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The Antiheroes: Treatise of a Lost Soul

Author	: Abe Sulfaro
Publisher	:
Release Date	: 2022-09-06
ISBN 10	: 1946274879
Pages	: 0 pages
Rating	: 4.7/5 (79 users)

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Download or read book The Antiheroes: Treatise of a Lost Soul written by Abe Sulfaro and published by . This book was released on 2022-09-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We hurriedly walk across an empty, weed-filled lot to approach the house from the back. There's very little light. Most street lights don't work here. It's perfect. I can only imagine how we would look to an incidental observer tonight, this gang of painted up, crazy looking freaks, and we are truly all of that. The living dead have come to call. White painted faces like death masks, all dressed in black as we stride across the overgrown lot in a neighborhood of abandoned and boarded up ramshackle houses, like a scene from a war torn country or the movie set of some vile, cheap, B-horror flick. We are a nightmare from Halloween come to life. Anyone encountering this spectacle would turn and run the other way...

Compared to What? The Life and Times of a Detroit Musician

Author	: Sally Sulfaro
Publisher	: Bookclick 360 Wordeee
Release Date	: 2021-09-02
ISBN 10	: 9781946274694
Pages	: 284 pages
Rating	: 4.4/5 (746 users)

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Download or read book Compared to What? The Life and Times of a Detroit Musician written by Sally Sulfaro and published by Bookclick 360 Wordeee. This book was released on 2021-09-02 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dan’s life story is a collage of sounds, people, and places that evoke tears, laughter, and nostalgia. Written with author Sally Sulfaro, this autobiography contains a music aficionado’s perspectives on the art and the business as well as his thoughts on life, spirituality, and coping. Some perceive Dan as a sage, and he truly is—but those who know him well also realize that he’s no saint. Herein you’ll experience his unvarnished memoirs.

Compared to What?

Author	: Dan Lewis
Publisher	: Wordeee
Release Date	: 2021-09
ISBN 10	: 1946274682
Pages	: 288 pages
Rating	: 4.7/5 (82 users)

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Download or read book Compared to What? written by Dan Lewis and published by Wordeee. This book was released on 2021-09 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dan Lewis' life story is a collage of sounds, people, and places that evoke tears, laughter, and nostalgia. Despite being confined to a wheelchair from birth, he has shared stages, and more importantly friendships, with Detroit greats and international music icons including Al Jarreau, Edgar Winter, Elvin Jones (John Coltrane's drummer), Andy Newmark, Bennie Maupin, and Dave Liebman. His life has been filled with uphill struggles to master percussion, having to compromise and settle for hand percussion with the guidance and support of other musicians. His primary genre is jazz, but he is also steeped in blues, R&B, and American standards. Written with author Sally Sulfaro, Compared to What? Life and Times of a Detroit Musician contains a music aficionado's perspectives on the art and the business as well as his thoughts on life, spirituality, and coping. Some perceive Dan as a sage, and he truly is-but those who know him well also realize he's no saint. Herein is his unvarnished memoir.

The Classical Tradition

Author	: Anthony Grafton
Publisher	: Harvard University Press
Release Date	: 2010-10-25
ISBN 10	: 0674035720
Pages	: 1188 pages
Rating	: 4.3/5 (2 users)

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Download or read book The Classical Tradition written by Anthony Grafton and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2010-10-25 with total page 1188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collects alphabetically arranged essays on how classical tradition has shaped popular culture, government, mathematics, medicine, and drama.

Sex, Drama, and the Politics of Masculinity

Author	: Supriya Thanawala
Publisher	: Supriya Thanawala
Release Date	: 2022-04-27
ISBN 10	: 9789356278769
Pages	: 292 pages
Rating	: 4.5/5 (787 users)

