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Author: Italo Svevo Publisher: New York Review of Books ISBN: 1681375931 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 153
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A newly translated collection of fiction by the influential Italian modernist, continuing on his landmark work Zeno's Conscience. A Very Old Man collects five linked stories, parts of an unfinished novel that the great Triestine Italo Svevo wrote at the end of his life, after the international success of Zeno’s Conscience in 1923. Here Svevo revisits with new vigor and agility themes that fascinated him from the start—aging, deceit, and self-deception, as well as the fragility, fecklessness, and plain foolishness of the bourgeois paterfamilias—even as memories of the recent, terrible slaughter of World War I and the contemporary rise of Italian fascism also cast a shadow over the book’s pages. It opens with “The Contract,” in which Zeno’s manager, the hardheaded young Olivi, expresses, like the war veterans who were Mussolini’s early followers, a sense of entitlement born of fighting in the trenches. Zeno, by contrast, embodies the confusion and paralysis of the more decorous, although sleepy, way of life associated with the onetime Austro-Hungarian Empire which for so long ruled over Trieste but has now been swept away. As always, Svevo is attracted to the theme of how people fail to fit in. It is they, he suggests, who offer a recognizably human countenance in a world ravaged by the ambitions and fantasies of its true believers.
Author: Steven Fechter Publisher: Samuel French, Inc. ISBN: 9780573627170 Category : Drama Languages : en Pages : 108
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A collection of short plays selected by New York theatre critics, professionals, and the editorial staff of Samuel French, Inc. as the most important plays of the Twenty-Fourth Off-Off Broadway Original Short Play Festival sponsored by Love Creek Productions. Flight of Fancy: At the Portland airport bar, an attractive MBA waits for her flight next to a middle aged salesman. She just lost a big account on the first call of her career and dreads flying home a loser. The customer wanted sex and she can still make the sale if she gives in. The salesman isn''t looking forward to another week on the road or to flying back to an unhappy home. They hear a boarding announcement for a tour to Hawaii, Bora Bora, Fiji and Samoa and gaze off dreaming "if only..." The Last Cigarette: In the last smoking bar in Santa Monica a beautiful woman in a green evening dress sits alone, smoking and drinking martinis. She has a past, a secret and no future. Watching her from the bar while he drinks doubles is a man with little to lose who will stop at nothing to win her. Drinks are downed, stories are told, strangers dance and kiss. As they are leaving together, she reveals her secret. This funny, heartbreaking tale is told in the evocative language of film noir. Nothing in the World Like It: Here is a sympathetic look at college students caught in a universal dilemma. Edie, a junior from a broken home, meets Doug in the cafeteria to tell him she is pregnant and wants to get married. A senior intent on graduating, he maintains that they are not ready for marriage and offers to help pay for an abortion. Edie refuses, they argue, Doug walks out, and she contorts in pain. A cafeteria worker attempts to comfort Edie by expounding on the joys of motherhood, but this only confuses the younger woman. Doug returns and the three strike a tableau, each in a solitary world. Ophelia: In this graphic example of the eternal struggle between good and evil, a young girl''s lonely rural existence is interrupted by an exciting stranger on the run. He is compelled to win her confidence; she would gladly trust him if he would accept Jesus. As he attempts to lure her into his truck, she tries to lure him toward heaven. Frustrated, he reveals his intentions, only to be shown the evil within himself. Years later, he remembers her offer of salvation while she survives to sing at his funeral. Pearls: Seven years after her husband''s death, Ruth, now in her sixties, invites her nemesis, the younger other woman, for a visit. A verbal chess match ensues as each tries to claim the deceased man''s love, until they face the truth about their lives, understand their pain and move on. Physical Therapy: Is physical therapy the answer? The term takes on new meaning when Beulah contacts a male escort service and gets more than she bargained for. Over gin, Beulah attempts to persuade a friend facing a medical crisis that physical therapy solves most problems. As the alcohol flows and edges blur, Beulah''s powers of persuasion escalate and the friend''s resolve wavers. The Price You Pay: Two of the wealthy women in this absurdist comedy about those who marry older men find themselves in a power struggle when a stranger enters their odd world. A Significant Betrayal: Hoping to find answers about her life, Dorry slips into the swamp to meet an uncle who was cut off from the family after a mysterious incident before she was born. She delves into his sexual past and her family''s hidden secrets to confront her future and universal questions about the nature of love, forgiveness, betrayal and the assumptions we make about the suffering of others.
