Author: Jennifer Doktorski
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN: 1492657166
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 243
Book Description
One last summer to escape, to find herself, to figure out what comes next. Fans of Sarah Dessen and Jenny Han will love this contemporary, coming-of-age romance. Graduation was supposed to be a relief. Except Quinn can't avoid the rumors that plagued her throughout high school or the barrage of well-intentioned questions about her college plans. How is she supposed to know what she wants to do for the next four years, let alone the rest of her life? And why does no one understand that it's hard for her to think about the future—or feel as if she even deserves one—when her best friend is dead? Spending the summer with her aunt on the Jersey shore may just be the fresh start Quinn so desperately needs. And when she meets Malcolm, a musician with his own haunted past, she starts to believe in second chances. Can Quinn find love while finding herself?
After August
Author: Patrick Maley
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 0813943027
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 333
Book Description
Critics have long suggested that August Wilson, who called blues "the best literature we have as black Americans," appropriated blues music for his plays. After August insists instead that Wilson’s work is direct blues expression. Patrick Maley argues that Wilson was not a dramatist importing blues music into his plays; he was a bluesman, expressing a blues ethos through drama. Reading Wilson’s American Century Cycle alongside the cultural history of blues music, as well as Wilson’s less discussed work—his interviews, the polemic speech "The Ground on Which I Stand," and his memoir play How I Learned What I Learned—Maley shows how Wilson’s plays deploy the blues technique of call-and-response, attempting to initiate a dialogue with his audience about how to be black in America. After August further contends that understanding Wilson as a bluesman demands a reinvestigation of his forebears and successors in American drama, many of whom echo his deep investment in social identity crafting. Wilson’s dramaturgical pursuit of culturally sustainable black identity sheds light on Tennessee Williams’s exploration of oppressive limits on masculine sexuality and Eugene O’Neill’s treatment of psychologically corrosive whiteness. Today, the contemporary African American playwrights Katori Hall and Tarell Alvin McCraney repeat and revise Wilson’s methods, exploring the fraught and fertile terrain of racial, gender, and sexual identity. After August makes a significant contribution to the scholarship on Wilson and his undeniable impact on American drama.
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 0813943027
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 333
Book Description
Critics have long suggested that August Wilson, who called blues "the best literature we have as black Americans," appropriated blues music for his plays. After August insists instead that Wilson’s work is direct blues expression. Patrick Maley argues that Wilson was not a dramatist importing blues music into his plays; he was a bluesman, expressing a blues ethos through drama. Reading Wilson’s American Century Cycle alongside the cultural history of blues music, as well as Wilson’s less discussed work—his interviews, the polemic speech "The Ground on Which I Stand," and his memoir play How I Learned What I Learned—Maley shows how Wilson’s plays deploy the blues technique of call-and-response, attempting to initiate a dialogue with his audience about how to be black in America. After August further contends that understanding Wilson as a bluesman demands a reinvestigation of his forebears and successors in American drama, many of whom echo his deep investment in social identity crafting. Wilson’s dramaturgical pursuit of culturally sustainable black identity sheds light on Tennessee Williams’s exploration of oppressive limits on masculine sexuality and Eugene O’Neill’s treatment of psychologically corrosive whiteness. Today, the contemporary African American playwrights Katori Hall and Tarell Alvin McCraney repeat and revise Wilson’s methods, exploring the fraught and fertile terrain of racial, gender, and sexual identity. After August makes a significant contribution to the scholarship on Wilson and his undeniable impact on American drama.
After August
Author: William R. Burkett Jr
Publisher: The New Atlantian Library
ISBN: 0692534172
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 303
Book Description
"One of my favorite storytellers," - Hollis George, noted editor and anthologist "A raw novel written with the passion of memory and the experience of growing up in a beachside community on the northern corner of Florida." - Hayes Brandwell, The Polemicist Post "As a former newspaper colleague of Bill Burkett, I can certify that there is truth in this well-crafted prose," - Pamela Paige, former feature writer, Florida Times-Union The time was 1959. Walter was a cook at Dawson's Famous Seafood Restaurant supporting his tubercular wife in an inland sanatorium and their daughter, who lived with her mother's parents. He was a loner who minded his own business until Corinne came to work as a waitress and he saw a chance to grab a little moment of happiness with her. But Corinne was a lodestone for dangerous men and he was on a collision course with disaster. "A nearly lost masterpiece is discovered ... modern Southern Gothic," says Shirrel Rhoades, former fiction editor for The Saturday Evening Post.
Publisher: The New Atlantian Library
ISBN: 0692534172
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 303
Book Description
"One of my favorite storytellers," - Hollis George, noted editor and anthologist "A raw novel written with the passion of memory and the experience of growing up in a beachside community on the northern corner of Florida." - Hayes Brandwell, The Polemicist Post "As a former newspaper colleague of Bill Burkett, I can certify that there is truth in this well-crafted prose," - Pamela Paige, former feature writer, Florida Times-Union The time was 1959. Walter was a cook at Dawson's Famous Seafood Restaurant supporting his tubercular wife in an inland sanatorium and their daughter, who lived with her mother's parents. He was a loner who minded his own business until Corinne came to work as a waitress and he saw a chance to grab a little moment of happiness with her. But Corinne was a lodestone for dangerous men and he was on a collision course with disaster. "A nearly lost masterpiece is discovered ... modern Southern Gothic," says Shirrel Rhoades, former fiction editor for The Saturday Evening Post.
