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Shadow Life

Hiromi Goto
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Author : Hiromi Goto
Publisher : First Second
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03-30
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781250831347

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Poet and novelist Hiromi Goto effortlessly blends wry, observational slice-of-life literary fiction with poetic magical realism in the tender and surprising graphic novel Shadow Life, with haunting art from debut artist Ann Xu. When Kumiko’s well-meaning adult daughters place her in an assisted living home, the seventy-six-year-old widow gives it a try, but it’s not where she wants to be. She goes on the lam and finds a cozy bachelor apartment, keeping the location secret even while communicating online with her eldest daughter. Kumiko revels in the small, daily pleasures: decorating as she pleases, eating what she wants, and swimming in the community pool. But something has followed her from her former residence—Death’s shadow. Kumiko’s sweet life is shattered when Death’s shadow swoops in to collect her. With her quick mind and sense of humor, Kumiko, with the help of friends new and old, is prepared for the fight of her life. But how long can an old woman thwart fate?

Images and Shadows

Iris Origo
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Author : Iris Origo
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2019-10-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781681373652

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An extraordinary memoir by Iris Origo, who chronicled political life in A Chill in the Air and War in Val d'Orcia, and now turns inward to describe her own family, the work of writing, and the transcience of memory. Images and Shadows, Iris Origo’s autobiographical account of her early life, is as perceptive and humane and beautifully written as her celebrated memoir War in Val d’Orcia. Origo’s father came from an old and moneyed American family, her mother was the daughter of an Irish peer, and Iris grew up in the most privileged of circumstances. Her father died of tuberculosis when he was only thirty, and her mother moved to Fiesole, Italy, where she and Iris developed a close friendship with the great connoisseur and art historian Bernard Berenson. Later, Origo and her Italian husband transformed a desolate and deforested Tuscan property into a flourishing estate, and it was there that she discovered her true calling as a writer. In Images and Shadows, Origo paints portraits of her shy, loving father and her headstrong mother, and describes beloved places, the books that formed her sensibility, and how she grew up and made her way in the world. She reflects on the pleasures and challenges of writing and evokes the persistence and fragility of memory. Images and Shadows is an autobiography that is as thoughtful as it is profoundly touching.

Life to Those Shadows

Noël Burch
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Author : Noël Burch
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1990-11-21
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0520071441

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Noel Burch's new book is a critique of the assumptions underlying 'classical' approaches to film history: the assumption that what we call the language of film was a natural, organic development, that it lay latent from the outset in the basic technology of the camera, waiting for the prescient pioneers to bring it into being; and the assumption that this language was a universal, neutral medium, innocent of any social or historical meaning in itself." "His major thesis is that, on the contrary, film language has a social and economic history, that it evolved in the way it did because of when and where it was constructed -- in the capitalist and imperialist west between 1892 and 1929." "The book examines the chronology of the emergence of what it defines as cinema's Institutional Mode of Representation and the socio-historical circumstances in which this took place. It examines the principles of visualisation -- camera placement and movement, lighting, editing, mise-en-scene -- that film-makers and audiences came to internalize over the first three decades. Special emphasis is laid on the allimportant change that occurred in the imaginary placing of the spectator, from a position of exteriority to the film image, implicit in both film-form and viewing conditions during the primitive era (pre-1909), to the imaginary centering of the spectator-subject, completed only with the generalisation of lip-synch sound after 1929. It is the contention of this book that this imaginary centering of a sensorily isolated spectator is the keystone of the cinematic illusion of reality, still achieved today by the same means as it was sixty years ago.

SHADOWS OF LIFE

Nazreen
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Author : Nazreen
Publisher : Avonlea Publishing
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2017-02-09
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9352676734

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The Shadows of Life are emotions; the thoughts, desires, and aspirations trailing in our wake. Shadow-like in manner but shrouded by our physical form, we often seek to reveal them only in the darkness-sometimes of the day but other times, of our lives. Segregated into three sections, this book is a compilation of poems and prose, dealing with quotidian feelings such as love, longing, lamentation, and moreover, the spaces between them. The words in it will resonate with the reader's own voice, rendering life to the untold stories carried within. For in the matters of the heart, we are all one and the same.

Half in Shadow

Shanna Greene Benjamin
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Author : Shanna Greene Benjamin
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2021-04-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781469661896

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Half in Shadow by Shanna Greene Benjamin Pdf

Nellie Y. McKay (1930–2006) was a pivotal figure in contemporary American letters. The author of several books, McKay is best known for coediting the canon-making with Henry Louis Gates Jr., which helped secure a place for the scholarly study of Black writing that had been ignored by white academia. However, there is more to McKay's life and legacy than her literary scholarship. After her passing, new details about McKay's life emerged, surprising everyone who knew her. Why did McKay choose to hide so many details of her past? Shanna Greene Benjamin examines McKay's path through the professoriate to learn about the strategies, sacrifices, and successes of contemporary Black women in the American academy. Benjamin shows that McKay's secrecy was a necessary tactic that a Black, working-class woman had to employ to succeed in the white-dominated space of the American English department. Using extensive archives and personal correspondence, Benjamin brings together McKay’s private life and public work to expand how we think about Black literary history and the place of Black women in American culture.

