Author : Gerald Kersh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:367470334
Night and the City
Gerald Kersh
Night And The City
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The City in the Middle of the Night
Charlie Jane Anders
Author : Charlie Jane Anders
Publisher : Tor Books
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2019-02-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781466871137
The City in the Middle of the Night by Charlie Jane Anders Pdf
*The Verge's Science Fiction and Fantasy Book We're Looking Forward to in 2019 *AV Club's 15 Most Anticipated Books of 2019 *Book Riot's Most Anticipated Books of 2019 *Kirkus' 30 Speculative Fiction Books You Should Read in February 2019 *Bookish's Winter's Must-Read Sci-fi & Fantasy *Bookbub's Best Science Fiction Books Coming Out in 2019 *YA Books Central's Buzzworthy Books of 2019 “This generation’s Le Guin.” —Andrew Sean Greer, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Less Charlie Jane Anders, the nationally bestselling author of All the Birds in the Sky delivers a brilliant new novel set in a hauntingly strange future with #10 LA Times bestseller The City in the Middle of the Night. "If you control our sleep, then you can own our dreams... And from there, it's easy to control our entire lives." January is a dying planet—divided between a permanently frozen darkness on one side, and blazing endless sunshine on the other. Humanity clings to life, spread across two archaic cities built in the sliver of habitable dusk. But life inside the cities is just as dangerous as the uninhabitable wastelands outside. Sophie, a student and reluctant revolutionary, is supposed to be dead after being exiled into the night. Saved only by forming an unusual bond with the enigmatic beasts who roam the ice, Sophie vows to stay hidden from the world, hoping she can heal. But fate has other plans—and Sophie's ensuing odyssey and the ragtag family she finds will change the entire world. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Night and the City
Andrew Pulver
Author : Andrew Pulver
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2019-07-25
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781838717322
Night and the City by Andrew Pulver Pdf
Night and the City (1950), directed by Jules Dassin and starring Richard Widmark, is the compelling story of a hoodlum on the make in postwar London. Andrew Pulver's study of the film traces the film's production history and places it in the context of British film noir and the urban mythology of its West End setting.
Somewhere in the Night
Nicholas Christopher
Author : Nicholas Christopher
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2010-05-11
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781439137611
Somewhere in the Night by Nicholas Christopher Pdf
Film noir is more than a cinematic genre. It is an essential aspect of American culture. Along with the cowboy of the Wild West, the denizen of the film noir city is at the very center of our mythological iconography. Described as the style of an anxious victor, film noir began during the post-war period, a strange time of hope and optimism mixed with fear and even paranoia. The shadow of this rich and powerful cinematic style can now be seen in virtually every artistic medium. The spectacular success of recent neo-film noirs is only the tip of an iceberg. In the dead-on, nocturnal jazz of Charlie Parker and Miles Davis, the chilled urban landscapes of Edward Hopper, and postwar literary fiction from Nelson Algren and William S. Burroughs to pulp masters like Horace McCoy, we find an unsettling recognition of the dark hollowness beneath the surface of the American Dream. Acclaimed novelist and poet Nicholas Christopher explores the cultural identity of film noir in a seamless, elegant, and enchanting work of literary prose. Examining virtually the entire catalogue of film noir, Christopher identifies the central motif as the urban labyrinth, a place infested with psychosis, anxiety, and existential dread in which the noir hero embarks on a dangerously illuminating quest. With acute sensitivity, he shows how technical devices such as lighting, voice over, and editing tempo are deployed to create the film noir world. Somewhere in the Night guides us through the architecture of this imaginary world, be it shot in New York or Los Angeles, relating its elements to the ancient cultural archetypes that prefigure it. Finally, Christopher builds an explanation of why film noir not only lives on but is currently enjoying a renaissance. Somewhere in the Night can be appreciated as a lucid introduction to a fundamental style of American culture, and also as a guide to film noir's heyday. Ultimately, though, as the work of a bold talent adeptly manipulating poetic cadence and metaphor, it is itself a superb aesthetic artifact.
