Dayswork A Novel

Author : Chris Bachelder,Jennifer Habel
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2023-09-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781324065418

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Dayswork: A Novel by Chris Bachelder,Jennifer Habel Pdf

A startlingly original, incantatory novel about marriage, mortality, and making art. In the endless days of the pandemic, a woman spends her time sorting fact from fiction in the life and work of Herman Melville. As she delves into Melville’s impulsive purchase of a Massachusetts farmhouse, his fevered revision of Moby-Dick there, his intense friendship with neighbor Nathaniel Hawthorne, and his troubled and troubling marriage to Elizabeth Shaw, she becomes increasingly obsessed by what his devotion to his art reveals about cost, worth, and debt. Her preoccupation both deepens and expands, and her days’ work extends outward to an orbiting cast of Melvillean questers and fanatics, as well as to biographers and writers—among them Elizabeth Hardwick and Robert Lowell—whose lives resonate with Melville’s. As she pulls these distant figures close, her quarantine quest ultimately becomes a midlife reckoning with her own marriage and ambition. Absorbing, charming, and intimate, Dayswork considers the blurry lines between life and literature, the slippage between what happens and what gets recorded, and the ways we locate ourselves in the lives of others. In wry, epigrammatic prose, Chris Bachelder and Jennifer Habel have crafted an exquisite and daring novel.

Author : Bernice Yeung
Publisher : The New Press
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2020-05-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781620976005

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In a Day’s Work by Bernice Yeung Pdf

"A timely, intensely intimate, and relevant exposé." —Kirkus Reviews (starred review) The Pulitzer Prize finalist's powerful examination of the hidden stories of workers overlooked by #MeToo Apple orchards in bucolic Washington State. Office parks in Southern California under cover of night. The home of an elderly man in Miami. These are some of the workplaces where women have suffered brutal sexual assaults and shocking harassment at the hands of their employers, often with little or no official recourse. In this heartrending but ultimately inspiring tale, investigative journalist and Pulitzer Prize finalist Bernice Yeung exposes the epidemic of sexual violence levied against the low-wage workers largely overlooked by #MeToo, and charts their quest for justice. In a Day's Work reveals the underbelly of hidden economies teeming with employers who are in the practice of taking advantage of immigrant women. But it also tells a timely story of resistance, introducing a group of courageous allies who challenge the status quo of violations alongside aggrieved workers—and win.

Author : Eve Bunting
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2004-11-18
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0547346166

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A Day's Work by Eve Bunting Pdf

Francisco, a young Mexican-American boy, helps his grandfather find work as a gardener, even though the old man cannot speak English and knows nothing about gardening.

Author : Nora McFarland
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2010-08-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1439172331

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A Bad Day's Work by Nora McFarland Pdf

Lilly Hawkins is having one of those days. . . . The last thing she needs is a murder to solve. Nothing seems to be going Lilly’s way. A TV news photographer at her hometown television station, she’s one of the hardest working "shooters" there, but her pit-bull personality and a series of unlucky blunders have put her job in jeopardy. So when an urgent story breaks in the middle of the night, Lilly is determined to turn her bad luck around and get the respect she deserves. But the pressure is on; either she delivers amazing video or she’s fired. After busting her butt and dodging the cops, Lilly has what could be the biggest scoop of her career—exclusive video of a murder scene. Or does she have it? Lilly is stunned when the tape played in front of the entire newsroom is nothing but dead air. Soon she’s on the run from criminals and police, both of whom claim Lilly’s video is the key to solving the murder and think she pocketed the real tape. Can she escape her pursuers long enough to catch the killer, or will she end the day as the next victim? Lilly’s bad day just keeps getting worse, but the one thing she knows for sure is that she’d like to live to see more of them. . . .

Author : Chris Bachelder
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2006-02-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781582346366

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U.S.! by Chris Bachelder Pdf

An inventive new novel by the author of Bear v. Shark chronicles the serial resurrection and assassination of muckraker Upton Sinclair, who is repeatedly brought back to risk his life for the Socialist revolution, only to end up dead at the hands of those seeking fame, fortune, and American business. Original. 20,000 first printing.

