Author: R. Roper
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595293506
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
An irascible old man desperately wants to be alone so he can do nothing but write. He takes up residence one hundred and fifty feet up on a giant redwood for a period of 100 days and comes down a different man.
Diary Of A Tree Sitter
Author: R. Roper
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595293506
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
An irascible old man desperately wants to be alone so he can do nothing but write. He takes up residence one hundred and fifty feet up on a giant redwood for a period of 100 days and comes down a different man.
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595293506
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
An irascible old man desperately wants to be alone so he can do nothing but write. He takes up residence one hundred and fifty feet up on a giant redwood for a period of 100 days and comes down a different man.
Tincture Journal Issue Five (Autumn 2014)
Author: Daniel Young
Publisher: Tincture Journal
ISBN: 0987498347
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 205
Book Description
Tincture Journal is a quarterly literary journal based in Sydney, Australia and collecting interesting new works of fiction, poetry and non-fiction from Australia and the world.
Publisher: Tincture Journal
ISBN: 0987498347
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 205
Book Description
Tincture Journal is a quarterly literary journal based in Sydney, Australia and collecting interesting new works of fiction, poetry and non-fiction from Australia and the world.
Tincture Journal Issue Six (Winter 2014)
Author: Daniel Young
Publisher: Tincture Journal
ISBN: 0987498355
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 195
Book Description
Publisher: Tincture Journal
ISBN: 0987498355
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 195
Book Description
America Gone Wild
Author: Ted Rall
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
ISBN: 0740799304
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 171
Book Description
"Insightful and venomously cynical political cartoons . . . Rall straddles stereotypes, avoids party lines like live wires. . . . A true freethinker." --Las Vegas Mercury There simply isn't a more polarizing, more controversial, or more widely read political and social cartoonist than Ted Rall. Matt Groening: "Ted Rall makes me laugh out loud." Rush Limbaugh: "What is sad is that such an ignoramus ends up as a prominent cartoonist in major newspapers." Janet Clayton, L.A. Times editorial page editor: "He's wonderfully incisive. He has a way of looking at the world that is rarely articulated in editorial cartoons." Bernard Goldberg, author of 100 People Who Are Screwing Up America: "There is loathsome and there is beneath loathsome. And then there's Ted Rall." Love him or hate him, Rall has a unique drawing style and makes caustic social commentary that sets him apart from the pack. America Gone Wild features Rall's most controversial cartoons assembled for the first time in a single collection. Rall views his strips as a vehicle for driving social change. He applies his outrageous sense of humor to volatile topics from 9/11 and the Iraq war to social issues such as unemployment, the environment, and religion. This collection comprises his edgiest material and features lengthy behind-the-scenes commentary from Rall.
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
ISBN: 0740799304
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 171
Book Description
"Insightful and venomously cynical political cartoons . . . Rall straddles stereotypes, avoids party lines like live wires. . . . A true freethinker." --Las Vegas Mercury There simply isn't a more polarizing, more controversial, or more widely read political and social cartoonist than Ted Rall. Matt Groening: "Ted Rall makes me laugh out loud." Rush Limbaugh: "What is sad is that such an ignoramus ends up as a prominent cartoonist in major newspapers." Janet Clayton, L.A. Times editorial page editor: "He's wonderfully incisive. He has a way of looking at the world that is rarely articulated in editorial cartoons." Bernard Goldberg, author of 100 People Who Are Screwing Up America: "There is loathsome and there is beneath loathsome. And then there's Ted Rall." Love him or hate him, Rall has a unique drawing style and makes caustic social commentary that sets him apart from the pack. America Gone Wild features Rall's most controversial cartoons assembled for the first time in a single collection. Rall views his strips as a vehicle for driving social change. He applies his outrageous sense of humor to volatile topics from 9/11 and the Iraq war to social issues such as unemployment, the environment, and religion. This collection comprises his edgiest material and features lengthy behind-the-scenes commentary from Rall.
