Homer y Langley

Homer y Langley
Author: E.L. Doctorow
Publisher: Roca editorial
Total Pages: 197
Release: 2012-09-30
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 8499185614

«Paren las rotativas, pero no acumulen periódicos viejos en el salón de la casa: el gran revolucionario de la novela histórica E. L. Doctorow (pensar en El libro de Daniel, Ragtime y Billy Bathgate, entre otras) vuelve a hacer y deshacer historia.»...

Homer & Langley

Homer & Langley
Author: E.L. Doctorow
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2010-09-07
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0812975634

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE, THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE, THE ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH, THE KANSAS CITY STAR, AND BOOKLIST Homer and Langley Collyer are brothers—the one blind and deeply intuitive, the other damaged into madness, or perhaps greatness, by mustard gas in the Great War. They live as recluses in their once grand Fifth Avenue mansion, scavenging the city streets for things they think they can use, hoarding the daily newspapers as research for Langley’s proposed dateless newspaper whose reportage will be as prophecy. Yet the epic events of the century play out in the lives of the two brothers—wars, political movements, technological advances—and even though they want nothing more than to shut out the world, history seems to pass through their cluttered house in the persons of immigrants, prostitutes, society women, government agents, gangsters, jazz musicians . . . and their housebound lives are fraught with odyssean peril as they struggle to survive and create meaning for themselves.

Homer & Langley

Homer & Langley
Author: E. L. Doctorow
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013
Genre: Brothers
ISBN: 9789720045690

A free imaginative rendering of the lives of New York's fabled Collyer brothers depicts Homer and Langley as recluses in their once grand Fifth Avenue mansion, facing odyssean perils as they struggle to survive the wars, political movements, and technological advances of the last century.

Homer & Langley

Homer & Langley
Author: Edgar L. Doctorow
Publisher: Oscar moderni
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2018
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9788804702351

Values, Rationality, and Power: Developing Organizational Wisdom

Values, Rationality, and Power: Developing Organizational Wisdom
Author: Brad C. Anderson
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Total Pages: 302
Release: 2019-10-21
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1838679413

This book presents an analysis of organizational wisdom via an embedded single case study of a group's attempt to develop and spread a medical innovation within a Canadian healthcare authority. By offering a unique insight into how values, rationality, and power interact in a real social setting, the book explores how they create positive change.

Cypress Hills Cemetery

Cypress Hills Cemetery
Author: Stephen C. Duer
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Total Pages: 132
Release: 2010-09-06
Genre: Photography
ISBN: 1439623937

For the past 162 years, historic Cypress Hills Cemetery has quietly served thousands of New Yorkers and the public at large. This place of eternal rest obtained the distinct honor of being the first rural cemetery in Greater New York to be organized under the Rural Cemetery Act of 1847. Cypress Hills provides a perfect balance of lush landscaping, funerary art and sculpture, and a final resting place for some of Americas most notable figures, such as Jackie Robinson, Mae West, and Eubie Blake. Carved on countless headstones are mysterious markings and secretive symbols that the living can ponder. Cypress Hills Cemetery illustrates and demystifies the various legends of those interred in these hallowed grounds.

The Methuen Drama Guide to Contemporary American Playwrights

The Methuen Drama Guide to Contemporary American Playwrights
Author: Christopher Innes
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 480
Release: 2013-12-19
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1408134802

Unrivalled in its coverage of recent work and writers, The Methuen Drama Guide to Contemporary American Playwrights surveys and analyses the breadth, vitality and development of theatrical work to emerge from America over the last fifty years. This authoritative guide leads you through the work of 25 major contemporary American playwrights, discussing more than 140 plays in detail. Written by a team of 25 eminent international scholars, each chapter provides: · a biographical introduction to the playwright's work; · a survey and concise analysis of the writer's most important plays; · a discussion of their style, dramaturgical concerns and critical reception; · a bibliography of published plays and a select list of critical works. Among the many Tony, Obie and Pulitzer prize-winning playwrights included are Sam Shepard, Tony Kushner, Suzan-Lori Parks, August Wilson, Paula Vogel and Neil LaBute. The abundance of work analysed enables fresh, illuminating conclusions to be drawn about the development of contemporary American playwriting.