The Minor Outsider

Author : Ted McDermott
Publisher : ONE / Pushkin
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2017-06-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780993506215

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The Minor Outsider by Ted McDermott Pdf

Ed and Taylor, both aspiring young writers, fall in love during a summer of aimless drinking and partying in their university town of Missoula, Montana. Lonely and looking for love, they connect despite their profound differences: Ed is brooding, ambitious and self-destructive, living in denial of a mysterious tumour spreading from his limbs to his brain. Beautiful Taylor is positive, full of hope and emotional generosity, but like everyone, she has her limits. Their difficult relationship is intense, exciting yet doomed from the start, complicated further when Taylor falls pregnant. As Ed resists the harmony she brings to his life, Taylor's need to protect herself and their child also grows, until a dramatic finale. Ted Mc Dermott's stark book speaks truthfully and with a touch of dark humor for and to today's generation of young people trying to find hope in what feels to many like an existential void. The Minor Outsider will be read as the young literary voice of our dark times.

Author : Ted McDermott
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 19??
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1011676481

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Minor outsider [CD] by Ted McDermott Pdf

Author : Richard Wright
Publisher : Random House
Page : 461 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2021-03-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781473585409

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The Outsider by Richard Wright Pdf

'Powerful as [Richard Wright] was - is - as a writer, nobody can surpass him in doing certain kinds of writing... He is courageous - he was able to look into areas that nobody at that time was willing to look at' Toni Morrison Cross Damon is disenchanted. At odds with society, and with himself, his idealism and sense of alienation have driven him to drink and incessant reflection. But when Cross is mistakenly reported to have died, he is suddenly free to put his ideals to the test - and a reign of terror and destruction ensues. A counterpart to Wright's 1940 novel, Native Son, The Outsider is Wright's existential masterpiece. An epic exploration of criminality and oppression its publication established Wright as America's most daring, and damning writers.

Author : Brian Sewell
Publisher : Quartet Books (UK)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Art critics
ISBN : 0704372673

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Outsider by Brian Sewell Pdf

'One of the most striking books of the year' - Mark Lawson, BBC Radio 4's Front Row

Author : Albert Camus
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2012-08-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307827661

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The Stranger by Albert Camus Pdf

With the intrigue of a psychological thriller, Camus's masterpiece gives us the story of an ordinary man unwittingly drawn into a senseless murder on an Algerian beach. Behind the intrigue, Camus explores what he termed "the nakedness of man faced with the absurd" and describes the condition of reckless alienation and spiritual exhaustion that characterized so much of twentieth-century life. First published in 1946; now in translation by Matthew Ward.

Author : Gish Jen
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2004-09-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781400043798

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The Love Wife by Gish Jen Pdf

From the massively talented Gish Jen comes a barbed, moving, and stylistically dazzling new novel about the elusive nature of kinship. The Wongs describe themselves as a “half half” family, but the actual fractions are more complicated, given Carnegie’s Chinese heritage, his wife Blondie’s WASP background, and the various ethnic permutations of their adopted and biological children. Into this new American family comes a volatile new member.Her name is Lanlan. She is Carnegie’s Mainland Chinese relative, a tough, surprisingly lovely survivor of the Cultural Revolution, who comes courtesy of Carnegie’s mother’s will. Is Lanlan a very good nanny, a heartless climber, or a posthumous gift from a formidable mother who never stopped wanting her son to marry a nice Chinese girl? Rich in insight, buoyed by humor, The Love Wife is a hugely satisfying work.

Author : Tony Gould
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2009-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0571252796

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Inside Outsider by Tony Gould Pdf

Colin MacInnes was the son of the popular novelist, Angela Thirkell. He didn't like that. He was also the great-grandson of Sir Edward Burne-Jones, and cousin to Stanley Baldwin and Rudyard Kipling. He himself was not a part of the Establishment, far from it, more 'the best off-beat journalist in London' with 'prose as sharp as a pair of Italian slacks and as vivid as a pair of pink socks'. His heyday was the decades of the 1950s and 1960s. He gained a unique and formidable reputation as a novelist, as an Orwellian chronicler and interpreter of the then unfamiliar worlds of the teenager, of rock 'n' roll, and of Britain's black community; and as a homosexual who combined prickliness and a drunken belligerence with a sympathetic championing of the underdog. Tony Gould got to know Colin MacInnes towards the end of his life. Even when dying of cancer he hadn't lost his ability to be awkward and peremptory. 'Go to a bookshop', he commanded from his hospital bed, 'when you leave here and get six paperbacks - three of them should be readable. Send them up by taxi' adding in a lordly manner, 'I'll pay for the cab'. 'MacInnes may have been a maverick in his own time, but he is perhaps the most eloquent spokesman for our own.' Literary Review 'Riveting if sometimes painful reading.' Listener 'Well-documented and well-constructed.' Times Literary Supplement

Author : Scott Simkus
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2014-03-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781613748169

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Outsider Baseball by Scott Simkus Pdf

