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Author : Raymond Chandler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1953
Category : Detective and mystery stories
ISBN : STANFORD:36105044939390
An encounter with a drunk brings both adventure and trouble to a cynical middle-aged private detective.
Author : Meghan O'Rourke
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2011-04-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781101486559
"Anguished, beautifully written... The Long Goodbye is an elegiac depiction of drama as old as life." -- The New York Times Book Review From one of America's foremost young literary voices, a transcendent portrait of the unbearable anguish of grief and the enduring power of familial love. What does it mean to mourn today, in a culture that has largely set aside rituals that acknowledge grief? After her mother died of cancer at the age of fifty-five, Meghan O'Rourke found that nothing had prepared her for the intensity of her sorrow. In the first anguished days, she began to create a record of her interior life as a mourner, trying to capture the paradox of grief-its monumental agony and microscopic intimacies-an endeavor that ultimately bloomed into a profound look at how caring for her mother during her illness changed and strengthened their bond. O'Rourke's story is one of a life gone off the rails, of how watching her mother's illness-and separating from her husband-left her fundamentally altered. But it is also one of resilience, as she observes her family persevere even in the face of immeasurable loss. With lyricism and unswerving candor, The Long Goodbye conveys the fleeting moments of joy that make up a life, and the way memory can lead us out of the jagged darkness of loss. Effortlessly blending research and reflection, the personal and the universal, it is not only an exceptional memoir, but a necessary one.
Author : Peter Handke
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780374263188
Short Letter, Long Farewell is one the most inventive and exhilarating of the great Peter Handke's novels. Full of seedy noir atmospherics and boasting an air of generalized delirium, the book starts by introducing us to a nameless young German who has just arrived in America, where he hopes to get over the collapse of his marriage. No sooner has he arrived, however, than he discovers that his ex-wife is pursuing him. He flees, she follows, and soon the couple is running circles around each other across the length of America---from Philadelphia to St. Louis to the Arizona desert, and from Portland, Oregon, to L.A. Is it love or vengeance that they want from each other? Everything's spectacularly unclear in a book that is travelogue, suspense story, domestic comedy, and Western showdown, with a totally unexpected Hollywood twist at the end. Above all, Short Letter, Long Farewell is a love letter to America, its landscapes and popular culture, the invitation and the threat of its newness and wildness and emptiness, with the promise of a new life---or the corpse of an old one---lying just around the corner.
Author : Michael Innes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Appleby, John, Sir (Fictitious character)
ISBN : OCLC:1245533546
Lewis was thought to have discovered a book annotated by the Bard - but there is no trace of it when Lewis apparently commits suicide. Appleby finds a mixed bag of suspects at the dead man's house.
Author : Nula Suchet
Publisher : Seren
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2019-07-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781781725191
When Nula's husband James becomes forgetful they put it down to the stress of his work. But his behaviour becomes more erratic and inexplicable, and he is eventually diagnosed with Pick's Disease, early onset and aggressive dementia. Their lives change from comfortable middle-class creatives through the shock of diagnosis, coping with the ongoing illness, not coping with the illness, to the indignities of care home life. The Longest Farewell is a moving description of James' utter mental and physical deterioration, and the effect that it had both on him and on the people from whom he was involuntarily retreating, particularly Nula. Her life is completely taken: her frustration at trying to cope, her guilt at handing over his care to professionals, are just part of her at times harrowing story.With seemingly little to do but wait for his death, Nula meets Bonnie, another resident at the care home suffering from the same condition. In turn she meets Bonnie's husband, the broadcaster John Suchet and the similarity of their positions becomes a bond between them. After the deaths of James and Bonnie, and some guilt-induced false starts, Nula's story takes a bitter-sweet turn: they become partners, and eventually marry. The Longest Farewell is a heartfelt yet inspiring account of dealing with dementia, and of unexpectedly finding a happy ending. "Moving, heart-breaking and terrifying. But best of all, from beginning to the best of endings, it's a book about love." – Sally Magnusson
Author : Don Charlwood
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : History
ISBN : UVA:X002231221
Reprint of a well-received historical account, first published in 1981, of the sea voyages from Britain to Australia during the 19th century. Based on more than 100 shipboard diaries written by both ships' crew and passengers. Includes footnotes, a bibliography and an index. The author has written several maritime histories, as well as two volumes of autobiography, 'March as to War' and 'Journeys into Night', and the classic, 'No Moon Tonight'.
