Author: Edmund Kostka
Publisher: Vantage Press, Inc
ISBN: 9780533158836
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Purgatory U.S.A. presents the life journey of Professor Edmund Kostka, a teacher of European languages and cultures who is quick to pack his bags in order to gain first-hand experience of the material he is teaching. The professors travels with his family through Poland, Germany, Austria, Italy, Spain, and Portugal are the stuff of which exciting armchair travel is made. Through Kostkas insightful narrative readers will come away with a better understanding of this rigorous journey we all call life.
Purgatory U.S.A.
Author: Edmund Kostka
Publisher: Vantage Press, Inc
ISBN: 9780533158836
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Purgatory U.S.A. presents the life journey of Professor Edmund Kostka, a teacher of European languages and cultures who is quick to pack his bags in order to gain first-hand experience of the material he is teaching. The professors travels with his family through Poland, Germany, Austria, Italy, Spain, and Portugal are the stuff of which exciting armchair travel is made. Through Kostkas insightful narrative readers will come away with a better understanding of this rigorous journey we all call life.
Publisher: Vantage Press, Inc
ISBN: 9780533158836
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Purgatory U.S.A. presents the life journey of Professor Edmund Kostka, a teacher of European languages and cultures who is quick to pack his bags in order to gain first-hand experience of the material he is teaching. The professors travels with his family through Poland, Germany, Austria, Italy, Spain, and Portugal are the stuff of which exciting armchair travel is made. Through Kostkas insightful narrative readers will come away with a better understanding of this rigorous journey we all call life.
Purgatory
Author: Tomás Eloy Martínez
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1608197360
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Purgatorio is Martínez's most moving, most autobiographical novel and yet it is also a ghost story, the ghost story which has been Argentina's history since 1973. It begins, 'Simón Cardoso had been dead for thirty years when Emilia Dupuy, his wife, found him at lunchtime in the dining room of Trudy Tuesday.' Simón, a cartographer like Emilia, had vanished during one of their trips to map an uncharted country road. Later testimonies had confirmed that he had been one of the thousands of victims of the military regime - arrested, tortured and executed for being a "subversive." Yet Emilia had refused to believe this account, and had spent her entire life waiting for him to reappear. Now in her sixties, the Simón she has found is identical to the man she lost three decades ago. While skirting around the mystery, Eloy Martínez masterfully peels away layer upon layer of history -both personal and political. Just as Simón's disappearance comes to represent the thousands of disappearances that became such a common occurrence during the dictatorship, so Emilia's refusal to accept his death mirror's the country's unwillingness to face its reality.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1608197360
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Purgatorio is Martínez's most moving, most autobiographical novel and yet it is also a ghost story, the ghost story which has been Argentina's history since 1973. It begins, 'Simón Cardoso had been dead for thirty years when Emilia Dupuy, his wife, found him at lunchtime in the dining room of Trudy Tuesday.' Simón, a cartographer like Emilia, had vanished during one of their trips to map an uncharted country road. Later testimonies had confirmed that he had been one of the thousands of victims of the military regime - arrested, tortured and executed for being a "subversive." Yet Emilia had refused to believe this account, and had spent her entire life waiting for him to reappear. Now in her sixties, the Simón she has found is identical to the man she lost three decades ago. While skirting around the mystery, Eloy Martínez masterfully peels away layer upon layer of history -both personal and political. Just as Simón's disappearance comes to represent the thousands of disappearances that became such a common occurrence during the dictatorship, so Emilia's refusal to accept his death mirror's the country's unwillingness to face its reality.
Inside Purgatory
Author: Thomas W. Petrisko
Publisher: St. Andrews Productions
ISBN: 9781891903243
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
The follow-up book to the popular, ?Inside Heaven and Hell, ? comes the equivalent of a guided tour of God's holy penitential world where human spirits are purified and thereby prepared for entry into Paradise. Dr. Petrisko directs onto his subject many a spotlight coming from various authorities down the Christian centuries ? popes, theologians, saints, mystics, visionaries and the Blessed Mother. Together their insights and testimonies present a rounded picture of that mysterious realm of purgatorial pain and prayer, which can be likened to Heaven's vestibule lying beyond this world. Readers will find an abundance of information about Purgatory, while at the same time plenty of inspiration and encouragement to become more Purgatory minded; that is, generous in offering spiritual succour and support to the Holy Souls.
