The Sentimentalists

Author : Johanna Skibsrud
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2016-10-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780735233201

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In this Giller Prize-winning novel, a daughter tries to uncover the truth about her dying father, a veteran haunted by his past--but she also discovers truths about herself along the way. Haunted by the horrific events he witnessed during the Vietnam War, Napoleon Haskell is exhausted from years spent battling his memories. As his health ultimately declines, his two daughters move him from his trailer in North Dakota to Casablanca, Ontario, to live with the father of a friend who was killed in action. It is to Casablanca, on the shores of a man-made lake beneath which lie the remains of the former town, that Napoleon's youngest daughter also retreats when her own life comes unhinged. Living with the two old men, she finds her father in the twilight of his life and rapidly slipping into senility. With love and insatiable curiosity, she devotes herself to learning the truth about him; and through the fog, Napoleon's past begins to emerge just as his daughter's present comes sharply into focus.

Author : Johanna Skibsrud
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2011-05-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0393082563

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The Sentimentalists by Johanna Skibsrud Pdf

"A hypnotic meditation on memory . . . reaffirms the potential for storytelling to offer clarity and redemption." —New York Times Book Review In this riveting debut, a daughter attempts to discover the truth about the life of her father, a dying Vietnam veteran haunted by his wartime experiences. Powerful and assured, The Sentimentalists is a story of what lies beneath the surface of everyday life.

Author : Johanna Skibsrud
Publisher : Random House
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2011-03-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781446457740

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The Sentimentalists by Johanna Skibsrud Pdf

Haunted by the horrific events he witnessed during the Vietnam War, Napoleon Haskell is exhausted from years spent battling his memories. As his health ultimately declines, his two daughters move him from his trailer in North Dakota to Casablanca, Ontario, to live with the father of a friend who was killed in action. It is to Casablanca, on the shores of a man-made lake beneath which lie the remains of the former town, that Napoleon's youngest daughter also retreats when her own life comes unhinged. Living with the two old men, she finds her father in the twilight of his life and rapidly slipping into senility. With love and insatiable curiosity, she devotes herself to learning the truth about him; and through the fog, Napoleon's past begins to emerge.

Author : Morley Callaghan
Publisher : Exile Editions, Ltd.
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Canada
ISBN : 1550965573

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The Complete Stories by Morley Callaghan Pdf

The complete short fiction of Morley Callaghan appears as he comes into full recognition as one of the singular storytellers of our time. In four volumes, several stories are collected for the first time, two of which--"An Autumn Penitent” and "In His Own Country”--have been out of print for decades.

Author : George Meredith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:49015002138189

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The house on the beach. The gentleman of fifty. The sentimentalists by George Meredith Pdf

Author : Murray Leinster
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 46 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781682999578

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The Sentimentalists by Murray Leinster Pdf

You do not always have to go looking for a guardian angel. He may be looking for you—but perhaps for somebody else's benefit! Rhadampsicus and Nodalictha were on their honeymoon, and consequently they were sentimental. To be sure, it would not have been easy for humans to imagine sentiment as existing between them. Humans would hardly associate tenderness with glances cast from sets of sixteen eyes mounted on jointed eye stalks, nor link langorous thrills with a coy mingling of positronic repulsion blasts—even when the emission of positron blasts from beneath one's mantle was one's normal personal mode of locomotion. And when two creatures like Rhadampsicus and Nodalictha stood on what might be roughly described as their heads and twined their eye stalks together, so that they gazed fondly at each other with all sixteen eyes at once, humans would not have thought of it as the equivalent of a loving kiss. Humans would have screamed and run—if they were not paralyzed by the mere sight of such individuals.

Author : Dale Collins
Publisher : S.B. Gundy
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1927
Category : England
ISBN : UCAL:$B323595

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The Sentimentalists by Dale Collins Pdf

Author : Jay Warner
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
Page : 634 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Music
ISBN : 0634099787

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American Singing Groups by Jay Warner Pdf

Offers a decade-by-decade history of American singing groups, from the Ames and Mills Brothers, to the Platters and the Beach Boys, to Destiny's Child, the Backstreet Boys, 'N Sync, and many others, covering more than 380 artists and furnishing information on each group's career, key members, influences, photos, and discographies. Original.

Author : Johanna Skibsrud
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2019-09-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780735234598

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Island by Johanna Skibsrud Pdf

From the Scotiabank Giller Prize-winning author of The Sentimentalists comes the story of a revolution on an imaginary island. "Reading Island is a searing, vertiginous experience. Hailing Conrad’s Heart of Darkness to interrogate our current moment in history, Skibsrud has created an uncanny and uncomfortable representation of power deeply corrupted. The text feels both historic and futuristic; it is discomfiting and necessary. Don’t look away." - Erin Wunker, Notes From a Feminist Killjoy On an imaginary island, one whose socio-economic divide runs deep, an insurrection is brewing. Over the course of a day, the lives of two women--one a rebel, one a diplomat--will be forever changed. Lota is a restless islander who works at a fish factory but is looking for a larger life. When she meets charismatic leader Kurtz, her life comes into sharp focus. Together, Kurtz's group of misfits plot to overthrow the island's occupying power. They plan to charge the embassy. They plan to capture Ø Com's outer station--the gateway to the entire empire's wireless operations. History does not--Kurtz urges her soldiers--have to repeat itself. As the past and future converge on this one day, a new world order is within reach. They cannot fail. Rachel is an anxious diplomat who is counting down the final hours of her service on the island. Her family has fled to the capital after escalating racial tensions have put her daughter's safety in jeopardy. She is eager to follow despite the fissures that are starting to show in her marriage. But when she arrives at the embassy and hears gunshots ringing through the corridors, she knows this is no ordinary day. As the hours lengthen and Rachel is held captive, she begins to wonder if she'll ever see her loved ones again and what her complicity has meant as the sinister operations of her government start to surface. Part fantasy, part parable, Island deftly explores essential questions of history and responsibility. It asks us to consider our legacies of cultural imperialism and the hidden costs of our wireless world. Urgent, illuminating, and thought-provoking, it asks us how we can imagine a future that does not run along the exact same lines as the past.

