A Well Respected Man

Author : David W. Berner
Publisher : Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2018-01-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781948260008

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Professor Martin Gregory is a respected Chicago writer. After falling in love with a student and eventually losing both her and his job, he moves to the English countryside to re-balance his life. Is his character strong enough to confront what he discovers there, or will he run from his biggest challenge? Chicago Professor Martin Gregory is the author of a critically acclaimed novel of love and longing, a cult favorite among women. The book brings him unexpected status and prestige, but also unwelcome fame. A love affair with one of his students derails his career and breaks his heart. Coming to terms with a life knocked off balance, Martin retreats to a quiet English village, only to be confronted at his flat by a mystery woman with an unexpected message and an implausible request, one that could alter his life forever. A cross-country train trip, a visit to his father’s grave, and a re-examination of a deep loss will eventually reveal either Martin’s greatest character or unearth his most heartbreaking flaw. A Well-Respected Man is about the hard choices we make to find fulfillment, and the search to discover meaning in both the life we choose and the one thrust upon us.

Author : Richard Hernaman Allen
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781326404284

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1966. Recently married, Nick and Rosemary Storey overhear two foreign exchange traders boasting that they can get secret information from Civil Servants about a possible devaluation of the Pound. A squash club/wine bar in the City is supposedly where this information is passed on. But when the two men are found dead in the squash club, leaving a suicide note, Nick and Rosemary smell a rat, especially when it becomes clear that they entered the locked club and killed themselves without leaving any keys. Assuming that the deaths were linked to the men's boasting, they pursue various leads without getting very far until a chance conversation allows them to arrange for several suspects to be kept under surveillance. But unmasking them still involves Nick in skating on some very thin ice. "A Well-Respected Man" is the latest in a series of books set mostly in Customs & Excise by Richard Hernaman Allen, a former Commissioner.

Author : Carey Fleiner
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2017-03-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781442235427

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The Kinks by Carey Fleiner Pdf

Emerging from the same British music boom that birthed the Beatles and the Rolling Stones, Dave and Ray Davies’s band, the Kinks, became one of England’s most influential groups. Remembered best for such singles as “You Really Got Me,” “Lola,” and “Sunny Afternoon,” the Kinks produced 24 studio albums between 1964 and 1996. The Kinks’ prolific and varied catalog have made them both a mirror of and a counterfoil to nearly five decades of British and American culture. The Kinks: A Thoroughly English Phenomenon examines the music and performance of this quintessentially English band and shows how aspects of everyday life such as work, play, buying a house, driving a car, drinking tea, getting drunk, and getting laid, affected and shaped their creative output. Through an investigation of their music, lyrics, and image, Carey Fleiner shows how the Kinks reflected both the ordinary and the absurd, sometimes confronting topics with anger and sometimes with self-deprecating humor. The Kinks follows the band’s trajectory more or less chronologically and explores themes such as growing up in post-war Britain, the packaging and exploitation of the “British Invasion” bands, satire and self-consciousness, sexuality and gender-bending, social and political pessimism, the comforts of family, and the effects of fame and fandom. Fleiner’s investigation into the influences on and impact of the Kinks’ music takes readers on an engaging adventure through the musical culture of the ‘60s, ‘70s, and ‘80s, revealing how the Kinks created an undeniable sound and image that still attracts new followers today.

Author : Thomas M. Kitts
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2008-01-23
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781135867959

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Ray Davies by Thomas M. Kitts Pdf

Ray Davies: Not Like Everybody Else is a critical biography of Ray Davies, with a focus on his music and his times. The book studies Davies’ work from the Kinks’ first singles through his 2006 solo album, from his rock musicals in the early 1970s to his one-man stage show in the 1990s, and from his films to his autobiography. Based on interviews with his closest associates, as well as studies of the recordings themselves, this book creates the most thorough picture of Davies’ work to date. Kitts situates Davies’ work in the context of the British Invasion and the growth of rock in the '60s and '70s, and in the larger context of English cultural history. For fans of rock music and the music of the Kinks, this book is a must have. It will finally place this legendary innovator in the pantheon of the great rock artists of the past half-century. Thomas M. Kitts, Professor of English and Chair of the Division of English/Speech at St. John’s University, NY, is the co-editor of Living on a Thin Line: Crossing Aesthetic Borders with The Kinks, the author of The Theatrical Life of George Henry Boker, articles on American literature and popular culture, reviews of books, CDs, and performances, and a play Gypsies. He is the book review editor of Popular Music and Society and the editor of The Mid-Atlantic Almanack.

