Intimate Strangers And Other Stories

Author : F. Scott Fitzgerald
Publisher : Alma Books
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2018-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780714547381

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Intimate Strangers and Other Stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald Pdf

Sara, the American wife of a French aristocrat, has had two encounters with her compatriot Cedric Killian, one a youthful idyll in North Carolina and the other during the First World War, when he was a soldier about to go to battle. When, years later and after the death of her husband, Cedric contacts her out of the blue, Sara finds herself eager to see him again - against the wishes of her in-laws - and to find out the secret of this man she loves yet knows so little about. A poignant tale of thwarted love, 'The Intimate Strangers' explores many of Fitzgerald's favourite themes, such as the constraints of social pressure on romance and the American fascination for Old Europe. This volume also includes other lesser-known stories he wrote from the mid-1930s until the end of his life, revealing new facets to the author of The Great Gatsby and Tender Is the Night.

Author : Carmen Ho,Gregg Schroeder
Publisher : Signal 8 Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2019-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9887794945

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Intimate Strangers by Carmen Ho,Gregg Schroeder Pdf

Family, love, friendship, acceptance-none of these pillars of happiness are certainties for LGBTQ+ people. Intimate Strangers showcases the nonfiction work of writers living life on their own authentic terms.

Author : Vanessa Smith
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2010-10-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139788625

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Intimate Strangers by Vanessa Smith Pdf

When Louis Antoine de Bougainville reached Tahiti in 1768, he was struck by the way in which 'All these people came crying out tayo, which means friend, and gave a thousand signs of friendship; they all asked nails and ear-rings of us.' Reading the archive of early contact in Oceania against European traditions of thinking about intimacy and exchange, Vanessa Smith illuminates the traditions and desires that led Bougainville and other European voyagers to believe that the first word they heard in the Pacific was the word for friend. Her book encompasses forty years of encounters from the arrival of the Dolphin in Tahiti in June 1767, through Cook's and Bligh's voyages, to early missionary and beachcomber settlement in the Marquesas. It unpacks both the political and emotional significances of ideas of friendship for late eighteenth-century European, and particularly British, explorations of Oceania.

Author : Richard Schickel
Publisher : Ivan R. Dee Publisher
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105028665169

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Intimate Strangers by Richard Schickel Pdf

In trying to understand the power of celebrity in modern life, Schickel offers examples of how celebrity shapes the world, and offers a chilling warning about the consequences of obsession with celebrity.

Author : Lillian B. Rubin
Publisher : Harper Perennial
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1990-06-22
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0060911344

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Intimate Strangers by Lillian B. Rubin Pdf

Intimate Strangers is a book for every man and woman who has ever yearned for an intimate relationship and wondered why it seemed so elusive. Drawing on years of research, writing, and counseling about marriage and the family, interviews with more than two hundred couples, and her own experiences, Lillian Rubin explains not just how the differences between women and men arise but how they affect such critical issues as intimacy, sexuality, dependency, work, and parenting. Candid, compassionate, and insightful, Rubin's lucid examination should aid each of us in our struggle for greater personal and emotional satisfaction.

Author : Bill Zehme
Publisher : Delta
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Celebrities
ISBN : 0385333749

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Intimate Strangers by Bill Zehme Pdf

From the author of the acclaimed biography "Lost in the Funhouse" comes an audacious collection of celebrity/pop cultural profiles written for "Esquire, Rolling Stone, " and more.

Author : Sandra Marton
Publisher : Thorndike Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Large type books
ISBN : 0263120279

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Intimate Strangers by Sandra Marton Pdf

Author : Dallas Schulze
Publisher : HarperCollins Australia
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2012-07-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781460839386

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Lovers And Other Strangers by Dallas Schulze Pdf

LOOKS LIKE THINGS WERE HEATING UP IN GOOD OL' SERENITY FALLS.... And Shannon Deveraux was starting to feel the sizzle. She was a woman who had never had a place to call home, yet she seemed tempted by Serenity. Maybe it was the charm of the village? Or the friendliness of even the most gossipy neighbors? Or could it be her drop-dead gorgeous and sexy new neighbor, Reece Morgan? Except Reece was hardly new in town. In fact, he'd lived the first miserable seventeen years of his life here and, really, he was just passing through. Until he got a look at the proverbially beautiful girl next door—and realized that sometimes, there really was no place like home....

