Ploughshares Fall 1997
Author : Mary Gordon
Publisher :
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 44,80 MB
Release : 1997-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780933277205
Author : Mary Gordon
Publisher :
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 44,80 MB
Release : 1997-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780933277205
Author : Yusef Komunyakaa
Publisher :
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 45,58 MB
Release : 1997
Category : American literature
ISBN :
Author : Hanif Abdurraqib
Publisher : Two Dollar Radio
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 44,96 MB
Release : 2017-11-14
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1937512665
* 2018 "12 best books to give this holiday season" —TODAY (Elizabeth Acevedo) * A "Best Book of 2017" —Rolling Stone (2018), NPR, Buzzfeed, Paste Magazine, Esquire, Chicago Tribune, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, CBC, Stereogum, National Post, Entropy, Heavy, Book Riot, Chicago Review of Books, The Los Angeles Review, Michigan Daily * American Booksellers Association (ABA) 'December 2017 Indie Next List Great Reads' * Midwest Indie Bestseller In an age of confusion, fear, and loss, Hanif Abdurraqib's is a voice that matters. Whether he's attending a Bruce Springsteen concert the day after visiting Michael Brown's grave, or discussing public displays of affection at a Carly Rae Jepsen show, he writes with a poignancy and magnetism that resonates profoundly. In the wake of the nightclub attacks in Paris, he recalls how he sought refuge as a teenager in music, at shows, and wonders whether the next generation of young Muslims will not be afforded that opportunity now. While discussing the everyday threat to the lives of Black Americans, Abdurraqib recounts the first time he was ordered to the ground by police officers: for attempting to enter his own car. In essays that have been published by the New York Times, MTV, and Pitchfork, among others—along with original, previously unreleased essays—Abdurraqib uses music and culture as a lens through which to view our world, so that we might better understand ourselves, and in so doing proves himself a bellwether for our times.
Author : Jane Shore
Publisher : Ploughshares Books
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 33,91 MB
Release : 1997-12
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780933277212
Author : James Sidbury
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 45,16 MB
Release : 1997-10-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521598606
During the summer of 1800, slaves in and around Richmond conspired to overthrow their masters and abolish slavery. This book uses Gabriel's Conspiracy, and the evidence produced during the repression of the revolt, to expose the processes through which Virginians of African descent built an oppositional culture. Sidbury portrays the rich cultures of eighteenth-century black Virginians, and the multiple, and sometimes conflicting, senses of identity that emerged among enslaved and free people living in and around the rapidly growing state capital. The book also examines the conspirators' vision of themselves as God's chosen people, and the complicated African and European roots of their culture. In so doing, it offers an alternative interpretation of the meaning of the Virginia that was home to so many of the Founding Fathers. This narrative focuses on the history and perspectives of black and enslaved people, in order to develop 'Gabriel's Virginia' as a counterpoint to more common discussions of 'Jeffersonian Virginia'.
Author : Lorrie Moore
Publisher : Ploughshares Books
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 21,96 MB
Release : 1998-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780933277236
Author : Charles Baxter
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 14,63 MB
Release : 1999-08
Category :
ISBN : 9780933277267
Author : Bohumil Hrabal
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 35,22 MB
Release : 2019-11-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0811228967
A literary master’s story about the aggravations and great joys of cats, from “a most sophisticated novelist, with a gusting humor and a hushed tenderness of detail” (Julian Barnes) In the autumn of 1965, flush with the unexpected success of his first published books, the Czech author Bohumil Hrabal bought a cottage in Kersko. From then until his death in 1997, he divided his time between Prague and his country retreat, where he wrote and tended to a community of feral cats. Over the years, his relationship to cats grew deeper and more complex, becoming a measure of the pressures, both private and public, that impinged on his life as a writer. All My Cats, written in 1983 after a serious car accident, is a confessional memoir, the chronicle of an author who becomes overwhelmed. As he is driven to the brink of madness by the dilemmas created by his indulgent love for the animals, there are episodes of intense brutality as he controls the feline population. Yet in the end, All My Cats is a book about Hrabal’s relationship to nature, about the unlikely sources of redemption that come to him unbidden, like a gift from the cosmos—and about love.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 11,87 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Canada
ISBN :
Author : Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher : Gale Cengage Learning
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 11,63 MB
Release :
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1410356000
A Study Guide for Carolyn Ferrell's "Proper Library," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Short Stories for Students for all of your research needs.