Sommelier Of Deformity

Author : Nick Yetto
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2018-07-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781684421466

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Sommelier of Deformity by Nick Yetto Pdf

"I'm a connoisseur of the unwanted; a sommelier of deformity; a coveter of the unloved. I am forever chased by the shadow of my ugliness. In darkness, no shadow remains, and it's all diamonds." Buddy Hayes is an ugly, defiant little man, a would-be Don Juan trapped in Quasimodo's body. He lives with his mother and ailing grandfather in a decaying, post-industrial city. The mother is Emily Post with a color changing and a mood-indicating scar. The grandfather is a one-eyed double amputee, who spends his days happily dangling in a hydraulic patient lift. Their life is a working-class hallucination of blueblood extravagance. They luxuriate over gourmet meals and perform dramatic readings. At night, Buddy slips away for covert liaisons with women he meets on the internet. Buddy is at war with his neighbor over a stolen book. There are frequent outrageous acts of casual sex. There's a love interest, a librarian, who tempts Buddy with desires for the "normal" kind of love he knows he cannot have. So it goes, until a new nurse arrives to care for Buddy’s grandfather. Enter Terrance: a tall, impossibly handsome black man, a lapsed Broadway performer, virtuoso singer, and banjo player. Buddy and Terrance strike up an unlikely friendship that drives Yetto's surreal, tawdry, and poignant debut novel.

Author : Nick Yetto
Publisher : Turner
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2018-07-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1684421446

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Sommelier of Deformity by Nick Yetto Pdf

Buddy is a strange, unattractive, and short man. He lives in a decrepit town in upstate New York with his oddball mother and invalid grandfather. What the family lacks in stature, they make up for in frill. Their life is a working-class hallucination of blueblood extravagance, complete with dramatic readings from first-editions and lavish meals. Buddy's days are spent running his web design company from his chambers, and his nights are spent slipping away for covert liaisons with women - not just any women. He considers himself a "sommelier of deformity; a coveter of the unloved." Buddy is flawed if nothing else - he's arrogant, at war with his neighbor over a stolen book, and admittedly very racist. When Terrance, his grandfather's new African-American nurse, proves to be an incredibly talented musician and a good friend, Buddy's world is turned upside-down as he struggles to understand his changing value system.

Author : Kelvin Robertson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0992859999

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The Sommelier by Kelvin Robertson Pdf

By the end of 2023 Ukraine is wholly under the control of the Russian Federation, The United States has begun to withdraw from Europe to face a perceived threat from the east leaving exposed to Russian domination. With tensions running high, the appearance of a superyacht off the coast of Ukraine causes British Naval intelligence to take note. They track the vessel to Istanbul where an agent is despatched to observe it. He notes several visitors to the yacht, photographing them arriving and leaving, the images eventually landing on the desk of Anita, an MI6 officer. Her investigation reveals a disturbing connection. One visitor to the yacht in particular, a tall man of Middle Eastern appearance is, she believes, the same man photographed leaving a terrorist training camp in the northern Iraqi desert some years before and alarm bells begin to ring.

Author : John Kennedy Toole
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2007-12-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780802197627

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A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole Pdf

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize “A masterwork . . . the novel astonishes with its inventiveness . . . it is nothing less than a grand comic fugue.”—The New York Times Book Review A Confederacy of Dunces is an American comic masterpiece. John Kennedy Toole's hero, one Ignatius J. Reilly, is "huge, obese, fractious, fastidious, a latter-day Gargantua, a Don Quixote of the French Quarter. His story bursts with wholly original characters, denizens of New Orleans' lower depths, incredibly true-to-life dialogue, and the zaniest series of high and low comic adventures" (Henry Kisor, Chicago Sun-Times).

Author : Edith Wharton
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781473361102

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The Gods Arrive by Edith Wharton Pdf

This early work by Edith Wharton was originally published in 1932 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'The Gods Arrive' is a sequel to 'Hudson River Bracketed' in which the characters, Halo and Vance, try to continue their literary relationship. Edith Wharton was born in New York City in 1862. Wharton's first poems were published in Scribner’s Magazine. In 1891, the same publication printed the first of her many short stories, titled 'Mrs. Manstey’s View'. Over the next four decades, they – along with other well-established American publications such as Atlantic Monthly, Century Magazine, Harper’s and Lippincott’s – regularly published her work.

Author : THOMAS W. KNOX
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 970 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1874
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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UNDERGROUND OR LIFE BELOW THE SURFACE. by THOMAS W. KNOX Pdf

Author : Thomas Wallace Knox
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 958 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1873
Category : Adventure and adventurers
ISBN : OSU:32435000839464

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Underground by Thomas Wallace Knox Pdf

Author : Thomas Wallace Knox
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1036 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1878
Category : Caves
ISBN : STANFORD:36105047141432

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The Underground World by Thomas Wallace Knox Pdf

Author : Jonathan Ames
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2007-11-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781416590408

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Wake Up, Sir! by Jonathan Ames Pdf

From the creator of the HBO series Bored to Death, the story of a young alcoholic writer and his personal valet, a hilarious homage to the Bertie and Jeeves novels of P.G. Wodehouse. Alan Blair, the hero of Wake Up, Sir!, is a young, loony writer with numerous problems of the mental, emotional, sexual, spiritual, and physical variety. He's very good at problems. But luckily for Alan, he has a personal valet named Jeeves, who does his best to sort things out for his troubled master. And Alan does find trouble wherever he goes. He embarks on a perilous and bizarre road journey, his destination being an artists colony in Saratoga Springs. There Alan encounters a gorgeous femme fatale who is in possession of the most spectacular nose in the history of noses. Such a nose can only lead to a wild disaster for someone like Alan, and Jeeves tries to help him, but...well, read the book and find out!