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Download or read book Sex, Drama, and the Politics of Masculinity written by Supriya Thanawala and published by Supriya Thanawala. This book was released on 2022-04-27 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who is an anti-hero and what is his story? In her first book, Supriya Thanawala dives into the cultural politics of the new anti-hero in contemporary history. The journalist-turned-author shows us how each Indian anti-hero, like an antibody or antivirus, continues to emerge through new mutations and avatars time and again in literature, throwing up his own challenge for personal transgression. What began with the persona of the romantic and tragic male poet in the 19th and 20th centuries with the identity of a Mirza Ghalib, a Guru Dutt or the fictional character of a Devdas, later saw a power shift. There was the emergence of an amorous, comic, and sexually materialistic anti-hero, played out by writers like VS Naipaul and Khushwant Singh as well as Anurag Mathur who rebelled against that very experience of the classic tragic form. Sex, Drama, and the Politics of Masculinity is a treatise on that streak of masculine growth in both men and women, a take on such an endless psychological evolution — viewed from an emergent female gaze. Targeted at those who routinely consume international, journalistic writing at the intersection of fashion, politics, lifestyle, books, and the arts in general, this work is set to grab the attention of readers across ages and cultures who consciously consume and follow popular culture— particularly seeking to further an understanding of their personal self and seek emotional and holistic renewal and transformation. Through a study of mythic traditions that have been translated and adapted into the fast-growing modern-day Indian media, the book throws up questions on the political motifs behind how such a dramatic movement within the collective masculine psyche shaped itself over the last few decades and centuries — and what such a passive and subversive behavioural tool means to identity and gender politics in the 21st century.

Playing for Thrills

Author	: Wang Shuo
Publisher	: William Morrow
Release Date	: 1997-02-19
ISBN 10	: 0688130461
Pages	: 256 pages
Rating	: 4.3/5 (61 users)

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Download or read book Playing for Thrills written by Wang Shuo and published by William Morrow. This book was released on 1997-02-19 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Still by far the most popular writer in China even after all his work has been officially banned as reactionary and vulgar, Wang Shuo is famous for his cynical wit, his raw descriptions of sex, and his casual depiction of Chinese drifters, wiseguys, and hooligans. Now, for the first time, comes the publication of one of his novels in English. Playing for Thrills will introduce readers around the world to the writer Newsweek calls "China's literary bad boy" and The Washington Post acclaims as "the irreverent voice of a disillusioned generation." A tripped-out, sarcastic novel of urban alienation, Playing for Thrills follows the investigation of a mysterious murder of a possibly imaginary character that took place more than ten years before. The chief suspect is the narrator of the novel who may or may not have committed the crime--even he isn't sure. As our charismatic antihero careens around Beijing drinking beer, having sex, and questioning a bunch of people who speak like characters in a gangster movie, he tries to find someone who can remind him which girl he was with and what he was doing at the time of the murder. Suddenly, the narrative explodes, and the reader is thrust into a countdown leading up to the crime itself. The result is a sometimes frightening, sometimes hilarious, always astonishing novel that is totally unlike anything ever published from China.

Fagin the Jew

Author	: Will Eisner
Publisher	: Doubleday Books
Release Date	: 2003
ISBN 10	: 9780385510097
Pages	: 122 pages
Rating	: 4.8/5 (1 users)

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Download or read book Fagin the Jew written by Will Eisner and published by Doubleday Books. This book was released on 2003 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From his early newspaper comics to the sophisticated graphic novels he produces today, Will Eisner has been a pioneering force in comics for more than sixty years. Ron Goulart, writing in Book World, declared, “A shrewd, thoughtful man, Eisner has always had a knack for deftly combining dialogue and images to tell his story,” and fellow graphic novelist Alan Moore simply said, “Eisner is the single person most responsible for giving comics its BRAINS.” And Amazon.com, which called him "the Elvis of comics," said, "It's fair to say that Eisner invented modern comic art." In FAGIN THE JEW, Eisner proves himself to be not only a master of comic storytelling, but also an incisive literary and social critic. This project was first conceived as an introduction to a pictorial adaptation of Oliver Twist, but as he learned more about the history of Dickens-era Jewish life in London, Eisner uncovered intriguing material that led him to create this new work. In the course of his research, Eisner came to believe that Dickens had not intended to defame Jews in his famous depiction. By referring to Fagin as “the Jew” throughout the book, however, he had perpetuated the common prejudice; his fictional creation imbedded itself in the public’s imagination as the classic profile of a Jew. In his award-winning style, Eisner recasts the notorious villain as a complex and troubled antihero and gives him the opportunity to tell his tale in his own words. Depicting Fagin’s choices and actions within a historical context, Eisner captures the details of life in London’s Ashkenazi community and brilliantly re-creates the social milieu of Dickensian England. Eisner's fresh, compelling look at prejudice, poverty, and anti-Semitism lends an extraordinary richness to his artwork, ever evocative and complex. Like the modern classics Maus and The Jew of New York, FAGIN THE JEW blends image and prose in an unforgettable exploration of history.

