Seek. Reports from the Edges of America and Beyond, New ed, Paperback - Denis Johnson

Part political inquiry, part travel journal, part-self exploration, "Seek" is a collection of essays by an award-winning novelist out to explore hi...

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"Perfection is not the basis of what I'm talking about, " says a member of the Cassandra family, which forms the center of Denis Johnson's plays, H...

Tales half-told, truths half-true: On the Edges of Vision brings short stories of memory and the monstrous self.

Reducere. The current U.S. immigration nightmare is a product of capitalism. The familiar, heartbreaking stories of dangerous treks, migrant exploitation, as...

Publisher: Persephone Books LtdAuthor(s): Denis MackailNumber of pages: 392Publication date: 2002Dimensions: 192 x 141 x 32Cover type: Paperback / ...

An epic miniature of one man's life journey through the American West at the turn of the twentieth century.Publisher: Granta BooksAuthor(s): Denis ...

Mexican-Canadian Martha Batiz has crafted, in her first collection written in English, visceral stories with piercing and evocative qualities. She ...

"A dazzling and savage first novel". (New York Times). Angels tells the story of two born losers. Jamie has ditched her husband and is running away...

Reducere. Tree of Smoke is the 2007 National Book Award Winner for Fiction.One of the New York Times 10 Best Books of the YearNamed a Best Book of the Year b...

Reducere. The most critically acclaimed, and first, of Denis Johnson's novels, Angels puts Jamie Mays -- a runaway wife toting along two kids -- and Bill Hou...

A new edition of the classic novel from Johnson, reissued to tie in with his latest book }Train Dreams{. Johnson won the National Book Award for }T...

Reducere. Hailed by the New York Times as "wildly ambitious" and "the sort of book that a young Herman Melville might have written had he lived today and stu...

Reducere. Jimmy Luntz is an innocent man, more or less. He's just leaving a barbershop chorus contest in Bakersfield, California, thinking about placing a fe...

Provincetown, Cape Cod: the last outpost of civilisation, the end of the earth. In the confused aftermath of a failed suicide attempt, Leonard Engl...

A lively, inside look at how Bollywood, Turkish soap operas, and K-Pop are challenging America's cultural dominance around the world.

Priests and medical professionals are supposed to answer questions-but Eastern Orthodox archpriest and Osteopath Very Rev. Fr. Jeremiah Loch just k...

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Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): Adriana PetrynaIllustration(s): 25 b/w illus.Number of pages: 224Publication date: 2022Dimensions: ...

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Reducere. Two plays--hilarious and searing in equal measure--by one of our most essential and original authors In his poetry, short stories, novels, and play...

What might become of anthropology if it were to suspend its sometime claims to be a social science? What if it were to turn instead to exploring it...

Publisher: RoutledgeAuthor(s): Fred PyrczakNumber of pages: 162Publication date: 2014Dimensions: 280 x 216 x 10Cover type: Paperback / softbackRede...

Reducere. DescriptionEleven people tell us how the 'direct path' approach as described by Sri Atmananda Krishna Menon (1883 -1959) became woven into their da...

Publisher: Institute of International Visual Arts (INIVA)Illustration(s): 20 colour and 35 b&w platesTranslator: Gabriel Perez-BarrieroNumber of pa...

Reducere. DescriptionTwenty-five years after Jesus' Son, a haunting new collection of short stories on mortality and transcendence, from National Book Award ...

Reducere. In acest volum postum, naratorii lui Denis Johnson sunt adesea blocati intr-un spatiu in timp ce-si spun povestile: masa din bucatarie, un centru d...

Reducere. Fiul lui Iisus este o cronica vizionara a visatorilor, a dependentilor, a sufletelor pierdute. Aceste povesti vorbesc despre vortexul suferintei, d...

Reducere. Responding to America's love affair with the short-short, editors Robert Shapard and James Thomas searched thousands of books and magazines to sele...

Of the approximately 50 million public school students in the United States, more than half are in urban schools. A contemporary companion to City ...

Beyond the Megacity reconnects to the Latin American tradition of theorizing urbanization from the margins, moving urban theory closer to the compl...

This analysis of writings about the experiences of black Christians in seventeenth-century Peru and New Granada shows that black linguistic and spi...

Reducere. The U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Johnson v. McIntosh established the basic principles that govern American Indian property rights to this day. In t...

This book offers a comprehensive, region-wide examination of the politics of taxation in Latin America, one of the most pressing issues to confront...

As digital technology became integral to the capitalist market dystopia of the first decades of the 21st century, it refashioned both our ways of w...

New short stories on mortality and transcendence from the author of }Jesus' Son{ acclaimed by many alongside Carver and Hemingway. Completed shortl...

Publisher: Pearson Education LimitedAuthor(s): Denise BoydNumber of pages: 608Publication date: 2013Dimensions: 217 x 279 x 23Cover type: Paperback...

Publisher: Beacon PressAuthor(s): Mary DalyIllustration(s): illustrationsNumber of pages: 225Publication date: 1992Dimensions: 138 x 202 x 22Cover ...

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Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Servais PinckaersTranslator: Mary Thomas NobleForeword by: Romanus CessarioRecognized worldwide as one of the most importan...

Reducere. A Guide to New Mexico Film Locations offers a call sheet to explore many of the Land of Enchantment's most iconic film locales, such as those from ...

DescriptionA History Today Best Book of the Year A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the YearVirgil, Ovid, Cicero, Horace, and other authors of ...

Publisher: Darton, Longman & Todd LtdAuthor(s): Rowan WilliamsNumber of pages: 208Publication date: 2014Dimensions: 198 x 125 x 14Cover type: Paper...

Reducere. Muslims began arriving in the New World long before the rise of the Atlantic slave trade. The first arrivals date to the turn of the sixteenth cent...