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Author | : Ben Montgomery |
Publisher | : Little, Brown Spark |
Total Pages | : 255 |
Release | : 2018-09-18 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0316438049 |
From Pulitzer Prize finalist Ben Montgomery, the story of a Texas man who, during the Great Depression, walked around the world -- backwards. Like most Americans at the time, Plennie Wingo was hit hard by the effects of the Great Depression. When the bank foreclosed on his small restaurant in Abilene, he found himself suddenly penniless with nowhere left to turn. After months of struggling to feed his family on wages he earned digging ditches in the Texas sun, Plennie decided it was time to do something extraordinary -- something to resurrect the spirit of adventure and optimism he felt he'd lost. He decided to walk around the world -- backwards. In The Man Who Walked Backward, Pulitzer Prize finalist Ben Montgomery charts Plennie's backwards trek across the America that gave rise to Woody Guthrie, John Steinbeck, and the New Deal. With the Dust Bowl and Great Depression as a backdrop, Montgomery follows Plennie across the Atlantic through Germany, Turkey, and beyond, and details the daring physical feats, grueling hardships, comical misadventures, and hostile foreign police he encountered along the way. A remarkable and quirky slice of Americana, The Man Who Walked Backward paints a rich and vibrant portrait of a jaw-dropping period of history.
Author | : Catherine Austen |
Publisher | : Orca Book Publishers |
Total Pages | : 175 |
Release | : 2009-10-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 1554695554 |
When Josh's mother dies in a phobia-induced car crash, she leaves two questions for her grieving family: how did a snake get into her car and how do you mourn with no faith to guide you? Twelve-year-old Josh is left alone to find the answers. His father is building a time machine. His four-year-old brother's closest friend is a plastic Power Ranger. His psychiatrist offers nothing more than a blank journal and platitudes. Isolated by grief in a home where every day is pajama day, Josh makes death his research project. He tests the mourning practices of religions he doesn't believe in. He tries to mend his little brother's shattered heart. He observes, records and waits—for his life to feel normal, for his mother's death to make sense, for his father to come out of the basement. His observations, recorded in a series of journal entries, are funny, smart, insightful—and heartbreaking. His conclusions about the nature of love, loss, grief and the space-time continuum are nothing less than life-changing.
Author | : Plennie L. Wingo |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 156 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : Depressions |
ISBN | : 9780890153635 |
Author | : Ben Sures |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2018-08 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781927849491 |
Author | : Mark W. Turner |
Publisher | : Reaktion Books |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9781861891808 |
Focusing upon gay street life in London and New York, Mark Turner presents this gay urban history of male street cruising.
Author | : Marcel Ayme |
Publisher | : Pushkin Press |
Total Pages | : 206 |
Release | : 2012-06-26 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1908968206 |
The excellent Monsieur Dutilleul has always been able to pass through walls, but has never seen the point of using his gift, given the general availability of doors. One day, however, his tyrannical boss drives him to desperate, creative measures — he develops a taste for intramural travel and becomes something of a super-villain. How will the unassuming clerk adjust to a glamorous life of crime? Aymé’s genius lies in imagining the practical unfolding of bizarre and difficult situations. In each story, anarchic comedy is arrested by moments of pathos, only to descend into anarchy and hilarity once more ...
Author | : Tom Robbins |
Publisher | : Bantam |
Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : 2006-08-29 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 0553902946 |
Known for his meaty seriocomic novels–expansive works that are simultaneously lowbrow and highbrow–Tom Robbins has also published over the years a number of short pieces, predominantly nonfiction. His travel articles, essays, and tributes to actors, musicians, sex kittens, and thinkers have appeared in publications ranging from Esquire to Harper’s, from Playboy to the New York Times, High Times, and Life. A generous sampling, collected here for the first time and including works as diverse as scholarly art criticism and some decidedly untypical country- music lyrics, Wild Ducks Flying Backward offers a rare sweeping overview of the eclectic sensibility of an American original. Whether he is rocking with the Doors, depoliticizing Picasso’s Guernica, lamenting the angst-ridden state of contemporary literature, or drooling over tomato sandwiches and a species of womanhood he calls “the genius waitress,” Robbins’s briefer writings often exhibit the same five traits that perhaps best characterize his novels: an imaginative wit, a cheerfully brash disregard for convention, a sweetly nasty eroticism, a mystical but keenly observant eye, and an irrepressible love of language. Embedded in this primarily journalistic compilation are a couple of short stories, a sheaf of largely unpublished poems, and an off-beat assessment of our divided nation. And wherever we open Wild Ducks Flying Backward, we’re apt to encounter examples of the intently serious playfulness that percolates from the mind of a self-described “romantic Zen hedonist” and “stray dog in the banquet halls of culture.”
Author | : Nanci L. Danison |
Publisher | : A.P. Lee & Company, Limited |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 2020-01-15 |
Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | : 9781934482391 |
The true story of a big firm attorney's death, afterlife, and return to human life that will astound you with its details about the purpose of life, what the afterlife is like, and how we can improve our human lives by using spiritual powers
Author | : Charles F. Hall |
Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages | : 54 |
Release | : 2017-09-26 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781976499418 |
Charles F. Hall's story "The Man who Lived Backwards" is known to have influenced C.S. Lewis's "The Great Divorce." Hall published three short stories in various periodicals in1938. This volume collects the three known stories by Hall, with an introduction by Douglas A. Anderson detailing all that is known about the writer.--cf. p. [4] of cover.
Author | : Rachel Anne Ridge |
Publisher | : NavPress |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2019-03-05 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1496429826 |
“Readers will be clamoring for more.” Publishers Weekly on Flash Just when you think it’s the end of your story . . . grace shows up. Sometimes it arrives as a moment of joy in the middle of despair. Sometimes you find it next to a trusted friend along an old, well-trodden path. And sometimes, grace has fuzzy ears, a bristled mane, and hope for a new start. Join Rachel Anne Ridge, author of the beloved memoir Flash, in a journey back to the pasture. As she adopts a second rescue donkey as a little brother for Flash—a miniature named Henry—she finds that walking with donkeys has surprising lessons to teach us about prayer, renewing our faith, and connecting to God in fresh ways. Readers all over the world fell in love with Flash and with Rachel’s thoughtful, funny, and poignant stories about what life with a donkey can teach you. Now, meet Henry and join him on a walk that could change everything about how you hope, trust, and move forward from past regrets.