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Author: Lillian Eugenia Smith Publisher: University of Georgia Press ISBN: 0820349984 Category : Literary Collections Languages : en Pages : 345
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Bringing together short stories, lectures, essays, op-ed pieces, interviews, andexcerpts from her longer fiction and nonfiction, A Lillian Smith Reader offers thefirst comprehensive collection of her work.
Author: Lillian Eugenia Smith Publisher: University of Georgia Press ISBN: 0820349984 Category : Literary Collections Languages : en Pages : 345
Book Description
Bringing together short stories, lectures, essays, op-ed pieces, interviews, andexcerpts from her longer fiction and nonfiction, A Lillian Smith Reader offers thefirst comprehensive collection of her work.
Author: Lillian Li Publisher: Henry Holt and Company ISBN: 1250141303 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 304
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Named a Must-Read by TIME, Buzzfeed, The Wall Street Journal, Star Tribune, Fast Company, The Village Voice, Toronto Star, Fortune Magazine, InStyle, and O, The Oprah Magazine "A joy to read—I couldn't get enough." —Buzzfeed "This novel practically thumps with heartache and sharp humor." —Chang-rae Lee, New York Times bestselling author of Native Speaker An exuberant and wise multigenerational debut novel about the complicated lives and loves of people working in everyone’s favorite Chinese restaurant. The Beijing Duck House in Rockville, Maryland, is not only a beloved go-to setting for hunger pangs and celebrations; it is its own world, inhabited by waiters and kitchen staff who have been fighting, loving, and aging within its walls for decades. When disaster strikes, this working family’s controlled chaos is set loose, forcing each character to confront the conflicts that fast-paced restaurant life has kept at bay. Owner Jimmy Han hopes to leave his late father’s homespun establishment for a fancier one. Jimmy’s older brother, Johnny, and Johnny’s daughter, Annie, ache to return to a time before a father’s absence and a teenager’s silence pushed them apart. Nan and Ah-Jack, longtime Duck House employees, are tempted to turn their thirty-year friendship into something else, even as Nan’s son, Pat, struggles to stay out of trouble. And when Pat and Annie, caught in a mix of youthful lust and boredom, find themselves in a dangerous game that implicates them in the Duck House tragedy, their families must decide how much they are willing to sacrifice to help their children. Generous in spirit, unaffected in its intelligence, multi-voiced, poignant, and darkly funny, Number One Chinese Restaurant looks beyond red tablecloths and silkscreen murals to share an unforgettable story about youth and aging, parents and children, and all the ways that our families destroy us while also keeping us grounded and alive.
Author: Cm Healy Publisher: Beyond the After ISBN: 9781948577038 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 478
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Rediscover Snow White, Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty--20 years beyond the "happily ever after." Princess Olivia, the daughter of Queen Cinderella and King Louis Charming, has an ability no one can explain. And while she's attending her cousin Lillian's eighteenth birthday celebration, she uncovers there's more to a terrible prank than anyone imagined. As she attempts to uncover the truth, she meets an enigmatic stranger with similar abilities. As he works with Olivia to develop her gifts, friendship turns into something more. Yet as her relationship with him grows, so does her list of questions about him. Soon, Olivia's talents are put to the test as forces work against the will of good and threaten not only her kingdom but the entire continent as well. And as further events unfold, it seems as if she is somehow at the center of it all. In a sprint against the clock, Olivia will risk everything to keep her people safe and discover just what she's capable of--both with her gifts and her heart.
Author: C. M. Healy Publisher: ISBN: 9781948577007 Category : Languages : en Pages :
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Rediscover Snow White, Cinderella & Sleeping Beauty--20 years beyond the "happily ever after."Once the ¿I dos¿ were said, each newlywed king and queen did what any king and queen would do¿start a family. Beyond the After is the next chapter that chronicles the tales of three princesses with legendary mothers. The daughters of Snow White, Cinderella, and Sleeping Beauty find their lives intertwined in a way they never thought possible as an old threat reemerges, and new love is discovered.
Author: Lillian Ross Publisher: New York Review of Books ISBN: 1681373157 Category : Performing Arts Languages : en Pages : 241
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A classic look at Hollywood and the American film industry by The New Yorker's Lillian Ross, and named one of the "Top 100 Works of U.S. Journalism of the Twentieth Century." Lillian Ross worked at The New Yorker for more than half a century, and might be described not only as an outstanding practitioner of modern long-form journalism but also as one of its inventors. Picture, originally published in 1952, is her most celebrated piece of reportage, a closely observed and completely absorbing story of how studio politics and misguided commercialism turn a promising movie into an all-around disaster. The charismatic and hard-bitten director and actor John Huston is at the center of the book, determined to make Stephen Crane’s The Red Badge of Courage—one of the great and defining works of American literature, the first modern war novel, a book whose vivid imagistic style invites the description of cinematic—into a movie that is worthy of it. At first all goes well, as Huston shoots and puts together a two-hour film that is, he feels, the best he’s ever made. Then the studio bosses step in and the audience previews begin, conferences are held, and the movie is taken out of Huston’s hands, cut down by a third, and finally released—with results that please no one and certainly not the public: It was an expensive flop. In Picture, which Charlie Chaplin aptly described as “brilliant and sagacious,” Ross is a gadfly on the wall taking note of the operations of a system designed to crank out mediocrity.
Author: Stuart Oderman Publisher: McFarland ISBN: 1476613699 Category : Performing Arts Languages : en Pages : 409
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With a theatrical career spanning nearly 100 years, Gish saw motion pictures evolve from flickers to blockbusters. Usually playing someone needing to be rescued or protected, her trademark delicacy and vulnerability belied a strong and complex woman whose fatherless childhood taught her frugality, love for her mother and her sister, Dorothy, and a distrust of men. The author, who was her friend, chronicles the hardships, heartaches, and fierce determination that shaped her all her days. With rare photographs and intimate recollections of Lillian, Dorothy, and many other important figures.
Author: Armond Fields Publisher: McFarland ISBN: 0786438681 Category : Performing Arts Languages : en Pages : 247
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Colorful and boisterous first nights were the rule in New York theaters of the 1880s. Everyone, it seemed, attended, from the rich and powerful to young people who scraped together just enough to buy a ticket. And no star was more popular than Lillian Russell. At a time when serious plays dominated the stages, Lillian Russell was one of the first to popularize musical theater. With her beauty, voice, and grace, she was the symbol of the new American woman. She used those attributes to attain power, social status and wealth, and then to become one of the earliest champions of women's equality. Her life and career are covered here in detail, with particular emphasis on the way she influenced theater history and popular culture.
Author: Charles Affron Publisher: Univ of California Press ISBN: 9780520234345 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 470
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"As someone who worked with and knew Lillian Gish for years, I found Charles Affron’s portrait revealing and moving. He rekindles the life of this intuitive and generous artist beautifully."—Eva Marie Saint
Author: Lillian Eugenia Smith
Author: Lillian Eugenia Smith
Author: Lillian Li
Author: Cm Healy
Author: C. M. Healy
Author: Lillian Ross
Author: Stuart Oderman
Author: Armond Fields
Author: Charles Affron
Author: Lillian Hellman
Author: Michael C. Wood