To Absent Friends

Author : Red Smith
Publisher : Signet Book
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1986-07
Category : Athletes
ISBN : 0451143876

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Author : S. J. Rozan
Publisher : Dell
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Fire fighters
ISBN : 9780440241850

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Absent Friends by S. J. Rozan Pdf

The secrets of a group of childhood friends unravel in this haunting thriller by Edgar Award winner Rozan, set in New York in the unforgettable aftermath of September 11.

Author : Frederick Busch
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0811211754

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Absent Friends by Frederick Busch Pdf

For twenty years now, Frederick Busch has been a relentless chronicler of the human heart. Except for an occasional foray abroad, he has tended to set his fiction in a physical territory--the Northeast, upstate New York especially--which he has given literary shape. With the capaciousness of a Dickens and the control of a Hemingway, Busch's novels have come in steady counterpoint, raising and answering by turns insistent questions that worry even the plainest of domestic lives. In this his fifth book of stories, the Absent Friends of the title are the lost characters the author has so compassionately detailed, who long to recover their absent selves. But they are also, as Richard Bausch comments in The Philadelphia Inquirer, "friends we have failed, or who have failed us; it is the emotional cost of that estrangement that interests Frederick Busch."

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1987*
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:733111463

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To Absent Friends by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1244226340

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Absent Friends by Anonim Pdf

Author : Alan Ayckbourn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:613803226

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Absent friends by Alan Ayckbourn Pdf

Author : Randy Eberle
Publisher : Gutzmer Publishing
Page : 27 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2014-10-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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To Absent Friends by Randy Eberle Pdf

Three friends relive their youth in a local pub while mourning the loss of a recently deceased childhood friend.

Author : Alan Ayckbourn
Publisher : Samuel French Limited
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : English drama
ISBN : UCSC:32106002024294

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Absent Friends by Alan Ayckbourn Pdf

Colin must be comforted in his grief over the death of his fianc e so his friends, who never met the girl, arrange a tea party for him. Understandably they are on edge wondering what to say, but there is more to their unease: Diane and Paul, John and Evelyn, and Marge and her husband are perpetually out of circulation with trivial illnesses are all kept together by a mixture of business and cross-marital emotional ties. By the time Colin arrives for tea, their tenseness contrasts dramatically with his air of cheerful relaxation. He is the only happy one among them and his happiness and insensitive analyses of their troubles causes each of them to break down.

Author : David J.Butler M.B.E.
Publisher : Editorial Circulo Rojo
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2020-08-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9788413741567

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Absent Friends by David J.Butler M.B.E. Pdf

All proceeds from the sale of this book will go to the Madrid British Cemetery El total de la venta se destinará al Cementerio Británico en Madrid

Author : Gillian Linscott
Publisher : Virago
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2015-07-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780349007700

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Absent Friends by Gillian Linscott Pdf

The First World War is over, despite victory England is struggling to come to terms with its aftermath and society can never be the same again. Another battle that has been won is by the suffragettes - women not only have the vote they can also stand for Parliament. Nell Bray, flushed with the success of their campaign, is now searching for someone or some party to support her stand for election. Out of the blue she is approached by the widow of a recently deceased Conservative M.P whose husband had been killed by a firework, however the widow is convinced he was murdered by a political opponent. When she offers to cover Nell's election expenses in exchange for her investigating his death, Nell is at first wary of taking the woman's money for a political end, but when she looks more closely at the circumstances of the ex-M.P's death she agrees. In between the hustings and pamphlet printing, Nell discovers more likely suspects than the man's erstwhile political foe, including someone who is trying to undermine her own campaign. As the votes are counted she unmasks the real killer in a most satisfactory denouement to a delightfully serpentine whodunnit.

Author : Charles Wesley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1842
Category : Christian poetry, English
ISBN : BL:A0026823449

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The Great Supper: Or, an Invitation to Our Absent Friends. [A Poem. Edited by James Nichols.] by Charles Wesley Pdf

Author : Alan Ayckbourn
Publisher : Random House
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2011-12-31
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781448129607

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Three Plays - Absurd Person Singular, Absent Friends, Bedroom Farce by Alan Ayckbourn Pdf

'What is remarkable about Alan Ayckbourn's comedy is that it contrives to be simultaneously hilarious and harrowing. Literally, it is agonisingly funny' Daily Telegraph In Three Plays Ayckbourn's perfectly pitched dialogue slices into the soul of suburbia. The settings are simple - a kitchen, a bedroom, a party - but the relationships between the husbands and wives are more complicated. Fraught relationships are exposed with humour, bathos and a sharp understanding of human nature.