Reading Portland
Author: John Trombold
Publisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN: 0295997605
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 607
Book Description
Reading Portland is a literary exploration of the city's past and present. In over eighty selections, Portland is revealed through histories, memoirs, autobiographies, short stories, novels, and news reports. This single volume gives voice to women and men; the colonizers and the colonized; white, Hispanic, African American, Asian American, and Indian storytellers; and lower, middle, and upper classes. In his introduction, John Trombold considers the history of writing about a place that has nourished a provocative and errant literary tradition for over 150 years. In the preface, Peter Donahue considers the influence of region--particularly Portland's urbanity and its hybrid population--on literature. Included here are the voices of Carl Abbott, Kathryn Hall Bogle, Beverly Cleary, Robin Cody, Lawson Fusao Inada, Rudyard Kipling, Ursula K. Le Guin, Joaquin Miller, Sandy Polishuk, Gary Snyder, Kim Stafford, Elizabeth Woody, and many more.
Publisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN: 0295997605
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 607
Book Description
Reading Portland is a literary exploration of the city's past and present. In over eighty selections, Portland is revealed through histories, memoirs, autobiographies, short stories, novels, and news reports. This single volume gives voice to women and men; the colonizers and the colonized; white, Hispanic, African American, Asian American, and Indian storytellers; and lower, middle, and upper classes. In his introduction, John Trombold considers the history of writing about a place that has nourished a provocative and errant literary tradition for over 150 years. In the preface, Peter Donahue considers the influence of region--particularly Portland's urbanity and its hybrid population--on literature. Included here are the voices of Carl Abbott, Kathryn Hall Bogle, Beverly Cleary, Robin Cody, Lawson Fusao Inada, Rudyard Kipling, Ursula K. Le Guin, Joaquin Miller, Sandy Polishuk, Gary Snyder, Kim Stafford, Elizabeth Woody, and many more.
The Tree-Sitter: A Novel
Author: Suzanne Matson
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393347745
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 247
Book Description
A passionate and tensely pitched tale of first love and idealism set in the Oregon forests. Julie Prince is a top college student, destined for conventional success. But then she falls in love with Neil, a radical graduate student, and abandons her privileged East Coast life to tree-sit in the forests of Oregon. At first it is a romantic field trip; soon, though, Julie finds herself increasingly moved by the magnificence of the endangered forest and, like Neil, invested in its protection. Eventually pulled into a militant act of sabotage, Julie is forced to reassess her deepest held loyalties and beliefs.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393347745
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 247
Book Description
A passionate and tensely pitched tale of first love and idealism set in the Oregon forests. Julie Prince is a top college student, destined for conventional success. But then she falls in love with Neil, a radical graduate student, and abandons her privileged East Coast life to tree-sit in the forests of Oregon. At first it is a romantic field trip; soon, though, Julie finds herself increasingly moved by the magnificence of the endangered forest and, like Neil, invested in its protection. Eventually pulled into a militant act of sabotage, Julie is forced to reassess her deepest held loyalties and beliefs.
A Trip Up Fool's Hill
Author: R. Roper
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595293867
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
A series of contiguous sketches detail one young man's trip "... over fool's hill." Beginning with his first sexual encounter the story progresses through his early adolescence in the war years of World War Two, where he and his friends indulge in a riotous rebellion against authority and the morality of the time. His High School years start his "Trip" in earnest as he and his associates find the joys of booze, cigarettes, and sex and the thrill of bawdy parties. Our young hero's adolescence continues into his twenties when he encounters the freedom of Southern California, all of its temptations, its new experiences, and its milieu of sex, partying and sophomoronic fun.
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595293867
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
A series of contiguous sketches detail one young man's trip "... over fool's hill." Beginning with his first sexual encounter the story progresses through his early adolescence in the war years of World War Two, where he and his friends indulge in a riotous rebellion against authority and the morality of the time. His High School years start his "Trip" in earnest as he and his associates find the joys of booze, cigarettes, and sex and the thrill of bawdy parties. Our young hero's adolescence continues into his twenties when he encounters the freedom of Southern California, all of its temptations, its new experiences, and its milieu of sex, partying and sophomoronic fun.
Alma Winklegrin's Lower Denture Is Missing
Author: R. Roper
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595293662
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
Alma Winklegrin's Lower Denture Is Missing is an eclectic collection of short stories and prose works covering a wide variety of humorous and serious subjects as illustrated by titles such as: § Adversity University § A Ride With Grandma § Return Of The Warrior § Apology To A Dead Enemy § Spillane Revisited An excerpt from the short story "A Moment In The Sun" portrays the author's poetic style--"He had come to think, to be alone, and let his mind wander, to heal a recent hurt, to feel the bleak disconsolation of a momentary despair..." R. R. Roper experiments with unusual variations of fiction ranging from stories that are all dialog to stories that are all narration, a short play, reminiscences, and stories which could be categorized more as tales than short stories. The characters portrayed are truly defined by their very personal idiosyncrasies.
