Grace Like Scarlett: Grieving with Hope After Miscarriage and Loss, Booker Adriel

Автор: Doyle, Roddy
Название: Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha (Booker Prize`93)
ISBN: 0749397357 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780749397357
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: Roddy Doyle`s Booker Prize-winning novel describes the world of ten-year-old Paddy Clarke, growing up in Barrytown, north Dublin. From fun and adventure on the streets, boredom in the classroom to increasing isolation at home, Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha is the story of a boy who sees everything but understands less and less.

Автор: Booker M. Keith, Batchelor Bob
Название: Mad Men: A Cultural History
ISBN: 1442261455 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781442261457
Издательство: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
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Описание: From the opening credits that feature a silhouette falling among skyscrapers, Mad Men transcended its role as a series about the Madison Avenue advertising industry to become a modern classic. For seven seasons, Mad Men asked viewers to contemplate the 1960s anew, reassessing the tumultuous era's stance on women's rights, race, war, politics, and family relationships that comprise the American Dream. Set in the heart of the twentieth century, the show brought to light how deeply we still are connected to that age. The result is a show that continually asks us to rethink our own families, lives, work, and ethical beliefs as we strive for a better world. In Mad Men: A Cultural History, M. Keith Booker and Bob Batchelor offer an engaging analysis of the series, providing in-depth examinations of its many themes and nostalgic portrayals of the years from Camelot to Vietnam and beyond. Highly regarded cultural scholars and critics, Booker and Batchelor examine the show in its entirety, presenting readers with a deep but accessible exploration of the series, as well as look at its larger meanings and implications. This cultural history perspective reveals Mad Men's critical importance as a TV series, as well as its role as a tool for helping viewers understand how they are shaped by history and culture. As a showcase in America's new "golden age of television," Mad Men reveals the deep hold history and nostalgia have on viewers, particularly when combined with stunning visuals and intricate writing and storylines. With this volume as their guide, readers will enjoy contemplating the show's place among the most lauded popular culture touchstones of the twenty-first century. As it engages with ideas central to the American experience--from the evolution of gender roles to family dynamics and workplace relationships--Mad Men: A Cultural History brings to life the significance of this profound yet entertaining series.

Автор: Booker Brian
Название: Are You Here for What I`m Here For?
ISBN: 1942658125 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781942658122
Издательство: Неизвестно
Цена: 2338.00 р.
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Описание: A brilliant debut. CHARLES BAXTER, author of "The Soul Thief" and "There s Something I Want You to Do"
The suspense creeps in and takes hold in seven stories about troubled characters grappling with rare illnesses, menacing chance encounters, sexual awakening, impending natural disasters, and New Age cults.
Within these pages, the everyday meets the uncanny as two high school friends go out for one unforgettable night. A boy, haunted by dreams of a catastrophic flood, becomes swept up in an encephalitis epidemic. A hypochondriac awaits her diagnosis at a Caribbean health resort. A disease researcher meets his nemesis on a train. A father searches for his missing son in a remote mountain lodge where nothing is quite as it seems. A teenager is sent to a therapeutic boarding school with disturbing methods and is reunited with a staff member years later. An elderly pharmacist protects his adopted nephew, who found a mermaid in a bottle, from a coastal village gripped by hysteria.
Even at its most surreal, this polished and lyrical debut remains grounded in the emotional lives of people teetering atop widening chasms of confusion and doubt.
Brian Booker s stories have been published in the "New England Review," "Conjunctions," "One Story," "Tin House," "Vice," and elsewhere. He holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers Workshop and a PhD in English from New York University, and has been a fiction fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown and at the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing. He teaches creative writing at the University of Chicago. "Are You Here for What I m Here For?" is his first collection of fiction.
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Автор: Booker, William J
Название: Trippers
ISBN: 1908248963 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781908248961
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Описание: On the road in England 1971... 'I began to desire a compass and almost bought one, but realized at the last minute that it was the concept I was enamoured with, not the artefact.' A very English Kerouac set to a 'Withnail & I' scale, this book is based upon the author's personal experiences in the summer of 1971. Bill Booker wakes up to the fact that he's a lonely stranger amongst his so-called friends and, spurred on by the need to sort his head out, he sets off on a journey accompanied by some new friends, roving from place to place, wandering through his memories, dreams and reflections, cadging cigarettes from strangers, soaring upon hallucinogenic wings, devouring egg and chips in back street cafes, haunted by a pair of apparitions, his insecurity and his friend's abominable feet... This is Bill's quest to find his personal Grail... Bill Booker's unique outlook, thought-provoking comments and observations on life will appeal to anyone who enjoys reading about personal discovery, personal relationships and to every new generation that wants to know what hippies/freaks/acidheads really got up to in the early 1970s and anyone who lived through that time who's ready for a nostalgia fix."

Автор: Booker, Christopher
Название: Seven basic plots
ISBN: 0826480373 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780826480378
Издательство: Continuum
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Описание: Examines the basis of story telling in literature, film, and libretto. This book provides an answer to the riddle of whether there are only a small number of `basic stories` in the world. Using many examples, it shows that there are seven archetypal themes.The author then leads us through the changes in the nature of storytelling.