The Birdcatcher

Author : Gayl Jones
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2022-09-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780807029947

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The Birdcatcher by Gayl Jones Pdf

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST 2022 Publishers Weekly Top 10 BEST BOOKS OF 2022 “Gayl Jones’s work represents a watershed in American literature." —Imani Perry Legendary writer Gayl Jones returns with a stunning new novel about Black American artists in exile Gayl Jones, the novelist Toni Morrison discovered decades ago and Tayari Jones recently called her favorite writer, has been described as one of the great literary writers of the 20th century. Now, for the first time in over 20 years, Jones is publishing again. In the wake of her long-awaited fifth novel, Palmares, The Birdcatcher is another singular achievement, a return to the circles of her National Book Award finalist, The Healing. Set primarily on the island of Ibiza, the story is narrated by the writer Amanda Wordlaw, whose closest friend, a gifted sculptor named Catherine Shuger, is repeatedly institutionalized for trying to kill a husband who never leaves her. The three form a quirky triangle on the white-washed island. A study in Black women’s creative expression, and the intensity of their relationships, this work from Jones shows off her range and insight into the vicissitudes of all human nature—rewarding longtime fans and bringing her talent to a new generation of readers.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Orient Blackswan
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8125019901

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Pigeon And The Bird Catcher, The (Level 1) by Anonim Pdf

The Orient Blackswan Easy Readers introduce the child to the enchanting world of reading, which encourage him/her to read with little or no external help. These well-illustrated books are carefully graded into six levels. The series begins at Level 1 and is meant for beginners in the age group of 5 7 years. The other levels are: Level 2: 6 8 years, Level 3: 7 9 years, Level 4: 9 10 years, Level 5: 10 12 years, Level 6: 11 14 years and Level 7: 12 15 years. This careful grading, based on age-appropriate vocabulary and structure enables the reader to progress through the successive levels. The current titles mainly include the classics and also have those that suit modern tastes and interests.

Author : Daniel Candel
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2023-12-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781003813248

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Cognitive Narrative Thematics by Daniel Candel Pdf

Cognitive Narratives Thematics proposes a new way in which narrative works organise their thematic material. It rehabilitates the study of what books are about by providing a cognitive narrative thematic model (CNT). Part I presents CNT by combining different approaches to narrative, such as evolutionary theory, semiotics, possible worlds theory, or rhetorical criticism. Part II applies CNT to a variety of well-known narratives in different modalities, such as Robert Browning’s "My Last Duchess", Julia Donaldson’s The Gruffalo, Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are, Frank Miller’s 300, or Mike Mignola’s Hellboy. It also considers literary histories and digital humanities. Daniel Candel shows that CNT deserves greater attention and that thematics generates its own forms and adds to the aesthetic pleasure of the text. Candel illustrates that CNT improves the established interpretations of the narrative works it studies. This innovative study reveals how CNT offers readers a deeper understanding, and how readers and critics are often using CNT intuitively without being aware of it. It is an invaluable resource for students and scholars of narrative theory.

Author : Susannah Ticciati
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2022-01-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780567682895

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On Signs, Christ, Truth and the Interpretation of Scripture by Susannah Ticciati Pdf

Susannah Ticciati draws on Augustine to address the question of truth in the public sphere. In the face of the degeneration of public normative discourse, the book finds in Augustine the resources for the repair of a series of (post)modern oppositions, making way for a rehabilitation of public normativity. The book discovers in Augustine a truth that is at once inward and public. It is a truth which both scriptural author and interpreter, prompted by the words of Scripture, seek in common. It is a truth which Christ speaks on behalf of others, and which others in turn are liberated to speak in Christ. Through Augustine, Ticciati offers a scriptural hermeneutic that overcomes a false opposition between modern and postmodern modes of reading, and arrives at a Christologically informed vision of coinherence rather than inclusion, of substitutionary rather than tokenist representation, and of cosmic rather than colonial breadth.

Author : Laura Jacobs
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2009-06-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781429987752

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The Bird Catcher by Laura Jacobs Pdf

Margret Snow is the quintessential New York woman. She dresses the windows of Saks Fifth Avenue by day and mingles in the downtown art world by night, always searching for her niche in a city intent on capturing The Next Big Thing as it flies into view. Married to Charles, a professor at Columbia, and living on the Upper West Side, the backdrop to Margret's life is made up of the poetic rhythms and colors of the Manhattan day: slow-running buses, the gray morning light striking the Hudson, the winter landscape of Riverside Park, the endless round of gallery openings, cocktail parties and grand dinners in the palatial apartments on Manhattan's upper east side. Against this metropolitan whirl, Margret and Charles pursue a lifelong hobby of bird watching, a passion for which was kindled by her grandfather during long-past summers near the shore in Gloucester, Massachusetts. As they shuttle between their Manhattan apartment, birding in the city's parks, and weekends out of town in their house near Cape May, a violent upheaval pushes Margret beyond the boundaries of her hobby. Overnight, she becomes an art world sensation and just as suddenly has fame ripped from her. As Laura Jacobs proved in her first novel, "Women About Town", she understands the natural habitat of the New York Woman in all its complexity. In The Bird Catcher, her second, she moves deeper into that territory with the story of a remarkable woman who is as rare and special as the birds that fill the skies above her.

Author : Masaki Mori
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0791432017

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Epic Grandeur by Masaki Mori Pdf

Examines both Western and Japanese epic traditions to argue for a new concept of the epic--an epic of peace, toward which the genre is evolving globally.