A Life of Shadows

Kristen Banet
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Author : Kristen Banet
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2018-02-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0692068546

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Sawyer Matthews knows how to put one foot in front of the other, to keep moving while the nightmares haunt her, and her own failures taunt her. She's become a master at doing awful things with good intentions, terrible things for the sake of those who need her. She's long given up on being the hero, trying to find peace in no longer being the villain. When her past comes back and she finds herself caught by the International Magi Police Organization, she'll have to revisit her own personal hells and finally confront the very monster that made her what she is. The very monster that has already killed her once before. Will the "dead" Magi assassin Shadow finally come out of the dark to begin a fight for a redemption she doesn't believe she deserves? Or will her nightmares drag her back into the shadows that have defined her life? *This is an Urban Fantasy reverse harem series of full length novels where the leading lady doesn't have to choose from her romantic interests. This series will have M/M content. These books are rated for mature audiences, 18+ due to violence, language, and sexual themes. This series deals with several triggering topics including, but not limited to, suicide, child abuse, rape, and PTSD.*

Giant in the Shadows

Jason Emerson
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Author : Jason Emerson
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 642 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2012-03-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780809330553

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Giant in the Shadows by Jason Emerson Pdf

Giant in the Shadows is the definitive biography of Robert T. Lincoln (1843-1926), the oldest son of Abraham and Mary Lincoln and their only child to live past age eighteen. Emerson, after nearly ten years of research, draws upon previously unavailable materials to cover Robert Lincoln's entire life in detail.

Coloring Book of Shadows

Amy Cesari
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Author : Amy Cesari
Publisher : Amy Cesari
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2019-06-17
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 1732764077

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** Premium 70# Paper Hardback Version** NEW COVER -- ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED OCT. 2016 Have You Always Known You Were Magic? A "Book of Shadows" is a journal to record your path of magic. If you seek it, magic will unfold before you in fantastic ways. All you have to do is take the first curious steps and follow where it leads. Let your journey unfold as you color enchanting illustrations and record your own spells and discoveries on the pages within this book. Follow your magic and find out what powers you have... waiting to be unlocked! Printed only on one side of the page. 70+ pages of coloring, framed notes, and enchanting illustrations. Find your magic with coloring and creativity

Invisible Shadows

Verna Thomas
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Author : Verna Thomas
Publisher : Halifax, NS : Nimbus
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105111644543

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Invisible Shadows by Verna Thomas Pdf

Invisible Shadows is Verna Thomas' account of coming to consciousness about race in the wake of changes in education, civil rights, and black self-awareness that swept across the continent in the second half of the twentieth century and against the wider backdrop of slavery. Part autobiography, part history, part race theory, the work's hybrid form reflects the range of influences brought to bear on it-intersecting histories, cultures, and communities, framed by the events of one woman's life. The power of Invisible Shadows lies in the sincerity -and the good humour with which Thomas approaches the difficult task of truth-telling.

Shadows on the Koyukuk

Jim Rearden,Sidney Huntington
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Author : Jim Rearden,Sidney Huntington
Publisher : Graphic Arts Books
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2014-04-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780882409306

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Shadows on the Koyukuk by Jim Rearden,Sidney Huntington Pdf

“I owe Alaska. It gave me everything I have.” Says Sidney Huntington, son of an Athapaskan mother and white trader/trapper father. Growing up on the Koyukuk River in Alaska’s harsh Interior, that “everything” spans 78 years of tragedies and adventures. When his mother died suddenly, 5-year-old Huntington protected and cared for his younger brother and sister during two weeks of isolation. Later, as a teenager, he plied the wilderness traplines with his father, nearly freezing to death several times. One spring, he watched an ice-filled breakup flood sweep his family’s cabin and belongings away. These and many other episodes are the compelling background for the story of a man who learned the lessons of a land and culture, lessons that enabled him to prosper as trapper, boat builder, and fisherman. This is more than one man's incredible tale of hardship and success in Alaska. It is also a tribute to the Athapaskan traditions and spiritual beliefs that enabled him and his ancestors to survive. His story, simply told, is a testament to the durability of Alaska's wild lands and to the strength of the people who inhabit them.

