Author: James P. Sloan
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780380010868
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The Case History of Comrade V
Author: James P. Sloan
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780380010868
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780380010868
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The Case History of Comrade V.
Author: James Park Sloan
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
LIFE
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
LIFE Magazine is the treasured photographic magazine that chronicled the 20th Century. It now lives on at LIFE.com, the largest, most amazing collection of professional photography on the internet. Users can browse, search and view photos of today’s people and events. They have free access to share, print and post images for personal use.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
LIFE Magazine is the treasured photographic magazine that chronicled the 20th Century. It now lives on at LIFE.com, the largest, most amazing collection of professional photography on the internet. Users can browse, search and view photos of today’s people and events. They have free access to share, print and post images for personal use.
Search and Clear
Author: William J. Searle
Publisher: Popular Press
ISBN: 9780879724290
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Search and Clear demonstrates that the seeds of war were implicit in American culture, distinguishes between literature spawned by Vietnam and that of other conflicts, reviews the literary merits of works both well and little known, and explores the assumptions behind and the persistence of stereotypes associated with the consequences of the Vietnam War. It examines the role of women in fiction, the importance of gender in Vietnam representation, and the mythic patterns in Oliver Stone's Platoon. Essayists sharply scrutinize American values, conduct, and conscience as they are revealed in the craft of Tim O'Brien, Philip Caputo, Michael Herr, Stephen Wright, David Rabe, Bruce Weigl, and others.
Publisher: Popular Press
ISBN: 9780879724290
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Search and Clear demonstrates that the seeds of war were implicit in American culture, distinguishes between literature spawned by Vietnam and that of other conflicts, reviews the literary merits of works both well and little known, and explores the assumptions behind and the persistence of stereotypes associated with the consequences of the Vietnam War. It examines the role of women in fiction, the importance of gender in Vietnam representation, and the mythic patterns in Oliver Stone's Platoon. Essayists sharply scrutinize American values, conduct, and conscience as they are revealed in the craft of Tim O'Brien, Philip Caputo, Michael Herr, Stephen Wright, David Rabe, Bruce Weigl, and others.
Complete Historical Handbook of the Pulitzer Prize System, 1917-2000
Author: Heinz Dietrich Fischer
Publisher: K.G. Saur Verlag
ISBN: 9783598301872
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1428
Book Description
No detailed description available for "Complete Historical Handbook of the Pulitzer Prize System 1917-2000".
Publisher: K.G. Saur Verlag
ISBN: 9783598301872
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1428
Book Description
No detailed description available for "Complete Historical Handbook of the Pulitzer Prize System 1917-2000".
Literary Disruptions
Author: Jerome Klinkowitz
Publisher: Urbana : University of Illinois Press
ISBN:
Category : American fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Publisher: Urbana : University of Illinois Press
ISBN:
Category : American fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Jerzy Kosinski
Author: James Park Sloan
Publisher: Crossroad Press
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 555
Book Description
He was hailed as one of the world’s great writers and intellectuals, with novels like The Painted Bird and Being There. He was acclaimed as a heroic survivor and witness of the Holocaust. He won high literary awards, made the bestseller lists, taught and lectured in prestigious universities, was feted in high society, and became an intimate of the rich and famous in a jet-set world of glitter and glamour. Then, in an expose that sent shock waves throughout the intellectual community, he was denounced as a C.I.A. tool, a supreme con man, and a literary fraud, igniting a firestorm of controversy that consumed his reputation and culminated in his headline-making suicide. Now this compelling biography cuts to the complex heart of the truth about the man and the myth that was Jerzy Kosinski. In so doing, it unfolds a story of reality and deception as fascinating, as moving, as painfully honest, and as revelatory as the most gripping of novels. With research that extends from the Poland of Kosinki’s birth and early life to scrupulous examinations of every allegation against Kosinski throughout his career, James Park Sloan, who knew Kosinski for twenty years before his death, leaves no stone unturned and no mask intact. The facts of Kosinski’s horrific childhood Holocaust experiences are sorted out from the fictions of The Painted Bird. Sloan traces Kosinski’s years as an emigre student at Columbia; his marriage to an alcoholic American millionairess; his first literary mark with anti-Communist writings; his award-winning novels and the controversy surrounding their authorship; his triumphant climb to success on an increasingly shaky stairway of half-truths; his compulsive sexual adventuring in New York's erotic underground; his relationship with such figures as Norman Mailer, Roman Polanski, Henry Kissinger, and others in the political and cultural limelight; and the Gotterdammerung of his life and reputation when an article in the Village Voice cast all he had done in doubt despite his denials and his circle’s support. A dazzling investigation of the tantalizing mystery of an extraordinary man and the tangled roots of his artistry, enriched by frank and intimate testimonies of Kosinski’s widow, Kiki, his friends and lovers, his editors and “helpers”, his defenders and detractors, Jerzy Kosinski is intriguing biography, equal to its subject.
