About Harry Towns

Author : Bruce Jay Friedman
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2007-12-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780802197450

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About Harry Towns by Bruce Jay Friedman Pdf

This classic comic novel about a midlife man whose life is spiraling out of control is a “heartbreaking delight . . . Nothing less than a joy” (The Washington Post Book World). Screenwriter Harry Towns, a bicoastal playboy with a broken marriage and a child he rarely sees, has been reveling in the freewheeling atmosphere of the early 1970s. But when cracks start to appear in his perfectly constructed life, he has no option but to pick up the scattered pieces of his past and begin anew. From a New York Times–bestselling author and veteran Hollywood screenwriter, About Harry Towns is both a portrait of a particular era and a timeless look at the wrong turns that make up a life—featuring “ a character unique, haunting, and completely memorable” (The Washington Post Book World). “Brilliant.” —The New York Times Book Review

Author : Hugh Shimmin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1860
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:600052909

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Harry Birkett, by the author of 'Town life'. by Hugh Shimmin Pdf

Author : Bruce Jay Friedman
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Page : 695 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2007-12-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781555847869

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The Collected Short Fiction of Bruce Jay Friedman by Bruce Jay Friedman Pdf

An “irresistible” collection of short fiction by an author who “has been likened to everyone from J. D. Salinger to Woody Allen” (The New York Times Book Review). Hailed by Newsweek as “a bona fide literary event,” The Collected Short Fiction of Bruce Jay Friedman brings together dozens of the New York Times–bestselling author’s greatest stories, which originally appeared in Esquire, The New Yorker, and other magazines. “Readers who feel short stories are too high-flown—too literary, arcane, and serious—will find counterbalance in Friedman, whose stories have uncomplicated structures, obvious gists, intelligible metaphors, and unambiguous endings and come wrapped in humor. This compilation of his output in the short story form between 1953 and 1995 has a thematic arrangement, with categories such as ‘Mother,’ ‘Crazed Youth,’ and ‘Sex.’ Some of the more outstanding pieces are ‘The Subversive,’ about the narrator’s air force buddy whom the narrator believed to be the most all-American guy he ever met until his friend commits a crazed act; ‘The Gent,’ concerning a man who succumbs to a seduction by his best friend’s daughter; and ‘The Night Boxing Ended,’ in which ringside heckling goes way out of bounds.” —Booklist “From poignant bildungsroman to sly satire, from wicked comedy to surrealistic farce, this virtuosic collection covers more than four decades’ worth of short stories . . . Friedman explores themes such as loneliness, aging, fear, parenthood and ethnicity, spinning tales in an expertly modulated voice.” —Publishers Weekly “Friedman [is] more interesting than most of Malamud, Roth, and Bellow . . . What makes him more important is that he writes out of the viscera instead of the cerebrum.” —Nelson Algren, The Nation “Pure delight.” —Newsday

Author : Harry Blamires
Publisher : Baker Books
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780800759971

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New Town by Harry Blamires Pdf

From a friend and prot�g� of C.S. Lewis, New Town is an irresistible and thought-provoking tale that recounts one man's journey into a true Christian life.

Author : B. J. Lanagan
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1998-02-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101219249

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Bushwhackers 04: The Dying Town by B. J. Lanagan Pdf

During the Civil War, they sought justice outside of the law, paying back every Yankee raid with one of their own. No man could stop them. No woman could resist them. And no Yankee stood a chance when Win and Joe Coulter rode into town. All Win Coulter wanted was a nice hand of poker. But his hand was hotter than the Devil’s coffee mug, and he ended up winning the deed to a Belle Springs saloon named the Desert Flower. Now Win and his brother, Joe, have a place to drink for free. But Belle Springs is run by a sheriff as crooked as an old man’s spine. He runs his own watering hole, and he doesn’t cotton to competition. So it looks like the Bushwhackers will have to ante up a special “sheriff’s tax” or get out of town. Yeah, right.

Author : Sorrel Kerbel
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1716 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2004-11-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135456061

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The Routledge Encyclopedia of Jewish Writers of the Twentieth Century by Sorrel Kerbel Pdf

Now available in paperback for the first time, Jewish Writers of the Twentieth Century is both a comprehensive reference resource and a springboard for further study. This volume: examines canonical Jewish writers, less well-known authors of Yiddish and Hebrew, and emerging Israeli writers includes entries on figures as diverse as Marcel Proust, Franz Kafka, Tristan Tzara, Eugene Ionesco, Harold Pinter, Tom Stoppard, Arthur Miller, Saul Bellow, Nadine Gordimer, and Woody Allen contains introductory essays on Jewish-American writing, Holocaust literature and memoirs, Yiddish writing, and Anglo-Jewish literature provides a chronology of twentieth-century Jewish writers. Compiled by expert contributors, this book contains over 330 entries on individual authors, each consisting of a biography, a list of selected publications, a scholarly essay on their work and suggestions for further reading.

Author : Upton (Mass.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1154 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Upton (Mass.)
ISBN : UIUC:30112117714474

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Annual Reports of the Town Officers ... by Upton (Mass.) Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 630 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1875
Category : Manchester (N.H.)
ISBN : NYPL:33433081780680

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Manchester by Anonim Pdf

Author : Horace Elisha Scudder
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1878
Category : Electronic
ISBN : WISC:89012259081

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Doings of the Bodley Family in Town and Country, ; and The Bodleys Telling Stories by Horace Elisha Scudder Pdf

Author : James Anthony Froude,John Tulloch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1436 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : Authors
ISBN : UOM:39015030946175

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Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country by James Anthony Froude,John Tulloch Pdf

Contains the first printing of Sartor resartus, as well as other works by Thomas Carlyle.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Wit and humor
ISBN : UCAL:B5153083

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Thalia by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 646 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : Parapsychology
ISBN : MINN:31951P01018787V

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Light by Anonim Pdf

Author : Harry Doherty,Scott Gorham
Publisher : Omnibus Press
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2012-11-20
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780857128010

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Thin Lizzy: The Boys Are Back in Town by Harry Doherty,Scott Gorham Pdf

One of the defining rock groups of the 20th Century, Thin Lizzy began life in Dublin in 1969 when childhood friends Phil Lynott and Brian Downey were approached by two former members of Van Morrison's band 'Them', Eric Wrixon (keyboards) and Eric Bell (guitar). Now for the first time, their story is told by guitarist Scott Gorham and rock journalist Harry Doherty.The band’s story is told by the people who were involved directly including former guitarists, road crew, management, family and friends. Their origins in Dublin as a three piece with the Whiskey in the Jar single and a string of unsuccessful but highly creative albums. The move to London to chase the dream of being a major rock band. The chaotic arrival and departures of various members including Eric Bell (who left the band mid concert), Irish guitarist Gary Moore, Brian Robertson and co-author Scott Gorham. How the albums Jailbreak and Boys Are Back in Town took the band to the top of the charts just as they were to become bankrupt. Includes stories of the band on the road, the drink and drugs and how the years of partying, drug-taking and non stop touring eventually took its toll on not only the band members but on their families. The death of front man Phil Lynott and their legacy following his death.

Author : George Washington Wagenseller
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Electronic
ISBN : WISC:89088767124

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The History of the Wagenseller Family in America by George Washington Wagenseller Pdf

Author : Charles Hudson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 938 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1913
Category : Lexington (Mass. : Town)
ISBN : STANFORD:36105004924267

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History of the Town of Lexington, Middlesex County, Massachusetts: Genealogies by Charles Hudson Pdf