Author: Dylan ThomasPublisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811202022
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Thomas's unfinished novel of a Welsh boy's adventures in London is accompanied by twenty short stories.
Adventures in the Skin Trade
Author: Dylan ThomasPublisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811202022
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Thomas's unfinished novel of a Welsh boy's adventures in London is accompanied by twenty short stories.
Adventures in the Alaskan Skin Trade
Author: John HawkesPublisher: Penguin Group
ISBN: 9780140092837
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
A Western tall tale and a psychological thriller of stunning insight and depth, this is Hawkes' most ambitious work ever.
Bruce!
Author: Bruce VilanchPublisher: Tarcher
ISBN:
Category : American wit and humor
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
With observations on everything from Diana Ross and the Muppets to show tunes and "Star Wars, Bruce!" shows how this regular "Hollywood Square" can be the "perp of some of the funniest, most famous, or notorious moments in recent show-biz history" ("Time").
On the Air with Dylan Thomas
Author: Dylan ThomasPublisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811217873
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Adventures in the Skin Trade
Author: Andrew SinclairPublisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811217859
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
As a rule, a good novel does not always make a good play--especially a novel as unconventional as this one by Dylan Thomas. But Andrew Sinclair's brilliant adaptation of Adventures in the Skin Trade is the exception. This is the story of young Samuel Bennet--a not entirely innocent provincial--who leaves his Welsh home to let adventure find him in London. Sam is soon deeply involved--all the while with his finger stuck fast in an ale bottle--with a fantastic assortment of odd characters whom only Dylan Thomas could have conceived. What The Times Literary Supplement said about Adventures in the Skin Trade as a novel still applies to the play: "There is no doubt of Thomas's genius as a comic writer ... there are memorable images and phrases on every page." One reason is Andrew Sinclair's exceptionally skillful adaptation.
Adventures in the French Trade
Author: Jeffrey MehlmanPublisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 0804775079
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 197
Book Description
This memoir is less a chronicle of the life of a leading scholar and critic of matters French than a series of differently angled fragments, each with its attendant surprise, in what one commentator has called Jeffrey Mehlman's amour vache—his injured and occasionally injurious love—for France and the French. The reader will encounter masters of the art of reading in these pages, the exhilaration elicited by their achievements, and the unexpected (and occasionally unsettling) resonances those achievements have had in the author's life. With all its idiosyncrasies, Adventures in the French Trade depicts an intellectual generation in ways that will attract not only people who recall the heady days of the rise and reign of French theory but also those who do not. This provocative book should be of interest to students of intellectual history, literary criticism, Jewish studies, the history of American academia, and the genre of the memoir itself.
The Auctioneer
Author: Simon de PuryPublisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 125005978X
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
"Simon de Pury, former Chairman of Sotheby's Europe, former owner of Sotheby's rival Phillips de Pury, and currently a London-based dealer, takes us inside a secretive business, whose staggering prices, famous collectors, and high crimes are front page news almost every day"--
Quite Early One Morning
Author: Dylan ThomasPublisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811202084
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
A dazzling collection of prose from one of the greatest poets and storytellers of the twentieth century.
Adventures in the Skin Trade
Author: Dylan ThomasRebecca's Daughters
Author: Dylan ThomasPublisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811208529
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Rebecca's Daughters is the nearest Dylan Thomas ever came to realizing his ambition to write a film scenario in such a way that it would not only stand ready for shooting but would, at the same time, give the ordinary reader a visual impression of the film in words. A romantic adventure story set in mid-nineteenth-century Wales, Rebecca's Daughters has a dashing hero who is not what he seems; commonfolk oppressed by the landowners; and finally, justice triumphant over greed and misused privilege. Who is the mysterious "Rebecca" swathed in wide black skirts with a shawl drawn over his mouth and his eyes flashing from beneath the brim of his tall black hat as he exhorts his "daughters" to tear down the hated tollgates imposed by the gentry's Turnpike Trust? And where does the foppish Anthony Raine--just returned from a tour in India with the despised British army--stand? And how is the lovely Rhiannon to choose between them? This reissue of Thomas's delightful tale of derring-do has been illustrated with charm and verve by the celebrated wood engraver and graphic artist Fritz Eichenberg.