Down City

Author : Leah Carroll
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781455563302

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Down City by Leah Carroll Pdf

Like James Ellroy's, My Dark Places, DOWN CITY is a gripping narrative built of memory and reportage, and Leah Carroll's portrait of Rhode Island is sure to take a place next Mary Karr's portrayal of her childhood in East Texas and David Simon's gritty Baltimore. Leah Carroll's mother, a gifted amateur photographer, was murdered by two drug dealers with Mafia connections when Leah was four years old. Her father, a charming alcoholic who hurtled between depression and mania, was dead by the time she was eighteen. Why did her mother have to die? Why did the man who killed her receive such a light sentence? What darkness did Leah inherit from her parents? Leah was left to put together her own future and, now in her memoir, she explores the mystery of her parents' lives, through interviews, photos, and police records. DOWN CITY is a raw, wrenching memoir of a broken family and an indelible portrait of Rhode Island- a tiny state where the ghosts of mafia kingpins live alongside the feisty, stubborn people working hard just to get by. Heartbreaking, and mesmerizing, it's the story of a resilient young woman's determination to discover the truth about a mother she never knew and the deeply troubled father who raised her-a man who was, Leah writes, "both my greatest champion and biggest obstacle."

Author : Shaughnessy Bishop-Stall
Publisher : Vintage Canada
Page : 650 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2010-06-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780307368492

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Down to This by Shaughnessy Bishop-Stall Pdf

For some young men, climbing Everest or sailing solo into polar seas isn’t the biggest risk in the world. Instead it is venturing alone into the deepest urban jungle, where human nature is the dangerous, incomprehensible and sometimes wildly uplifting force that tests not only your ability to survive but also your own humanity. One cold November day, Shaughnessy Bishop-Stall heads out on just such a quest. He packs up a new tent, some clothes, his notebooks and a pen and goes to live in Tent City, twenty-seven lawless acres where the largest hobo town on the continent squats in the scandalized shadow of Canada’s largest city. The rules he sets for himself are simple: no access to money, family or friends, except what he can find from that day on. He’ll do whatever people in Tent City do to get by, be whatever bum, wino, beggar, hustler, criminal, junkie or con man he chooses to be on any given day. When he arrives, he finds a dump full of the castaways of the last millennium, human and otherwise. On the edge of the world, yet somehow smack in the middle of it all, fugitives, drug addicts, prostitutes, dealers and ex-cons have created an anarchic society, where the rules are made up nightly and your life depends on knowing them. Not only does Bishop-Stall manage to survive until the bulldozers come, but against all odds his own heart and spirit slowly mend. An astonishing account of birth, suicide, brawls, binges, tears, crazed laughter, good and bad intentions, fiendish charity and the sudden eloquence and generosity of broken souls, Down to This is Bishop-Stall’s iridescent love song to a lost city like no other.

Author : Billy Sothern
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2007-08-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520251496

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Down in New Orleans by Billy Sothern Pdf

Sothern, a death penalty lawyer who with his wife, photographer Nikki Page, arrived in New Orleans four years ahead of Katrina, delivers a haunting, personal, and quintessentially American story.

Author : Elizabeth Harrower
Publisher : Text Publishing
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781922148124

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Down in the City by Elizabeth Harrower Pdf

Esther Prescott has seen little of life outside her wealthy family's Rose Bay mansion, until flashy Stan Peterson comes roaring up the drive in his huge American car and barges into her life. Within a fortnight they are living in his Kings Cross flat. Moody and erratic, proud of his well-bred wife yet bitterly resentful of her privilege, Stan is involved with his former girlfriend and a series of shady business deals. Esther, innocent and desperate to please him, must endure his controlling ways. This story of a troubled and obsessive marriage, set against the backdrop of postwar Sydney, is devastating. First published in 1957, Down in the City announced Elizabeth Harrower as a major Australian writer. Elizabeth Harrower was born in Sydney in 1928. Her first novel Down in the City was published in 1957, and was followed by The Long Prospect a year later. In 1959 she began working for the ABC and as a book reviewer for the Sydney Morning Herald. In 1960 she published The Catherine Wheel, the story of an Australian law student in London, her only novel not set in Sydney. The Watch Tower appeared in 1966. Her work is austere, intelligent, ruthless in its perceptions about men and women. She was admired by many of her contemporaries, including Patrick White and Christina Stead, and is without doubt among the most important writers of the postwar period in Australia. Elizabeth Harrower lives in Sydney. textpublishing.com.au 'Down in the City marked the arrival of one of the sharpest authors of psychological fiction in Australian literature. Many of the things that happen in the novel are unpleasant, but are rendered with such intensity and psychological insight that the experience of reading about them is thrilling.' Australian 'a triumph from Text's project to recover forgotten Australian literature. Doused in melancholy and written from an accessible yet unnerving third-person perspective, Harrower's debut is a light read with weighty resonance.' Readings Bookshop

Author : Haydon Cherry
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2019-05-28
Category : Poor
ISBN : 9780300218251

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Down and Out in Saigon by Haydon Cherry Pdf