City of Night
John Rechy
Author : John Rechy
Publisher : Serpent's Tail
Page : 479 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2021-05-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781782837855
City of Night by John Rechy Pdf
Bold and inventive in style, City of Night is the groundbreaking 1960s novel about male prostitution. Rechy is unflinching in his portrayal of one hustling 'youngman' and his search for self-knowledge among the other denizens of his neon-lit world. As the narrator moves from Texas to Times Square and then on to the French Quarter of New Orleans, Rechy delivers a portrait of the edges of America that has lost none of its power. On his travels, the nameless narrator meets a collection of unforgettable characters, from vice cops to guilt-ridden married men eaten up by desire, to Lance O'Hara, once Hollywood's biggest star. Rechy describes this world with candour and understanding in a prose that is highly personal and vividly descriptive.
I STARED AT THE NIGHT OF THE CITY.
Bakhtiyar Ali
Author : Bakhtiyar Ali
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1859641296
I STARED AT THE NIGHT OF THE CITY. by Bakhtiyar Ali Pdf
Hot Night in the City
Trevanian
Author : Trevanian
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0312978820
Hot Night in the City by Trevanian Pdf
The author of "Incident at Twenty-Mile, The Summer of Katya, " and "The Eiger Sanction" presents 13 short stories that introduce unforgettable characters as they each experience compelling situations through the course of one night in the streets of big cities in America, France, the Holy Land, mythic Britain, modern London, and the primitive North American heartland. Martin's Press.
Nightwalking
Matthew Beaumont
Author : Matthew Beaumont
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2015-03-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781781687963
Nightwalking by Matthew Beaumont Pdf
“Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night,” wrote the poet Rupert Brooke. Before the age of electricity, the nighttime city was a very different place to the one we know today—home to the lost, the vagrant and the noctambulant. Matthew Beaumont recounts an alternative history of London by focusing on those of its denizens who surface on the streets when the sun’s down. If nightwalking is a matter of “going astray” in the streets of the metropolis after dark, then nightwalkers represent some of the most suggestive and revealing guides to the neglected and forgotten aspects of the city. In this brilliant work of literary investigation, Beaumont shines a light on the shadowy perambulations of poets, novelists and thinkers: Chaucer and Shakespeare; William Blake and his ecstatic peregrinations and the feverish ramblings of opium addict Thomas De Quincey; and, among the lamp-lit literary throng, the supreme nightwalker Charles Dickens. We discover how the nocturnal city has inspired some and served as a balm or narcotic to others. In each case, the city is revealed as a place divided between work and pleasure, the affluent and the indigent, where the entitled and the desperate jostle in the streets. With a foreword and afterword by Will Self, Nightwalking is a captivating literary portrait of the writers who explore the city at night and the people they meet.
Night and the City
Gerald Kersh
Author : Gerald Kersh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1946
Category : City and town life
ISBN : UCAL:$B242715
Night and the City by Gerald Kersh Pdf
A psychological study of the London underworld.
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
John Berendt
Author : John Berendt
Publisher : Random House
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1994-01-13
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9780679429227
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt Pdf
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A modern classic of true crime, set in a most beguiling Southern city—now in a 30th anniversary edition with a new afterword by the author “Elegant and wicked . . . might be the first true-crime book that makes the reader want to book a bed and breakfast for an extended weekend at the scene of the crime.”—The New York Times Book Review Shots rang out in Savannah’s grandest mansion in the misty, early morning hours of May 2, 1981. Was it murder or self-defense? For nearly a decade, the shooting and its aftermath reverberated throughout this hauntingly beautiful city of moss-hung oaks and shaded squares. In this sharply observed, suspenseful, and witty narrative, John Berendt skillfully interweaves a hugely entertaining first-person account of life in this isolated remnant of the Old South with the unpredictable twists and turns of a landmark murder case. It is a spellbinding story peopled by a gallery of remarkable characters: the well-bred society ladies of the Married Woman’s Card Club; the turbulent young gigolo; the hapless recluse who owns a bottle of poison so powerful it could kill every man, woman, and child in Savannah; the aging and profane Southern belle who is the “soul of pampered self-absorption”; the uproariously funny drag queen; the acerbic and arrogant antiques dealer; the sweet-talking, piano-playing con artist; young people dancing the minuet at the black debutante ball; and Minerva, the voodoo priestess who works her magic in the graveyard at midnight. These and other Savannahians act as a Greek chorus, with Berendt revealing the alliances, hostilities, and intrigues that thrive in a town where everyone knows everyone else. Brilliantly conceived and masterfully written, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil is a sublime and seductive reading experience.
