There was a Young Man from Cardiff
Author | : Dannie Abse |
Publisher | : Random House (UK) |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Dannie Abse |
Publisher | : Random House (UK) |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Joyce Carol Oates |
Publisher | : Grove Atlantic |
Total Pages | : 347 |
Release | : 2020-10-06 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0802158013 |
Four brand-new novellas by the #1 New York Times-bestselling, National Book Award-winning “grand mistress of ghoulishness” (Publishers Weekly). An academic in Pennsylvania discovers a terrifying trauma from her past after inheriting a house in Cardiff, Maine from someone she has never heard of. A pubescent girl, overcome with loneliness, befriends a feral cat that becomes her protector from the increasingly aggressive males that surround her. A brilliant but shy college sophomore is distraught to discover that she’s pregnant, and the professor who takes her under his wing may not have innocent intentions. And a woman who marries into a family shattered by tragedy finds herself haunted by her predecessor’s voice, an inexplicably befouled well, and a compulsive attraction to a garage that took two lives. In these psychologically daring, chillingly suspenseful pieces, the author of We Were the Mulvaneys and Blonde writes about women facing threats past and present, once again cementing her reputation for “great intelligence and dead-on imaginative powers” (Los Angeles Times Book Review).
Author | : Maciej Dakowicz |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 128 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Documentary photography |
ISBN | : 9780500544198 |
Cardiff After Dark is the first monograph by British-based Polish photographer Maciej Dakowicz. Dakowicz spent five years photographing the nighttime revelries that take place in Cardiff over the weekend. Focused around a few pedestrianized streets in the city centre, Dakowicz's images capture nightlife fueled by alcohol and emotions. The arc of an evening's entertainment is captured in these candid photographs, which reveal fun and hilarity as well as fighting and drunken exhaustion. There are stag nights and hen parties, men dressed as superheroes and women dressed as Playboy bunnies, mountains of discarded chip wrappers, arrests by the police, and lots and lots of posing for photographs. Dakowicz's images, at times shocking or upsetting, form an important documentary photobook of British urban life in the early part of the 21st century.
Author | : Stephen Phillips |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 348 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Julian Clary |
Publisher | : Random House |
Total Pages | : 338 |
Release | : 2011-10-31 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1448116589 |
This is Julian Clary's story, in his own words - the tale of an awkward schoolboy who became a huge worldwide success on stage and screen. After a sheltered suburban upbringing, Julian was sent to St Benedict's, where beatings from 'holy' men gave him some brutal life lessons, and other 'unholy' boys his first awakenings of sexuality. He had just one true friend and ally, Nick - to his other school peers, Julian's aloof demeanour made him an enigma or simply a figure of ridicule. In school he was just another pained adolescent, but inside Julian was a new Jean Genet or Quentin Crisp bursting to get out. Leaving St Benedict's thankfully behind him, Julian went on to college where he found his true vocation as an entertainer with a peculiar comic brand of smut and glamour. At the same time, he was finding as much sex as he could, sometimes with remarkably less-than-glamorous characters. Periods in community theatre and the singing telegram industry followed before Julian hit the big time with cabaret co-star Fanny the Wonder Dog as The Joan Collins Fan Club. Soon, the world was his oyster. But fame came at a price, as Julian struggled not only with the reality of being a high-profile gay man in the 1980s but also the pain of losing his lover to terminal illness. Far more than just another celebrity autobiography or 'funny book', this is a touching, beautifully written and wryly witty account of a unique progression from shy child to comedy icon.
Author | : Jennifer Craig-Norton |
Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 2019-06-25 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0253042224 |
A timely study of the effects of family separation on child refugees, using newly discovered archival sources from the WWII era: “Highly recommended.” —Choice The Kindertransport—an organized effort to extract children living under the threat of Nazism—lives in the popular memory as well as in literature as a straightforward act of rescue and salvation, but these celebratory accounts leave little room for a deeper, more complex analysis. This volume reveals that in fact many children experienced difficulties with settlement: they were treated inconsistently by refugee agencies, their parents had complicated reasons for giving them up, and their caregivers had a variety of motives for taking them in. Against the grain of many other narratives, Jennifer Craig-Norton emphasizes the use of newly discovered archival sources, which include the correspondence of refugee agencies, carers, Kinder and their parents, and juxtaposes this material with testimonial accounts to show readers a more nuanced and complete picture of the Kindertransport. In an era in which the family separation of refugees has commanded considerable attention, this book is a timely exploration of the effects of family separation as it was experienced by child refugees in the age of fascism.
Author | : Daniel Mornin |
Publisher | : Random House (UK) |
Total Pages | : 512 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Ireland |
ISBN | : 9780091746780 |
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Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1304 |
Release | : 1923 |
Genre | : Civil engineering |
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Author | : Nicolas Whybrow |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2020-05-15 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 1137120061 |
Cities, with their rising populations and complex configurations, have become key symbols of a fast-changing modernity. This timely collection gathers together various urban writings from a range of relevant disciplines, including architecture, geography, sociology, visual art, ethnography and psychoanalysis. Its focus, however, is performance. Underscoring the importance of the field, it shows how performance functions as a dynamic, interdisciplinary mechanism which is central not only to understanding the multiplicity of urban living but also to the way the identities of cities are shaped. Gathering together key writings on the city and performance by authors ranging from Walter Benjamin to Tim Etchells to Carl Lavery, the reader can be navigated in any number of ways. Supported by extensive introductory material, it will be essential and evocative reading for anyone interested in making connections between performance and urban life.
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Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 648 |
Release | : 1863 |
Genre | : American periodicals |
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