Rain Men

Author : Marcus Berkmann
Publisher : Abacus
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2013-05-02
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781405530453

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Rain Men by Marcus Berkmann Pdf

There are many cricket books, and they are all the same. 'Don't Tell Goochie', autobiographical insights of nights on the tiles in Delhi with Lambie and the boys; 'Fruit cake days', a celebrated humourist recalls 'ball' - related banter of yore; and Wisden, a deadly weapon when combined with a thermos flask. Rain Men is different. Like the moment the genius of Richie Benaud first revealed itself to you, it is a cricketing epiphany, a landmark in the literature of the game. Shining the light meter of reason into cricket's incomparable madness, Marcus Berkmann illuminates all the obsessions and disappointments that the dedicated fan and pathologically hopeful clubman suffers year after year - the ritual humiliation of England's middle order, the partially-sighted umpires, the battling average that reads more like a shoe size. As satisfying as a perfectly timed cover drive, and rather easier to come by, Rain Men offers essential justification for anyone who has ever run a team-mate out on purpose or secretly blubbed at a video of Botham's Ashes.

Author : Marcus Berkmann
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2013-05-02
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781405530453

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Rain Men by Marcus Berkmann Pdf

There are many cricket books, and they are all the same. 'Don't Tell Goochie', autobiographical insights of nights on the tiles in Delhi with Lambie and the boys; 'Fruit cake days', a celebrated humourist recalls 'ball' - related banter of yore; and Wisden, a deadly weapon when combined with a thermos flask. Rain Men is different. Like the moment the genius of Richie Benaud first revealed itself to you, it is a cricketing epiphany, a landmark in the literature of the game. Shining the light meter of reason into cricket's incomparable madness, Marcus Berkmann illuminates all the obsessions and disappointments that the dedicated fan and pathologically hopeful clubman suffers year after year - the ritual humiliation of England's middle order, the partially-sighted umpires, the battling average that reads more like a shoe size. As satisfying as a perfectly timed cover drive, and rather easier to come by, Rain Men offers essential justification for anyone who has ever run a team-mate out on purpose or secretly blubbed at a video of Botham's Ashes.

Author : Kim Peek,Fran Peek
Publisher : Harkness Publishing Consultants
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1997-04
Category : Savants (Savant syndrome)
ISBN : 0965116301

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The Real Rain Man, Kim Peek by Kim Peek,Fran Peek Pdf

A father's inspiring account of Kim Peek, made famous by Oscar winner Dustin Hoffman.

Author : Tan Twan Eng
Publisher : Canongate Books
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2022-02-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781838858353

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The Gift of Rain by Tan Twan Eng Pdf

LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE Penang, 1939. Being half Chinese and half English, Philip Hutton always felt like he never belonged. That is until he befriends Hayato Endo, a mysterious Japanese diplomat and master in the art of aikido. But when Japan invades Malaya, Philip realises Endo bears a secret, one powerful enough to jeopardise everything he loves. This masterful début conjures an unforgettable tale of courage, brutality, loyalty, deceit and love.

Author : John George Wood
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 706 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1876
Category : Ethnology
ISBN : NYPL:33433082186754

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The Uncivilized Races of Men in All Countries of the World by John George Wood Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 632 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BML:37001200147895

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The Expository Times by Anonim Pdf

Author : Debra Hosseini
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2012-03-21
Category : Art and mental illness
ISBN : 0983983402

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The Art of Autism by Debra Hosseini Pdf

Author : Ray Bradbury
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2012-04-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781451678185

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The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury Pdf

Eighteen science fiction stories deal with love, madness, and death on Mars, Venus, and in space.

Author : Don Carpenter
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2010-06-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781590173909

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Hard Rain Falling by Don Carpenter Pdf

Don Carpenter’s Hard Rain Falling is a tough-as-nails account of being down and out, but never down for good—a Dostoyevskian tale of crime, punishment, and the pursuit of an ever-elusive redemption. The novel follows the adventures of Jack Levitt, an orphaned teenager living off his wits in the fleabag hotels and seedy pool halls of Portland, Oregon. Jack befriends Billy Lancing, a young black runaway and pool hustler extraordinaire. A heist gone wrong gets Jack sent to reform school, from which he emerges embittered by abuse and solitary confinement. In the meantime Billy has joined the middle class—married, fathered a son, acquired a business and a mistress. But neither Jack nor Billy can escape their troubled pasts, and they will meet again in San Quentin before their strange double drama comes to a violent and revelatory end.