Author : John Mann
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1007249404

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Author : Roxana Robinson
Publisher : Random House
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307430434

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A Perfect Stranger by Roxana Robinson Pdf

In Roxana Robinson’s lucid and elegant prose, her characters’ inner worlds open up to us, revealing private emotional cores that are familiar in their needs, their secrets, and their longings. These people tell us the truth–not only about themselves, their relationships, and their lives, but about ourselves as well. In “Family Christmas,” a young girl takes a holiday trip to her grandparents’, where the formal atmosphere is shattered by a mysterious and chaotic event that she knows she’s too young to understand but struggles to comprehend. In “Blind Man,” a college professor copes with the onslaught of grief after his daughter’s death. In “The Face Lift,” two college friends renew their bond across a great cultural divide. The sad and hilarious “Assistance” flawlessly details the tragicomic aspects of ageing–seen through the eyes of a daughter-turned-caretaker. The terrors of illness are explored in “The Treatment,” and in “Assez,” a trip to Provence reveals the true volatility of love–and reminds us that we often don’t realize that what we have is enough until it’s gone. A Perfect Stranger powerfully and affectingly examines the complex, intricate network of experiences that binds us to one another. These stories are tender, raw, lovely, and fine–and they reaffirm Roxana Robinson’s place at the forefront of modern literature.

Author : Jeff Sharlet
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2020-02-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781324003212

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This Brilliant Darkness: A Book of Strangers by Jeff Sharlet Pdf

“A luminous, moving and visual record of fleeting moments of connection.” —New York Times Book Review, Editors’ Choice A visionary work of radical empathy. Known for immersion journalism that is more immersed than most people are willing to go, and for a prose style that is somehow both fierce and soulful, Jeff Sharlet dives deep into the darkness around us and awaiting us. This work began when his father had a heart attack; two years later, Jeff, still in his forties, had a heart attack of his own. In the grip of writerly self-doubt, Jeff turned to images, taking snapshots and posting them on Instagram, writing short, true stories that bloomed into documentary. During those two years, he spent a lot of time on the road: meeting strangers working night shifts as he drove through the mountains to see his father; exploring the life and death of Charley Keunang, a once-aspiring actor shot by the police on LA’s Skid Row; documenting gay pride amidst the violent homophobia of Putin’s Russia; passing time with homeless teen addicts in Dublin; and accompanying a lonely woman, whose only friend was a houseplant, on shopping trips. Early readers have called this book “incantatory,” the voice “prophetic,” in “James Agee’s tradition of looking at the reality of American lives.” Defined by insomnia and late-night driving and the companionship of other darkness-dwellers—night bakers and last-call drinkers, frightened people and frightening people, the homeless, the lost (or merely disoriented), and other people on the margins—This Brilliant Darkness erases the boundaries between author, subject, and reader to ask: how do people live with suffering?

Author : Renée Carlino
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2015-08-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781501105784

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Before We Were Strangers by Renée Carlino Pdf

From the USA TODAY bestselling author of Sweet Thing and Nowhere But Here comes a love story about a Craigslist “missed connection” post that gives two people a second chance at love fifteen years after they were separated in New York City. To the Green-eyed Lovebird: We met fifteen years ago, almost to the day, when I moved my stuff into the NYU dorm room next to yours at Senior House. You called us fast friends. I like to think it was more. We lived on nothing but the excitement of finding ourselves through music (you were obsessed with Jeff Buckley), photography (I couldn’t stop taking pictures of you), hanging out in Washington Square Park, and all the weird things we did to make money. I learned more about myself that year than any other. Yet, somehow, it all fell apart. We lost touch the summer after graduation when I went to South America to work for National Geographic. When I came back, you were gone. A part of me still wonders if I pushed you too hard after the wedding… I didn’t see you again until a month ago. It was a Wednesday. You were rocking back on your heels, balancing on that thick yellow line that runs along the subway platform, waiting for the F train. I didn’t know it was you until it was too late, and then you were gone. Again. You said my name; I saw it on your lips. I tried to will the train to stop, just so I could say hello. After seeing you, all of the youthful feelings and memories came flooding back to me, and now I’ve spent the better part of a month wondering what your life is like. I might be totally out of my mind, but would you like to get a drink with me and catch up on the last decade and a half? M

Author : Kobi Israel
Publisher : Bruno Gmuender GMBH
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Gay erotic photography
ISBN : 3861876957

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Intimate Strangers by Kobi Israel Pdf

Award-winning photographer Kobi Israel returns,with a vibrant, unconventional body of work,sharing his intimate encounters in the melting pot,of 21st century London. He uncovers that in the,urban mosaic of Soho everyone comes from another,continent, another country or another city. It's a,medley of foreigners where everyone is a stranger,just waiting to be discovered. In a provocative,snapshot style he shares his personal search for,the secret, most secluded moments of day-to-day,life and the divine that is hidden in all of us.

Author : Gene Altman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2015-03-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1320584586

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Cityscapes: Intimate Strangers by Gene Altman Pdf

12"x12" Art/Photography book. Candid "street" photographs of New Yorkers in the 1960's with accompanying imaginative texts. Preface, 90 b/w photographs, technical details, 176 pages. All photographs and texts by the aurthor.

Author : Katharine Susannah Prichard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1937
Category : Electronic
ISBN : LCCN:37011443

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Intimate Strangers by Katharine Susannah Prichard Pdf