Manchester By The Sea

Author : Kenneth Lonergan
Publisher : Abrams
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03-09
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781683357094

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Manchester by the Sea by Kenneth Lonergan Pdf

The Academy Award–winning screenplay of “a drama of surpassing beauty” (Wall Street Journal) Kenneth Lonergan’s Academy Award and BAFTA–winning screenplay for the acclaimed film Manchester by the Sea is a staggering achievement and an emotionally devastating meditation on grief. Lee Chandler is a brooding, irritable loner who works as a handyman in Boston. One damp winter day he gets a call summoning him to his hometown, Manchester-by-the-Sea, the fishing village where his working-class family has lived for generations. His brother’s heart has given out suddenly, and he’s been named guardian to his riotous 16-year-old nephew. His return re-opens an unspeakable tragedy, as he is forced to confront a past that separated him from his wife, Randi, and the community where he was born and raised. A sweeping story of loss and new beginnings, Manchester by the Sea “illuminates with quiet, unyielding grace how you and I and our neighbors get by, and sometimes how we don’t” (Boston Globe). Rounding out the volume is a trenchant and incisive introduction by Kenneth Lonergan on writing for film.

Author : Stephen Roberts Holt
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 0738562823

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Manchester-by-the-Sea by Stephen Roberts Holt Pdf

Manchester-by-the-Sea is known today for its historic summer colony, made famous by the rich and illustrious seeking relief from the sweltering city. Its sandy beaches, rocky irregular coastline, and cool breezes provided the perfect habitat for massive summer cottages. Presidents, ambassadors, Brahmans, and robber barons escaped, with a full staff of servants, to an exclusive enclave where they romanticized an idealized past. Prominent artists captured the idyllic environment on canvas, the most famous being Winslow Homer's painting of Singing Beach. Originally farmers, the first colonists learned to build boats, fish, and trade along the coastal waters, becoming clipper ship captains in the late 18th century. Located on Boston's famous North Shore, Manchester-by-the-Sea remains a quiet, isolated place enjoyed by residents and tourists alike.

Author : Jonathan Tropper
Publisher : Bantam
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2004-03-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780440334767

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The Book of Joe by Jonathan Tropper Pdf

Right after high school, Joe Goffman left sleepy Bush Falls, Connecticut and never looked back. Then he wrote a novel savaging everything in town, a novel that became a national bestseller and a huge hit movie. Fifteen years later, Joe is struggling to avoid the sophomore slump with his next novel when he gets a call: his father's had a stroke, so it's back to Bush Falls for the town's most famous pariah. His brother avoids him, his former classmates beat him up, and the members of the book club just hurl their copies of Bush Falls at his house. But with the help of some old friends, Joe discovers that coming home isn't all bad—and that maybe the best things in life are second chances. Fans of Nick Hornby and Jennifer Weiner will love this book, by turns howling funny, fiercely intelligent, and achingly poignant. As evidenced by The Book of Joe's success in both the foreign and movie markets, Jonathan Tropper has created a compelling, incredibly resonant story.

Author : Kenneth Lonergan
Publisher : Abrams
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2000-02-02
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781468309089

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This is Our Youth by Kenneth Lonergan Pdf

Dennis—with a famous painter father and social activist mother—is a small-time drug dealer and total mess. His hero-worshipping friend Warren has just impulsively stolen $15,000 from his father, an abusive lingerie tycoon. When Jessica, a mixed-up prep school girl, shows up for a date, Warren pulls out a wad of bills and takes her off, awkwardly, for a night of seduction. A wildly funny, bittersweet, and moving story, This Is Our Youth is as trenchant as it was upon its acclaimed premiere in 1996.

Author : Ernest Hemingway
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 65 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2022-08-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547117650

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The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway Pdf

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Old Man and the Sea" by Ernest Hemingway. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Author : Kenneth Lonergan
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0573627509

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The Waverly Gallery by Kenneth Lonergan Pdf

"Dramatic comedy / 3m, 2f / interior set"--back cover.

Author : Kenneth Lonergan
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0822218291

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Lobby Hero by Kenneth Lonergan Pdf

THE STORY: When Jeff, a luckless young security guard, is drawn into a local murder investigation, loyalties are strained to the breaking point. As Jeff's tightly wound supervisor is called to bear witness against his troubled brother, and an attra

Author : Alicia Mireles Christoff
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2022-05-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780691234595

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Novel Relations by Alicia Mireles Christoff Pdf

The first comprehensive look at how Victorian fiction and British psychoanalysis shaped each other Novel Relations engages twentieth-century post-Freudian British psychoanalysis in an unprecedented way: as literary theory. Placing the writing of figures like D. W. Winnicott, W. R. Bion, Michael and Enid Balint, Joan Riviere, Paula Heimann, and Betty Joseph in conversation with canonical Victorian fiction, Alicia Christoff reveals just how much object relations can teach us about how and why we read. These thinkers illustrate the ever-shifting impact our relations with others have on the psyche, and help us see how literary figures—characters, narrators, authors, and other readers—shape and structure us too. For Christoff, novels are charged relational fields. Closely reading novels by George Eliot and Thomas Hardy, Christoff shows that traditional understandings of Victorian fiction change when we fully recognize the object relations of reading. It is not by chance that British psychoanalysis illuminates underappreciated aspects of Victorian fiction so vibrantly: Victorian novels shaped modern psychoanalytic theories of psyche and relationality—including the eclipsing of empire and race in the construction of subject. Relational reading opens up both Victorian fiction and psychoanalysis to wider political and postcolonial dimensions, while prompting a closer engagement with work in such areas as critical race theory and gender and sexuality studies. The first book to examine at length the connections between British psychoanalysis and Victorian fiction, Novel Relations describes the impact of literary form on readers and on twentieth- and twenty-first-century theories of the subject.