Author : Robyn R. Warhol,Diane Price Herndl
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 1238 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0813523893

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Feminisms by Robyn R. Warhol,Diane Price Herndl Pdf

"Everything you might want to know about the history and practice of feminist criticism in North America". -Feminist Bookstore News

Author : Johanna Skibsrud
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1554470854

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I Do Not Think that I Could Love a Human Being by Johanna Skibsrud Pdf

Poets have always wrestled with the mutability of things (particularly or life and love) and with the problem of conveying the true shape of human emotion and experience through the often inadequate tool of language. The poems in Johanna Skibsrud’s new collection, I Do Not Think that I Could Love a Human Being, employ the tentative and uncertain characteristics of language to their advantage, pulling the reader headlong into the fray as the poet endeavours to give shape to her experience. "In many ways, I see the collection as one long love poem," says Skibsrud, "The title poem was written very quickly, and with what, for me, was relative ease one morning last spring, and since then I have altered it very little–something that is also unusual for me. The poem is particularly important to my conception of the collection as a whole because of the way that it is able to speak, I think, from–and to–a space of desire inhabited, simultaneously, by conflicting and conflicted states of mind. It is, I think–despite, or rather because of its title–the most accurate and honestly-felt love poem that I have so far been able to write. Also, though, I think of the poem in reflexive terms: as in part about the act of writing, which is itself an act of desire and so, like all desire, bound always by the limits of its own terms. Just as the literal object of the poem is held in relief by the blank space of the page, however, so we are shaped, whether we choose to recognize it or not, by what is invisible to us–outside of what we assume to be the limit of ourselves and our world. Poetry allows us, importantly, I think, to push against that limit. It makes room for those paradoxes at the root of our experiences of language and selfhood–an acceptance and exploration of which is, I think, integral, to any genuine attempt at expression of being. It allows for transformations, for becomings: becoming a bear, for example, becoming a word. Love allows for this, too. In fact, I don’t really know where the space of one ends and the other begins."

Author : Michael L. Frazer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2010-08-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780199780211

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The Enlightenment of Sympathy by Michael L. Frazer Pdf

The Enlightenment of Sympathy reclaims the sentimentalist theory of reflective autonomy as a resource for enriching social science, normative theory, and political practice today. The sentimentalist description of the reflective process is more empirically accurate than the competing rationalist description, and can guide scientists investigating the processes by which the mind formulates moral and political principles. Yet the theory is much more than merely descriptive, and can also contribute to the philosophical project of finding principles--including principles of justice--that wield genuine normative authority. Enlightenment sentimentalism demonstrates that emotion is necessarily central to our civic life, and shows how our reflective sentiments can counterbalance the unreflective feelings that might otherwise lead our political principles astray.

Author : Robert Hugh Benson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1929
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105048065432

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The Sentimentalists by Robert Hugh Benson Pdf

Author : Nina Freudenberger,Sadie Stein
Publisher : Clarkson Potter
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2019-10-22
Category : House & Home
ISBN : 9780525575443

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Bibliostyle by Nina Freudenberger,Sadie Stein Pdf

A visual delight and an inspiration for every bibliophile with a growing home library, this dream-and-drool design book features some of the most jaw-dropping book collections of homeowners around the world. NAMED ONE OF JO’S FALL FAVORITES IN MAGNOLIA JOURNAL Interior designer Nina Freudenberger, New Yorker writer Sadie Stein, and Architectural Digest photographer Shade Degges give readers a peek at the private libraries and bookshelves of passionate readers all over the world, including Larry McMurtry, Silvia Whitman of Shakespeare and Co., Gay and Nan Talese, and Emma Straub. Throughout, gorgeous photographs of rooms with rare collections, floor-to-ceiling shelves, and stacks upon stacks of books inspire readers to live better with their own collections. Praise for Bibliostyle “Featuring enviable private libraries and packed floor-to-ceiling shelves, this beautiful volume makes a compelling case for books as décor.”—New York “Freudenberger spotlights the splendid, enviable personal libraries of literary figures whose owners obviously care about their book collections and have actually read them, too.”—The Boston Globe “This is a coffee table book that makes you think as well as admire and desire.”—Sydney Herald “Offers a look into the fabulous homes of book lovers the world over, showcasing how their interior design is built around the tomes they love most.”—CN “The photographs of rooms with rare collections, floor-to-ceiling shelves, and stacks upon stacks of books will inspire readers to live better with their own collections.”—Publishers Weekly “Nina Freudenberger teams with Sadie Stein of The New Yorker and photographer Shade Degges of Architectural Digest to showcase beautiful photographs of the private libraries of book lovers from all over the world.”—BookRiot

Author : Johanna Skibsrud
Publisher : W W Norton & Company Incorporated
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2011-05-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0393082512

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The Sentimentalists by Johanna Skibsrud Pdf

Vietnam veteran Napoleon Haskell retreats to a small Canadian town to try to escape his memories but after his daughters arrives, fleeing from her own troubles, they begin to unravel the mysteries of his past together.