Publisher: St. Andrews Productions
ISBN: 9781891903243
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
The follow-up book to the popular, ?Inside Heaven and Hell, ? comes the equivalent of a guided tour of God's holy penitential world where human spirits are purified and thereby prepared for entry into Paradise. Dr. Petrisko directs onto his subject many a spotlight coming from various authorities down the Christian centuries ? popes, theologians, saints, mystics, visionaries and the Blessed Mother. Together their insights and testimonies present a rounded picture of that mysterious realm of purgatorial pain and prayer, which can be likened to Heaven's vestibule lying beyond this world. Readers will find an abundance of information about Purgatory, while at the same time plenty of inspiration and encouragement to become more Purgatory minded; that is, generous in offering spiritual succour and support to the Holy Souls.
Museum of Objects Burned by the Souls in Purgatory
Author: Jeffrey Thomson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781948579254
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
"Titled after a small gallery of the same name found in Rome, the poems are devoted to meditations on religious relics and works of art. They explore the narrative power these objects carry-the way we imbue totemic figures with both meaning and story, and the potential they have to define the world. From holy statues, to cherished words, to historical monuments, Thompson seeks to vitalize the inanimate"--
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781948579254
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
"Titled after a small gallery of the same name found in Rome, the poems are devoted to meditations on religious relics and works of art. They explore the narrative power these objects carry-the way we imbue totemic figures with both meaning and story, and the potential they have to define the world. From holy statues, to cherished words, to historical monuments, Thompson seeks to vitalize the inanimate"--
American Purgatory
Author: Rebecca Gayle Howell
Publisher: eBook Partnership
ISBN: 183978041X
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 65
Book Description
American Purgatory is a story of the working class, a dystopia set in a near-future United States marked by severe drought, herbicidal warfare, and a totalitarian climate of poverty. This purgatory is populated by those who believe if that they work hard enough, they will be set free. Against this backdrop, three unlikely characters begin a journey that will take them away from work, belief, and even each other, until the protagonist uncovers the truth about this place and the people in it-a truth that indeed sets her free. Equal parts Dante and Cormac McCarthy, American Purgatory is a coming-of-age for capitalism written in the decade of tea-party terror.AN INDIE BEST-SELLER!Winner of the 2016 Sexton Prize, selected for publication by Don Share
Publisher: eBook Partnership
ISBN: 183978041X
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 65
Book Description
American Purgatory is a story of the working class, a dystopia set in a near-future United States marked by severe drought, herbicidal warfare, and a totalitarian climate of poverty. This purgatory is populated by those who believe if that they work hard enough, they will be set free. Against this backdrop, three unlikely characters begin a journey that will take them away from work, belief, and even each other, until the protagonist uncovers the truth about this place and the people in it-a truth that indeed sets her free. Equal parts Dante and Cormac McCarthy, American Purgatory is a coming-of-age for capitalism written in the decade of tea-party terror.AN INDIE BEST-SELLER!Winner of the 2016 Sexton Prize, selected for publication by Don Share
Eggs in Purgatory
Author: Laura Childs
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0425224953
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
INTRODUCING THE CACKLEBERRY CLUB MYSTERY SERIES! The New York Times bestselling author of the Scrapbooking Mysteries and the Tea Shop Mysteries cooks up a delicious series full of friendship, murder, and one spectacular breakfast after another.... Suzanne, Toni, and Petra lost their husbands but found independence—and in each other, a life raft of support, inspiration, fresh baked goods, and their own business. But when the Cackleberry Club cafe opened its doors in the town of Kindred, who’d have guessed that the cozy oasis would become the scene of a crime? Suzanne’s lawyer is found in his car out back of the Cackleberry with egg on his face and blood on the dash. Suzanne’s taking the crime personally. The murder not only reveals a scandal in her late husband’s past, but a stranger fleeing a messianic sect is begging Suzanne for help. Now, discovering a link between a dead man with secrets and a runaway cultist may be putting Suzanne’s own life on the line.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0425224953
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
INTRODUCING THE CACKLEBERRY CLUB MYSTERY SERIES! The New York Times bestselling author of the Scrapbooking Mysteries and the Tea Shop Mysteries cooks up a delicious series full of friendship, murder, and one spectacular breakfast after another.... Suzanne, Toni, and Petra lost their husbands but found independence—and in each other, a life raft of support, inspiration, fresh baked goods, and their own business. But when the Cackleberry Club cafe opened its doors in the town of Kindred, who’d have guessed that the cozy oasis would become the scene of a crime? Suzanne’s lawyer is found in his car out back of the Cackleberry with egg on his face and blood on the dash. Suzanne’s taking the crime personally. The murder not only reveals a scandal in her late husband’s past, but a stranger fleeing a messianic sect is begging Suzanne for help. Now, discovering a link between a dead man with secrets and a runaway cultist may be putting Suzanne’s own life on the line.
