Book Description
The Everywhere Man by Victoria Gordon released on Sep 24, 1981 is available now for purchase.
Author : Victoria Gordon
Publisher : Harlequin Treasury-Harlequin Romanc
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 29,54 MB
Release : 1981
Category : Dog shows
ISBN : 9780373024384
The Everywhere Man by Victoria Gordon released on Sep 24, 1981 is available now for purchase.
Author : Hillary Chute
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 33,50 MB
Release : 2017-12-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0062476815
A New York Times Notable Book Filled with beautiful color art, dynamic storytelling, and insightful analysis, Hillary Chute reveals what makes one of the most critically acclaimed and popular art forms so unique and appealing, and how it got that way. “In her wonderful book, Hillary Chute suggests that we’re in a blooming, expanding era of the art… Chute’s often lovely, sensitive discussions of individual expression in independent comics seem so right and true.” — New York Times Book Review Over the past century, fans have elevated comics from the back pages of newspapers into one of our most celebrated forms of culture, from Fun Home, the Tony Award–winning musical based on Alison Bechdel’s groundbreaking graphic memoir, to the dozens of superhero films that are annual blockbusters worldwide. What is the essence of comics’ appeal? What does this art form do that others can’t? Whether you’ve read every comic you can get your hands on or you’re just starting your journey, Why Comics? has something for you. Author Hillary Chute chronicles comics culture, explaining underground comics (also known as “comix”) and graphic novels, analyzing their evolution, and offering fascinating portraits of the creative men and women behind them. Chute reveals why these works—a blend of concise words and striking visuals—are an extraordinarily powerful form of expression that stimulates us intellectually and emotionally. Focusing on ten major themes—disaster, superheroes, sex, the suburbs, cities, punk, illness and disability, girls, war, and queerness—Chute explains how comics get their messages across more effectively than any other form. “Why Disaster?” explores how comics are uniquely suited to convey the scale and disorientation of calamity, from Art Spiegelman’s representation of the Holocaust and 9/11 to Keiji Nakazawa’s focus on Hiroshima. “Why the Suburbs?” examines how the work of Chris Ware and Charles Burns illustrates the quiet joys and struggles of suburban existence; and “Why Punk?” delves into how comics inspire and reflect the punk movement’s DIY aesthetics—giving birth to a democratic medium increasingly embraced by some of today’s most significant artists. Featuring full-color reproductions of more than one hundred essential pages and panels, including some famous but never-before-reprinted images from comics legends, Why Comics? is an indispensable guide that offers a deep understanding of this influential art form and its masters.
Author : Patrick Kyle
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 25,81 MB
Release : 2017-09-05
Category : Comic books, strips, etc
ISBN : 9781927668528
Collecting a cornucopia of short comics by one of the medium's most inventive artists.
Author : Julia Glass
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 23,38 MB
Release : 2008-10-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0307377776
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the bestselling, National Book Award–winning author of Three Junes comes a tender, riveting book of two sisters and their complicated relationship. Louisa Jardine is the older one, the conscientious student, precise and careful: the one who yearns for a good marriage, an artistic career, a family. Clem, the archetypal youngest, is the rebel: committed to her work saving animals, but not to the men who fall for her. In this vivid, heartrending story of what we can and cannot do for those we love, the sisters grow closer as they move further apart. All told with sensual detail and deft characterization, I See You Everywhere is a candid story of life and death, companionship and sorrow, and the nature of sisterhood itself.
Author : Charles L. Novak
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 13,9 MB
Release : 2019-02-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781633310322
As a young man living in rural Kansas in the 1940s, Charles Novak took a job with the federal government--not because he liked the work but because he heard it paid well. That job shaped his life in ways he could never have imagined. As a surveyor for the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, Charles was tasked with measuring the unmapped American landscape. Over the years this would take him from being eaten up by mosquitoes in Alaska, to eating steak and lobster on oil rigs in Louisiana. His career became even more adventurous when his family later hit the road with him, making their home in a caravan of trailers as the survey team traversed the nation. The measurements taken by Charles and the team eventually helped build today's GPS technology. But such a contribution was the furthest thing from the minds of Charles and his family as they experienced life on the road during a time of astounding change in American life. From segregated trains, to Cold War military bases, and back to Kansas, Charles's family found that home is more than a place on a map.
