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Author: Richard Rayner Publisher: Odyssey Editions ISBN: 162373018X Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 164
Book Description
Richard Rayner had a peripatetic childhood, and it seemed he found some sense of place when he attended Cambridge University. The study of philosophy combined with an obsession with books, however, served as the catalyst for a bizarre life of crime. Mounting debts propelled the author into a series of adventures, as he plundered bookstores for elusive first editions, forged checks, and acted as an accomplice in a Keystone Kops-like attempted bank robbery. In a memoir that's "compelling, edgy, painfully alive" (Times Literary Supplement), like "stripped-down Dostoevsky" (Time), this is the personal story, both tragic and comic, of an absence of identity and a long checkered past of crimes and misdemeanors.
Author: Richard Rayner Publisher: Mariner Books ISBN: 9780395860052 Category : Cambridge (England) Languages : en Pages : 0
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Entertaining and furiously written with a sardonic air of grace, The Blue Suit is both tragic and comic, an inspired act of retrieval.
Author: Richard Rayner Publisher: Odyssey Editions ISBN: 162373018X Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 164
Book Description
Richard Rayner had a peripatetic childhood, and it seemed he found some sense of place when he attended Cambridge University. The study of philosophy combined with an obsession with books, however, served as the catalyst for a bizarre life of crime. Mounting debts propelled the author into a series of adventures, as he plundered bookstores for elusive first editions, forged checks, and acted as an accomplice in a Keystone Kops-like attempted bank robbery. In a memoir that's "compelling, edgy, painfully alive" (Times Literary Supplement), like "stripped-down Dostoevsky" (Time), this is the personal story, both tragic and comic, of an absence of identity and a long checkered past of crimes and misdemeanors.
Author: Peter Bacho Publisher: ISBN: 9780295976372 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 149
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The book opens with the annual spring dispatch, by the Seattle-based Filipino union, of thousands of Filipino workers to the Alaska salmon canneries. We meet characters who reappear throughout the stories: Vince, the tough but charming union foreman and "big shot" father to Buddy, our American-born narrator; Chris, the battle-scarred union president targeted by McCarthyism; Rico, the spirited young king of the neighborhood who will fall victim to Vietnam; Stephanie, the beautiful mestiza who marrie up; and many others who age and change in ironic counterpint to persistent themes of loyalty, fierce ethnic pride, and a willingness to struggle against hostile forces in society. There are wry twists of humor and surprising turns of plot; a long-lost love is renewed; a long-hidden family secret is revealed. We encounter the inevitable aging and passing of the Manong generation, but we sense as well the arrival of its vision. Babies are born. The migrant fisheries worker gets a nine-to-five job, and his children go to college. The conclusion builds to a quiet power that is essentially elegiac; an era closes, but the voices of the older generation are shouldered by the younger, to keep the history to retell the stories, and to pay homage.
Author: Michaela DiBernardo Ferrigine Publisher: ISBN: 9780578695822 Category : Languages : en Pages :
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This short history is the true story of a young, working mother in New York's financial district. The author relates her experience as everyday concerns evaporate and a global reality shifts forever. "She" becomes an eyewitness to the most tragic day in the City's history: September 11, 2001. "The Blue Suit" provides a personal perspective of a collective grief, with heartbreaking clarity. Written in the third person as a means of self-help, this nonfiction work allows others to see the common experiences of many on the ground that day. The novella explores the indelible mark left behind, the healing power of community, and the hope that generations to come will #neverforget. This brief narrative of 9/11 and the weeks and months following the tragedy can be read in just over one hour, but will stay with the reader indefinitely.
Author: Graham Joyce Publisher: Gollancz ISBN: 9780575115323 Category : Camps Languages : en Pages : 0
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A ghost story with a difference from the WORLD FANTASY and multiple BRITISH FANTASY AWARD-winning author of SOME KIND OF FAIRY TALE It is the summer of 1976, the hottest since records began and a young man leaves behind his student days and learns how to grow up. A first job in a holiday camp beckons. But with political and racial tensions simmering under the cloudless summer skies there is not much fun to be had. And soon there is a terrible price to be paid for his new found freedom and independence. A price that will come back to haunt him, even in the bright sunlight of summer. As with SOME KIND OF FAIRY TALE, Graham Joyce has crafted a deceptively simple tale of great power. With beautiful prose, wonderful characters and a perfect evocation of time and place this is a novel that transcends the boundaries between the everyday and the supernatural while celebrating the power of both.
Author: John A.Walker (JWYOU) Publisher: www.cosmos-original-productions.co.uk ISBN: Category : Foreign Language Study Languages : en Pages : 99
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The Man in the Blue Suit owns an art gallery in the city centre of Glasgow. For some unknown reason he gets involved in a spy network. He has been asked to go to the south of France and there meet a contact named Olga. He knows that he is being watched, and that his mission may be a dangerous one. To protect himself he takes along a woman from his native city of Glasgow, the Two Tattooed Woman, surely no one will be brave enough to interfere with him when she is by his side.
Author: Graham Joyce Publisher: Anchor ISBN: 0385538642 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 248
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Against the wishes of his family, David, a college student, takes a summer job at a run-down family resort in a dying English town. It was at this very resort that David's biological father died fifteen years earlier. But something undeniable has called David there, a deeper otherworldliness that lies beneath the surface of what we see. And as David joins an eclectic group of staffers, strange occurrences take hold, including the vision of a lonely, blue-suited man wandering the town.
Author: Richard Rayner Publisher: ISBN: 9780395752883 Category : Cambridge (England) Languages : en Pages : 232
Book Description
Entertaining and furiously written with a sardonic air of grace, The Blue Suit is both tragic and comic, an inspired act of retrieval.
Author: James Tynion IV Publisher: DC Comics ISBN: Category : Comics & Graphic Novels Languages : en Pages : 54
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“The Joker War” comes to a city-shattering conclusion as Batman battles The Joker in a brutal, no-holds-barred duel! This is a fight 80 years in the making, and its outcome won’t just change Batman’s life-it will change Gotham City for years to come! Plus, catch the first glimpse of the new villain known as Ghost-Maker! And after the senses-shattering conclusion of “The Joker War” come a pair of short stories that will chart what’s to come in Gotham City and Batman. Don’t miss the first showdown between Batman and Clownhunter!
Author: Todd H. Doodler Publisher: ISBN: 9781609052034 Category : Animals Languages : en Pages : 0
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Honey Bear's friends prepare for her beach birthday party by buying new bathing suits, picking out presents, and heading to the shore to have some fun. Full color.
Author: Richard Rayner
Author: Richard Rayner
Author: Richard Rayner
Author: Peter Bacho
Author: Michaela DiBernardo Ferrigine
Author: Graham Joyce
Author: John A.Walker (JWYOU)
Author: Graham Joyce
Author: Richard Rayner
Author: James Tynion IV
Author: Todd H. Doodler