Author: Charlie Marie Gordon
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1453516395
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Charlie Gordon kept eleven journals throughout her long life. A homosexual woman, she lived and worked in the 50's and 60's in early Hollywood when vice squads raided gay clubs and put homosexuals in jail. In l947 Charlie sailed to Stockholm, Sweden where she lived for seven months with a famous Swedish sculptress. The story is about her life "in the closet" as a secretary to a movie producer and her time as a producer herself on PBS. Later, Charlie was a freelance writer for television and films. Charlie had numerous female lovers and both gay and straight male friends. Her conservative Texas family accepted her female lovers. At forty-two Charlie fell in love with Bebe, a true Brit. They lived together for eighteen years until Bebe was diagnosed with Alzheimers Amazingly, in an atmosphere of pain and frustration, their love blossomed
The Journals of Charlie Gordon
Author: Charlie Marie Gordon
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1453516395
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Charlie Gordon kept eleven journals throughout her long life. A homosexual woman, she lived and worked in the 50's and 60's in early Hollywood when vice squads raided gay clubs and put homosexuals in jail. In l947 Charlie sailed to Stockholm, Sweden where she lived for seven months with a famous Swedish sculptress. The story is about her life "in the closet" as a secretary to a movie producer and her time as a producer herself on PBS. Later, Charlie was a freelance writer for television and films. Charlie had numerous female lovers and both gay and straight male friends. Her conservative Texas family accepted her female lovers. At forty-two Charlie fell in love with Bebe, a true Brit. They lived together for eighteen years until Bebe was diagnosed with Alzheimers Amazingly, in an atmosphere of pain and frustration, their love blossomed
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1453516395
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Charlie Gordon kept eleven journals throughout her long life. A homosexual woman, she lived and worked in the 50's and 60's in early Hollywood when vice squads raided gay clubs and put homosexuals in jail. In l947 Charlie sailed to Stockholm, Sweden where she lived for seven months with a famous Swedish sculptress. The story is about her life "in the closet" as a secretary to a movie producer and her time as a producer herself on PBS. Later, Charlie was a freelance writer for television and films. Charlie had numerous female lovers and both gay and straight male friends. Her conservative Texas family accepted her female lovers. At forty-two Charlie fell in love with Bebe, a true Brit. They lived together for eighteen years until Bebe was diagnosed with Alzheimers Amazingly, in an atmosphere of pain and frustration, their love blossomed
The Play of Daniel Keyes' Flowers for Algernon
Author:
Publisher: Heinemann
ISBN: 9780435232931
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Publisher: Heinemann
ISBN: 9780435232931
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Flowers for Algernon
Author: Daniel Keyes
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 015603008X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
A mentally retarded adult has a brain operation that turns him into a genius.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 015603008X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
A mentally retarded adult has a brain operation that turns him into a genius.
Disability in Science Fiction
Author: K. Allan
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137343435
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
In this groundbreaking collection, twelve international scholars – with backgrounds in disability studies, English and world literature, classics, and history – discuss the representation of dis/ability, medical "cures," technology, and the body in science fiction.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137343435
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
In this groundbreaking collection, twelve international scholars – with backgrounds in disability studies, English and world literature, classics, and history – discuss the representation of dis/ability, medical "cures," technology, and the body in science fiction.
