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Author: Luke Carman Publisher: ISBN: 9781922146458 Category : Australian fiction Languages : en Pages : 184
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2014 ALS GOLD MEDAL Fora long time Western Sydney has been the political flash-point of the nation,but it has been absent from Australian literature. Luke Carman's first book offiction changeS all that: a collection of monologues and stories whichtells it how it is on Australia's cultural frontier. His young, self-consciousbut determined hero navigates his way through the complications of his divorcedfamily, and an often perilous social world, with its Fobs, Lebbbos, Greek, Serbs,Grubby Boys and scumbag Aussies, friends and enemies. He loves Whitman andKerouac, Leonard Cohen and Henry Rollins, is awkward with girls, and has aninvisible friend called Tom. His neighbour Wessam tells him he should write abook called How to Be Gay - and nowhe has. Carman's style is packed with thought and energy: it captures thevoices of the street, and conveys fear and anger, beauty and affection, with a restlessintensity. "An Elegant Young Man is street poetry for contemporary Sydney, and it demonstrates what is most exciting and innovative in Australia's emerging writers." - Sydney Morning Herald review
Author: Luke Carman Publisher: ISBN: 9781922146458 Category : Australian fiction Languages : en Pages : 184
Book Description
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2014 ALS GOLD MEDAL Fora long time Western Sydney has been the political flash-point of the nation,but it has been absent from Australian literature. Luke Carman's first book offiction changeS all that: a collection of monologues and stories whichtells it how it is on Australia's cultural frontier. His young, self-consciousbut determined hero navigates his way through the complications of his divorcedfamily, and an often perilous social world, with its Fobs, Lebbbos, Greek, Serbs,Grubby Boys and scumbag Aussies, friends and enemies. He loves Whitman andKerouac, Leonard Cohen and Henry Rollins, is awkward with girls, and has aninvisible friend called Tom. His neighbour Wessam tells him he should write abook called How to Be Gay - and nowhe has. Carman's style is packed with thought and energy: it captures thevoices of the street, and conveys fear and anger, beauty and affection, with a restlessintensity. "An Elegant Young Man is street poetry for contemporary Sydney, and it demonstrates what is most exciting and innovative in Australia's emerging writers." - Sydney Morning Herald review
Author: Norman MacLean Publisher: University of Chicago Press ISBN: 022645049X Category : History Languages : en Pages : 370
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National Book Critics Circle Award Winner: “The terrifying story of the worst disaster in the history of the US Forest Service’s elite Smokejumpers.” —Kirkus Reviews A devastating and lyrical work of nonfiction, Young Men and Fire describes the events of August 5, 1949, when a crew of fifteen of the US Forest Service’s elite airborne firefighters, the Smokejumpers, stepped into the sky above a remote forest fire in the Montana wilderness. Two hours after their jump, all but three of the men were dead or mortally burned. Haunted by these deaths for forty years, Norman Maclean puts together the scattered pieces of the Mann Gulch tragedy in this extraordinary book. Alongside Maclean’s now-canonical A River Runs Through It and Other Stories, Young Men and Fire is recognized today as a classic of the American West. This edition of Maclean’s later triumph—the last book he would write—includes a powerful new foreword by Timothy Egan, author of The Big Burn and The Worst Hard Time. As moving and profound as when it was first published, Young Men and Fire honors the literary legacy of a man who gave voice to an essential corner of the American soul. “A moving account of humanity, nature, and the perseverance of the human spirit.” —Library Journal “Haunting.” —The Wall Street Journal “Engrossing.” —Publishers Weekly
Author: Rodman Philbrick Publisher: Scholastic Inc. ISBN: 0545600308 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 154
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A story of determination and survival from the acclaimed author of FREAK THE MIGHTY. "This thrilling and elegant book ... will hold the interest of even the most stalwart landlubber." -- PWTwelve-year-old Skiff Beaman's mom just died, and his fisherman dad is too depressed to drag himself off the couch and go to work. So these days Skiff has to take care of everything himself. But when his dad's boat sinks, Skiff discovers it will cost thousands to buy a new engine. Skiff's lobster traps won't earn him enough, but there are bigger fish in the sea -- bluefin tuna. If he can catch one of those monster fish, Skiff just might save the boat -- and his family.
