Author: Frederick Orin BartlettPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 332
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Joan of the Alley
Author: Frederick Orin BartlettPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Jmj
Author: Gilroy MacFrancisPublisher: Trafford Publishing
ISBN: 1490768416
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
The book is about growing up in an Irish Catholic family in Philadelphia in the fifties. It features the interesting, wonderful characters I remember.
Common Ground
Author: J. Anthony LukasPublisher: Vintage
ISBN: 030782375X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 688
Book Description
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, and the American Book Award, the bestselling Common Ground is much more than the story of the busing crisis in Boston as told through the experiences of three families. As Studs Terkel remarked, it's "gripping, indelible...a truth about all large American cities." "An epic of American city life...a story of such hypnotic specificity that we re-experience all the shades of hope and anger, pity and fear that living anywhere in late 20th-century America has inevitably provoked." —Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, The New York Times
The Literary World
Author: Confessions of Joan the Tall
Author: Joan Cusack HandlerPublisher: UPNE
ISBN: 1933880376
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Freedom and awakening of an adolescent, Bronx bred, Irish Catholic girl
Coop's Corner Collection
Author: William M. CooperPublisher: Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency
ISBN: 1631357573
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
Coop’s Corner Collection: Inspirational Stories and Poems is a marvelous collection of short stories and poems that reinforce such noble characteristics as love, duty, respect, honor, self-sacrifice, patience, humility and compassion. Readers will put themselves in the stories and find wisdom and truths that they can live by.
Unconventional Joan
Author: Nightmare Alley
Author: Mark OsteenPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421408325
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
Classic film noir offers more than pesky private eyes and beautiful bad girls—it explores the quest for the not-so-attainable American dream. Winner of the CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title of the Choice ACRL Desperate young lovers on the lam (They Live by Night), a cynical con man making a fortune as a mentalist (Nightmare Alley), a penniless pregnant girl mistaken for a wealthy heiress (No Man of Her Own), a wounded veteran who has forgotten his own name (Somewhere in the Night)—this gallery of film noir characters challenges the stereotypes of the wise-cracking detective and the alluring femme fatale. Despite their differences, they all have something in common: a belief in self-reinvention. Nightmare Alley is a thorough examination of how film noir disputes this notion at the heart of the American Dream. Central to many of these films, Mark Osteen argues, is the story of an individual trying, by dint of hard work or, more often, illicit enterprises, to overcome his or her origins and achieve material success. In the wake of World War II, the noir genre tested the dream of upward mobility and the ideas of individualism, liberty, equality, and free enterprise that accompany it. Employing an impressive array of theoretical perspectives (including psychoanalysis, art history, feminism, and music theory) and combining close reading with original primary source research, Nightmare Alley proves both the diversity of classic noir and its potency. This provocative and wide-ranging study revises and refreshes our understanding of noir's characters, themes, and cultural significance.
Dylan
Author: Dennis McDougalPublisher: Turner Publishing Company
ISBN: 1630260673
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 427
Book Description
The ultimate biography of the musical icon. A groundbreaking and vibrant look at the music hero to generations, DYLAN: The Biography digs deep into Bob Dylan lore—including subjects Dylan himself left out of Chronicles: Volume One. DYLAN: The Biography focuses on why this beloved artist has touched so many souls—and on how both Dylan and his audience have changed along the way. Bob Dylan is an international bestselling artist, a Pulitzer Prize–winning author, and an Oscar winner for "Things Have Changed." His career is stronger and more influential than ever. How did this happen, given the road to oblivion he seemed to choose more than two decades ago? What transformed a heroin addict into one of the most astonishing literary and musical icons in American history? At 72 years of age, Dylan's final act of his career is more intriguing than ever—and classic biographies like Bob Dylan: Behind the Shades and even his own Chronicles: Volume One came too soon to cover this remarkable new chapter in Dylan's life. Through extensive interviews and conversations with Dylan's friends, family, sidemen, and fans, Los Angeles Times journalist Dennis McDougal crafts an unprecedented understanding of Dylan and the intricate story behind the myths. Was his romantic life, especially with Sara Dylan, much more complicated than it appears? Was his motorcycle accident a cover for drug rehab? What really happened to Dylan when his career crumbled, and how did he find his way back? To what does he attribute his astonishing success? McDougal's meticulous research and comprehensive interviews offer a revealing new understanding of these long-standing questions—and of the current chapter Dylan continually writes in his life and career.
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