Mad Days Of Me Escaping Barcelona

Author : Henry Martin
Publisher : Henry Martin
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2012-11-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781478362166

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Mad Days of Me: Escaping Barcelona by Henry Martin Pdf

Having left behind his childhood town full of dead-end jobs and bleak prospects for a future, Rudy, a nineteen-year old runaway, arrives in Barcelona. Two days later, he finds himself outside a subway station half-naked and robbed of all his possessions. Trapped in a city whose language he doesn't speak, without a passport or anyone to turn to, Rudy is plunged into a world of hunger and homelessness. Yet, fighting off the ravages of slow starvation proves far easier than the struggle to maintain his own decency and humanity when he is forced to befriend a hostile thug who holds the only key to Rudy's escape. Unconditionally realistic, Mad Days of Me: Escaping Barcelona explores the conflicted ideology of youth and society's indifference to suffering in a harrowing tale of survival. This is a story of perseverance. A story of anguish, dignity, madness, and redemption.

Author : Henry Martin
Publisher : You Lulu Incorporated
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0615138845

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The Mad Days of Me by Henry Martin Pdf

Trapped in the streets of Barcelona after falling victim to a heinous crime; alone, passport stolen, unable to speak the language. For Rudy, there is only one chance for escape: patience in the face of the odds of survival being against him, while he struggles against the ravages of slow starvation and the plots and schemes of his fellow derelicts to maintain his decency and humanity. He must escape Barcelona.

Author : Henry Martin
Publisher : Henry Martin
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2013-06-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781480240834

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Mad Days of Me: Finding Eivissa by Henry Martin Pdf

Astray on an unfamiliar island following his unconventional escape from Barcelona, without shelter and abandoned by his companions, an unlikely relationship becomes Rudy's only hope to settle down. Plunged into a world of uncontested authority, former lovers, and a past as perverted as his own, struggling to reconcile with his own mistakes, hope proves to be exhausting to hold on to. This is a story of human spirit in the face of the impossible. This is a story of perseverance, and the power of dreaming. It is a story of hope. This is the second book in the Mad Days of Me, trilogy

Author : Henry Martin
Publisher : Henry Martin
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2013-06-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781480240865

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Mad Days of Me: Eluding Reality by Henry Martin Pdf

Inevitably separated from the woman who brought hope back to his life, Rudy leaves for France to seek seasonal employment. This simple journey, however, soon becomes a quest for self-discovery, which takes him through France, Italy, and Austria before he is able to return to Spain. Battling his inner demons as the lies he invented in order to survive close in on him, Rudy's sanity is tested in ways he would never imagine. This is a story of human spirit. This is a story of perseverance, and the power of love to transcend cultures, borders, and one's own past. It is a story of reconciliation.

Author : Cipriano de Rivas Cherif
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0838635849

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Portrait of an Unknown Man by Cipriano de Rivas Cherif Pdf

"Paul Stewart's translation of Portrait of an Unknown Man, Cipriano de Rivas Cherif's biography of his brother-in-law and friend, introduces to English-speaking readers Manuel Azana, Spain's wartime president whom the Franco regime had treated as a nonperson." "Considered the symbol of the Second Republic in Spain, Azana was the subject of a flood of books and articles in 1990, the fiftieth anniversary of his death. The Spanish Ministry of Culture sponsored a major exhibition honoring Azana as author and statesman, while symposia dedicated to him were held in Barcelona and Montauban, France, where he died after finding uneasy refuge from Franco's armies and Hitler's Gestapo." "The biography also clarifies the complex politics of Spain in the twenties and thirties by focusing on this preeminent politician of that era, and it achieves depth in its portrait by painting the background of three generations of a bourgeois family caught up in dramatically changing times."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Author : George Watt
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813144139

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Escape from Hitler's Europe by George Watt Pdf

