Dead End Drive

Author : Ian Kirkpatrick
Publisher : Steak House Books
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780578725772

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Dead End Drive by Ian Kirkpatrick Pdf

In this transgressive, satire-laced debut, a fourteen-year-old boy inherits his family home and the hatred of all those around him as they seek to seize the inheritance from his cold, dead hands. When Agatha Benedict plucked Kelly off the city streets to replace her dead cat Poopsie, she neglected to inform him of some very important house traditions. The history of the Benedict Estate prescribes that once the estate owner passes on, a will reading is to take place. However, the reading is more than passing on a loved one's final wishes; it's a figurative gunshot into the air, an alert to all in attendance that a playful game of anything goes murder has begun. The prize? The inheritance, of course. As if visiting, a storm comes in with the guests, trapping everyone on the property for the night. While Kelly plays catch-up on with house rules, once friendly family members have already sharpened their knives. Try as he might, there is no survival if he won't play by the same rules as everyone else. A uniquely funny and dark murder party with big personalities. A coming-of-age story if growing up felt like being stabbed in the back by everyone you hold dear. As suspenseful as Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None, as sardonic as American Psycho, and as slapstick as Clue, Dead End Drive is a black comedy and satirical look into the world of nihilism and the rat race of life we all see, but pretend we don't because... Let's be honest: is there anything more valuable than having every last need met for life?

Author : Jack Gantos
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2011-09-13
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781429962506

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Dead End in Norvelt by Jack Gantos Pdf

Dead End in Norvelt is the winner of the 2012 Newbery Medal for the year's best contribution to children's literature and the Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction! Melding the entirely true and the wildly fictional, Dead End in Norvelt is a novel about an incredible two months for a kid named Jack Gantos, whose plans for vacation excitement are shot down when he is "grounded for life" by his feuding parents, and whose nose spews bad blood at every little shock he gets. But plenty of excitement (and shocks) are coming Jack's way once his mom loans him out to help a fiesty old neighbor with a most unusual chore—typewriting obituaries filled with stories about the people who founded his utopian town. As one obituary leads to another, Jack is launced on a strange adventure involving molten wax, Eleanor Roosevelt, twisted promises, a homemade airplane, Girl Scout cookies, a man on a trike, a dancing plague, voices from the past, Hells Angels . . . and possibly murder. Endlessly surprising, this sly, sharp-edged narrative is the author at his very best, making readers laugh out loud at the most unexpected things in a dead-funny depiction of growing up in a slightly off-kilter place where the past is present, the present is confusing, and the future is completely up in the air.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789401202749

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Fabulating Beauty by Anonim Pdf

Peter Carey is one of Australia’s finest creative writers, much admired by both literary critics and a worldwide reading public. While academia has been quick to see his fictions as exemplars of postcolonial and postmodern writing strategies, his general readership has been captivated by his deadpan sense of humour, his quirky characters, the outlandish settings and the grotesqueries of his intricate plots. After three decades of prolific writing and multiple award-winning, Carey stands out in the world of Australian letters as designated heir to Patrick White. Fabulating Beauty pays tribute to Carey’s literary achievement. It brings together the voices of many of the most renowned Carey critics in twenty essays (sixteen commissioned especially for this volume), an interview with the author, as well as the most extensive bibliography of Carey criticism to date. The studies represent a wide range of current perspectives on the writer’s fictions. Contributors focus on issues as diverse as the writer’s biography; his use of architectural metaphors; his interrogation of narrative structures such as myths and cultural master-plots; intertextual strategies; concepts of sacredness and references to the Christian tradition; and his strategies of rewriting history. Amidst predictions of the imminent death of ‘postist’ theory, the essays all attest to the ongoing relevance of the critical parameters framed by postmodernism and postcolonialism.

Author : James Newton
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2021-06-03
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781501342301

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The Mad Max Effect by James Newton Pdf

The Mad Max Effect provides an in-depth analysis of the Mad Max series, and how it began as an inventive concoction of a number of influences from a range of exploitation genres (including the biker movie, the revenge film, and the car chase cinema of the 1970s), to eventually inspiring a fresh cycle of international low budget 'road warrior' movies that appeared on home video in the 1980s. The Mad Max Effect is the first detailed academic study of the most famous and celebrated post-apocalypse film series, and examines how a humble Australian action movie came from the cultural margins of exploitation cinema to have a profound impact on the broader media landscape.