Author : Andrew Laird
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 505 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2024-03-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780197586358

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Aztec Latin by Andrew Laird Pdf

Soon after the fall of the Aztec empire in 1521, missionaries began teaching Latin to native youths in Mexico. This initiative was intended to train indigenous students for positions of leadership, but it led some of them to produce significant writings of their own in Latin, and to translate a wide range of literature, including Aesop's fables, into their native language. Aztec Latin reveals the full extent to which the first Mexican authors mastered and made use of European learning and provides a timely reassessment of what those indigenous authors really achieved.

Author : Amy Jones
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2022-01-11
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780593332061

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Children's Writer's & Illustrator's Market 33rd Edition by Amy Jones Pdf

The Most Trusted Guide to the World of Children's Publishing, fully revised and updated The 33rd edition of Children's Writer's and Illustrator's Market is the definitive and trusted guide for anyone who seeks to write or illustrate for kids and young adults. If you're a writer or an illustrator for young readers and your goal is to get published, CWIM is the resource you need. In this book, you'll find more than 500 listings for children's book markets, including publishers, literary agents, magazines, contests, and more. These listings include a point of contact, how to properly submit your work, and what categories each market accepts. This edition also features: 500+ listings for children's markets, including book publishers, literary agents, magazines, contests, and more Interviews with bestselling authors, including Cassandra Clare, N.K. Jemisin, Jacqueline Woodson, Leigh Bardugo, and more Craft articles on topics ranging from P.O.V., mocking-up picture books, and including diverse characters Business articles on topics such as making the most of your platform, tracking submissions, and maximizing the time + energy you have to write, and much more

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1854
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0018963906

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Round Games for all parties: a collection of the greatest variety of family amusements for fireside or pic-nic, etc by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1854
Category : Amusements
ISBN : OXFORD:600086829

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Round Games for All Parties by Anonim Pdf

Author : Games
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1854
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NLS:V000580481

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Round Games for All Parties: a Collection of the Greatest Variety of Family Amusements for Fireside Or Pic-nic, Etc by Games Pdf

Author : Katsuhiro Yoshizawa
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2010-09-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781458758835

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The Religious Art of Zen Master Hakuin by Katsuhiro Yoshizawa Pdf

The Religious Art of Zen Master Hakuin is a stunning volume containing many of Hakuin's finest calligraphies and paintings. Katsuhiro Yoshizawa, the leading Japanese expert on Hakuin, masterfully reveals the profound religious meaning embedded in each artwork, providing a richly detailed documentary of the life and lessons of one of Zen's most respected teachers.

Author : William Hamilton Maxwell
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
Page : 616 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-28
Category : Amusements
ISBN : 9781465612281

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The Field Book: Sports and Pastimes of the United Kingdom Compiled from the Best Authorities Ancient and Modern by William Hamilton Maxwell Pdf

An enthusiastic admirer of rural sports from boyhood, the Compiler sought with avidity after any book connected with his favourite recreations, from which either amusement or information might be obtained. The older authors, with the exception of a few pages of quaint and curious anecdote, were generally formed of barbarous theories, whose absurdities had long since caused them to be disregarded. The more modern, whether confined to a particular subject, or professing to be repertories of British Sports, were too frequently overloaded with hackneyed and unimportant matter, and merely reprints of treatises for years before the public, and differing from their predecessors in nothing but the name. But had there been nothing objectionable in the execution of sporting works, as they appeared during the last century, the total change in everything connected with the British field, would render them now of little value, but to point a contrast between the past and present systems. Without reverting to the times when jockeys rode in tie-wigs, and men would not venture to a trout-stream unless furnished with a velvet cap; when country gentlemen deserted their ladye-loves ere cock-crow, to see the sun rise above a fox-cover; when no pond-fish could resist a bait prepared with a dead-man’s finger; and a sucking-mastiff, stuffed with snails and judiciously roasted, was a sovereign remedy for a shoulder-slip;—without reverting to these times, what changes have not occurred within our own recollections? The mystic arcana of old professors have vanished before practical and scientific improvement, and the Sporting World has undergone a total revolution, and produced a new order of men and things. While, however, expressing these convictions, the Compiler would not undervalue many of the useful and intelligent writers and collectors who have preceded him. With allowances for their times, and the false theories then received, which modern science has exploded, where will more information be found than in the “Rural Sports,” “Thoughts on Hunting,” “Essay on Sporting,” and other contemporaneous works? It is of the copyists of these writers that the Compiler would complain, who, adopting everything, good and bad, from these originals, without a single addition of their own, have dosed the public ad nauseam, re-vending the same wares again and again, without even the redeeming grace of acknowledging the sources of their spoliations.

Author : Tresham Gilbey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1865
Category : Recreation
ISBN : HARVARD:HN43JV

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Baily's Magazine of Sports and Pastimes by Tresham Gilbey Pdf

Author : Amy Jones
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2019-12-03
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780593191064

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Children's Writer's & Illustrator's Market 2020 by Amy Jones Pdf

The Most Trusted Guide to the World of Children's Publishing! The 32nd edition of Children's Writer's and Illustrator's Market is the definitive and trusted guide for anyone who seeks to write or illustrate for kids and young adults. If you're a writer or an illustrator for young readers and your goal is to get published, CWIM 2020 is the resource you need. In this book, you'll find more than 500 listings for children's book markets, including publishers, literary agents, magazines, contests, and more. These listings include a point of contact, how to properly submit your work, and what categories each market accepts. This edition also features: • Interviews with bestselling authors including Cassandra Clare, N.K. Jemisin, Jacqueline Woodson, Leigh Bardugo, and more. • Craft articles on topics ranging from P.O.V., mocking-up picture books, and including diverse characters. • Business articles on topics such as making the most of your platform, tracking submissions, and blocking out distractions when you write, and much more.