A Gold Digger's Diaries
Author | : Ned Peters |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 188 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Ned Peters |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 188 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Sanjena Sathian |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 354 |
Release | : 2021-04-06 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1984882031 |
One of The Washington Post's 10 Best Books of 2021 * One of NPR's Best Books of 2021 * New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice * Long-listed for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize “Dizzyingly original, fiercely funny, deeply wise.” —Celeste Ng, #1 bestselling author of Little Fires Everywhere “Sanjena Sathian’s Gold Diggers is a work of 24-karat genius.” —Ron Charles, The Washington Post How far would you go for a piece of the American dream? A magical realist coming-of-age story, Gold Diggers skewers the model minority myth to tell a hilarious and moving story about immigrant identity, community, and the underside of ambition. A floundering second-generation teenager growing up in the Bush-era Atlanta suburbs, Neil Narayan is funny and smart but struggles to bear the weight of expectations of his family and their Asian American enclave. He tries to want their version of success, but mostly, Neil just wants his neighbor across the cul-de-sac, Anita Dayal. When he discovers that Anita is the beneficiary of an ancient, alchemical potion made from stolen gold—a “lemonade” that harnesses the ambition of the gold’s original owner—Neil sees his chance to get ahead. But events spiral into a tragedy that rips their community apart. Years later in the Bay Area, Neil still bristles against his community's expectations—and finds he might need one more hit of that lemonade, no matter the cost. Sanjena Sathian’s astonishing debut offers a fine-grained, profoundly intelligent, and bitingly funny investigation into what's required to make it in America. Soon to be a series produced by Mindy Kaling!
Author | : Brian Donovan |
Publisher | : UNC Press Books |
Total Pages | : 291 |
Release | : 2020-10-05 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1469660296 |
The stereotype of the "gold digger" has had a fascinating trajectory in twentieth-century America, from tales of greedy flapper-era chorus girls to tabloid coverage of Anna Nicole Smith and her octogenarian tycoon husband. The term entered American vernacular in the 1910s as women began to assert greater power over courtship, marriage, and finances, threatening men's control of legal and economic structures. Over the course of the century, the gold digger stereotype reappeared as women pressed for further control over love, sex, and money while laws failed to keep pace with such realignments. The gold digger can be seen in silent films, vaudeville jokes, hip hop lyrics, and reality television. Whether feared, admired, or desired, the figure of the gold digger appears almost everywhere gender, sexuality, class, and race collide. This fascinating interdisciplinary work reveals the assumptions and disputes around women's sexual agency in American life, shedding new light on the cultural and legal forces underpinning romantic, sexual, and marital relationships.
Author | : Charles Ross Parke |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 342 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
One of the most illuminating of the gold rush diaries, focused in detail and panoramic in scope. The diary includes anthropological, sociological, political and medical observations. Parke returned east by way of Mexico and Nicaragua, continuing to record his experiences. Handsomely produced, but with space-wasting margins. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author | : Thomas D. Clark |
Publisher | : University Press of Kentucky |
Total Pages | : 529 |
Release | : 2021-11-21 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 0813188253 |
Among the hundreds captivated by the vision of quick riches in the gold fields of California was Elisha Douglass Perkins, a tall handsome youth from Marietta, Ohio, who has here left a remarkable first-hand account of the great trek westward in 1849. Perkins' diary is an unusually full and intimate record of crossing the plains and mountains of the Great West. Extensive notes supplement the text, associating it with numerous other published and unpublished accounts, while an appendix of reports and letters from the Marietta newspaper reveals the involvement of those at home with the Gold Rush. An annotated map shows Perkins' progress along the Overland Trail.
Author | : Ram¢n Gil Navarro |
Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | : 350 |
Release | : 2000-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780803233430 |
"Navarro encountered people from all over the world brought together in a society marked by racial and ethnic intolerance, swift and cruel justice, and great hardships. It was a world of contrasts, where the roughest of the rough lived in close proximity to extremely refined cultural circles."--BOOK JACKET.
Author | : Samuel A. Lane |
Publisher | : Summit County Historical Society |
Total Pages | : 34 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Overland diary of Samuel A. Lane from Summit County, Ohio to the gold fields of California in 1850.
Author | : J. S. Holliday |
Publisher | : University of Oklahoma Press |
Total Pages | : 580 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780806134642 |
A thorough, exhaustively researched history of the California Gold Rush retraces the monumental movement of more than thirty thousand fortune seekers who headed west to find gold in the 1840s. Reprint. (History)
Author | : Israel Shipman Pelton Lord |
Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | : 456 |
Release | : 1999-11-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780803279902 |
One hundred and forty-nine years ago, a homeopathic physician luxuriously named Israel Shipman Pelton Lord trudged across the country in the midst of thousands of wagons, oxen, and seekers of the first free gold in history. Disappointed with the maps and guides of the day, Lord determined to set the record straight for future travelers.
Author | : John Walton Caughey |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 2022-08-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0520365089 |
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1948.