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Author: Helen DeWitt Publisher: New Directions Publishing ISBN: 0811225518 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 371
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Called “remarkable” (The Wall Street Journal) and “an ambitious, colossal debut novel” (Publishers Weekly), Helen DeWitt’s The Last Samurai is back in print at last Helen DeWitt’s 2000 debut, The Last Samurai, was “destined to become a cult classic” (Miramax). The enterprising publisher sold the rights in twenty countries, so “Why not just, ‘destined to become a classic?’” (Garth Risk Hallberg) And why must cultists tell the uninitiated it has nothing to do with Tom Cruise? Sibylla, an American-at-Oxford turned loose on London, finds herself trapped as a single mother after a misguided one-night stand. High-minded principles of child-rearing work disastrously well. J. S. Mill (taught Greek at three) and Yo Yo Ma (Bach at two) claimed the methods would work with any child; when these succeed with the boy Ludo, he causes havoc at school and is home again in a month. (Is he a prodigy, a genius? Readers looking over Ludo’s shoulder find themselves easily reading Greek and more.) Lacking male role models for a fatherless boy, Sibylla turns to endless replays of Kurosawa’s masterpiece Seven Samurai. But Ludo is obsessed with the one thing he wants and doesn’t know: his father’s name. At eleven, inspired by his own take on the classic film, he sets out on a secret quest for the father he never knew. He’ll be punched, sliced, and threatened with retribution. He may not live to see twelve. Or he may find a real samurai and save a mother who thinks boredom a fate worse than death.
Author: Helen DeWitt Publisher: New Directions Publishing ISBN: 0811225518 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 371
Book Description
Called “remarkable” (The Wall Street Journal) and “an ambitious, colossal debut novel” (Publishers Weekly), Helen DeWitt’s The Last Samurai is back in print at last Helen DeWitt’s 2000 debut, The Last Samurai, was “destined to become a cult classic” (Miramax). The enterprising publisher sold the rights in twenty countries, so “Why not just, ‘destined to become a classic?’” (Garth Risk Hallberg) And why must cultists tell the uninitiated it has nothing to do with Tom Cruise? Sibylla, an American-at-Oxford turned loose on London, finds herself trapped as a single mother after a misguided one-night stand. High-minded principles of child-rearing work disastrously well. J. S. Mill (taught Greek at three) and Yo Yo Ma (Bach at two) claimed the methods would work with any child; when these succeed with the boy Ludo, he causes havoc at school and is home again in a month. (Is he a prodigy, a genius? Readers looking over Ludo’s shoulder find themselves easily reading Greek and more.) Lacking male role models for a fatherless boy, Sibylla turns to endless replays of Kurosawa’s masterpiece Seven Samurai. But Ludo is obsessed with the one thing he wants and doesn’t know: his father’s name. At eleven, inspired by his own take on the classic film, he sets out on a secret quest for the father he never knew. He’ll be punched, sliced, and threatened with retribution. He may not live to see twelve. Or he may find a real samurai and save a mother who thinks boredom a fate worse than death.
Author: Mark Oliver Everett Publisher: Macmillan ISBN: 0312429177 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 261
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Drawing upon the relentless tragedies in his life for inspiration in writing highly acclaimed music with his indie rock group, the Eels, Everett pens a memoir that is a rich and poignant narrative on coming of age, love, death, and the creative vision.
Author: Bobby Gillespie Publisher: Hachette UK ISBN: 1474622097 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 438
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Tenement Kid is Bobby Gillespie's story up to the recording and release of the album that has been credited with 'starting the 90's', Screamadelica. Born into a working class Glaswegian family in the summer of 1961, Bobby's memoirs begin in the district of Springburn, soon to be evacuated in Edward Heath's brutal slum clearances. Leaving school at 16 and going to work as a printers' apprentice, Bobby's rock n roll epiphany arrives like a bolt of lightning shining from Phil Lynott's mirrored pickguard at his first gig at the Apollo in Glasgow. Filled with 'the holy spirit of rock n roll' his destiny is sealed with the arrival of the Sex Pistols and punk rock which to Bobby, represents an iconoclastic vision of class rebellion and would ultimately lead to him becoming an artist initially in the Jesus and Mary Chain then in Primal Scream. Structured in four parts, Tenement Kid builds like a breakbeat crescendo to the final quarter of the book, the Summer of Love, Boys Own parties, and the fateful meeting with Andrew Weatherall in an East Sussex field. As the '80s bleed into the '90s and a new kind of electronic soul music starts to pulse through the nation's consciousness, Primal Scream become the most innovative British band of the new decade, representing a new psychedelic vanguard taking shape at Creation Records. Ending with the release of Screamadelica and the tour that followed in the autumn, Tenement Kid is a book filled with the joy and wonder of a rock n roll apostle who would radically reshape the future sounds of fin de siècle British pop. Published thirty years after the release of their masterpiece, Bobby Gillespie's memoir cuts a righteous path through a decade lost to Thatcherism and saved by acid house.