The Nocturnal City
Robert Shaw
Author : Robert Shaw
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2018-02-02
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781317197225
The Nocturnal City by Robert Shaw Pdf
Night is a foundational element of human and animal life on earth, but its interaction with the social world has undergone significant transformations during the era of globalization. As the economic activity of the ‘daytime’ city has advanced into the night, other uses of the night as a time for play, for sleep or for escaping oppression have come increasingly under threat. This book looks at the relationship between night and society in contemporary cities. It identifies that while theories of ‘planetary urbanization’ have traced the spatial spread of urban forms, the temporal expansion of urban capitalism has been less well mapped. It argues that, as a key part of planetary being, understanding what goes on at night in cities can add nuance to debates on planetary urbanization. A series of practices and spaces that we encounter in the night-time city are explored. These include: the maintenance and repair of infrastructure; the aesthetics of the urban night; nightlife and the night-time economy; the home at night; and the ecologies of the urban night. Taking these forward the book will ask whether the night can reveal some of the boundaries to what we call ‘the urban’ in a world of cities, and will call for a revitalized and enhanced ‘nightology’ to study these limits.
A Panorama of American Film Noir (1941-1953)
Raymond Borde,Etienne Chaumeton
Author : Raymond Borde,Etienne Chaumeton
Publisher : City Lights Books
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 087286412X
A Panorama of American Film Noir (1941-1953) by Raymond Borde,Etienne Chaumeton Pdf
This first book published on film noir established the genre--a classic, at last in translation.
The Book of Night with Moon
Diane Duane
Author : Diane Duane
Publisher : Aspect
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2001-02-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780759521698
The Book of Night with Moon by Diane Duane Pdf
Rhiow seems a perfectly ordinary New York City cat. Or so her humans think--but she is much more than she appears. With her partners Saash and Urruah, she collaborates with human wizards, protecting the earth from dark forces and helping to maintain the network of magical gateways between different realities.
Prelude to a Certain Midnight
Gerald Kersh
Author : Gerald Kersh
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781789129731
Prelude to a Certain Midnight by Gerald Kersh Pdf
Prelude to a Certain Midnight, first published in 1947, is a novel of the rise and fall of a group of patrons of a neighborhood bar on a side street of London’s East End. In the midst of the looming World War II, a 10-year-old Jewish girl is murdered. The police have no clues and little interest in solving the crime, so Asta Thundersley, a wealthy woman, turns crusader and takes up the challenge, sifting through clues and gathering suspects for a dinner party where, unfortunately, nothing helpful is learned. A police detective is also involved but similarly, makes little headway. The book is notable for its varied array of colorful characters and evocative narration. Gerald Kersh (1911-1968) was the author of a number of novels and short stories.
Night Falls On The City
Sarah Gainham
Author : Sarah Gainham
Publisher : Abacus
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2012-07-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780748133710
Night Falls On The City by Sarah Gainham Pdf
Vienna, 1938. Beautiful actress Julia Homburg and her politician husband Franz Wedeker embody all the enlightened brilliance of their native city. But Wedeker is Jewish, and just across the border the tanks of the Nazi Reich are primed for the Anschluss. When the SS invades and disappearances become routine, Franz must be concealed. With daring ingenuity, Julia conjures a hiding place. In the shadow of oppression, a clear conscience is a luxury few can afford, and Julia finds she must strike a series of hateful bargains with the new order if she and her husband are to survive. A highly acclaimed bestseller when first published in the 1960s, Night Falls on the City is a true lost classic, and an unforgettable portrait of wartime.