Purgatory: Illustrated by the Lives and Legends of the Saints
Author: Rev. F.X. Schouppe
Publisher: Wyatt North Publishing, LLC
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 519
Book Description
PURGATORY occupies an important place in our holy religion : it forms one of the principal parts of the work of Jesus Christ, and plays an essential role in the economy of the salvation of man. What then is the work which we, members of the Church, have to do for the souls in Purgatory ? We have to alleviate their sufferings. God has placed in our hands the key of this mysterious prison : it is prayer for the dead, devotion to the souls in Purgatory.
Publisher: Wyatt North Publishing, LLC
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 519
Book Description
PURGATORY occupies an important place in our holy religion : it forms one of the principal parts of the work of Jesus Christ, and plays an essential role in the economy of the salvation of man. What then is the work which we, members of the Church, have to do for the souls in Purgatory ? We have to alleviate their sufferings. God has placed in our hands the key of this mysterious prison : it is prayer for the dead, devotion to the souls in Purgatory.
Seasons of Purgatory
Author: Shahriar Mandanipour
Publisher: Bellevue Literary Press
ISBN: 1942658966
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD LONGLIST The first English-language story collection from “one of Iran’s most important living fiction writers” (Guardian), “a playful, whip-smart literary conjuror: a Kundera or Rushdie of post-Khomeini Iran” (Wall Street Journal) In Seasons of Purgatory, the fantastical and the visceral merge in tales of tender desire and collective violence, the boredom and brutality of war, and the clash of modern urban life and rural traditions. Mandanipour, banned from publication in his native Iran, vividly renders the individual consciousness in extremis from a variety of perspectives: young and old, man and woman, conscript and prisoner. While delivering a ferocious social critique, these stories are steeped in the poetry and stark beauty of an ancient land and culture.
Publisher: Bellevue Literary Press
ISBN: 1942658966
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD LONGLIST The first English-language story collection from “one of Iran’s most important living fiction writers” (Guardian), “a playful, whip-smart literary conjuror: a Kundera or Rushdie of post-Khomeini Iran” (Wall Street Journal) In Seasons of Purgatory, the fantastical and the visceral merge in tales of tender desire and collective violence, the boredom and brutality of war, and the clash of modern urban life and rural traditions. Mandanipour, banned from publication in his native Iran, vividly renders the individual consciousness in extremis from a variety of perspectives: young and old, man and woman, conscript and prisoner. While delivering a ferocious social critique, these stories are steeped in the poetry and stark beauty of an ancient land and culture.
Purgatorio
Author: Ariel Dorfman
Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN: 9780573633379
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
"A man and a woman enter a room. We see only a small bed, two chairs, and a table. Is it an asylum? A prison? Interrogation room? Questions are asked and answered. We feel we know the story. In this room, both the man and woman are faced with the truths of their lives. Playwright Ariel Dorfman puts before us the question of justice and forgiveness. Are there crimes for which there can be no forgiveness? If there is no forgiveness, how do we move on with our lives? Purgatorio reacquaints us with the tragedy of Jason and Medea."--Publisher's website.
Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN: 9780573633379
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
"A man and a woman enter a room. We see only a small bed, two chairs, and a table. Is it an asylum? A prison? Interrogation room? Questions are asked and answered. We feel we know the story. In this room, both the man and woman are faced with the truths of their lives. Playwright Ariel Dorfman puts before us the question of justice and forgiveness. Are there crimes for which there can be no forgiveness? If there is no forgiveness, how do we move on with our lives? Purgatorio reacquaints us with the tragedy of Jason and Medea."--Publisher's website.