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Author | : Mordicai Gerstein |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 150 |
Release | : 2006-09-05 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781596431928 |
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From the winner of the 2004 Caldecott Medal comes a memorable new work, a novel of singular insight and imagination that transports readers to the Old Country, where "all the fairy tales come from, where there was magic -- and there was war." There, Gisella stares a moment too long into the eyes of a fox, and she and the fox exchange shapes. Gisella's quest to get her girl-body back takes her on a journey across a war-ravaged country that has lost its shape. She encounters magic, bloodshed, and questions of power and justice -- until finally, looking into the eyes of the fox once more, she faces a strange and startling choice about her own nature. Part adventure story and part fable; exciting, beautifully told, rich in humor and wisdom, The Old Country is the work of an artist and storyteller at the height of his powers.
Author | : Lihe Zhong |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2014-02-11 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0231166303 |
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Though he lived mostly in rural South Taiwan, Zhong Lihe (1915–1960) spent several years in Manchuria and Peking, moving among an eclectic mix of ethnicities, classes, and cultures. His fictional portraits unfold on Japanese battlefields and in Peking slums, as well as in the remote, impoverished hill-country villages and farms of Zhong Lihe’s native Hakka districts. His scenic descriptions are deft and atmospheric, and his psychological explorations are acute. The first anthology to present his work in English, this volume features two novellas, ten short stories, and four short prose works.
Author | : Jon Hendricks |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 161 |
Release | : 2019-03-29 |
Genre | : Family & Relationships |
ISBN | : 1351852884 |
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Aging is a universal experience, and an individual one. But it is also a cultural phenomenon. Our ethnic and social background has a strong influence on how we deal with growing old. This collection draws on research from around the world to explore how cultural context shapes and defines the aging process. Studies examine differing patterns in the lives of the aged in Portugal, Polynesia, Sweden, and Israel, and among ethnic groups in the United States.
Author | : Cormac McCarthy |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2007-11-29 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0307390535 |
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From the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Road comes a "profoundly disturbing and gorgeously rendered" novel (The Washington Post) that returns to the Texas-Mexico border, setting of the famed Border Trilogy. The time is our own, when rustlers have given way to drug-runners and small towns have become free-fire zones. One day, a good old boy named Llewellyn Moss finds a pickup truck surrounded by a bodyguard of dead men. A load of heroin and two million dollars in cash are still in the back. When Moss takes the money, he sets off a chain reaction of catastrophic violence that not even the law—in the person of aging, disillusioned Sheriff Bell—can contain. As Moss tries to evade his pursuers—in particular a mysterious mastermind who flips coins for human lives—McCarthy simultaneously strips down the American crime novel and broadens its concerns to encompass themes as ancient as the Bible and as bloodily contemporary as this morning’s headlines. No Country for Old Men is a triumph. Look for Cormac McCarthy's latest bestselling novels, The Passenger and Stella Maris.
Author | : Thomas R. Cole |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 193 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 0190689986 |
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"We live in a time of change, an era where old men can maintain health but find dignity in frailty. Old Man Country helps readers see and imagine this change for themselves. The book follows the journey of a writer in search of wisdom, as he narrates encounters with twelve distinguished American men over 80 -- including Paul Volcker, the former head of the Federal Reserve, and Denton Cooley, the world's most famous heart surgeon. In these and other intimate conversations, the book explores and honors the particular way that each man faces the challenges of living a good old age"--
Author | : Patrick Wright |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 319 |
Release | : 2009-02-26 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0199541957 |
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This is the book that put Britain's 'heritage industry' on the map, opening one of the defining cultural and political debates of its time, and showing why conservation was a subject of broad significance, far broader than its professional status might suggest.
Author | : Kevin Barry |
Publisher | : Anchor |
Total Pages | : 108 |
Release | : 2021-01-12 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0385540345 |
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A collection of short stories of rural Ireland in the classic Irish mode: full of love (and sex), melancholy and magic, bedecked in some of the most gorgeous prose being written today—from the author of the wildly acclaimed Night Boat to Tangier. With three novels and two short story collections published, Kevin Barry has steadily established his stature as one of the finest writers not just in Ireland but in the English language. All of his prodigious gifts of language, character, and setting in these eleven exquisite stories transport the reader to an Ireland both timeless and recognizably modern. Shot through with dark humor and the uncanny power of the primal and unchanging Irish landscape, the stories in That Old Country Music represent some of the finest fiction being written today.
Author | : Hannah August |
Publisher | : Bridget Williams Books |
Total Pages | : 63 |
Release | : 2015-08-07 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0908321384 |
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'Hannah August's intelligent and humane study illuminates, sometimes uncomfortably, the ways in which our demographics are changing and our attitudes are not. This is public intellection that is curious, rigorous, and highly relevant to our time.' Eleanor Catton In 2013, there were over 66,000 more women between the ages of 25-49 living in New Zealand than there were men. This so-called ‘man drought’ is a hot topic for journalists and academics alike, who comment on how the situation might affect New Zealand women’s chances of finding love. Yet they rarely stop to ask women their own opinions on the matter. In this BWB Text, Hannah August does just that, integrating interview material, statistics and cultural commentary in order to demonstrate why we need to talk differently about the ‘man drought’.
Author | : Jack Hargreaves |
Publisher | : Dovecote Press |
Total Pages | : 134 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : England |
ISBN | : 9780946159598 |
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Publisher | : Sterling Publishing (NY) |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9780806974163 |
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