After August
Author: MARTIN J. BYRNE
Publisher: Lapwing Publications
ISBN: 1909252506
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
Publisher: Lapwing Publications
ISBN: 1909252506
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
August and Everything After
Author: Jennifer Doktorski
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN: 1492657166
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 243
Book Description
One last summer to escape, to find herself, to figure out what comes next. Fans of Sarah Dessen and Jenny Han will love this contemporary, coming-of-age romance. Graduation was supposed to be a relief. Except Quinn can't avoid the rumors that plagued her throughout high school or the barrage of well-intentioned questions about her college plans. How is she supposed to know what she wants to do for the next four years, let alone the rest of her life? And why does no one understand that it's hard for her to think about the future—or feel as if she even deserves one—when her best friend is dead? Spending the summer with her aunt on the Jersey shore may just be the fresh start Quinn so desperately needs. And when she meets Malcolm, a musician with his own haunted past, she starts to believe in second chances. Can Quinn find love while finding herself?
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN: 1492657166
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 243
Book Description
One last summer to escape, to find herself, to figure out what comes next. Fans of Sarah Dessen and Jenny Han will love this contemporary, coming-of-age romance. Graduation was supposed to be a relief. Except Quinn can't avoid the rumors that plagued her throughout high school or the barrage of well-intentioned questions about her college plans. How is she supposed to know what she wants to do for the next four years, let alone the rest of her life? And why does no one understand that it's hard for her to think about the future—or feel as if she even deserves one—when her best friend is dead? Spending the summer with her aunt on the Jersey shore may just be the fresh start Quinn so desperately needs. And when she meets Malcolm, a musician with his own haunted past, she starts to believe in second chances. Can Quinn find love while finding herself?
Hiroshima
Author: John Hersey
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0593082362
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Hiroshima is the story of six people—a clerk, a widowed seamstress, a physician, a Methodist minister, a young surgeon, and a German Catholic priest—who lived through the greatest single manmade disaster in history. In vivid and indelible prose, Pulitzer Prize–winner John Hersey traces the stories of these half-dozen individuals from 8:15 a.m. on August 6, 1945, when Hiroshima was destroyed by the first atomic bomb ever dropped on a city, through the hours and days that followed. Almost four decades after the original publication of this celebrated book, Hersey went back to Hiroshima in search of the people whose stories he had told, and his account of what he discovered is now the eloquent and moving final chapter of Hiroshima.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0593082362
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Hiroshima is the story of six people—a clerk, a widowed seamstress, a physician, a Methodist minister, a young surgeon, and a German Catholic priest—who lived through the greatest single manmade disaster in history. In vivid and indelible prose, Pulitzer Prize–winner John Hersey traces the stories of these half-dozen individuals from 8:15 a.m. on August 6, 1945, when Hiroshima was destroyed by the first atomic bomb ever dropped on a city, through the hours and days that followed. Almost four decades after the original publication of this celebrated book, Hersey went back to Hiroshima in search of the people whose stories he had told, and his account of what he discovered is now the eloquent and moving final chapter of Hiroshima.
After Action Report, 1 August 1944-9 May 1945, Volume II
Author: United States. Army. Army, 3rd
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1939-1945
Languages : en
Pages : 772
Book Description
Contains staff section reports of the U.S. 3rd Army on the Western Front during World War II.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1939-1945
Languages : en
Pages : 772
Book Description
Contains staff section reports of the U.S. 3rd Army on the Western Front during World War II.
Current Business Reports
Eco-terrorism Specifically Examining the Earth Liberation Front and the Animal Liberation Front
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Environment and Public Works
Publisher: Office of the Federal Register
ISBN: 9780160793189
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 860
Book Description
The Code of Federal Regulations is a codification of the general and permanent rules published in the Federal Register by the Executive departments and agencies of the United States Federal Government.
Publisher: Office of the Federal Register
ISBN: 9780160793189
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 860
Book Description
The Code of Federal Regulations is a codification of the general and permanent rules published in the Federal Register by the Executive departments and agencies of the United States Federal Government.
Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Papyrologists, Copenhagen, 23-29 August, 1992
Author: Adam Bülow-Jacobsen
Publisher: Museum Tusculanum Press
ISBN: 9788772892641
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 682
Book Description
This volume presents over ninety papers in English, French, German and Italian from the Congress held at Copenhagen in 1992.
Publisher: Museum Tusculanum Press
ISBN: 9788772892641
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 682
Book Description
This volume presents over ninety papers in English, French, German and Italian from the Congress held at Copenhagen in 1992.
Journal of the House of Representatives of the United States
Author: United States. Congress. House
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Legislation
Languages : en
Pages : 1288
Book Description
Some vols. include supplemental journals of "such proceedings of the sessions, as, during the time they were depending, were ordered to be kept secret, and respecting which the injunction of secrecy was afterwards taken off by the order of the House."
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Legislation
Languages : en
Pages : 1288
Book Description
Some vols. include supplemental journals of "such proceedings of the sessions, as, during the time they were depending, were ordered to be kept secret, and respecting which the injunction of secrecy was afterwards taken off by the order of the House."