The Secret

Author	: Harold Robbins
Publisher	: Forge Books
Release Date	: 2000-04-22
ISBN 10	: 0312866089
Pages	: 352 pages
Rating	: 4.6/5 (89 users)

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Download or read book The Secret written by Harold Robbins and published by Forge Books. This book was released on 2000-04-22 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world's bestselling novelist is back with Secrets, a steamy novel chronicling the rise of a lingerie chain. Jerry Cooper of The Predators is back to launch his new empire of intimate women's apparel. He now has a son, Les Cooper, a streetwise young lawyer who slowly uncovers the family's mob involvement, a secret which Jerry has desperately tried to conceal until he finds himself in need of a lawyer. Combining the grit of his early work with the glamour of his later novels, Robbins once again provides readers with a pantheon of street-raised hustlers and anti-heroes who would use their hard-won knowledge to claw their way up the ladder of success.

Arts & Humanities Citation Index

Author	:
Publisher	:
Release Date	: 2002
ISBN 10	: UOM:39015064554507
Pages	: pages
Rating	: 4.9/5 (56 users)

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Reave the Just, and Other Tales

Author	: Stephen R. Donaldson
Publisher	: Spectra
Release Date	: 1999
ISBN 10	: UOM:39015047476265
Pages	: 370 pages
Rating	: 4.9/5 (54 users)

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Download or read book Reave the Just, and Other Tales written by Stephen R. Donaldson and published by Spectra. This book was released on 1999 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The science-fiction master presents his first collection of short, fantastic tales in more than fourteen years, containing eight stories of heroic adventure in dramatic alternative worlds--including three that have never appeared in print before.

Spent

Author	: Joe Matt
Publisher	: Drawn and Quarterly
Release Date	: 2007-07-10
ISBN 10	: 1897299117
Pages	: 120 pages
Rating	: 4.9/5 (17 users)

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Download or read book Spent written by Joe Matt and published by Drawn and Quarterly. This book was released on 2007-07-10 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spent by Joe Matt Meet the original antihero Joe Matt: a master of a domain that includes more than twenty-three self-edited eight-hour-long videotapes of bootlegged pornography; a penny-pincher who never fails to make a dime off his friends; a chronic masturbator who doesn’t understand why he never has a girlfriend; an obsessive collector frantically searching for the toys of his childhood; a callous son who throws out every gift his adoring mother gives him; a man so lazy that he urinates in a bottle rather than walk to the bathroom. Everyone and everything is fodder for Matt’s autobiographical comics, even having lost the love of his life for documenting his crush on her best friend in the pages of his legendary comic book series Peepshow. Matt’s biggest target for ridicule, however, is himself.Wearing his neuroses and fetishes on his sleeve, he knows he is a jerk and does nothing to hide it. This humiliating honesty has made Matt a comedic genius who has been hilariously and shamelessly chronicling his pathetic existence for close to twenty years.

2182 KHz

Author	: David Masiel
Publisher	: Random House Incorporated
Release Date	: 2002
ISBN 10	: UOM:39015054182806
Pages	: 294 pages
Rating	: 4.9/5 (55 users)

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Download or read book 2182 KHz written by David Masiel and published by Random House Incorporated. This book was released on 2002 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a stellar fiction debut written with dark humor and deadpan wit, Henry Seine's dreams of white sandy beaches are shattered when a capsizing leaves him struggling to survive the freezing Gulf of Alaska.