A moving portrait of the lives of six poor city-dwellers, set in early twentieth century colonial Saigon Historian Haydon Cherry offers the first comprehensive social history of the urban poor of colonial French Saigon by following the lives of six individuals--a prostitute, a Chinese laborer, a rickshaw puller, an orphan, an incurable invalid, and a destitute Frenchman--and how they navigated the ups and downs of the regional rice trade and the institutions of French colonial rule in the first half of the twentieth century. "Down and Out in Saigon is marked by three qualities that endow it with unusual value: the originality of its subject matter, as the first and only history of colonial Saigon's poor population, the excellence of its research, and Cherry's elegant prose."--Peter B. Zinoman, University of California, Berkeley "This is more than a corrective of revolutionary historiography--it is a tour de force that brings marginal and forgotten lives into the story of modern Vietnamese history."--Charles Keith, author of Catholic Vietnam: A Church from Empire to Nation

Author : Barry Adamson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1913172252

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Up Above the City, Down Beneath the Stars by Barry Adamson Pdf

A member of seminal new-wave band Magazine, the original bassist in the legendary Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, a Mercury-Prize-nominated solo artist, and pioneer of the imaginary soundtrack album--no matter where Barry Adamson's career has taken him, the result has been consistently impressive. Covering his early life up to the 1990s, 'The Barry Adamson Story' addresses Adamson's Mancunian and mixed-race roots, beginning in the late 1950s, through to the highs of his momentous musical achievements and the lows of psychiatric hospitals and drug rehabs. Using a 'noir' style of self examination, he also investigates the acute loss of his parents and sister in his early twenties, multiple failed relationships and arrives at the beginnings of a successful Hollywood soundtrack career.

Author : Daniel Hernandez
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2011-02-08
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1451610181

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Down and Delirious in Mexico City by Daniel Hernandez Pdf

MEXICO CITY, with some 20 million inhabitants, is the largest city in the Western Hemisphere. Enormous growth, raging crime, and tumultuous politics have also made it one of the most feared and misunderstood. Yet in the past decade, the city has become a hot spot for international business, fashion, and art, and a magnet for thrill-seeking expats from around the world. In 2002, Daniel Hernandez traveled to Mexico City, searching for his cultural roots. He encountered a city both chaotic and intoxicating, both underdeveloped and hypermodern. In 2007, after quitting a job, he moved back. With vivid, intimate storytelling, Hernandez visits slums populated by ex-punks; glittering, drug-fueled fashion parties; and pseudo-native rituals catering to new-age Mexicans. He takes readers into the world of youth subcultures, in a city where punk and emo stand for a whole way of life—and sometimes lead to rumbles on the streets. Surrounded by volcanoes, earthquake-prone, and shrouded in smog, the city that Hernandez lovingly chronicles is a place of astounding manifestations of danger, desire, humor, and beauty, a surreal landscape of “cosmic violence.” For those who care about one of the most electrifying cities on the planet, “Down & Delirious in Mexico City is essential reading” (David Lida, author of First Stop in the New World).

Author : William Henderson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 708 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1869
Category : Names in the Bible
ISBN : BCUL:VD2208711

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A Dictionary and Concordance of the Names of Persons and Places and of Some of the More Remarkable Terms which Occur in the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments by William Henderson Pdf

Author : Gordon Young
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2021-02-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520377547

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Teardown by Gordon Young Pdf

After living in San Francisco for fifteen years, journalist Gordon Young found himself yearning for his Rust Belt hometown: Flint, Michigan, the birthplace of General Motors and the “star” of the Michael Moore documentary Roger & Me. Hoping to rediscover and help a place that had once boasted one of the world’s highest per capita income levels but had become one of the country's most impoverished and dangerous cities, he returned to Flint with the intention of buying a house. What he found was a place of stark contrasts and dramatic stories, where an exotic dancer could afford a lavish mansion, speculators scooped up cheap houses by the dozen on eBay, and arson was often the quickest route to neighborhood beautification. Skillfully blending personal memoir, historical inquiry, and interviews with Flint residents, Young constructs a vibrant tale of a once-thriving city still fighting—despite overwhelming odds—to rise from the ashes. He befriends a ragtag collection of urban homesteaders and die-hard locals who refuse to give up as they try to transform Flint into a smaller, greener town that offers lessons for cities all over the world. Hard-hitting, insightful, and often painfully funny, Teardown reminds us that cities are ultimately defined by people, not politics or economics.

Author : Philadelphia (Pa.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 666 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1908
Category : Mayors
ISBN : MINN:31951002248782Z

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Annual Message of the Mayor of the City of Philadelphia with the Annual Reports of Directors of Departments by Philadelphia (Pa.) Pdf

Author : Georgia
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Law
ISBN : SRLF:A0001991199

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Acts of the General Assembly of the State of Georgia by Georgia Pdf

Author : David E. Johnson,M. Wade Markel,Brian Shannon
Publisher : Rand Corporation
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2013-12-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780833080288

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The 2008 Battle of Sadr City by David E. Johnson,M. Wade Markel,Brian Shannon Pdf

Analyzes the 2008 Battle of Sadr City, and presents insights and lessons learned. This analysis advances understanding of urban operations and thereby helps the Army focus on what capabilities it will need in the future for such conflicts.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1837
Category : Electronic
ISBN : IBNR:CR300037414

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The Chinese Repository by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1554 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Canada
ISBN : UOM:39015068396343

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Sessional Papers by Anonim Pdf

"Report of the Dominion fishery commission on the fisheries of the province of Ontario, 1893", issued as vol. 26, no. 7, supplement.

Author : Wilhelm Gesenius
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1182 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : English language
ISBN : COLUMBIA:50264531

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A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament by Wilhelm Gesenius Pdf