Horse Latitudes

Download or read book Horse Latitudes written by Robert Ferrigno and published by Random House. This book was released on 2003 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Readers follow in the search for a beautiful but amoral woman by a husband who is determined to redeem her. In a series of dazzling flashes from the Southern California underworld, an extraordinary carnival of characters appears.

Download or read book Horse Latitudes written by Morris Collins and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the tradition of Joseph Conrad, Ethan, haunted by guilt in the wake of his wife's tortured descent into madness, loses himself in a lawless and sensual world beyond the US's southern border.A stunning debut by an impressive new talent. Ethan, haunted by guilt in the wake of his wife's tortured descent into madness, loses himself in a lawless and sensual world when he crosses the US's southern border.Wandering without hope in a place that obeys only raw power, he meets a woman who saves his life and, in return, extracts his promise to rescue her sister, Mirabelle, from a Central American country on the brink of revolution before Mirabelle can be lured into deeper danger by the false coyote Soto. Pursued through crumbling cities and down a jungle river, Ethan finds himself in a country where personal and political traumas converge in a guerrilla war in which the sides are unclear and the stakes beyond reckoning. Ethan sought absolution and relief when he abandoned everything he knew, but to save Mirabelle, he must make a choice that will place him far beyond the borders of redemption.Horse Latitudes is a lushly-written modern gothic ? part thriller, part nightmarish journey into the moral uncertainty at the heart of the American experience in Central America.

Download or read book Horse Latitudes written by Quentin R. Bufogle and published by Publishamerica Incorporated. This book was released on 2008-11 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between the end of the Baby Boom and the rise of Gen X, there was another aLost Generation.a A generation of TV zombies who came to awareness as man walked on the moon, The Beatles disbanded, and the Sixties proved to be the biggest disappointment since Spanish fly. Meet Chester Sprockett, former golden boy high school football star, now facing the prospect of middle-age alone, unemployed and stuck in a quagmire of personal and literary impotence as he pursues his lifelong ambition to write the great American novel. Sex, love, relationships, impending middle-age angsta]itas all here. Horse Latitudes is a darkly humorous, sex-fueled odysseyaone manas quest for liberation. Itas a tale youall never forget.

Download or read book Horse Latitudes written by Paul Muldoon and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2014-09-02 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The title of Horse Latitudes, Paul Muldoon's tenth collection of poetry, refers to those areas thirty degrees north and south of the equator where sailing ships tend to be becalmed, where stasis (if not stagnation) is the order of the day. From Bosworth Field to Beijing, the Boyne to Bull Run, from a series of text messages to the nineteenth-century Irish poet Tom Moore to an elegy for Warren Zevon, and from post-Agreement Ireland to George W. Bush's America, this book presents us with fields of battle and fields of debate, in which we often seem to have come to a standstill, but in which language that has been debased may yet be restruck and made current to our predicament. Horse Latitudes is a triumphant new collection by one of the most esteemed poets of our time.

Download or read book Corn Kings and One-Horse Thieves written by James Krohe Jr and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2017-07-26 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner, ISHS Annual Award for a Scholarly Publication, 2018 In Corn Kings and One-Horse Thieves, James Krohe Jr. presents an engaging history of an often overlooked region, filled with fascinating stories and surprising facts about Illinois’s midsection. Krohe describes in lively prose the history of mid-Illinois from the Woodland period of prehistory until roughly 1960, covering the settlement of the region by peoples of disparate races and religions; the exploitation by Euro-Americans of forest, fish, and waterfowl; the transformation of farming into a high-tech industry; and the founding and deaths of towns. The economic, cultural, and racial factors that led to antagonism and accommodation between various people of different backgrounds are explored, as are the roles of education and religion in this part of the state. The book examines remarkable utopian experiments, social and moral reform movements, and innovations in transportation and food processing. It also offers fresh accounts of labor union warfare and social violence directed against Native Americans, immigrants, and African Americans and profiles three generations of political and government leaders, sometimes extraordinary and sometimes corrupt (the “one-horse thieves” of the title). A concluding chapter examines history’s roles as product, recreation, and civic bond in today’s mid-Illinois. Accessible and entertaining yet well-researched and informative, Corn Kings and One-Horse Thieves draws on a wide range of sources to explore a surprisingly diverse section of Illinois whose history is America in microcosm.

Download or read book Horse Latitudes written by Robert Dunn and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2003 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Horse Latitudes is another outrageous collection by Robert Dunn, arguably the most irritating poet in New York City. If you've ever been to a dinner party where you yearned to pull the chair out from behind someone you can't stand while he's sitting down, this is the book for you. You may pass "GO," but don't pass this one up.

Download or read book Low Man on a Totem Pole written by H Allen Smith and published by eNet Press. This book was released on 2015-07-27 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: H Allen Smith has sometimes been referred to as "the best-selling humorist since Mark Twain". Considering that he wrote against the likes of James Thurber, Robert Benchley, and S. J. Perelman, that's quite a statement. And probably true. He sold a million copies of each of his first several books, starting with Low Man on a Totem Pole. In this book, which might be called a fraction of his memoirs (Mr. Smith claimed he could have filled twenty), he recounts the high points of his life amid the human race -- a race he appreciated and observed with a keen nose for the humor hiding in the most unexpected places. Here is a panorama of unlikely people who really existed, of inconceivable things that actually happened, of the commonplace rarities of our frenzied epoch. Among others, there is the newspaperman who suffered under the delusion that Herbert Hoover had bladders on his feet: the man who thoughtfully and perpetually bounced turtle eggs on a bar: a deaf dentist who trained his dog to act as his receptionist; a child prodigy who couldn't talk any too well, but appeared to know more about swing music than the head usher at the Paramount Theater -- all these are part of Mr. Smith's life and times.