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Author: John R. Powers
Publisher: Dutton Adult
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 209
ISBN-13: 9780525934059
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDonald Cooper returns home after twenty years to purge the adolescent memories from which he left town to escape, in a compelling story that summons up the intimate and innocent family life of the 1950s. 25,000 first printing. National ad/promo.
Author: John R. Powers
Publisher: Signet
Published: 1993-06
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780451176028
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFilled with charming and evocative details, this is both a moving account of a middle-aged man's belated coming-of-age and a classic growing-up story for the Baby Boom generation. At turns hilarious and bittersweet, this novel is destined to be a bookshelf classic.
Author: John R. Powers
Publisher: Loyola Press
Published: 2010-06
Total Pages: 312
ISBN-13: 0829430075
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"It is fast-moving and often downright funny."—New York Times "He has recaptured childish innocence and presented it with adult enlightenment—plus a touch of cynicism—yet never with irreverence." —Book-of-the-Month Club News First confession and its terrors. Eighty-four first graders in a classroom ruled by just one nun. The agony and the ecstasy of Lent. The dubious honor of being declared the worst altar server ever. Dinah Shore and the Blessed Virgin haunting your dreams. This is Eddie Ryan's world as he grows up in the intensely Catholic world of South-Side Chicago's St. Bastion's parish in the 1950s. In this classic coming-of-age novel, John Powers draws readers into Eddie Ryan's world with deep affection and bittersweet humor.
Author: James A. Kaser
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Published: 2011-02-01
Total Pages: 672
ISBN-13: 1461672589
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe importance of Chicago in American culture has made the city's place in the American imagination a crucial topic for literary scholars and cultural historians. While databases of bibliographical information on Chicago-centered fiction are available, they are of little use to scholars researching works written before the 1980s. In The Chicago of Fiction: A Resource Guide, James A. Kaser provides detailed synopses for more than 1,200 works of fiction significantly set in Chicago and published between 1852 and 1980. The synopses include plot summaries, names of major characters, and an indication of physical settings. An appendix provides bibliographical information for works dating from 1981 well into the 21st century, while a biographical section provides basic information about the authors, some of whom are obscure and would be difficult to find in other sources. Written to assist researchers in locating works of fiction for analysis, the plot summaries highlight ways in which the works touch on major aspects of social history and cultural studies (i.e., class, ethnicity, gender, immigrant experience, and race). The book is also a useful reader advisory tool for librarians and readers who want to identify materials for leisure reading, particularly since genre, juvenile, and young adult fiction, as well as literary fiction, are included.
Author: John R. Powers
Publisher: Loyola Press
Published: 2010-06
Total Pages: 450
ISBN-13: 082943089X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAll religions have worked hard to give you the impression that I'm a stiff; the kind of guy you'd never invite to a party. . . . I like laughter and the people who do it; from the twitterers to the chucklers to those whose laughter roars out in a gallop of explosions. To me, laughter is taking a bite out of life and saying, "Just right." Signed: God Clever yet cynical Tim Conroy, a failed idealist with a chip on his shoulder, is unable to find a secure place for himself in 1960s South Side Chicago. He narrates his bittersweet struggles with God, sex, career, and education in a voice that evokes an Irish Catholic Holden Caulfield. This poignant, skillfully told tale concludes John R. Powers's memorable coming-of-age trilogy that includes The Last Catholic in America and Do Black Patent Leather Shoes Really Reflect Up?
Author: Aquino, F.O.
Publisher: Goodwill Trading Co., Inc.
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9789715740630
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: John R. Powers
Publisher: Bentley Pub
Published: 1981
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9780837604398
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA business trip takes Eddie Ryan, a salesman, past the South Side Chicago neighborhood where he grew up and stirs memories of his Catholic childhood
Author: John R. Powers
Publisher:
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780829424294
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn "The Unoriginal Sinner and the Ice-Cream God," John Powers introduces us to Tim Conroy, an ambitious and gifted young man from a blue-collar neighborhood who struggles to find his place in a world riddled with insincerity. He narrates his bittersweet battles with God, sex, career, and family in a voice that evokes an Irish-Catholic Holden Caufield."The Unoriginal Sinner and the Ice-Cream God "is the concluding book in Powers' coming-of-age trilogy, which also includes "The Last Catholic in America" and "Do Black Patent Leather Shoes Really Reflect Up?"
Author: Dave Eggers
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2013-10-08
Total Pages: 464
ISBN-13: 0385351402
DOWNLOAD EBOOKINTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • A bestselling dystopian novel that tackles surveillance, privacy and the frightening intrusions of technology in our lives—a “compulsively readable parable for the 21st century” (Vanity Fair). When Mae Holland is hired to work for the Circle, the world’s most powerful internet company, she feels she’s been given the opportunity of a lifetime. The Circle, run out of a sprawling California campus, links users’ personal emails, social media, banking, and purchasing with their universal operating system, resulting in one online identity and a new age of civility and transparency. As Mae tours the open-plan office spaces, the towering glass dining facilities, the cozy dorms for those who spend nights at work, she is thrilled with the company’s modernity and activity. There are parties that last through the night, there are famous musicians playing on the lawn, there are athletic activities and clubs and brunches, and even an aquarium of rare fish retrieved from the Marianas Trench by the CEO. Mae can’t believe her luck, her great fortune to work for the most influential company in the world—even as life beyond the campus grows distant, even as a strange encounter with a colleague leaves her shaken, even as her role at the Circle becomes increasingly public. What begins as the captivating story of one woman’s ambition and idealism soon becomes a heart-racing novel of suspense, raising questions about memory, history, privacy, democracy, and the limits of human knowledge.
