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The Eddie Stone Biography of the great Donald Goines, addict, thief, pimp, pusher, hoodlum, bootlegger, and a writer the mainstream press and critical journals only discovered in recent years. The complete Donald Goines story!
Author : Eddie Stone
Publisher : All America Distributors Corporation
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 39,11 MB
Release : 1995-05-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780870679681
The Eddie Stone Biography of the great Donald Goines, addict, thief, pimp, pusher, hoodlum, bootlegger, and a writer the mainstream press and critical journals only discovered in recent years. The complete Donald Goines story!
Author : Eddie Stone
Publisher : Holloway House Publishing
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 10,92 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780870679490
Author : Eddie Stone
Publisher : All America Distributors Corporation
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 10,41 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Authors, American
ISBN : 9780870677335
Author : Donald Goines
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 25,54 MB
Release : 2020-11-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1496733266
Donald Goines, one of the most prolific writers of the 20th century, has influenced many of today's urban writers with his gritty, realistic look at the streets. For the first time in over a decade, his classic expose of a drug dealer's brutal rise to the top of Cocaine Mountain is now repackaged and reissued in trade with a whole new look to attract new readers, as well as long-time fans of the legend himself. King David was determined to claw his way out of the mean streets of New York City any way he could. It didn't matter if that meant battering and robbing old people, conning the innocent, or even killing a kid's mother. Lacing cocaine with battery acid for revenge was acceptable too. Ultimately, it meant leaving town. Now King's made it big, and made his way back, flush with cash and a Cadillac. But he hasn't been forgotten--or forgiven. And when payback time hits, he's only got one wish--not to die alone.
Author : Pierre Bayard
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 31,30 MB
Release : 2010-08-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1596917148
In this delightfully witty, provocative book, literature professor and psychoanalyst Pierre Bayard argues that not having read a book need not be an impediment to having an interesting conversation about it. (In fact, he says, in certain situations reading the book is the worst thing you could do.) Using examples from such writers as Graham Greene, Oscar Wilde, Montaigne, and Umberto Eco, he describes the varieties of "non-reading"-from books that you've never heard of to books that you've read and forgotten-and offers advice on how to turn a sticky social situation into an occasion for creative brilliance. Practical, funny, and thought-provoking, How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read-which became a favorite of readers everywhere in the hardcover edition-is in the end a love letter to books, offering a whole new perspective on how we read and absorb them.
Author : Eddie Stone
Publisher : Holloway House
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 31,21 MB
Release : 2024-10-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1496743040
Addict, thief, pimp, pusher, player—and most notably, groundbreaking writer. Donald Goines was all of these. Now, on the 50th anniversary of the legendary author’s death, his gripping, gritty, real-life story is available once more in this definitive biography that will captivate new readers as well as longtime fans. As a kid, Donald Goines was the product of a middle-class family. After high school, he joined theAir Force—and discovered the heroin that would rule the remainder of his life. On the streets, he turned to writing when he was straight enough to keep at it. He used the language of the streets and he wrote of its people. Goines’ success was immediate and exciting. But eventually those same streets claimed him. He was murdered as he sat writing a new book. Yet his legacy continues, as a revolutionary in the literary world and also in music, with major hip-hop artists including 50 Cent, Nas, and Jay-Z all crediting Goines’s novels as influences. Here is his complete story.
Author : Donald Fagen
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 109 pages
File Size : 15,43 MB
Release : 2013-10-22
Category : Music
ISBN : 1101638095
A witty, candid, sharply written memoir by the cofounder of Steely Dan In his entertaining debut as an author, Donald Fagen—musician, songwriter, and cofounder of Steely Dan—reveals the cultural figures and currents that shaped his artistic sensibility, as well as offering a look at his college days and a hilarious account of life on the road. Fagen presents the “eminent hipsters” who spoke to him as he was growing up in a bland New Jersey suburb in the early 1960s; his colorful, mind-expanding years at Bard College, where he first met his musical partner Walter Becker; and the agonies and ecstasies of a recent cross-country tour with Michael McDonald and Boz Scaggs. Acclaimed for his literate lyrics and complex arrangements as a musician, Fagen here proves himself a sophisticated writer with his own distinctive voice.
Author : Donald Goines
Publisher : Kensington Books
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 14,84 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0758273193
Terry and Teddy's relationship crumbles and they go in separate directions as they become heroin addicts and seek their dealer's favor in order to feed the addiction.
Author : Donald Hall
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 143 pages
File Size : 41,34 MB
Release : 2014-12-02
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0544286944
The former U.S. Poet Laureate contemplates life, death, and the view from his window in these “alternately lyrical and laugh-out-loud funny” essays (The New York Times). From an early age, Donald Hall dedicated his life to the written word. In his long and celebrated career, he was an accomplished poet, essayist, memoirist, dramatist, and children’s author. Now, in the “unknown, unanticipated galaxy” of very old age, his essays continue to startle, move, and delight. In Essays After Eighty, Hall ruminates on his past: “thirty was terrifying, forty I never noticed because I was drunk, fifty was best with a total change of life, sixty extended the bliss of fifty . . .” He also addresses his present: “When I turned eighty and rubbed testosterone on my chest, my beard roared like a lion and gained four inches.” Most memorably, Hall writes about his enduring love affair with his ancestral Eagle Pond Farm and with the writing life that sustains him every day: “Yesterday my first nap was at 9:30 a.m., but when I awoke I wrote again.” “Deliciously readable…Donald Hall, if abandoned by the muse of poetry, has wrought his prose to a keen autumnal edge.” —The Wall Street Journal
Author : David Shannon
Publisher : Cartwheel Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 20,92 MB
Release : 2018-08-28
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781338299588
This brand-new board book celebrates 20 years of the bestselling, Caldecott-winning classic featuring America's favorite trouble maker! Full color.