One Hand Clapping
One Hand Clapping

Author: Anthony Burgess

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2015-04-13

Total Pages: 58

ISBN-13: 1474253814

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Sometimes when I'm at work and waiting for customers I think about the two of us living like kings and not bothering about the future. Because there may not be any future to bother about, you know. Not for anybody, one of these days. And it's a wicked world. Average couple Janet and Howard's lives begin to unravel when Howard's photographic memory helps win him a gameshow fortune. Janet doesn't want their lives to change that much. She's quite happy working at the supermarket, cooking for her husband three times a day and watching quiz shows in the evening. But once Howard unleashes his photographic brain on the world, the once modest used-car salesman can't seem to stop. And what he sees as the logical conclusion to his success isn't something Janet can agree to. Burgess's 1961 darkly comic satire of drab English consumerism is adapted for the stage by Lucia Cox. This edition was published to coincide with the US premiere at the Brits Off-Broadway Festival, at 59E59 Theatre, New York, in May 2015.

The Sound of One Hand Clapping
The Sound of One Hand Clapping

Author: Richard Flanagan

Publisher: Random House

Published: 2016-05-26

Total Pages: 450

ISBN-13: 1473545773

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FROM THE WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2014 In the winter of 1954, in a construction camp in the remote Tasmanian highlands, when Sonja Buloh was three years old and her father was drinking too much, her mother disappeared into a blizzard never to return. Thirty-five years later, Sonja returns to the place of her childhood to visit her drunkard father. The shadows of the past begin to intrude ever more forcefully into the present, changing forever his living death and her ordered life.

One Hand Clapping
One Hand Clapping

Author: Anthony Burgess

Publisher: Da Capo Press

Published: 1998-12

Total Pages: 215

ISBN-13: 9780786706310

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With film rights acquired by Francis Ford Coppola, this comic novel of instant riches is back in stock. From the author of A Clockwork Orange, One Hand Clapping is a comedy of game shows and greed, high stakes and the high life. The tragi-comedy of used car salesman Howard Shirley, his photographic brain, and the modern world's trivia and trivialities makes for vintage Burgess--at once hilarious and provocative. "Witty and shrewdly joyful."--The New York Times Book Review "A funny, pointed novel."--The New Yorker "Ingeniously and devilishly funny."--The Atlantic Monthly

One Hand Clapping
One Hand Clapping

Author: Rafe Martin

Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780847818532

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Famous short Zen stories for all ages. B/W illus.

The Sound of One Hand
The Sound of One Hand

Author: Audrey Yoshiko Seo

Publisher: Shambhala Publications

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 1590305787

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Hakuin Ekaku (1685–1768) is one of the most influential figures in the history of Zen. He can be considered the founder of the modern Japanese Rinzai tradition, for which he famously emphasized the importance of koan practice in awakening, and he revitalized the monastic life of his day. But his teaching was by no means limited to monastery or temple. Hakuin was the quintessential Zen master of the people, renowned for taking his teaching to all parts of society, to people in every walk of life, and his painting and calligraphy were particularly powerful vehicles for that teaching. Using traditional Buddhist images and sayings—but also themes from folklore and daily life—Hakuin created a new visual language for Zen: profound, whimsical, and unlike anything that came before. In his long life, Hakuin created many thousands of paintings and calligraphies. This art, combined with his voluminous writings, stands as a monument to his teaching, revealing why he is the most important Zen master of the past five hundred years. The Sound of One Hand is a study of Hakuin and his enduringly appealing art, illustrated with a wealth of examples of his work, both familiar pieces like “Three Blind Men on a Bridge” as well as lesser known masterworks.

Sound Of 1 Hand
Sound Of 1 Hand

Author: Out Of Print

Publisher: Basic Books

Published: 1975-12-17

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 9780465080793

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When The Sound of the One Hand came out in Japan in 1916 it caused a scandal. Zen was a secretive practice, its wisdom relayed from master to novice in strictest privacy. That a handbook existed recording not only the riddling koans that are central to Zen teaching but also detailing the answers to them seemed to mark Zen as rote, not revelatory. For all that, The Sound of the One Hand opens the door to Zen like no other book. Including koans that go back to the master who first brought the koan teaching method from China to Japan in the eighteenth century, this book offers, in the words of the translator, editor, and Zen initiate Yoel Hoffmann, the clearest, most detailed, and most correct picture of Zen that can be found. What we have here is an extraordinary introduction to Zen thought as lived thought, a treasury of problems, paradoxes, and performance that will appeal to artists, writers, and philosophers as well as Buddhists and students of religion."

To Clap with One Hand
To Clap with One Hand

Author: Martin Akwari

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2010-10-01

Total Pages: 134

ISBN-13: 9781453570081

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Each person in a family, a set up or organization is unique, in spite of perceived flaws, real or imaginary. God in His Infinite Wisdom declared all things he created as good. The challenge in every relationship is to seek out what to like in a person, rather than what to hate, and develop this into a kind of monument. God is at the center of all living and he has designed humans to only function properly to the extent that they realize that it is the pool of strength and good that beautifies each person. Just like one stick of broom cannot sweep the floor, our lives are intertwined with that of others, with God having oversight of us all. If it's difficult to clap with one hand, each person we meet represents the other hand, which beauty if we recognize and use would combine with our idle selfish hand to compose a beautiful symphony. The brevity of life has made such a symphony a vital part of living and relationships.

First Person
First Person

Author: Richard Flanagan

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2018-04-03

Total Pages: 353

ISBN-13: 0525520031

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Kif Kehlmann, a young, penniless writer, thinks he’s finally caught a break when he’s offered $10,000 to ghostwrite the memoir of Siegfried “Ziggy” Heidl, the notorious con man and corporate criminal. Ziggy is about to go to trial for defrauding banks for $700 million; they have six weeks to write the book. But Ziggy swiftly proves almost impossible to work with: evasive, contradictory, and easily distracted by his still-running “business concerns”—which Kif worries may involve hiring hitmen from their shared office. Worse, Kif finds himself being pulled into an odd, hypnotic, and ever-closer orbit of all things Ziggy. As the deadline draws near, Kif becomes increasingly unsure if he is ghostwriting a memoir, or if Ziggy is rewriting him—his life, his future, and the very nature of the truth. By turns comic, compelling, and finally chilling, First Person is a haunting look at an age where fact is indistinguishable from fiction, and freedom is traded for a false idea of progress.

Hand, Hand, Fingers, Thumb: Read & Listen Edition
Hand, Hand, Fingers, Thumb: Read & Listen Edition

Author: Al Perkins

Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers

Published: 2011-11-30

Total Pages: 36

ISBN-13: 0307978265

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The classic Beginner Book is now available with delightful audio narration. A madcap band of dancing, prancing monkeys explain hands, fingers, and thumbs to beginning readers. Bright and Early Books are perfect for beginning beginner readers! Launched by Dr. Seuss in 1968 with The Foot Book, Bright and Early Books use fewer and easier words than Beginner Books. Readers just starting to recognize words and sound out letters will love these short books with colorful illustrations. This ebook includes Read & Listen audio narration.