Something Leather
Author : Alasdair Gray
Publisher : Random House (UK)
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 11,69 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Alasdair Gray
Author : Rodge Glass
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 31,1 MB
Release : 2012-04-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1408833352
Book Description
Alasdair Gray, author of the modern classics Lanark, Poor Things and 1982, Janine, is without doubt Scotland's greatest living novelist. Since trying (unsuccessfully) to buy him a drink in 1998, Rodge Glass, first tutee and then secretary to the author, takes on the role of biographer, charting Gray's life from unpublished and unrecognised son of a box-maker to septuagenarian "little grey deity" (as Will Self has called him). A Jewish Mancunian Boswell to Gray's Johnson, Glass seamlessly weaves a chronological narrative of his subject's life into his own diary of meeting, getting to know and working with the artist, writer and campaigner, to create a vibrant and wonderfully textured portrait of a literary great.
Alasdair Gray
Author : Gavin Miller
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 22,38 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9042017570
Book Description
Features English literature and Scottish literature.
Leather Fashion Design
Author : Francesca Sterlacci
Publisher : Laurence King Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 17,87 MB
Release : 2010-09-29
Category : Design
ISBN : 9781856696715
Book Description
Leather Fashion Design is a practical introduction for students explaining how to make garments fromleather, suede, and similar materials. It covers everything from what to look for in choosing a skin to work with, through pattern-making, sewing techniques, and finishing. The final chapter includes working with "leather-like" materials including ultrasuede and faux patent leather.
Pay Off
Author : Stephen Leather
Publisher : Hodder & Stoughton
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 15,84 MB
Release : 2009-07-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1844568660
Book Description
Why does a wealthy Scottish financier set up a drugs deal with the IRA? Jeopardise his career, endanger his family and lover by tangling with the East End underworld and a ruthless mercenary? The motive is simple: revenge for a cold-blooded act of murder. His adversary is a dangerous gangland boss whose connections stretch from the Highlands to London and beyond. More than a match for a newcomer, especially when that newcomer's plans contain a fatal flaw which will be discovered only when it is much too late . . . ********* PRAISE FOR STEPHEN LEATHER 'A master of the thriller genre' Irish Times 'As tough as British thrillers get . . . gripping' Irish Independent 'The sheer impetus of his story-telling is damned hard to resist' Sunday Express
Imperial Leather
Author : Anne Mcclintock
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 45,63 MB
Release : 2013-10-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 1135209103
Book Description
Imperial Leather chronicles the dangerous liaisons between gender, race and class that shaped British imperialism and its bloody dismantling. Spanning the century between Victorian Britain and the current struggle for power in South Africa, the book takes up the complex relationships between race and sexuality, fetishism and money, gender and violence, domesticity and the imperial market, and the gendering of nationalism within the zones of imperial and anti-imperial power.
The Fiction of Postmodernity
Author : Stephen Baker
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 36,69 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780742501997
Book Description
The Fiction of Postmodernity is a significant and accessible study of the relation of postmodern fiction to theories of the postmodern. Contemporary works of fiction by novelists such as Don DeLillo, Toni Morrison, Salman Rushdie, Thomas Pynchon, and Martin Amis are viewed in relation to critiques of the "culture industry," analyses of the "postmodern condition," and theories of simulacra. The work of influential theorists of the postmodern--such as Theodor Adorno, Jean-François Lyotard, Fredric Jameson and Jean Baudrillard--is explained and compared. The book offers descriptions of the postmodern from both the Marxist critical tradition and from the perspective of postmarxism. Key features in both these definitions are explained in relation to modernist and postmodern works of fiction. Issues relating to the postmodern representation of history and the development of a postmodern politics are also addressed in relation to works of contemporary fiction.
Gone Cold
Author : Douglas Corleone
Publisher : Minotaur Books
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 19,48 MB
Release : 2015-08-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1466872780
Book Description
Twelve years after a kidnapping destroyed former US Marshal Simon Fisk's family, he is newly determined to find the people responsible for taking his then-six-year-old daughter. Returning home from a case, Simon transforms his apartment into a war room and refuses to step away from the cold case, even after enduring months of dead ends and frustration. And then, at last, he gets a break in the case. On a brutal January night, Simon finds an urgent message on his computer. Attached are two images: one, a computer-generated image of Hailey Fisk had she reached eighteen years of age; the second, a sketch of a young woman wanted for murder in Ireland. The two images aren't identical, but there are striking similarities. Within a matter of hours, Simon is on a flight to Dublin, setting off to find a girl who may be Hailey Fisk—before she's arrested for murder.
Black and White
Author : Dan Mahoney
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 535 pages
File Size : 42,93 MB
Release : 2013-09-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1466852739
Book Description
In a secluded New York City park, a double homicide draws two detectives named McKenna. One is a legend; the other is a brilliant young investigator. Together, they are entering a case that will grow more bizarre and more horrifying with each new piece of shocking evidence... One of the victims was tied to a tree and slowly tortured to death. Veteran detective Tommy McKenna realizes that he has seen this killer's work before--eighteen years earlier... Tommy will get a second crack at his killer. Brian McKenna gets to work with a legend. And both men are setting in motion an investigation that will take them to California, Arizona, a Costa Rican mountaintop, and all the way to the Far East. The two McKennas are on the trail of two human monsters who have been killing for two decades--and murder isn't even the worst of their crimes...
Echoes out of the Burton
Author : HELEN H. GENTRY
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 549 pages
File Size : 31,69 MB
Release : 2011-11-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1467061786
Book Description
"This book consists of autobiographic essays of Helen H. Gentry, an African American octogenarian, and the genealogy of the Gentry family. Helen's essays are extracted from a 25 year personal and family collection of documents and photographs housed in the the Burton Historical Collection, Detroit Public Library. The subjects cover: family, social, economic life; political, civil rights, cultural activities; religious participation, continuing education and travel, recreation and skiing engagements."