“An absorbing story about how the Lincoln veteran George Watt managed to escape from Nazi-occupied Belgium.”—San Francisco Review of Books November 1943: American flyer George Watt parachutes out of his burning warplane and lands in rural Nazi-occupied Belgium. Escape from Hitler’s Europe is the incredible story of his getaway—how brave villagers spirited him to Brussels to connect with the Comet Line, a rescue arm of the Belgian resistance. This was a gravely dangerous mission, especially for a Jewish soldier who had fought against Franco in the Spanish Civil War. Watt recounts dodging the Gestapo, entering Paris via the underground, and finally, crossing the treacherous Pyrenees into Spain. In 1985, he returned to Belgium and discovered an astonishing postscript to his wartime experiences. “A story of what is best in human beings triumphing over what is worst.”—John Sayles, author of Yellow Earth “One of those rare little narratives that engage the reader from the first page to the last . . . It is about the human spirit and those willing to risk their lives for a stranger.”—Library Journal "A hell of an adventure story."―Ring Lardner, Jr., author of The Ecstasy of Owen Muir “This is one of my favorite books about World War II, and the first I have read that is about the Comet Line and the people who helped with running it.”—Armchair Interviews “This is an interesting and exciting account that provides a first-person examination of the plight of an individual airman, and insights into the scope, risks, and techniques of the Belgian and French underground movements.”—Col. Stetson M. Siler, USAF (Ret.)

Author : Ferdinand de Lesseps
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : Engineers
ISBN : IOWA:31858049978426

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The mission to Rome. Episodes of 1848 at Paris and Madrid. Rome, Suez, Panama. The origin of the Suez canal by Ferdinand de Lesseps Pdf

Author : Réanne Hemingway-Douglass,Don Douglass
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2015-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781473861077

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The Shelburne Escape Line by Réanne Hemingway-Douglass,Don Douglass Pdf

An account of WWII rescues that “pays tribute to the audacity and heroism of the men and women of the French Resistance and Allied military personnel” (Warship World). The Shelburne was one of the later escape lines that operated within Nazi-occupied Europe. It was established at the end of 1943 by two agents who worked for MI-9, the London-based military intelligence agency responsible for providing assistance to Allied servicemen stranded behind enemy lines. Working with the French Resistance, these agents arranged for groups of Allied airmen to be taken from “safe houses” in Paris to Brittany, where a Royal Navy motor gunboat picked them up from a secluded beach and delivered them back to England. Eight audacious evacuation operations were conducted between January and August, 1944, without the Shelburne Line ever being infiltrated by the Gestapo. Aspects of the Shelburne story have been told previously in memoirs by several of the participants, including the late MP Airey Neave, who was an MI-9 operative. However, Hemingway-Douglass expands the story to include recollections of some of the local Breton people who were involved with the Line. The second half of the book comprises personal stories of airmen and other individuals who were affiliated with the Shelburne Line or were otherwise caught up in the war in France. A lifelong Francophile, Hemingway-Douglass took eight years to research and write the book. She describes it as a labor of love that pays tribute to the heroism and courage of “ordinary” people, while reinforcing the fact that war touches everybody. “Fascinating . . . A must read for military and espionage enthusiasts.” —The Bulletin (Military Historical Society)

Author : J. N. Hillgarth
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 614 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 0472110926

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The Mirror of Spain, 1500-1700 by J. N. Hillgarth Pdf

Spanish national character imposed and exposed

Author : William Gaddis
Publisher : Deep Vellum Publishing
Page : 463 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2013-03-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781564788375

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Letters of William Gaddis by William Gaddis Pdf

Now recognized as one of the giants of postwar American fiction, William Gaddis (1922–98) shunned the spotlight during his life, which makes this collection of his letters a revelation. Beginning in 1930 when Gaddis was at boarding-school and ending in September 1998, a few months before his death, these letters function as a kind of autobiography, and are all the more valuable because Gaddis was not an autobiographical writer. Here we see him forging his first novel The Recognitions (1955) while living in Mexico, fighting in a revolution in Costa Rica, and working in Spain, France, and North Africa. Over the next twenty years he struggles to find time to write the National Book Award-winning J R (1975) amid the complications of work and family; deals with divorce and disillusionment before reviving his career with Carpenter's Gothic (1985); then teaches himself enough about the law to indite A Frolic of His Own (1994), which earned him another NBA. Returning to a topic he first wrote about in the 1940s, he finishes his last novel Agape Agape as he lay dying.

