Voices Of Time

Author : Eduardo Galeano
Publisher : Metropolitan Books
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2007-04-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781429900355

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Voices of Time by Eduardo Galeano Pdf

A striking mosaic of memories, observations, and legends that together reveal the author's own story and a grand, compassionate vision of life itself In this kaleidoscope of reflections, renowned South American author Eduardo Galeano ranges widely, from childhood to love, music, plants, fear, indignity, and indignation. In the signal style of his bestselling and much-admired Memory of Fire trilogy—brief fragments that build steadily into an organic whole—Galeano offers a rich, wry history of his life and times that is both calmly philosophical and fiercely political. Beginning with blue algae, the earliest of life forms, these 333 vignettes alight on the Galeano family's immigration to Uruguay in the early twentieth century, the fate of love letters intercepted by a military dictatorship, abuses by the rich and powerful, the latest military outrages, and the author's own encounters with all manner of living matter, including generals, bums, dissidents, soccer stars, ducks, and trees. Out of these meditations emerges neither anger nor bitterness, but a celebration of a blessed life in a harsh world. Poetic and passionate, scathing and lyrical, delivered with Galeano's inimitable mix of gentle comedy and fierce moral judgment, Voices of Time is a deeply personal statement from a great and beloved writer.

Author : Hugh MacLennan
Publisher : McGill-Queen's University Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2011-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780773586253

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Voices in Time by Hugh MacLennan Pdf

In the 1980s the Bureaucracy eliminated all knowledge of the past in the wake of a nuclear holocaust. In 2030 André Gervais discovers two metal boxes containing manuscripts, diaries, and other personal papers that have somehow survived and asks an old man, John Wellfleet, to use these documents to discover the past. In doing so, Wellfleet learns the truth about two relatives: his older cousin Timothy Wellfleet, a Montreal TV journalist at the time of the 1970 War Measures Act, and his stepfather, Conrad Dehmel, a German scholar struggling to keep his Jewish fiancée and himself safe from Hitler's Gestapo. Hugh MacLennan skillfully juxtaposes the insanity of life in Nazi Germany, the political climate of Montreal in the 1960s, and the perspective of an old man looking back on the conditions that led to world destruction as the background to an unforgettable love story.

Author : J. G. Ballard
Publisher : Phoenix
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1992-09-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1857990005

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The Voices of Time by J. G. Ballard Pdf

Author : J. G. Ballard
Publisher : Orion
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1985-01-01
Category : English fiction
ISBN : 0575035153

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The Voices of Time by J. G. Ballard Pdf

J G Ballard's extraordinary inventiveness and the unfailing grace and energy of his writing are triumphantly displayed in this collection of stories. The collection includes 'The Overloaded Man', 'Chronopolis' and the critically acclaimed 'The Garden of Time'. These haunting tales of pity, terror and longing, tightly plotted and firmly grounded in psychological realism, transcend classification as fantasy or science fiction; they are literature of the highest order. 'One of the few world class British writers alive today' Literary Review

Author : Julius Thomas Fraser
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 710 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Time
ISBN : OCLC:855339381

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Author : Silvia Bonucci
Publisher : Steerforth Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Fiction
ISBN : WISC:89095632691

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Voices from a Time by Silvia Bonucci Pdf

From the dawn of the twentieth century until World War II, members of a Jewish family in Trieste experienced great historical and cultural events - the birth of Freudian psychoanalysis, World War I, the end of the Austro-Hungarian Empire that turned Trieste into an Italian city, Fascism. In Voices from a Time, the main characters take turns describing the family's life in the first person. Central to the story is Gemma, a frivolous but fascinating woman, an adulteress wife and irresponsible mother who behaves like an eternal child. The other family members try to keep up with Gemma and her eccentricities, often paying a high price to do so. The backdrop for this fascinating and beautifully told story contains the radiant and mundane world of fin de si'cle society, the atmosphere of Jewish Trieste, the irredentist movement, an encounter with Freud in Vienna, economic and financial downfall, and the cultural squalor of Italian Fascism.

Author : Ursula K. Le Guin
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Ansul (Imaginary places)
ISBN : 9780152056780

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Voices by Ursula K. Le Guin Pdf

Young Memer takes on a pivotal role in freeing her war-torn homeland from its oppressive captors.

Author : Steven Millhauser
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2015-04-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780385351607

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Voices in the Night by Steven Millhauser Pdf

From the Pulitzer and Story Prize winner: sixteen new stories—provocative, funny, disturbing, enchanting—that delve into the secret lives and desires of ordinary people, alongside retellings of myths and legends that highlight the aspirations of the human spirit. Beloved for the lens of the strange he places on small town life, Steven Millhauser further reveals in Voices in the Night the darkest parts of our inner selves to brilliant and dazzling effect. Here are stories of wondrously imaginative hyperrealism, stories that pose unforgettably unsettling what-ifs, or that find barely perceivable evils within the safe boundaries of our towns, homes, and even within our bodies. Here, too, are stories culled from religion and fables: Samuel, who hears the voice of God calling him in the night; a young, pre-enlightenment Buddha, who searches for his purpose in life; Rapunzel and her Prince, who struggle to fit the real world to their dream. Heightened by magic, the divine, and the uncanny, shot through with sly and winning humor, Voices in the Night seamlessly combines the whimsy and surprise of the familiar with intoxicating fantasies that take us beyond our daily lives, all done with the hallmark sleight of hand and astonishing virtuosity of one of our greatest contemporary storytellers.

