Our Prince Of Scribes

Author : Nicole A. Seitz,Jonathan Haupt
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2018-09-15
Category : Authors, American
ISBN : 9780820354484

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Our Prince of Scribes by Nicole A. Seitz,Jonathan Haupt Pdf

"Writer Pat Conroy passed away in 2016 at age 70. He was the author of The Water is Wide, The Great Santini, The Prince of Tides, and Beach Music, among other works. Several of his books have been made into movies starring actors including Robert Duvall, Barbra Streisand, and Jon Voight. This book collects in one volume seventy entries from people who all knew a different facet of Pat Conroy: writers, poets, editors, musicians, friends, classmates. Contributors include Rick Bragg, Kathleen Parker, Nikky Finney, Mary Alice Monroe, Dori Sanders, Ron Rash, Janis Ian, Tony Grooms, Patti Callahan Henry, Connie May Fowler, Sandra Brown, Jonathan Carroll, Jonathan Galassi, Nathalie Dupree, and Wendell Minor, as well as several members of the Conroy family. Additionally, the book includes a gallery of photos of Conroy, many never seen by the public before"--

Author : Michael Mewshaw
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2019-02-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781640091498

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The Lost Prince by Michael Mewshaw Pdf

“In The Lost Prince Michael Mewshaw sets down one of the most gripping stories of friendship I’ve ever read.” —Daniel Menaker, author of My Mistake: A Memoir Pat Conroy was America’s poet laureate of family dysfunction. A larger–than–life character and the author of such classics as The Prince of Tides and The Great Santini, Conroy was remembered by everybody for his energy, his exuberance, and his self–lacerating humor. Michael Mewshaw’s The Lost Prince is an intimate memoir of his friendship with Pat Conroy, one that involves their families and those days in Rome when they were both young—when Conroy went from being a popular regional writer to an international bestseller. Family snapshots beautifully illustrate that time. Shortly before his forty–ninth birthday, Conroy telephoned Mewshaw to ask a terrible favor. With great reluctance, Mewshaw did as he was asked—and never saw Pat Conroy again. Although they never managed to reconcile their differences completely, Conroy later urged Mewshaw to write about “me and you and what happened . . . i know it would cause much pain to both of us. but here is what that story has that none of your others have.” The Lost Prince is Mewshaw’s fulfillment of a promise.

Author : J.M. Triplett
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2021-04-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781664171008

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The Fallen Tears by J.M. Triplett Pdf

A Novel For You These episodes are in times past and future, in the life of mystical ones that are destined to earth as the children of Achievement although they are scenes for Bloodline the video game they can be enjoyed as a Family's fictional story. Janice Marie Triplett

Author : Valerie Sayers
Publisher : Slant
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2020-06-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781725253735

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The Age of Infidelity and Other Stories by Valerie Sayers Pdf

In the spirit of Muriel Spark and Walker Percy, The Age of Infidelity's eleven stories embrace the comic, the absurd, and the dead serious. Faithless parents betray their children, the young betray the old, and lovers betray each other--but somehow these characters cling to hope. Aging white cheerleaders shout through an online megaphone, remembering a time when racial equality seemed almost possible; a teenager endures her father's abandonment as her mother's psychotic episodes pick up pace; an old couple on the lam from the Constitutional Guard of the future hides out in a garage reminiscent of our consumerist past. In an age many call post-religious, these characters want to believe in something, but they're not always sure what that something is. Set in landscapes from the small-town South to New York City, from a parched Midwest to a deserted Dublin, these stories time-travel from our Jim Crow past to an imagined future of warehouses for the aged where robots do the nursing. With what the Washington Post describes as her ""distinctive brutal elegance,"" Valerie Sayers writes playfully, powerfully, and musically. These stories form an album riffing on our age, the Age of Infidelity.

Author : Cassandra King Conroy
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2019-10-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780062905635

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Tell Me a Story by Cassandra King Conroy Pdf

“Tell Me A Story is breathtakingly tender, heartbreakingly true...The best memoir I’ve read.” — Mary Alice Monroe, New York Times bestselling author of The Beach House Reunion Bestselling author Cassandra King Conroy considers her life and the man she shared it with, paying tribute to her husband, Pat Conroy, the legendary figure of modern Southern literature. Cassandra King was leading a quiet life as a professor, divorced “Sunday wife” of a preacher, and debut novelist when she met Pat Conroy. Their friendship bloomed into a tentative, long-distance relationship. Pat and Cassandra ultimately married, ending Pat's long commutes from coastal South Carolina to her native Alabama. It was a union that would last eighteen years, until the beloved literary icon’s death from pancreatic cancer in 2016. In this poignant, intimate memoir, the woman he called King Ray looks back at her love affair with a natural-born storyteller whose lust for life was fueled by a passion for literature, food, and the Carolina Lowcountry that was his home. As she reflects on their relationship and the eighteen years they spent together, cut short by Pat’s passing at seventy, Cassandra reveals how the marshlands of the South Carolina Lowcountry ultimately cast their spell on her, too, and how she came to understand the convivial, generous, funny, and wounded flesh-and-blood man beneath the legend—her husband, the original Prince of Tides.

Author : J.M. Triplett
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2018-11-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781984555328

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The Tears of Achievement by J.M. Triplett Pdf

This is a novel for you. These episodes are in the past and future times of the lives of mystical ones that are destined to earth as the children of achievement. Although they are scenes for Bloodlines, the video game, they can be enjoyed as a family’s fictional story.

