The Small Back Room
Author : Nigel Balchin
Publisher :
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 33,42 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Author : Nigel Balchin
Publisher :
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 33,42 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Author : Nigel Balchin
Publisher :
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 34,80 MB
Release : 1949
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Carmen Martín Gaite
Publisher : City Lights Publishers
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 29,92 MB
Release : 2000-04-01
Category :
ISBN : 9780872863712
In the middle of the night, a woman awakens to find a stranger in her bedroom. Though she cannot determine who he is--or, indeed, whether he is even real at all and not just an extension of her dreams or her writing–she is drawn into a conversation...
Author : Nigel Balchin
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 31,76 MB
Release : 2015-09-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1474601170
A true modern classic, THE SMALL BACK ROOM is a towering novel of the Second World War. Sammy Rice is a weapons scientist, one of the 'back room boys' of the Second World War. A crippling disability has left him cynical and disillusioned - he struggles with a drink problem at home, and politics and petty pride at work. Worse still, he fears he is not good enough for the woman he loves. The stakes are raised when the enemy begin to drop a new type of booby-trapped bomb, causing many casualties. Only Sammy has the know-how to diffuse it - but as he comes face to face with real danger, all his old inadequacies return to haunt him. Can he, at last, prove his worth and put his demons to rest?
Author : Mary Minock
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 15,85 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Catholics
ISBN : 9781933964492
Narrative of a girl's life, born mid-1940s, set against the blue-collar grit and texture of multi-ethnic, pre-Vatican II, southwest Detroit--P. [4] of cover.
Author : Elizabeth Chamblee Burch
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 38,62 MB
Release : 2019-05-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1108416977
Presenting twenty-two years of multidistrict litigation data, this book exposes a systematic lack of checks and balances in our courts.
Author : Emma Donoghue
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 101 pages
File Size : 29,98 MB
Release : 2017-05-07
Category : Drama
ISBN : 178682177X
Kidnapped as a teenage girl, Ma has been locked inside a purpose built room in her captor's garden for seven years. Her five year old son, Jack, has no concept of the world outside and happily exists inside Room with the help of Ma's games and his vivid imagination where objects like Rug, Lamp and TV are his only friends. But for Ma the time has come to escape and face their biggest challenge to date: the world outside Room.
Author : Michael Powell
Publisher : Random House Incorporated
Page : 626 pages
File Size : 45,50 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780679434436
The late director offers a behind-the-scenes look at the film industry, detailing clashes with studio bosses and critics, the destruction of his career, and the greats with whom he worked
Author : O. Henry
Publisher : Lindhardt og Ringhof
Page : 6 pages
File Size : 33,53 MB
Release : 2020-08-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8726587661
"The Furnished Room" is a short story about love and dedication, about exhaustion and despair. A young man is in search for a girl he fell in love with. He rents a room near the theaters where she is to be seen and he devotes his days to the dream of finding her. When all of a sudden the sweet fragrance of her perfume fills his room ... Is he finally blessed with success? Or this is an evil ghost from the past? Will he get to embrace the girl he loves or she will drag him to the verge of sanity? William Sydney Porter, better known as O. Henry, was an American writer who lived in the late 19th century. He gains wide popularity with his short stories which often take place either in New York or some small American towns. The plot twists and the surprise endings are a typical and integral part of O. Henry’s short stories. Some of his best known works are "The Gift of the Magi", "The Cop and the Anthem", "A Retrieved Reformation". His stories often deal with ordinary people and the individual aspects of life. As a result of the outstanding literature legacy that O. Henry left behind, there is an American annual award after his name, given to exceptional short stories.
Author : Steven Brill
Publisher : Random House
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 49,47 MB
Release : 2015-01-05
Category : History
ISBN : 0812996968
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • “A tour de force . . . a comprehensive and suitably furious guide to the political landscape of American healthcare . . . persuasive, shocking.”—The New York Times America’s Bitter Pill is Steven Brill’s acclaimed book on how the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, was written, how it is being implemented, and, most important, how it is changing—and failing to change—the rampant abuses in the healthcare industry. It’s a fly-on-the-wall account of the titanic fight to pass a 961-page law aimed at fixing America’s largest, most dysfunctional industry. It’s a penetrating chronicle of how the profiteering that Brill first identified in his trailblazing Time magazine cover story continues, despite Obamacare. And it is the first complete, inside account of how President Obama persevered to push through the law, but then failed to deal with the staff incompetence and turf wars that crippled its implementation. But by chance America’s Bitter Pill ends up being much more—because as Brill was completing this book, he had to undergo urgent open-heart surgery. Thus, this also becomes the story of how one patient who thinks he knows everything about healthcare “policy” rethinks it from a hospital gurney—and combines that insight with his brilliant reporting. The result: a surprising new vision of how we can fix American healthcare so that it stops draining the bank accounts of our families and our businesses, and the federal treasury. Praise for America’s Bitter Pill “An energetic, picaresque, narrative explanation of much of what has happened in the last seven years of health policy . . . [Brill] has pulled off something extraordinary.”—The New York Times Book Review “A thunderous indictment of what Brill refers to as the ‘toxicity of our profiteer-dominated healthcare system.’ ”—Los Angeles Times “A sweeping and spirited new book [that] chronicles the surprisingly juicy tale of reform.”—The Daily Beast “One of the most important books of our time.”—Walter Isaacson “Superb . . . Brill has achieved the seemingly impossible—written an exciting book about the American health system.”—The New York Review of Books