Author: J. David Simons
Publisher: Saraband
ISBN: 1915089859
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 357
Book Description
The personal collides with the political in this literary tour-de-force. In the 1950s, an eminent British writer pens a novel questioning the ethics of the nuclear destruction at Hiroshima and Nagasaki—but soon he’s trying to outrun his own past. Hakone, Japan, 2003. An eminent British writer in his 70s, Sir Edward Strathairn, returns to a resort in the Japanese mountains where, in his youth, he spent a beautiful, snowed-in winter. It was there he wrote his best-selling novel, The Waterwheel, accusing America of being in denial about the horrific aftermath of the Tokyo firebombings and the nuclear destruction at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. London, England, 1952. A young Edward falls in love with an avant-garde American artist, Macy. After their tumultuous relationship and breakup, he heads for Japan, where he is smitten again as he writes the novel that makes him famous. This is as much a thrilling romance as it is a sensitive exploration of blame, power and guilt in postwar America and Japan. With a narrator whose behavior strikes the national conscience as much as his own, An Exquisite Sense of What is Beautiful will stay with readers long after the final page is turned.
An Exquisite Sense of What is Beautiful
Author: J. David Simons
Publisher: Saraband
ISBN: 1915089859
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 357
Book Description
The personal collides with the political in this literary tour-de-force. In the 1950s, an eminent British writer pens a novel questioning the ethics of the nuclear destruction at Hiroshima and Nagasaki—but soon he’s trying to outrun his own past. Hakone, Japan, 2003. An eminent British writer in his 70s, Sir Edward Strathairn, returns to a resort in the Japanese mountains where, in his youth, he spent a beautiful, snowed-in winter. It was there he wrote his best-selling novel, The Waterwheel, accusing America of being in denial about the horrific aftermath of the Tokyo firebombings and the nuclear destruction at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. London, England, 1952. A young Edward falls in love with an avant-garde American artist, Macy. After their tumultuous relationship and breakup, he heads for Japan, where he is smitten again as he writes the novel that makes him famous. This is as much a thrilling romance as it is a sensitive exploration of blame, power and guilt in postwar America and Japan. With a narrator whose behavior strikes the national conscience as much as his own, An Exquisite Sense of What is Beautiful will stay with readers long after the final page is turned.
Publisher: Saraband
ISBN: 1915089859
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 357
Book Description
The personal collides with the political in this literary tour-de-force. In the 1950s, an eminent British writer pens a novel questioning the ethics of the nuclear destruction at Hiroshima and Nagasaki—but soon he’s trying to outrun his own past. Hakone, Japan, 2003. An eminent British writer in his 70s, Sir Edward Strathairn, returns to a resort in the Japanese mountains where, in his youth, he spent a beautiful, snowed-in winter. It was there he wrote his best-selling novel, The Waterwheel, accusing America of being in denial about the horrific aftermath of the Tokyo firebombings and the nuclear destruction at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. London, England, 1952. A young Edward falls in love with an avant-garde American artist, Macy. After their tumultuous relationship and breakup, he heads for Japan, where he is smitten again as he writes the novel that makes him famous. This is as much a thrilling romance as it is a sensitive exploration of blame, power and guilt in postwar America and Japan. With a narrator whose behavior strikes the national conscience as much as his own, An Exquisite Sense of What is Beautiful will stay with readers long after the final page is turned.
The Delphian Quarterly
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Languages : en
Pages : 570
Book Description
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 570
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Progress
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 862
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 862
Book Description
What a Difference a Day Makes
Author: Shirley Baker
Publisher: Xulon Press
ISBN: 160957821X
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Shirley Baker is a PHI-KAPPA-PHI graduate of Cal State, Fullerton, CA with a MS in Education (an emphasis in reading) and she has fifteen hours Horace Rackham Graduate School, University of Michigan (School Administration). She has been a leader in community work including: representative for Chamber of Commerce, President (2000-2001) for Placentia Roundtable Women's Club and member of finance group.Shirley and her husband have taught in private and public schools. As an educator she has taught at all levels, except high school, including teaching student teachers at Cal State Fullerton. Shirley and her husband have been involved in church ministry working with both adults and children.Shirley and Allen Baker now reside in Palm Desert, CA. They are actively involved with Southwest Community Church in Indian Wells, CA.
