Author: Nanni Balestrini
Publisher: Verso Books
ISBN: 1784783692
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
The explosive novel of Italy’s revolutionary 1969 It was 1969, and temperatures were rising across the factories of the north as workers demanded better pay and conditions. Soon, discontent would erupt in what became known as Italy’s Hot Autumn. A young worker from the impoverished south arrives at Fiat’s Mirafiori factory in Turin, where his darker complexion begins to fade from the fourteen-hour workdays in sweltering industrial heat. His bosses try to withhold his wages. Our cynical, dry-witted narrator will not bend to their will. “I want everything, everything that’s owed to me,” he tells them. “Nothing more and nothing less, because you don’t mess with me.” Around him, students are holding secret meetings and union workers begin halting work on the assembly lines, crippling the Mirafiori factory with months of continuous strikes. Before long, barricades line the roads, tear gas wafts into private homes, and the slogan “We Want Everything” is ringing through the streets. Wrought in spare and measured prose, Balestrini’s novel depicts an explosive uprising. Introduced by Rachel Kushner, the author of the best-selling The Flamethrowers, We Want Everything is the incendiary fictional account of events that led to a decade of revolt.
We Want Everything
Author: Nanni Balestrini
Publisher: Verso Books
ISBN: 1784783692
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
The explosive novel of Italy’s revolutionary 1969 It was 1969, and temperatures were rising across the factories of the north as workers demanded better pay and conditions. Soon, discontent would erupt in what became known as Italy’s Hot Autumn. A young worker from the impoverished south arrives at Fiat’s Mirafiori factory in Turin, where his darker complexion begins to fade from the fourteen-hour workdays in sweltering industrial heat. His bosses try to withhold his wages. Our cynical, dry-witted narrator will not bend to their will. “I want everything, everything that’s owed to me,” he tells them. “Nothing more and nothing less, because you don’t mess with me.” Around him, students are holding secret meetings and union workers begin halting work on the assembly lines, crippling the Mirafiori factory with months of continuous strikes. Before long, barricades line the roads, tear gas wafts into private homes, and the slogan “We Want Everything” is ringing through the streets. Wrought in spare and measured prose, Balestrini’s novel depicts an explosive uprising. Introduced by Rachel Kushner, the author of the best-selling The Flamethrowers, We Want Everything is the incendiary fictional account of events that led to a decade of revolt.
Publisher: Verso Books
ISBN: 1784783692
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
The explosive novel of Italy’s revolutionary 1969 It was 1969, and temperatures were rising across the factories of the north as workers demanded better pay and conditions. Soon, discontent would erupt in what became known as Italy’s Hot Autumn. A young worker from the impoverished south arrives at Fiat’s Mirafiori factory in Turin, where his darker complexion begins to fade from the fourteen-hour workdays in sweltering industrial heat. His bosses try to withhold his wages. Our cynical, dry-witted narrator will not bend to their will. “I want everything, everything that’s owed to me,” he tells them. “Nothing more and nothing less, because you don’t mess with me.” Around him, students are holding secret meetings and union workers begin halting work on the assembly lines, crippling the Mirafiori factory with months of continuous strikes. Before long, barricades line the roads, tear gas wafts into private homes, and the slogan “We Want Everything” is ringing through the streets. Wrought in spare and measured prose, Balestrini’s novel depicts an explosive uprising. Introduced by Rachel Kushner, the author of the best-selling The Flamethrowers, We Want Everything is the incendiary fictional account of events that led to a decade of revolt.
All We Want is Everything
Author: Andrew F. Sullivan
Publisher: Arp Books
ISBN: 9781894037846
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The debut collection of short stories by Canadian author Andrew F. Sullivan. Includes 20 stories.
Publisher: Arp Books
ISBN: 9781894037846
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The debut collection of short stories by Canadian author Andrew F. Sullivan. Includes 20 stories.
Everything You Want
Author: Barbara Shoup
Publisher: North Star Editions, Inc.
ISBN: 0738729191
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
With high school mercifully drawing to a close, Emma's only question is, "What next? And can it please be completely unlike what happened before?" Then one lucky little lotto ticket seems to give the answer—there are suddenly fifty million reasons for Emma to be happy. So what’s the problem?
Publisher: North Star Editions, Inc.
ISBN: 0738729191
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
With high school mercifully drawing to a close, Emma's only question is, "What next? And can it please be completely unlike what happened before?" Then one lucky little lotto ticket seems to give the answer—there are suddenly fifty million reasons for Emma to be happy. So what’s the problem?
