Author: Kevin Barry
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 0385540329
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR • “A darkly incantatory tragicomedy of love and betrayal ... Beautifully paced, emotionally wise.” —The Boston Globe In the dark waiting room of the ferry terminal in the sketchy Spanish port of Algeciras, two aging Irishmen—Maurice Hearne and Charlie Redmond, longtime partners in the lucrative and dangerous enterprise of smuggling drugs—sit at night, none too patiently. The pair are trying to locate Maurice’s estranged daughter, Dilly, whom they’ve heard is either arriving on a boat coming from Tangier or departing on one heading there. This nocturnal vigil will initiate an extraordinary journey back in time to excavate their shared history of violence, romance, mutual betrayals, and serial exiles. Rendered with the dark humor and the hardboiled Hibernian lyricism that have made Kevin Barry one of the most striking and admired fiction writers at work today, Night Boat to Tangier is a superbly melancholic melody of a novel, full of beautiful phrases and terrible men.
Night Boat to Tangier
Author: Kevin Barry
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 0385540329
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR • “A darkly incantatory tragicomedy of love and betrayal ... Beautifully paced, emotionally wise.” —The Boston Globe In the dark waiting room of the ferry terminal in the sketchy Spanish port of Algeciras, two aging Irishmen—Maurice Hearne and Charlie Redmond, longtime partners in the lucrative and dangerous enterprise of smuggling drugs—sit at night, none too patiently. The pair are trying to locate Maurice’s estranged daughter, Dilly, whom they’ve heard is either arriving on a boat coming from Tangier or departing on one heading there. This nocturnal vigil will initiate an extraordinary journey back in time to excavate their shared history of violence, romance, mutual betrayals, and serial exiles. Rendered with the dark humor and the hardboiled Hibernian lyricism that have made Kevin Barry one of the most striking and admired fiction writers at work today, Night Boat to Tangier is a superbly melancholic melody of a novel, full of beautiful phrases and terrible men.
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 0385540329
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR • “A darkly incantatory tragicomedy of love and betrayal ... Beautifully paced, emotionally wise.” —The Boston Globe In the dark waiting room of the ferry terminal in the sketchy Spanish port of Algeciras, two aging Irishmen—Maurice Hearne and Charlie Redmond, longtime partners in the lucrative and dangerous enterprise of smuggling drugs—sit at night, none too patiently. The pair are trying to locate Maurice’s estranged daughter, Dilly, whom they’ve heard is either arriving on a boat coming from Tangier or departing on one heading there. This nocturnal vigil will initiate an extraordinary journey back in time to excavate their shared history of violence, romance, mutual betrayals, and serial exiles. Rendered with the dark humor and the hardboiled Hibernian lyricism that have made Kevin Barry one of the most striking and admired fiction writers at work today, Night Boat to Tangier is a superbly melancholic melody of a novel, full of beautiful phrases and terrible men.
Night Boat to New York
Author: Erik Hesselberg
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1493044508
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
Night Boat to New York: Steamboats on the Connecticut, 1824-1931, is a portrait of the vanished steamboat days–when a procession of stately sidewheelers plied between Hartford and New York City, docking at Peck’s Slip on the East River in the shadow of the Brooklyn Bridge. At one time, Hartford could boast two thousand steamboat arrivals and departures in a year. Altogether, some thirty-five large steamboats were in service on the Connecticut River in these years, largely on the Hartford to New York City route. These Long Island Sound steamers, unlike the tubby, wedding cake dowagers of Western waters, were long, sleek craft, with sharp prows cutting a neat wake as they cruised along. Departing each afternoon from State Street or Talcott Street wharf in Hartford, the “night boats” reached New York at daybreak, inaugurating a pattern of city commuting that continues to this day. Steamboating not only brought people and goods—Colt’s firearms and Essex’s pianos—down river to New York for export to world markets, but also helped America’s inland “Spa Culture” transplant itself to the seashore, making steamboating not just convenient transportation but also a social phenomenon noted by such writers as Charles Dickens and Mark Twain. No wonder crowds wept in the fall of 1931, when the last steamboats, made obsolete by the automobile, churned away from the dock and headed downriver—never to return.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1493044508
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
Night Boat to New York: Steamboats on the Connecticut, 1824-1931, is a portrait of the vanished steamboat days–when a procession of stately sidewheelers plied between Hartford and New York City, docking at Peck’s Slip on the East River in the shadow of the Brooklyn Bridge. At one time, Hartford could boast two thousand steamboat arrivals and departures in a year. Altogether, some thirty-five large steamboats were in service on the Connecticut River in these years, largely on the Hartford to New York City route. These Long Island Sound steamers, unlike the tubby, wedding cake dowagers of Western waters, were long, sleek craft, with sharp prows cutting a neat wake as they cruised along. Departing each afternoon from State Street or Talcott Street wharf in Hartford, the “night boats” reached New York at daybreak, inaugurating a pattern of city commuting that continues to this day. Steamboating not only brought people and goods—Colt’s firearms and Essex’s pianos—down river to New York for export to world markets, but also helped America’s inland “Spa Culture” transplant itself to the seashore, making steamboating not just convenient transportation but also a social phenomenon noted by such writers as Charles Dickens and Mark Twain. No wonder crowds wept in the fall of 1931, when the last steamboats, made obsolete by the automobile, churned away from the dock and headed downriver—never to return.
