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Other Men's Daughters

Richard Stern
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Author : Richard Stern
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2014-12-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781497685314

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“A beautifully written novel that should be read by everyone who cares about the human condition.” —The Philadelphia Inquirer Harvard physiologist Robert Merriwether has four whip-smart children, an attractive and intelligent wife, and a successful, stimulating career. True, he and Sarah have not slept together in years, and when he decides to stay behind in Cambridge for the summer while the rest of the family vacations in Maine, his newfound freedom is deeply unsettling. But that does not mean that Merriwether wants to change his life or feels unloved. To a man of science, desire is nothing more than a biological reaction. And Merriwether’s personal philosophy is that once you’re in your forties, real love is nothing but lust and nostalgia. Then Cynthia Ryder walks into his life. Twenty years old, she is beautiful, intelligent, witty, and kind. And, to Merriwether’s great surprise, she wants to be with him. Initially, he evades her advances, sure that hers is just a passing fancy. But as he gets to know her better, Merriwether realizes that Cynthia is more mature than he first suspected and that the joy he feels when they are together has been missing from his life for a long, long time. When the summer ends and their need for each other does not fade, Merriwether realizes that he is being given a chance at true love. The question is, will he be brave enough to take it? Considered by many critics to be Richard Stern’s finest novel, Other Men’s Daughters is a tender, honest, witty, and life-affirming portrait of a love as transcendent as it is unlikely.

What Is What Was

Richard Stern
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Author : Richard Stern
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2002-10-15
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0226773256

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What Is What Was, Richard Stern's fifth "orderly miscellany," is the first to meaningfully combine his fiction and nonfiction. Stories, such as the already well-known "My Ex, the Moral Philosopher," appear among portraits (of the sort Hugh Kenner praised as "almost the invention of a new genre"): Auden, Pound, Ellison, Terkel, W. C. Fields, Bertrand Russell, Walter Benjamin (in both essay and story), Jung and Freud, Hannah Arendt and Martin Heidegger. In the book's seven sections are analyses of the Wimbledon tennis tournament as an Anglification machine, of Silicon Valley at its shaky peak, of James and Dante as travel writers, a Lucretian look at today's cosmology, American fiction in detail and depth, a "thought experiment" for Clarence Thomas, a salvation scheme for Ross Perot, a semi-confession of the writer. The book contains but isn't philosophy, criticism, opinion, reportage, or autobiography (although the author says it is as much of this as he plans to write). There is a recurrent theme, the ways in which actuality is made and remade in description, argument and narration, fictional and nonfictional, but above all, What Is What Was is a provocative entertainment by a writer who, as Philip Roth once said, "knows as much as anyone writing American prose about family mischief, intellectual shenanigans, love blunders—and about writing American prose."

Natural Shocks

Richard Stern
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Author : Richard Stern
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2004-10-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780810151475

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Stern's brilliantly funny look at modern journalism and its flawed practitioners.

The Writings of Richard Stern

David Garrett Izzo
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Author : David Garrett Izzo
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2001-12-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0786480939

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For fifty years, the American Richard Stern has been praised as a "writer's writer." His collected stories in Noble Rot 1949-1989 earned him a Book of the Year Award from the Chicago Sun-Times, adding to his recognition as one of America's most acclaimed writers of fiction in novels and short stories. This study of Stern's life and writings discusses major themes Stern has dealt with, explores the issue of fictional autobiography as it relates to Stern's work, and analyzes each of his published novels and short stories from Golk(1960) to Pacific Tremors and What Is What Was (both 2001). An interview with Richard Stern is included.

Golk

Richard Stern
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Author : Richard Stern
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2014-12-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781497685284

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“The first really good book I have read about television.” —Norman Mailer In midcentury America, one man is determined to take over the airwaves with a program as audacious as it is entertaining. Bald, bombastic, and irresistible, Golk is his name and You’re On Camera is his show. To “golk” someone is to trick her, on camera, into betraying her true nature. The more combative the personality, the better the joke, and to help trap his victims Golk enlists a team of misfits, including Herbert Hondorp, a scholarly layabout turned photogenic decoy, and Jeanine Hendricks, a twenty-three-old debutante with a bitter worldview. But Golk has bigger plans than just catching average Manhattanites unawares. As popular as You’re On Camera has become, he knows the show is capable of making a greater, more transformative impact. The question is, will Herbert and Hendricks go along with his revolutionary agenda? Or will they bow to the power of the network and the seduction of celebrity? Combining high drama with surreal hilarity and presenting a remarkably prescient view of the future of television, Golk ranks with Nathanael West’s The Day of the Locust as one of the finest novels ever written about the American entertainment industry.

