Night Boat to Tangier

Night Boat to Tangier

Author: Kevin Barry

Publisher: Anchor

Published: 2019-09-17

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 0385540329

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ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR • “A darkly incantatory tragicomedy of love and betrayal ... Beautifully paced, emotionally wise.” —The Boston Globe In the dark waiting room of the ferry terminal in the sketchy Spanish port of Algeciras, two aging Irishmen—Maurice Hearne and Charlie Redmond, longtime partners in the lucrative and dangerous enterprise of smuggling drugs—sit at night, none too patiently. The pair are trying to locate Maurice’s estranged daughter, Dilly, whom they’ve heard is either arriving on a boat coming from Tangier or departing on one heading there. This nocturnal vigil will initiate an extraordinary journey back in time to excavate their shared history of violence, romance, mutual betrayals, and serial exiles. Rendered with the dark humor and the hardboiled Hibernian lyricism that have made Kevin Barry one of the most striking and admired fiction writers at work today, Night Boat to Tangier is a superbly melancholic melody of a novel, full of beautiful phrases and terrible men.


Night Boat to New York

Night Boat to New York

Author: Erik Hesselberg

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2022-07-15

Total Pages: 225

ISBN-13: 1493044508

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Night Boat to New York: Steamboats on the Connecticut, 1824-1931, is a portrait of the vanished steamboat days–when a procession of stately sidewheelers plied between Hartford and New York City, docking at Peck’s Slip on the East River in the shadow of the Brooklyn Bridge. At one time, Hartford could boast two thousand steamboat arrivals and departures in a year. Altogether, some thirty-five large steamboats were in service on the Connecticut River in these years, largely on the Hartford to New York City route. These Long Island Sound steamers, unlike the tubby, wedding cake dowagers of Western waters, were long, sleek craft, with sharp prows cutting a neat wake as they cruised along. Departing each afternoon from State Street or Talcott Street wharf in Hartford, the “night boats” reached New York at daybreak, inaugurating a pattern of city commuting that continues to this day. Steamboating not only brought people and goods—Colt’s firearms and Essex’s pianos—down river to New York for export to world markets, but also helped America’s inland “Spa Culture” transplant itself to the seashore, making steamboating not just convenient transportation but also a social phenomenon noted by such writers as Charles Dickens and Mark Twain. No wonder crowds wept in the fall of 1931, when the last steamboats, made obsolete by the automobile, churned away from the dock and headed downriver—never to return.


The Truant Lover

The Truant Lover

Author: Juliet Patterson

Publisher:

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 104

ISBN-13:

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Juliet Patterson's first collection of poems, The Truant Lover, selected by Jean Valentine, is a pastiche of American voices, a well of poems with passages that hint and nod at past poets while remaining wholly their own.


Good Night New York City

Good Night New York City

Author: Adam Gamble

Publisher: Good Night Books

Published: 2006-10-28

Total Pages: 25

ISBN-13: 1602197563

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Easy-to-read text introduces the sights of New York City through a full day of sightseeing.


MacArthur Park

MacArthur Park

Author: Andrew Durbin

Publisher: Nightboat Books

Published: 2017-09-05

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13: 1937658708

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After Hurricane Sandy, Nick Fowler, a writer, stranded alone in a Manhattan apartment without power, begins to contemplate disaster. Months later, at an artist residency in upstate New York, Nick finds his subject in disaster itself and the communities shaped by it, where crisis animates both hope and denial, unacknowledged pasts and potential futures. As he travels to Los Angeles and London on assignment, Nick discovers that outsiders - their lives and histories disturbed by sex, loss, and bad weather - are often better understood by what they have hidden from the world than what they have revealed.


The New York State Register

The New York State Register

Author: John Disturnell

Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand

Published: 2024-03-28

Total Pages: 437

ISBN-13: 3385116570

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Reprint of the original, first published in 1843.


Dracula

Dracula

Author: Hamilton Deane

Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.

Published: 1960

Total Pages: 120

ISBN-13: 9780573608223

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Drama Hamilton Deane and John L. Balderston, from Bram Stoker's novel Characters: 6 male, 2 female 3 Interior Scenes An enormously successful revival of this classic opened on Broadway in 1977 fifty years after the original production. This is one of the great mystery thrillers and is generally considered among the best of its kind. Lucy Seward, whose father is the doctor in charge of an English sanitorium, has been attacked by some mysterious illness. Dr. Van Helsing,


Night Boat to Freedom

Night Boat to Freedom

Author:

Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux (BYR)

Published: 2006-10-31

Total Pages: 40

ISBN-13: 9780374312664

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At the request of his fellow slave Granny Judith, Christmas John risks his life to take runaways across a river from Kentucky to Ohio. Based on slave narratives recorded in the 1930s.


One Night, New York

One Night, New York

Author: Lara Thompson

Publisher: Abacus

Published: 2022-01-06

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780349011103

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Een plattelandsmeisje vlucht in de jaren '30 naar New York met de hoop op een beter leven.


Permanent VOLTA

Permanent VOLTA

Author: Rosie Stockton

Publisher:

Published: 2021-05-11

Total Pages: 120

ISBN-13: 9781643620756

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A debut collection of love poems that resist subjection and ask how we might live together outside of capitalism, providing for each other through intimate acts of care and struggle