A Blue Hand

Author : Deborah Baker
Publisher : Penguin Books India
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0670082287

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In 1961, Allen Ginsberg Left New York By Boat For Bombay. He Brought With Him His Troubled Lover, Peter Orlovsky, And A Plan To Meet Up With Poets Gary Snyder And Joanne Kyger. He Left Behind Not Only Fellow Beats Jack Kerouac, Gregory Corso, And William Burroughs, But Also The Relentless Notoriety That Followed The Publication Of Howl, The Epic Work That Branded Him The Voice Of A Generation. Drawing From Extensive Research, Undiscovered Letters, Journals, And Memoirs, Acclaimed Biographer Deborah Baker Has Woven A Many-Layered Literary Mystery Out Of Ginsberg S Odyssey. A Blue Hand Follows The Poet And His Companions As They Travel From The Ashrams Of The Himalayan Foothills To Delhi Opium Dens And The Burning Pyres Of Benares. They Encounter An India Of Charlatans And Saints, A Country Of Spectacular Beauty And Spiritual Promise And Of Devastating Poverty And Political Unease. In Calcutta, Ginsberg Discovers A Circle Of Hungry Young Writers Whose Outrageousness And Genius Are Uncannily Reminiscent Of His Own Past. Finally, Ginsberg Searches For Hope Savage, The Mysterious And Beautiful Girl Whose Path, Before She Disappeared, Had Crossed His Own In Greenwich Village, San Francisco, And Paris. In Their Restless, Comic And Oft-Times Tortured Search For Meaning, The Beats Looked To India For Answers While India Looked To The West. A Blue Hand Is The Story Of Their Search For God, For Love, And For Peace In The Shadow Of The Atomic Bomb. It Is Also A Story Of India Its Gods And Its Poets, Its Politics And Its Place In The American Imagination. A Fabulous Book Comic, Tragic, And Written With Great Verve And Nerve About The Beats And Their Passage To India Michael Ondaatje A Passionate Account Of The Beats At Home And In The World & A Truly Vivid, Wonderful Book Kiran Desai, Author Of The Inheritance Of Loss A Fascinating History Of The Weirdest Moment In The Long And Ongoing European And American Search For The Answer To It All In India Wendy Doniger, University Of Chicago Baker Evokes Strange Worlds And Distant Times In A Narrative That Never Fails To Flow And That, In The End, Is Admirably Illuminating Kirkus Reviews [A] Thoroughly Compelling Work Of Illuminating Literary And Spiritual History Booklist A Piece Of Devoted Scholarship And Legwork The New York Times

Author : Deb Baker
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2009-01-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780143114833

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A Blue Hand by Deb Baker Pdf

In this engrossing new piece of Beat history, Pulitzer Prize finalist Deborah Baker takes us back to the moment when America's edgiest writers looked to India for answers as India looked to the West. It was 1961 when Allen Ginsberg left New York by boat for Bombay, where he hoped to meet poets Gary Snyder and Joanne Kyger. Baker follows Ginsberg and his companions as they travel from ashram to opium den. Exposing an overlooked chapter of the literary past, A Blue Hand will delight all those who continue to cherish the frenzied creativity of the Beats.

Author : Franz Werfel
Publisher : David R. Godine Publisher
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781567924084

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Pale Blue Ink in a Lady's Hand by Franz Werfel Pdf

This story is about a long suppressed love triangle between Leonidas Tachezy, a high-level Austrian career bureaucrat, his younger, trophy wife Amelie, and a Jewish woman from his past, Vera Wormser, with whom he'd fallen in love when she was fourteen. After his marriage, Leonidas encounters Vera in a German university town where she is studying philosophy. He makes a promise that implies marriage, but drops out of her life entirely to return to a comfortable existence until one day when a letter arrives, addressed with Vera's unmistakable handwriting in pale blue ink. Like Humbert Humbert in Lolita, Leonidas explains his "crime" against Vera to an imaginary courtroom in a way that anticipates Nabokov.

