Author: Richard P. Sinay Publisher: richardpsinay.com ISBN: 1965216056 Category : Travel Languages : en Pages : 372
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An Epistolary Autobiography is a day-to-day writing about events in a person’s life—my observations of America during a twenty-five thousand-mile trip around the country. My trip started in Indio, California, took along the South to the Southeast, then to the Northeast, then back along a Northern route to the Midwest, the Northwest, and then full circle back home. The trip was intended to do three things: allow me to check off some of my bucket list items, meet with my first cousins to present information about the origin of our grandparents, and explore those places I always wanted to see as a teacher of American Literature and history. While traveling through the country, I made some observations about America that may differ from other points of view, but these observations are what I saw on my trip. I share those with the reader as part of the interest of the book. I also wanted to share my perceptions of the great writers of American Literature and what they stood for. I was also checking off my bucket list and sharing my experiences doing those things, like visiting the boyhood home of Mark Twain, one of my favorite writers. I taught these writers for thirty-seven years and wanted to see the ground they walked on. Literature was an important part of my life; seeing the hallowed grounds where some of our literary giants stood was also a goal for this adventure. I wanted to see Old Faithful go off, drive in Yellowstone National Park, see Mount Rushmore, and play golf at some exclusive golf courses here in America.
Author: Richard P Sinay Publisher: ISBN: 9781965216040 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 0
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Observations of America and My Ancestral Past includes visits to important cities in America, a bit of golfing, and major American authors. It is a whirlwind of a trip around the country in a counterclockwise fashion.
Author: Richard Sinay Publisher: ISBN: 9781965216033 Category : Family & Relationships Languages : en Pages : 0
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Observations of America and My Ancestral Pase: An Epistolary Autobiography will surprise the reader with information and observations about America that show the relationship between our past and today's America.
Author: Kiese Laymon Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1501125699 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 256
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*Selected as One of the Best Books of the 21st Century by The New York Times* *Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times, Publishers Weekly, NPR, Broadly, BuzzFeed (Nonfiction), The Undefeated, Library Journal (Biography/Memoirs), The Washington Post (Nonfiction), Southern Living (Southern), Entertainment Weekly, and The New York Times Critics* In this powerful, provocative, and universally lauded memoir—winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal and finalist for the Kirkus Prize—genre-bending essayist and novelist Kiese Laymon “provocatively meditates on his trauma growing up as a black man, and in turn crafts an essential polemic against American moral rot” (Entertainment Weekly). In Heavy, Laymon writes eloquently and honestly about growing up a hard-headed black son to a complicated and brilliant black mother in Jackson, Mississippi. From his early experiences of sexual violence, to his suspension from college, to time in New York as a college professor, Laymon charts his complex relationship with his mother, grandmother, anorexia, obesity, sex, writing, and ultimately gambling. Heavy is a “gorgeous, gutting…generous” (The New York Times) memoir that combines personal stories with piercing intellect to reflect both on the strife of American society and on Laymon’s experiences with abuse. By attempting to name secrets and lies he and his mother spent a lifetime avoiding, he asks us to confront the terrifying possibility that few in this nation actually know how to responsibly love, and even fewer want to live under the weight of actually becoming free. “A book for people who appreciated Roxane Gay’s memoir Hunger” (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel), Heavy is defiant yet vulnerable, an insightful, often comical exploration of weight, identity, art, friendship, and family through years of haunting implosions and long reverberations. “You won’t be able to put [this memoir] down…It is packed with reminders of how black dreams get skewed and deferred, yet are also pregnant with the possibility that a kind of redemption may lie in intimate grappling with black realities” (The Atlantic).
Author: Publisher: Peter Lang ISBN: 9780820481012 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 374
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Three Italian Epistolary Novels looks at the development of a literary genre that flourished in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and counted among its illustrious authors Samuel Richardson, Henry Fielding, Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. These translations of three Italian novels by Foscolo, De Meis, and Piovene - never offered before in a single study - reflect social, historical, and stylistic aspects through 150 years of Italian literature from the birth of a touching romantic story to the time of the new currents in Italy and the period of World War II. The book is particularly suited for studies in Italian, European, and comparative literature programs.
Author: Richard P. Sinay
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