Author : Ray Petersen
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 12,78 MB
Release : 2012-10-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1438444702
A young mans quest to keep his hometowns paper mill from closing turns into an odyssey across a rural upstate New York county. One mans affliction is anothers gift, and Kenny Hopewells special gift is a terrible memory and virtually no sense of direction. Entrusted by a family friend to deliver a plea for help that might keep his hometown mill from closing, Kenny misses his ride and sets out on foot across an isolated rural area between Lake Ontario and the Adirondacks. Along the way he meets and comes to terms with some of the denizens of this lonely landscapethe Casimir family, who survive on the outskirts of the law; Johnny Percy, a Vietnam veteran still defending his familys abandoned homestead; and Gunnar Molshoc, a well-driller and witcherrefugees, like him, from the decay of rural America in the 1980s. Meanwhile, several characters at the local college are struggling to define the colleges role in the mill fight and to rescue the soul of higher education. John Harlan is an instructor attempting to write a meaningful dissertation that wont threaten his chances at tenure; Ernest Guppys notion of himself as a political comic is driving his wife off the deep end; and college president Baxter McAdam and his administrative vice president are locked in a withering campaign to force each other out of power. The novels setting, a fictional county in upstate New York, is like a braided rug: smooth on the top, all knots underneath. Chained to a dying farm economy and losing its youth to greener pastures, its the sort of place where refugees from Brooklyn might live next to Amish farmers, who might live next to Italian millworkers, who might live next to a bigot whose house was once a stop on the Underground Railroad. Like so many rural American communities, it has the feel of a self-inflicted wound, and as Kenny comes to understand, sometimes you have to feel pain just to know youre still alive. The book is a series of at times exquisitely written encounters Petersen is a storyteller and a literary craftsman who has reached high in this effort. With his talent, who can blame him? Thousand Islands Life Ray Petersens The Middle of Everywhere is an intricate and cunningly crafted Odyssey through the troubled small towns of the northeast. Its a keenly observed, taut, often very funny novel, stitched together by the wanderings of a wonderful, impaired Odysseus you wont soon forget. I liked it a lot. Thomas Cobb, author of Crazy Heart: A Novel Ray Petersens vested epic, The Middle of Everywhere, does everything well. It is a billion-footed beast in running shoes. Swift, sensitive, and enduring, the novel is breathless in its transparent sustained dream of realistic replication of the blue blue-collar worlds of the steel and diploma mills. Run, run for all your lives! Michael Martone, author of Four for a Quarter: Fictions In his follow-up to the spectacularly funny and moving Cowkind, Ray Petersen has created another novel set in rural upstate New York thats sure to make readers laugh and cry and wish for a better way to care for each other. The Middle of Everywhere gives us that necessary compass point as we journey across time and space with Kenny in an attempt to save the Alta paper mill. Once again Petersen proves to be a storyteller of unparalleled wisdom and kindness as he helps us find our True North with characters well keep dreaming about long after the books final page. Todd Davis, author of The Least of These
Author : Bill Watterson
Publisher : Andrews McMeel Publishing
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 19,23 MB
Release : 1996-03
Category : Humor
ISBN : 0836213122
In the world that Calvin and his tiger Hobbes share, treasures can be found in the most unlikely places, from the outer regions where Spaceman spiff travels to the rocks in the backyard--this curious duo roams their world in search of fortunes (and misfortunes!) to be experienced. Whether Calvin and Hobbes are blasting off on another interplanetary adventure or approaching warp speed on a downhill wagon ride, their capers are repartee consistently charm and refresh their readers' days. On his own, Calvin is prey to the insidious killer bicycle, is the arbiter of the dad poll, is the creator of a legion of snowmen who provide an incisive social commentary, and Hobbes is always there as the perfect companion. Watterson's talent is evidenced by the range of thought provoking emotions the strip encompasses in addition to the laughs it induces: the loyalty and friendship between Calvin and Hobbes, the challenge of being a patient parents, and the sardonic viewpoint of a cynical six-year-old ("I'm a 21st-century kid trapped in a 19th-century family," laments Calvin) combine to make this one of the best-loved strips in cartoon history.
Author : Mark Raney
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 31,38 MB
Release : 2013-01-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0615690939
A huge spawling Southern novel set mainly in Swansboro, and many other counties in North Carolina and Georgia. It covers several generations of commercial fishermen and farmers and shows how their contrast of labors serverd the South so well from the old time to the present.
Author : Charles George Herbermann
Publisher :
Page : 874 pages
File Size : 45,65 MB
Release : 1913
Category : Catholic Church
ISBN :
Author : David Fagerberg
Publisher : Emmaus Road Publishing
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 38,49 MB
Release : 2013-08-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781937155148
With the wit and style of G. K. Chesterton, D. W. Fagerberg serves a series of perceptive and entertaining essays organized around themes intrinsic to daily life: happiness, the ordinary home, social reform, Catholicism, and transcendent truths