Author : Rick Bragg
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2019-04-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781400032693

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The Best Cook in the World by Rick Bragg Pdf

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Part cookbook, part memoir, these “rollicking, poignant, sometimes hilarious tales” (USA Today) are the Pulitzer Prize-winner’s loving tribute to the South, his family and, especially, to his extraordinary mother. Here are irresistible stories and recipes from across generations. They come, skillet by skillet, from Bragg’s ancestors, from feasts and near famine, from funerals and celebrations, and from a thousand tales of family lore as rich and as sumptuous as the dishes they inspired. Deeply personal and unfailingly mouthwatering, The Best Cook in the World is a book to be savored.

Author : William Burkitt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 778 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1856
Category : Bible
ISBN : CHI:58815073

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Expository Notes, with Practical Observations on the New Testament of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ by William Burkitt Pdf

Author : Pat Conroy
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 684 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2022-12-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780063323650

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The Lords of Discipline by Pat Conroy Pdf

“The Lords of Discipline is, simply, an American classic.” -- Larry King The Lords of Discipline is a novel about coming of age, brotherhood, betrayal, and a man’s forging of his own personal code of honor. Will McLean, a senior on the cadets’ honor court, is an outsider by nature: a basketball star at a school that prizes military prowess above athletics, a military man in training who dares to question the escalating Vietnam war. And yet his greatest struggle will be with the corrupt institution of which he is a part. Rich in humor and suspense, abounding in a rare honesty and generosity of feeling, this novel established Pat Conroy as one of the strongest fictional voices in a generation. “A work of enormous power, passion, humor, and wisdom.” – Washington Star “God preserve Pat Conroy.” – Boston Globe

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 846 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1879
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UIUC:30112110962807

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The Living Age by Anonim Pdf

Author : Eliakim Littell,Robert S. Littell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 984 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1879
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:$B623068

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Littell's Living Age by Eliakim Littell,Robert S. Littell Pdf

Author : Pat Conroy
Publisher : Dial Press
Page : 767 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2011-08-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307804730

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Beach Music by Pat Conroy Pdf

An American expatriate in Rome unearths his family legacy in this sweeping novel by the acclaimed author of The Prince of Tides and The Great Santini A Southerner living abroad, Jack McCall is scarred by tragedy and betrayal. His desperate desire to find peace after his wife’s suicide draws him into a painful, intimate search for the one haunting secret in his family’s past that can heal his anguished heart. Spanning three generations and two continents, from the contemporary ruins of the American South to the ancient ruins of Rome, from the unutterable horrors of the Holocaust to the lingering trauma of Vietnam, Beach Music sings with life’s pain and glory. It is a novel of lyric intensity and searing truth, another masterpiece among Pat Conroy’s legendary and beloved novels. Praise for Beach Music “Astonishing . . . stunning . . . The range of passions and subjects that bring life to every page is almost endless.”—The Washington Post Book World “Magnificent . . . clearly Conroy’s best.”—San Francisco Chronicle “Blockbuster writing at its best.”—Los Angeles Times Book Review “Pat Conroy’s writing contains a virtue now rare in most contemporary fiction: passion.”—The Denver Post “A powerful, heartfelt tale.”—Houston Chronicle

Author : Julian Jaynes
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2000-08-15
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780547527543

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The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind by Julian Jaynes Pdf

National Book Award Finalist: “This man’s ideas may be the most influential, not to say controversial, of the second half of the twentieth century.”—Columbus Dispatch At the heart of this classic, seminal book is Julian Jaynes's still-controversial thesis that human consciousness did not begin far back in animal evolution but instead is a learned process that came about only three thousand years ago and is still developing. The implications of this revolutionary scientific paradigm extend into virtually every aspect of our psychology, our history and culture, our religion—and indeed our future. “Don’t be put off by the academic title of Julian Jaynes’s The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind. Its prose is always lucid and often lyrical…he unfolds his case with the utmost intellectual rigor.”—The New York Times “When Julian Jaynes . . . speculates that until late in the twentieth millennium BC men had no consciousness but were automatically obeying the voices of the gods, we are astounded but compelled to follow this remarkable thesis.”—John Updike, The New Yorker “He is as startling as Freud was in The Interpretation of Dreams, and Jaynes is equally as adept at forcing a new view of known human behavior.”—American Journal of Psychiatry

Author : Kasie Whitener
Publisher : Chrysalis Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2019-12-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1948604531

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After December by Kasie Whitener Pdf

Five days. Four best friends who don't forgive him. Three women who can't stand him. Two parents who don't trust him. One unforgivable sin he can't hide from anymore. Brian is back in Virginia despite the craters he left at New Year's. Back to eat crow. To beg forgiveness.

Author : J. Sidlow Baxter
Publisher : Zondervan
Page : 1846 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2010-09-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780310871392

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Baxter's Explore the Book by J. Sidlow Baxter Pdf

Explore the Book is not a commentary with verse-by-verse annotations. Neither is it just a series of analyses and outlines. Rather, it is a complete Bible survey course. No one can finish this series of studies and remain unchanged. The reader will receive lifelong benefit and be enriched by these practical and understandable studies. Exposition, commentary, and practical application of the meaning and message of the Bible will be found throughout this giant volume. Bible students without any background in Bible study will find this book of immense help as will those who have spent much time studying the Scriptures, including pastors and teachers. Explore the Book is the result and culmination of a lifetime of dedicated Bible study and exposition on the part of Dr. Baxter. It shows throughout a deep awareness and appreciation of the grand themes of the gospel, as found from the opening book of the Bible through Revelation.