Author : Johnny Rogan
Publisher : Random House
Page : 784 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2015-03-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781847923318

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Ray Davies by Johnny Rogan Pdf

NOW UPDATED WITH A NEW EPILOGUE In the summer of 1964, aged twenty, Ray Davies led the Kinks to fame with their number one hit ‘You Really Got Me’. Within months, they were established among the pop elite, swamped by fans and fast becoming renowned for the rioting at their gigs. But Ray’s journey from working-class Muswell Hill to the Rock ’n’ Roll Hall of Fame was tumultuous in the extreme, featuring breakdowns, bitter lawsuits, spectacular punch-ups and a ban from entering the USA. His relationship with his brother Dave is surely the most ferocious and abusive in music history. Based on countless interviews conducted over several decades, this richly detailed and revelatory biography presents the most frank and intimate portrait yet of Ray Davies.

Author : The Subcultures Network
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2018-01-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317628200

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Youth Culture, Popular Music and the End of 'Consensus' by The Subcultures Network Pdf

This book examines youth cultural responses to the political, economic and socio-cultural changes that affected Britain in the aftermath of the Second World War. In particular, it considers the extent to which elements of youth culture and popular music served to contest the notion of ‘consensus’ that historians and social commentators have suggested served to frame British polity from the late 1940s into the 1970s. The collection argues that aspects of youth culture appear to have revealed notable fault-lines in and across British society and provided alternative perspectives and reactions to the presumptions of mainstream political and cultural opinion in the period. This, perhaps, was most acute in the period leading up to and after the seemingly pivotal moment of Margaret Thatcher’s election to prime minister in 1979. This book was originally published as a special issue of Contemporary British History.

Author : Pioneer Lawmakers' Association of Iowa
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1060 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Iowa
ISBN : NYPL:33433084785678

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Reunion of 1886-1917 by Pioneer Lawmakers' Association of Iowa Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1258 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : Caldwell County (Mo.)
ISBN : COLUMBIA:CU54284643

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History of Caldwell and Livingston Counties, Missouri by Anonim Pdf

Author : Ray Davies
Publisher : Abrams
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2007-10-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781468302387

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X-Ray by Ray Davies Pdf

“Like his songs, Davies’s book is alternately poignant, funny, and bawdy . . . indispensable for Kinks fans and recommended for anyone interested in 1960s pop music.” —Library Journal This subversively brilliant, one-of-a-kind rock autobiography is ingeniously styled as a biography, written by a nameless, faceless writer hired by an Orwellian entity called “the Corporation” to capture the essence of Ray Davies, lead singer and songwriter of the Kinks and one of the greatest rock and rollers of all time. The Kinks frontman reveals his life and times to the young writer, often seemingly passing his stories directly into the writer’s consciousness. Carnaby Street, Top of the Pops, the Cavern Club, the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, the Who and other fixtures of the times fade in and out of this compelling narrative. Part autobiography, part social history, part psychological thriller, this elusive and daring book exposes rock stardom as the heaven, hell, and purgatory it is. “In an age when everybody’s in show business and writes a lousy book about it, Ray Davies is to be honored for not doing the usual thing. We would expect no less of him.” —Rolling Stone “A major addition to pop-culture literature.” —Booklist

Author : John Martine
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : East Lothian (Scotland)
ISBN : HARVARD:32044081262339

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Reminiscences and Notices of Fourteen Parishes of the County of Haddington by John Martine Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 924 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Electronic
ISBN : WISC:89066063363

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A Portrait and Biographical Record of Mercer and Van Wert Counties, Ohio by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1874
Category : United States
ISBN : CHI:27478602

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The Historical Magazine by Anonim Pdf

Author : Great Britain. Parliament
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 778 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : UOM:39015019217895

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Hansard's Parliamentary Debates by Great Britain. Parliament Pdf

Author : Great Britain. Parliament
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 732 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : STANFORD:36105009846028

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Cobbett's Parliamentary Debates by Great Britain. Parliament Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 840 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : American periodicals
ISBN : UVA:X030216374

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Littell's Living Age by Anonim Pdf