Author : United States. Public Housing Administration
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 566 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1949
Category : Housing management
ISBN : UCBK:C020365058

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P H A Low-rent Housing Bulletin by United States. Public Housing Administration Pdf

Author : Ben Goldsmith,Geoff Lealand
Publisher : Intellect Books
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2010-12-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781841503424

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Directory of World Cinema: Australia and New Zealand by Ben Goldsmith,Geoff Lealand Pdf

This addition to Intellect's Directory of World Cinema series turns the spotlight on Australia and New Zealand and offers an in-depth and exciting look at the cinema produced in these two countries since the turn of the twentieth century. Though the two nations share considerable cultural and economic connections, their film industries remain distinct, marked by differences of scale, level of government involvement and funding and relations with other countries and national cinemas. Through essays about prominent genres and themes, profiles of directors and comprehensive reviews of significant titles, this user-friendly guide explores the diversity and distinctiveness of films from Australia and New Zealand from Whale Rider to The Piano to Wolf Creek.

Author : Ben Goldsmith,Mark David Ryan,Geoff Lealand
Publisher : Intellect Books
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2015-04-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781783204816

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Directory of World Cinema: Australia and New Zealand 2 by Ben Goldsmith,Mark David Ryan,Geoff Lealand Pdf

Building on and bringing up to date the material presented in the first instalment of Directory of World Cinema: Australia and New Zealand, this volume continues the exploration of the cinema produced in Australia and New Zealand since the beginning of the twentieth century. Among the additions to this volume are in-depth treatments of the locations that feature prominently in the countries’ cinema. Essays by leading critics and film scholars consider the significance of the outback and the beach in films, which are evoked as a liminal space in Long Weekend and a symbol of death in Heaven’s Burning, among other films. Other contributions turn the spotlight on previously unexplored genres and key filmmakers, including Jane Campion, Rolf de Heer, Charles Chauvel and Gillian Armstrong. Accompanying the critical essays in this volume are more than one hundred and fifty new film reviews, complemented by film stills and significantly expanded references for further study. From The Piano to Crocodile Dundee, Directory of World Cinema: Australia and New Zealand 2 completes this comprehensive treatment of a consistently fascinating national cinema.

Author : James Monaco
Publisher : Perigee Trade
Page : 1200 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Motion pictures
ISBN : STANFORD:36105000440987

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The Movie Guide by James Monaco Pdf

From The Big Sleep to Babette's Feast, from Lawrence of Arabia to Drugstore Cowboy, The Movie Guide offers the inside word on 3,500 of the best motion pictures ever made. James Monaco is the president and founder of BASELINE, the world's leading supplier of information to the film and television industries. Among his previous books are The Encyclopedia of Film, American Film Now, and How to Read a Film.

Author : R. L. Stine
Publisher : Simon Pulse
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0671868373

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Dead End by R. L. Stine Pdf

The latest book in the phenomenal series with more than 19 million copies in print. Natalie and her friends share a terrible secret: they were all in the car that foggy night--the night someone died at the dead end. Now someone is trying to make sure that nobody ever learns this terrible secret--and will kill to keep it quiet.

Author : D. A. Rally
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2018-11-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781984568076

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Struggle Within by D. A. Rally Pdf

Following a devastating car accident on a rural route in Kentucky after a wonderful vacation with his family, Albert Trenton awakens from a coma to learn that his beloved wife and three children are dead. While facing his loss, the widower discovers haunting demons from his past that he had left long buried. Voices in his head, torturous dreams, and drastic changes in his personality lead Albert onto a path of spiritual revelation in his quest for answers. As the terrible truth of a childhood trauma reaches its hand from a stony grave and grabs Al by the throat, he is forced to delve into a world he never thought existed in an effort to salvage any sense of himself and the life he once held.

Author : Jon Stratton
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 137 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2023-03-09
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781501397875

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Hunters & Collectors's Human Frailty by Jon Stratton Pdf

Released in 1986, Hunters and Collectors' album Human Frailty is one of the most important Australian albums of the last two decades of the twentieth century. It was pivotal in the group's career and marked the group's move into pub rock. It is unashamedly concerned with love and desire. The album challenged traditional understandings of Australian masculinity while playing music to predominantly male audiences. No other Australian group would have dared, or indeed been able, to get their audience to roar 'You don't make me feel like a woman anymore,' the culminating line off Hunan Frailty's first track, and the first single taken from the album, “Say Goodbye”. The second track on the album, “Throw Your Arms Around Me” has become an Australian standard, an anthem sung drunkenly more by women than men, in pubs, at weddings and similar occasions. Human Frailty is an album that transcended the critical categories of its time.