Author: Dorothy B. Hughes Publisher: New York Review of Books ISBN: 1590175093 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 265
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“It was surprising what old experiences remembered could do to a presumably educated, civilized man.” And Hugh Denismore, a young doctor driving his mother’s Cadillac from Los Angeles to Phoenix, is eminently educated and civilized. He is privileged, would seem to have the world at his feet, even. Then why does the sight of a few redneck teenagers disconcert him? Why is he reluctant to pick up a disheveled girl hitchhiking along the desert highway? And why is he the first person the police suspect when she is found dead in Arizona a few days later? Dorothy B. Hughes ranks with Raymond Chandler and Patricia Highsmith as a master of mid-century noir. In books like In a Lonely Place and Ride the Pink Horse she exposed a seething discontent underneath the veneer of twentieth-century prosperity. With The Expendable Man, first published in 1963, Hughes upends the conventions of the wrong-man narrative to deliver a story that engages readers even as it implicates them in the greatest of all American crimes.
Author: Edmund White Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing ISBN: 1408858959 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 307
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______________ 'One of the best writers of my generation' - John Irving 'A playful yet searching novel of gay life in the New York of Ed Koch and Studio 54' - Kirkus 'Smart, worldly, erudite, well-connected, and funny' - New York Review of Books 'Remarkable ... America's most significant gay writer' - Literary Review ______________ 'Has everyone always been in love with you? Of course they have, who am I kidding? What did they say about Helen of Troy? That her face launched a thousand ships? That's you, you're that beautiful. A thousand ships' New York City in the eighties, and at its decadent heart is Guy. The darling of Fire Island's gay community and one of New York's top male models, Guy is gliding his way to riches that are a world away from his modest provincial upbringing back home in France. Like some modern-day Dorian Gray he seems untouched by time: the decades pass, fashions change, yet his beauty remains as transcendent and captivating as ever. Such looks cannot help but bring him adoration. From sweet yet pathetic Fred to the wealthy and masochistic Baron, from the acerbic and cynical Pierre-Georges to Andre, fabricating Dalí fakes and hurtling towards prison and the abyss, all are in some way fixated on him. In return for the devotion and expensive gifts they lavish on him, he plays with unswerving loyalty whatever role they project onto him: unattainable idol, passionate lover, malleable client. But just as the years are catching up on his smooth skin and perfect body, so his way of life is closing in on him and destroying the men he loves. Edmund White has in Our Young Man created some of the richest representations of gay male identity, from the disco era to the age of AIDs. What links them all is the allure and enchantment they find in beauty. Revelling in its magic, Our Young Man nonetheless slips beneath the seductive surface to examine its dangerous depths, exploring its power to fascinate, enslave and deceive. Mesmerising, blackly comic, and delicately crafted, this is an exquisite novel from a contemporary master.
Author: Dianne Highbridge Publisher: ISBN: 9781569471470 Category : Middle-aged women Languages : en Pages : 0
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In Australia, a schoolteacher falls in love with a youth, 20 years her junior. The heroine is Aly, 36, a divorced woman, while he is Tom, 16. He is the son of her best friend. When the community discovers their affair it turns against her.
Author: John Boyne Publisher: Hogarth ISBN: 1984823035 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 341
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“A satire of writerly ambition wrapped in a psychological thriller . . . An homage to Patricia Highsmith, Oscar Wilde and Edgar Allan Poe, but its execution is entirely Boyne’s own.”—Ron Charles, The Washington Post NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST AND MINNEAPOLIS STAR TRIBUNE Maurice Swift is handsome, charming, and hungry for fame. The one thing he doesn’t have is talent—but he’s not about to let a detail like that stand in his way. After all, a would-be writer can find stories anywhere. They don’t need to be his own. Working as a waiter in a West Berlin hotel in 1988, Maurice engineers the perfect opportunity: a chance encounter with celebrated novelist Erich Ackermann. He quickly ingratiates himself with the powerful – but desperately lonely – older man, teasing out of Erich a terrible, long-held secret about his activities during the war. Perfect material for Maurice’s first novel. Once Maurice has had a taste of literary fame, he knows he can stop at nothing in pursuit of that high. Moving from the Amalfi Coast, where he matches wits with Gore Vidal, to Manhattan and London, Maurice hones his talent for deceit and manipulation, preying on the talented and vulnerable in his cold-blooded climb to the top. But the higher he climbs, the further he has to fall. . . . Sweeping across the late twentieth century, A Ladder to the Sky is a fascinating portrait of a relentlessly immoral man, a tour de force of storytelling, and the next great novel from an acclaimed literary virtuoso. Praise for A Ladder to the Sky “Boyne's mastery of perspective, last seen in The Heart's Invisible Furies, works beautifully here. . . . Boyne understands that it's far more interesting and satisfying for a reader to see that narcissist in action than to be told a catchall phrase. Each step Maurice Swift takes skyward reveals a new layer of calumny he's willing to engage in, and the desperation behind it . . . so dark it seems almost impossible to enjoy reading A Ladder to the Sky as much as you definitely will enjoy reading it.”—NPR “Delicious . . . spins out over several decades with thrilling unpredictability, following Maurice as he masters the art of co-opting the stories of others in increasingly dubious ways. And while the book reads as a thriller with a body count that would make Highsmith proud, it is also an exploration of morality and art: Where is the line between inspiration and thievery? To whom does a story belong?”—Vanity Fair