The Unseen
Author: Nanni Balestrini
Publisher: Verso Books
ISBN: 1844677672
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
For a brief explosive period in the mid-1970s, the young and the unemployed of Italy’s cities joined the workers in an unexpectedly militant movement known simply as Autonomy (Autonomia). Its “politics of refusal” united its opponents behind draconian measures more severe than any seen since the war. Nanni Balestrini, the poet of youth rebellion, himself a victim of that repression, has invented a remarkable fictional form to express the hopes and conflicts of the movement. In spare but vivid prose, The Unseen follows Autonomy’s trajectory through the eyes of a single working-class protagonist—from high-school rebellion, squatting and attempts to set up a free radio station to arrest and the brutalities of imprisonment. This is a powerful and gripping novel: a rare evocation of the intensity of commitment, the passion of politics.
Publisher: Verso Books
ISBN: 1844677672
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
For a brief explosive period in the mid-1970s, the young and the unemployed of Italy’s cities joined the workers in an unexpectedly militant movement known simply as Autonomy (Autonomia). Its “politics of refusal” united its opponents behind draconian measures more severe than any seen since the war. Nanni Balestrini, the poet of youth rebellion, himself a victim of that repression, has invented a remarkable fictional form to express the hopes and conflicts of the movement. In spare but vivid prose, The Unseen follows Autonomy’s trajectory through the eyes of a single working-class protagonist—from high-school rebellion, squatting and attempts to set up a free radio station to arrest and the brutalities of imprisonment. This is a powerful and gripping novel: a rare evocation of the intensity of commitment, the passion of politics.
The Unwanted Sound of Everything We Want
Author: Garret Keizer
Publisher: PublicAffairs
ISBN: 9781610391108
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Noise is usually defined as unwanted sound: loud music from a neighbor, the honk of a taxicab, the roar of a supersonic jet. But as Garret Keizer illustrates in this probing examination, noise is as much about what we want as about what we seek to avoid. In a journey that leads us from the primeval Tanzanian veldt to wind farms in Maine, Keizer invites us to listen to noise in history, in popular culture, and not least of all in our own backyards. He follows noise throughout history and across the globe. He considers what it has to tell us about today's most pressing issues, from social inequality to climate change. The result is guaranteed to change how we hear the world, and how we measure our own personal volume within it.
Publisher: PublicAffairs
ISBN: 9781610391108
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Noise is usually defined as unwanted sound: loud music from a neighbor, the honk of a taxicab, the roar of a supersonic jet. But as Garret Keizer illustrates in this probing examination, noise is as much about what we want as about what we seek to avoid. In a journey that leads us from the primeval Tanzanian veldt to wind farms in Maine, Keizer invites us to listen to noise in history, in popular culture, and not least of all in our own backyards. He follows noise throughout history and across the globe. He considers what it has to tell us about today's most pressing issues, from social inequality to climate change. The result is guaranteed to change how we hear the world, and how we measure our own personal volume within it.
Everything You Want Me to Be
Author: Mindy Mejia
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1501123424
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
"Hattie Hoffman has spent her whole life playing many parts: the good student, the good daughter, the good girlfriend. When she's found brutally stabbed to death, the tragedy rips right through the fabric of her small-town community. Full of twists and turns, Everything You Want Me to Be reconstructs a year in the life of a dangerously mesmerizing young woman, during which a small town's darkest secrets come to the forefront, and she inches closer and closer to her death."--
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1501123424
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
"Hattie Hoffman has spent her whole life playing many parts: the good student, the good daughter, the good girlfriend. When she's found brutally stabbed to death, the tragedy rips right through the fabric of her small-town community. Full of twists and turns, Everything You Want Me to Be reconstructs a year in the life of a dangerously mesmerizing young woman, during which a small town's darkest secrets come to the forefront, and she inches closer and closer to her death."--
Everything We Want
Author: Wayne-Daniel Berard
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781983551550
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 62
Book Description
With the world on the verge of total economic collapse, a President initiates a radical solution: anyone working full-time gets an EWW card-Everything We Want. With it they can buy anything, as much as they want, as often as they want. The economy booms. But not everyone is thrilled with this utopia; the ARTS-poets, painters, musicians-can't prove their work hours, and the GUTS-wandering ascetics-reject all materialism. Plus, mysterious serial killers are culling the ranks of the EWWS. It's Detective Third Class Norah Glantz's first big case, and she finds herself working with ART Bezazle (an attractive, eccentric artist) and his companion m�me (an empath who mimes your innermost feelings). With them, Norah will face the murderous Wolfpack as well as questions of her own core identity.