Author : Paul Giles
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2021-02-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192599513

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The Planetary Clock by Paul Giles Pdf

The theme of The Planetary Clock is the representation of time in postmodern culture and the way temporality as a global phenomenon manifests itself differently across an antipodean axis. To trace postmodernism in an expansive spatial and temporal arc, from its formal experimentation in the 1960s to environmental concerns in the twenty-first century, is to describe a richer and more complex version of this cultural phenomenon. Exploring different scales of time from a Southern Hemisphere perspective, with a special emphasis on issues of Indigeneity and the Anthropocene, The Planetary Clock offers a wide-ranging, revisionist account of postmodernism, reinterpreting literature, film, music, and visual art of the post-1960 period within a planetary framework. By bringing the culture of Australia and New Zealand into dialogue with other Western narratives, it suggests how an antipodean impulse, involving the transposition of the world into different spatial and temporal dimensions, has long been an integral (if generally occluded) aspect of postmodernism. Taking its title from a Florentine clock designed in 1510 to measure worldly time alongside the rotation of the planets, The Planetary Clock ranges across well-known American postmodernists (John Barth, Toni Morrison) to more recent science fiction writers (Octavia Butler, Richard Powers), while bringing the US tradition into juxtaposition with both its English (Philip Larkin, Ian McEwan) and Australian (Les Murray, Alexis Wright) counterparts. By aligning cultural postmodernism with music (Messiaen, Ligeti, Birtwistle), the visual arts (Hockney, Blackman, Fiona Hall), and cinema (Rohmer, Haneke, Tarantino), this volume enlarges our understanding of global postmodernism for the twenty-first century.

Author : Vicki Grant
Publisher : Orca Book Publishers
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2005-04-01
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781554696017

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Dead-End Job by Vicki Grant Pdf

Frances works the night shift at a local convenience store, dividing her time between restocking shelves and working on her art. Her routine is broken one night when Devin comes into the store. He claims to be the son of a famous local artist and offers her advice on her drawings. Although he seems to know way too much about her, Frances decides, against the advice of her boyfriend, that he is odd but harmless. By the time she realizes the danger she is in, Devin is completely obsessed with her and convinced that if he can't have her, no one will. Frances will be forced to use all her strength to escape from Devin. Also available in Spanish.

Author : Federal Public Housing Authority
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1943
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105126839021

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Bulletin by Federal Public Housing Authority Pdf

Author : Trevor Wood
Publisher : Quercus
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2022-01-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781529414790

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Dead End Street by Trevor Wood Pdf

'Fresh, original, authentic and gritty' Lee Child A gritty crime thriller set in Newcastle about a veteran suffering from PTSD who turns sleuth in the face of local villainy. A group of vigilantes are carrying out a campaign of harassment against the homeless, hounding them both verbally and physically to get them off the streets. Jimmy Mullen is approached by his friend Gadge, who wants to confront the people behind it but Jimmy has finally got his life back on track. He's working at a hostel for 18 to 25-year-olds and he's reluctant to get involved in anything dodgy. Gadge decides to go it alone but is attacked by two of the vigilantes. The police find him unconscious in an alley, covered in blood. Problem is, there's a dead body in the alley too and it's his blood that Gadge is covered in. He's also got the murder weapon in his hand. Convinced that Gadge has been set up, and feeling guilty that he didn't back him up in the first place, Jimmy returns to the streets to try and find out who's behind his friend's difficulties. Unfortunately, he's about to discover that Gadge has a lot of enemies to choose from. ******************************** Praise for Dead End Street 'A brilliant character' Harriet Tyce 'An unforgettable ride, filled with twists that will make your head spin' Sun 'Just try it, you won't be disappointed' 5* Reader Review 'Fast-paced and intense' Patricia Gibney 'Authentic . . . raw and riveting' Sunday Independent 'I highly recommend it' 5* Reader Review 'A fantastic story' Nikki Smith