Author : Penny McCall Howard
Publisher : New Ethnographies
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2019-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1526143690

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Environment, Labour and Capitalism at Sea by Penny McCall Howard Pdf

This book combines phenomenology and political economy to offer new approaches for analyses of human-environment relations and technologies. It contributes to the social studies of fisheries through an analysis of how fishing practices and social relations are shaped by political economy.

Author : KENNETH. LONERGAN
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2019-05-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1848428766

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The Starry Messenger by KENNETH. LONERGAN Pdf

Mark Williams is tired of his marriage and tired of his job teaching astronomy at the Hayden Planetarium in New York City. Angela Vasquez is a young single mother training to be a nurse. Norman Ketterly is fighting for his life in a cancer ward. Their intertwining stories unspool under a canopy of stars too vast to imagine and too beautiful to comprehend, especially when the travails of life on Earth threaten to blot it out. Kenneth Lonergan's play The Starry Messenger is a bittersweet exploration of love, hope and the mysteries of the cosmos. It premiered in New York in 2009, and received its UK premiere at Wyndham's Theatre, London, in May 2019, featuring Matthew Broderick and Elizabeth McGovern.

Author : Jonathan Franklin
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2015-11-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781501116292

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438 Days by Jonathan Franklin Pdf

The miraculous account of the man who survived alone and adrift at sea longer than anyone in recorded history. For fourteen months, Alvarenga survived constant shark attacks. He learned to catch fish with his bare hands. He built a fish net from a pair of empty plastic bottles. Taking apart the outboard motor, he fashioned a huge fishhook. Using fish vertebrae as needles, he stitched together his own clothes. Based on dozens of hours of interviews with Alvarenga and interviews with his colleagues, search and rescue officials, the medical team that saved his life and the remote islanders who nursed him back to health, this is an epic tale of survival. Print run 75,000.

Author : Anthony Lane
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 784 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2009-08-19
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780307488879

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Nobody's Perfect by Anthony Lane Pdf

Anthony Lane on Con Air— “Advance word on Con Air said that it was all about an airplane with an unusually dangerous and potentially lethal load. Big deal. You should try the lunches they serve out of Newark. Compared with the chicken napalm I ate on my last flight, the men in Con Air are about as dangerous as balloons.” Anthony Lane on The Bridges of Madison County— “I got my copy at the airport, behind a guy who was buying Playboy’s Book of Lingerie, and I think he had the better deal. He certainly looked happy with his purchase, whereas I had to ask for a paper bag.” Anthony Lane on Martha Stewart— “Super-skilled, free of fear, the last word in human efficiency, Martha Stewart is the woman who convinced a million Americans that they have the time, the means, the right, and—damn it—the duty to pipe a little squirt of soft cheese into the middle of a snow pea, and to continue piping until there are ‘fifty to sixty’ stuffed peas raring to go.” For ten years, Anthony Lane has delighted New Yorker readers with his film reviews, book reviews, and profiles that range from Buster Keaton to Vladimir Nabokov to Ernest Shackleton. Nobody’s Perfect is an unforgettable collection of Lane’s trademark wit, satire, and insight that will satisfy both the long addicted and the not so familiar.

Author : Kenneth Lonergan
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2014-01-07
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780802121936

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Margaret by Kenneth Lonergan Pdf

"A triumph . . . the sort of ambitious American storytelling you find too rarely at the movies."-Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune Academy Award® nominated writer and director Kenneth Lonergan has written a stirring drama that was called "extraordinarily ambitious" by Time and "a film of rare beauty and shocking gravity" by Rolling Stone. Delayed for 4 years in post-production, the film was finally released in 2011, with a director's cut following on DVD in 2012. Our edition will include the scripts of the full director's cut, along with an introduction and key tie-in art. Margaret is the story of a Manhattan teenager whose life is profoundly altered after witnessing a terrible accident. It is the extraordinary journey of an emotional teen who abides by her moral code and wants to set things right, but whose innocent ideals come crashing against the harsh realities of the adult world. It is a story of youth, love, the consequences of mistakes, and the fundamental questions of morality as faced by a teenager in an extraordinary situation.

Author : Baesick Choi
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781532692246

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Leviticus and Its Reception in the Dead Sea Scrolls from Qumran by Baesick Choi Pdf

A large amount of Leviticus material has been found among the Dead Sea Scrolls. Yet there is surprisingly little secondary scholarly analysis of the role of Leviticus in this corpus. The book of Leviticus survives in several manuscripts; it also features in quotations and allusions, so that it seems to be a foundational source for the ideology behind the composition of some of the nonscriptural texts. Indeed this volume argues that the ideology of the Holiness Code persisted in the communities that collected the manuscripts and placed them in the Qumran Caves.

Author : James Wharram
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1907206582

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People of the Sea by James Wharram Pdf