Algernon, Charlie, and I
Author: Daniel Keyes
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0547564082
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 231
Book Description
The author of Flowers for Algernon discusses the highs & lows of the writing life, as well as his methods for creating fiction. In his bestselling novel Flowers for Algernon, Daniel Keyes created an unlikely duo—a laboratory mouse and a man—who captured the hearts of millions of readers around the world. Now, in Algernon, Charlie, and I, Keyes reveals his methods of creating fiction as well as the heartbreaks and joys of being published. For the first time, readers, writers, teachers, and students can glimpse the creative life behind this cherished novel. Includes the original novelette version of Flowers for Algernon
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0547564082
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 231
Book Description
The author of Flowers for Algernon discusses the highs & lows of the writing life, as well as his methods for creating fiction. In his bestselling novel Flowers for Algernon, Daniel Keyes created an unlikely duo—a laboratory mouse and a man—who captured the hearts of millions of readers around the world. Now, in Algernon, Charlie, and I, Keyes reveals his methods of creating fiction as well as the heartbreaks and joys of being published. For the first time, readers, writers, teachers, and students can glimpse the creative life behind this cherished novel. Includes the original novelette version of Flowers for Algernon
Pop
Author: Gordon Korman
Publisher: Scholastic Canada
ISBN: 1443124605
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 269
Book Description
Gordon Korman's acclaimed and timely YA novel explores the dangerous side of high school contact sports. Marcus is new in town and is hoping to make the championship high school football team, but it seems like a closed club, run by current star quarterback Troy. One day, while tossing the ball around in a park one day, Marcus meets Charlie, a man in his fifties who can play football like an old pro, which is exactly what he happens to be — a former NFL player and local celebrity. Charlie has boundless energy and coaches Marcus on his fear of being tackled, but as Marcus becomes more involved in this friendship with Charlie, it becomes painfully obvious to him, through the simplicity of Charlie's thoughts, that the long-term effects of the violent plays he suffered during his football glory days have taken their toll on Charlie. With wit and sensitivity, Gordon Korman tackles truths about high school sports, while delivering a poignant story about an unlikely friendship.
Publisher: Scholastic Canada
ISBN: 1443124605
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 269
Book Description
Gordon Korman's acclaimed and timely YA novel explores the dangerous side of high school contact sports. Marcus is new in town and is hoping to make the championship high school football team, but it seems like a closed club, run by current star quarterback Troy. One day, while tossing the ball around in a park one day, Marcus meets Charlie, a man in his fifties who can play football like an old pro, which is exactly what he happens to be — a former NFL player and local celebrity. Charlie has boundless energy and coaches Marcus on his fear of being tackled, but as Marcus becomes more involved in this friendship with Charlie, it becomes painfully obvious to him, through the simplicity of Charlie's thoughts, that the long-term effects of the violent plays he suffered during his football glory days have taken their toll on Charlie. With wit and sensitivity, Gordon Korman tackles truths about high school sports, while delivering a poignant story about an unlikely friendship.
A Dirty Job
Author: Christopher Moore
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061801828
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
Charlie Asher is a pretty normal guy with a normal life, married to a bright and pretty woman who actually loves him for his normalcy. They're even about to have their first child. Yes, Charlie's doing okay—until people start dropping dead around him, and everywhere he goes a dark presence whispers to him from under the streets. Charlie Asher, it seems, has been recruited for a new position: as Death. It's a dirty job. But, hey! Somebody's gotta do it.
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061801828
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
Charlie Asher is a pretty normal guy with a normal life, married to a bright and pretty woman who actually loves him for his normalcy. They're even about to have their first child. Yes, Charlie's doing okay—until people start dropping dead around him, and everywhere he goes a dark presence whispers to him from under the streets. Charlie Asher, it seems, has been recruited for a new position: as Death. It's a dirty job. But, hey! Somebody's gotta do it.
Flowers for Algernon
Author: David Rogers
Publisher: Dramatic Publishing
ISBN: 9780871293879
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Publisher: Dramatic Publishing
ISBN: 9780871293879
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
American Science Fiction: Four Classic Novels 1960-1966 (LOA #321)
Author: Poul Anderson
Publisher: Library of America
ISBN: 1598536362
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 725
Book Description
In a deluxe collector’s edition, four classic science fiction novels from the genre’s most transformative decade—including the landmark Flowers for Algernon This volume, the first of a two-volume set gathering the best American science fiction from the tumultuous 1960s, opens with Poul Anderson’s immensely popular The High Crusade, in which aliens planning to conquer Earth land in Lincolnshire during the Hundred Years’ War. In Clifford Simak’s Hugo Award-winning Way Station, Enoch Wallace is a spry 124-year-old Civil War veteran whose lifelong job monitoring the intergalactic pit stop inside his home is largely uneventful—until a CIA agent shows up and Cold War hostilities threaten the peaceful harmony of the Galactic confederation. Daniel Keyes’s beloved Flowers for Algernon—winner of the Nebula Award and adapted as the Academy Award-winning movie Charly—is told through the journal entries of Charlie Gordon, a young man with severe learning disabilities who is the test subject for surgery to improve his intelligence. And in the postapocalyptic earthscape of Roger Zelazny’s Hugo Award-winning . . . And Call Me Conrad (also published as This Immortal) Conrad Nomikos reluctantly accepts the responsibility of showing the planet to the governing extraterrestrials’ representative and protecting him from rebellious remnants of the human race. Using early manuscripts and original setting copy, this Library of America volume restores the novel to a version that most closely approximates Zelazny’s original text.