Author : F. R. Tallis
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780230770539

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The Voices by F. R. Tallis Pdf

From F. R. Tallis, the highly-acclaimed author of the Vienna Blood series, comes the spine-chilling psychological thriller, The Voices. Once you've heard them, you'll never forget them . . . In the scorching summer of 1976 – the hottest since records began – Christopher Norton, his wife Laura and their young daughter Faye settle into their new home in north London. The faded glory of the Victorian house is the perfect place for Norton, a composer of film soundtracks, to build a recording studio of his own. But soon in the long, oppressively hot nights, Laura begins to hear something through the crackle of the baby monitor. First, a knocking sound. Then come the voices . . .

Author : Truman Capote
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307431578

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Other Voices, Other Rooms by Truman Capote Pdf

Truman Capote’s first novel is a story of almost supernatural intensity and inventiveness, an audacious foray into the mind of a sensitive boy as he seeks out the grown-up enigmas of love and death in the ghostly landscape of the deep South. “Intense, brilliant . . . . Capote has an astonishing command . . . a magic all his own.” —The Atlantic At the age of twelve, Joel Knox is summoned to meet the father who abandoned him at birth. But when Joel arrives at the decaying mansion in Skully’s Landing, his father is nowhere in sight. What he finds instead is a sullen stepmother who delights in killing birds; an uncle with the face—and heart—of a debauched child; and a fearsome little girl named Idabel who may offer him the closest thing he has ever known to love.

Author : Natalia Ginzburg
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 119 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780811231015

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Voices in the Evening by Natalia Ginzburg Pdf

From one of Italy’s greatest writers, a stunning novel “filled with shimmering, risky, darting observation” (Colm Tóibín) After WWII, a small Italian town struggles to emerge from under the thumb of Fascism. With wit, tenderness, and irony, Elsa, the novel’s narrator, weaves a rich tapestry of provincial Italian life: two generations of neighbors and relatives, their gossip and shattered dreams, their heartbreaks and struggles to find happiness. Elsa wants to imagine a future for herself, free from the expectations and burdens of her town’s history, but the weight of the past will always prove unbearable, insistently posing the question: “Why has everything been ruined?”

Author : Charles Fernyhough
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2016-10-04
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780465096817

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The Voices Within by Charles Fernyhough Pdf

We live immersed in thought. But do we actually know what a thought is? To answer this question, psychology professor Charles Fernyhough draws on everything from neuroscience to literary history to grasp the true nature of this most inscrutable of acts: thinking. Whether a medieval saint who hears voices or a writer absorbed in an imagined world, a daydreamer riding the subway or a captivated reader, we experience thought as a creative inner dialogue featuring multiple voices. Fernyhough uses this conception to demystify mental illness, showing that imagining voices is intimately linked to the feeling of artistic production. Drawing on literature, film, and psychology, as well as cognitive science, The Voices Within is a poetic venture into the depths of our mind. It will revolutionize the way we hear and understand the voices in our heads.

Author : David Elliott
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2019-03-26
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780358049159

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Voices by David Elliott Pdf

"Stunning . . . elegant . . . arresting . . . supple and harrowing.” - The Wall Street Journal ★“An innovative, entrancing account of a popular figure that will appeal to fans of verse, history, and biography.” - Kirkus, starred review In poems that surprise and move readers, bestselling author David Elliott explores how Joan of Arc changed the course of history and remains a figure of fascination centuries after her extraordinary life and death. Told through medieval poetic forms and in the voices of the people and objects in Joan of Arc’s life, (including her family and even the trees, clothes, cows, and candles of her childhood), Voices offers an unforgettable perspective on an extraordinary young woman. Along the way it explores timely issues such as gender, misogyny, and the peril of speaking truth to power. Before Joan of Arc became a saint, she was a girl inspired. It is that girl we come to know in Voices.

Author : Time-Life Books
Publisher : Time Life Medical
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Chickamauga, Battle of, Ga., 1863
ISBN : 0783547102

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Chickamauga by Time-Life Books Pdf

Contains primary source material in the form of personal recollections from letters, diaries, photographs, sketches, and artifacts of both soldiers and civilians.

Author : Hugh MacLennan
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780773524941

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Voices in Time by Hugh MacLennan Pdf

In 2030, an old man who has survived the holocaustic destruction of civilization in the 1980's illuminates the events of the past by portraying the lives of his cousin, a journalist during the 1970 war measures act, and his stepfather, a German caught up in the madness of the Hitler era.