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Category : Zines
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Going Down Swinging Number 25
Author: Going Down Swinging
Author: Billie LivingstonPublisher: Vintage Canada
ISBN: 0307369870
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
A remarkable debut novel and bittersweet tale of the unflinching love and devotion between a mother and daughter.Razor sharp and darkly funny Going Down Swinging chronicles two years in the life of the Hoffmans. Eilleen Hoffman has just told Danny, her con-artist lover and father of her youngest daughter Grace, to get out — for good. Once a teacher, Eilleen lived a middle-class life, but her taste in men coupled with a predilection for pills and booze has brought her down. Desperate to prevent her family from sinking deeper into poverty, Eilleen reluctantly goes on welfare. Eventually she turns to the only friends she has left, hustlers and hookers, to learn how a woman makes fast money, no investment necessary.With Eilleen on welfare and her older daughter Charlotte a teenaged runaway, child welfare authorities descend on the Hoffmans. As Eilleen trails through several attempts at drying out, the well-intentioned Children's Protection Society finally intervenes to apprehend Grace. With the threat of prolonged separation now a stark reality, Eilleen and Grace must rally to confront their demons with grit, determination and humour. Unblinkingly observed and brilliantly written, Going Down Swinging is about the powerful bond between mother and child. And with her skilful narrative interplay, Billie Livingston illustrates poignantly how the truth of our stories lies not so much in the black and white, as it does in the grey.
Going Down Swinging 25
Author: Lisa GreenawayPublisher:
ISBN: 9780980405309
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Special double-CD spoken word edition featring a disc of New International Spoken Word plus a disc of New Australian Spoken Word. Featuring work from Edwin Torres, Victoria Stanton, Ventriloquist, Fortner Anderson, Ghostboy, Don Walker and St John's Ambience, CooknKitch and the Settle Down Sound System, Jayne Fenton Keyne and more....
Going Down Swinging 30
Author: Lisa GreenawayPublisher:
ISBN: 9780980405354
Category : Australian literature
Languages : en
Pages : 145
Book Description
GOING DOWN SWINGING is an Australian based literary magazine featuring short stories, flash fiction, poetry, comic art and spoken word, all in the one book/CD package. GDS publishes work from all over the globe. Started in 1980 by Australian writers Myron Lysenko and Kevin Brophy, GDS has passed through the hands of various editors including Lauren Williams, Grant Caldwell, Lyn Boughton, Louise Craig, Adam Ford, Anna Hedigan, Steve Grimwade and alicia sometimes as well as a plethora of readers, typesetters, designers and proofreaders whose assistance has been invaluable in allowing GDS to survive for nearly 30 years.
Going Down Swinging
Author: Steve GrimwadePublisher:
ISBN: 9780980405316
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Poetry and prose from Fiona Wright, Matthue Roth, Stuart Cooke, David Prater, Leanne Hall, Josephine Rowe, Ghostboy... Comic art from Daniel Reed, Anna Simic... Spoken Word from Thomas, Jack of Hearts, Emilie Zoey Baker, David Thrussell, The Ventriloquist Band, Ian Ferrier... Special street art feature with works from Tom Civil, ghostpatrol, miso, Vexta and HaHa.
Swing Like a Pro
Author: Ralph MannPublisher: Crown Archetype
ISBN: 076790236X
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
A leading biomechanics expert and a premier golf instructor share the secrets of the perfect swing using a breakthrough learning tool—for novice and advanced golfers alike. For seventeen years, CompuSport International’s biomechanics expert Dr. Ralph Mann devoted himself to studying the swings of more than 100 PGA and LPGA Tour players to uncover the keys to a better game and a lower handicap. The results: the computer-generated composite Pro, which embodies the mechanical elements of the holy grail of the golf swing—efficient, effective, and now achievable. Illustrated with 175 animated 3-D stills of the Pro that pinpoint the exact motions of a body executing the perfect swing, Swing Like a Pro provides accurate, consistent information about how to play the game properly, breaking down the exact steps you can take to develop and refine your skills at performing every aspect of the shot. Mann teams up with renowned golf instructor Fred Griffin to examine and explain • Setup, including how to grip and align the club properly while finding the perfect balance for your body • The seven characteristics of a great backswing, with drills for improvement • How to achieve distance with accuracy through your downswing • How to put all these elements together with both timing and tempo • And much more! With its unique cutting-edge, scientific approach, and the expertise of its authors, Swing Like a Pro promises to be the best golf Pro you ever consulted to help you improve your swing and shave strokes off your handicap—and proves that there is such a thing as a perfect swing.
The Best Australian Poetry 2007
Author: John TranterPublisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780702236075
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
A selection of the best poems from Australia's literary journals.
The Supervisors Service Bulletin
Author: Going Down Swinging 38
Author: Megan AndersonPublisher:
ISBN: 9780994367426
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
Hal Trosky
Author: William H. JohnsonPublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476666458
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
Hal Trosky played first base (and was team captain) for the Cleveland Indians during the Great Depression. His career stretched from the heyday of Babe Ruth through the end of World War II. It was a time when the American League had perhaps the three greatest ever first basemen--Lou Gehrig, Jimmie Foxx and Hank Greenberg--whose feats consigned Trosky to the footnotes of history. Yet at his peak he played comparably to other pros, leading the American League in RBIs in 1936. Trosky left baseball at 34, his career cut short by migraine headaches, and was elected to the Indians' All-Time team in 1969. Drawing on family archives and exhaustive research, this first ever biography covers his early years in Iowa, his Major League career and his post-baseball life.