Vignettes of the Sea
Author : Felix Riesenberg
Publisher :
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 22,6 MB
Release : 1926
Category : Seafaring life
ISBN :
Author : Felix Riesenberg
Publisher :
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 22,6 MB
Release : 1926
Category : Seafaring life
ISBN :
Author : Denis Johnson
Publisher : Random House
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 36,14 MB
Release : 2018-01-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0812988647
Twenty-five years after Jesus’ Son, a haunting new collection of short stories on mortality and transcendence, from National Book Award winner and two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist Denis Johnson NATIONAL BESTSELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Dwight Garner, The New York Times • Maureen Corrigan, NPR’s Fresh Air • Chicago Tribune • Newsday • New York • AV Club • Publishers Weekly “Ranks with the best fiction published by any American writer during this short century.”—New York “A posthumous masterpiece.”—Entertainment Weekly NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review • The Washington Post • NPR • The Boston Globe • New York Public Library • Kirkus Reviews • Bloomberg The Largesse of the Sea Maiden is the long-awaited new story collection from Denis Johnson. Written in the luminous prose that made him one of the most beloved and important writers of his generation, this collection finds Johnson in new territory, contemplating the ghosts of the past and the elusive and unexpected ways the mysteries of the universe assert themselves. Finished shortly before Johnson’s death, this collection is the last word from a writer whose work will live on for many years to come. Praise for The Largesse of the Sea Maiden “An instant classic.”—Newsday “Exceptional luminosity . . . hits a powerful vein.”—The New York Times Book Review “Grace and oblivion are inextricably yoked in these transcendent stories. . . . [Johnson’s] gift is to extract the beauty in all that brokenness.”—The Wall Street Journal “Nobody ever wrote like Denis Johnson. Nobody ever came close. . . . We’re just left with this miraculous book, these perfect stories, the last words from one of the world’s greatest writers.”—NPR
Author : Gary Slaughter
Publisher :
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 12,27 MB
Release : 2016-09-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780974420660
Sea Stories: Memoir of a Naval Officer (1956-1967) spans Slaughter's naval service during the Cold War. Over 60 vignettes depict the danger of Navy life over the course of his naval career.
Author : Stories
Publisher :
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 43,74 MB
Release : 1885
Category : Sea stories
ISBN :
Author : Joshua Samuel Brown
Publisher : ThingsAsian Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 25,38 MB
Release : 2006-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780971594081
When Joshua Samuel Brown first stepped out of the passenger terminal at Chiang Kai-shek International Airport in Taiwan, he was a stranger in a humid land with insufficient funds, zero job prospects and an over-packed suitcase. Like much else in his life up to that point, his decision to move to Taiwan was based largely on random occurrence and cosmic coincidence. He was twenty-four years old, thousands of miles away from home, and at that moment the happiest man alive. This anthology of short stories, travel essays, photographs, random meditations, and political meanderings grew out of his years on the island formerly known as Formosa.
Author : Nayrouz Qarmout
Publisher : Comma Press
Page : 91 pages
File Size : 18,44 MB
Release : 2019-08-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1912697068
The Sea Cloak is a collection of 11 stories by the author, journalist, and women’s rights campaigner, Nayrouz Qarmout. Drawing from her own experiences growing up in a Syrian refugee camp, as well as her current life in Gaza, these stories stitch together a patchwork of different perspectives into what it means to be a woman in Palestine today. Whether following the daily struggles of orphaned children fighting to survive in the rubble of recent bombardments, or mapping the complex, cultural tensions between different generations of refugees in wider Gazan society, these stories offer rare insights into one of the most talked about, but least understood cities in the Middle East. Taken together, the collection affords us a local perspective on a global story, and it does so thanks to a cast of (predominantly female) characters whose vantage point is rooted, firmly, in that most cherished of things, the home.
Author :
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 24,29 MB
Release : 2011-07-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 029580226X
This anthology presents seventy translated and annotated short essays, or hsiao-p’in, by fourteen well-known sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Chinese writers. Hsiao-p’in, characterized by spontaneity and brevity, were a relatively informal variation on the established classical prose style in which all scholars were trained. Written primarily to amuse and entertain the reader, hsiao-p’in reflect the rise of individualism in the late Ming period and collectively provide a panorama of the colorful life of the age. Critics condemned the genre as escapist because of its focus on life’s sensual pleasures and triviality, and over the next two centuries many of these playful and often irreverent works were officially censored. Today, the essays provide valuable and rare accounts of the details over everyday life in Ming China as well as displays of wit and delightful turns of phrase.
Author : Victor Suthren
Publisher : Burnaby, B.C. : Library Services Branch
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 39,90 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Sea stories, Canadian
ISBN :
With its thousands of miles of coastline fronting on three oceans and the world's largest freshwater lake system, Canada has had a long and exciting history of human endeavour on those waters. In Canadian Sea Stories, Canadian sea novelist Victor Suthren has gathered together a collection ofbedside readings from that rich and intriguing history. The collection is by no means a thorough survey of all of Canada's maritime history, but rather a selection of tales, brief or not so (U306095FMM300 |H SOCIAL SCIENCES306 |H Culture and Institutions: Social AnthropologyMain306.09 |HGeographical TreatmentThe Bajau Laut|H AsiaOXINT |D 2003 11 061998/01/20 |j Anthropologie et Societes |n Mikhael Elbaz |c 7 |y R |r Vol. 22, No. 3, 1998|c SEASSM |t South-East Asian Social Science Monographs |n9835600155983-56-0015-57BAJAU LAUT CLTitleJBK |T AnthropologyScholars and students ofanthropology in South-east Asia.Sather |f Clifford |i C. |s au |t Adjunct Professor, Depar tment of Anthropology |a University of OregonSATHER C.NR0000031007c |d 20 pp halftones, tables, figures, maps378Adaptation, History, and Fate in a Maritime Fishing Society of South-easternSabah30/04/1999JELLIM |D 1999 11 15 |T 15:48:14LYNN |D 2006 10 24LYNN |D 2006 10 2474.00OUP15.65SATHER:BAJAU LAUT:S.E. BABH SEASSM CMain26/06/1997TO00/000093.500.78001UAWorldAJ30CS19/08/1996PUBLEARN97 |t 1997 Learned Societies Conference (Anthropology - on price list)
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 842 pages
File Size : 41,93 MB
Release : 1926
Category : Shipbuilding
ISBN :
Author : Samuel Sobel
Publisher :
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 35,23 MB
Release : 1965
Category : Jewish fiction
ISBN :