Vandal Love

Author : D. Y. Bechard
Publisher : Anchor Canada
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2010-05-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780385672283

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Vandal Love by D. Y. Bechard Pdf

An astonishing novel, Vandal Love follows generations of a unique French-Canadian family across North America, and through the twentieth century, as they struggle to find their place in the world. A family curse – a genetic trick resulting from centuries of hardship – causes the Hervé children to be born either giants or runts. Book I of Vandal Love follows the giants’ line, exploring Jude Hervé’s career as a boxer in Georgia and Louisiana in the 1960s, his escape from that brutal life alone with his baby daughter Isa, and her eventual decision to enter into a strange, chaste marriage with a much older man. Book II traces a different kind of life entirely, as the runts of the family discover that their power lies in a kind of unifying love. François searches for years for his missing father; his own son, Harvey, flees from modern society into spiritual quests. But none of the Hervés can abandon their longing for a place where they might find others like themselves. In assured and almost mystically powerful prose, D.Y. Béchard tells a wide-ranging, spellbinding story of a family trying to create an identity in an unwelcoming North America. Political, poetic, and philosophically searching, and imbued throughout with a deep sensitivity to the physical world, Vandal Love is a breathtaking literary debut about the power of love to create and destroy – in our lives, and in our history.

Author : Deni Ellis Béchard
Publisher : Milkweed Editions
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781571310910

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Follows generations of a French-Canadian family cursed by an odd genetic condition brought on by hardship that causes them to be born either giants or runts.

Author : D. Y. Bechard
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2007-01-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780385660525

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Vandal Love by D. Y. Bechard Pdf

An astonishing novel, Vandal Love follows generations of a unique French-Canadian family across North America, and through the twentieth century, as they struggle to find their place in the world. A family curse – a genetic trick resulting from centuries of hardship – causes the Hervé children to be born either giants or runts. Book I of Vandal Love follows the giants’ line, exploring Jude Hervé’s career as a boxer in Georgia and Louisiana in the 1960s, his escape from that brutal life alone with his baby daughter Isa, and her eventual decision to enter into a strange, chaste marriage with a much older man. Book II traces a different kind of life entirely, as the runts of the family discover that their power lies in a kind of unifying love. François searches for years for his missing father; his own son, Harvey, flees from modern society into spiritual quests. But none of the Hervés can abandon their longing for a place where they might find others like themselves. In assured and almost mystically powerful prose, D.Y. Béchard tells a wide-ranging, spellbinding story of a family trying to create an identity in an unwelcoming North America. Political, poetic, and philosophically searching, and imbued throughout with a deep sensitivity to the physical world, Vandal Love is a breathtaking literary debut about the power of love to create and destroy – in our lives, and in our history.

Author : Deni Ellis Béchard
Publisher : Milkweed Editions
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2012-05-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781571318626

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Cures for Hunger by Deni Ellis Béchard Pdf

A “poignant but rigorously unsentimental” memoir of one man’s search for the truth about his father’s dark past, and how it shaped his own life (Kirkus Reviews). Growing up in rural British Columbia, Deni Béchard had no idea his family was extraordinary. He took pleasure in typical boyish activities: salmon fishing with his father, a daring man with a penchant for brawling, and reading with his mother, who was interested in health food and the otherworldly. Assigned to complete a family tree in school, Deni begins to wonder why he doesn’t know more about his father’s side of the family. His mother is from Pittsburgh, and there’s a vague sense that his father is from Quebec, but why the mystery? When his mother leaves Deni’s father and decamps with her children to Virginia, his curiosity only grows. Who is this man, why do the police seem so interested in him, and why is his mother so afraid of him? And when his mother begrudgingly tells Deni that his father was once a bank robber, his imagination is set on fire. Boyish rebelliousness soon gives way to fantasies of a life of crime, and a deep drive for experience leads him to a number of adventures: hitching to Memphis and stealing a motorcycle; fighting classmates and kissing girls. Before long, young Deni is imagining himself as a character in one of his father’s stories, or in the novels he devours. Both attracted and repelled, Deni can’t escape the sense that his father’s life holds the key to understanding himself. Eventually he moves back to Canada, only to find himself snared in the controlling impulses of his mysterious father, and increasingly obsessed by his father’s own muted recollections of the Quebecois childhood he’d fled long ago. “Powerful and haunting . . . a must-read for anyone who has ever struggled to uncover their identity within the shadow of a parent.” —Claire Bidwell Smith, author of The Rules of Inheritance “Cures for Hunger is a poignant adventure story with a mystery . . . But it is also, perhaps even more so, the story of an artist coming of age.” —The Plain Dealer “This darkly comic and lyrical memoir demonstrates the shaping of its author, who suffers the wreckage of his father’s life, yet manages to salvage all the beauty of its desperate freedoms. Béchard’s poetic gifts give voice to the outsiders of society, and make them glow with humanity and love.” —Elizabeth McKenzie, author of The Portable Veblen

