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Author: George Elliott Clarke
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2012-01-01
Total Pages: 337
ISBN-13: 0802094252
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDirections Home explores the trajectories and tendencies of African-Canadian literature within the Canadian canon and the socio-cultural traditions of the African Diaspora.
Author: Natasha Zaretsky
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Published: 2010-01-27
Total Pages: 335
ISBN-13: 0807867802
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBetween 1968 and 1980, fears about family deterioration and national decline were ubiquitous in American political culture. In No Direction Home, Natasha Zaretsky shows that these perceptions of decline profoundly shaped one another. Throughout the 1970s, anxieties about the future of the nuclear family collided with anxieties about the direction of the United States in the wake of military defeat in Vietnam and in the midst of economic recession, Zaretsky explains. By exploring such themes as the controversy surrounding prisoners of war in Southeast Asia, the OPEC oil embargo of 1973-74, and debates about cultural narcissism, Zaretsky reveals that the 1970s marked a significant turning point in the history of American nationalism. After Vietnam, a wounded national identity--rooted in a collective sense of injury and fueled by images of family peril--exploded to the surface and helped set the stage for the Reagan Revolution. With an innovative analysis that integrates cultural, intellectual, and political history, No Direction Home explores the fears that not only shaped an earlier era but also have reverberated into our own time.
Author: Guillermo Rosales
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Published: 2009-05-27
Total Pages: 128
ISBN-13: 0811218023
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCuban exile William Figueras, a thirty-eight-year-old writer suffering from schizophrenia, is sent to a shabby boarding home for the mentally ill in Miami.
Author: B. S. Johnson
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Published: 1986
Total Pages: 212
ISBN-13: 9780811209816
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Shares the thoughts and memories of eight elderly men and women living in a nursing home." -- Amazon.com viewed November 25, 2020.
Author: Zarina Hashmi
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Published: 2018-09-24
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ISBN-13: 9780989377218
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Marisa Silver
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 314
ISBN-13: 9780393058239
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Blindness Will be Like This." So says ten-year-old Will Burton, trying to reimagine his life in the wake of his father's abrupt disappearance, as his family picks up stakes and moves to California.
Author: Greg Cayea
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Published: 2016-09-12
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ISBN-13: 9780997092103
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWe begin on the first day of sixth grade in the upper-class community of Roslyn. I was the biggest loser in school and struggled to stay afloat. Then one day everything changed. It was in the eighth grade when I went from being the biggest embarrassment on Long Island to the most popular kid in school. But by that time it was already too late. So began a dark trail of revenge. It was May 4th of 1999 and I was fourteen-years-old. After being shipped across many state lines, touring America's finest juvenile institutions, I find myself at the infamous and notorious Hidden Lake Academy, an academy tucked quietly in the darkness of the Appalachian Mountains of Georgia. But before being shut down in June of 2011 for 'the tragic maltreatment of troubled youth', Hidden Lake Academy was still a thriving success with seemingly no way out. But I had to escape the danger, I had to unshackle my feet, and thus my journey to freedom began... But after a major catastrophe, I end up in New England, alone, on the run, homeless, sleeping in abandoned attics filled with counterfeit money, prostitutes and danger. I had nowhere to go, nowhere to sleep, and no money to eat. I was sixteen-years-old, it was a month before 9/11 and it was the greatest time of my life. Welcome to The Drifter Chronicles, Volume One.
Author: Darcy Pattison
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2009-05-01
Total Pages: 59
ISBN-13: 0547541023
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHave you seen Oliver K. Woodman? You'd know if you had--he's made of wood. And he's on a spectacular cross-country journey. Folks of all sorts guide Oliver along the way and report back in letters and postcards to his friend Uncle Ray. After all, there's a lot of road--and adventure!--between South Carolina and California. Oliver's been spotted truckin' in Texas, riding in a Utah parade, and scaring off bears in the California redwoods. Where will he show up next? Read the letters. Follow the map. And buckle up for a road trip you'll never forget!
Author: Mary Boone
Publisher: Triumph Books (IL)
Published: 2013-05-15
Total Pages: 112
ISBN-13: 9781600789014
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Around the world with the Fab Five; sneak previews of 1-D in 3-D"--Cover.
Author: David Hinton
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Published: 2005-05-17
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 0811224422
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe earliest and most extensive literary engagement with wilderness in human history, Mountain Home is vital poetry that feels utterly contemporary. China's tradition of "rivers-and-mountains" poetry stretches across millennia. This is a plain-spoken poetry of immediate day-to-day experience, and yet seems most akin to China's grand landscape paintings. Although its wisdom is ancient, rooted in Taoist and Zen thought, the work feels utterly contemporary, especially as rendered here in Hinton's rich and accessible translations. Mountain Home collects poems from 5th- through 13th-century China and includes the poets Li Po, Po Chu-i and Tu Fu. The "rivers-and-mountains" tradition covers a remarkable range of topics: comic domestic scenes, social protest, travel, sage recluses, and mountain landscapes shaped into forms of enlightenment. And within this range, the poems articulate the experience of living as an organic part of the natural world and its processes. In an age of global ecological disruption and mass extinction, this tradition grows more urgently important every day. Mountain Home offers poems that will charm and inform not just readers of poetry, but also the large community of readers who are interested in environmental awareness.