Author : Edgar Wallace
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1923
Category : Detective and mystery stories, English
ISBN : OXFORD:N10712312

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Blue Hand by Edgar Wallace Pdf

Author : Deborah Baker
Publisher : Graywolf Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2018-08-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781555979942

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The Last Englishmen by Deborah Baker Pdf

A sumptuous biographical saga, both intimate and epic, about the waning of the British Empire in India John Auden was a pioneering geologist of the Himalaya. Michael Spender was the first to draw a detailed map of the North Face of Mount Everest. While their younger brothers—W. H. Auden and Stephen Spender—achieved literary fame, they vied to be included on an expedition that would deliver Everest’s summit to an Englishman, a quest that had become a metaphor for Britain’s struggle to maintain power over India. To this rivalry was added another: in the summer of 1938 both men fell in love with a painter named Nancy Sharp. Her choice would determine where each man’s wartime loyalties would lie. Set in Calcutta, London, the glacier-locked wilds of the Karakoram, and on Everest itself, The Last Englishmen is also the story of a generation. The cast of this exhilarating drama includes Indian and English writers and artists, explorers and Communist spies, Die Hards and Indian nationalists, political rogues and police informers. Key among them is a highborn Bengali poet named Sudhin Datta, a melancholy soul torn, like many of his generation, between hatred of the British Empire and a deep love of European literature, whose life would be upended by the arrival of war on his Calcutta doorstep. Dense with romance and intrigue, and of startling relevance for the great power games of our own day, Deborah Baker’s The Last Englishmen is an engrossing story that traces the end of empire and the stirring of a new world order.

Author : Phil Gordon
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2009-12-01
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 1416938702

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Phil Gordon's Little Blue Book by Phil Gordon Pdf

A Simon & Schuster eBook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every reader.

Author : John Jennings,David F. Walker
Publisher : Blue Hand Mojo
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 0990319148

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Blue Hand Mojo by John Jennings,David F. Walker Pdf

1931. Bronzeville. Chicago. The mage, Frank Half Dead Johnson, is a marked man. Literally. A drunken decision fueled by tragedy has left him with half a soul, sorcerous powers, and two centuries to work off his debt to Scratch (aka The Devil) himself. This graphic novel chronicles three adventures with this tragic conjure man. Watch as Half Dead attempts to save his own soul, pay his debt, and help as many people as he can along the way. It's a hard-hitting Hoodoo Noir highball with just a splash of Southern Gothic. Smack-dab in the dark heart of the Windy City. Hold on tight! It's going to be a bumpy ride down Hard Times Road.

Author : Edgar Wallace
Publisher : Lindhardt og Ringhof
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2023-01-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9788728196090

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Blue Hand by Edgar Wallace Pdf

All that Jim Steele remembers of the disappearance of Lady Mary Danton and her young daughter was the commotion surrounding their large fortune. Vanished without a trace, the two were never found and the mystery was left unsolved. But 20 years on, the Danton fortune is about to fall into the hands of Digby Groat. And this doesn’t sound quite right - not to Jim Steele. With all the courage he can muster, Jim is about to dig a little deeper, uncovering some uneasy secrets along the way. Perfect for thrill-seeking fans, Edgar Wallace’s ‘Blue Hand’ is the ideal suspenseful read, straight from the mind of the man behind Carl Denham’s blockbuster hit ‘King Kong’ Edgar Wallace (1875-1932) was an English writer so prolific, that his publisher claimed that he was responsible for a quarter of all books sold in England. An author, journalist and poet, Wallace wrote countless novels, short stories, screenplays, and stage plays, along with historical non-fiction. His work has been adapted into more than 160 films. In 1932, Wallace died suddenly in Hollywood, during the initial drafting of his most famous work, ‘King Kong’.

Author : Deb Baker
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2008-04-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781440629310

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A Blue Hand by Deb Baker Pdf

In this engrossing new piece of Beat history, Pulitzer Prize finalist Deborah Baker takes us back to the moment when America's edgiest writers looked to India for answers as India looked to the West. It was 1961 when Allen Ginsberg left New York by boat for Bombay, where he hoped to meet poets Gary Snyder and Joanne Kyger. Baker follows Ginsberg and his companions as they travel from ashram to opium den. Exposing an overlooked chapter of the literary past, A Blue Hand will delight all those who continue to cherish the frenzied creativity of the Beats.

Author : Zetta Elliott
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2016-02-25
Category : African American children
ISBN : 1530033667

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A Hand to Hold by Zetta Elliott Pdf

Can you hold onto someone with your heart instead of your hand? When it's time to start school, a little girl must let go of her father's hand in order to reach out and grab hold of something new.

Author : Deirdre Royster
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2003-10-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780520937376

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Race and the Invisible Hand by Deirdre Royster Pdf

From the time of Booker T. Washington to today, and William Julius Wilson, the advice dispensed to young black men has invariably been, "Get a trade." Deirdre Royster has put this folk wisdom to an empirical test—and, in Race and the Invisible Hand, exposes the subtleties and discrepancies of a workplace that favors the white job-seeker over the black. At the heart of this study is the question: Is there something about young black men that makes them less desirable as workers than their white peers? And if not, then why do black men trail white men in earnings and employment rates? Royster seeks an answer in the experiences of 25 black and 25 white men who graduated from the same vocational school and sought jobs in the same blue-collar labor market in the early 1990s. After seriously examining the educational performances, work ethics, and values of the black men for unique deficiencies, her study reveals the greatest difference between young black and white men—access to the kinds of contacts that really help in the job search and entry process.

