Hensher's husband, and as such it is at once a memoir, a novel, and a history. As this remarkable writer brings the past to life, we come to feel, vividly and viscerally, that Saadi's family—and its struggles and triumphs—are our own. Scenes form Early Life is the winner of the 2013 Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize for a distinguished work of fiction, non-fiction or poetry, evoking the spirit of a place.
Scenes of Childhood
Author: Sylvia Townsend Warner
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 0571279031
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 171
Book Description
In the course of her brilliant career Sylvia Townsend Warner wrote superbly in many and diverse forms but never penned a memoir, properly speaking. However, from the 1930s to the 1970s she did contribute a series of short reminiscences to the New Yorker. Scenes of Childhood collects and orders those reminiscences, thus forming a volume that reads as a joyous, wry and moving testament to the experience of being alive. The collection evokes a recognisably English world of nannies, butlers, pet podles, public schools, 'good works' and country churches, but the resonances of these stories are universal - funny and touching by turns.
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 0571279031
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 171
Book Description
In the course of her brilliant career Sylvia Townsend Warner wrote superbly in many and diverse forms but never penned a memoir, properly speaking. However, from the 1930s to the 1970s she did contribute a series of short reminiscences to the New Yorker. Scenes of Childhood collects and orders those reminiscences, thus forming a volume that reads as a joyous, wry and moving testament to the experience of being alive. The collection evokes a recognisably English world of nannies, butlers, pet podles, public schools, 'good works' and country churches, but the resonances of these stories are universal - funny and touching by turns.
Mozart
Author: Catherine Brighton
Publisher: Frances Lincoln Childrens Books
ISBN: 9780711216044
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
A biography concentrating on the childhood experiences of the great eighteenth-century composer.
Publisher: Frances Lincoln Childrens Books
ISBN: 9780711216044
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
A biography concentrating on the childhood experiences of the great eighteenth-century composer.
Scenes from Childhood, Op. 15
Author: Robert Schumann
Publisher: Alfred Music
ISBN: 9781457476662
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
A collection of piano solos composed by Robert Schumann.
Publisher: Alfred Music
ISBN: 9781457476662
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
A collection of piano solos composed by Robert Schumann.
Childsplay
Author: Kerry Muir
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN: 9780879101886
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
A selection from over fifty sources including published and unpublished plays, blockbuster movie hits, independent films, foreign films, teleplays, poetry, and diaries.
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN: 9780879101886
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
A selection from over fifty sources including published and unpublished plays, blockbuster movie hits, independent films, foreign films, teleplays, poetry, and diaries.
Magic Eyes
Author: Wendy Ewald
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Nonfiction. Latino/Latina Studies. Photography. MAGIC EYES is a collaboration that grew out of Wendy Ewald's experiences in the village of Raquira in the Colombian Andes between 1982 and 1984. The book combines photographs taken by Ewald and her students with stories told by two local women, Maria Vasquez and her daughter, Alicia. Together, Ewald's students and the Vasquezes present the images and experiences of what Barbara Majuica has called "the rich Andean folk culture, in which magic and nature are inseparable components of equal value." The magic eyes belong to Alicia, who recounts her story of the evil eye, which she associates with the camera lens. Alicia and her mother powerfully convey the difficult life in the squatter settlements outside of Bogata. Great poverty and violence are seen through eyes taught from early in life to notice the magical; the results are deeply poetical. The New York Times has called MAGIC EYES "moving, intimate, and unsparing."
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Nonfiction. Latino/Latina Studies. Photography. MAGIC EYES is a collaboration that grew out of Wendy Ewald's experiences in the village of Raquira in the Colombian Andes between 1982 and 1984. The book combines photographs taken by Ewald and her students with stories told by two local women, Maria Vasquez and her daughter, Alicia. Together, Ewald's students and the Vasquezes present the images and experiences of what Barbara Majuica has called "the rich Andean folk culture, in which magic and nature are inseparable components of equal value." The magic eyes belong to Alicia, who recounts her story of the evil eye, which she associates with the camera lens. Alicia and her mother powerfully convey the difficult life in the squatter settlements outside of Bogata. Great poverty and violence are seen through eyes taught from early in life to notice the magical; the results are deeply poetical. The New York Times has called MAGIC EYES "moving, intimate, and unsparing."
Schumann -- Scenes from Childhood
Author: Willard A. Palmer
Publisher: Alfred Music Publishing
ISBN: 9780739000694
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Whereas Schumann composed the Album for the Young for children, his Scenes from Childhood (Kinderszenen) are reflections of childhood for adults. Like many of his character pieces, Schumann notes that the 13 selections in this set were composed before their titles were assigned. Palmer's scholarly edition includes a table of suggested tempos for the works taken from early editions and from the recorded performances of various artists.
Publisher: Alfred Music Publishing
ISBN: 9780739000694
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Whereas Schumann composed the Album for the Young for children, his Scenes from Childhood (Kinderszenen) are reflections of childhood for adults. Like many of his character pieces, Schumann notes that the 13 selections in this set were composed before their titles were assigned. Palmer's scholarly edition includes a table of suggested tempos for the works taken from early editions and from the recorded performances of various artists.