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Author: Russell H Greenan Publisher: Courier Dover Publications ISBN: 0486832724 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 225
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"A murderously funny fugue of the macabre ... Grave matters, elegantly dispatched." — The New York Times Book Review Algernon Pendleton — call him Al — lives by himself in a suburban Boston house loaded with treasures collected by his Egyptologist great-grandfather. His solitary life, punctuated by occasional visits to a shop where he trades artifacts for ready cash, would be lonely if not for his confidential chats with Eulalia, a talking porcelain pitcher. When an old army buddy shows up with a suitcase full of money, Eulalia has some less-than-friendly ideas about separating their houseguest from his fortune. Meanwhile, a professor of archaeology is getting increasingly suspicious about the shop's supply of rare and valuable antiquities. Thanks to Eulalia's advice, Al soon finds himself trapped in a murder mystery that unfolds with ample doses of black humor. "You have to have a heart of stone not to love Algernon Pendleton, the mad-as-a-hatter murderer … Curl up with him and your doom is sealed ... Greenan has fashioned an excursion in to the macabre that is in a class by itself." — Saturday Review "Oddly appealing, a sort of Arsenic and Old Lace approach that really works in terms of entertainment if you have a taste for the fantastic." — Publishers Weekly
Author: Russell H Greenan Publisher: Courier Dover Publications ISBN: 0486832724 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 225
Book Description
"A murderously funny fugue of the macabre ... Grave matters, elegantly dispatched." — The New York Times Book Review Algernon Pendleton — call him Al — lives by himself in a suburban Boston house loaded with treasures collected by his Egyptologist great-grandfather. His solitary life, punctuated by occasional visits to a shop where he trades artifacts for ready cash, would be lonely if not for his confidential chats with Eulalia, a talking porcelain pitcher. When an old army buddy shows up with a suitcase full of money, Eulalia has some less-than-friendly ideas about separating their houseguest from his fortune. Meanwhile, a professor of archaeology is getting increasingly suspicious about the shop's supply of rare and valuable antiquities. Thanks to Eulalia's advice, Al soon finds himself trapped in a murder mystery that unfolds with ample doses of black humor. "You have to have a heart of stone not to love Algernon Pendleton, the mad-as-a-hatter murderer … Curl up with him and your doom is sealed ... Greenan has fashioned an excursion in to the macabre that is in a class by itself." — Saturday Review "Oddly appealing, a sort of Arsenic and Old Lace approach that really works in terms of entertainment if you have a taste for the fantastic." — Publishers Weekly
Author: A.V. Club Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1439109893 Category : Humor Languages : en Pages : 532
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Each week, the writers of The A.V. Club issue a slightly slanted pop-culture list filled with challenging opinions (Is David Bowie's "Young Americans" nearly ruined by saxophone?) and fascinating facts. Exploring twenty-four great films too painful to watch twice, fourteen tragic movie-masturbation scenes, eighteen songs about crappy cities, and much more, Inventory combines a massive helping of new lists created especially for the book with a few favorites first seen at AVClub.com and in the pages of The A.V. Club’s sister publication, The Onion. But wait! There's more: John Hodgman offers a set of minutely detailed (and probably fictional) character actors. Patton Oswalt waxes ecstatic about the "quiet film revolutions" that changed cinema in small but exciting ways. Amy Sedaris lists fifty things that make her laugh. "Weird Al" Yankovic examines the noises of Mad magazine's Don Martin. Plus lists from Paul Thomas Anderson, Robert Ben Garant, Tom Lennon, Andrew W.K., Tim and Eric, Daniel Handler, and Zach Galifianakis—and an epic foreword from essayist Chuck Klosterman.
Author: Ellen Baskin Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1351769839 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 2398
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This title was first published in 2003. The sixth edition of this compendium of film and television adaptations of books and plays includes several thousand new listings that cover the period from 1992 to December 2001. There are 8000 main entries, covering 70 years of film history, including some foreign language material.
Author: Tom Whalen Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press ISBN: 1564786404 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 194
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Russell H. Greenan's "It Happened in Boston?" is one of the most radical narratives to appear in the late 1960s ("this is a book that encompasses everything" as David L. Ulin noted in "Bookforum"). Yet due in large part to the difficulty of classifying Greenan's fiction, many readers are unaware of his other novels. In "The Birth of Death and Other Comedies: The Novels of Russell H. Greenan," Tom Whalen, drawing widely from the American literary tradition, locates Greenan's lineage in the work of Hawthorne and Poe "where allegory and dream mingle with and illuminate realism," as well as in the fiction of Twain, West, Hammett, Cain, and Thompson. Examining Greenan's characteristic themes and strategies, Whalen provides perceptive readings of the dark comedies of this criminally neglected American master, and in a coda reflects on Greenan's career and the reception of his work.
Author: Steven Church Publisher: Catapult ISBN: 1593763778 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 212
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Steven Church grew up in the 1970s and ’80s in Lawrence, Kansas, a town whose predictable daily rhythms give way easily to anxiety—and a place that, since Civil War times, has been a canvas for sporadic scenes of havoc and violence in the popular imagination. Childhood was quiet on the surface, but Steven grew up scared—scared of killer tornadoes, winged monkeys, violent movies, authority figures, the dissolution of his parents’ marriage, and most of all in Reagan’s America, nuclear war. His fantasies of nuclear meltdown, genetic mutation, and post-apocalyptic survival find a focal point in 1982 when filming begins in Lawrence for The Day After, a film which would go on to become the second-highest Nielsen-rated TV movie. Despite cheesy special effects, melodramatic plotlines, and the presence of Steve Guttenberg, the movie had an instant and lasting impact on Church, and an entire generation. Combining interview, personal essay, film criticism, fact, and flights of imagination, Church’s richly layered and darkly comic memoir explores the meaning of Cold War fears for his generation and their resonance today.
Author: Jonathan Riikonen Publisher: Xlibris Corporation ISBN: 1543442137 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 115
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Sherwood is a regular guy who is into philosophy, languages, ancient history, and knowledge. He has always disliked any sports and never cared about fame or too much money either. His lifetime dream was to become an unknown crane operator, a job he really loves. His construction company was participating in a recreational ice hockey league, and then one day, they needed a last-minute replacement goaltender and put Sherwood there. To the amazement of all, he never allows any goals. Discovered by an impenitent agent, he is dragged to NHL against his will and follows a professional big-league hockey season full of surprises, adoration, sensations, tragedies, and personal struggles. Finally, he realizes what life is all about, an attitude that everyone could learn from. After all, one might wonder if there is a little Sherwood living inside all of us.
Author: Lisa Kumar Publisher: Contemporary Authors ISBN: 9780787667023 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 488
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A biographical and bibliographical guide to current writers in all fields including poetry, fiction and nonfiction, journalism, drama, television and movies. Information is provided by the authors themselves or drawn from published interviews, feature stories, book reviews and other materials provided by the authors/publishers.
Author: Russell H Greenan
Author: Russell H. Greenan
Author: Russell H Greenan
Author: A.V. Club
Author: Ellen Baskin
Author: Tom Whalen
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Author: Steven Church
Author: Jonathan Riikonen
Author: Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Author: Lisa Kumar