Author : Eve Bunting
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2017-04-25
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780763693053

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Yard Sale by Eve Bunting Pdf

“While the topic of moving is covered in a multitude of picture books, this one looks at it from a difficult perspective that most authors choose to avoid or gloss over.” — School Library Journal (starred review) Almost everything Callie’s family owns is in their front yard — their furniture, their potted flowers, even Callie’s bike. They can’t stay in this house and are moving to a smaller apartment where most of their things won’t fit, so today they are having a yard sale. With sensitivity and grace, Eve Bunting and Lauren Castillo portray an event at once familiar and difficult, making clear that a home isn’t about what you have, but whom you hold close.

Author : Ida M. Tarbell
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2022-07-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547085522

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All in the Day's Work: An Autobiography by Ida M. Tarbell Pdf

This is an autobiography of Ida Minerva Tarbell, an American writer, investigative journalist, biographer, and lecturer. She was one of the leading muckrakers of the Progressive Era of the late 19th and early 20th centuries and pioneered investigative journalism. Tarbell is best known for her 1904 book The History of the Standard Oil Company, which contributed to the dissolution of the Standard Oil monopoly and helped usher in the Hepburn Act of 1906, the Mann-Elkins Act, the creation of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the Clayton Antitrust Act.

Author : Gilbert C. Nolde
Publisher : Triumph Books (IL)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2000-09
Category : Caterpillar tractors
ISBN : 1572433744

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All in a Day's Work by Gilbert C. Nolde Pdf

All in a Day's Work tells the story of how Caterpillar grew from its modest California beginnings to become a $20 billion global powerhouse. This book covers the products, people, and events that worked together to shape this company.A gorgeous coffee-table book, this official 75th anniversary commemorative tells the CAT story through stunning full-color design and contemporary and archival photography.

Author : Rudyard Kipling
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : English fiction
ISBN : HARVARD:HWKQBJ

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The Day's Work by Rudyard Kipling Pdf

Author : Nancy Pearl
Publisher : Sasquatch Books
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2009-09-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781570616594

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Book Lust by Nancy Pearl Pdf

What to read next is every book lover's greatest dilemma. Nancy Pearl comes to the rescue with this wide-ranging and fun guide to the best reading new and old. Pearl, who inspired legions of litterateurs with "What If All (name the city) Read the Same Book," has devised reading lists that cater to every mood, occasion, and personality. These annotated lists cover such topics as mother-daughter relationships, science for nonscientists, mysteries of all stripes, African-American fiction from a female point of view, must-reads for kids, books on bicycling, "chick-lit," and many more. Pearl's enthusiasm and taste shine throughout.

Author : Eve Arnold
Publisher : Bantam
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Photography, Artistic
ISBN : UVA:X001742199

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All in a Day's Work by Eve Arnold Pdf

Acclaimed photojournalist Eve Arnold shares 150 favorite pictures taken during the past 35 years. Arnold's pictures are about people, and they speak to viewers everywhere about their common endeavor: work.

Author : Jimmy Gownley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781506712062

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Disney Zootopia: Hard Day's Work (Younger Readers Graphic Novel) by Jimmy Gownley Pdf

"A graphic novel for younger readers"--Cover.

Author : Dwight W. Hoover
Publisher : Ivan R. Dee Publisher
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015076180044

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A Good Day's Work by Dwight W. Hoover Pdf

Dwight Hoover, who grew up on an Iowa farm, recalls the events of day-to-day life in this era, offering detailed descriptions of daily work in each of the year's four seasons. A fascinating if grim reminder of what it was like to be a child with adult responsibilities, Mr. Hoover's unusual memoir recalls the rough edges as well as the happy moments of rural life.

Author : Chris Bachelder
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2011-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780807140208

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Abbott Awaits by Chris Bachelder Pdf

A quiet tour de force, Chris Bachelder's Abbott Awaits transforms the ordinary into the extraordinary, startlingly depicting the intense and often heartbreaking challenges that a vulnerable, imaginative young father faces as he lives his everyday American existence.The vexation of Abbott's pensive self-doubt comes to a head one day as he cleans vomited raspberries out of his daughter's car seat and muses: "The following propositions are both true: (A) Abbott would not, given the opportunity, change one significant element of his life, but (B) Abbott cannot stand his life." Composed of small moments of domestic wonder and terror Bachelder's novel is a charming story of misadventure, anxiety, and the every-day battles.

Author : Chris Bachelder
Publisher : W. W. Norton
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Humorous stories
ISBN : 0393353788

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The Throwback Special by Chris Bachelder Pdf

Winner of The Paris Review/Terry Southern Prize for Humor. "Chris Bachelder is a witty, compassionate troublemaker, and we need more like him." --George Saunders