Author : Laura Lee,Martyn Lee
Publisher : Interpet
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Bereavement
ISBN : 1850540896

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Absent Friend by Laura Lee,Martyn Lee Pdf

Award-winning guide to coping with the death of a treasured pet.

Author : Paul Moorhouse
Publisher : National Portrait Gallery
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Art
ISBN : 1855147556

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Howard Hodgkin by Paul Moorhouse Pdf

Hodgkin's art can be seen as providing memorials for people, many of whom are friends, whose absence is countered by th e corresponding physical presence of particular paintings. Descriptive elements visible in his earlier portraits from the 1950s are subsumed within paintings that have, over the course of more than fifty years, become more psychologically charged, but no l ess connected with evoking specific individuals in particular situations. This book, like the exhibition it accompanies, surveys the development of Hodgkin's portraiture from its beginnings in 1949 to the present, including new paintings. Comprising key works from a range of international public and private collections, it traces the evolution of the artist's visual language and his engagement with a range of friends and others within the artist's circle. Exhibition curator Paul Moorhouse provides a compe lling introduction to Hodgkin's portraits, his subjects, working methods, the role of memory, and his distinctive approach to representing people. Peter Blake, Stephen Buckley, Patrick Caulfield, David Hockney, Philip King, R . B . Kitaj and Richard Smith are among the many leading artists portrayed, so that the British art world emerges as the wider subject of Hodgkin's art. The book also contains a fully illustrated chronology and commentaries on individual work

Author : Max Gladstone,Cassandra Rose Clarke,Ian Tregillis,Fran Wilde,Lindsay Smith
Publisher : Serial Box
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2017-05-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781682101452

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Absent Friends (The Witch Who Came in from the Cold Season 2 Episode 11) by Max Gladstone,Cassandra Rose Clarke,Ian Tregillis,Fran Wilde,Lindsay Smith Pdf

This is the 11th episode in the second season of The Witch Who Came In From The Cold, a 13-episode serial from Serial Box Publishing. This episode written by Max Gladstone. The Cold War gets magical when spies brush shoulders with sorcerers in this genre-defying serial created by Lindsay Smith and Max Gladstone. In Season 2, Episode 11, Edith's untimely death leaves her discovery a mystery but Gabe in a cell as her suspected murderer. After a long chase through the shadows, Frank and Sasha finally come face to face. With his number of allies swiftly dwindling Josh crosses the curtain to ask for help. Welcome to Prague, 1970: the epicenter in a Cold War of spies and sorcerers. The streets are a deadly chessboard on which the CIA and KGB make their moves, little dreaming that a deeper game is being played between the Consortium of Ice and the Acolytes of Flame, ancient factions of sorcery. Praise for The Witch Who Came in from the Cold: "Those who like to mix magic, spycraft, and secret history should enjoy this—it may please fans of Stross’s Laundry series." —Locus Magazine "Full of fast-paced, high-intensity action paired with magic at a level that has not been seen until now, with a cliff-hanger that lets readers know that the game is not over and has only just begun." —The San Francisco Book Review "The Witch Who Came in from the Cold is a chilly evocation of a different kind of Cold War." —Charles Stross, author of the Laundry Files series “Take a double shot of Le Carré, a dash of Deighton, a twist of Quiller, a splash of Al Stewart’s The Year of the Cat, throw in a jigger full of elemental magic, mix well ... and voilà! The Witch Who Came In From The Cold.” —Victor Milán, author of The Dinosaur Lords "The occult love child of John le Carre and The Sandbaggers." —Marie Brennan, author of A Natural History of Dragons "As soon as I saw that, I was instantly hooked, and the pilot jacked the intrigue to the max. Two female Soviet spy witches, an American spy with something weird drilling magical holes in his head, and a world of secrets within secrets in a locale where old-world myth and the Cold War face off, pedal to the metal . . . it’s awesome. Or as we said in 1970, Far out. " —Sherwood Smith, author of Crown Duel "The installments are easy to read one at a time, but the tangles of alliances, secrets, and shocking double-crosses will have readers up all night mumbling, “Just one more.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review