Author: Jonathan Bennett
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0987789104
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 423
Book Description
Oil Brat is a coming-of-age story you probably won't want your kids to read. Join Dylan, wannabe James Bond style lover, in his raunchy romp through childhood, adolescence, and early adulthood - as he learns to survive, he sometimes gets the girl, but usually she comes with a lot more than he bargained for! An irreverent look at growing up in the dysfunctional world of international oil camps. A picaresque novel about alienation, set in an age when parents allowed kids the freedom to make their own mistakes...and Dylan Douglas is hard-wired for trouble! Oil Brat is also the story of the females that combine to make the boy a man. Dylan's loves - Genevieve, Bridget, Gabriela, Poppy, Megan...and others - each play a special role in transforming a confused three-year-old into a more arrogant, but just as confused twenty-something.
Oil Brat
Author: Jonathan Bennett
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0987789104
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 423
Book Description
Oil Brat is a coming-of-age story you probably won't want your kids to read. Join Dylan, wannabe James Bond style lover, in his raunchy romp through childhood, adolescence, and early adulthood - as he learns to survive, he sometimes gets the girl, but usually she comes with a lot more than he bargained for! An irreverent look at growing up in the dysfunctional world of international oil camps. A picaresque novel about alienation, set in an age when parents allowed kids the freedom to make their own mistakes...and Dylan Douglas is hard-wired for trouble! Oil Brat is also the story of the females that combine to make the boy a man. Dylan's loves - Genevieve, Bridget, Gabriela, Poppy, Megan...and others - each play a special role in transforming a confused three-year-old into a more arrogant, but just as confused twenty-something.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0987789104
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 423
Book Description
Oil Brat is a coming-of-age story you probably won't want your kids to read. Join Dylan, wannabe James Bond style lover, in his raunchy romp through childhood, adolescence, and early adulthood - as he learns to survive, he sometimes gets the girl, but usually she comes with a lot more than he bargained for! An irreverent look at growing up in the dysfunctional world of international oil camps. A picaresque novel about alienation, set in an age when parents allowed kids the freedom to make their own mistakes...and Dylan Douglas is hard-wired for trouble! Oil Brat is also the story of the females that combine to make the boy a man. Dylan's loves - Genevieve, Bridget, Gabriela, Poppy, Megan...and others - each play a special role in transforming a confused three-year-old into a more arrogant, but just as confused twenty-something.
Aramco Brat
Author: Richard P Howard
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
From a Pittsburgh trailer park to Harvard Business School, a youth's journey set in the turbulent Middle East spiked with tragedy, wrong turns, unforced errors, luck, espionage, and family love. Whether life grinds you down or polishes you...depends on what you're made of.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
From a Pittsburgh trailer park to Harvard Business School, a youth's journey set in the turbulent Middle East spiked with tragedy, wrong turns, unforced errors, luck, espionage, and family love. Whether life grinds you down or polishes you...depends on what you're made of.
Army Brat
Author: Glenda Page
Publisher: LifeRich Publishing
ISBN: 1489719741
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 83
Book Description
Army Brat is a true story of her military childhood and her high and low points outside the military.
Publisher: LifeRich Publishing
ISBN: 1489719741
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 83
Book Description
Army Brat is a true story of her military childhood and her high and low points outside the military.
Maracaibo Oil Brat
Author: Susan McClurg Berman
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780989758406
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
When Susan McClurg's parents accept a job transfer in 1957, Susan is plucked out of her familiar and routine existence in Orange, Texas and plunked down in always-hot oil-rich Maracaibo, Venezuela. While too tall, preteen Susan struggles to make new friends at her American school, she comes to grips with life in a country peppered with revolutions, strikes and mandatory curfews. When Pat, Susan's older sister, flies to Maracaibo for her summer break from college, the naïve McClurg family takes trips to Colombia and Caracas.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780989758406
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
When Susan McClurg's parents accept a job transfer in 1957, Susan is plucked out of her familiar and routine existence in Orange, Texas and plunked down in always-hot oil-rich Maracaibo, Venezuela. While too tall, preteen Susan struggles to make new friends at her American school, she comes to grips with life in a country peppered with revolutions, strikes and mandatory curfews. When Pat, Susan's older sister, flies to Maracaibo for her summer break from college, the naïve McClurg family takes trips to Colombia and Caracas.
