Red Dirt
Author | : Josh Crutchmer |
Publisher | : |
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Release | : 2020-09-19 |
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ISBN | : 9780578694252 |
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Author | : Josh Crutchmer |
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Release | : 2020-09-19 |
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ISBN | : 9780578694252 |
Author | : Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz |
Publisher | : University of Oklahoma Press |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 2006-02-13 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0806191694 |
A classic in contemporary Oklahoma literature, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz’s Red Dirt unearths the joys and ordeals of growing up poor during the 1940s and 1950s. In this exquisite rendering of her childhood in rural Oklahoma, from the Dust Bowl days to the end of the Eisenhower era, the author bears witness to a family and community that still cling to the dream of America as a republic of landowners.
Author | : E.M. Reapy |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2016-06-02 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1784974668 |
A group of young Irish migrants leave a man called Hopper for dead on an outback road in Australia. They barely know him; no-one will miss him in their world of hostels, wild nights on cheap wine and grinding work on isolated farms. In this powerful novel about the discovery of responsibility, three young people – Fiona, Murph and Hopper – flee the collapse of their country's economy. In the heat and endless spaces of Australia they try to escape their past, but impulsive cruelty, shame and guilt drag them down, and it is easy to make terrible choices.
Author | : Terry Southern |
Publisher | : Citadel Press |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780806511672 |
Before the "new journalism" of Wolfe, Talese, and Kubrick, before the Brave Gonzo World of Hunter S. Thompson, there was legendary cult writer Terry Southern. This widely recognized underground classic is a collection of Southern's short pieces--two dozen hilarious, well-observed sketches which expose the hypocrisy of American social mores.
Author | : Joe Samuel Starnes |
Publisher | : Breakaway Books |
Total Pages | : 390 |
Release | : 2015-02-05 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : |
“An ace of a novel, an ace of a writer.” —Tom Franklin, author of Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter Red Dirt is the story of Jaxie Skinner, an unlikely professional tennis player from a blue-collar family in the sticks of rural Georgia who takes up the game at the age of three when his father scrapes a court out of the red clay behind their farmhouse. He is a natural, rising to the top of junior tennis, and at eighteen has great success at the French Open. He falls as quickly as he rose, however, when troubles back home and injuries arise. He quits the game for years, but then mounts a comeback, struggling for almost a decade in the unglamorous, low-paying minor leagues of tennis, often living out of his van, before getting one last big shot. A fascinating study of tennis, its demands and tactics, as well as a look at the insular and often selfish character required to reach the pinnacle of the sport, Red Dirt is the Rocky of tennis novels. PRAISE FOR RED DIRT “Starnes spins a tale with the pace and power of a Rafael Nadal forehand.” —Jay Jennings, editor of Tennis and the Meaning of Life: A Literary Anthology of the Game “Alright, literate tennis fans, it’s time to put down the remote and set aside those stat sheets and take an alternately amusing and inspiring trip from the top of the pro tennis barrel to the bottom—and back again. Joe Samuel Starnes’s book radiates an aficionado’s understanding of not just how the game is played (on and off the court) but what it takes to triumph in the hyper-competitive pro game.” —Peter Bodo, Tennis magazine senior writer, ESPN columnist, and co-author of Pete Sampras’s autobiography, A Champion’s Mind “Red Dirt is solid pleasure. Starnes knows what it is to compete, to hope to be made whole by competition, to overcome not just your opponent but your own unquiet. This is a tennis novel, but any athlete—no, any reader—will learn a lot and enjoy the learning.” —John Casey, author of Spartina, winner of the National Book Award “Red Dirt isn’t just a terrific sports novel; it’s a terrific novel, period. Jaxie Skinner is a complex and compelling character, and Starnes gives him a clear, fresh, lively voice.” —Michael Griffith, author of Spikes
Author | : Frances S. Hasso |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 303 |
Release | : 2021-12-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1316513548 |
A vivid account of Palestinian life, death, and reproduction during and since the British colonial period in Palestine.
Author | : J. D. Permenter |
Publisher | : Stephen F. Austin University Press |
Total Pages | : 188 |
Release | : 2019-02-13 |
Genre | : Country life |
ISBN | : 9781622885404 |
"Red Dirt Memories is a tribute to a way of life that has almost disappeared as quickly as it began, taking you beyond pastures dotted with herds of cattle, past the hatchery, the feed mill, and then to the foot of Swift Hill, where a red dirt road winds down then up again for two miles. Then as now, a car raises a cloud of red dust to signal a visitor, where only a clearing is left of the pine shack it once held, with the smokehouse and the outhouse beyond long decayed and torn down. Wild honeysuckle has taken over the chimney remnants, and all the ghosts simply wait for the right moment to conjure their old memories in this timeless collection that reminds us of our similarities, rather than the differences that divide us."--Distributor's website
Author | : Scott Kikkawa |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2021-10 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781943756063 |
Noir murder mystery
Author | : N. R. Walker |
Publisher | : Red Dirt Heart |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 2018-10-14 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781925886368 |
Welcome to Sutton Station: One of the world's largest working farms in the middle of Australia - where if the animals and heat don't kill you first, your heart just might. Charlie Sutton runs Sutton Station the only way he knows how; the way his father did before him. Determined to keep his head down and his heart in check, Charlie swears the red dirt that surrounds him - isolates him - runs through his veins. American agronomy student Travis Craig arrives at Sutton Station to see how farmers make a living from one of the harshest environments on earth. But it's not the barren, brutal and totally beautiful landscapes that capture him so completely. It's the man with the red dirt heart.
Author | : Juan Orrantia |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2020 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9788409190201 |