Les Dieux De Howl Mountain

Author : Taylor Brown
Publisher : Albin Michel
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2019-05-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9782226434661

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Les Dieux de Howl Mountain by Taylor Brown Pdf

Hanté par la guerre de Corée, où il a perdu une jambe, Rory Docherty est de retour chez lui dans les montagnes de Caroline du Nord. C'est auprès de sa grand-mère, un personnage hors du commun, que le jeune homme tente de se reconstruire et de résoudre le mystère de ses origines, que sa mère, muette et internée en hôpital psychiatrique, n'a jamais pu lui révéler. Embauché par un baron de l'alcool clandestin dont le monopole se trouve menacé, il va devoir déjouer la surveillance des agents fédéraux tout en affrontant les fantômes du passé... Entre les courses automobiles illégales, les pasteurs qui prêchent avec des serpents venimeux dans les mains, les coutumes et croyances d'un endroit reculé au début des années cinquante, c'est tout un univers que fait revivre Taylor Brown dans ce roman haletant qui rappelle Donald Ray Pollock et Tom Franklin.

Author : Taylor Brown
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2019-05-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 2226437304

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Les dieux de Howl Mountain by Taylor Brown Pdf

1952, dans les montagnes de Caroline du Nord, la petite ville de Gumtree semble vivre hors du temps au rythme de la contrebande d'alcool et des courses de voitures clandestines. Le jeune Rory Docherty, fraîchement revenu de la guerre de Corée avec une jambe en moins, retrouve sa place dans la communauté auprès de sa grand-mère aimante. Puis il se fait embaucher comme chauffeur, malgré son handicap, par le baron du whisky de la région, dont le monopole se trouve aujourd'hui menacé par un clan rival. Un jour, il tombe par hasard sur une réunion de Pentecôtistes où le pasteur prêche avec des serpents dans les mains, persuadé que sa foi le protège de leur venin mortel. Rory est fasciné et tombe sous le charme de la fille de cet homme, mais sa grand-mère refuse, pour de troubles raisons, qu'il la côtoie. Cette vieille guérisseuse, réputée dans la région, est la seule à savoir pourquoi la mère de Rory est internée et ne dit plus un mot. Lorsque son petit-fils se trouvera en danger de mort, il lui faudra décider de tout lui avouer ou, au contraire, de continuer à le protéger du passé...

Author : Taylor Brown
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2018-03-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781250111784

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Gods of Howl Mountain by Taylor Brown Pdf

“A fresh, authentic, and eloquent new voice in American fiction.” - Robert Morgan, New York Times bestselling author of Gap Creek In Gods of Howl Mountain, award-winning author Taylor Brown explores a world of folk healers, whiskey-runners, and dark family secrets in the high country of 1950s North Carolina. Bootlegger Rory Docherty has returned home to the fabled mountain of his childhood - a misty wilderness that holds its secrets close and keeps the outside world at gunpoint. Slowed by a wooden leg and haunted by memories of the Korean War, Rory runs bootleg whiskey for a powerful mountain clan in a retro-fitted '40 Ford coupe. Between deliveries to roadhouses, brothels, and private clients, he lives with his formidable grandmother, evades federal agents, and stokes the wrath of a rival runner. In the mill town at the foot of the mountains - a hotbed of violence, moonshine, and the burgeoning sport of stock-car racing - Rory is bewitched by the mysterious daughter of a snake-handling preacher. His grandmother, Maybelline “Granny May” Docherty, opposes this match for her own reasons, believing that "some things are best left buried." A folk healer whose powers are rumored to rival those of a wood witch, she concocts potions and cures for the people of the mountains while harboring an explosive secret about Rory’s mother - the truth behind her long confinement in a mental hospital, during which time she has not spoken one word. When Rory's life is threatened, Granny must decide whether to reveal what she knows...or protect her only grandson from the past. With gritty and atmospheric prose, Taylor Brown brings to life a perilous mountain and the family who rules it.

