Jack S Life

Author : Patrick McGilligan
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2015-11-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780393350975

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Jack's Life: A Biography of Jack Nicholson (Updated and Expanded) by Patrick McGilligan Pdf

“Jack’s Life feels true. . . . Fascinating.”—Entertainment Weekly Jack Nicholson has lived large on and off the screen. Patrick McGilligan, one of America’s outstanding film biographers, has plumbed research and interviews to expand his definitive biography since its publication twenty years ago. Jack’s Life captures the essence of this most private and public of stars with a vivid depiction of Nicholson’s tangled Dickensian upbringing, his hungry years as actor and writer, his nearaccidental breakthrough in Easy Rider, and his prolificacy and artistry ever since, with roles in Chinatown, Five Easy Pieces, The Shining, A Few Good Men, As Good As It Gets, and The Departed, to name a beloved handful of his sixty-plus films. McGilligan captures the life and legacy of this unabashed and complex personality

Author : Douglas H. Gresham
Publisher : B&H Publishing Group
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0805432469

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Jack's Life by Douglas H. Gresham Pdf

The accompanying DVD features an exclusive interview with Douglas Gresham, stepson to C. S. Lewis who wrote this first-hand biography of the famous author .

Author : Jack Gantos
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2002-03-26
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780374706104

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Hole in My Life by Jack Gantos Pdf

Becoming a writer the hard way In the summer of 1971, Jack Gantos was an aspiring writer looking for adventure, cash for college tuition, and a way out of a dead-end job. For ten thousand dollars, he recklessly agreed to help sail a sixty-foot yacht loaded with a ton of hashish from the Virgin Islands to New York City, where he and his partners sold the drug until federal agents caught up with them. For his part in the conspiracy, Gantos was sentenced to serve up to six years in prison. In Hole in My Life, this prizewinning author of over thirty books for young people confronts the period of struggle and confinement that marked the end of his own youth. On the surface, the narrative tumbles from one crazed moment to the next as Gantos pieces together the story of his restless final year of high school, his short-lived career as a criminal, and his time in prison. But running just beneath the action is the story of how Gantos – once he was locked up in a small, yellow-walled cell – moved from wanting to be a writer to writing, and how dedicating himself more fully to the thing he most wanted to do helped him endure and ultimately overcome the worst experience of his life. This title has Common Core connections. Hole in My Life is a 2003 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year.

Author : Sarah Ellis
Publisher : Groundwood Books Ltd
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2004-07-26
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780888996183

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The Several Lives of Orphan Jack by Sarah Ellis Pdf

When, at the age of twelve, he is sent out from the Opportunities School for Orphans and Foundlings to be a bookkeeper's apprentice, Jack finds his heretofore predictable life full of unusual adventures.

Author : George Sayer
Publisher : Crossway
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2005-06-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781433518409

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Jack by George Sayer Pdf

As I walked away from New Buildings, I found the man that Lewis had called "Tollers" sitting on one of the stone steps in front of the arcade. "How did you get on?" he asked. "I think rather well. I think he will be a most interesting tutor to have." "Interesting? Yes, he's certainly that," said the man, who I later learned was J. R. R. Tolkien. "You'll never get to the bottom of him." Over the next twenty-nine years, author George Sayer's first impression about C. S. Lewis proved true. He was interesting; but he was more than just that. He was a devout Christian, gifted literary scholar, best-selling author, and brilliant apologist. Sayer draws from a variety of sources, including his close friendship with Lewis and the million-word diary of Lewis's brother, to paint a portrait of the man whose friends knew as Jack. Offering glimpses into Lewis's extraordinary relationships and experiences, Jack details the great scholar's life at the Kilns; days at Magdalen College; meetings with the Inklings; marriage to Joy Davidman Gresham; and the creative process that produced such world-famous works as the classic Chronicles of Narnia, Mere Christianity, and The Screwtape Letters. This book is an intimate account of the man who helped-and through his works, continues to help-generations hear and understand the heart of Christianity.