Outsider Baseball is the story of a forgotten world, where independent professional ball clubs zig-zagged across America, plying their trade in big cities and small villages alike. Included among the former and future major leaguers were mercenaries, scalawags, and outcasts. This is where Babe Ruth, Rube Waddell, and John McGraw crossed bats with the Cuban Stars, Tokyo Giants, Brooklyn Bushwicks, dozens of famous Negro league teams, and novelty acts such as the House of David and Bloomer Girls. Legends emerged in this alternate baseball universe and author Scott Simkus sets out to share their stories and use a critical lens to separate fact from fiction. Written in a gritty prose style, Outsider Baseball combines meticulous research with modern analytics, opening the door to an unforgettable funhouse of baseball history. Scott Simkus is the founder and editor of the Outsider Baseball Bulletin. He is the winner of a research award from the Society of American Baseball Research for his work on the Negro League Database.

Author : Ian Maleney
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : LITERARY COLLECTIONS
ISBN : 1916434215

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Minor Monuments by Ian Maleney Pdf

Author : Frederick Forsyth
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2015-10-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780698407121

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The Outsider by Frederick Forsyth Pdf

From Frederick Forsyth, the grand master of international suspense, comes his most intriguing story ever—his own. For more than forty years, Frederick Forsyth has been writing extraordinary real-world novels of intrigue, from the groundbreaking The Day of the Jackal to the prescient The Kill List. Whether writing about the murky world of arms dealers, the shadowy Nazi underground movement, or the intricacies of worldwide drug cartels, every plot has been chillingly plausible because every detail has been minutely researched. But what most people don’t know is that some of his greatest stories of intrigue have been in his own life. He was the RAF’s youngest pilot at the age of nineteen, barely escaped the wrath of an arms dealer in Hamburg, got strafed by a MiG during the Nigerian civil war, landed during a bloody coup in Guinea-Bissau (and was accused of helping fund a 1973 coup in Equatorial Guinea). The Stasi arrested him, the Israelis feted him, the IRA threatened him, and a certain attractive Czech secret police agent—well, her actions were a bit more intimate. And that’s just for starters. It is a memoir like no other—and a book of pure delight.

Author : Howard Phillips Lovecraft
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 551 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1939
Category : Supernatural in literature
ISBN : LCCN:40000667

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The Outsider and Others by Howard Phillips Lovecraft Pdf

Author : Penelope Williamson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2014-06-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781476731018

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The Outsider by Penelope Williamson Pdf

In 1880s Montana, wounded gunfighter Johnny Cain finds refuge on a sheep farm run by Rachel Yoder, an Amish widow with a small son whose husband was framed and hung. As Cain recovers under Rachel's care, love is born.

Author : S. E Hinton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Fugitives from justice
ISBN : 0137012608

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The Outsiders by S. E Hinton Pdf

Author : Tana French
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780735224667

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The Searcher by Tana French Pdf

Best Book of 2020 New York Times |NPR | New York Post "This hushed suspense tale about thwarted dreams of escape may be her best one yet . . . Its own kind of masterpiece." --Maureen Corrigan, The Washington Post "A new Tana French is always cause for celebration . . . Read it once for the plot; read it again for the beauty and subtlety of French's writing." --Sarah Lyall, The New York Times Cal Hooper thought a fixer-upper in a bucolic Irish village would be the perfect escape. After twenty-five years in the Chicago police force and a bruising divorce, he just wants to build a new life in a pretty spot with a good pub where nothing much happens. But when a local kid whose brother has gone missing arm-twists him into investigating, Cal uncovers layers of darkness beneath his picturesque retreat, and starts to realize that even small towns shelter dangerous secrets. "One of the greatest crime novelists writing today" (Vox) weaves a masterful, atmospheric tale of suspense, asking how to tell right from wrong in a world where neither is simple, and what we stake on that decision.

Author : Joseph Bristow
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2023-04-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781487546090

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Extraordinary Aesthetes by Joseph Bristow Pdf

The fin de siècle not only designated the end of the Victorian epoch but also marked a significant turn towards modernism. Extraordinary Aesthetes critically examines literary and visual artists from England, Ireland, and Scotland whose careers in poetry, fiction, and illustration flourished during the concluding years of the nineteenth century. This collection draws special attention to the exceptional contributions that artists, poets, and novelists made to the cultural world of the late 1880s and 1890s. The essays illuminate a range of established, increasingly acknowledged, and lesser-known figures whose contributions to this brief but remarkably intense cultural period warrant close attention. Such figures include the critically neglected Mabel Dearmer, whose stunning illustrations appear in Evelyn Sharp’s radical fairy tales for children. Equally noteworthy is the uncompromising short fiction of Ella D’Arcy, who played a pivotal role in editing the most famous journal of the 1890s, The Yellow Book. The discussion extends to a range of legendary writers, including Max Beerbohm, Oscar Wilde, and W.B. Yeats, whose works are placed in dialogue with authors who gained prominence during this period. Bringing women’s writing to the fore, Extraordinary Aesthetes rebalances the achievements of artists and writers during the rapidly transforming cultural world of the fin de siècle.