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Author: Richard Burgin Publisher: JHU Press ISBN: 9780801885181 Category : Electronic books Languages : en Pages : 212
Book Description
Annotation The Chicago Tribune has called Richard Burgin "among our finest artists of love at its most desperate," a critic for the Philadelphia Inquirer dubbed him "one of America's most distinctive storytellers ... I can think of no one else of his generation who reports the contemporary war between the sexes with more devastating wit and accuracy." Through an extraordinarily vivid and variegated set of characters, The Conference on Beautiful Moments , Burgin's sixth collection of stories, continues his daringly dark yet often humorous exploration of these themes, as well as our mysterious quest for truth, success, and identity. In the gently satiric "Jonathan and Lillian," a movie star throws a dinner party with very different meanings for her biographer, her butler and ex-lover, and herself. In "Cruise," an aging straight man befriends a young gay man. Together they meet on their cruise ship's deck to confess to each other "the worst thing they have ever done." In the title story, a journalist sent to investigate a conference formerly devoted to discussing beauty in the arts discovers it has turned into something considerably more sinister. In The Conference on Beautiful Moments , Burgin writes with equal compassion and insight about the homeless and the wealthy, prostitutes and businessmen, an autistic child and an art forger. His characters are masterfully illuminated by their interior narratives, which burst sharply into conversations at once intimate and calculated.
Author: Richard Burgin Publisher: JHU Press ISBN: 9780801885181 Category : Electronic books Languages : en Pages : 212
Book Description
Annotation The Chicago Tribune has called Richard Burgin "among our finest artists of love at its most desperate," a critic for the Philadelphia Inquirer dubbed him "one of America's most distinctive storytellers ... I can think of no one else of his generation who reports the contemporary war between the sexes with more devastating wit and accuracy." Through an extraordinarily vivid and variegated set of characters, The Conference on Beautiful Moments , Burgin's sixth collection of stories, continues his daringly dark yet often humorous exploration of these themes, as well as our mysterious quest for truth, success, and identity. In the gently satiric "Jonathan and Lillian," a movie star throws a dinner party with very different meanings for her biographer, her butler and ex-lover, and herself. In "Cruise," an aging straight man befriends a young gay man. Together they meet on their cruise ship's deck to confess to each other "the worst thing they have ever done." In the title story, a journalist sent to investigate a conference formerly devoted to discussing beauty in the arts discovers it has turned into something considerably more sinister. In The Conference on Beautiful Moments , Burgin writes with equal compassion and insight about the homeless and the wealthy, prostitutes and businessmen, an autistic child and an art forger. His characters are masterfully illuminated by their interior narratives, which burst sharply into conversations at once intimate and calculated.
Author: Carol Hamblet Adams Publisher: ISBN: 9780736911894 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 56
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Carol Hamblet Adams, author of the inspiring bestseller My Beautiful Broken Shell (over 130,000 copies sold), returns to the comfort of the ocean's rhythm and explores the joys of sandcastle moments--today's simple pleasures. Surrounded by Gay Talbott Boassy's cheery watercolors of beach treasures, readers are invited to pray through troubled times seek refreshment in everyday miracles build dreams on God's serene shore live "in the moment" allow the future to rest on the horizon Each insight from the shore beckons those caught up in day-to-day busyness to sink to their knees, embrace a youthful spirit, and create a fortress of hope.
Author: Matt Monyhan Publisher: Lulu.com ISBN: 1365534804 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 48
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Christmas is more than just the cute story we see in plays and television programs. Real people encountered real issues as a result of the events depicted in the New Testament. This book explores the inconvenience and unexpectedness in each beautiful moment of the Christmas story.
Author: Sakshi Rani Publisher: Navi Encre ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 73
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The Beautiful Moments Of Life is an Anthology compiled with various stories from different co-authors, including the compiler. It comprises short stories and poetries. Life becomes a reel of memories as time passes. Many of which we remember fondly, with adoration and some with a bitter heart. This Anthology talks about such memories, memories that we find beautiful, or that we once thought of as bitter experiences but later on came to a realization, that those memories take up a huge part of our life
Author: Brett Bartholomaus Publisher: Savage Press ISBN: 9781886028098 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 32
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Great natural imagery from rural Wisconsin. Touching human and nature connections. Outstanding references to the pastoral life in the supreme rural Wisconsin wilds.
Author: Barbara De Angelis Publisher: Dell ISBN: 0307833615 Category : Self-Help Languages : en Pages : 289
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To many of us, the experiences that we grew up taking for granted leave become distant dreams in our adult lives: marriages that last a lifetime; safe neighborhoods to call home; the certainty that our children will have a better life than we did; and most of all, lots of time to spend as we wish, living for the moment. Instead, we find our time and energy spent recovering from the past or protecting ourselves from the future. The result is a desperate, sometimes dangerous, and often unsuccessful, search for meaning in our lives. In Real Moments, Barbara De Angelis defines happiness not as an acquisition, but as a skill--the skill of capturing every moment and living it completely. With insight, wisdom, and vision, she teaches us how to rediscover real moments with our mates and our children, with our work and our play, in sex and intimacy, and real moments with ourselves. It is an examination of our relationship with the process of living itself, offering inspiration as well as practical tools for creating more of one of the most precious moments of all--moments of true meaning in our lives.
Author: Laura Coffman Publisher: Xlibris Corporation ISBN: 1479761362 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 215
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These pages from Lauras journal go from joy to sorrow and back again. They go from wondering and questioning about life and death to imagining answers. She doesnt claim that her answers are the only valid ones. She simply hopes that they will encourage readers to fi nd their own. Laura is now an eighty-eight-year-old widow. Still actively involved in living. Even now, after all these years and all this living, she finds life good.
Author: Mary Ann Wagner Publisher: AuthorHouse ISBN: 1452086117 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 62
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Special Moments is poetry in motion depicting happiness, loneliness, sadness and funny events with people, animal and plants in their natural environments.
Author: Tharani R Publisher: JEC PUBLICATION ISBN: 9361759191 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 103
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Memories are treasures of our hearts. They are captured moments in our brain like photos in albums. They are indelible and unforgettable. Some memories give a smile flower to our heart . But Some memories gives intolerable pain . When we close our eyes they come as waves in front of us.
Author: Betty Smith Publisher: HarperCollins ISBN: 0062988638 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 364
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From Betty Smith, author of the beloved American classic A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, comes an unsentimental yet radiant and powerfully uplifting tale of young love and marriage. In 1927, in Brooklyn, New York, Carl Brown and Annie McGairy meet and fall in love. Though only eighteen, Annie travels alone halfway across the country to the Midwestern university where Carl is studying law—and there they marry. But Carl and Annie’s first year together is much more difficult than they anticipated as they find themselves in a faraway place with little money and few friends. With hardship and poverty weighing heavily upon them, they come to realize that their greatest sources of strength, loyalty, and love, will help them make it through. A moving and unforgettable story, Joy in the Morning is “a glad affirmation that love can accomplish the impossible.” (Chicago Tribune)
Author: Richard Burgin
Author: Richard Burgin
Author: Carol Hamblet Adams
Author: Matt Monyhan
Author: Sakshi Rani
Author: Brett Bartholomaus
Author: Barbara De Angelis
Author: Laura Coffman
Author: Mary Ann Wagner
Author: Tharani R
Author: Betty Smith