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595293662
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
Alma Winklegrin's Lower Denture Is Missing is an eclectic collection of short stories and prose works covering a wide variety of humorous and serious subjects as illustrated by titles such as: § Adversity University § A Ride With Grandma § Return Of The Warrior § Apology To A Dead Enemy § Spillane Revisited An excerpt from the short story "A Moment In The Sun" portrays the author's poetic style--"He had come to think, to be alone, and let his mind wander, to heal a recent hurt, to feel the bleak disconsolation of a momentary despair..." R. R. Roper experiments with unusual variations of fiction ranging from stories that are all dialog to stories that are all narration, a short play, reminiscences, and stories which could be categorized more as tales than short stories. The characters portrayed are truly defined by their very personal idiosyncrasies.
Diary of an Apprentice
Author: DreamSnake
Publisher: BalboaPress
ISBN: 1452506779
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 217
Book Description
There are not many people who learn to cross the membrane between the visible, tangible world into the invisible, non-tangible world, yet the author has accomplished this brilliantly. His journey stories will take you from physical and non-physical aborigines in the bush, to lines and balls of light, and on to the distant stars, yet all have one thing in common: authenticity. It is only when you have made similar journeys that you know the authenticity of another persons account. This is an excellent book. MICHAEL J. ROADS Author of the best selling classics: Talking with Nature and Journey into Nature And his recent; Through the Eyes of Love Journeying with Pan www.michaelroads.com
Publisher: BalboaPress
ISBN: 1452506779
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 217
Book Description
There are not many people who learn to cross the membrane between the visible, tangible world into the invisible, non-tangible world, yet the author has accomplished this brilliantly. His journey stories will take you from physical and non-physical aborigines in the bush, to lines and balls of light, and on to the distant stars, yet all have one thing in common: authenticity. It is only when you have made similar journeys that you know the authenticity of another persons account. This is an excellent book. MICHAEL J. ROADS Author of the best selling classics: Talking with Nature and Journey into Nature And his recent; Through the Eyes of Love Journeying with Pan www.michaelroads.com
Dougal's Diary
Author: David Greagg
Publisher: Clan Destine Press
ISBN: 098716032X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 437
Book Description
After some traumatic early life experiences, Dougal the black-and-white kitten falls on his paws into a loving home with two kind humans. Dougal decides to repay his humans' kindness by trying to be a Good Cat at all times. But when you have a little sister like Shadow, being good isn't as easy as it should be; because Shadow is an alley-cat who eats his food and loves rummaging in bins and stealing from neighbours' barbecues. And, although they don't know it, the kind humans are not in charge in this house. That role goes to the imperious old cat Belladonna, who does not take kindly to newcomers in her space. Dougal and Shadow's new home also has a large resident family of wattle-birds, and a supporting cast of neighbouring cats with agendas of their own; so the kittens must learn their place in the pecking order. Dougal's diplomatic skills will be tested to their limit as he tries to make sense of human and feline psychology. You can also catch up with Dougal, join his fanclub and get some pressies at his very own website http://www.dougalsdiary.com.au
Publisher: Clan Destine Press
ISBN: 098716032X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 437
Book Description
After some traumatic early life experiences, Dougal the black-and-white kitten falls on his paws into a loving home with two kind humans. Dougal decides to repay his humans' kindness by trying to be a Good Cat at all times. But when you have a little sister like Shadow, being good isn't as easy as it should be; because Shadow is an alley-cat who eats his food and loves rummaging in bins and stealing from neighbours' barbecues. And, although they don't know it, the kind humans are not in charge in this house. That role goes to the imperious old cat Belladonna, who does not take kindly to newcomers in her space. Dougal and Shadow's new home also has a large resident family of wattle-birds, and a supporting cast of neighbouring cats with agendas of their own; so the kittens must learn their place in the pecking order. Dougal's diplomatic skills will be tested to their limit as he tries to make sense of human and feline psychology. You can also catch up with Dougal, join his fanclub and get some pressies at his very own website http://www.dougalsdiary.com.au