Author : Shirley Hughes
Publisher : Candlewick Press (MA)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,40 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Children's stories, English
ISBN : 9780763600907
A collection of stories each of which portrays a different family in a neighborhood in England.
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 50,87 MB
Release : 2016-08-17
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0191056480
Paris Street Tales is the third volume of a trilogy of translated stories set in Paris. The previous two are Paris Tales, in which each story is associated with one of the twenty arrondissements, and Paris Metro Tales, in which the twenty-two stories are related to a trip round the Paris Metro. This new volume contains eighteen newly translated stories related to particular streets in Paris, and one newly written tale of the city. The stories range from the nineteenth century to the present day, and include tales by well-known writers such as Colette, Maupassant, Didier Daeninckx, and Simenon, and less familiar names such as Francis Carco, Aurélie Filipetti, and Arnaud Baignot. They present a vivid picture of Paris streets in a variety of literary styles and tones. Simenon's Maigret is called upon to solve a mystery on the Boulevard Beaumarchais; a flâneur learns some French history through second-hand objects retrieved from the Seine; a nineteenth-century affair in the Rue de Miromesnil goes badly wrong; a body is discovered on the steps of the smallest street in Paris. Through these stories we see how the city has changed over the last two centuries and what has survived. All the tales in the book are translated apart from the last, a new story by David Constantine, based on the last days of the poet Gérard de Nerval.
Author : Anne Kayes
Publisher :
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 28,42 MB
Release : 2017-03
Category :
ISBN : 9781775434726
¿The bird flapped its wings and rose into the air, its long, white-feathered tuft flowing from its neck like a beard. Louie felt the world tilt beneath him. He held on tightly to Cloudbird¿s neck, as his house and Tui Street became smaller¿¿ There is something mysterious happening on Tui Street. One by one, the Tui Street friends are swept up in a series of adventures, each with a strangely familiar fairy-tale feel.
Author : Robert Jackall
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 37,79 MB
Release : 2009-06-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0674039017
The moral ambiguities of the detectives' world as they move between the streets and a bureaucratic behemoth is examined through their personal stories, in a collection that captures the real-life exploits, investigations, sensibilities, and consciousness of detectives in an urban environment.
Author : An'Fearen "DA MACK"
Publisher : Fulton Books, Inc.
Page : 95 pages
File Size : 46,75 MB
Release : 2024-03-12
Category : Poetry
ISBN :
Ant Dog's Street Tales are short stories of life choices. It's about being a leader, being misled, being betrayed, and how easy it is to be caught up in the streets. These stories are about you. These stories are about someone who knows. These stories are about someone that you love. When you live in the streets, you have a street tale. It's easy for me or you to tell a tale. Because the streets don't discriminate, it is what it is. The streets will lead you until you learn the streets. These stories are not about race or money. These stories tell how anyone can be destroyed if they live in the streets making dark choices. Will you be in one of the tales? We all have a dark story to tell.
Author : Gary Mielo
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 47,98 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 059536893X
Don't ask author Gary Mielo what it was like to grow up in North Bergen, New Jersey. He's likely to relate personal essays and anecdotes that include "the most heinous experience, the one which can easily produce the deepest and most lasting of scars, is an affliction known as the senior prom". He'll evoke "a time when yellow air raid shelter signs, hanging on the walls of virtually all candy stores, ice cream parlors, and other public buildings, reported the way to alleged underground safety". And narrate the demise of his 1955 DeSoto "while traversing one of the world's most heavily trafficked truck routes, the infamous Tonnelle Avenue". Comprised of 44 personal essays, 74th Street Stories extols New Jersey's Hudson County as it and its North Bergen residents lived through two of the most bizarre decades in recent history, namely the Cold War 1950s and the Strung Out 1960s. Nevertheless, the moments of sudden awareness recounted in many of these essays go beyond the merely wistful or the distinctively reminiscent. The characters and incidents described in 74th Street Stories have their roots in a town and a county that nurtured an identity that was nothing less than wonderfully peculiar.
Author : Denis George Mackail
Publisher : Books for Libraries
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 34,96 MB
Release : 1970-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780836937275
Author : David Rudlin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 38,66 MB
Release : 2023-07-07
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1000907996
The high street is in crisis. How did we get here and what happens next? The global pandemic has made the crisis immeasurably worse but it wasn’t the cause. The crisis was already raging in 2019 with thousands of store closures. Large retailers became complacent and failed to respond to changing consumer behaviour. Town centres are the victims of these changes rather than the cause of them. To understand the current crisis and how it might be addressed, this book takes a long view of retailing based on a hundred case studies. It looks at the way town centres responded to previous crises and explores current trends affecting town centres and how places are responding. The message is optimistic: adaptable town centres can once more become the diverse, characterful, independent places that existed before they were homogenised by big retail. Explore the past – understand the present – find a better future.
Author : Juan Thomas Ordonez
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 12,26 MB
Release : 2015-05-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0520959965
The United States has seen a dramatic rise in the number of informal day labor sites in the last two decades. Typically frequented by Latin American men (mostly "undocumented" immigrants), these sites constitute an important source of unskilled manual labor. Despite day laborers’ ubiquitous presence in urban areas, however, their very existence is overlooked in much of the research on immigration. While standing in plain view, these jornaleros live and work in a precarious environment: as they try to make enough money to send home, they are at the mercy of unscrupulous employers, doing dangerous and underpaid work, and, ultimately, experiencing great threats to their identities and social roles as men. Juan Thomas Ordóñez spent two years on an informal labor site in the San Francisco Bay Area, documenting the harsh lives led by some of these men during the worst economic crisis that the United States has seen in decades. He earned a perspective on the immigrant experience based on close relationships with a cohort of men who grappled with constant competition, stress, and loneliness. Both eye-opening and heartbreaking, the book offers a unique perspective on how the informal economy of undocumented labor truly functions in American society.
Author : Josephine Metcalf
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 14,53 MB
Release : 2012-07-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1496801059
The publication of Sanyika Shakur's Monster: The Autobiography of an L.A. Gang Member in 1993 generated a huge amount of excitement in literary circles—New York Times book critic Michiko Kakutani deemed it a “shocking and galvanic book”—and set off a new publishing trend of gang memoirs in the 1990s. The memoirs showcased tales of violent confrontation and territorial belonging but also offered many of the first journalistic and autobiographical accounts of the much-mythologized gang subculture. In The Culture and Politics of Contemporary Street Gang Memoirs, Josephine Metcalf focuses on three of these memoirs—Shakur’s Monster; Luis J. Rodriguez’s Always Running: La Vida Loca: Gang Days in L.A.; and Stanley “Tookie” Williams’s Blue Rage, Black Redemption—as key representatives of the gang autobiography. Metcalf examines the conflict among violence, thrilling sensationalism, and the authorial desire to instruct and warn competing within these works. The narrative arcs of the memoirs themselves rest on the process of conversion from brutal, young gang bangers to nonviolent, enlightened citizens. Metcalf analyzes the emergence, production, marketing, and reception of gang memoirs. Through interviews with Rodriguez, Shakur, and Barbara Cottman Becnel (Williams’s editor), Metcalf reveals both the writing and publishing processes. This book analyzes key narrative conventions, specifically how diction, dialogue, and narrative arcs shape the works. The book also explores how these memoirs are consumed. This interdisciplinary study—fusing literary criticism, sociology, ethnography, reader-response study, and editorial theory—brings scholarly attention to a popular, much-discussed, but understudied modern expression.