Author : Carian Cole
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2020-01-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783864438813

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To Love Vandal by Carian Cole Pdf

Nach dem tragischen Unfalltod seiner Tochter, an dem sich Vandal Valentine selbst die Schuld gibt, ist das Leben für ihn eine Qual. Er zieht sich zurück und kommt nur schwer mit anderen klar. Doch eines Tages trifft er auf die ebenfalls trauernde Tabitha. Er ist fasziniert von ihr, sie ist wie ein Lichtstrahl in seiner dunkel gewordenen Welt. Als er herausfindet, wer sie ist, trifft er eine schwerwiegende Entscheidung, die sein Gewissen verfolgt. Sie scheint keine Ahnung zu haben, wer er ist und was er getan hat. Gemeinsam lassen sie sich auf eine erotische Reise ein, suchen einen Weg aus der Trauer und der düsteren Gefühle zurück ins Leben. Doch unaussprechliche Geheimnisse stehen zwischen ihnen und bedrohen ihre Liebe.

Author : Dr. Smiley Blanton
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-31
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781787207882

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Love or Perish [Expanded Edition] by Dr. Smiley Blanton Pdf

The New York Times called this famous guide to a more rewarding life “sound and solid, the product of a richly furnished mind, a book of wisdom.” Written by one of America’s most distinguished psychiatrists, Dr. Smiley Blanton, it has already found its way into some 200,000 American homes. Hundreds of readers have written to the author saying they were helped, inspired—and wanted more. In response to these letters, Dr. Blanton added an enormously valuable new section showing how men and women of all ages can give themselves as second chance at happiness—this section, titled “On Making a Fresh Start,” is included in this Expanded Edition, which was first published in 1957. “I believe that it is possible to achieve an emotional change with the insight developed through books. Books can make a change in one’s philosophy and attitude toward life. That is why so many books of the world are so deeply cherished. “It is in this hope that I write, in an effort to bring to people the hard-won truths of my observation over many years of life and during more than forty years of practice in psychiatry.”—Dr. Smiley Blanton, Introduction

Author : Deni Ellis Bechard
Publisher : Milkweed Editions
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2012-05-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781571318381

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Vandal Love by Deni Ellis Bechard Pdf

An astonishing novel of epic ambition, Vandal Love—winner of the prestigious Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for best first book in 2007—follows generations of a unique French-Canadian family across North America and through the twentieth century. A family curse—a genetic trick resulting from centuries of hardship—causes the Hervé children to be born either giants or runts. Book One follows the giants’ line, exploring Jude Hervé’s career as a boxer in Georgia and Louisiana in the 1960s, his escape from that brutal life alone with his baby daughter Isa, and her eventual decision to enter into a strange, chaste marriage with a much older man. Book Two traces a different kind of life entirely, as the runts of the family discover that their power lies in a kind of unifying love. François seeks the identity of his missing father for years, while his own son, Harvey, flees from modern society into spiritual quests. But none of the Hervés can abandon their longing for a place where they might find others like themselves. In assured and mystically powerful prose, Deni Y. Béchard tells a wide-ranging, spellbinding story of a family trying to create an identity in an unwelcoming landscape. Imbued throughout with a deep sensitivity to the physical world, Vandal Love is a breathtaking literary debut about the power of love to create and destroy—in our lives, and in our history.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : RateABull Publishing
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-06
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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RV-MMF-1EN by Anonim Pdf

Author : Christine Higdon
Publisher : ECW Press
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2018-04-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781773051857

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The Very Marrow of Our Bones by Christine Higdon Pdf

Defiance, faith, and triumph in a heartrending novel about daughters and mothers On a miserable November day in 1967, two women disappear from a working-class town on the Fraser River. The community is thrown into panic, with talk of drifters and murderous husbands. But no one can find a trace of Bette Parsons or Alice McFee. Even the egg seller, Doris Tenpenny, a woman to whom everyone tells their secrets, hears nothing. Ten-year-old Lulu Parsons discovers something, though: a milk-stained note her mother, Bette, left for her father on the kitchen table. Wally, it says, I will not live in a tarpaper shack for the rest of my life . . . Lulu tells no one, and months later she buries the note in the woods. At the age of ten, she starts running — and forgetting — lurching through her unraveled life, using the safety of solitude and detachment until, at fifty, she learns that she is not the only one who carries a secret. Hopeful, lyrical, comedic, and intriguingly and lovingly told, The Very Marrow of Our Bones explores the isolated landscapes and thorny attachments bred by childhood loss and buried secrets.