A Father's Words

Richard Stern
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Author : Richard Stern
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2014-12-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781497685338

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A tale of the battles between a father and son by an author whose novels are “robustly intelligent, very funny, and beguilingly humane” (Philip Roth). Cy Riemer is the patriarch of a successful and loving Chicago family. But not all is copacetic in Cy’s world. The scientific newsletter he publishes is foundering financially, his ex-wife still relies on him for money and intimacy, and he can never seem to find the time or the wherewithal to relax. Much of Cy’s stress is caused by the trouble he has with his brilliant and duplicitous son, Jack. With a mixture of humor, grief, and astonishment, Cy becomes our tour guide to the Riemer family’s museum of triumphs and tragedies. A comic and clear-eyed portrait of the quintessential worried father and the son who lives to torture him, A Father’s Words is packed with Richard Stern’s trademark wit, compassion, and insight.

A Critical Friendship

Elizabeth Murphy
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Author : Elizabeth Murphy
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2021-08-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781496209122

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A chance meeting in the University of North Carolina campus library in 1944 began a decades-long friendship and sixty-year correspondence. Donald Justice (1925-2004) and Richard Stern (1928-2013) would go on to become, respectively, the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and the acclaimed novelist. A Critical Friendship showcases a selection of their letters and postcards from the first fifteen years of their correspondence, representing the formative period in both writers' careers. It includes some of Justice's unpublished poetry and early drafts of later published poems as well as some early, never-before-published poetry by Stern. A Critical Friendship is the story of two writers inventing themselves, beginning with the earliest extant letters and ending with those just following their first major publications, Justice's poetry collection The Summer Anniversaries and Stern's novel Golk. These letters highlight their willingness to give and take criticism and document the birth of two distinct and important American literary lives. The letters similarly document the influence of teachers, friends, and contemporaries, including Saul Bellow, John Berryman, Edgar Bowers, Robert Lowell, Norman Mailer, Allen Tate, Peter Hillsman Taylor, Robert Penn Warren, Eudora Welty, and Yvor Winters, all of whom feature in the pair's conversations. In a broader context, their correspondence sheds light on the development of the mid-twentieth-century American literary scene.

Savior on the Silver Screen

Richard C. Stern,Clayton N. Jefford,Guerric DeBona
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Author : Richard C. Stern,Clayton N. Jefford,Guerric DeBona
Publisher : Paulist Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0809138557

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Savior on the Silver Screen by Richard C. Stern,Clayton N. Jefford,Guerric DeBona Pdf

Savior on the Silver Screen examines nine movies about the life of Jesus - ranging from the traditional to the provocativeand explores how the image of Jesus in each reflects the time and culture in which the film was produced. The selections encompass silent, foreign, epic, and musical films. Both entertaining and insightful, Savior on the Silver Screen is structured for easy use in classroom, small group, and individual settings and includes rental information and practical tips for using the book. For each film there is an introduction, pre-viewing and post-viewing questions, and a discussion of its major features. -- Provided by publisher.

Almonds to Zhoof

Richard Stern
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Author : Richard Stern
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 625 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2005-06-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780810151499

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Stern's stories-witty, moving, charged with narrative energy-never sacrifice storytelling to mere elegance or bursts of essayistic wisdom. This collection demonstrates Stern's remarkable ability to portray people's flawed relationships to ideas, their sometimes bizarre relationships with lovers and friends, their often brilliant, if skewed, appraisals of themselves. The stories reflect Stern's compassion for his characters, whoever they are and whatever their origins. Book jacket.

Einstein's German World

Fritz Stern
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Author : Fritz Stern
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2020-06-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691214061

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The French political philosopher Raymond Aron once observed that the twentieth century "could have been Germany's century." In 1900, the country was Europe's preeminent power, its material strength and strident militaristic ethos apparently balanced by a vital culture and extraordinary scientific achievement. It was poised to achieve greatness. In Einstein's German World, the eminent historian Fritz Stern explores the ambiguous promise of Germany before Hitler, as well as its horrifying decline into moral nihilism under Nazi rule, and aspects of its remarkable recovery since World War II. He does so by gracefully blending history and biography in a sequence of finely drawn studies of Germany's great scientists and of German-Jewish relations before and during Hitler's regime. Stern's central chapter traces the complex friendship of Albert Einstein and the Nobel Prize-winning chemist Fritz Haber, contrasting their responses to German life and to their Jewish heritage. Haber, a convert to Christianity and a firm German patriot until the rise of the Nazis; Einstein, a committed internationalist and pacifist, and a proud though secular Jew. Other chapters, also based on new archival sources, consider the turbulent and interrelated careers of the physicist Max Planck, an austere and powerful figure who helped to make Berlin a happy, productive place for Einstein and other legendary scientists; of Paul Ehrlich, the founder of chemotherapy; of Walther Rathenau, the German-Jewish industrialist and statesman tragically assassinated in 1922; and of Chaim Weizmann, chemist, Zionist, and first president of Israel, whose close relations with his German colleagues is here for the first time recounted. Stern examines the still controversial way that historians have dealt with World War I and Germans have dealt with their nation's defeat, and he analyzes the conflicts over the interpretations of Germany's past that persist to this day. He also writes movingly about the psychic cost of Germany's reunification in 1990, the reconciliation between Germany and Poland, and the challenges and prospects facing Germany today. At once historical and personal, provocative and accessible, Einstein's German World illuminates the issues that made Germany's and Europe's past and present so important in a tumultuous century of creativity and violence.

One Person and Another

Richard Stern
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Author : Richard Stern
Publisher : Baskerville Publishers
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Authors
ISBN : UCSC:32106010481395

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A continually interesting selection of essays, reports, and reviews of writers, books, writers' activities, and literary speculations written between 1956 and 1993, intended as a companion volume to Stern's Noble Rot; Stories 1949-1988. Published by Baskerville Publishers, 7616 LBJ Freeway, Suite 220, Dallas, TX 75251. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Dead in the Dregs

Peter Lewis
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Author : Peter Lewis
Publisher : Catapult
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2010-07-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781582435480

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It’s murder in Napa Valley in this “thrillingly knowledgeable, insider’s odyssey into the world of fine wines [and] . . . particularly lurid homicides” (Anthony Bourdain). With a stroke of a pen, prominent wine critic Richard Wilson lives to elevate and, more often, destroy winemakers’ reputations. How fitting, his death: found murdered, floating in a vat of a particularly bold Cabernet Sauvignon at a Napa Valley tasting. Who did it? Any vintner whose career was ruined by Wilson’s sour grapes. But when those trail turns cold, Wilson’s sister Janie enlists the help of her ex–husband, Babe Stern. The ex–sommelier turned Sonoma County bar owner is following his own lead—to Burgundy, France. In cellars and tasting rooms from Beaune to Nuits–Saint–Georges, Stern tracks down a family of vignerons, whose troubled son was interning at the winery the night Wilson died. But it doesn’t end there. And as the investigation uncovers secrets bottled up for years, Wilson won’t be the last to die. In fact, the further Stern digs for the truth, he may be the next. “An evocative insiders’ tour of French wine country that a tourist will never see” (Seattle Times), restaurateur and former wine columnist Peter Lewis’s juicy mystery is “a rare and engrossing wonder dealing with the murderous grotesqueries of the wine world . . . in an atmosphere of homicide, sex and food” (Jim Harrison, author of Legends of the Fall).

Tsunami!

Richard Martin Stern
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Author : Richard Martin Stern
Publisher : W. W. Norton
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Disasters
ISBN : OCLC:123789224

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The Californian community of Encino is physically and psychologically threatened by an impending tsunami--a tidal wave of such power and proportion that everyone and everything in its path will be destroyed

Shares and Other Fictions

Richard Stern
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Author : Richard Stern
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015025373633

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From the love problems of a young soldier in Operation Desert Storm to the struggle of a young artist to emerge from her father's shadow, Richard Stern brings new eloquence to the form of short fiction. In four stories, a novella, and a novel, all collected here for the first time, Stern strips bare the thorny path of human relationships with uncommon grace.

Stitch

Richard Stern
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Author : Richard Stern
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2004-10-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780810151482

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A group of Americans in Venice encounter an Ezra-Pound-like sculptor.