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Author | : Alfred Lubrano |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 263 |
Release | : 2010-12-22 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1118039726 |
In Limbo, award-winning journalist Alfred Lubrano identifies and describes an overlooked cultural phenomenon: the internal conflict within individuals raised in blue-collar homes, now living white-collar lives. These people often find that the values of the working class are not sufficient guidance to navigate the white-collar world, where unspoken rules reflect primarily upper-class values. Torn between the world they were raised in and the life they aspire too, they hover between worlds, not quite accepted in either. Himself the son of a Brooklyn bricklayer, Lubrano informs his account with personal experience and interviews with other professionals living in limbo. For millions of Americans, these stories will serve as familiar reminders of the struggles of achieving the American Dream.
Author | : Lincoln Hall |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 297 |
Release | : 1993-07-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780731803859 |
Paperback edition of a book originally published in 1985. Describes the first successful ascent of Mt Everest by a small team of Australians, who took an unclimbed route and used no oxygen. Includes maps, a glossary and an index. The author, a member of the expedition, is a writer whose previous books include TThe Loneliest Mountain' and TBlood on the Lotus'.
Author | : Tom Corcoran |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 1999-09-13 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0312241941 |
Sleuth and crime photographer Alex Rutledge of Key West searches for a friend, a financial investor abducted from a bar. A tale of murder, drugs and beautiful women.
Author | : River Jordan |
Publisher | : WaterBrook |
Total Pages | : 354 |
Release | : 2009-05-05 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0307457915 |
“River Jordan’s Saints in Limbo is a compelling story of the mysteries of existence and, specially, the mysteries of the human heart.” –Ron Rash, author of Serena and Chemistry and Other Stories “I lose myself in River’s writing–transported to a different time and place– and in this case, to one that makes the ordinary mystical and magical. I give it FIVE diamonds in the Pulpwood Queen’s TIARA!” –Kathy L. Patrick, founder of the Pulpwood Queens Book Clubs and author of The Pulpwood Queens’ Tiara Wearing, Book Sharing Guide to Life Ever since her husband Joe died, Velma True’s world has been limited to what she can see while clinging to one of the multicolored threads tied to the porch railing of her home outside Echo, Florida. When a mysterious stranger appears at her door on her birthday and presents Velma with a special gift, she is rattled by the object’s ability to take her into her memories–a place where Joe still lives, her son Rudy is still young, unaffected by the world’s hardness, and the beginning is closer than the end. As secrets old and new come to light, Velma wonders if it’s possible to be unmoored from the past’s deep roots and find a reason to hope again. Praise for River Jordan “[River Jordan’s] literary spice rack has everything you need to put together a good book.” –Rick Bragg, author of All Over but the Shoutin’ and Ava’s Man “River Jordan writes so beautifully.” –Joshilyn Jackson, author of Gods in Alabama and The Girl Who Stopped Swimming
Author | : Felice Holman |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 1986-05-31 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 0689710666 |
"Artemis Slake, at the age of thirteen, took his fear and misfortune and hid them underground. The thing is, he had to go with them".
Author | : Consuelo Roland |
Publisher | : Jacana Media |
Total Pages | : 446 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1431405086 |
One Friday evening Daniel de Luc, an elusive crime writer with a deep love of poetry, disappears from a Camps Bay apartment while cooking pasta. His wife Paola, desperately worried after days of hearing nothing, is contacted by an eccentric stranger who claims to have known her missing husband under a different name and warns her not to look for him. Paola soon learns that her husband was involved in the shadowy world of the international sex industry, where well-heeled women pay men to become the anonymous fathers of their children. As her neat, controlled existence is turned inside out, Paola struggles to keep a level head and find her own humanity while trying to outwit her enemies and stay alive. The result is a fast-paced thriller that shifts between Cape Town and Paris, blending realism with the fantastic and pitting love against the attraction of sexual adventure.
Author | : Eve Mills Nash |
Publisher | : Dundurn |
Total Pages | : 444 |
Release | : 2002-07-16 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780888784278 |
This harsh account of life in New Brunswicks Native community sees the Little White Squaw balance precariously between two seemingly irreconcilable cultures and colours.
Author | : Roberto G. Gonzales |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 318 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0520287266 |
"Over two million of the nation's eleven million undocumented immigrants have lived in the United States since childhood. Due to a broken immigration system, they grow up to uncertain futures. In Lives in Limbo, Roberto G. Gonzales introduces us to two groups: the college-goers, like Ricardo, whose good grades and strong network of community support propelled him into higher education, only to land in a factory job a few years after graduation, and the early-exiters, like Gabriel, who failed to make meaningful connections in high school and started navigating dead-end jobs, immigration checkpoints, and a world narrowly circumscribed by legal limitations. This ethnography asks why highly educated undocumented youth ultimately share similar work and life outcomes with their less-educated peers, even as higher education is touted as the path to integration and success in America. Gonzales bookends his study with discussions of how the prospect of immigration reform, especially the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, could impact the lives of these young Americans"--Provided by publisher.
Author | : John Patrick Shanley |
Publisher | : Dramatists Play Service, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 48 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Bronx (New York, N.Y.) |
ISBN | : 9780822209904 |
THE STORY: The setting is a slightly seedy neighborhood bar in the Bronx, where a group of regulars (who all happen to be the same age--thirty-two) seek relief from the disappointments and tedium of the outside world. The first to arrive is Denise S
Author | : Maurice M. Martinez |
Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages | : 510 |
Release | : 2017-08-16 |
Genre | : Creoles |
ISBN | : 9781974280575 |
Seen through the eyes of a native son: Maurice M. Martinez, Ph.D, in this firsthand account of survival on a deep-South landscape speaks to the elan vital of a multiethnic, multicultural American. Once upon a time in the Land of Epidermis, in a place called the 7th Ward in New Orleans, there lived a group of marginalized Americans known as gens de couleur libres (free persons of color.) Offspring of the cross-fertilization of European colonizers, Amerindians, and enslaved Africans, were systematically excluded from free access to the fruits of the American Dream. They were defined by the amount of melanin in their skin, relegated to a subordinate status of segregated outcasts, and labeled "Colored" and"Negro" for having as little as 1/32nd of so-called African "blood." Placed in an enclave of early Limbo, these gens de couleur libres created an enduring legacy of tenacity and resilience in their response to the illusion of inclusion.