Author: Leslie Jamison
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439157871
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 303
Book Description
From the author of the New York Times bestselling essay collection The Empathy Exams and the memoir The Recovering, Leslie Jamison’s “exquisitely beautiful” (San Francisco Chronicle) novel about three generations of women and the inescapable brutality of love. As a young woman, Tilly flees home for the hollow underworld of Nevada, looking for pure souls and finding nothing but bad habits. One day, after Tilly has spent nearly thirty years without a family, drinking herself to the brink of death, her niece Stella—who has been leading her own life of empty promise in New York City—arrives on the doorstep of Tilly’s desert trailer. The Gin Closet unravels the strange and powerful intimacy that forms between them. With an uncanny ear for dialogue and a witty, unflinching candor about sex, love, and power, Leslie Jamison reminds us that no matter how unexpected its turns, the life we’re given is all we have: the cruelties that unhinge us, the beauties that clarify us, the addictions that deform us, those fleeting possibilities of grace that fade as quickly as they come. The Gin Closet marks the debut of a stunning new talent in fiction.
The Gin Closet
Author: Leslie Jamison
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439157871
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 303
Book Description
From the author of the New York Times bestselling essay collection The Empathy Exams and the memoir The Recovering, Leslie Jamison’s “exquisitely beautiful” (San Francisco Chronicle) novel about three generations of women and the inescapable brutality of love. As a young woman, Tilly flees home for the hollow underworld of Nevada, looking for pure souls and finding nothing but bad habits. One day, after Tilly has spent nearly thirty years without a family, drinking herself to the brink of death, her niece Stella—who has been leading her own life of empty promise in New York City—arrives on the doorstep of Tilly’s desert trailer. The Gin Closet unravels the strange and powerful intimacy that forms between them. With an uncanny ear for dialogue and a witty, unflinching candor about sex, love, and power, Leslie Jamison reminds us that no matter how unexpected its turns, the life we’re given is all we have: the cruelties that unhinge us, the beauties that clarify us, the addictions that deform us, those fleeting possibilities of grace that fade as quickly as they come. The Gin Closet marks the debut of a stunning new talent in fiction.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439157871
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 303
Book Description
From the author of the New York Times bestselling essay collection The Empathy Exams and the memoir The Recovering, Leslie Jamison’s “exquisitely beautiful” (San Francisco Chronicle) novel about three generations of women and the inescapable brutality of love. As a young woman, Tilly flees home for the hollow underworld of Nevada, looking for pure souls and finding nothing but bad habits. One day, after Tilly has spent nearly thirty years without a family, drinking herself to the brink of death, her niece Stella—who has been leading her own life of empty promise in New York City—arrives on the doorstep of Tilly’s desert trailer. The Gin Closet unravels the strange and powerful intimacy that forms between them. With an uncanny ear for dialogue and a witty, unflinching candor about sex, love, and power, Leslie Jamison reminds us that no matter how unexpected its turns, the life we’re given is all we have: the cruelties that unhinge us, the beauties that clarify us, the addictions that deform us, those fleeting possibilities of grace that fade as quickly as they come. The Gin Closet marks the debut of a stunning new talent in fiction.
Toys in the Closet
Author: Trent D. Pendley
Publisher: Page Publishing Inc
ISBN: 1681396335
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 848
Book Description
Toys in the Closet, is a historical fiction set in the sensuous singing sands of the Indiana dunes on the southern shores of Lake Michigan. This is the journey of Nathan Franklin whose family participated in the most vicious confrontation between environmentalists and industrialist over the Hoosier coast. Nathan, a Jewish writer is out-of-season visiting his beach home, on Christmas Day ‘97 and exploring the story book rooms of Brighton House, a repository of so many works of art by artists who have painted the dunes and a treasury of family heirlooms each with vignettes of a landed past. Nathan though lonesome on Christmas in the aftermath of a winter blizzard realizes he isn’t alone at all surrounded by his treasures and a very protecting lost lover. A story full of Hoosier pride, social justice, as viewed through the eyes of an accomplished Jewish contemporary at the end of his family’s American Dream.
Publisher: Page Publishing Inc
ISBN: 1681396335
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 848
Book Description
Toys in the Closet, is a historical fiction set in the sensuous singing sands of the Indiana dunes on the southern shores of Lake Michigan. This is the journey of Nathan Franklin whose family participated in the most vicious confrontation between environmentalists and industrialist over the Hoosier coast. Nathan, a Jewish writer is out-of-season visiting his beach home, on Christmas Day ‘97 and exploring the story book rooms of Brighton House, a repository of so many works of art by artists who have painted the dunes and a treasury of family heirlooms each with vignettes of a landed past. Nathan though lonesome on Christmas in the aftermath of a winter blizzard realizes he isn’t alone at all surrounded by his treasures and a very protecting lost lover. A story full of Hoosier pride, social justice, as viewed through the eyes of an accomplished Jewish contemporary at the end of his family’s American Dream.
Infinity Closet
Author: Robert Campbell
Publisher: Tolsun Books
ISBN: 9781948800433
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
Poetry. LGBTQIA Studies. Robert Campbell's INFINITY CLOSET blazes with humor; heartbreak; and tenderness. In these acutely imagined coming-of-age lyrics; the queer body blooms into knife and forest pilgrim; robot and mystical storyteller. Set at the crossroads where inquiry and wonder intersect; "no wiser; but blind and full of music;" Campbell's light pours in from all sides.
Publisher: Tolsun Books
ISBN: 9781948800433
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
Poetry. LGBTQIA Studies. Robert Campbell's INFINITY CLOSET blazes with humor; heartbreak; and tenderness. In these acutely imagined coming-of-age lyrics; the queer body blooms into knife and forest pilgrim; robot and mystical storyteller. Set at the crossroads where inquiry and wonder intersect; "no wiser; but blind and full of music;" Campbell's light pours in from all sides.