Author : Gerald E. Kahler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105131738192
The news of the death of George Washington at Mount Vernon on December 14, 1799, was reported to have been "felt as an electric shock throughout the union." Martha Washington gave permission for Congress to have her husband's body reinterred under a marble monument to be constructed in the new capital in Washington, D.C. Grieving Americans organized and participated in over four hundred funeral processions and memorial services during the sixty-nine-day mourning period that culminated on February 22, 1800, the National Day of Mourning. Washington's death came in a highly contentious period in American political history, and a variety of groups and individuals tried to take advantage of the occasion to advance their own agendas. Federalist officials, including President John Adams and Alexander Hamilton, themselves at odds on a number of issues, took a leading role in ceremonies that included mock funerals with empty caskets orchestrated by Hamilton, who also used the occasion to advocate for a large standing army. Although Jefferson and his Democratic Republicans were about to knock the Federalists out of political contention, in what Jefferson termed the "Revolution of 1800," in 1799 Federalists predominated in ceremonial and print commemorations of Washington. Religious leaders, whose moral authority was on the wane, tried to Christianize Washington, while Masons used the most illustrious member of their secret brotherhood to rehabilitate an image tarnished by charges of religious infidelity and association with the excesses of the French Revolution. Women of various stations and political stripes also took advantage of the occasion to help legitimize their participation in public life. The biographical sketches included in over three hundred eulogies provide a unique historical perspective on who George Washington was in the eyes of his contemporaries.
Author : Michael Innes
Publisher : House of Stratus
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2010-02-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780755121014
Lewis Packford, the great Shakespearean scholar, was thought to have discovered a book annotated by the Bard - but there is no trace of this valuable object when Packford apparently commits suicide. Sir John Appleby finds a mixed bag of suspects at the dead man's house.
Author : Raymond Chandler
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781479442263
"Farewell, My Lovely" is a 1940 mystery novel by Raymond Chandler, the second he wrote featuring the Los Angeles private eye Philip Marlowe. It was adapted for the screen three times and was also adapted for the stage and radio.
Author : Michael Innes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:261574305
Author : Kate Darian-Smith,Liz Gunner,Sarah Nuttall
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2005-08-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781134804559
Text, Theory, Space is a landmark in post-colonial criticism and theory. Focusing on two white settler societies, South Africa and Australia, the contributors investigate the meaning of 'the South' as an aesthetic, political, geographical and cultural space. Drawing upon a wide range of disciplines which include literature, history, urban and cultural geography, politics and anthropology, the contributors examine crucial issues including: * defining what 'the South' encompasses * investigating ideas of space, history, land and landscape * claiming, naming and possessing land * national and personal boundaries * questions of race, gender and nationalism
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 14 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:221434788
Author : Michael Innes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1958
Category : Appleby, John, Sir (Fictitious character)
ISBN : UOM:39015008173448
Author : Peter Handke
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 137 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1974-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781466807037
Nobel Prize winner Peter Handke's novel Short Letter, Long Farewell tells the story of a young Austrian--evidently modeled on the author--on a harrowing month's journey across the United States The book opens in Providence, where a letter awaits the un-named narrator from his estranged wife, Judith. "I am in New York," it says. "Please don't look for me. It would not be nice for you to find me." As the novel proceeds, however, it gradually becomes clear that Judith is pursuing him, not vice versa--pursuing with the intent to kill. He spends a day in New York, then goes on to Philadelphia, where he joins an old flame and her daughter. The trio drives to St. Louis, still shadowed by Judith; partly to escape her (and partly to face her), the narrator strikes out west on his own, to Tucson, where he is robbed by Judith's agents, then up to the Oregon coast, where a roadside showdown takes place and a gunshot echoes over the Pacific. "I seem to have been born for horror and fear," Handke's narrator confesses. As the narrator and Judith maneuver toward their coastal rendezvous, his life itself may depend on whether he has achieved enough--in the flesh and in the mind--to confront the pistol trembling in her hand.
Author : John Hagan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2009-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1597130818
A Long Farewell, by John Hagan, explores themes that include friends and heroes, epiphany, coming of age, futile pursuit, lost love, arcane experience, and ironies of life. Although his stories are fictional, John endeavors to provide feasible characters, dynamics, places, and events. Relying on these characteristics, he strives for realistic slices of life, coupled with plausible resolutions. While Baby Boomers, Irish, educators, students, and horse lovers will find much of the familiar in A Long Farewell, all readers who have at times contemplated childhood memories, old flames, painful and pleasant reminders, weird phenomena, zany circumstances, and professional dilemmas may discover that each story touches something recognizable in their lives. Enter the world of John's characters and participate in experiences that sometimes reveal flawed but very human responses to the vicissitudes of life.