Author : Marilynne Robinson
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780349011783

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Jack by Marilynne Robinson Pdf

'[Her work] defines universal truths about what it means to be human' Barack Obama 'Marilynne Robinson is one of the greatest writers of our time' Sunday Times 'Jack is the fourth in Robinson's luminous, profound Gilead series and perhaps the best yet' Observer Marilynne Robinson, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the American National Humanities Medal, returns to the world of Gilead with Jack, the final in one of the great works of contemporary American fiction. Jack tells the story of John Ames Boughton, the loved and grieved-over prodigal son of a Presbyterian minister in Gilead, Iowa, a drunkard and a ne'er-do-well. In segregated St. Louis sometime after World War II, Jack falls in love with Della Miles, an African-American high school teacher, also a preacher's child, with a discriminating mind, a generous spirit and an independent will. Their fraught, beautiful story is one of Robinson's greatest achievements.

Author : Peter Krass
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2004-04-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780471273929

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Blood and Whiskey by Peter Krass Pdf

The first-ever biography of the man who created America's most famous whiskey Born in Lynchburg, Tennessee, in 1850, Jack Daniel became a legendary moonshiner at age 15 before launching a legitimate distillery ten years later. By the time he died in 1911, he was an American legend-and his Old No. 7 Tennessee sipping whiskey was an international sensation, the winner of gold medals at the St. Louis World's Fair and the Liege International Exposition in Belgium. Blood and Whiskey captures Daniel's indomitable rise in the rough-edged world of the nineteenth-century whiskey trade-and shows how his commitment to quality (his whiskey was always charcoal-filtered) and his flair for marketing and packaging (he launched his distinctive square bottle in 189-5) helped create one of America's most venerable and recognizable brands.

Author : Barry Gifford,Lawrence Lee
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2012-04-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781101580462

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Jack's Book by Barry Gifford,Lawrence Lee Pdf

"A fascinating literary and historical document, the most insightful look at the Beat Generation." —Dan Wakefield, author of New York in the Fifties and Going All the Way First published in 1978, Jack's Book gives us an intimate look into the life and times of the "King of the Beats." Through the words of the close friends, lovers, artists, and drinking buddies who survived him, writers Barry Gifford and Lawrence Lee recount Jack Kerouac's story, from his childhood in Lowell, Massachusetts, to his tragic end in Florida at the age of forty-seven. Including anecdotes from an eclectic list of well-known figures such as Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, and Gore Vidal, as well as Kerouac's ordinary acquaintances, this groundbreaking oral biography—the first of its kind—presents us with a remarkably insightful portrait of an American legend and the spirit of a generation.

Author : Lisa Doan,Ivica Stevanovic
Publisher : Lerner + ORM
Page : 117 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2014-08-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781467773980

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Jack and the Wild Life by Lisa Doan,Ivica Stevanovic Pdf

After a wild plan by his parents left Jack stranded in the Caribbean, the Berenson family decided to lay out some rules. Jack's mom and dad agreed they wouldn't take so many risks. Jack agreed he'd try to live life without worrying quite so much. Then Jack's parents thought up another get-rich-quick scheme. Now the family's driving around Kenya. An animal attack is about to send Jack up a tree?alone, with limited supplies. As Jack attempts to outsmart a ferocious honey badger and keep away from an angry elephant, he'll have plenty of time to wonder if the Berenson Family Decision-Making Rules did enough to keep him out of trouble.

Author : Jolena Taylor King
Publisher : Review and Herald Pub Assoc
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0828013241

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Jack by Jolena Taylor King Pdf

Author : COLONEL JACK.
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1801
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0024172784

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The Life and Singular Adventures of the Three Jacks of Rosemary Lane; More Particularly the Life of Colonel Jack, in Whose Memoirs is Portrayed a Long Chain of Successful Occurences, Etc by COLONEL JACK. Pdf

Author : Jack Gantos
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2015-09-01
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780374303457

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The Trouble in Me by Jack Gantos Pdf