Author: Italo Svevo Publisher: New York Review of Books ISBN: 1681375931 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 153
Book Description
A newly translated collection of fiction by the influential Italian modernist, continuing on his landmark work Zeno's Conscience. A Very Old Man collects five linked stories, parts of an unfinished novel that the great Triestine Italo Svevo wrote at the end of his life, after the international success of Zeno’s Conscience in 1923. Here Svevo revisits with new vigor and agility themes that fascinated him from the start—aging, deceit, and self-deception, as well as the fragility, fecklessness, and plain foolishness of the bourgeois paterfamilias—even as memories of the recent, terrible slaughter of World War I and the contemporary rise of Italian fascism also cast a shadow over the book’s pages. It opens with “The Contract,” in which Zeno’s manager, the hardheaded young Olivi, expresses, like the war veterans who were Mussolini’s early followers, a sense of entitlement born of fighting in the trenches. Zeno, by contrast, embodies the confusion and paralysis of the more decorous, although sleepy, way of life associated with the onetime Austro-Hungarian Empire which for so long ruled over Trieste but has now been swept away. As always, Svevo is attracted to the theme of how people fail to fit in. It is they, he suggests, who offer a recognizably human countenance in a world ravaged by the ambitions and fantasies of its true believers.
Author: Chuck Anderson Publisher: Mead Hall Media ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 9
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All vices are banned, and one man finds himself drawn into a dangerous underground resistance after a fateful meeting with a mysterious woman seeking a forbidden smoke. As he's swept up in a daring plot to strike back against the oppressive regime, he must risk everything to reignite the spark of freedom in a nation suffocated by tyranny. This is a thrilling tale of rebellion, sacrifice, and the unquenchable human spirit in the face of overwhelming odds.
Author: Walter Dean Myers Publisher: Scholastic Inc. ISBN: 0545232023 Category : Young Adult Fiction Languages : en Pages : 220
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Robin "Birdy" Perry, a new army recruit from Harlem, isn't quite sure why he joined the army, but he's sure where he's headed: Iraq. Birdy and the others in the Civilian Affairs Battalion are supposed to help secure and stabilize the country and successfully interact with the Iraqi people. Officially, the code name for their maneuvers is Operation Iraqi Freedom. But the young men and women in the CA unit have a simpler name for it:WAR
Author: Benjamin Alire Sáenz Publisher: ISBN: 9781941026656 Category : American poetry Languages : en Pages : 0
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"A major Latino writer's intimate but healing journey through addiction, human desire and broken love. From "He Leaves a Message in the Middle of the Night" He loved beer and crack. He loved heroin, ecstasy, the sad music of the bars. He said he loved you too. You are thinking of the night you met him. Late October night, the breeze as soft as his black eyes. He was so hungry for trouble. You were so hungry for anything that resembled love. Your finger tracing the tattoos on his chest, you dreamed of living in the prison of his arms. But you refused to live in the prison of his deadly nights. You can't survive without the morning light. You repeat this again and again: He's a man, not an illness. Tattoos and prison. Novels and poems. A bird can love a fish but they can't live in your apartment. He called again last night and left a message that was meant to wound. He said: I want to know what you meant when you said I love you. You said: I love you. I meant I love you. He said: I want to know what you meant when you said goodbye. You said: Goodbye. I meant goodbye. You whispered his name in the dark. Benjamin Alire Saenz in 2013 won the Pen/Faulkner Award and the Lambda Award for his book Everything Begins and Ends at the Kentucky Club. His young adult novel Dante and Aristotle in Paradise was a 2013 Printz Honoree. He lives in El Paso, Texas"--
Author: Gregor Hens Publisher: Other Press, LLC ISBN: 1590517938 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 209
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NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE ECONOMIST By turns philosophical and darkly comic, an ex-smoker’s meditation on the nature and consequences of his nearly lifelong addiction. Written with the passion of an obsessive, Nicotine addresses a lifelong addiction, from the thrill of the first drag to the perennial last last cigarette. Reflecting on his experiences as a smoker from a young age, Gregor Hens investigates the irreversible effects of nicotine on thought and patterns of behavior. He extends the conversation with other smokers to meditations on Mark Twain and Italo Svevo, the nature of habit, and the validity of hypnosis. With comic insight and meticulous precision, Hens deconstructs every facet of dependency, offering a brilliant analysis of the psychopathology of addiction. This is a book about the physical, emotional, and psychological power of nicotine as not only an addictive drug, but also a gateway to memory, a long trail of streetlights in the rearview mirror of a smoker’s life. Cigarettes are sometimes a solace, sometimes a weakness, but always a witness and companion. This is a meditation, an ode, and a eulogy, one that will be passed hand-to-hand between close friends.
