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Author | : Mitch Cullin |
Publisher | : Dufour Editions |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 2001-12-03 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0802360408 |
Download From the Place in the Valley Deep in the Forest Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The stories and characters in this diverse collection of stories from the acclaimed novelist Mitch Cullin provide a fascinating gloss on events that have taken place in the second half of the 20th century. They begin at a remote Japanese beach house and end on an unnamed Alaskan island. These are stories about isolation, remembrances of past experiences, and the sometimes inaccurate nature of memory. Cullin's stories examine individuals who have survived momentous, often horrific, social upheavals-where relationships and common day-to-day life are suddenly shaken by unforeseen circumstances. `From the Place in the Valley Deep in the Forest' is a collection that deftly suggests we are all emigrants from personal histories we recall only fleetingly-moments which draw us back, but, as we imagine them, seem increasingly difficult to grasp. These polished and graceful stories are further evidence of the kind of work that makes Cullin one of our best young writers. "If something of the experimentalist shows in Cullin's novels, his stories are old-fashioned in the best sense, reporting slices of life as the characters experience them in a language that is economical yet richly evocative because of its precision."-Booklist
Author | : Rebecca Fish Ewan |
Publisher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 2000-12-08 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9780801864612 |
Download A Land Between Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A Land Between tells the stories of the people who have lived in the valley and uncovers the marks they have left on the land.
Author | : Gordy Sauer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 286 |
Release | : 2021 |
Genre | : California |
ISBN | : 9781938235795 |
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"For fans of Ian McGuire's The North Water and Michael Punke's The Revenant, Child in the Valley by Gordy Sauer is a coming-of-age story set in the harsh landscape of Gold Rush America, centering on a orphan's journey to California in a wagon train of ruthless 49ers. Seventeen-year-old Joshua Gaines is suddenly orphaned in 1849, and after discovering that his foster father has left him deeply in debt, he flees his St. Louis home for Independence, Missouri. There, he plans to offer his medical expertise in exchange for passage to California in a Gold Rush party. Joshua is initially rebuffed given his youth and inexperience, but as his resentment and greed grow, a chance encounter with a ruthless adventurer and an ex-slave enlists him in a party comprised of provincial identical twins and a wealthy Englishman. The party departs overland along a 1,500-mile trail carved out by hardship, disease, violence, and death. When finally they arrive starving and exhausted in California's Sacramento Valley, Joshua discovers that attaining those riches is not as simple as pulling them from the riverbed, forcing him to redefine his sense of morality within the context of his greed; his complex sexuality; and the growing, though still-fledgling, American government. This novel is part of the Cold Mountain Fund Series, in partnership with Charles Frazier"--
Author | : Mitch Cullin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 247 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Interpersonal relations |
ISBN | : 9780297829508 |
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A collection of truly brilliant short stories, each depicting the deeply personal experience of a universal or historical event. Momentous fiction from the best American writer of his generation. A group of housewives smoke cigars and play cards whilst a tornado approaches a west Texas town. An Asian-American medic bicycles through the Vietnam countryside with her husband and son and returns to the spot where she once held dying soldiers. Or a young rockabilly aficionado prepares for a date in a Ukranian village close to Chenobyl. The words of Beatles songs sung in a Cambodian work camp. Cullin's ability is to miraculously create moments of true pathos which distill important human experience into a single hair-raising image. I can honestly say they are the best stories I have ever read, they are chillingly good and I have utter conviction that this is a great writer.
Author | : Laura R. Barraclough |
Publisher | : University of Georgia Press |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0820336807 |
Download Making the San Fernando Valley Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In the first book-length scholarly study of the San Fernando Valley—home to one-third of the population of Los Angeles—Laura R. Barraclough combines ambitious historical sweep with an on-theground investigation of contemporary life in this iconic western suburb. She is particularly intrigued by the Valley's many rural elements, such as dirt roads, tack-and-feed stores, horse-keeping districts, citrus groves, and movie ranches. Far from natural or undeveloped spaces, these rural characteristics are, she shows, the result of deliberate urbanplanning decisions that have shaped the Valley over the course of more than a hundred years. The Valley's entwined history of urban development and rural preservation has real ramifications today for patterns of racial and class inequality and especially for the evolving meaning of whiteness. Immersing herself in meetings of homeowners' associations, equestrian organizations, and redistricting committees, Barraclough uncovers the racial biases embedded in rhetoric about “open space” and “western heritage.” The Valley's urban cowboys enjoy exclusive, semirural landscapes alongside the opportunities afforded by one of the world's largest cities. Despite this enviable position, they have at their disposal powerful articulations of both white victimization and, with little contradiction, color-blind politics.
Author | : Tim Forssman |
Publisher | : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd |
Total Pages | : 140 |
Release | : 2020-09-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1789696860 |
Download Foragers in the middle Limpopo Valley: Trade, Place-making, and Social Complexity Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Foragers were present in the Limpopo Valley (South Africa) before the arrival of farmers and not only witnessed but also participated in local systems leading to the appearance of a complex society. Despite numerous studies in the valley, forager involvement in socio-political developments has been, until now, largely ignored.
Author | : John Renehan |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 416 |
Release | : 2015-03-10 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0698186273 |
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*Named one of Wall Street Journal's Best Books of 2015 *Selected as a Military Times's Best Book of the Year “You’re going up the Valley.” Black didn’t know its name, but he knew it lay deeper and higher than any other place Americans had ventured. You had to travel through a network of interlinked valleys, past all the other remote American outposts, just to get to its mouth. Everything about the place was myth and rumor, but one fact was clear: There were many valleys in the mountains of Afghanistan, and most were hard places where people died hard deaths. But there was only one Valley. It was the farthest, and the hardest, and the worst. When Black, a deskbound admin officer, is sent up the Valley to investigate a warning shot fired by a near-forgotten platoon, he can only see it as the final bureaucratic insult in a short and unhappy Army career. What he doesn’t know is that his investigation puts at risk the centuries-old arrangements that keep this violent land in fragile balance, and will launch a shattering personal odyssey of obsession and discovery as Black reckons with the platoon’s dark secrets, accumulated over endless hours fighting and dying in defense of an indefensible piece of land. The Valley is a riveting tour de force that changes our understanding of the men who fight our wars and announces John Renehan as one of the great American storytellers of our time.
Author | : Theodore Sherman Palmer |
Publisher | : Wildside Press LLC |
Total Pages | : 114 |
Release | : 1989-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0893709379 |
Download Chronology of the Death Valley Region in California, 1849-1949, and Place Names of the Death Valley Region in California and Nevada, 1845-1947 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Chronology and Names of the Death Valley Region in California, 1849-1949
Author | : Jonathan Stroud |
Publisher | : Random House |
Total Pages | : 402 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Adventure stories |
ISBN | : 0552557935 |
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Halli loves the old stories from when the valley was a wild and dangerous place when the legendary heroes stood together to defeat the ancient enemy, the bloodthirsty Trows. Nowadays heroics seem a thing of the past. But when a practical joke rekindles an old blood feud, Halli spots a chance for a quest of his own.
Author | : William Henderson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 708 |
Release | : 1869 |
Genre | : Names in the Bible |
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Download A Dictionary and Concordance of the Names of Persons and Places and of Some of the More Remarkable Terms which Occur in the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle