The Town Of Babylon

Author : Alejandro Varela
Publisher : Astra Publishing House
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2024-02-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781662601996

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The Town of Babylon by Alejandro Varela Pdf

A FINALIST FOR THE 2022 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION LONGLISTED FOR THE 2023 ASPEN WORDS LITERARY PRIZE ONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2022 – Boston Globe, BuzzFeed, LitHub, Electric Literature, LGBTQ Reads, Latinx in Publishing *Recommended by The New York Times* In this contemporary debut novel—an intimate portrait of queer, racial, and class identity —Andrés, a gay Latinx professor, returns to his suburban hometown in the wake of his husband’s infidelity. There he finds himself with no excuse not to attend his twenty-year high school reunion, and hesitantly begins to reconnect with people he used to call friends. Over the next few weeks, while caring for his aging parents and navigating the neighborhood where he grew up, Andrés falls into old habits with friends he thought he’d left behind. Before long, he unexpectedly becomes entangled with his first love and is forced to tend to past wounds. Captivating and poignant; a modern coming-of-age story about the essential nature of community, The Town of Babylon is a page-turning novel about young love and a close examination of our social systems and the toll they take when they fail us.

Author : Pat Frank
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2013-06-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780062296207

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Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank Pdf

“An extraordinary real picture of human beings numbed by catastrophe but still driven by the unconquerable determination of living creatures to keep on being alive.” —The New Yorker “Alas, Babylon.” Those fateful words heralded the end. When the unthinkable nightmare of nuclear holocaust ravaged the United States, it was instant death for tens of millions of people; for survivors, it was a nightmare of hunger, sickness, and brutality. Overnight, a thousand years of civilization were stripped away. But for one small Florida town, miraculously spared against all the odds, the struggle was only just beginning, as the isolated survivors—men and women of all ages and races—found the courage to come together and confront the harrowing darkness. This classic apocalyptic novel by Pat Frank, first published in 1959 at the height of the Cold War, includes an introduction by award-winning science fiction writer and scientist David Brin.

Author : Michael McDowell
Publisher : Bright Sparks
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Alabama
ISBN : 1941147631

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Cold Moon Over Babylon (Valancourt 20th Century Classics) by Michael McDowell Pdf

Welcome to Babylon, a typical sleepy Alabama small town, where years earlier the Larkin family suffered a terrible tragedy. Now they are about to endure another: fourteen-year-old Margaret Larkin will be robbed of her innocence and her life by a killer who is beyond the reach of the law. But something strange is happening in Babylon: traffic lights flash an eerie blue, a ghostly hand slithers from the drain of a kitchen sink, graves erupt from the local cemetery in an implacable march of terror ... And beneath the murky surface of the river, a shifting, almost human shape slowly takes form. Night after night it will pursue the murderer. And when the full moon rises over Babylon, it will seek a terrible vengeance ...

Author : Dominique Scali
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 177201124X

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In Search of New Babylon by Dominique Scali Pdf

This post Cormac McCarthy western imagines intrigue among people seeking the American dream in a lawless town in the 1860s.

Author : Karen Radner
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2020-02-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350138278

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A Short History of Babylon by Karen Radner Pdf

Much of our perception of Babylon in the West is filtered through the poignant echoes of loss and longing that resonate in the Hebrew Bible. The lamenting exiles of Judah craved a return to their lost homeland after the sack of Jerusalem in 587 BC and their forcible removal by Nebuchadnezzar to the alien floodlands of the Euphrates. But to see Babylon only as an adjunct to Old Testament history is misleading. A Short History of Babylon explores the ever-changing city that shaped world history for two millennia.

Author : Yasmina Reza
Publisher : Seven Stories Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2018-08-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781609808334

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Babylon by Yasmina Reza Pdf

Winner of the Prix Renaudot Shortlisted for the Prix Goncourt Elisabeth is a woman whose curiosity and passion far exceed the borders of her quiet middle-class life. She befriends a neighbor, organizes a small dinner party. And then, quite suddenly, finds herself embarked with him on an adventure that is one part vaudeville and one part high tragedy. A quiet novel of manners turns into a police procedural thriller. Her motivations for risking everything she has are never transparent. In a world where matters of life and death are nearly always transported to a clinical setting, whether it be a hospital or a courtroom, here each character must confront them unassisted. A truly original and masterful novel from one of the world’s most inventive and daring artists.

Author : Ray Mungo,Raymond Mungo
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1993-01-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0312064381

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Palm Springs Babylon by Ray Mungo,Raymond Mungo Pdf

Palm Springs, California, is a city of philanthropists and philanderers, movie stars and media moguls, athletes, actors, and aesthetes. Mungo's Palm Springs Babylon is the conflagration of their secrets, packed with pictorial persiflage and damning documentation--Hollywood's history at its sleaziest and most corrupt.