The Truant Lover
Author: Juliet Patterson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Juliet Patterson's first collection of poems, The Truant Lover, selected by Jean Valentine, is a pastiche of American voices, a well of poems with passages that hint and nod at past poets while remaining wholly their own.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Juliet Patterson's first collection of poems, The Truant Lover, selected by Jean Valentine, is a pastiche of American voices, a well of poems with passages that hint and nod at past poets while remaining wholly their own.
Good Night New York City
Author: Adam Gamble
Publisher: Good Night Books
ISBN: 1602197563
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 25
Book Description
Easy-to-read text introduces the sights of New York City through a full day of sightseeing.
Publisher: Good Night Books
ISBN: 1602197563
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 25
Book Description
Easy-to-read text introduces the sights of New York City through a full day of sightseeing.
MacArthur Park
Author: Andrew Durbin
Publisher: Nightboat Books
ISBN: 1937658708
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
After Hurricane Sandy, Nick Fowler, a writer, stranded alone in a Manhattan apartment without power, begins to contemplate disaster. Months later, at an artist residency in upstate New York, Nick finds his subject in disaster itself and the communities shaped by it, where crisis animates both hope and denial, unacknowledged pasts and potential futures. As he travels to Los Angeles and London on assignment, Nick discovers that outsiders - their lives and histories disturbed by sex, loss, and bad weather - are often better understood by what they have hidden from the world than what they have revealed.
Publisher: Nightboat Books
ISBN: 1937658708
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
After Hurricane Sandy, Nick Fowler, a writer, stranded alone in a Manhattan apartment without power, begins to contemplate disaster. Months later, at an artist residency in upstate New York, Nick finds his subject in disaster itself and the communities shaped by it, where crisis animates both hope and denial, unacknowledged pasts and potential futures. As he travels to Los Angeles and London on assignment, Nick discovers that outsiders - their lives and histories disturbed by sex, loss, and bad weather - are often better understood by what they have hidden from the world than what they have revealed.
One Night, New York
Author: Lara Thompson
Publisher: Abacus
ISBN: 9780349011103
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Een plattelandsmeisje vlucht in de jaren '30 naar New York met de hoop op een beter leven.
Publisher: Abacus
ISBN: 9780349011103
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Een plattelandsmeisje vlucht in de jaren '30 naar New York met de hoop op een beter leven.
Dracula
Author: Hamilton Deane
Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN: 9780573608223
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
Drama Hamilton Deane and John L. Balderston, from Bram Stoker's novel Characters: 6 male, 2 female 3 Interior Scenes An enormously successful revival of this classic opened on Broadway in 1977 fifty years after the original production. This is one of the great mystery thrillers and is generally considered among the best of its kind. Lucy Seward, whose father is the doctor in charge of an English sanitorium, has been attacked by some mysterious illness. Dr. Van Helsing,
Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN: 9780573608223
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
Drama Hamilton Deane and John L. Balderston, from Bram Stoker's novel Characters: 6 male, 2 female 3 Interior Scenes An enormously successful revival of this classic opened on Broadway in 1977 fifty years after the original production. This is one of the great mystery thrillers and is generally considered among the best of its kind. Lucy Seward, whose father is the doctor in charge of an English sanitorium, has been attacked by some mysterious illness. Dr. Van Helsing,
Night Boat to Freedom
Author:
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux (BYR)
ISBN: 9780374312664
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
At the request of his fellow slave Granny Judith, Christmas John risks his life to take runaways across a river from Kentucky to Ohio. Based on slave narratives recorded in the 1930s.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux (BYR)
ISBN: 9780374312664
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
At the request of his fellow slave Granny Judith, Christmas John risks his life to take runaways across a river from Kentucky to Ohio. Based on slave narratives recorded in the 1930s.
Permanent VOLTA
Author: Rosie Stockton
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781643620756
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
A debut collection of love poems that resist subjection and ask how we might live together outside of capitalism, providing for each other through intimate acts of care and struggle
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781643620756
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
A debut collection of love poems that resist subjection and ask how we might live together outside of capitalism, providing for each other through intimate acts of care and struggle
Night
Author: Etel Adnan
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781937658533
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 50
Book Description
A luminescent new book by one of our leading innovative writers
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781937658533
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 50
Book Description
A luminescent new book by one of our leading innovative writers