Publisher: Crossroad Press
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 555
Book Description
He was hailed as one of the world’s great writers and intellectuals, with novels like The Painted Bird and Being There. He was acclaimed as a heroic survivor and witness of the Holocaust. He won high literary awards, made the bestseller lists, taught and lectured in prestigious universities, was feted in high society, and became an intimate of the rich and famous in a jet-set world of glitter and glamour. Then, in an expose that sent shock waves throughout the intellectual community, he was denounced as a C.I.A. tool, a supreme con man, and a literary fraud, igniting a firestorm of controversy that consumed his reputation and culminated in his headline-making suicide. Now this compelling biography cuts to the complex heart of the truth about the man and the myth that was Jerzy Kosinski. In so doing, it unfolds a story of reality and deception as fascinating, as moving, as painfully honest, and as revelatory as the most gripping of novels. With research that extends from the Poland of Kosinki’s birth and early life to scrupulous examinations of every allegation against Kosinski throughout his career, James Park Sloan, who knew Kosinski for twenty years before his death, leaves no stone unturned and no mask intact. The facts of Kosinski’s horrific childhood Holocaust experiences are sorted out from the fictions of The Painted Bird. Sloan traces Kosinski’s years as an emigre student at Columbia; his marriage to an alcoholic American millionairess; his first literary mark with anti-Communist writings; his award-winning novels and the controversy surrounding their authorship; his triumphant climb to success on an increasingly shaky stairway of half-truths; his compulsive sexual adventuring in New York's erotic underground; his relationship with such figures as Norman Mailer, Roman Polanski, Henry Kissinger, and others in the political and cultural limelight; and the Gotterdammerung of his life and reputation when an article in the Village Voice cast all he had done in doubt despite his denials and his circle’s support. A dazzling investigation of the tantalizing mystery of an extraordinary man and the tangled roots of his artistry, enriched by frank and intimate testimonies of Kosinski’s widow, Kiki, his friends and lovers, his editors and “helpers”, his defenders and detractors, Jerzy Kosinski is intriguing biography, equal to its subject.
Novel / Fiction Awards 1917-1994
Author: Heinz-D. Fischer
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110972115
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 389
Book Description
The School of Journalism at Columbia University has awarded the Pulitzer Prize since 1917. Nowadays there are prizes in 21 categories from the fields of journalism, literature and music. The Pulitzer Prize Archive presentsthe history of this award from its beginnings to the present: In parts A toE the awarding oftheprize in each category is documented, commented and arranged chronologically. Part F covers the history of the prize biographically and bibliographically. Part G provides the background to thedecisions.
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110972115
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 389
Book Description
The School of Journalism at Columbia University has awarded the Pulitzer Prize since 1917. Nowadays there are prizes in 21 categories from the fields of journalism, literature and music. The Pulitzer Prize Archive presentsthe history of this award from its beginnings to the present: In parts A toE the awarding oftheprize in each category is documented, commented and arranged chronologically. Part F covers the history of the prize biographically and bibliographically. Part G provides the background to thedecisions.
Saturday Review
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1340
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1340
Book Description
War Games
Author: James Park Sloan
Publisher: Crossroad Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 177
Book Description
This is a wise, dryly humorous, and perfectly conceived novel about a man during the years of the Vietnam War. The protagonist leaves college to enlist in the army and is sent to Southeast Asia. He is a man curiously beset by small cares. He worries about his teeth. Venereal disease may cost him his combat tour, so he endures it in silence. His stoicism rewarded, he is like a passive observer in the mire of Vietnam, in bureaucracy and battle, in the depths of callousness and fear. When sent on a mission at last, he commits the most barbarous (or the most honorable) act possible in the war. War: games? honor? duty? reality? The answers he finds—surprising even to himself—are revealed in a succession of events which force him toward a crisis of decision. His response to the crisis may well be a definitive comment on the modern situation.
Publisher: Crossroad Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 177
Book Description
This is a wise, dryly humorous, and perfectly conceived novel about a man during the years of the Vietnam War. The protagonist leaves college to enlist in the army and is sent to Southeast Asia. He is a man curiously beset by small cares. He worries about his teeth. Venereal disease may cost him his combat tour, so he endures it in silence. His stoicism rewarded, he is like a passive observer in the mire of Vietnam, in bureaucracy and battle, in the depths of callousness and fear. When sent on a mission at last, he commits the most barbarous (or the most honorable) act possible in the war. War: games? honor? duty? reality? The answers he finds—surprising even to himself—are revealed in a succession of events which force him toward a crisis of decision. His response to the crisis may well be a definitive comment on the modern situation.