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Author : Anonim
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 080327338X
A poignant portrayal of professional ballplayers' lives on and off the field during the sport's golden years in the 1950's.
Author : Mark Harris
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1956
Category : Baseball players
ISBN : NYPL:33433045085267
Story of baseball player Henry Wiggen throwing a baseball for the sake of his pocket, his family, his teammates, and dying friend.
Author : Mark Harris
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1989-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0803272448
Henry Wiggen, the bedraggled six-foot-three, 195-pound, left-handed pitcher for the New York Mammoths, returns to narrate another novel in his inimitable manner. Fans who loved him in Bang the Drum Slowly, The Southpaw, and A Ticket for a Seamstitch (all Bison Books) will cheer his comeback. Wiggen is now thirty-nine, a fading veteran with a floating fastball, a finicky prostate, and other intimations of mortality. Released from the Mammoths after nineteen years, the twenty-seventh winningest pitcher in baseball history (tied at 247 victories with Joseph J. "Iron Man" McGinnity and John Powell), Wiggen is not ready to hang up his glove. What impels Henry to pitch against Pate, to trek to California and as far as Japan? He still has a few seasons, a few innings left anyway. Is he principled or possessed? You'll have to decide for yourself as author Mark Harris plays out Wiggen's midlife crisis on familiar American turf: the baseball diamond.
Author : Mark Harris
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1998-12-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0803273142
Speed is a first-person novel about two brothers growing up half a century ago--the story of the narrator and his brother Speed, a magnificent boy in every respecct, except one. And Speed's one defect leads him to a mad act of nihilism that is remembered by his brother for a lifetime.
Author : Robert Bly,Marion Woodman
Publisher : Holt Paperbacks
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1999-10-15
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0805057781
From Robert Bly, author of the groundbreaking bestseller Iron John, and famed Jungian analyst Marion Woodman comes an interpretation of a primordial folktale that takes the message behind Iron John to its next phase: the reunion of masculine and feminine. Bly and Woodman interpret the archetypal symbols embedded in an ancient Russian story, The Maiden King, a tale woven of an absent father, a possessive stepmother, a false tutor, and a young man over-whelmed by a beautiful maiden. When the young man's weak response to the maiden ss her retreating in anger, he must go on a quest for self-discovery that leads to Baba Yaga, the fierce yet empowering old woman of Russian folk tradition. The male tency toward impotence in the face of feminine magnificence, the female fear of power and abandonment that leads to rage, the need to get beyond oppositional thinking en route to the Divine, these are issues the book addresses with wisdom and lyricism. The true heir to Iron John, The Maiden King may be the intellectual answer to Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus.
Author : Shawn Levy
Publisher : Crown
Page : 626 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307716798
REMARKABLE BIOGRAPHY OF AN ICON There’s little debate that Robert De Niro is one of the greatest screen actors of his generation, perhaps of all time--if not, in fact, the greatest. His work, particularly in the first 20 years of his career, is unparalleled. Mean Streets, the Godfather Part II, Taxi Driver, the Deer Hunter, and Raging Bull all dazzled moviegoers and critics alike, displaying a talent the likes of which had rarely--if ever--been seen. De Niro became known for his deep involvement in his characters, assuming that role completely into his own life, resulting in extraordinary, chameleonic performances. Yet little is known about the off-screen De Niro--he is an intensely private man, whose rare public appearances are often marked by inarticulateness and palpable awkwardness. It can be almost painful to watch at times, in powerful contrast to his confident movie personae. In this elegant and compelling biography, bestselling writer Shawn Levy writes of these many De Niros--the characters and the man--seeking to understand the evolution of an actor who once dove deeply into his roles as if to hide his inner nature, and who now seemingly avoids acting challenges, taking roles which make few apparent demands on his overwhelming talent. Following De Niro's roots as the child of artists (his father, the abstract painter Robert De Niro Sr., was widely celebrated) who encouraged him from an early age to be independent of vision and spirit, to his intense schooling as an actor, the rise of his career, his marriages, his life as a father, restauranteur, and businessman, and, of course, his current movie career, Levy has written a biography that reads like a novel about a character whose inner turmoil takes him to heights of artistry. His many friendships with the likes of Martin Scorsese, Meryl Streep, Harvey Keitel, Shelley Winters, Francis Ford Coppola, among many others, are woven into this extraordinary portrait of DeNiro the man and the artist, also adding a depth of understanding not before seen. Levy has had unprecedented access to De Niro's personal research and production materials, creating a new impression of the effort that went into the actor's legendary performances. The insights gained from DeNiro’s intense working habits shed new perspective on DeNiro’s thinking and portrayals and are wonderful to read. Levy also spoke to De Niro's collaborators and friends to depict De Niro's transition from an ambitious young man to a transfixing and enigmatic artist and cultural figure. Shawn Levy has written a truly engaging, insightful, and entertaining portrait of one of the most wonderful film artists of our time, a book that is worthy of such a great talent.
