Author : Robert Gover
Publisher : New York: Grove Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 49,19 MB
Release : 1962
Category : African American teenage girls
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A stuffy college sophomore and a teenaged African American prostitute spend a weekend together caught up in cultural misunderstandings.
Author : Robert Gover
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Page : 192 pages
File Size : 35,83 MB
Release : 1980
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Author : Robert Gover
Publisher :
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 27,10 MB
Release : 1965
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Publisher : Grove/Atlantic
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 15,4 MB
Release : 1980
Category : African American teenage girls
ISBN :
In 1961, after gathering praise from European critics, this decidedly American novel by upstart Robert Gover dared to rudely jerk the udders of a few of our sacred cows, while tickling ribcages of the more open-minded. Irreverent as all works of satire are duty-bound to be, One Hundred Dollar Misunderstanding returns for new readers to savor and enjoy.College sophomore J.C. Holland, fortified by his father's simplistic traditionalism, enters a Negro house of ill-repute to meet Kitty, a 14-year-old prostitute. Sort of ashamed to be there, but feeling the need for the kind of educational complement such a place can provide, young J.C. flashes a gift from his aunt, a hundred dollar bill, to Kitty, who's just sure that's only the first dividend of her invessment. Misunderstanding from them both abounds, along with a funny and insightful tour of the hypocracy underpinning modern morality.
Author : Robert Gover
Publisher : Hopewell Publications
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 30,22 MB
Release : 2012-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781933435398
One of Gover's key novels, Poorboy at the Party, runs against the publicly sold and traded American Dream, where a party among privileged kids breaks down into a orgy of sex and destruction. Randy, a social-climbing college kid attends a party populated by a combination of old and new money kids who should be Randy's peers by any definition other than wealth. Even though they share the same educational background, poor boy Randy becomes an immediate outcast in this tight-set, narrow-minded heirs to American power.
Author : Gordon Williams
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 1650 pages
File Size : 48,54 MB
Release : 2001-09-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0485113937
Providing an alphabetical listing of sexual language and locution in 16th and 17th-century English, this book draws especially on the more immediate literary modes: the theatre, broadside ballads, newsbooks and pamphlets. The aim is to assist the reader of Shakespearean and Stuart literature to identify metaphors and elucidate meanings; and more broadly, to chart, through illustrative quotation, shifting and recurrent linguistic patterns. Linguistic habit is closely bound up with the ideas and assumptions of a period, and the figurative language of sexuality across this period is highly illuminating of socio-cultural change as well as linguistic development. Thus the entries offer as much to those concerned with social history and the history of ideas as to the reader of Shakespeare or Dryden.
Author : Terry Southern
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 18,26 MB
Release : 2012-11-06
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1453265899
DIVDIVAn unforgettable chronicle of an era by one of America’s wildest—and most brilliant—comedic and literary minds/divDIV /divDIVEdited by Nile Southern and Josh Alan Friedman/divDIV Starting with his landing at the Battle of the Bulge, Terry Southern showed a knack for winding up in the world’s most interesting places. He spent the fifties on the Left Bank of Paris, the sixties in mod London, and the seventies touring with the Rolling Stones. When the Beatles rolled out their famous pantheon of movers and shakers for the cover of Sgt. Pepper, Terry was the only guy wearing shades. When police broke heads during the ’68 democratic convention in Chicago, Southern was there to bear witness. And when Stanley Kubrick needed someone to make Dr. Strangelove funny, there was only one man qualified for the job. /divDIV /divDIVAs the golden age of rock ’n’ roll wound down, Southern never stopped writing, and his prose never lost its trademark intensity. Filthy, fierce, and relentlessly dazzling, these letters, essays, stories, and interviews are an electric testament to one of the keenest wits of the twentieth century./divDIV /divDIVThis ebook features an illustrated biography of Terry Southern including rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the author’s estate./div/div
Author : Dan Wakefield
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 30,15 MB
Release : 2016-02-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1497665884
Even an East Coast academic can’t resist Hollywood’s siren allure in this hilarious novel of the dangers that come with fame and fortune Literature professor Perry Moss has slowly amassed it all: a steady job at Haviland College in southern Vermont, a successful writing career, and a beautiful wife, Jane. But everything changes when a television exec contacts Perry about turning one of his short stories into a network series, and he and Jane leave the comforts of the Northeast to give it a shot in Hollywood. The pilot episode a hit, Perry becomes infatuated with his glamorous new lifestyle of swimming pools, sultry actresses, and cocaine-fueled parties. He’s willing to do anything for success in Tinseltown—even if it threatens to poison his marriage and send his wife packing. National bestselling author Dan Wakefield, who is no stranger to Hollywood—he created the NBC series James at 15 in 1977—fills Perry’s vividly illustrated escapades with insider nods and quirky asides that make for a gripping read. With Wakefield’s signature blend of wit and compassion, Selling Out balances laugh-out-loud humor with great emotional depth.
Author : Francis L. K. Hsu
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 25,20 MB
Release : 1980-12-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780824807573
"A rare combination of scientific and down-to-earth language, of objective analysis and philosophy, overlain with a concern for the future of all men, and a recognition of the need for understanding between the people of two great cultures." --Library Journal
Author : Dennis McDougal
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
Page : 427 pages
File Size : 18,7 MB
Release : 2014-05-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1630260673
The ultimate biography of the musical icon. A groundbreaking and vibrant look at the music hero to generations, DYLAN: The Biography digs deep into Bob Dylan lore—including subjects Dylan himself left out of Chronicles: Volume One. DYLAN: The Biography focuses on why this beloved artist has touched so many souls—and on how both Dylan and his audience have changed along the way. Bob Dylan is an international bestselling artist, a Pulitzer Prize–winning author, and an Oscar winner for "Things Have Changed." His career is stronger and more influential than ever. How did this happen, given the road to oblivion he seemed to choose more than two decades ago? What transformed a heroin addict into one of the most astonishing literary and musical icons in American history? At 72 years of age, Dylan's final act of his career is more intriguing than ever—and classic biographies like Bob Dylan: Behind the Shades and even his own Chronicles: Volume One came too soon to cover this remarkable new chapter in Dylan's life. Through extensive interviews and conversations with Dylan's friends, family, sidemen, and fans, Los Angeles Times journalist Dennis McDougal crafts an unprecedented understanding of Dylan and the intricate story behind the myths. Was his romantic life, especially with Sara Dylan, much more complicated than it appears? Was his motorcycle accident a cover for drug rehab? What really happened to Dylan when his career crumbled, and how did he find his way back? To what does he attribute his astonishing success? McDougal's meticulous research and comprehensive interviews offer a revealing new understanding of these long-standing questions—and of the current chapter Dylan continually writes in his life and career.
