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Author : Wallace Stegner
Publisher : Boston : Little, Brown
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1937
Category : Sisters
ISBN : UOM:39015018625569
Author : Wallace Stegner
Publisher : Penguin Books
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1996-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : PSU:000026455952
Twenty-nine-year-old Margaret Stuart is happy to have her sister Elspeth come to live with her and her husband Alec on their prosperous Iowa farm, but when the friendship between Elspeth and Alec ripens into passion, it changes the course of the rest of all their lives.
Author : Wallace Earle Stegner
Publisher : Turtleback Books
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1996-11-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1417703695
Back in print: an early novel by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Angle of Repose and Crossing to Safety. When her younger sister Elspeth comes to live with Margaret and her husband, Alec, on their Iowa farm, Margaret finds her generous spirit tested as a friendship developes between Alec and Elspeth.
Author : Candy Fury
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
Page : 870 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2013-07-22
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781480903753
Candy Fury was born and raised in Riverside, California. She developed the love of writing as a young teen, and began to transition her skills into the world of poetry. Being raised with four brothers and one sister gave her wonderful insight, not only into her own experiences, but the lives of others around her. She has experienced everything from heartache and heartbreak through lost loves and the loss of loved ones, as well as joy and happiness through the love and faith of family and friends. We invite you to join Candy on her journey of love, laughter and tears as she guides you through her world of poetry. Candy will introduce you to the many amazing people from her life (past and present) and before you know it, you too will become part of the family. This book is a compilation of thoughts, prayers and memories to share and treasure, just like Candy cherishes each of her inspirations. Your travels here will brighten your heart, touch your soul and allow you to reflect on those in your life that are just as important to you as these people are to Candy. Whether it is the loss of a loved one, a wedding, graduation or someone saying goodbye, you will experience the sincere heartfelt words that have touched Candy's heart, like we are sure it will touch yours.
Author : Milan Kundera
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2023-03-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780063290693
"An absolutely dazzling entertainment. . . . Arousing on every level—political, erotic, intellectual, and above all, humorous." —Newsweek "The Book of Laughter and Forgetting calls itself a novel, although it is part fairy tale, part literary criticism, part political tract, part musicology, and part autobiography. It can call itself whatever it wants to, because the whole is genius." —New York Times Rich in its stories, characters, and imaginative range, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting is the novel that brought Milan Kundera his first big international success in the late 1970s. Like all his work, it is valuable for far more than its historical implications. In seven wonderfully integrated parts, different aspects of human existence are magnified and reduced, reordered and emphasized, newly examined, analyzed, and experienced.
Author : Neil A. Grauer
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0803270569
One of the great American humorists of this century, James Thurber is still read and cherished by many readers more than thirty years after his death. He is most famous for the hilarious, often bittersweet stories that he published in the 1930s and 1940s in the New Yorker. He was also a brilliant cartoonist whose unique drawings were an eagerly awaited feature in Harold Ross’s New Yorker and in Thurber’s books. This biography is a book much in the spirit of Thurber himself. Readable, anecdotal, and often delightfully funny, Remember Laughter will be cherished by all fans of Thurber. Yet Neil A. Grauer by no means sentimentalizes Thurber. He addresses serious, and often disturbing, features of Thurber’s life while highlighting Thurber’s courage, inexhaustible humor, and unique literary and artistic talents. The result is a biography that both celebrates Thurber’s genius and shrewdly appraises his qualities as a man.
Author : James Gannon
Publisher : Heritage Capital Corporation
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2009-09
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 1599673940
Author : Phillip Glenn
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2003-09-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781139437370
Laughter in Interaction is an illuminating and lively account of how and why people laugh during conversation. Bringing together twenty-five years of research on the sequential organisation of laughter in everyday talk, Glenn analyses recordings and transcripts to show the finely detailed co-ordination of human laughter. He demonstrates that its production and placement, relative to talk and other activities, reveal much about its emergent meaning and accomplishments. The book shows how the participants in a conversation move from a single laugh to laughing together, how the matter of 'who laughs first' implicates orientation to social activities and how interactants work out whether laughs are more affiliative or hostile. The final chapter examines the contribution of laughter to sequences of conversational intimacy and play and to the invocation of gender. Engaging and original, the book shows how this seemingly insignificant part of human communication turns out to play a highly significant role in how people display, respond to and revise identities and relationships.