Author : Easterine Kire
Publisher : India List
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Children's stories
ISBN : 0857426184

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The Rain-Maiden and the Bear-Man by Easterine Kire Pdf

In Easterine Kire's stories, the boundaries between magic and reality drift away, leaving us to marvel at simple yet fantastical folktales about human connection. The title story in this collection is about feeling trapped by other people's definitions of who we are. The Bear-man finds love in the beautiful and compassionate Rain-maiden but thinks he would never be good enough for her. He concludes that if he reveals his true feelings she would ridicule him like everyone in his life has always done. He grows gruff and antisocial, believing that he could never find friendship--least of all, love. The other stories in this collection represent oral narratives from the people of Nagaland in northeast India, stories shared privately around a glowing hearth--spirit stories that the narrators swear are true encounters. While "Forest Song," "New Road," "River and Earth Story," and "The Man Who Lost His Spirit" were narrated to the author by local storytellers, "The Man Who Went to Heaven" and "One Day" are entirely based on Naga folktales. "The Weretigerman," meanwhile, is woven around the pre-Christian Naga tradition of certain men becoming dual-souled with the tiger. In these stories, illustrated in full color by graphic artist Sunandini Banerjee, Kire brings Nagaland come alive with her rich portrayal of both the natural and the spiritual world, which, to the Naga mind, harmoniously coexisted until the recent past.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 696 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1872
Category : Electronic
ISBN : ONB:+Z252725704

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Notes and Queries: A Medium of Inter-Communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, Etc by Anonim Pdf

Author : Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 970 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Discoveries in science
ISBN : UCAL:B3083396

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Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution by Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Meteorology
ISBN : UIUC:30112111968241

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The American Meteorological Journal by Anonim Pdf

Author : George Saunders
Publisher : Random House
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2021-01-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781984856043

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A Swim in a Pond in the Rain by George Saunders Pdf

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the Booker Prize–winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo and Tenth of December comes a literary master class on what makes great stories work and what they can tell us about ourselves—and our world today. LONGLISTED FOR THE PEN/DIAMONSTEIN-SPIELVOGEL AWARD • ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Washington Post, NPR, Time, San Francisco Chronicle, Esquire, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Town & Country, The Rumpus, Electric Lit, Thrillist, BookPage • “[A] worship song to writers and readers.”—Oprah Daily For the last twenty years, George Saunders has been teaching a class on the Russian short story to his MFA students at Syracuse University. In A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, he shares a version of that class with us, offering some of what he and his students have discovered together over the years. Paired with iconic short stories by Chekhov, Turgenev, Tolstoy, and Gogol, the seven essays in this book are intended for anyone interested in how fiction works and why it’s more relevant than ever in these turbulent times. In his introduction, Saunders writes, “We’re going to enter seven fastidiously constructed scale models of the world, made for a specific purpose that our time maybe doesn’t fully endorse but that these writers accepted implicitly as the aim of art—namely, to ask the big questions, questions like, How are we supposed to be living down here? What were we put here to accomplish? What should we value? What is truth, anyway, and how might we recognize it?” He approaches the stories technically yet accessibly, and through them explains how narrative functions; why we stay immersed in a story and why we resist it; and the bedrock virtues a writer must foster. The process of writing, Saunders reminds us, is a technical craft, but also a way of training oneself to see the world with new openness and curiosity. A Swim in a Pond in the Rain is a deep exploration not just of how great writing works but of how the mind itself works while reading, and of how the reading and writing of stories make genuine connection possible.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Longman
Page : 41 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2000-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0582417856

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Rain Man by Anonim Pdf

When Charlie Babbitt, a hustler, learns that his wealthy father has left everything to Charlie's autistic brother, Raymond, Charlie decides to kidnap his brother.