Publisher: Xulon Press
ISBN: 160957821X
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Shirley Baker is a PHI-KAPPA-PHI graduate of Cal State, Fullerton, CA with a MS in Education (an emphasis in reading) and she has fifteen hours Horace Rackham Graduate School, University of Michigan (School Administration). She has been a leader in community work including: representative for Chamber of Commerce, President (2000-2001) for Placentia Roundtable Women's Club and member of finance group.Shirley and her husband have taught in private and public schools. As an educator she has taught at all levels, except high school, including teaching student teachers at Cal State Fullerton. Shirley and her husband have been involved in church ministry working with both adults and children.Shirley and Allen Baker now reside in Palm Desert, CA. They are actively involved with Southwest Community Church in Indian Wells, CA.
Greece and the Golden Horn
Author: Stephen Olin
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Category : Constantinople
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
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Category : Constantinople
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
House Beautiful
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Category : Architecture, Domestic
Languages : en
Pages : 450
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Category : Architecture, Domestic
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
Grasshopper Country
Author: David C. Rentz
Publisher: UNSW Press
ISBN: 9780868400631
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
This text provides complete coverage of the classification, biology and ecology of Australian orthopteroid insects. It discusses identifying features, collecting techniques, culture methods and preservation techniques. It also includes sounds from over 130 species.
Publisher: UNSW Press
ISBN: 9780868400631
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
This text provides complete coverage of the classification, biology and ecology of Australian orthopteroid insects. It discusses identifying features, collecting techniques, culture methods and preservation techniques. It also includes sounds from over 130 species.
Journal
Author: California. Legislature
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Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 403
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Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 403
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The Microscope; Being a Popular Description of the Most Instructive and Beautiful Objects for Exhibition
Author: afterwards LANE CLARKE LANE (Louisa)
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
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Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
The Great Gatsby + The Beautiful and Damned
Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 580
Book Description
The Great Gatsby, set in the town of West Egg on prosperous Long Island in the summer of 1922, concerns the young and mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby and his quixotic passion and obsession for the beautiful former debutante Daisy Buchanan. The novel explores themes of decadence, idealism, resistance to change, social upheaval, and excess, creating a portrait of the Jazz Age or the Roaring Twenties that has been described as a cautionary tale regarding the American Dream._x000D_ The Beautiful and Damned tells the story of Anthony Patch, a 1910s socialite and presumptive heir to a tycoon's fortune, and his courtship and relationship with his wife Gloria Gilbert. It describes his brief service in the Army during World War I, and the couple's post-war partying life in New York, and his later alcoholism. The novel explores and portrays New York café society and the American Eastern elite during the Jazz Age before and after "the Great War" and in the early 1920s.
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 580
Book Description
The Great Gatsby, set in the town of West Egg on prosperous Long Island in the summer of 1922, concerns the young and mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby and his quixotic passion and obsession for the beautiful former debutante Daisy Buchanan. The novel explores themes of decadence, idealism, resistance to change, social upheaval, and excess, creating a portrait of the Jazz Age or the Roaring Twenties that has been described as a cautionary tale regarding the American Dream._x000D_ The Beautiful and Damned tells the story of Anthony Patch, a 1910s socialite and presumptive heir to a tycoon's fortune, and his courtship and relationship with his wife Gloria Gilbert. It describes his brief service in the Army during World War I, and the couple's post-war partying life in New York, and his later alcoholism. The novel explores and portrays New York café society and the American Eastern elite during the Jazz Age before and after "the Great War" and in the early 1920s.