Book Description
Presents a collection of essays on a life well lived, sharing provocative observations on topics ranging from the challenges of a Brooklyn childhood and the pleasures of baseball to movies and friendship.
Author : Phillip Lopate
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 13,14 MB
Release : 2014-02-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1451696302
Presents a collection of essays on a life well lived, sharing provocative observations on topics ranging from the challenges of a Brooklyn childhood and the pleasures of baseball to movies and friendship.
Author : Jim Carrington
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 15,18 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1408802716
A cleverly constructed narrative that reveals three points of view- those of Gary, constantly victimised by the school bully in a nasty, name-calling and vindictive way, the bully's friend David, and a new girl to the school, Zoe. Gary reveals the painful and often unsuccessful attempts by a young man to control his anger under great provocation - and his inability to communicate. David reveals someone who is uncomfortable with the bullying but doesn't dare to do anything about it - until the end. Zoe reveals a young woman who can see Gary through different eyes and is independent, freethinking and brave.
Author : Phillip Lopate
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 14,35 MB
Release : 2021-04-06
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0593312813
A one-of-a-kind anthology of American essays on a wide range of subjects by a dazzling array of mid-century writers at the top of their form—from Normal Mailer to James Baldwin to Joan Didion—selected by acclaimed essayist Phillip Lopate The three decades that followed World War II were an exceptionally fertile period for American essays. The explosion of journals and magazines, the rise of public intellectuals, and breakthroughs in the arts inspired a flowering of literary culture. At the same time, the many problems that confronted mid-century America—racism, sexism, nuclear threat, war, poverty, and environmental degradation among them—proved fruitful topics for America's best minds. In The Golden Age of the American Essay, Phillip Lopate assembles a dazzling array of famous writers, critics, sociologists, theologians, historians, activists, theorists, humorists, poets, and novelists. Here are writers like James Agee, E. B. White, A. J. Liebling, Randall Jarrell, and Mary McCarthy, pivoting from the comic indignities of daily life to world peace, consumerism, and restaurants in Paris. Here is Norman Mailer on Jackie Kennedy, Vladimir Nabokov on Lolita, Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "Letter from Birmingham Jail," and Richard Hofstadter's "The Paranoid Style in American Politics." Here are Gore Vidal, Rachel Carson, James Baldwin, Susan Sontag, John Updike, Joan Didion, and many more, in a treasury of brilliant writing that has stood the test of time.
Author : Emma Forrest
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 49,74 MB
Release : 2012-01-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1408822067
A dazzling and devastating memoir exploring breakdown and obsessive love, in a voice unlike any other
Author : Molly Potter
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 32,82 MB
Release : 2019-02-21
Category : Education
ISBN : 1472959221
We all know that healthy minds are really important but how do we make sure we look after our mental health from a very young age? What's Going On Inside My Head? is a book for children that explores practical ways we can keep our minds in good shape as well as our bodies. By talking about positive self-image, emotional intelligence, relationships and mindfulness, this book will help children develop healthy habits and good coping strategies from the start. Presented in a warm, child-friendly but no-nonsense way it will help establish solid foundations for every child's current and future wellbeing. Perfect for starting conversations with children about their mental and emotional health, What's Going On Inside My Head? is a must for every parent who understands the importance of keeping a healthy mind.
Author : Rachel Lyon
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 36,24 MB
Release : 2024-09-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 139853336X
Rachel Lyon's first novel – soon to be made into a major motion picture starring Zoë Kravitz and Thomasin McKenzie Lu Rile is a relentlessly focused young photographer struggling to make ends meet. Working three jobs, and worrying that the crumbling warehouse she lives in is being sold to developers, she is at a point of desperation. Until, by pure chance, Lu discovers she’s captured a tragedy in the background of a self portrait; a boy falling to his death. The photograph turns out to be the best work of art she’s ever made. It’s an image that could change her life – if she lets it. Set in early 90s Brooklyn on the brink of gentrification, Self-Portrait with Boy is a provocative commentary about the emotional dues that must be paid on the road to success. ‘Beautifully imagined and flawlessly executed’ Joyce Carol Oates ‘A sparkling debut’ New York Times Book Review
Author : S.J. Laidlaw
Publisher : Tundra Books
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 42,49 MB
Release : 2014-03-11
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 1770495657
Seventeen-year-old Luke's older sister, Pat, has always been his moral compass, like a voice inside his head, every time he has a decision to make. So when Pat disappears on a tiny island off the coast of Honduras and the authorities claim she's drowned - despite the fact that they can't produce a body - Luke heads to Honduras to find her because he knows something the authorities don't. From the moment of her disappearance, Pat's voice has become real, guiding him to Utila, where she had accepted a summer internship to study whale sharks. Once there, he meets several characters who describe his sister as a very different girl from the one knows. Does someone have a motive for wanting her dead? Determined to get to the bottom of Pat's disappearance, Luke risks everything, including his own life, to find the answer.
Author : Phillip Lopate
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 833 pages
File Size : 33,48 MB
Release : 1997-01-15
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 038542339X
For more than four hundred years, the personal essay has been one of the richest and most vibrant of all literary forms. Distinguished from the detached formal essay by its friendly, conversational tone, its loose structure, and its drive toward candor and self-disclosure, the personal essay seizes on the minutiae of daily life-vanities, fashions, foibles, oddballs, seasonal rituals, love and disappointment, the pleasures of solitude, reading, taking a walk -- to offer insight into the human condition and the great social and political issues of the day. The Art of the Personal Essay is the first anthology to celebrate this fertile genre. By presenting more than seventy-five personal essays, including influential forerunners from ancient Greece, Rome, and the Far East, masterpieces from the dawn of the personal essay in the sixteenth century, and a wealth of the finest personal essays from the last four centuries, editor Phillip Lopate, himself an acclaimed essayist, displays the tradition of the personal essay in all its historical grandeur, depth, and diversity.
Author : Raoul de Navery
Publisher :
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 14,67 MB
Release : 1880
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Author : Charles Reid
Publisher :
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 30,46 MB
Release : 1973
Category : Art
ISBN :
Guides the reader through a complete, step-by-step tour of the watercolor materials and methods needed to create expressive, masterful portraits.