Author: Mark Harris
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803272262
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Private Jacob Epp falls in love with his commanding officer's girl, goes AWOL to be alone with her, and finds himself at odds with the entire United States Army during the Second World War
Something about a Soldier
Author: Mark Harris
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803272262
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Private Jacob Epp falls in love with his commanding officer's girl, goes AWOL to be alone with her, and finds himself at odds with the entire United States Army during the Second World War
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803272262
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Private Jacob Epp falls in love with his commanding officer's girl, goes AWOL to be alone with her, and finds himself at odds with the entire United States Army during the Second World War
Something about a Soldier
Author: Charles Ray Willeford
Publisher: Random House (NY)
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Publisher: Random House (NY)
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Something about a Soldier
Author: Christopher Harris Bulteel
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1939-1945
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
This is a biography of a gentle man, a hero who regarded himself as being wholly unsuitable to play the role of the military fighting man. Haunted by the idea of early death, the author's thoughts became focused on a spiritual journey that led him to a faith that became the cornerstone of his life.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1939-1945
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
This is a biography of a gentle man, a hero who regarded himself as being wholly unsuitable to play the role of the military fighting man. Haunted by the idea of early death, the author's thoughts became focused on a spiritual journey that led him to a faith that became the cornerstone of his life.
Cataloging Sheet Music
Author: Music Library Association. Working Group on Sheet Music Cataloging Guidelines
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 9780810847507
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Discussions are designed to expand the music cataloger's understanding of publishing practices peculiar to sheet music. While much of the content emphasizes the description of the music, there are also sections devoted to subject access to illustrations, first-line/chorus/refrain text, illustrators, engravers, and publishers, and extensive reproductions of title pages from the 18th through mid-20th centuries, accompanied by examples of the cataloging, are also included.
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 9780810847507
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Discussions are designed to expand the music cataloger's understanding of publishing practices peculiar to sheet music. While much of the content emphasizes the description of the music, there are also sections devoted to subject access to illustrations, first-line/chorus/refrain text, illustrators, engravers, and publishers, and extensive reproductions of title pages from the 18th through mid-20th centuries, accompanied by examples of the cataloging, are also included.
Thinking about the Playwright
Author: Eric Bentley
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 9780810107335
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
Essays discuss Ibsen, Strindberg, O'Neill, Brecht, Shaw, acting styles, theater controversies, translation, regional drama, and the nature of theater.
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 9780810107335
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
Essays discuss Ibsen, Strindberg, O'Neill, Brecht, Shaw, acting styles, theater controversies, translation, regional drama, and the nature of theater.
The House of Margie
Author: Frank Stiffel
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1462842720
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 481
Book Description
This book is a tale about a Polish Jew who, after having survived Hitlers Wannsee Crusade, comes to America in search of a new life. A husband and a father of a baby-daughter, Franco, as his Tuscan wife calls him, is faced with an exceptionally hard chore. He must break the wall of his Holocaust nightmares: gas chambers of Treblinka and Auschwitz and dangerous encounters with Gestapo, SS and Schupo, before the precious rug leading to his dreamed of House of Margie finally stops unfolding. The pages you are about to read are warp and woof of that tapestry.This book is a tale about a Polish Jew who, after having survived Hitlers Wannsee Crusade, comes to America in search of a new life. A husband and a father of a baby-daughter, Franco, as his Tuscan wife calls him, is faced with an exceptionally hard chore. He must break the wall of his Holocaust nightmares: gas chambers of Treblinka and Auschwitz and dangerous encounters with Gestapo, SS and Schupo, before the precious rug leading to his dreamed of House of Margie finally stops unfolding. The pages you are about to read are warp and woof of that tapestry.
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1462842720
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 481
Book Description
This book is a tale about a Polish Jew who, after having survived Hitlers Wannsee Crusade, comes to America in search of a new life. A husband and a father of a baby-daughter, Franco, as his Tuscan wife calls him, is faced with an exceptionally hard chore. He must break the wall of his Holocaust nightmares: gas chambers of Treblinka and Auschwitz and dangerous encounters with Gestapo, SS and Schupo, before the precious rug leading to his dreamed of House of Margie finally stops unfolding. The pages you are about to read are warp and woof of that tapestry.This book is a tale about a Polish Jew who, after having survived Hitlers Wannsee Crusade, comes to America in search of a new life. A husband and a father of a baby-daughter, Franco, as his Tuscan wife calls him, is faced with an exceptionally hard chore. He must break the wall of his Holocaust nightmares: gas chambers of Treblinka and Auschwitz and dangerous encounters with Gestapo, SS and Schupo, before the precious rug leading to his dreamed of House of Margie finally stops unfolding. The pages you are about to read are warp and woof of that tapestry.
Granta 81
Author: Granta
Publisher: Granta
ISBN: 1905881746
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
As with the first two Young British Novelists issues, Granta's 2003 list was compelling and prescient. The issue introduced readers to fiction by Zadie Smith, David Mitchell and Monica Ali. From Ben Rice's story of marital crises among Koi fanciers to Hari Kunzru's account of the development of a Bollywood-inspired computer virus, the issue showcases the multifacetedness and vibrancy of contemporary British literature.