Spoiler Alert: The Hero Dies
Author: Michael Ausiello
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1501134965
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Television industry journalist Michael Ausiello tells the story of his final year with his partner of thirteen years, Kit Cowan--diagnosed with a rare and very aggressive form of neuroendocrine cancer--while revisiting the many memories that preceded it, and describes how their undeniably powerful bond carried them through all manner of difficulties, with humor always front and center of the relationship.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1501134965
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Television industry journalist Michael Ausiello tells the story of his final year with his partner of thirteen years, Kit Cowan--diagnosed with a rare and very aggressive form of neuroendocrine cancer--while revisiting the many memories that preceded it, and describes how their undeniably powerful bond carried them through all manner of difficulties, with humor always front and center of the relationship.
Hero
Author: Perry Moore
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 055255586X
Category : Family secrets
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
Thom Creed, the gay son of a disowned superhero, finds that he, too, has special powers and is asked to join the very League that rejected his father, and it is there that Thom finds other misfits whom he can finally trust.
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 055255586X
Category : Family secrets
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
Thom Creed, the gay son of a disowned superhero, finds that he, too, has special powers and is asked to join the very League that rejected his father, and it is there that Thom finds other misfits whom he can finally trust.
The Generic Closet
Author: Alfred L. Martin, Jr.
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253054605
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Even after a rise in gay and Black representation and production on TV in the 1990s, the sitcom became a "generic closet," restricting Black gay characters with narrative tropes. Drawing from 20 interviews with credited episode writers, key show-runners, and Black gay men, The Generic Closet situates Black-cast sitcoms as a unique genre that uses Black gay characters in service of the series' heterosexual main cast. Alfred L. Martin, Jr., argues that the Black community is considered to be antigay due to misrepresentation by shows that aired during the family viewing hour and that were written for the imagined, "traditional" Black family. Martin considers audience reception, industrial production practices, and authorship to unpack the claim that Black gay characters are written into Black-cast sitcoms such as Moesha, Good News, and Let's Stay Together in order to closet Black gayness. By exploring how systems of power produce ideologies about Black gayness, The Generic Closet deconstructs the concept of a monolithic Black audience and investigates whether this generic closet still exists.
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253054605
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Even after a rise in gay and Black representation and production on TV in the 1990s, the sitcom became a "generic closet," restricting Black gay characters with narrative tropes. Drawing from 20 interviews with credited episode writers, key show-runners, and Black gay men, The Generic Closet situates Black-cast sitcoms as a unique genre that uses Black gay characters in service of the series' heterosexual main cast. Alfred L. Martin, Jr., argues that the Black community is considered to be antigay due to misrepresentation by shows that aired during the family viewing hour and that were written for the imagined, "traditional" Black family. Martin considers audience reception, industrial production practices, and authorship to unpack the claim that Black gay characters are written into Black-cast sitcoms such as Moesha, Good News, and Let's Stay Together in order to closet Black gayness. By exploring how systems of power produce ideologies about Black gayness, The Generic Closet deconstructs the concept of a monolithic Black audience and investigates whether this generic closet still exists.
Little Dinosaur, the Hero
Author: Literacy Footprints Incorporated
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781932570267
Category : Readers (Primary)
Languages : en
Pages : 12
Book Description
When Baby Skunk takes an unplanned ride in a boat, Little Dinosaur helps him out.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781932570267
Category : Readers (Primary)
Languages : en
Pages : 12
Book Description
When Baby Skunk takes an unplanned ride in a boat, Little Dinosaur helps him out.
The Closet of Discarded Dreams
Author: Rudy Ch Garcia
Publisher: Damnation Books, LLC
ISBN: 9781615727551
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
A young Chicano battles insanity in a surreal world where everyone endlessly relives humankind's abandoned dreams. Except for him. Will VN vet fraggers, Lenny Bruce, a Midget Godzilla, vampires, Neanderthals, a Black leper, Marilyn Monroe, Che, and Chrisie the Bruiser prove foes or allies? When the rebellious captive discovers special powers, his desire to escape contends with empathy for the Dreampeople. But can he create his own identity and rally them to overcome the Closet's mysterious secret?
Publisher: Damnation Books, LLC
ISBN: 9781615727551
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
A young Chicano battles insanity in a surreal world where everyone endlessly relives humankind's abandoned dreams. Except for him. Will VN vet fraggers, Lenny Bruce, a Midget Godzilla, vampires, Neanderthals, a Black leper, Marilyn Monroe, Che, and Chrisie the Bruiser prove foes or allies? When the rebellious captive discovers special powers, his desire to escape contends with empathy for the Dreampeople. But can he create his own identity and rally them to overcome the Closet's mysterious secret?
Quack and the Eggs
Author: Michele Dufresne
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781603433044
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
On Quack's hunt to find someone to play with, he makes an exciting discovery that changes everything about playtime!
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781603433044
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
On Quack's hunt to find someone to play with, he makes an exciting discovery that changes everything about playtime!
Rex Riders
Author: J. P. Carlson
Publisher: Monstrosities Books
ISBN: 9780982579633
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 431
Book Description
Fourteen-year-old Zeke, a mysterious lizard alien, his uncle Jesse, and his crew try to stop a rival rancher's plot to conquer the Wild West using dinosaurs that are being transported back to Earth from another planet.
Publisher: Monstrosities Books
ISBN: 9780982579633
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 431
Book Description
Fourteen-year-old Zeke, a mysterious lizard alien, his uncle Jesse, and his crew try to stop a rival rancher's plot to conquer the Wild West using dinosaurs that are being transported back to Earth from another planet.