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Author | : Thomas Wolfe |
Publisher | : UNC Press Books |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 2013-06-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1469611228 |
In the summer of 1937, Thomas Wolfe was in the North Carolina mountains revising a piece about a party and subsequent fire at the Park Avenue penthouse apartment of the fictional Esther and Frederick Jack. He wrote to his agent, Elizabeth Nowell, 'I think it is now a single thing, as much a single thing as anything I've ever written.' Abridged and edited versions of the story were published twice, as a novella in Scribner's Monthly (May 1939) and as part of You Can't Go Home Again (1940). Now Suzanne Stutman and John Idol have worked from manuscript sources at Harvard University to reconstruct The Party at Jack's as outlined by Wolfe before his death. Here, in its untruncated state, Wolfe's novella affords a significant glimpse of a Depression-era New York inhabited by Wall Street wheelers and dealers and the theatrical and artistic elite. Wolfe describes the Jacks and their social circle with lavish attention to mannerisms and to clothing, furnishings, and other trappings of wealth and privilege. The sharply drawn contrast between the decadence of the party-goers and the struggles of the working classes in the streets below reveals Wolfe's gifts as both a writer and a sharp social critic.
Author | : Jack Livings |
Publisher | : Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Total Pages | : 374 |
Release | : 2021-02-23 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0374710023 |
A panoramic novel set in New York City during the catastrophic blizzard of February 1978 On the night of February 6, 1978, an overwhelming nor'easter struck the city of New York. On that night, on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, in a penthouse apartment of the stately Apelles, a crowd gathered for a grand party. And on that night Mr. Albert Haynes Caldwell—a partner emeritus at Swank, Brady & Plescher; Harvard class of '26; father of three; widower; atheist; and fiscal conservative—hatched a plan to fake a medical emergency and toss himself into the Hudson River, where he would drown. Jack Livings's The Blizzard Party is the story of that night.
Author | : Bob Graham |
Publisher | : Walker |
Total Pages | : 64 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Birthday parties |
ISBN | : 9781406306644 |
Jack's mum isn't like other mums at the school gate, and sometimes he feels embarrassed. But when his freind Sam comes home with them for Jack's birthday party, Jack realises that different is fun! (From back cover.).
Author | : Ann Bryant |
Publisher | : Capstone |
Total Pages | : 36 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 9781404800601 |
It's Jack's birthday party and his friends want to play pass the birthday gift. Jack knows what is inside the gift and tries to stop the game. What on earth could it be?
Author | : Pat Schories |
Publisher | : Boyds Mills Press |
Total Pages | : 36 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781590785461 |
Jack the dog discovers that he is not the only uninvited guest at a tea party.
Author | : Jack Gantos |
Publisher | : Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR) |
Total Pages | : 193 |
Release | : 1999-07-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 1429978864 |
From the Newbery Medal–winning author of Dead End in Norvelt, nine semi-autobiographical stories that will make you laugh so hard it hurts In Jack on the Tracks, fifth-grader Jack Henry is hoping for fresh adventure when he moves to a new home in Miami with his family, but he can't escape his old worrying ways. He worries about being fascinated with all things gross and disgusting. He worries about his crazy French-obsessed schoolteacher. And most of all he worries about worrying so much. In this cycle of interrelated stories, there may be light at the end of the tunnel, if only Jack can get on the right track to survive his outrageous year. This title has Common Core connections.
Author | : Candace Fleming |
Publisher | : Schwartz & Wade |
Total Pages | : 41 |
Release | : 2012-10-31 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 0307982572 |
Take a bite out of this deliciously funny original fairy tale, which received four starred reviews and was named a Best Book of the Year by Booklist, School Library Journal, Kirkus Reviews, and the Bank Street College of Education. What would you do if you were invited to the princess’s tenth birthday party but didn’t have money for a gift? Well, clever Jack decides to bake the princess a cake. Now he just has to get it to the castle in one piece. What could possibly go wrong? Candace Fleming and G. Brian Karas, creators of the bestselling picture book Muncha! Muncha! Muncha!, have teamed up again to bring us a modern fairy tale starring a determined boy and a story-loving princess with a good sense of humor. While girls will fall for a story featuring a princess’s birthday party, Jack’s adventures with trolls, bears, and gypsies make this the perfect read for young boys as well—and ideal for storytime.
Author | : Jack Powelson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 98 |
Release | : 2013-10 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781494003005 |
This is a new release of the original 1945 edition.
Author | : Barry Gifford |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 2012-04-24 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1101580461 |
"A fascinating literary and historical document, the most insightful look at the Beat Generation." —Dan Wakefield, author of New York in the Fifties and Going All the Way First published in 1978, Jack's Book gives us an intimate look into the life and times of the "King of the Beats." Through the words of the close friends, lovers, artists, and drinking buddies who survived him, writers Barry Gifford and Lawrence Lee recount Jack Kerouac's story, from his childhood in Lowell, Massachusetts, to his tragic end in Florida at the age of forty-seven. Including anecdotes from an eclectic list of well-known figures such as Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, and Gore Vidal, as well as Kerouac's ordinary acquaintances, this groundbreaking oral biography—the first of its kind—presents us with a remarkably insightful portrait of an American legend and the spirit of a generation.
Author | : Jack Livings |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2014-08-05 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0374178534 |
"A collection of short stories set in the shifting landscape of contemporary China"-- Provided by publisher.