Complicated Shadows: The Life And Music Of Elvis Costello

Graham Thomson
Complicated Shadows The Life And Music Of Elvis Costello Book PDF

Author : Graham Thomson
Publisher : Canongate Books
Page : 545 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2013-03-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781782111634

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Complicated Shadows: The Life And Music Of Elvis Costello by Graham Thomson Pdf

Complicated Shadows paints a detailed and accurate portrait of an intensely private and complex individual. It draws on nearly 50 exclusive interviews with schoolmates, pre-fame friends, early band members, journalists as well as members of The Attractions, producers, collaborators and musicians from all stages of his life and career. Thomson also unearths many previously unknown details about Costello's early years and his personal life, as well as examining his entire musical output using the recollections of those who were there at the time, the majority of whom have never talked on the subject before.

Secrets and Shadows

Shannon Delany
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Author : Shannon Delany
Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2011-02-15
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 1429994495

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Nothing's simple when you run with werewolves. Jess Gillmansen thinks she's seen it all but her eyes are about to be opened to even more danger and a reality far more paranormal than she's suspected. With Jess's realization that the Rusakovas' mother is still alive and imprisoned, the group's choices become harder and trust more important. Lines are drawn and relationships change as the broken Rusakova family struggles to reunite long enough to free their mother and people who Jess always just took to be normal people show themselves to be much, much more.

From Shadows to Life

Judith Pearson
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Author : Judith Pearson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2021-01-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1947187120

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From Shadows to Life, is the story of the war on cancer, the cancer survivorship movement, and its impact on modern cancer care.

Out of the Shadows

Walt Odets
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Author : Walt Odets
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2019-06-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780374719326

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A moving exploration of how gay men construct their identities, fight to be themselves, and live authentically It goes without saying that even today, it’s not easy to be gay in America. While young gay men often come out more readily, even those from the most progressive of backgrounds still struggle with the legacy of early-life stigma and a deficit of self-acceptance, which can fuel doubt, regret, and, at worst, self-loathing. And this is to say nothing of the ongoing trauma wrought by AIDS, which is all too often relegated to history. Drawing on his work as a clinical psychologist during and in the aftermath of the epidemic, Walt Odets reflects on what it means to survive and figure out a way to live in a new, uncompromising future, both for the men who endured the upheaval of those years and for the younger men who have come of age since then, at a time when an HIV epidemic is still ravaging the gay community, especially among the most marginalized. Through moving stories—of friends and patients, and his own—Odets considers how experiences early in life launch men on trajectories aimed at futures that are not authentically theirs. He writes to help reconstruct how we think about gay life by considering everything from the misleading idea of “the homosexual,” to the diversity and richness of gay relationships, to the historical role of stigma and shame and the significance of youth and of aging. Crawling out from under the trauma of destructive early-life experience and the two epidemics, and into a century of shifting social values, provides an opportunity to explore possibilities rather than live with limitations imposed by others. Though it is drawn from decades of private practice, activism, and life in the gay community, Odets’s work achieves remarkable universality. At its core, Out of the Shadows is driven by his belief that it is time that we act based on who we are and not who others are or who they would want us to be. We—particularly the young—must construct our own paths through life. Out of the Shadows is a necessary, impassioned argument for how and why we must all take hold of our futures.

Dweller in Shadows

Kate Kennedy
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Author : Kate Kennedy
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2023-07-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780691218557

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Dweller in Shadows by Kate Kennedy Pdf

The first comprehensive biography of an extraordinary English poet and composer whose life was haunted by fighting in the First World War and, later, confinement in a mental asylum Ivor Gurney (1890–1937) wrote some of the most anthologized poems of the First World War and composed some of the greatest works in the English song repertoire, such as “Sleep.” Yet his life was shadowed by the trauma of the war and mental illness, and he spent his last fifteen years confined to a mental asylum. In Dweller in Shadows, Kate Kennedy presents the first comprehensive biography of this extraordinary and misunderstood artist. A promising student at the Royal College of Music, Gurney enlisted as a private with the Gloucestershire regiment in 1915 and spent two years in the trenches of the Western Front. Wounded in the arm and subsequently gassed during the Battle of Passchendaele, Gurney was recovering in hospital when his first collection of poems, Severn and Somme, was published. Despite episodes of depression, he resumed his music studies after the war until he was committed to an asylum in 1922. At times believing he was Shakespeare and that the “machines under the floor” were torturing him, he nevertheless continued to write and compose, leaving behind a vast body of unpublished work when he died of tuberculosis. Drawing on extensive archival research and spanning literary criticism, history, psychiatry and musicology, this compelling narrative sets Gurney’s life and work against the backdrop of the war and his institutionalisation, probing the links between madness, suffering and creativity. Facing death in the trenches, Gurney hoped that history might not “forget me quite.” This definitive account of his life and work helps ensure that he will indeed be remembered.