Pass the Butler
Author : Eric Idle
Publisher : Heinemann Educational Books
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 46,6 MB
Release : 1982
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Author : Eric Idle
Publisher : Heinemann Educational Books
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 46,6 MB
Release : 1982
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Author : Katy Butler
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 41,99 MB
Release : 2014-06-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1451641982
"A blend of memoir and investigation of the choices we face when our terror of death collides with the technological imperatives of modern medicine"--
Author : Blake Butler
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 31,18 MB
Release : 2014-10-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0062271865
An unforgettable novel of an American suburb devastated by a fiendish madman—the most ambitious and important work yet by “the 21st century answer to William Burroughs” (Publishers Weekly). Blake Butler’s fiction has dazzled readers with its dystopian dreamscapes and swaggering command of language. Now, in his most topical and visceral novel yet, he ushers us into the consciousness of two men in the shadow of a bloodbath: Gretch Gravey, a cryptic psychopath with a small army of burnout followers, and E. N. Flood, the troubled police detective tasked with unpacking and understanding his mind. A mingled simulacrum of Charles Manson, David Koresh, and Thomas Harris’s Buffalo Bill, Gravey is a sinister yet alluring God figure who enlists young metal head followers to kidnap neighboring women and bring them to his house—where he murders them and buries their bodies in a basement crypt. Through parallel narratives, Three Hundred Million lures readers into the cloven mind of Gravey—and Darrel, his sinister alter ego—even as Flood’s secret journal chronicles his own descent into his own, eerily similar psychosis. A portrait of American violence that conjures the shadows of Ariel Castro, David Koresh, and Adam Lanza, Three Hundred Million is a brutal and mesmerizing masterwork, a portrait of contemporary America that is difficult to turn away from, or to forget.
Author : Elizabeth Abel
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 34,86 MB
Release : 1997-05-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780520206304
On literature, feminism and race.
Author : Christopher G. Peña
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 19,77 MB
Release : 2003-12-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1410741745
After only eight months in Louisiana, General Benjamin Butler departed New Orleans vilified by many Confederate politicians, their military leaders, the Southern press, and some citizens and foreign consuls living in the city. His eight-month stay was long enough for some Northern politicians who viewed him as a troublemaker. In the South, Butler was regarded as a thief, murderer, and beast. But was he those things, or simply a patriot who sought to punish the South for its treason? The answers lie within.
Author : Newfoundland Council of Higher Education
Publisher :
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 28,22 MB
Release : 1922
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Octavia E. Butler
Publisher : Abrams
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 23,99 MB
Release : 2017-01-10
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 1613128622
Octavia E. Butler’s bestselling literary science-fiction masterpiece, Kindred, now in graphic novel format. More than 35 years after its release, Kindred continues to draw in new readers with its deep exploration of the violence and loss of humanity caused by slavery in the United States, and its complex and lasting impact on the present day. Adapted by celebrated academics and comics artists Damian Duffy and John Jennings, this graphic novel powerfully renders Butler’s mysterious and moving story, which spans racial and gender divides in the antebellum South through the 20th century. Butler’s most celebrated, critically acclaimed work tells the story of Dana, a young black woman who is suddenly and inexplicably transported from her home in 1970s California to the pre–Civil War South. As she time-travels between worlds, one in which she is a free woman and one where she is part of her own complicated familial history on a southern plantation, she becomes frighteningly entangled in the lives of Rufus, a conflicted white slaveholder and one of Dana’s own ancestors, and the many people who are enslaved by him. Held up as an essential work in feminist, science-fiction, and fantasy genres, and a cornerstone of the Afrofuturism movement, there are over 500,000 copies of Kindred in print. The intersectionality of race, history, and the treatment of women addressed within the original work remain critical topics in contemporary dialogue, both in the classroom and in the public sphere. Frightening, compelling, and richly imagined, Kindred offers an unflinching look at our complicated social history, transformed by the graphic novel format into a visually stunning work for a new generation of readers.
Author : Cuthbert Butler
Publisher :
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 39,84 MB
Release : 1927
Category : Contemplation
ISBN :
Author : Robert Olen Butler
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 27,36 MB
Release : 2016-09-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0802190103
A powerful novel of a family haunted by the aftershocks of the Vietnam War—from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of a A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain. “You share a war in one way. You pass it on in another.” Passionate student activism brought Robert Quinlan together with his future wife during the tumultuous years of the Vietnam War. But since then, the long-married Florida university professors have grown apart. Their crumbling relationship is mirrored by Robert’s estrangement from his brother . . . alienated by the same controversial war. Now, with their father—a World War II veteran—lying close to death, the rift in the family is sorely tested when Robert’s brother refuses to put the past aside and return to say goodbye. And when Robert mistakes a homeless stranger for a fellow Vietnam veteran, his unstable presence in their lives will further stir the emotional scars that shattered the Quinlan men . . . and take its toll on those they love most. “Butler’s Faulknerian shuttling back and forth across the decades has less to do with literary pyrotechnics than with cutting to the chase. Perfume River hits its marks with a high-stakes intensity . . . Butler’s prose is fluid, and his handling of his many time-shifts as lucid as it is urgent. His descriptive gifts don’t extend just to his characters’ traits or their Florida and New Orleans settings, but to the history he’s addressing.” —Michael Upchurch, New York Times Book Review “Butler moves easily among his characters to create a composite portrait of a family that has been wrecked by choices made during the Vietnam War.” —Beth Nguyen, San Francisco Chronicle “The story builds its force with great care . . . Its power is that we want to keep reading. The entire journey is masterfully rendered, Butler lighting a path back into the cave, completely unafraid.” —Benjamin Busch, Washington Post “Butler greatly enlarges our sense of what the Vietnam War cost to a generation . . . Perfume River tells a human story that sums up an entire era of American life.” —Miami Herald “Butler’s assured, elegant novel . . . speaks eloquently of the way the past bleeds into the present, history reverberates through individual lives, and mortality challenges our perceptions of ourselves and others.” —Publishers Weekly “A heartbreaking story of fathers and sons and their expectations and disappointments . . . Perfume River is a powerful work that asks profound questions about betrayal and loyalty.” —BookPage
Author : New York (State). Court of Appeals.
Publisher :
Page : 1220 pages
File Size : 16,45 MB
Release : 1894
Category : Law
ISBN :
Volume contains: 145 NY 482 (City of Schenectady v. Furman) 145 NY 488 (Buck v. Alley) 145 NY 502 (Grant v. Walsh) 145 NY 641 (Lythgoe v. Lythgoe) 145 NY 642 (Harmon v. N.Y. C. & H. R. R.R. Co.) 145 NY 643 (Knoch v. Von Bernuth)