Author : Audrey Carlan
Publisher : Waterhouse Press LLC
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2022-07-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 164263364X

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Resisting Roots by Audrey Carlan Pdf

Yoga instructor Genevieve Harper is a blond bombshell loaded down with responsibility and sacrifice. She makes the most out of raising her two siblings in the wake of their parents’ tragic accident. At twenty-four, she doesn’t have time to devote to a man especially not the devastatingly handsome Trent Fox, who’s known for being a “player” on and off the baseball field. Trent has the best hitting average in the league. Recently, he suffered a torn hamstring that takes him to the Lotus House Yoga Center for recuperation. There he meets the curvy, petite blonde with soulful black eyes and candy-coated glossy lips he’d like to do more to than kiss. He secures the flexible hottie for daily private lessons that ultimately show him how sensual the art of yoga can be. Can love grow between a woman who’s rooted in her life and a man who resists any notion of staying in one place?

Author : Mary Karr
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2009-11-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780061959684

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Lit by Mary Karr Pdf

A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR New York Times Book Review • The New Yorker • Entertainment Weekly • Time • Washington Post • San Francisco Chronicle • Chicago Tribune • Christian Science Monitor • Slate • St. Louise Post-Dispatch • Cleveland Plain Dealer • Seattle Times • NBCC Award Finalist Mary Karr’s unforgettable sequel to her beloved and bestselling memoirs The Liars’ Club and Cherry “lassos you, hogties your emotions and won’t let you go” (Michiko Kakutani, New York Times). Lit is about getting drunk and getting sober; becoming a mother by letting go of a mother; learning to write by learning to live. Written with Karr's relentless honesty, unflinching self-scrutiny, and irreverent, lacerating humor, it is a truly electrifying story of how to grow up—as only Mary Karr can tell it. The Boston Globe calls Lit a book that “reminds us not only how compelling personal stories can be, but how, in the hands of a master, they can transmute into the highest art." The New York Times Book Review calls it “a master class on the art of the memoir” and Susan Cheever states, simply, that Lit is “the best book about being a woman in America I have read in years."

Author : Gail Honeyman
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2017-05-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780008172138

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Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman Pdf

Over 2.5 million copies sold ‘Funny, touching and unpredictable’ Jojo Moyes ‘Heartwrenching and wonderful’ Nina Stibbe Winner of Costa First Novel Award, a No.1 Sunday Times bestseller and the Book of the Year

Author : Lorrie Moore
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2018-04-03
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781524732493

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See What Can Be Done by Lorrie Moore Pdf

A New York Times Critic's Top Pick of the Year This essential, enlightening, truly delightful collection shows one of our greatest writers parsing the political, artistic, and media landscape of the past three decades. These sixty-six essays and reviews, culled from the pages of The New York Review of Books, The New York Times, Harper’s, The Atlantic, and The New Yorker, among others, find Lorrie Moore turning her discerning eye on everything from Philip Roth to Margaret Atwood, from race in America to the shocking state of the GOP, from celebrity culture to the wilds of television, from Stephen Sondheim to Barack Obama. See What Can Be Done is a perfect blend of craft, brains, and a knowing, singular take on life, liberty, and the pursuit of (some kind of) happiness.

Author : David Hatcher,Jane Mallison
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2010-07-18
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781440507335

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Words You Should Know How to Spell by David Hatcher,Jane Mallison Pdf

Ceilling. Beleive. Scissers. Do you have trouble spelling everyday words? Is your spell check on overdrive? Well, this easy-to-use dictionary is just what you need! Organized with speed and convenience in mind, it gives you instant access to the correct spellings of more than 12,500 words. Also provided are quick tips and memory tricks, like: Help yourself get the spelling of their right by thinking of the phrase ?their heirlooms.? Most words ending in a ?seed? sound are spelled ?-cede? or ?-ceed,? but one word ends in ?-sede.? You could say the rule for spelling this word supersedes the other rules. No matter what you’re working on, you can be confident that your good writing won’t be marred by bad spelling. This book takes away the guesswork and helps you make a good impression!

Author : Grace Lennox
Publisher : Bold Strokes Books Inc
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2007-08-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781602823143

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Not Single Enough by Grace Lennox Pdf

A funny, sexy modern romance about two lonely women who bond over the unexpected and fall in love despite their determination to do the opposite. Giselle was having a ero week, in fact, she was having a ero life. Her ex had finally copped to the affair sheÕd been having for months and theyÕd broken up, Giselle had just watched an idiot get the promotion she wanted at work, and her mother had showed up for lunch with a gigolo she is set to marry. Life gets even more complicated when, after drowning her sorrows at her local bar, Giselle finds a newborn baby in a dumpster a block from her house and decides to keep it. Two days later, after sheÕs being calling in sick to work, her best friend Sandy visits, only to discover a fridge full of baby formula and Giselle reading a book on motherhood. Sandy has to act but she doesn't want to get Giselle in trouble, so she gets in touch with a friend who can deal with the situation, Detective Dale Porter. Dale has heard it all before. Nothing surprises her and she has no problem with the idea of picking up a dumpster baby, no questions asked, from a rescuer who got Òcarried away.Ó Only, Giselle seems so distressed when the baby is taken, avowedly single Dale finds herself wanting to make it up to her.