Author : Robert Coover
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1992-01
Category : Accountants
ISBN : 0749398205
Author : Glenn Kenny
Publisher : Phaidon Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2014-07-28
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0714868027
"The finest book on De Niro yet." – The Film Stage Best known for gangster films, Robert De Niro (b.1943) has led a rich and varied career that encompasses crime movies, musicals, comedies, period pieces and action flicks. His breakout role in Martin Scorcese?s Mean Streets (1973) sparked a decades-long collaboration with the director that included Taxi Driver in 1976 and The King of Comedy in 1983. Oscar winner for Best Actor in Raging Bull (1980), he was awarded the prestigious role of jury president at Cannes in 2011. Anatomy of an Actor titles are comprehensive studies on the craft of the world’s greatest actors, through the analysis of ten of their most iconic roles. The authors examine why and how these famous actors have become some of the most respected and influential in the film world. Each title is divided into ten chapters, each one dedicated to a specific role, and is fully documented with film stills, set photographs, and film sequences. This innovative and beautiful series on actors is accessible to enthusiastic moviegoers as well as serious cinephiles, fans and those who want to become actors.
Author : Eliot Asinof
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0809321904
Selected as one of baseball literature's Golden Dozen by Roger Kahn, Man on Spikes is an uncompromisingly realistic novel about a baseball player who struggles through sixteen years of personal crises and professional ordeals before finally appearing in a major league game. In a preface to this new edition, Eliot Asinof reveals the longsuffering ballplayer and friend upon which the novel is based.
Author : Michael Miller
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Drum
ISBN : 159257162X
Covers the history of drumming, different drum types, how to care for them, and basic skills and tips for playing different types of music.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0803273193
Thirteen stories deal with men and women who are forced to adjust to life's challenges
Author : Mark Harris
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0803272804
Mark Harris took you out to the ballgame in his Henry Wiggen novels, The Southpaw, Bang the Drum Slowly, A Ticket for a Seamstitch, and It Looked Like For Ever. In The Tale Maker, he takes you to college. Rimrose was well-read, smart, and strong. As the editor of the campus Sentinel, he was perfectly placed to observe how a university worked, and ideally inclined to expose its ethical weaknesses. Supported by his parents, he could concentrate on things that mattered: his writing, his wife-to-be, and his friends and enemies—including the warped Kakapick, who serves Rimrose lastingly as model and prototype of the literary scoundrel. Rimrose—Tale Maker of the title—turns from journalism to fiction-writing, kept alive by his wife’s practical and ingenious devotion to selling his stories, even those he has tossed in the trash. As he grows older and begets children, he worries about income and faces stultifying choices: managing his father’s small-town newspaper or playing politics in university service.
Author : Alfred Slote
Publisher : Arborvillebooks
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2013-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0988698838
HANG TOUGH, PAUL MATHER, originally published by Lippincott/Harper Collins, tells the story of a young pitcher who, thrown a curve by life, fires back. But living is more than a game for Paul, who has been diagnosed with leukemia, a cancer of the blood. With the help of a young doctor, a ballplayer himself, and his own grit and courage, Paul Mather fights back. Paul Mather hangs tough.
Author : Mark Harris,Henry W. Wiggen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:906735498
Author : Darryl Brock
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2011-03-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780803235892
"First Nebraska paperback printing"--T.p. verso.