This fiery autobiographical novel captures a pivotal week or two in the life of fourteen-year-old Jack Gantos, as the author reveals the moment he began to slide off track as a kid who in just a few years would find himself locked up in a federal penitentiary for the crimes portrayed in the memoir Hole in My Life. Set in the Fort Lauderdale neighborhood of his family's latest rental home, The Trouble in Me opens with an explosive encounter in which Jack first meets his awesomely rebellious older neighbor, Gary Pagoda, just back from juvie for car theft. Instantly mesmerized, Jack decides he will do whatever it takes to be like Gary. As a follower, Jack is eager to leave his old self behind, and desperate for whatever crazy, hilarious, frightening thing might happen next. But he may not be as ready as he thinks when the trouble in him comes blazing to life. This title has Common Core connections.

Author : Sylvia D. Lynch
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2018-03-19
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476631752

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Jack Lord by Sylvia D. Lynch Pdf

Before his rise to superstardom portraying Detective Steve McGarrett on the long-running police drama Hawaii Five-O, Jack Lord was already a dedicated and versatile actor on Broadway, in film and on television. His range of roles included a Virginia gentleman planter in Colonial Williamsburg (The Story of a Patriot), CIA agent Felix Leiter in the first James Bond movie (Dr. No) and the title character in the cult classic rodeo TV series Stoney Burke. Lord’s career culminated in twelve seasons on Hawaii Five-O, where his creative control of the series left an indelible mark on every aspect of its production. This book, the first to draw on Lord’s massive personal archive, gives a behind-the-scenes look into the life and work of a TV legend.

Author : Peter Thompson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Motion picture actors and actresses
ISBN : 1840181486

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Jack Nicholson by Peter Thompson Pdf

Jack Nicholson has been part of the Hollywood movie scene for more than 40 years. Since his role in Easy Rider in 1969, he has lived in the limelight. This book explores the truth about the secret life of the actor who calls himself Dr Devil. Writer and investigative journalist, Peter Thompson catches Nicholson unguarded in off-screen moments to examine the contradictions of his personality. Nicholson reveals the truth behind his feud with Susan Anspach, the mother of his 26-year-old son Caleb, the truth about his other children, how Marlon Brando comforted him after the murder of his half-sister, Pamela, and why he continues to pursue a vendetta against her grieving husband. He also discloses the intimate secrets of his stormy relationships with Anjelica Houston and Rebecca Broussard. The book exposes him as a spoiled playboy trying to escape reality with sex and drug binges. Thompson paints a picture of a tormented man who inflicts pain on his loved ones and ultimately on himself.

Author : Tom Scioli
Publisher : Ten Speed Graphic
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2020-07-14
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781984856913

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Jack Kirby by Tom Scioli Pdf

Told in vivid graphic novel form by a groundbreaking Eisner-nominated comics creator, the long-overdue biography of the legend who co-created Captain America, Iron Man, Black Panther, the Fantastic Four, the X-Men, and many more superhero favorites. “A fast-paced celebration of an underheralded legend within the comic-book industry.”—Kirkus Reviews NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY LIBRARY JOURNAL This sweeping, full-color comic book biography tells the complete life story of Jack Kirby, co-creator of some of the most enduring superheroes and villains of the twentieth century for Marvel Comics, DC Comics, and more. Critically acclaimed graphic novelist Tom Scioli breathes visual life into Kirby's life story--from his days growing up in New York during the Great Depression and discovering a love for science fiction and cartoons to his time on the frontlines in the European theatre of World War II where he experienced the type of action and adventure he'd later imbue his comic pages with, and on to his world-changing collaborations at Marvel with Stan Lee, where the pair redefined comics as a part of pop culture. Just as every great superhero needs a villain to overcome, Kirby's story also includes his struggles to receive the recognition and compensation that he believed his work deserved. Scioli captures his moves from Marvel to DC and back again, showing how Kirby himself and later his family fought to preserve his artistic legacy. Drawn from an unparalleled imagination and a life as exciting as his comic book tales, Kirby's super-creations have influenced subsequent generations of creatives in the comics field and beyond. Now, readers can experience the life and times of a comics titan through the medium that made him famous.