Author : Boston Public Library
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1903
Category : Boston (Mass.)
ISBN : STANFORD:36105027886493

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Monthly Bulletin of Books Added to the Public Library of the City of Boston by Boston Public Library Pdf

Author : Glen Burns
Publisher : Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015008630439

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Great Poets Howl by Glen Burns Pdf

Allen Ginsberg's Howl is a seminal document for the post-modernisms exfoliating out of World War II - much like T.S. Eliot's Waste Land for modernism. This study traces his formative development in time/space during years 1943 till mid-50s Howl breakthru of individual voice. (A concluding chapter sketches subsequent development up to Plutonium Ode 1978). Close-reading of individual poems is set within the context of biography and cultural politics showing growth of Ginsberg's poetics as adapted from William Carlos Williams' visions of ordinary mind, Whitman's expansiveness and comradeship, and Blake's politics of desire. As «revolt of sudras (untouchables) poet, » Ginsberg has concentrated language on marginal mankind so that poetic praxis folds into a dimension of visionary politics and poem becomes prophetic moment voiced against the paranoia of state terrorism. Howl is a key event in the struggle for freedom.

Author : Susanna Braund,Zara Martirosova Torlone
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-04
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780192538840

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Virgil and his Translators by Susanna Braund,Zara Martirosova Torlone Pdf

This is the first volume to offer a critical overview of the long and complicated history of translations of Virgil from the early modern period to the present day, transcending traditional studies of single translations or particular national traditions in isolation to offer an insightful comparative perspective. The twenty-nine essays in the collection cover numerous European languages - from English, French, and German, to Greek, Irish, Italian, Norwegian, Slovenian, and Spanish - but also look well beyond Europe to include discussion of Brazilian, Chinese, Esperanto, Russian, and Turkish translations of Virgil. While the opening two contributions lay down a broad theoretical and comparative framework, the majority conduct comparisons within a particular language and combine detailed case studies with in-depth contextualization and theoretical background, showing how the translations discussed are embedded in their own cultures and historical moments. The final two essays are written from the perspective of contemporary translators, closing out the volume with a profound assessment not only of the influence exerted by the major Roman poet on later literature, but also why translation of a canonical author such as Virgil matters, not only as a national and transnational cultural phenomenon, but as a personal engagement with a literature of enduring power and relevance.

Author : Canada
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1112 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : Canada
ISBN : UIUC:30112110811855

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The Canada Gazette by Canada Pdf

Author : Blaise Pascal
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 451 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780429602450

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Pascal's Pensées by Blaise Pascal Pdf

Published in 1950: The Penseés is a collection of philosophical fragments, notes and essays in which Pascal explores the contradictions of human nature in psychological, social, metaphysical and - above all - theological terms. Mankind emerges from Pascal's analysis as a wretched and desolate creature within an impersonal universe, but who can be transformed through faith in God's grace.

Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher : Copyright Office, Library of Congress
Page : 972 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Copyright
ISBN : STANFORD:36105006281047

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Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series by Library of Congress. Copyright Office Pdf

Includes Part 1, Number 1: Books and Pamphlets, Including Serials and Contributions to Periodicals (January - June)

Author : DK
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 802 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2010-10-18
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9780756675103

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Opus Vino by DK Pdf

The techniques and research that have led the world's winemaking revolution have been transported around the globe, pushing boundaries in every region. An expansive new reference is needed to embrace these changes. Opus Vino provides greater coverage and a more up-to-date approach to the wine world than any other illustrated wine book. Use it as an encyclopedia to look up wine-producing regions, appellations, wineries, and producers; as an atlas to find places of interest; and as a travel guide to plan winery tours. Opus Vino takes a new look at the new world of wine from a new generation of wine writers. It takes wine publishing to new heights, and gives both professionals and amateur enthusiasts a wine reference fit for the 21st century.