Author : Louise Cusack
Publisher : Momentum
Page : 658 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2012-02-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781743340158

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Glimmer in the Maelstrom: Shadow Through Time 3 by Louise Cusack Pdf

The Maelstrom is building – inexorable, relentless, causing destruction and death on an unprecedented scale, pouring elements from one realm into another – and the only hope for humanity, the young Glimmer, has strayed far from her destiny to unite the Four Worlds. An accidental touch of the Plainsman Memory Stone infects her with emotions and she abducts the coldest of the nobles, Kert Sh'hale, taking him to the Fireworld of Haddash where her clumsy seduction allows the Serpent of Death to escape. On our world, Pagan's son Vandal has grown into a young man, bitter at his father for abandoning him to return to Ennae. When tragedy steals Vandal's future, his bitterness becomes deadly and he follows his father through the Sacred Pool, intent on destroying the one thing Pagan loves most. While Glimmer must give up everything she holds dear to fight the Serpent and secure a future from the remnants of mankind; Vandal hunts his father's betrothed, Lae; and the Maelstrom draws closer ... The final instalment of the Shadow Through Time trilogy is pure magic. A sumptuous conclusion to a feast of fantasy.

Author : Andrew Merrills,Richard Miles
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2009-12-23
Category : History
ISBN : 144431808X

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The Vandals by Andrew Merrills,Richard Miles Pdf

The Vandals is the first book available in the EnglishLanguage dedicated to exploring the sudden rise and dramatic fallof this complex North African Kingdom. This complete historyprovides a full account of the Vandals and re-evaluates key aspectsof the society including: Political and economic structures such as the complexforeign policy which combined diplomatic alliances and marriageswith brutal raiding The extraordinary cultural development of secular learning,and the religious struggles that threatened to tear the stateapart The nature of Vandal identity from a social and genderperspective.

Author : Donna Bailey Nurse
Publisher : Insomniac Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2011-09-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781554830541

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What's a Black Critic to Do II by Donna Bailey Nurse Pdf

In What's a Black Critic to Do II, literary critic Donna Bailey Nurse once again gathers together profiles, reviews, interviews, and essays that examine race, culture, and multiculturalism through the lens of literature. This collection, featuring well-known writers, such as Lawrence Hill, Afua Cooper, Christopher Paul Curtis, Natasha Trethewey, Toni Morrison, David Chariandy, Joseph Boyden, and Kwame Dawes. What's a Black Critic to Do II is of especial interest to black readers as well as teachers, librarians, and book clubs. This companion to 2003's What's a Black Critic to Do? constitutes a candid conversation about race in an ostensibly "post-racial" world.

Author : James MacGrigor Allan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1862
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:600069974

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The Last Days of a Bachelor by James MacGrigor Allan Pdf

Author : Jim Heynen
Publisher : Milkweed Editions
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2012-09-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781571318695

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The Fall of Alice K. by Jim Heynen Pdf

Seventeen-year-old Alice Marie Krayenbraak is beautiful, witty, a star student, and a gifted athlete. On the surface, she has it all. But in Alice’s hometown of Dutch Center, Iowa, nothing is as it seems. Behind the façade of order and tidiness, the family farm is failing. Alice’s mother is behaving strangely amid apocalyptic fears of Y2K. And her parents have announced their plans to send her special-needs sister Aldah away. On top of it all, the uniformly Dutch Calvinist town has been rattled by an influx of foreign farm workers. It’s the fall of senior year, and Alice now finds herself at odds with both family and cultural norms when she befriends and soon falls in love with Nickson Vang, the son of Hmong immigrants. Caught in a period of personal and community transformation, Alice and Nickson must navigate their way through vastly different traditions while fighting to create new ones of their own. Funny and provocative, amusing and unsettling, The Fall of Alice K. marks a watershed moment in the publishing career of author, Jim Heynen.

Author : Rufus Dawes
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1844
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781465561220

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Nix's Mate: An Historical Romance of America (Complete) by Rufus Dawes Pdf