Color of Absence 12 Stories about Loss and Hope
Author : James Howe
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 34,98 MB
Release : 2001-01
Category :
ISBN : 9780605255418
Author : James Howe
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 34,98 MB
Release : 2001-01
Category :
ISBN : 9780605255418
Author : James Howe
Publisher : Atheneum Books
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 48,1 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN :
A collection of stories dealing with different kinds of loss experienced by young people.
Author : Michael John Harris
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 38,23 MB
Release : 2014-08-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0698150589
Soon enough, nobody will remember life before the Internet. What does this unavoidable fact mean? Those of us who have lived both with and without the crowded connectivity of online life have a rare opportunity. We can still recognize the difference between Before and After. We catch ourselves idly reaching for our phones at the bus stop. Or we notice how, midconversation, a fumbling friend dives into the perfect recall of Google. In this eloquent and thought-provoking book, Michael Harris argues that amid all the changes we're experiencing, the most interesting is the end of absence-the loss of lack. The daydreaming silences in our lives are filled; the burning solitudes are extinguished. There's no true "free time" when you carry a smartphone. Today's rarest commodity is the chance to be alone with your thoughts. Michael Harris is an award-winning journalist and a contributing editor at Western Living and Vancouvermagazines. He lives in Toronto, Canada.
Author : Jeannie Meejin Yoon
Publisher :
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 46,51 MB
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Artists' books
ISBN : 9780894390135
Both a book and a sculptural object, Absence is a memorial to the twin towers of the World Trade Center. Yoon, an architect and designer who is currently an Assistant Professor of Architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, chose not to produce a traditional design proposal for the World Trade Center Memorial Competition. Instead she created a non-architectural, non site-specific space of remembrance: a portable personal memorial in the form of book.At almost two pounds, Absence has a considerable physical presence, but it is in every way the ghost of a presence, and it is this ghostliness that gives it its particular emotional weight. A solid white block of thick stock cardboard pages, the books only "text" consists of one pinhole and two identical squares die-cut into each of its one-hundred-and-twenty pages one for each story of the towers including the antenna mast. These removed elements lead the reader floor by floor through the missing buildings towards the final page where the footprint of the entire site of the World Trade Center is die-cut into a delicate lattice of absent structures.
Author : Ann Cooper Albright
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 10,69 MB
Release : 2007-09-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780819568434
The first major English-language study of a legendary dancer
Author : Peter Handke
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 50,50 MB
Release : 1990-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0374100225
The time is an unspecified modernity, the place possibly Europe. Absence follows four nameless people -- the old man, the woman, the soldier, and the gambler -- as they journey to a desolate wasteland beyond the limits of an unnamed city.
Author : David L. Lindsey
Publisher : Crimeline
Page : 574 pages
File Size : 39,68 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0553569414
The author of Mercy and A Cold Mind returns with a tale of suspense set in the world of international smuggling. An investigator in the Houston Police Department's Intelligence Division is found shot. Marcus Graver's task force finds evidence of a conspiracy linking the government to one of the world's most ruthless criminals.
Author : J. Daniel Stone
Publisher :
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 35,30 MB
Release : 2013-02-13
Category : Cutting (Self-mutilation)
ISBN : 9780615740911
The Absence of Light is a dark prose novel written by 25-year-old J. Daniel Stone. The story involves two groups of friends--one group a metal band and the other a clan of ghost hunters--who clash after a night of rocking out in a seedy downtown club in NYC. With his fascinating ability for mapping out interesting characters, and a natural ability at setting a gloomy mood, Stone successfully takes his readers through the problems that everyday people face within the boondocks via a small Pennsylvania mining town dusted in anthracite, to the frightening throes of the ever-changing face of New York City with an authenticity that is rarely found in first novels. His words will resonate like a hangover long after you read them.
Author : Kurt Kirchmeier
Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 22,41 MB
Release : 2019-05-07
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 031645091X
Stranger Things meets The Stand in this haunting coming-of-age novel about a plague that brings the world to a halt -- and the boy who believes that his town's missing sparrows can save his family. In the small town of Griever's Mill, eleven-year-old Ben Cameron is expecting to finish off his summer of relaxing and bird-watching without a hitch. But everything goes wrong when dark clouds roll in. Old Man Crandall is the first to change -- human one minute and a glass statue the next. Soon it's happening across the world. Dark clouds fill the sky and, at random, people are turned into frozen versions of themselves. There's nowhere to run, nowhere to hide, and no one knows how to stop it. With his mom on the verge of a breakdown, and his brother intent on following the dubious plans put forth by a nameless voice on the radio, Ben must hold out hope that his town's missing sparrows will return with everyone's souls before the glass plague takes them away forever.
Author : Elina Gertsman
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 599 pages
File Size : 40,55 MB
Release : 2021-06-24
Category : Art
ISBN : 0271089016
Winner of the 2022 Charles Rufus Morey Award from the College Art Association Guided by Aristotelian theories, medieval philosophers believed that nature abhors a vacuum. Medieval art, according to modern scholars, abhors the same. The notion of horror vacui—the fear of empty space—is thus often construed as a definitive feature of Gothic material culture. In The Absent Image, Elina Gertsman argues that Gothic art, in its attempts to grapple with the unrepresentability of the invisible, actively engages emptiness, voids, gaps, holes, and erasures. Exploring complex conversations among medieval philosophy, physics, mathematics, piety, and image-making, Gertsman considers the concept of nothingness in concert with the imaginary, revealing profoundly inventive approaches to emptiness in late medieval visual culture, from ingenious images of the world’s creation ex nihilo to figurations of absence as a replacement for the invisible forces of conception and death. Innovative and challenging, this book will find its primary audience with students and scholars of art, religion, physics, philosophy, and mathematics. It will be particularly welcomed by those interested in phenomenological and cross-disciplinary approaches to the visual culture of the later Middle Ages.