Tall Tales And True Confessions

Author : Bobby James Ellis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2007-03-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1425991238

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Tall Tales and True Confessions by Bobby James Ellis Pdf

Mr. Palumbo imbues American poetry with the sort of high octane insight and heart it has lacked for decades; and in so doing, is very much grounded in the everyday hopes and aspirations that rise to the fore, continually, in questioning both existence, love and faith itself. As in so many other ways, this intensely lyrical, muscled work is very much like re-entering the world again with a new found friend and guide who is destined to lead you home at last more enlightened, toughened, and that much better understood! THE EDITORS

Author : Shane Gordon
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2005-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780595377060

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Short Stories, Tall Tales and True Confessions by Shane Gordon Pdf

Shane Gordon is the author of two books, Dear Baby Boomers and The Tenth Man. This book is Short Stories, Tall Tales And True Confessions. Something for everyone from 16 to 65 plus, some funny, some serious, some just stories.

Author : Shane Gordon
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2007-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780595445585

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B.N. Napoleon, P.I. by Shane Gordon Pdf

B.N. Napoleon is a female Private Eye who sometimes, when the situation warrants it, becomes a male by dressing in a man's suit, shoes and wearing a false moustache. Her hair is cut short and fortunately she is under endowed. She does this when it becomes apparent that a prospective client conveys he or she is looking for a male private investigator at which time Barbara Napoleon informs them that her brother will be back in town in the morning and if they will leave a phone number, she will inform her brother B.N., and he will call in the morning upon his return. Thus the transformation the next morning to B.N. Napoleon, P.I.

Author : Shane Gordon
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2006-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780595395996

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One for the Money by Shane Gordon Pdf

Billy Coldwell was product of the 60's. He lived in the projects of LA with his Russian immigrant parents who were unsuccessful in life. He was determined to escape the projects and 'make it' at all costs. Friends who could help him up the ladder of success fell by the wayside, because money was the answer and he would get it somehow. He lived by the moto he learned early in life: "One For the Money, don't be so slow, Grab for the Gold Ring and Go, Go, Go!"

Author : Alex Boese
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 0156030837

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Hippo Eats Dwarf by Alex Boese Pdf

In a world of lip synching, breast implants, and staged reality shows, it's hard to know the real from the fake. Now "hoaxpert" Boese offers the essential field guide to today's "Misinformation Age."

Author : Beverly J. Rasporich
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2015-09-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027268174

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Made-in-Canada Humour by Beverly J. Rasporich Pdf

Made-in-Canada-Humour is an interdisciplinary survey and analysis of Canadian humour and humorists in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The book focuses on a variety of genres. It includes celebrated Canadian writers and poets with ironic and satiric perspectives; oral storytellers of tall tales in the country and the city; newspaper print humorists; representative national and regional cartoonists; and comedians of stage, radio and television. The humour gives voice to Canadian values and experiences, and consequently, techniques and styles of humour particular to the country. While a persistent comic theme has been joking at the expense of the United States, both countries have influenced one another’s humour. Canada’s unique humorous tradition also reflects its emergence from a colonial country to a postcolonial and postmodern nation with contemporary humour that addresses gender and racial issues.

Author : Jonathan Romain
Publisher : Biteback Publishing
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-07
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9781785902406

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Confessions of a Rabbi by Jonathan Romain Pdf

The secrets of the confessional are too important to be kept secret, and Jonathan Romain shares them all in this rollercoaster of crises, emotional traumas, moral dilemmas, attempts at seduction, multiple murders, machiavellian families, hijacked weddings, catastrophic funerals and a maze of other people's sexual fantasies. Rabbi Romain's previous careers - as a radio agony uncle, prison chaplain, postman and nightclub bouncer - have helped him navigate the human jungle, and now he takes us with him on a remarkable journey spiced with wit and wisdom. Revealing the extraordinary stories of ordinary people, Confessions of a Rabbi is a candid, poignant and often hilarious insight into the human condition.

Author : Allan Hepburn
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781442641006

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Enchanted Objects by Allan Hepburn Pdf

Enchanted Objects investigates the relationship between visual art and contemporary fiction, addressing the problems that arise when paintings, deluxe books, porcelains, or statues are represented in contemporary novels. The distinction between objects and art objects depends on aesthetics. While some objects are authenticated through museum exhibits, others are hidden, broken, neglected, coveted, hoarded, or salvaged. Allan Hepburn asks four broad questions about aesthetics and value: What is a detail in visual art? Is all art ornamental? Does the value of an object increase because it is fragile? What defines ugliness? Contemporary novels, such as Tracy Chevalier's Girl with a Pearl Earring, Barry Unsworth's Stone Virgin, and Bruce Chatwin's Utz offer implicit answers to these questions while critiquing museums and the determination to invest objects with value through display. Addressing current debates in museum studies, cultural studies, art history, and literary criticism, Enchanted Objects develops an extensive theory of how contemporary literature engages with and relates to aesthetic objects.