Publisher: Granta
ISBN: 1905881746
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
As with the first two Young British Novelists issues, Granta's 2003 list was compelling and prescient. The issue introduced readers to fiction by Zadie Smith, David Mitchell and Monica Ali. From Ben Rice's story of marital crises among Koi fanciers to Hari Kunzru's account of the development of a Bollywood-inspired computer virus, the issue showcases the multifacetedness and vibrancy of contemporary British literature.
Sal Mineo
Author: Michael Gregg Michaud
Publisher: Crown
ISBN: 0307716678
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
Sal Mineo is probably most well-known for his unforgettable, Academy Award–nominated turn opposite James Dean in Rebel Without a Cause and his tragic murder at the age of thirty-seven. Finally, in this riveting new biography filled with exclusive, candid interviews with both Mineo’s closest female and male lovers and never-before-published photographs, Michael Gregg Michaud tells the full story of this remarkable young actor’s life, charting his meteoric rise to fame and turbulent career and private life. One of the hottest stars of the 1950s, Mineo grew up as the son of Sicilian immigrants in a humble Bronx flat. But by age eleven, he appeared on Broadway in Tennessee Williams’s The Rose Tattoo, and then as Prince Chulalongkorn in the original Broadway production of The King and I starring Yul Brynner and Gertrude Lawrence. This sultry-eyed, dark-haired male ingénue of sorts appeared on the cover of every major magazine, thousands of star-struck fans attended his premieres, and millions bought his records, which included several top-ten hits. His life offstage was just as exhilarating: full of sports cars, motor boats, famous friends, and some of the most beautiful young actresses in Hollywood. But it was fourteen-year-old Jill Haworth, his costar in Exodus—the film that delivered one of the greatest acting roles of his life and earned him another Academy Award nomination and a Golden Globe win—with whom he fell in love and moved to the West Coast. But by the 1960s, a series of professional missteps and an increasingly tumultuous private life reversed his fortunes. By the late sixties and early seventies, grappling with the repercussions of publicly admitting his homosexuality and struggling to reinvent himself from an aging teen idol, Mineo turned toward increasingly self-destructive behavior. Yet his creative impulses never foundered. He began directing and producing controversial off-Broadway plays that explored social and sexual taboos. He also found personal happiness in a relationship with male actor Courtney Burr. Tragically, on the cusp of turning a new page in his life, Mineo’s life was cut short in a botched robbery. Revealing a charming, mischievous, creative, and often scandalous side of Mineo few have known before now, Sal Mineo is an intimate, moving biography of a distinctive Hollywood star.
Publisher: Crown
ISBN: 0307716678
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
Sal Mineo is probably most well-known for his unforgettable, Academy Award–nominated turn opposite James Dean in Rebel Without a Cause and his tragic murder at the age of thirty-seven. Finally, in this riveting new biography filled with exclusive, candid interviews with both Mineo’s closest female and male lovers and never-before-published photographs, Michael Gregg Michaud tells the full story of this remarkable young actor’s life, charting his meteoric rise to fame and turbulent career and private life. One of the hottest stars of the 1950s, Mineo grew up as the son of Sicilian immigrants in a humble Bronx flat. But by age eleven, he appeared on Broadway in Tennessee Williams’s The Rose Tattoo, and then as Prince Chulalongkorn in the original Broadway production of The King and I starring Yul Brynner and Gertrude Lawrence. This sultry-eyed, dark-haired male ingénue of sorts appeared on the cover of every major magazine, thousands of star-struck fans attended his premieres, and millions bought his records, which included several top-ten hits. His life offstage was just as exhilarating: full of sports cars, motor boats, famous friends, and some of the most beautiful young actresses in Hollywood. But it was fourteen-year-old Jill Haworth, his costar in Exodus—the film that delivered one of the greatest acting roles of his life and earned him another Academy Award nomination and a Golden Globe win—with whom he fell in love and moved to the West Coast. But by the 1960s, a series of professional missteps and an increasingly tumultuous private life reversed his fortunes. By the late sixties and early seventies, grappling with the repercussions of publicly admitting his homosexuality and struggling to reinvent himself from an aging teen idol, Mineo turned toward increasingly self-destructive behavior. Yet his creative impulses never foundered. He began directing and producing controversial off-Broadway plays that explored social and sexual taboos. He also found personal happiness in a relationship with male actor Courtney Burr. Tragically, on the cusp of turning a new page in his life, Mineo’s life was cut short in a botched robbery. Revealing a charming, mischievous, creative, and often scandalous side of Mineo few have known before now, Sal Mineo is an intimate, moving biography of a distinctive Hollywood star.
