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Author | : Pico Iyer |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2013-05-09 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1408831554 |
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We all carry other people inside our heads - actors, leaders, writers, people from history or fiction, met or unmet, who sometimes seem closer to us than the people we know.Pico Iyer investigates the mysterious closeness he has always felt with Graham Greene and follows him from his first novel, The Man Within, to such later classics as The Quiet American. The further he delves, the more he begins to wonder whether the man within his head is not Greene but his own father, or perhaps some more shadowy aspect of himself. Drawing upon experiences across the globe - from Bolivia to Berkhamsted to Bhutan - one of our most resourceful cultural explorers gives us his most personal and revelatory book.
Author | : Harriet Paige |
Publisher | : Biblioasis |
Total Pages | : 139 |
Release | : 2018-10-09 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1771962402 |
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Linked by an unlikely accident, four strangers characters grapple with loneliness, memory, and the mysteries of art. Ray Eccles is a man who dislikes unpredictability and the messiness of social interaction, to such extent that his co-workers’ habit of gathering around the Xerox machine it’s his job to run makes even that regular task unbearable. When a misunderstanding leads to unexpected time off from work, Ray takes a day trip to nearby East Beach on what happens to be his fortieth birthday. As he gazes at the sea, a distant woman turns to face him—and a seagull falls from the sky, knocking him unconscious. He awakens compelled to paint her image, using whatever materials come to hand: jam, ketchup, even the walls of his home. Enter George and Grace Zoob, collectors of Outsider Art, whose endorsement rockets Ray to fame in the art world and beyond. Soon even small-town newspapers are covering his work—which is how Jennifer, the woman on the beach, discovers she’s the sole subject of the paintings that have set the world on fire, leading her to wonder if a man she’s never met is the only person who has ever really seen her. Lyrical, elegant and quietly profound, Harriet Paige’s Man With a Seagull on His Head captures the small, shared moments where our lives overlap, making artistry out of the everyday.
Author | : Graham Greene |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2008-09-30 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0143105566 |
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Maurice Castle is a high-level operative in the British secret service during the Cold War. He is deeply in love with his African wife, who escaped apartheid South Africa with the help of his communist friend. Despite his misgivings, Castle decides to act as a double agent, passing information to the Soviets to help his in-laws in South Africa. In order to evade detection, he allows his assistant to be wrongly identified as the source of the leaks. But when suspicions remain, Castle is forced to make an even more excruciating sacrifice to save himself. Originally published in 1978, The Human Factor is an exciting novel of espionage drawn from Greene’s own experiences in MI6 during World War II, and ultimately a deeply humanistic examination of the very nature of loyalty. This edition features a new introduction by Colm Tóibín. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Author | : John Rush |
Publisher | : International Adventure |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | : |
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"On every continent, in every nation, God is at work in and through the lives of believers. From the streets of Amsterdam to remote Pacific islands to the jungles of Ecuador and beyond, each international adventure that emerges is a dramatic episode that could be directed only by the hand of God. A converted atheist on a medical mission may be the mysterious messenger predicted by the prophecies of a Pacific cult and the key to reaching an island with the gospel.
Author | : Nancy Winslow Parker |
Publisher | : Dodd Mead |
Total Pages | : 46 |
Release | : 1974-01-01 |
Genre | : Face |
ISBN | : 9780396069560 |
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When Mr. Goozpah misplaces his removable ears, nose, and eyes, he borrows replacements from his friends. But when he loses his heart, that is a different matter.
Author | : Oliver Sacks |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0684853949 |
Download The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat: And Other Clinical Tales Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Explores neurological disorders and their effects upon the minds and lives of those affected with an entertaining voice.
Author | : Pico Iyer |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 96 |
Release | : 2014-11-04 |
Genre | : Computers |
ISBN | : 1476784728 |
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"In The Art of Stillness, Iyer draws on the lives of well-known wanderer-monks like Cohen--as well as from his own experiences as a travel writer who chooses to spend most of his time in rural Japan--to explore why advances in technology are making us more likely to retreat. Iyer reflects that this is perhaps the reason why many people--even those with no religious commitment--seem to be turning to yoga, or meditation, or tai chi. These aren't New Age fads so much as ways to rediscover the wisdom of an earlier age."--Publisher's description.
Author | : Todd Colby Pliss |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2012-02 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780983868170 |
Download The Only Living Man with a Hole in His Head Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Based on a true story, Pliss tells the tale of railroad foreman Phineas Gage who had a three-foot long, 13-pound iron rod blast through his skull, taking out part of his brain, and of the doctor who treated him and valiantly fought the medical establishment to prove the merit of the case.
Author | : Graham Greene |
Publisher | : Putnam Aeronautical Books |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 1975 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
Download Shades of Greene Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Richard Lang |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 166 |
Release | : 2017-04-13 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781908774361 |
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This beautifully crafted graphic biography takes you on the life journey, from cradle to grave, of a great man - a man who worked out a new map of our place in the universe and developed awareness exercises that make available the experience of our True Self. A revelation.