Author : John R. Powers
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 14,82 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Boys
ISBN : 9780829421439
Presents a fictionalized memoir of high school student Eddie Ryan, and describes the struggles he and his friends endure while attending a Catholic school in Chicago during the 1960s.
Author : John R. Powers
Publisher : Loyola Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 21,35 MB
Release : 2010-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0829430075
"It is fast-moving and often downright funny."—New York Times "He has recaptured childish innocence and presented it with adult enlightenment—plus a touch of cynicism—yet never with irreverence." —Book-of-the-Month Club News First confession and its terrors. Eighty-four first graders in a classroom ruled by just one nun. The agony and the ecstasy of Lent. The dubious honor of being declared the worst altar server ever. Dinah Shore and the Blessed Virgin haunting your dreams. This is Eddie Ryan's world as he grows up in the intensely Catholic world of South-Side Chicago's St. Bastion's parish in the 1950s. In this classic coming-of-age novel, John Powers draws readers into Eddie Ryan's world with deep affection and bittersweet humor.
Author : John R. Powers
Publisher : Loyola Press
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 39,17 MB
Release : 2010-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 082943089X
All religions have worked hard to give you the impression that I'm a stiff; the kind of guy you'd never invite to a party. . . . I like laughter and the people who do it; from the twitterers to the chucklers to those whose laughter roars out in a gallop of explosions. To me, laughter is taking a bite out of life and saying, "Just right." Signed: God Clever yet cynical Tim Conroy, a failed idealist with a chip on his shoulder, is unable to find a secure place for himself in 1960s South Side Chicago. He narrates his bittersweet struggles with God, sex, career, and education in a voice that evokes an Irish Catholic Holden Caulfield. This poignant, skillfully told tale concludes John R. Powers's memorable coming-of-age trilogy that includes The Last Catholic in America and Do Black Patent Leather Shoes Really Reflect Up?
Author : John R. Powers
Publisher : Signet
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 22,31 MB
Release : 1993-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780451176028
Filled with charming and evocative details, this is both a moving account of a middle-aged man's belated coming-of-age and a classic growing-up story for the Baby Boom generation. At turns hilarious and bittersweet, this novel is destined to be a bookshelf classic.
Author : Joe Meno
Publisher : Akashic Books
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 37,98 MB
Release : 2004-09-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1936070294
The debut novel from Akashic’s new imprint, Punk Planet Books. Also check out the smash hits How the Hula Girl Sings, Tender as Hellfire, and The Boy Detective Fails. “A funny, hard-rocking first-person tale of teenage angst and discovery.” —Booklist “Captures the loose, fun, recklessness of midwestern punk.” —MTV.com Hairstyles of the Damned is an honest, true-life depiction of growing up punk on Chicago’s south side: a study in the demons of racial intolerance, Catholic school conformism, and class repression. It is the story of the riotous exploits of Brian, a high school burnout, and his best friend, Gretchen, a punk rock girl fond of brawling. Based on the actual events surrounding a Chicago high school’s segregated prom, this work of fiction unflinchingly pursues the truth in discovering what it means to be your own person.
Author : Casey Kurtti
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 14,30 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780573660313
Four actresses double as nuns and schoolgirls.
Author : Jostein Gaarder
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 599 pages
File Size : 41,86 MB
Release : 2007-03-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1466804270
A page-turning novel that is also an exploration of the great philosophical concepts of Western thought, Jostein Gaarder's Sophie's World has fired the imagination of readers all over the world, with more than twenty million copies in print. One day fourteen-year-old Sophie Amundsen comes home from school to find in her mailbox two notes, with one question on each: "Who are you?" and "Where does the world come from?" From that irresistible beginning, Sophie becomes obsessed with questions that take her far beyond what she knows of her Norwegian village. Through those letters, she enrolls in a kind of correspondence course, covering Socrates to Sartre, with a mysterious philosopher, while receiving letters addressed to another girl. Who is Hilde? And why does her mail keep turning up? To unravel this riddle, Sophie must use the philosophy she is learning—but the truth turns out to be far more complicated than she could have imagined.
Author : Gina Cascone
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 149 pages
File Size : 33,69 MB
Release : 2003-05-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0743481992
As a child, Gina Cascone would hide under her bed, in the closet, and run away from her parents, hoping somehow to escape her worst fear. But she couldn't hide from the awful truth... She had to go to Catholic school. Do nuns have legs? Is Original Sin the "starter sin" for novices? Can the rosary be said in under fifteen minutes? These are some of the questions that vex young Gina Cascone as she makes her way, grade by grade -- and prayer by prayer -- through the rigors of a Catholic education. All the answers can be found in this hilarious classic of childhood foibles: the traumatic first day of school, the dorky plaid uniform complete with matching beanie, glow-in-the-dark rosary beads, first confession trauma, proper dashboard decor ("Cadillacs got Jesus; Oldsmobiles got Mary"), and the race to save the most "pagan babies," who weren't lucky enough to be born Catholic and American.
Author : Gene De Paul
Publisher : Musical Selections
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,14 MB
Release : 1954
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780769204826
For voice and piano; includes chord symbols.
Author : Christian Louboutin
Publisher : Rizzoli International publication
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 29,84 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Women's shoes
ISBN : 9780847837298
Known for his very sexy stilettos with their signature lacquer-red soles, Christian Louboutin is a household name, a master craftsman and has a multi-million dollar brand with boutiques around the world and an international celebrity clientele. This book celebrates nearly 20 years of his work.