Author : Lance Rubin
Publisher : Ember
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2021-08-03
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780525644705
A tragicomic story of bad dates, bad news, bad performances, and one girl's determination to find the funny in high school from the author of Denton Little's Deathdate. Winnie Friedman has been waiting for the world to catch on to what she already knows: she's hilarious. It might be a long wait, though. After bombing a stand-up set at her own bat mitzvah, Winnie has kept her jokes to herself. Well, to herself and her dad, a former comedian and her inspiration. Then, on the second day of tenth grade, the funniest guy in school actually laughs at a comment she makes in the lunch line and asks her to join the improv troupe. Maybe he's even . . . flirting? Just when Winnie's ready to say yes to comedy again, her father reveals that he's been diagnosed with ALS. That is . . . not funny. Her dad's still making jokes, though, which feels like a good thing. And Winnie's prepared to be his straight man if that's what he wants. But is it what he needs? Caught up in a spiral of epically bad dates, bad news, and bad performances, Winnie's struggling to see the humor in it all. But finding a way to laugh is exactly what will see her through. **A Junior Library Guild Selection**
Author : Stephen Patterson
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2009-12
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781440189227
The benefits of a good laugh will last long after the physical act has passed. Most likely your favorite memories are the ones that include a good dose of laughter. More and more, the prescription to a healthy attitude can be found in laughter. Laughter is a universal language and can be enjoyed and understood by everyone. Laughter can help both mentally and physically. An ever growing number of people experience high levels of injurious stress fueled by hectic schedules and deadlines. This book is designed to reintroduce the reader to the many benefits of laughter. If you fail to enjoy the benefits of laughter you are cheating yourself out of a wonderful resource for a healthy life. Rediscover how laughter is the best medicine, both mentally and physically.
Author : Marilyn R. Duncan
Publisher : FriesenPress
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2018-06-07
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781525518126
As Canada’s population continues to age and lifespans lengthen, the incidence of dementia is also on the increase, with Alzheimer’s being the most common. For twelve years, author Marilyn Duncan cared for her beloved mother after she developed dementia. Remembering You Until God Whispers My Name is the moving memoir of a devoted daughter who becomes a strong health and social advocate for her mother as she gradually loses her mental faculties. Told with love, humour, poetry and through her grief, the story of Marilyn and her mother Jeannette Marguerite Sealey (née Butler) will help anyone who reads it to better understand how to show respect and give dignity to those on their final journey and their caregivers. Marilyn reminds us that grief is a very personal journey that we need to take to heal after losing a loved one. She also reminds us that laughter and joy are not disrespectful while caregiving to someone with dementia.
Author : J. Douglas Harvey
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2013-07-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781551994789
From the author of Boys, Bombs, and Brussels Sprouts and The Tumbling Mirth: Remembering the Air Force comes yet another uproarious ascent into high-altitude insanity. And this time, J. Douglas Harvey includes delightful anecdotes sent to him by “WDs” -- as enthusiastic and proud as any member of the air force, the first-ever members of the Women's Division led a life that was often tough, but always intriguing. This book contains dozens of hilarious stories from WDs who recall the days when uniforms seemed to come in just a single size -- but women had to be brave in more ways than one. There is a wealth of other incident here as well. Confessions of blunders (or hair-breadth escapes) in the air, details of disastrous parades, and stories of social occasions that were sometimes bungled -- but always enjoyed. Poems, pranks, and practical jokes are all part of this light-hearted look at the air force from pre-Royal Canadian Air Force days on.
Author : Nathan Gill
Publisher : New Harbinger Publications
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2004-09-01
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781626257139
Nathan Gill is a rare voice in contemporary spirituality. Speaking with consistent clarity, he points out that all prescriptions for escape from the drama of separation instead serve as its reinforcement. Compiled from transcripts of one-to-one dialogues and group meetings, the talks featured in Already Awake present the essential message of non-duality in a profound yet straightforward way. Also included by way of an introduction to the main text, is a revised version of Nathan's first book, Clarity.
Author : Bruce Henricksen,Robert Johnson
Publisher : Lost Hills Books
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0979853516
From the Other World: Poems in Memory of James Wright brings together elegies written by many of Wright's most important contemporaries, including Robert Bly, Galway Kinnell, W.S. Merwin, and C.K Williams. Interspersed with these are poems by a newer generation of writers inspired by Wright. This unique collection attests to the continuing stature of James Wright on the American literary landscape.
Author : Ian William Sewall
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781315418476
In this narrative collage of ancient and contemporary storytelling, modern theory, and personal reflection, Ian William Sewall seeks to infuse western pedagogy with a folkloral teaching voice. Through multilayered conversations with individuals and groups—traditional storytellers, teachers, children—he examines the dynamic nature of oral culture, its embodied nature, its connection to place, and its use of metaphor, laughter, ethnicity, and intergenerational conversation to create unique kinds of interactions and learning. Offering storytelling as an “ancestral template” of good teaching, Sewall demonstrates how teachers can use the folkoral voice to inform and transform classroom practice.
