The Runaway Soul

Author : Harold Brodkey
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 1290 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2013-06-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781480427990

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The Runaway Soul by Harold Brodkey Pdf

DIVDIVHarold Brodkey’s acclaimed novel is a mesmerizing work of literary genius, exploring the momentous events in the life of a family in twentieth-century St. Louis, and a writer still haunted by a childhood tragedy /divDIV First published in 1991, The Runaway Soul took Harold Brodkey more than three decades to complete. This sprawling novel has since been eagerly embraced by readers and critics alike, earning Brodkey the epithet of an “American Proust.” Told by Wiley Silenowicz, Brodkey’s fictional alter ego, the story snakes back and forth across the unforgettable events of a life. Following the traumatic death of his mother, Wiley recalls his troubling childhood in the care of his cousins: smooth-talking S. L. Silenowicz, his beautiful, emotionally deficient wife, Lila, and their abusive daughter, Nonie, who torments Wiley to no end./divDIV /divDIVIn language that soars and hypnotizes, The Runaway Soul fearlessly explores youth and adulthood, love and loss, sex and death, marriage and family, tracing upon one man’s odyssey through a troubling world. More than two decades after it first appeared in print, Harold Brodkey’s magnum opus remains one of the finest literary works produced by an American novelist in the twentieth century./div/div

Author : Angel Heart
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2023-12-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798988918608

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The Runaway Soul by Angel Heart Pdf

Author : Harold Brodkey
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 778 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2011-03-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307766779

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Stories in an Almost Classical Mode by Harold Brodkey Pdf

These 17 short stories represent the best of Brodkey's work over three decades.

Author : Donald Barthelme
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2014-05-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781466857308

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The Dead Father by Donald Barthelme Pdf

The Dead Father is a gargantuan half-dead, half-alive, part mechanical, wise, vain, powerful being who still has hopes for himself--even while he is being dragged by means of a cable toward a mysterious goal. In this extraordinary novel, marked by the imaginative use of language that influenced a generation of fiction writers, Donald Barthelme offered a glimpse into his fictional universe. As Donald Antrim writes in his introduction, "Reading The Dead Father, one has the sense that its author enjoys an almost complete artistic freedom . . . a permission to reshape, misrepresent, or even ignore the world as we find it . . . Laughing along with its author, we escape anxiety and feel alive."

Author : Harold Brodkey
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780007401741

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This Wild Darkness: The Story of My Death by Harold Brodkey Pdf

A meditation on dying by a writer who has been compared to Proust, was much praised by Salman Rushdie and is perhaps most famous for producing very little.

Author : Brenna Yovanoff
Publisher : Ember
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2021-06-29
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780593179512

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Stranger Things: Runaway Max by Brenna Yovanoff Pdf

Fans went wild for this gripping, emotional addition to the Stranger Things' universe after its successful launch! Fall into the never-before-told backstory of the beloved Dig Dug maven, Max Mayfield, written by New York Times bestselling author Brenna Yovanoff. Meet Max. She's from California. She skateboards. Her family just dumped her in the middle of Indiana. And she's really not ready to call Hawkins her new home. Whether she's facing off against her bully brother, Billy, the new kids at school, or monsters abound, Max tackles life with sass and grit. This must-read novel based on the hit Netflix series Stranger Things explores Max's past--with all the good and the bad it's given her--in the lead up to the thrilling season that introduces our favorite new member of the gang.

Author : Christopher Nolan
Publisher : Arcade Publishing
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1559705116

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The Banyan Tree by Christopher Nolan Pdf

Minnie O'Brien reflects back on her long life in rural Ireland and her struggle to hand her farm over to her youngest son.

Author : Lita Ford
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2016-02-23
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780062270665

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Living Like a Runaway by Lita Ford Pdf

Fearless, revealing, and compulsively readable, Lita Ford’s Living Like a Runaway is the long-awaited memoir from one of rock’s greatest pioneers—and fiercest survivors. “Heavy metal’s leading female rocker" (Rolling Stone) bares all, opening up about the Runaways, the glory days of the punk and hard-rock scenes, and the highs and lows of her trailblazing career. Wielding her signature black guitar, Lita Ford shredded stereotypes of female musicians throughout the 1970s and ‘80s. Then followed more than a decade of silence and darkness—until rock and roll repaid the debt it owed this pioneer, helped Lita reclaim her soul, and restored the Queen of Metal to her throne. In 1975, Lita Ford left home at age sixteen to join the world’s first major all-female rock group, the Runaways—a “pioneering band” (New York Times) that became the subject of a Hollywood movie starring Kristen Stewart ad Dakota Fanning. Lita went on to become “heavy rock’s first female guitar hero” (Washington Post), a platinum-selling solo star who shared the bill with the Ramones, Van Halen, Motley Crue, Bon Jovi, Def Leppard, Poison, and others and who gave Ozzy Osbourne his first Top 10 hit. She was a bare-ass, leather-clad babe whose hair was bigger and whose guitar licks were hotter than any of the guys’. Hailed by Elle as “one of the greatest female electric guitar players to ever pick up the instrument,” Lita spurred the meteoric rise of Joan Jett, Cherie Currie, and the rest of the Runaways. Her phenomenal talent on the fret board also carried her to tremendous individual success after the group’s 1979 disbandment, when she established herself as a “legendary metal icon” (Guitar World) and a fixture of the 1980s music scene who held her own after hours with Nikki Sixx, Jon Bon Jovi, Eddie Van Halen, Tommy Lee, Motorhead’s Lemmy, Black Sabbath’s Tony Iommi (to whom she was engaged), and others. Featuring a foreword by Dee Snider, Living Like a Runaway also provides never-before-told details of Lita’s dramatic personal story. For Lita, life as a woman in the male-dominated rock scene was never easy, a constant battle with the music establishment. But then, at a low point in her career, came a tumultuous marriage that left her feeling trapped, isolated from the rock-and-roll scene for more than a decade, and—most tragically—alienated from her two sons. And yet, after a dramatic and emotional personal odyssey, Lita picked up her guitar and stormed back to the stage. As Guitar Player hailed in 2014 when they inducted her into their hall of fame of guitar greats: “She is as badass as ever.”