The Old Gray Mare
Author: John S Eberhardt
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595344372
Category : Cavalry horses
Languages : en
Pages : 189
Book Description
The 112th Field Artillery Regiment (Horse-Drawn) was a New Jersey Army National Guard unit called into active military service in January of 1941. The Old Gray Mare describes life in this unit, the Army's last horse-drawn field artillery unit, through the eyes of a young lieutenant during the Plattsburg Training Maneuvers in 1939 and during the 112th's post-activation training at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. The Old Gray Mare provides an insightful picture of the daily routine in garrison and the field of a horse unit during what proved to be the final year of its existence. It describes the close bonds formed between men and their horses, the care and handling required to maintain a well-trained horse artillery unit, the pride and professionalism developed by "serving the guns", and the archaic, social environment that surrounded this elite formation. It gives witness to the dreaded man and horse-killing stampede of crazed animals as well as the excitement of the polo field that was so much a part of the fabric of the horse artillery. The Old Gray Mare is a light and entertaining book that gives a nostalgic view of a military unit forced out of existence by advances in technology at the beginning of World War II. It is an interesting and unique snapshot of a time and a life-style that no longer exists.
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595344372
Category : Cavalry horses
Languages : en
Pages : 189
Book Description
The 112th Field Artillery Regiment (Horse-Drawn) was a New Jersey Army National Guard unit called into active military service in January of 1941. The Old Gray Mare describes life in this unit, the Army's last horse-drawn field artillery unit, through the eyes of a young lieutenant during the Plattsburg Training Maneuvers in 1939 and during the 112th's post-activation training at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. The Old Gray Mare provides an insightful picture of the daily routine in garrison and the field of a horse unit during what proved to be the final year of its existence. It describes the close bonds formed between men and their horses, the care and handling required to maintain a well-trained horse artillery unit, the pride and professionalism developed by "serving the guns", and the archaic, social environment that surrounded this elite formation. It gives witness to the dreaded man and horse-killing stampede of crazed animals as well as the excitement of the polo field that was so much a part of the fabric of the horse artillery. The Old Gray Mare is a light and entertaining book that gives a nostalgic view of a military unit forced out of existence by advances in technology at the beginning of World War II. It is an interesting and unique snapshot of a time and a life-style that no longer exists.
Laura Warholic
Author: Alexander Theroux
Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
ISBN: 1560977981
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 889
Book Description
A brilliant satire from one of the great novelists of his time. In his first novel in nearly twenty years, Alexander Theroux, National Book Award Nominee, returns with a compendious satire, a bold and inquisitorial circuit-breaking examination of love and hate, of rejection and forgiveness, of trust and romantic disappointment, of the terrors of contemporary life. Eugene Eyestones, an erudite sex columnist for a Boston cultural magazine, becomes enmeshed in the messy life of a would-be artist named Laura Warholic, who, repulsing and fascinating him at the same time, becomes a mirror in which he not only sees himself but through which he is forced to face his own demons. Not only does she inadvertently supply him with material for his columns, but she exemplifies all that Eugene considers wrong with contemporary America (of which the publishing profession and its recognizable denizens serves as a microcosm)a garish and dunce-filled Babylon that Theroux scorches with inventive and relentless satire. Nostalgic for the old days and old manners, a way of life lost to grace, loving from afar a mysterious beauty named Rapunzel Wisht, Eugene fights against the rising tide of stupidity, focusing on Laura in the hope that by saving her he can validate his ethical beliefs. But feckless Laura and the colorful but bizarre cast of characters surrounding Eugenebrilliant bigots, nihilists, Generation-X slackers and zanies of all sexual persuasionsthreaten to pull him under, leading to the novel's unforgettable conclusion, a climax of betrayal and redemption of Dostoevskyan power.
Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
ISBN: 1560977981
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 889
Book Description
A brilliant satire from one of the great novelists of his time. In his first novel in nearly twenty years, Alexander Theroux, National Book Award Nominee, returns with a compendious satire, a bold and inquisitorial circuit-breaking examination of love and hate, of rejection and forgiveness, of trust and romantic disappointment, of the terrors of contemporary life. Eugene Eyestones, an erudite sex columnist for a Boston cultural magazine, becomes enmeshed in the messy life of a would-be artist named Laura Warholic, who, repulsing and fascinating him at the same time, becomes a mirror in which he not only sees himself but through which he is forced to face his own demons. Not only does she inadvertently supply him with material for his columns, but she exemplifies all that Eugene considers wrong with contemporary America (of which the publishing profession and its recognizable denizens serves as a microcosm)a garish and dunce-filled Babylon that Theroux scorches with inventive and relentless satire. Nostalgic for the old days and old manners, a way of life lost to grace, loving from afar a mysterious beauty named Rapunzel Wisht, Eugene fights against the rising tide of stupidity, focusing on Laura in the hope that by saving her he can validate his ethical beliefs. But feckless Laura and the colorful but bizarre cast of characters surrounding Eugenebrilliant bigots, nihilists, Generation-X slackers and zanies of all sexual persuasionsthreaten to pull him under, leading to the novel's unforgettable conclusion, a climax of betrayal and redemption of Dostoevskyan power.