Forgotten Women: A Tribute in Poetry, Connors Ginny Lowe
Автор: Cates David Allan Название: Tom Connor`s Gift ISBN: 096237895X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780962378959 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 2752.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: A recently-widowed doctor, stunned by grief, retreats to a cabin on Montana's Rocky Mountain Front. Inside she has a puppy and a stack of letters from an old lover. Outside, there's a bear. As she revisits the letters from Tom Connor, we come to see, through his eyes, the dusty, broken alleys of Central America during the war years. The two narratives taken together explore themes of life-long love, about what we can see only when we are ready to see, and how hope can grow in the darkest of places. The third in what the author sees as his "homecoming trilogy" (after Hunger in American and Ben Armstrong's Strange Trip Home), Tom Connor's Gift shines a light on the transformative act of storytelling itself, and is destined to be received as one of the most important novels of the year.
David Allan Cates's Tom Connor's Gift is extraordinary. The prose is ravishing, the characters are surprising and irresistible, and many of its scenes are so intensely moving that they bring tears of gratitude and pleasure. The book praises long marriage and long friendship, but what I especially appreciate about its vision is how sexually liberating it is for both men and women. Cates is a fierce and fearless writer! One finishes this novel feeling wiser, more alive, and spiritually refreshed. David Huddle
Sadness and madness, grief and delirium. Tom Connor's Gift delivers us precious monsters: our first true love and our true lasting love. Coursing between anecdote and musing, this is a novel only grownups can understand. It is smart and ecstatic and will break your goddamn heart. Bryan Di Salvatore
David Allan Cates evokes the human heart out of the landscape, blending the two with so much subtlety and skill that the very world in this novel shimmers with yearning. Tom Connor is as complex and fascinating a character as I have read in contemporary fiction, and Cates has an uncanny ability to evoke the beautiful and terrifying, the feverish and gritty Central American world Connor travels through. Tom Connor's Gift is a journey into the heart of two continents-and the continent of the human heart-an exploration of dissolution and loyalty, naivetй and cynicism, grief and renewal. In this novel, they all find their place. Kent Myers
Tom Connor's Gift is the gift we all seek, the gift of love in the face of grief, violence, loss, and heartbreak. In a deeply felt and vividly told story, David Cates connects the interior lives of a farm woman in the wilderness grieving her husband's death and her long-lost lover-a wandering man torn by the beauties and terrors of Central America. Annick Smith
Tom Connor's Gift is a fearless and instructive odyssey into the rustic places of the heart that still baffle and dictate our lives. Rick DeMarinis
Tom Connor's Gift is a gift all right-hilarious and moving-a two for one: two voices, two stories, two struggles to come to terms with love and longing, in prose that is vivid, urgent, brave, and true. Dinah Lenney
Put a widow in a cabin at the edge of Montana's Rocky Mountain Front with nothing but memories and a marauding bear outside to keep her company and what do you get? A tenderly-told tale of grief, recovery, and a message of love from the past. David Allan Cates's Tom Connor's Gift is indeed a gift to readers looking for a novel that will ask them to slow down and think about questions like "How do we endure suffering? And how-when life has flung us far and wide-how do we get home again?" David Abrams
Tom Connor's Gift is a wonderful book, standing on its tiptoes, stretching out its fingers to brush against a magical realism that is transformative. Mark Metcalf
Описание: A revealing collection of astonishingly fresh and undiscovered midcentury architecture and interiors in Havana.
Автор: Connors Jimmy, Yaeger Don Название: The Outsider LP ISBN: 0061285250 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780061285257 Издательство: HarperCollins USA Цена: 3029.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание:
The Outsider is a no-holds-barred memoir by the original bad boy of tennis, Jimmy Connors.
Connors ignited the tennis boom in the 1970s with his aggressive style of play, turning his matches with John McEnroe, Bjorn Borg, and Ivan Lendl into prizefights. But it was his prolonged dedication to his craft that won him the publics adoration. He capped off one of the most remarkable runs in tennis history at the age of 39 when he reached the semifinals of the 1991 U.S.
Open, competing against players half his age.
More than just the story of a tennis champion, The Outsider is the uncensored account of Connors life, from his complicated relationship with his formidable mother and his storybook romance with tennis legend Chris Evert, to his battles with gambling and fidelity that threatened to derail his career and his long-lasting marriage to Playboy playmate Patti McGuire.
When he retired from tennis twenty years ago, Connors all but disappeared from public view. In The Outsider, he is back at the top of his game, and as feisty, outspoken, and defiant as ever.
This autobiography includes original color photographs from the author.
Автор: Connors Jimmy, Yaeger Don Название: The Outsider: A Memoir ISBN: 0061243000 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780061243004 Издательство: HarperCollins USA Цена: 1775.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Connors Brad Название: Fish Don`t Clap: Planning for a Purposeful Retirement ISBN: 0692322744 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780692322741 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 3265.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Hal has lived the American dream. A self-employed entrepreneur, he worked hard throughout his career to build a stable, successful life. He raised a family, saved well, and made sure that he prepared for retire- ment. But now that retirement has come . . . there's something missing. Why isn't "gone fishin'" all it's cracked up to be? Hal joins Richard, a new friend equally concerned about creating meaning and security in retirement. Together, they discover a new way of planning for the future that incorporates not just finances, but also personal goals and values. Although they are in different life stages and have different family and financial backgrounds, the two of them discover together the keys to creating a stable, fulfilling future. You'll learn from their story: - The time to retire isn't marked just by a dollar figure - You're retiring "to" and not "from" something - Targeted saving helps you achieve your goals - You can provide for your heirs in different ways, equitably
Автор: Peltier C. G. Название: The Connors Chronicles: Rise of the Dark Wizard ISBN: 0615973361 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780615973364 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 2224.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Being born a royal has been the wish of many Freedonian children. One could only imagine what it would be like to live in a castle, having your every need taken care of and one day becoming a king or a queen. These are the things that dreams are made of. As the young Connors twins wake to find their clothes pressed and laid out for them, Prince Charlie and Kelly have no idea of the evil that is coming their way. The life they had come to know is about to come to an end. As they head to breakfast, they know that they might be eating alone, again. They understand why their parents, Prince Charles and Lady Catherine, won't be there. The health of their ailing grandfather, the Wizard King of Freedonia, is declining. He has much to pass on to his heir and not much time left to do it in. If that is not bad enough, Drake Aldric, the Commander of the Castle Guards and Freedonian Army has canceled their tenth birthday party because of a threat to the royal family. There will be no friends, presents or red berry fizzlespitches. Drake Aldric is following the Guard manual to the letter. Due to the threat, he has tripled the number of guards, moved the army closer to the village and won't let any royal out of the royal quarters without armed security guards. Even the twin's three godfathers didn't come to see them on their birthday. Molly and Mick McGruter and Sarah and Patrick Magee know why, but didn't have the heart to tell the twins that their godfathers had been accused of trying to kill a pub keeper in the village. Not one of them believed it, but couldn't understand why they ran away. What follows is what nightmares are made of.
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