Author : Harold Brodkey
Publisher : Random House
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2010-12-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781446419793

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Profane Friendship by Harold Brodkey Pdf

Growing up in Venice in the 1930's, Niles O'Hara, the son of an expatriate writer, befriends a Venetian boy, Giangiacomo Gallieni. After the war, Niles and his family return, and he becomes involved in a kind of semi-affair with his childhood friend, who is now an adolescent with a wartime history of sexual trespass. Searching, comic, romantic, and ironic, Profane Friendship is a remarkable study of a strange, provocative, powerful relationship conducted in the matchlessly human-scaled, triumphantly beautiful setting of the world's most alluring city.

Author : Susan Hughes
Publisher : Red Rocket Readers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-21
Category : Bullying
ISBN : 1776540336

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Runaway by Susan Hughes Pdf

This fictional story propels the reader right into the action. How does it do that? Also, think about how we know, from the very first page, the story's setting, the situation between the characters, and something important about the main character. As you read on, decide how the character changes, and why, in this adventure story. Reading Level 29/F&P Level S

Author : Karen Keller Leet
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2010-06-16
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781453520048

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Runaway Soul Poetry by Karen Keller Leet Pdf

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Author : Harold Brodkey
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1999-04-15
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780805060522

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Sea Battles on Dry Land by Harold Brodkey Pdf

Sea Battles on Dry Land gathers the best of Harold Brodkey's essays into a single volume. His "One of the Rules of Foppishness" explains, with deadpan precision, just what men and women are trying to communicate to each other by the way they dress. The previously unpublished "Notes on American Fascism" eerily anticipates the violence of latter-day militia groups. And Brodkey's profile of Frank O'Hara's Harvard years stands as one of the most eloquent portraits of a legendary American writer.

Author : John Ashbery
Publisher : Yale Series of Younger Poets
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : POETRY
ISBN : 0300246374

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Some Trees by John Ashbery Pdf

A capsule of the imaginative life of the individual, Some Trees is the 52nd volume of the Yale Series of Younger Poets Comparing him to T. S. Eliot, Stephanie Burt writes that Ashbery is "the last figure whom half of the English-language poets alive thought a great model, and the other half thought incomprehensible." After the publication of Some Trees, selecting judge W. H. Auden famously confessed that he didn't understand a word of it. Most reviews were negative. But in this first book of poems from one of the century's most important poets, one finds the seeds of Ashbery's oeuvre, including the influence of French surrealists--many of whom he translated--and abstract expressionism.

Author : Anne Carson
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2025-12-31
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0771018444

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Float by Anne Carson Pdf

From the renowned classicist and MacArthur Prize winner: a brilliant new collection that explores myth and memory, beauty and loss, all the while playing with--and pushing--the limits of language and form. Anne Carson continuously dazzles us with her inventiveness and the way her work changes our perspectives. With Float, she surpasses her own bar. In individual chapbooks that can be read in any order, she conjures a mix of voices, time periods, and structures to explore what makes people, memories, and stories "maddeningly attractive" when observed in liminal space. One can begin with Carson puzzling through Proust on a frozen Icelandic plain; in the art-saturated enclaves of downtown New York City; atop Mount Olympus as Zeus ponders his afterlife. There is a three-woman chorus of Gertrude Steins embodying an essay about "falling." And an investigation of monogamy and marriage as Carson anticipates the perfect egg her husband is cooking for breakfast. Exquisite, heartbreaking, disarmingly funny, Float illuminates the uncanny magic that comes with letting go of boundaries. It is Carson's most intellectually electrifying and emotionally engaging book to date. From the Hardcover edition.

Author : Jason Disley
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2017-01-23
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781326925871

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Runaway Soul! by Jason Disley Pdf

A collection of Modernist Beat Poetry that explores escapism from the mundane humdrum everyday grind of life through the pleasure of soul music. It also provides a commentary on society and the pursuit of happiness away from the horrors inflicted upon people by political machinations and the agendas of others.