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781983551550
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 62
Book Description
With the world on the verge of total economic collapse, a President initiates a radical solution: anyone working full-time gets an EWW card-Everything We Want. With it they can buy anything, as much as they want, as often as they want. The economy booms. But not everyone is thrilled with this utopia; the ARTS-poets, painters, musicians-can't prove their work hours, and the GUTS-wandering ascetics-reject all materialism. Plus, mysterious serial killers are culling the ranks of the EWWS. It's Detective Third Class Norah Glantz's first big case, and she finds herself working with ART Bezazle (an attractive, eccentric artist) and his companion m�me (an empath who mimes your innermost feelings). With them, Norah will face the murderous Wolfpack as well as questions of her own core identity.
The Hard Crowd
Author: Rachel Kushner
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1982157690
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
A career-spanning anthology of essays on politics and culture by the best-selling author of The Flamethrowers includes entries discussing a Palestinian refugee camp, an illegal Baja Peninsula motorcycle race, and the 1970s Fiat factory wildcat strikes.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1982157690
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
A career-spanning anthology of essays on politics and culture by the best-selling author of The Flamethrowers includes entries discussing a Palestinian refugee camp, an illegal Baja Peninsula motorcycle race, and the 1970s Fiat factory wildcat strikes.
Everything I Want
Author: Natalie Barnes
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781519707796
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
I'm standing here in complete darkness. Static fills my ears and all I hear is the muffled sound of the chanting and screaming of the crowd. I can hear my own heart beating in my ears. I don't know whether to laugh, yell, cry, scream, or even puke. I'm completely frozen. Everything plays out around me and I know it's time. The panic inside me slowly fades away and adrenaline starts pumping heated blood through my veins. Instead of feeling weak, I begin to feel strong. Looking over my shoulder, I notice him. Tristan. He's watching me intently. Tristan is the misery I crave. He's probably waiting for me to fuck up. Yes, I'm nervous as hell, but I won't let him see it, or feed off of it. No . . . this time I will starve him, and show everyone here what I can do. The shadow of my smile releases the last of the fear. I glance back at him one more time. He's still standing there, like a statue. Stepping to edge, I know now what can break him. Tonight, I'll risk everything ...
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781519707796
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
I'm standing here in complete darkness. Static fills my ears and all I hear is the muffled sound of the chanting and screaming of the crowd. I can hear my own heart beating in my ears. I don't know whether to laugh, yell, cry, scream, or even puke. I'm completely frozen. Everything plays out around me and I know it's time. The panic inside me slowly fades away and adrenaline starts pumping heated blood through my veins. Instead of feeling weak, I begin to feel strong. Looking over my shoulder, I notice him. Tristan. He's watching me intently. Tristan is the misery I crave. He's probably waiting for me to fuck up. Yes, I'm nervous as hell, but I won't let him see it, or feed off of it. No . . . this time I will starve him, and show everyone here what I can do. The shadow of my smile releases the last of the fear. I glance back at him one more time. He's still standing there, like a statue. Stepping to edge, I know now what can break him. Tonight, I'll risk everything ...
We Love Pizza
Author: Elenia Beretta
Publisher: Little Gestalten
ISBN: 9783967047059
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Who doesn't like pizza? This book gives an entertaining introduction to the dish which connects the world. Life does not work without Pizza. Learn about the beginnings in Naples and how it conquered the bellies of the world - as many cultures and countries have their own interpretation of it. We Love Pizza delivers the full box including different types of pizza from Italy to North America - including a slice of migration history -, different toppings from classic to surprisingly strange combinations, different ways of eating a pizza over to places you can eat pizza, concluding with the fact, that no matter what pizza you like most, the tastiest is the one you share with your friends and family.
Publisher: Little Gestalten
ISBN: 9783967047059
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Who doesn't like pizza? This book gives an entertaining introduction to the dish which connects the world. Life does not work without Pizza. Learn about the beginnings in Naples and how it conquered the bellies of the world - as many cultures and countries have their own interpretation of it. We Love Pizza delivers the full box including different types of pizza from Italy to North America - including a slice of migration history -, different toppings from classic to surprisingly strange combinations, different ways of eating a pizza over to places you can eat pizza, concluding with the fact, that no matter what pizza you like most, the tastiest is the one you share with your friends and family.