Author: Luke Carman Publisher: ISBN: 9781925818123 Category : Languages : en Pages :
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Intimate Antipathies is a collectionof essays on the writing life, offering Luke Carman's uniquecomic perspectives on writers' festivals, residencies and conferences, theparticular challenges faced by writers who grow up in contested borderlandslike the suburbs of Western Sydney, and the connections between writing anddreaming, writing and mental illness, writing and the complications of familylife. From his famous jeremiadagainst arts administrators in 'Getting Square in a Jerking Circle', throughthe psychotic attack brought on by the collapse of his marriage, to his surrealaccount of meeting with Gerald Murnane at a golf club in the remote Victorianvillage of Goroke, the essays follow the writer in his oscillations through anxiety,outrage and ecstasy - always returning to his great obsession, the home on asmall mountain in Sydney's west, where his antipathies with the real worldfirst began to shape his imagination. 'A bogan flaneur: part connoisseur, part anthropologist of the rich and fractious field of difference through which he moves.' -- Geordie Williamson, Australian
Author: Muriel Barbery Publisher: Europa Editions ISBN: 1609450132 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 282
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The phenomenal New York Times bestseller that “explores the upstairs-downstairs goings-on of a posh Parisian apartment building” (Publishers Weekly). In an elegant hôtel particulier in Paris, Renée, the concierge, is all but invisible—short, plump, middle-aged, with bunions on her feet and an addiction to television soaps. Her only genuine attachment is to her cat, Leo. In short, she’s everything society expects from a concierge at a bourgeois building in an upscale neighborhood. But Renée has a secret: She furtively, ferociously devours art, philosophy, music, and Japanese culture. With biting humor, she scrutinizes the lives of the tenants—her inferiors in every way except that of material wealth. Paloma is a twelve-year-old who lives on the fifth floor. Talented and precocious, she’s come to terms with life’s seeming futility and decided to end her own on her thirteenth birthday. Until then, she will continue hiding her extraordinary intelligence behind a mask of mediocrity, acting the part of an average pre-teen high on pop culture, a good but not outstanding student, an obedient if obstinate daughter. Paloma and Renée hide their true talents and finest qualities from a world they believe cannot or will not appreciate them. But after a wealthy Japanese man named Ozu arrives in the building, they will begin to recognize each other as kindred souls, in a novel that exalts the quiet victories of the inconspicuous among us, and “teaches philosophical lessons by shrewdly exposing rich secret lives hidden beneath conventional exteriors” (Kirkus Reviews). “The narrators’ kinetic minds and engaging voices (in Alison Anderson’s fluent translation) propel us ahead.” —The New York Times Book Review “Barbery’s sly wit . . . bestows lightness on the most ponderous cogitations.” —The New Yorker
Author: Luke Carman Publisher: ISBN: 9780648062134 Category : Criticism Languages : en Pages : 160
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"Beginning with Felicity Castagna's warning about the dangers of cultural labelling, this collection of essays takes resistance against conformity and uncritical consensus as one of its central themes. From Aleesha Paz's call to recognise the revolutionary act of public knitting, to Sheila Ngoc Pham on the importance of education in crossing social and ethnic boundaries, to May Ngo's cosmopolitan take on the significance of the shopping mall, the collection offers complex and humane insights into the dynamic relationships between class, culture, family, and love. Eda Gunaydin's 'Second City', from which this collection takes its title, is both a political autobiography and an elegy for a Parramatta lost to gentrification and redevelopment. Zohra Aly and Raaza Jamshed confront the prejudices which oppose Muslim identity in the suburbs, the one in the building of a mosque, the other in the naming of her child. Rawah Arja's comic essay depicts the complexity of the Lebanese-Australian family, Amanda Tink explores reading Alan Marshall as a child and as an adult, while Martyn Reyes combines the experience of a hike in the Dharawal National Park and an earlier trek in Bangkong Kahoy Valley in the Philippines. Finally, Yumna Kassab's essay on Jorge Luis Borges reminds us that Western Sydney writing can be represented by no single form, opinion, style, poetics, or state of mind." - Publisher website.
Author: Luke Carman
Author: Luke Carman
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Author: Luke Carman