Author : T’ien-wen Chu
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1999-05-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0231500084

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Notes of a Desolate Man by T’ien-wen Chu Pdf

Winner of the coveted China Times Novel Prize, this postmodern, first-person tale of a contemporary Taiwanese gay man reflecting on his life, loves, and intellectual influences is among the most important recent novels in Taiwan. The narrator, Xiao Shao, recollects a series of friends and lovers, as he watches his childhood friend, Ah Yao, succumb to complications from AIDS. The brute fact of Ah Yao's death focuses Shao's simultaneously erudite and erotic reflections magnetically on the core theme of mortality. By turns humorous and despondent, the narrator struggles to come to terms with Ah Yao's risky lifestyle, radical political activism, and eventual death; the fragility of romantic love; the awesome power of eros; the solace of writing; the cold ennui of a younger generation enthralled only by video games; and life on the edge of mainstream Taiwanese society. His feverish journey through forests of metaphor and allusion—from Fellini and Lévi-Strauss to classical Chinese poetry—serves as a litany protecting him from the ravages of time and finitude. Impressive in scope and detail, Notes of a Desolate Man employs the motif of its characters' marginalized sexuality to highlight Taiwan's vivid and fragile existence on the periphery of mainland China. Howard Goldblatt and Sylvia Li-chun Lin's masterful translation brings Chu T'ien-wen's lyrical and inventive pastiche of political, poetic, and sexual desire to the English-speaking world.

Author : Air Forces Escape and Evasion Society
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1563110342

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Air Forces Escape & Evasion Society by Air Forces Escape and Evasion Society Pdf

A history of the brave American men who flew and were shot down in Europe during World War II, but were able to escape imprisonment due to the efforts of those who aided them. A source of information on the European underground resistance groups of World War II. The book contains rare photographs, maps, and war documents.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 880 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1928
Category : Tennis
ISBN : MINN:31951000735441R

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American Lawn Tennis by Anonim Pdf

Author : Cary Nelson,Jefferson Hendricks
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2014-02-04
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781136666384

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Madrid 1937 by Cary Nelson,Jefferson Hendricks Pdf

Few topics in 20th century history generate as much interest as the Spanish Civil War. These letter from the Abraham Lincoln Brigade take us back to a time when 2800 Americans took up arms and confronted Hitler's Condor Legion, Mussolini's Black Shirts, and Franco's fascist calvary on the battlefields of Spain. Here are their combat experiences, the love letters they wrote under fire, friendships formed among themselves and with their Spanish comrades, and reports of Madrid and Barcelona undergoing history's first saturation bombing of civilian targets. It was the eve of World War II, and these men and women saw first-hand the danger facing the world. Iadrid 1937 captures for the first time the thoughts, words and dreams of those who fought. More than a collection of separate letters, Madrid 1937 gathers letters from many hands to tell a group story. Richly illustrated with over 50 color and black and white plates, this chronicle enables the reader to travel with the volunteers through France and Spain; visit the beseiged city of Madrid and walk the streets of Barcelona under fascist bombardment; experience the chaos of battle and the excitement of celebrations behind the lines; stand beside nurses and doctors as they struggle to save the lives of the wounded; and encounter famous writers such as Ernest Hemingway and Langston Hughes. Madrid 1937 tells a story of epic proportion, the struggle of a volunteer army who chose to risk their lives in the struggle against Fascism.

Author : Waldo David Frank
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1946
Category : South America
ISBN : UGA:32108009981799

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South American Journey by Waldo David Frank Pdf