Author : Edward Riches de Levante
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 724 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1876
Category : Electronic
ISBN : PSU:000022324832

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The Hexaglot Bible by Edward Riches de Levante Pdf

Author : Jancis Robinson,Julia Harding
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 912 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2015-09-17
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9780191016073

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The Oxford Companion to Wine by Jancis Robinson,Julia Harding Pdf

Published in 1994 to worldwide acclaim, the first edition of Jancis Robinson's seminal volume immediately attained legendary status, winning every major wine book award including the Glenfiddich and Julia Child/IACP awards, as well as writer and woman of the year accolades for its editor on both sides of the Atlantic. Combining meticulously-researched fact with refreshing opinion and wit, The Oxford Companion to Wine presents almost 4,000 entries on every wine-related topic imaginable, from regions and grape varieties to the owners, connoisseurs, growers, and tasters in wine through the ages; from viticulture and oenology to the history of wine, from its origins to the present day. More than 180 esteemed contributors (including 58 new to this edition) range from internationally renowned academics to some of the most famous wine writers and wine specialists in the world. Now exhaustively updated, this fourth edition incorporates the very latest international research to present 300 new entries on topics ranging from additives and wine apps to WSET and Zelen. Over 60 per cent of all entries have been revised; and useful lists and statistics are appended, including a unique list of the world's controlled appellations and their permitted grape varieties, as well as vineyard area, wine production and consumption by country. Illustrated with almost 30 updated maps of every important wine region in the world, many useful charts and diagrams, and 16 stunning colour photographs, this Companion is unlike any other wine book, offering an understanding of wine in all of its wider contexts—notably historical, cultural, and scientific—and serving as a truly companionable point of reference into which any wine-lover can dip and browse.

Author : Randle Cotgrave,James Howell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 992 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1650
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN : OSU:32435027626076

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A French-English Dictionary by Randle Cotgrave,James Howell Pdf

Author : W. Michelle Wang,Daniel K. Jernigan,Neil Murphy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2020-12-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000220742

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The Routledge Companion to Death and Literature by W. Michelle Wang,Daniel K. Jernigan,Neil Murphy Pdf

The Routledge Companion to Death and Literature seeks to understand the ways in which literature has engaged deeply with the ever-evolving relationship humanity has with its ultimate demise. It is the most comprehensive collection in this growing field of study and includes essays by Brian McHale, Catherine Belling, Ronald Schleifer, Helen Swift, and Ira Nadel, as well as the work of a generation of younger scholars from around the globe, who bring valuable transnational insights. Encompassing a diverse range of mediums and genres – including biography and autobiography, documentary, drama, elegy, film, the novel and graphic novel, opera, picturebooks, poetry, television, and more – the contributors offer a dynamic mix of approaches that range from expansive perspectives on particular periods and genres to extended analyses of select case studies. Essays are included from every major Western period, including Classical, Middle Ages, Renaissance, and so on, right up to the contemporary. This collection provides a telling demonstration of the myriad ways that humanity has learned to live with the inevitability of death, where “live with” itself might mean any number of things: from consoling, to memorializing, to rationalizing, to fending off, to evading, and, perhaps most compellingly of all, to escaping. Engagingly written and drawing on examples from around the world, this volume is indispensable to both students and scholars working in the fields of medical humanities, thanatography (death studies), life writing, Victorian studies, modernist studies, narrative, contemporary fiction, popular culture, and more.

Author : Riva Castleman
Publisher : ABRAMS
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1997-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0810961814

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A Century of Artists Books by Riva Castleman Pdf

Published to accompany the 1994 exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, this book constitutes the most extensive survey of modern illustrated books to be offered in many years. Work by artists from Pierre Bonnard to Barbara Kruger and writers from Guillaume Apollinarie to Susan Sontag. An importnt reference for collectors and connoisseurs. Includes notable works by Marc Chagall, Henri Matisse, and Pablo Picasso.