Author : Scott Faragher
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Country music
ISBN : OCLC:1035694856

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Music City Babylon by Scott Faragher Pdf

Author : Richard Brautigan
Publisher : Canongate Books
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2017-08-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781786890450

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Dreaming of Babylon by Richard Brautigan Pdf

When you hire C.Card, you have scraped the bottom of the private eye barrel. And when Card is hired to steal a body from the morgue, he needs to stop dreaming, find bullets for his gun and get there before someone else does. Not since Trout Fishing in America has Brautigan so successfully combined his wild sense of humour with his famous poetic imagination. In this parody of the hard-boiled crime novel, the adventures of seedy, not-too-bright C.Card are a delight to both the mind and the heart.

Author : Stephanie Dalley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2021-07-08
Category : Bibles
ISBN : 9781107136274

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The City of Babylon by Stephanie Dalley Pdf

Accessible and authoritative account of Babylon the city at the heart of one of the world's great civilisations.

Author : Alexander Cockburn,Ken Silverstein
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Congress-Reporters and reporting
ISBN : UOM:39015038151158

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Washington Babylon by Alexander Cockburn,Ken Silverstein Pdf

Washington Babylon describes in shocking detail the corruption of the political establishment, Republicans and Democrats alike. Journey through Babylon's darkest regions, and you will learn how Babylon's millionaire journalists connived to deny money to disabled children; how House Speaker Newt Gingrich really spells F-A-M-I-L-Y V-A-L-U-E-S, and how he spent his student days at Tulane campaigning for sex photos in a student newspaper; how Commerce Secretary Ron Brown lobbied for Haitian monster "Baby Doc" Duvalier and Guatemalan torturers; how the co-director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory searched for Atlantis, tried to train dolphins in ESP, suspected aliens were impregnating earth women; how Big Oil's tax-exempt foundations bought up the green elite while reaping millions from rape-and-pillage investments; how 80,000 lobbyists have bought out Babylon; and how Bill and Hillary Clinton struck a devil's pact with Big Money nearly twenty years ago.

Author : Lu Nei
Publisher : AmazonCrossing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2015-09
Category : Factories
ISBN : 1477829997

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Young Babylon by Lu Nei Pdf

Knowing nothing more than the working-class life he is born into, headstrong Lu Xiaolu reluctantly starts down the path he is expected to follow. At age nineteen in 1990s China, he feels pressure to follow suit with those around him and takes a job at the town's saccharin factory. Slowly, he adjusts to the bureaucratic factory routine, making the best of the situation by bonding with coworkers, flirting with girls, and refusing to give in completely to the expectations of those around him. As Lu Xiaolu finds his way, a startling portrait of an economically expanding China comes into view; the propaganda of a common goal gives way to a bottom-line system that he sees as indifferent to individual happiness. But thanks to the relationships he develops, Lu Xiaolu decides to fight for the life he wants.

Author : United States. Federal Communications Commission
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1646 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1958
Category : Telecommunication
ISBN : OSU:32437011664212

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Federal Communications Commission Reports by United States. Federal Communications Commission Pdf

Author : Robert O. Self
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2005-08-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691124865

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American Babylon by Robert O. Self Pdf

A gripping portrait of black power politics and the struggle for civil rights in postwar Oakland As the birthplace of the Black Panthers and a nationwide tax revolt, California embodied a crucial motif of the postwar United States: the rise of suburbs and the decline of cities, a process in which black and white histories inextricably joined. American Babylon tells this story through Oakland and its nearby suburbs, tracing both the history of civil rights and black power politics as well as the history of suburbanization and home-owner politics. Robert Self shows that racial inequities in both New Deal and Great Society liberalism precipitated local struggles over land, jobs, taxes, and race within postwar metropolitan development. Black power and the tax revolt evolved together, in tension. American Babylon demonstrates that the history of civil rights and black liberation politics in California did not follow a southern model, but represented a long-term struggle for economic rights that began during the World War II years and continued through the rise of the Black Panthers in the late 1960s. This struggle yielded a wide-ranging and profound critique of postwar metropolitan development and its foundation of class and racial segregation. Self traces the roots of the 1978 tax revolt to the 1940s, when home owners, real estate brokers, and the federal government used racial segregation and industrial property taxes to forge a middle-class lifestyle centered on property ownership. Using the East Bay as a starting point, Robert Self gives us a richly detailed, engaging narrative that uniquely integrates the most important racial liberation struggles and class politics of postwar America.

Author : Murray Weiss,Bill Hoffmann
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Celebrities
ISBN : 0099377314

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Palm Beach Babylon by Murray Weiss,Bill Hoffmann Pdf

Only 12 miles long, Palm Beach has become America's Riviera, with grand Arabian Nights mansions and lavish champagne and caviar parties. The island has turned into the playground of influential industrialists, politicians, aristocrats and diplomats.