Author : Margaret Atwood
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2011-09-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780771008795

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The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood Pdf

An instant classic and eerily prescient cultural phenomenon, from “the patron saint of feminist dystopian fiction” (New York Times). Now an award-winning Hulu series starring Elizabeth Moss. In this multi-award-winning, bestselling novel, Margaret Atwood has created a stunning Orwellian vision of the near future. This is the story of Offred, one of the unfortunate “Handmaids” under the new social order who have only one purpose: to breed. In Gilead, where women are prohibited from holding jobs, reading, and forming friendships, Offred’s persistent memories of life in the “time before” and her will to survive are acts of rebellion. Provocative, startling, prophetic, and with Margaret Atwood’s devastating irony, wit, and acute perceptive powers in full force, The Handmaid’s Tale is at once a mordant satire and a dire warning.

Author : John Gardner
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2022-06-15
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9781493068326

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The Dory Book by John Gardner Pdf

The dory has seen duty as a fishing boat, lumberman's batteau, lifeboat, recreational rowing boat, and racing sailboat. The most comprehensive book about dories ever published, this is at once a history of the dory, a practical handbook on dory building, and a compendium of 23 dory designs with full construction details. The author, a longtime contributor to National Fisherman, and the illustrator, Sam Manning, are perhaps the foremost experts on the subject. A steady stream of letters and photographs to the late John Gardner from successful dory builders worldwide has been testimony to the widespread popularity and influence of this book.

Author : Resmaa Menakem
Publisher : Central Recovery Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2017-08-21
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781942094487

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My Grandmother's Hands by Resmaa Menakem Pdf

A NATIONAL BESTSELLER "My Grandmother's Hands will change the direction of the movement for racial justice."— Robin DiAngelo, New York Times bestselling author of White Fragility In this groundbreaking book, therapist Resmaa Menakem examines the damage caused by racism in America from the perspective of trauma and body-centered psychology. The body is where our instincts reside and where we fight, flee, or freeze, and it endures the trauma inflicted by the ills that plague society. Menakem argues this destruction will continue until Americans learn to heal the generational anguish of white supremacy, which is deeply embedded in all our bodies. Our collective agony doesn't just affect African Americans. White Americans suffer their own secondary trauma as well. So do blue Americans—our police. My Grandmother's Hands is a call to action for all of us to recognize that racism is not only about the head, but about the body, and introduces an alternative view of what we can do to grow beyond our entrenched racialized divide. Paves the way for a new, body-centered understanding of white supremacy—how it is literally in our blood and our nervous system. Offers a step-by-step healing process based on the latest neuroscience and somatic healing methods, in addition to incisive social commentary. Resmaa Menakem, MSW, LICSW, is a therapist with decades of experience currently in private practice in Minneapolis, MN, specializing in trauma, body-centered psychotherapy, and violence prevention. He has appeared on the Oprah Winfrey Show and Dr. Phil as an expert on conflict and violence. Menakem has studied with bestselling authors Dr. David Schnarch (Passionate Marriage) and Dr. Bessel van der Kolk (The Body Keeps the Score). He also trained at Peter Levine's Somatic Experiencing Trauma Institute.

Author : Meg Wiviott
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2015-09-01
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781481439855

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Paper Hearts by Meg Wiviott Pdf

A forbidden gift helps two teenage girls find hope, friendship, and the will to live in this “beautifully told true story about brave young women who refused to be victims and walked out of Auschwitz with their heads unbowed” (School Library Journal). An act of defiance. A statement of hope. A crime punishable by death. Making a birthday card in Auschwitz was all of those things. But that is what Zlatka did, in 1944, for her best friend, Fania. She stole and bartered for paper and scissors, secretly creating an origami heart. Then she passed it to every girl at the work tables to sign with their hopes and wishes for happiness, for love, and most of all—for freedom. Fania knew what that heart meant, for herself and all the other girls. And she kept it hidden, through the bitter days in the camp and through the death marches. She kept it always. This novel is based on the true story of Fania and Zlatka, the story of the bond that helped them both to hope for the best in the face of the worst. Their heart is one of the few objects created in Auschwitz, and can be seen today in the Montreal Holocaust Memorial Centre.