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The Speed Queen

Author: Stewart O'Nan

Publisher: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic

Published: 2007-12-01

Total Pages: 161

ISBN-13: 0802196683

A death-row inmate gives her confession—a hair-raising tale of sex, drugs and murder across Oklahoma—in this “vividly realized” novel (The New York Times Book Review). Marjorie Standiford has quite a story to tell. And on the eve of her execution for a sensational murder spree, she’s giving every detail, just as she remembers them, to the famous novelist who has come to record it all. Of course, Marjorie contends that she didn’t do any killing. That was all Lamont, her boyfriend, and Natalie, their girlfriend, while Marjorie got high and took care of the baby. But she was in it just the same, careening across the desert plains of Oklahoma, fueled by lust, crime, cars, drugs—speed in all its forms. The Speed Queen is the story of a terrifying voyage into the dark soul of America’s Heartland. From acclaimed author Stewart O’Nan—selected by Granta as one of the Best Young American Novelists—this is “classic American noir” in the tradition of James M. Cain (San Francisco Chronicle).

Save Womens Lives

Author: Lee M. Maxwell

Publisher: Oldewash

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 136

ISBN-13: 9780972971003

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The first and only book containing a comprehensive history of washing machines. Included are over 200 color pictures of washers dating from the early 1800s. A description of the many and varied types of machines along with picture examples is given. Also included are discussions on finding antique washers, restoration, patent descriptions, advertising, safety issues and the companies which manufactured washers.

Speed Queens

Author: Rachel Harris-Gardiner

Publisher: Pen and Sword History

Published: 2023-04-06

Total Pages: 230

ISBN-13: 1399065238

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Speed Queens is a history of women in motorsport, from the very beginning in 1897 to the modern era. Tracing the different ways that women have found into motor racing and rallying, it covers over a century of stories across the world. Each chapter takes a particular event as an introduction to a racer and her contemporaries, taking a different theme each time and moving forward through history. Circuit racing and rallying are both covered. Much more than a collection of profiles and lists of achievements, it explores ideas including sportswomen as performers in the early 20th century, women, death and risk and how the expansion of small car production in the 1960s benefitted female drivers. Some of the best-known female competitors such as Michele Mouton (rallying) and Lella Lombardi (Formula 1) make appearances, but Speed Queens is not just concerned with big names and historic “firsts”. For every woman to be the first to do something on wheels, there were usually several others vying for that honor. In this book, they are given back their place in the story and their relationships to one another examined.

Bell V. Speed Queen

Author:

Publisher:

Published: 1968

Total Pages: 48

ISBN-13:

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MISS SARAH LEVIGNE, THE HIGH SPEED QUEEN

Author: Emil DuPont

Publisher: Emil DuPont

Published: 2019-03-19

Total Pages: 267

ISBN-13:

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Miss Sarah Levigne is one of the world's most talked about race car driver. Growing up in Oakland, CA, she acquired a thrill for high-speed, heart-pounding, adrenaline-pumping police chases. After her police chase goes viral, Sarah popularity makes her the number one pick of top racing teams worldwide. Under character-testing circumstances, Sarah finds out that becoming the face of a new e-sports franchise may not live up to its hype.

Federal Communications Commission Reports

Author: United States. Federal Communications Commission

Publisher:

Published: 1973

Total Pages: 1310

ISBN-13:

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Understanding Stewart O'Nan

Author: Heike Paul

Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press

Published: 2020-09-30

Total Pages: 144

ISBN-13: 1643361511

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This first book-length study of Stewart O'Nan's work offers a comprehensive introduction to his writings and carefully examines recurring thematic concerns and stylistic characteristics of his novels. The author of eighteen novels, several works of nonfiction, and two short-story collections, O'Nan received the Pirate's Alley Faulkner Society's Gold Medal for best novel for Snow Angels and the Drew Heinz Prize for In the Walled City. In 1996 Granta magazine named him one of the Twenty Best Young American Novelists. In Understanding Stewart O'Nan, Heike Paul appraises O'Nan's oeuvre to date, including his popular multigenerational trilogy of novels—Wish You Were Here; Emily, Alone; and Henry, Himself—that received enthusiastic reviews in the New York Times, the Washington Post, Publisher's Weekly, and the Guardian. Paul argues that O'Nan is not only a writer of popular fiction but also has developed into a major literary voice worthy of canonical status and of having a firm place in school, college, and university curricula. To this end Paul analyzes his use of formulas of long-standing popular American genres, such as the Western and the gothic tale, as he re-invents them in innovative and complex ways creating a style that Paul describes as "everyday gothic." She also offers a critical examination of O'Nan's treatment of American myths and vivid descriptions of struggling middle class settings and individuals who lead precarious lives. Paul believes this first critical study of O'Nan's collected works will be instrumental in building a critical archive and analysis of his oeuvre.