Author : Don McKay
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2009-08-02
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781554586585

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Field Marks by Don McKay Pdf

This volume features thirty-five of Don McKay’s best poems, which are selected with a contextualizing introduction by Méira Cook that probes wilderness and representation in McKay, and the canny, quirky, thoughtful, and sometimes comic self-consciousness the poems adumbrate. Included is McKay’s afterword written especially for this volume in which McKay reflects on his own writing process—its relationship to the earth and to metamorphosis. Don McKay has published eight books of poetry. He won the Governor General’s Award in 1991 (for Night Field) and in 2000 (for Another Gravity), a National Magazine Award (1991), and the Canadian Authors Association Award for Poetry in 1984 (for Birding, Or Desire). Don McKay was shortlisted for the 2005 Griffin Poetry Prize for Camber and was the Canadian winner of the 2007 Griffin Poetry Prize for Strike/Slip. Born in Owen Sound, Ontario, McKay has been active as an editor, creative writing teacher, and university instructor, as well as a poet. He has taught at the University of Western Ontario, the University of New Brunswick, The Banff Centre, The Sage Hill Writing Experience, and the BC Festival of the Arts. He has served as editor and publisher of Brick Books since 1975 and from 1991 to 1996 as editor of The Fiddlehead. He resides in British Columbia.

Author : Paul Chantler,Peter Stewart
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2013-08-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136024344

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Basic Radio Journalism by Paul Chantler,Peter Stewart Pdf

A working manual and practical guide containing all the tools and techniques you need to succeed in radio journalism.

Author : Todd Snider
Publisher : Da Capo Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2014-04-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780306822612

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I Never Met a Story I Didn't Like by Todd Snider Pdf

For years, Todd Snider has been one of the most beloved country-folk singers in the United States. He had a Top 40 hit with “Talking Seattle Grunge Rock Blues,” which gave national audiences the first taste of his insightful songwriting, at once satirical and sincere. Hailed by critics as one of the top albums of 2004, East Nashville Skyline was followed by The Devil You Know and The Excitement Plan. Snider's songs took on George W. Bush and America's recent involvement in foreign war, along with a host of more intimate topics. As good as Snider's albums have been, his in-concert monologues are even better. His shows are a loose-limbed, informal experience: it's often just him and a guitar. He introduces songs with stories that can run as long as twenty minutes, always displaying his charm and wit. As he's allowed his storytelling to evolve along with his music, Snider has become not only a modern day Bob Dylan but a modern day Will Rogers as well—an everyman whose intelligence, self deprecation, experience, and, above all, humor make him a uniquely American character.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : HumeMountain-Isle Publishing
Page : 73 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Ten Tall Stories by Anonim Pdf

Author : Martha Brooks
Publisher : Groundwood Books Ltd
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780888995698

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True Confessions of a Heartless Girl by Martha Brooks Pdf

"Noreen flees from her life - arriving in a small town pregnant, driving a stolen truck, and in possession of stolen money. Can she face the truth and find courage to accept change" Cf. Our choice, 2003.

Author : Bruce Walton Taylor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 99 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Surgery, Plastic
ISBN : 0646245538

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Tall Tales and True by Bruce Walton Taylor Pdf

Author : Christopher R. Fee,Jeffrey B. Webb
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 1842 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2016-08-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9798216046547

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American Myths, Legends, and Tall Tales [3 volumes] by Christopher R. Fee,Jeffrey B. Webb Pdf

A fascinating survey of the entire history of tall tales, folklore, and mythology in the United States from earliest times to the present, including stories and myths from the modern era that have become an essential part of contemporary popular culture. Folklore has been a part of American culture for as long as humans have inhabited North America, and increasingly formed an intrinsic part of American culture as diverse peoples from Europe, Africa, Asia, and Oceania arrived. In modern times, folklore and tall tales experienced a rejuvenation with the emergence of urban legends and the growing popularity of science fiction and conspiracy theories, with mass media such as comic books, television, and films contributing to the retelling of old myths. This multi-volume encyclopedia will teach readers the central myths and legends that have formed American culture since its earliest years of settlement. Its entries provide a fascinating glimpse into the collective American imagination over the past 400 years through the stories that have shaped it. Organized alphabetically, the coverage includes Native American creation myths, "tall tales" like George Washington chopping down his father's cherry tree and the adventures of "King of the Wild Frontier" Davy Crockett, through to today's "urban myths." Each entry explains the myth or legend and its importance and provides detailed information about the people and events involved. Each entry also includes a short bibliography that will direct students or interested general readers toward other sources for further investigation. Special attention is paid to African American folklore, Asian American folklore, and the folklore of other traditions that are often overlooked or marginalized in other studies of the topic.