Author: Caitlin Moran Publisher: HarperCollins ISBN: 0062893726 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 272
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The author of the international bestseller How to Be a Woman returns with another “hilarious neo-feminist manifesto” (NPR) in which she reflects on parenting, middle-age, marriage, existential crises—and, of course, feminism. A decade ago, Caitlin Moran burst onto the scene with her instant bestseller, How to Be a Woman, a hilarious and resonant take on feminism, the patriarchy, and all things womanhood. Moran’s seminal book followed her from her terrible 13th birthday through adolescence, the workplace, strip-clubs, love, and beyond—and is considered the inaugural work of the irreverent confessional feminist memoir genre that continues to occupy a major place in the cultural landscape. Since that publication, it’s been a glorious ten years for young women: Barack Obama loves Fleabag, and Dior make “FEMINIST” t-shirts. However, middle-aged women still have some nagging, unanswered questions: Can feminists have Botox? Why isn’t there such a thing as “Mum Bod”? Why do hangovers suddenly hurt so much? Is the camel-toe the new erogenous zone? Why do all your clothes suddenly hate you? Has feminism gone too far? Will your To Do List ever end? And WHO’S LOOKING AFTER THE CHILDREN? As timely as it is hysterically funny, this memoir/manifesto will have readers laughing out loud, blinking back tears, and redefining their views on feminism and the patriarchy. More Than a Woman is a brutally honest, scathingly funny, and absolutely necessary take on the life of the modern woman—and one that only Caitlin Moran can provide.
Author: Scroll Trough Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : es Pages : 100
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Disfruta de este libro para colorear con mandalas únicos.Tiene más de 40 patrones de animales y proporciona horas de alivio del estrés a través de la expresión creativa El mandala es un símbolo y también un ritual cuyo origen proviene del hinduismo y el budismo y representa el Universo. Es un diagrama circular que mantiene rigurosamente una cierta simetría que se centra fuertemente en un centro, con la estructura típica de dividir la superficie en cuatro segmentos. Un libro para colorear para regalar a amigos o familiares que aman el arte de colorear. La excelente calidad, la atención a los detalles y la hermosa cubierta de color brillante hacen de este libro un regalo excepcional. Las características del libro son: Cada imagen está impresa en una página de una sola cara para que pueda utilizar una amplia variedad de opciones para colorear sin temor a que se corra. 47 imágenes únicas 8.5x11 pulgadas
Author: Ahmad Sánchez Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : es Pages : 100
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UN GRAN REGALO 🐯 NUEVO 🐬 EL ARTE DE LA RELAJACIÓN Los libros para colorear ya no son solo cosas de niños. Hoy en día, nuestras vidas son cada vez más ajetreadas y complicadas. El auge de las nuevas tecnologías nos lleva a tener oleadas de correos electrónicos y notificaciones en redes sociales. Esta constante estimulación de expectativas, obligaciones y estrés nos quema y nos distancia de las alegrías del presente. Encontrar un momento de calma puede ser todo un desafío. Recientemente, se ha descubierto que colorear es una maravillosa actividad para aquellos que desean relajarse, aliviar el estrés y alejar de nuestra mente de pensamientos abrumadores. 🛍️ Compre ahora & Relajarse... 🛍️ Desplácese hasta la parte superior de la página y haga clic en el botón Agregar al carrito. 💳
Author: Wilfrid Stone Publisher: Wilfrid Stone ISBN: 9781008911741 Category : Languages : es Pages : 100
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Disfruta de este libro para colorear con mandalas únicos.Tiene más de 40 patrones de animales y proporciona horas de alivio del estrés a través de la expresión creativa El mandala es un símbolo y también un ritual cuyo origen proviene del hinduismo y el budismo y representa el Universo. Es un diagrama circular que mantiene rigurosamente una cierta simetría que se centra fuertemente en un centro, con la estructura típica de dividir la superficie en cuatro segmentos. Un libro para colorear para regalar a amigos o familiares que aman el arte de colorear. La excelente calidad, la atención a los detalles y la hermosa cubierta de color brillante hacen de este libro un regalo excepcional. Las características del libro son: Cada imagen está impresa en una página de una sola cara para que pueda utilizar una amplia variedad de opciones para colorear sin temor a que se corra. 47 imágenes únicas 8.5x11 pulgadas
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