Publisher: Library of America
ISBN: 1598536362
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 725
Book Description
In a deluxe collector’s edition, four classic science fiction novels from the genre’s most transformative decade—including the landmark Flowers for Algernon This volume, the first of a two-volume set gathering the best American science fiction from the tumultuous 1960s, opens with Poul Anderson’s immensely popular The High Crusade, in which aliens planning to conquer Earth land in Lincolnshire during the Hundred Years’ War. In Clifford Simak’s Hugo Award-winning Way Station, Enoch Wallace is a spry 124-year-old Civil War veteran whose lifelong job monitoring the intergalactic pit stop inside his home is largely uneventful—until a CIA agent shows up and Cold War hostilities threaten the peaceful harmony of the Galactic confederation. Daniel Keyes’s beloved Flowers for Algernon—winner of the Nebula Award and adapted as the Academy Award-winning movie Charly—is told through the journal entries of Charlie Gordon, a young man with severe learning disabilities who is the test subject for surgery to improve his intelligence. And in the postapocalyptic earthscape of Roger Zelazny’s Hugo Award-winning . . . And Call Me Conrad (also published as This Immortal) Conrad Nomikos reluctantly accepts the responsibility of showing the planet to the governing extraterrestrials’ representative and protecting him from rebellious remnants of the human race. Using early manuscripts and original setting copy, this Library of America volume restores the novel to a version that most closely approximates Zelazny’s original text.
Charlie Thorne and the Lost City
Author: Stuart Gibbs
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1534443827
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
In this sequel to the New York Times bestselling Charlie Thorne and the Last Equation—which #1 New York Times bestselling author Chris Grabenstein called “a real page-burner”—Charlie searches for Charles Darwin’s hidden treasure in South America. Charlie Thorne is a genius. Charlie Thorne is a fugitive. Charlie Thorne isn’t even thirteen. After saving the world, Charlie is ready to take it easy in the Galapagos Islands. That is, until she’s approached by the mysterious Esmeralda Castle, who has a code she knows only Charlie can decipher. In 1835, Charles Darwin diverted his ship’s journey so he could spend ten months in South America on a secret solo expedition. When he returned, he carried a treasure that inspired both awe and terror in his crew. Afterward, it vanished, never to be seen again… But Darwin left a trail of clues behind for those brave and clever enough to search for it. Enter Charlie Thorne. In a daring adventure that takes her across South America, Charlie must crack Darwin’s 200-year-old clues to track down his mysterious discovery—and stay ahead of the formidable lineup of enemies who are hot on her tail. When an ancient hidden treasure is at stake, people will do anything to find it first. Charlie may be a genius, but is she smart enough to know who she can trust?
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1534443827
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
In this sequel to the New York Times bestselling Charlie Thorne and the Last Equation—which #1 New York Times bestselling author Chris Grabenstein called “a real page-burner”—Charlie searches for Charles Darwin’s hidden treasure in South America. Charlie Thorne is a genius. Charlie Thorne is a fugitive. Charlie Thorne isn’t even thirteen. After saving the world, Charlie is ready to take it easy in the Galapagos Islands. That is, until she’s approached by the mysterious Esmeralda Castle, who has a code she knows only Charlie can decipher. In 1835, Charles Darwin diverted his ship’s journey so he could spend ten months in South America on a secret solo expedition. When he returned, he carried a treasure that inspired both awe and terror in his crew. Afterward, it vanished, never to be seen again… But Darwin left a trail of clues behind for those brave and clever enough to search for it. Enter Charlie Thorne. In a daring adventure that takes her across South America, Charlie must crack Darwin’s 200-year-old clues to track down his mysterious discovery—and stay ahead of the formidable lineup of enemies who are hot on her tail. When an ancient hidden treasure is at stake, people will do anything to find it first. Charlie may be a genius, but is she smart enough to know who she can trust?