The Parallel Apartments

Author : Bill
Publisher : McSweeney's
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2014-02-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781940450315

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The Parallel Apartments by Bill Pdf

Justine Moppett is 34, pregnant, and fleeing an abusive relationship in New York to dig up an even more traumatic childhood in Austin. Waiting for her there is a cast of more than a dozen misfits — a hemophobic aspiring serial killer, a deranged soprano opera singer, a debt-addicted entrepreneur-cum-madam, a matchmaking hermaphrodite — each hurtling toward their own calamities, and, ultimately, toward each other. A Texan Gabriel García Márquez who writes tragicomic twists reminiscent of John Kennedy Toole, Bill Cotter produces some of the most visceral, absurd, and downright hilarious sentences to be found in fiction today. The Parallel Apartments is a bold leap forward for a writer whose protean talents, whose sheer exuberance for language and what a novel can do, marks him as one of the most exciting stylists in America.

Author : Dave Eggers
Publisher : McSweeney's
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2014-05-20
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781940450414

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McSweeney's Issue 46 by Dave Eggers Pdf

In thirteen electrifying stories, our very first all-Latin-American issue takes on the crime story as a starting point, and expands to explore contemporary life from every angle—swinging from secret Venezuelan prisons to Uruguayan resorts to blood-drenched bedrooms in Mexico and Peru, and even, briefly, to Epcot Center and the Havana home of a Cuban transsexual named Amy Winehouse. Featuring contemporary writers from ten different countries—including Alejandro Zambra, Juan Pablo Villalobos, Andres Ressia Colino, Mariana Enriquez, and many more—McSweeney’s 46 offers an essential cross-section of the troubles and temptations confronting the region today. It’s crucial reading for anyone interested in the shifting topography of Latin American literature and Latin American life, and a collection of writing to rival anything we’ve assembled in years.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1833
Category : Electronic
ISBN : COLUMBIA:0315318362

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The British Critic, Quarterly Theological Review, and Ecclesiastical Record by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1833
Category : Electronic
ISBN : SRLF:A0014220040

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British Critic, Quarterly Theological Review, and Ecclesiastical Record by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1833
Category : Electronic
ISBN : CHI:79229453

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The British Critic, and Quarterly Theological Review by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1833
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:B3042481

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British Critic by Anonim Pdf

Author : Richard M. Weiss
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2008-09-08
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9781400829057

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The Structure of Affine Buildings. (AM-168) by Richard M. Weiss Pdf

In The Structure of Affine Buildings, Richard Weiss gives a detailed presentation of the complete proof of the classification of Bruhat-Tits buildings first completed by Jacques Tits in 1986. The book includes numerous results about automorphisms, completions, and residues of these buildings. It also includes tables correlating the results in the locally finite case with the results of Tits's classification of absolutely simple algebraic groups defined over a local field. A companion to Weiss's The Structure of Spherical Buildings, The Structure of Affine Buildings is organized around the classification of spherical buildings and their root data as it is carried out in Tits and Weiss's Moufang Polygons.

Author : Stacey Sloboda
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2023-12-14
Category : Design
ISBN : 9781350408029

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Interiors in the Age of Enlightenment by Stacey Sloboda Pdf

Interiors in the Age of Enlightenment provides a comprehensive and interdisciplinary overview of the cultural history of interior design and interior spaces from 1700 to 1850. Considering the interior as material, social and cultural artefact, this volume moves beyond conventional descriptive accounts of changing styles and interior design fashions, to explore in depth the effect on the interior of the materials, processes, aesthetic philosophies and cultural attitudes of the age. From the Palace of Versailles to Virginia coffeehouses, and from Chinoiserie bathhouses to the trading exchanges of the West Indies, the chapters in this book examine a wide range of themes including technological advancements, public spaces, gender and sexuality, and global movements in interior designs and decorations. Drawing together contributions from leading scholars, this volume provides the most authoritative and comprehensive survey of the history of interiors and interior architecture in the long eighteenth century.

Author : Michael Elia Yonan
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0271037229

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Empress Maria Theresa and the Politics of Habsburg Imperial Art by Michael Elia Yonan Pdf

"Explores the intersections between monarchy, gender, and art through an investigation of the visual and architectural culture of the eighteenth-century Habsburg empress Maria Theresa"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Carole Paul
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 437 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781351545914

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The Borghese Collections and the Display of Art in the Age of the Grand Tour by Carole Paul Pdf

The redecoration of the exhibition spaces at the Borghese palace and villa, undertaken together with the reinstallation of the family's vast art collections, was one of the most important events in the cultural life of eighteenth-century Rome. In this comprehensive study, Carole Paul reconstructs the planning and execution of the project and explains its multifaceted significance: its place in the history of Italian art, architecture, and interior design at a complex moment of transition from baroque to neoclassical style, as well as its unrecognized but profound influence on the development of the modern art museum. The study shows how the installations and decorations worked together to evoke traditional themes in innovative ways. Addressed primarily to a new audience of tourists from abroad, the thematic content of the spaces celebrated the greatness of the Borghese family and of Roman tradition, while their stylistic diversity and sophistication made a case for the continued vitality - even modernity - of Roman art and culture. Designed for the exercise of a highly refined social performance, these sites helped to model the experience of art as a form of enlightened modern civility.

Author : James Stuart
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1833
Category : North America
ISBN : MINN:31951002286414E

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Three Years in North America by James Stuart Pdf

Author : Galignani A. and W.
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 610 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1839
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:555011761

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Galignani's new [afterw.] illustrated Paris guide (1827, 39, 44), 53-55, 60, 63, 64, 79-94 by Galignani A. and W. Pdf

Author : A. and W. Galignani and Co
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1838
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0017866087

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Galignani's New Paris Guide; Thirteenth edition, etc by A. and W. Galignani and Co Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 644 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1839
Category : Paris (France)
ISBN : PRNC:32101007999418

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Galignani's New Paris Guide by Anonim Pdf

Author : A. and W. Galignani and Co
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 614 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1839
Category : Paris (France)
ISBN : HARVARD:32044021089826

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Galignani's New Paris Guide by A. and W. Galignani and Co Pdf