Author: Sarah Milov Publisher: Harvard University Press ISBN: 0674241215 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 401
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Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist Winner of the Willie Lee Rose Prize Winner of the PROSE Award in United States History Hagley Prize in Business History Finalist A Smithsonian Best History Book of the Year “Vaping gets all the attention now, but Milov’s thorough study reminds us that smoking has always intersected with the government, for better or worse.” —New York Times Book Review From Jamestown to the Marlboro Man, tobacco has powered America’s economy and shaped some of its most enduring myths. The story of tobacco’s rise and fall may seem simple enough—a tale of science triumphing over corporate greed—but the truth is more complicated. After the Great Depression, government officials and tobacco farmers worked hand in hand to ensure that regulation was used to promote tobacco rather than protect consumers. As evidence of the connection between cigarettes and cancer grew, scientists struggled to secure federal regulation in the name of public health. What turned the tide, Sarah Milov reveals, was a new kind of politics: a movement for nonsmokers’ rights. Activists took to the courts, the streets, city councils, and boardrooms to argue for smoke-free workplaces and allied with scientists to lobby elected officials. The Cigarette puts politics back at the heart of tobacco’s rise and fall, dramatizing the battles over corporate influence, individual choice, government regulation, and science. “A nuanced and ultimately devastating indictment of government complicity with the worst excesses of American capitalism.” —New Republic “An impressive work of scholarship evincing years of spadework...A well-told story.” —Wall Street Journal “If you want to know what the smoke-filled rooms of midcentury America were really like, this is the book to read.” —Los Angeles Review of Books
Author: Robert N. Proctor Publisher: Univ of California Press ISBN: 0520950437 Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 779
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The cigarette is the deadliest artifact in the history of human civilization. It is also one of the most beguiling, thanks to more than a century of manipulation at the hands of tobacco industry chemists. In Golden Holocaust, Robert N. Proctor draws on reams of formerly-secret industry documents to explore how the cigarette came to be the most widely-used drug on the planet, with six trillion sticks sold per year. He paints a harrowing picture of tobacco manufacturers conspiring to block the recognition of tobacco-cancer hazards, even as they ensnare legions of scientists and politicians in a web of denial. Proctor tells heretofore untold stories of fraud and subterfuge, and he makes the strongest case to date for a simple yet ambitious remedy: a ban on the manufacture and sale of cigarettes.
Author: David Farrier Publisher: U of Minnesota Press ISBN: 1452959536 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 173
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How poetry can help us think about and live in the Anthropocene by reframing our intimate relationship with geological time The Anthropocene describes how humanity has radically intruded into deep time, the vast timescales that shape the Earth system and all life-forms that it supports. The challenge it poses—how to live in our present moment alongside deep pasts and futures—brings into sharp focus the importance of grasping the nature of our intimate relationship with geological time. In Anthropocene Poetics, David Farrier shows how contemporary poetry by Elizabeth Bishop, Seamus Heaney, Evelyn Reilly, and Christian Bök, among others, provides us with frameworks for thinking about this uncanny sense of time. Looking at a diverse array of lyric and avant-garde poetry from three interrelated perspectives—the Anthropocene and the “material turn” in environmental philosophy; the Plantationocene and the role of global capitalism in environmental crisis; and the emergence of multispecies ethics and extinction studies—Farrier rethinks the environmental humanities from a literary critical perspective. Anthropocene Poetics puts a concern with deep time at the center, defining a new poetics for thinking through humanity’s role as geological agents, the devastation caused by resource extraction, and the looming extinction crisis.
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