What Wildness Is This
Author: Susan Wittig Albert
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292716303
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
A collection of short stories, poems, and essays written by women who share the experiences of living in the Southwest.
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292716303
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
A collection of short stories, poems, and essays written by women who share the experiences of living in the Southwest.
The Chemical Trade Journal and Chemical Engineer
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chemical engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 510
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chemical engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 510
Book Description
Where We Find Ourselves
Author: Miriam Ben-Yoseph
Publisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 1438425201
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Explores the universal longing for home, illuminated through the essays, poetry, and fiction of forty Jewish women writers from around the world.
Publisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 1438425201
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Explores the universal longing for home, illuminated through the essays, poetry, and fiction of forty Jewish women writers from around the world.
List of Publications Issued by the Bureau of Mines, with Subject and Author Index
Author: United States. Bureau of Mines
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mineral industries
Languages : en
Pages : 846
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mineral industries
Languages : en
Pages : 846
Book Description
The Southwestern Reporter
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 1218
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 1218
Book Description
Play the Way You Feel
Author: Kevin Whitehead
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190847581
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
Jazz stories have been entwined with cinema since the inception of jazz film genre in the 1920s, giving us origin tales and biopics, spectacles and low-budget quickies, comedies, musicals, and dramas, and stories of improvisers and composers at work. And the jazz film has seen a resurgence in recent years--from biopics like Miles Ahead and HBO's Bessie, to dramas Whiplash and La La Land. In Play the Way You Feel, author and jazz critic Kevin Whitehead offers a comprehensive guide to these films and other media from the perspective of the music itself. Spanning 93 years of film history, the book looks closely at movies, cartoons, and a few TV shows that tell jazz stories, from early talkies to modern times, with an eye to narrative conventions and common story points. Examining the ways historical films have painted a clear picture of the past or overtly distorted history, Play the Way You Feel serves up capsule discussions of sundry topics including Duke Ellington's social life at the Cotton Club, avant-garde musical practices in 1930s vaudeville, and Martin Scorsese's improvisatory method on the set of New York, New York. Throughout the book, Whitehead brings the same analytical bent and concise, witty language listeners know from his jazz segments on NPR's Fresh Air with Terry Gross. He investigates well-known songs, traces the development of the stock jazz film ending, and offers fresh, often revisionist takes on works by such directors as Howard Hawks, John Cassavetes, Shirley Clarke, Francis Ford Coppola, Clint Eastwood, Spike Lee, Robert Altman, Woody Allen and Damien Chazelle. In all, Play the Way You Feel is a feast for film-genre fanatics and movie-watching jazz enthusiasts.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190847581
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
Jazz stories have been entwined with cinema since the inception of jazz film genre in the 1920s, giving us origin tales and biopics, spectacles and low-budget quickies, comedies, musicals, and dramas, and stories of improvisers and composers at work. And the jazz film has seen a resurgence in recent years--from biopics like Miles Ahead and HBO's Bessie, to dramas Whiplash and La La Land. In Play the Way You Feel, author and jazz critic Kevin Whitehead offers a comprehensive guide to these films and other media from the perspective of the music itself. Spanning 93 years of film history, the book looks closely at movies, cartoons, and a few TV shows that tell jazz stories, from early talkies to modern times, with an eye to narrative conventions and common story points. Examining the ways historical films have painted a clear picture of the past or overtly distorted history, Play the Way You Feel serves up capsule discussions of sundry topics including Duke Ellington's social life at the Cotton Club, avant-garde musical practices in 1930s vaudeville, and Martin Scorsese's improvisatory method on the set of New York, New York. Throughout the book, Whitehead brings the same analytical bent and concise, witty language listeners know from his jazz segments on NPR's Fresh Air with Terry Gross. He investigates well-known songs, traces the development of the stock jazz film ending, and offers fresh, often revisionist takes on works by such directors as Howard Hawks, John Cassavetes, Shirley Clarke, Francis Ford Coppola, Clint Eastwood, Spike Lee, Robert Altman, Woody Allen and Damien Chazelle. In all, Play the Way You Feel is a feast for film-genre fanatics and movie-watching jazz enthusiasts.