Luster

Luster
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Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Total Pages : 240
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ISBN-10 : 9780374910334
ISBN-13 : 0374910332
Rating : 4/5 (34 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Luster by : Raven Leilani

Download or read book Luster written by Raven Leilani and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2020-08-04 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A New York Times Notable Book of the Year WINNER of the NBCC John Leonard Prize, the Kirkus Prize, the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, the Dylan Thomas Prize, and the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award One of Barack Obama's Favorite Books of 2020 A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: NPR, The New York Times Book Review, O Magazine, Vanity Fair, Los Angeles Times, Glamour, Shondaland, Boston Globe, and many more! "So delicious that it feels illicit . . . Raven Leilani’s first novel reads like summer: sentences like ice that crackle or melt into a languorous drip; plot suddenly, wildly flying forward like a bike down a hill." —Jazmine Hughes, The New York Times Book Review No one wants what no one wants. And how do we even know what we want? How do we know we’re ready to take it? Edie is stumbling her way through her twenties—sharing a subpar apartment in Bushwick, clocking in and out of her admin job, making a series of inappropriate sexual choices. She is also haltingly, fitfully giving heat and air to the art that simmers inside her. And then she meets Eric, a digital archivist with a family in New Jersey, including an autopsist wife who has agreed to an open marriage—with rules. As if navigating the constantly shifting landscapes of contemporary sexual manners and racial politics weren’t hard enough, Edie finds herself unemployed and invited into Eric’s home—though not by Eric. She becomes a hesitant ally to his wife and a de facto role model to his adopted daughter. Edie may be the only Black woman young Akila knows. Irresistibly unruly and strikingly beautiful, razor-sharp and slyly comic, sexually charged and utterly absorbing, Raven Leilani’s Luster is a portrait of a young woman trying to make sense of her life—her hunger, her anger—in a tumultuous era. It is also a haunting, aching description of how hard it is to believe in your own talent, and the unexpected influences that bring us into ourselves along the way. “An irreverent intergenerational tale of race and class that’s blisteringly smart and fan-yourself sexy.” —Michelle Hart, O: The Oprah Magazine

The Lustre of Our Country

The Lustre of Our Country
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Publisher : Univ of California Press
Total Pages : 452
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ISBN-10 : 0520925521
ISBN-13 : 9780520925526
Rating : 4/5 (21 Downloads)

Book Synopsis The Lustre of Our Country by : John T. Noonan Jr.

Download or read book The Lustre of Our Country written by John T. Noonan Jr. and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1998-06-26 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Notable Book This remarkable work offers a fresh approach to a freedom that is often taken for granted in the United States, yet is one of the strongest and proudest elements of American culture: religious freedom. In this compellingly written, distinctively personal book, Judge John T. Noonan asserts that freedom of religion, as James Madison conceived it, is an American invention previously unknown to any nation on earth. The Lustre of Our Country demonstrates how the idea of religious liberty is central to the American experience and to American influence around the world. Noonan's original book is a history of the idea of religious liberty and its relationship with the law. He begins with an intellectual autobiography, describing his own religious and legal training. After setting the stage with autobiography, Noonan turns to history, with each chapter written in a new voice. One chapter takes the form of a catechism (questions and answers), presenting the history of the idea of religious freedom in Christianity and the American colonies. Another chapter on James Madison argues that Madison's support of religious freedom was not purely secular but rather the outcome of his own religious beliefs. A fictional sister of Alexis de Toqueville writes, contrary to her brother's work, that the U.S. government is very closely tied to religion. Other chapters offer straightforward considerations of constitutional law. Throughout the book, Noonan shows how the free exercise of religion led to profound changes in American law—he discusses abolition, temperance, and civil rights—and how the legal notion of religious liberty influenced revolutionary France, Japan, and Russia, as well as the Catholic Church during Vatican II. The Lustre of Our Country is a celebration of religious freedom—a personal and profound statement on what the author considers America's greatest moral contribution to the world.

Un Lustro (¿?) Sin Lustre

Un Lustro (¿?) Sin Lustre
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Publisher : Palibrio
Total Pages : 49
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ISBN-10 : 9781463329310
ISBN-13 : 1463329318
Rating : 4/5 (10 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Un Lustro (¿?) Sin Lustre by : Panchi S.

Download or read book Un Lustro (¿?) Sin Lustre written by Panchi S. and published by Palibrio. This book was released on 2012-05 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: La primera mitad de los años 90 fue un período suficiente para estremecer y voltear el pensamiento de los cubanos entonces aún incrédulos. Nunca pesó tanto la carga de una aberrante imposición. El pensamiento del autor alimentado por sus vivencias de entonces encontró en formas poéticas tan familiares como la redondilla, el soneto, la décima, el verso libre y en un relato corto la única fuente de sosiego...el "clavo caliente" al cual asirse. En ellos se desliza la denuncia social, la sátira que no deja escapar un leve humor, ese escudo inseparable del cubano. Muy oscuros aquellos años... ¿acaso únicos?... ¿concluyó ese lustro?

Lustre of a Burning Corpse

Lustre of a Burning Corpse
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Publisher : Ukiyoto Publishing
Total Pages : 180
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Book Synopsis Lustre of a Burning Corpse by : Anureet Watta

Download or read book Lustre of a Burning Corpse written by Anureet Watta and published by Ukiyoto Publishing. This book was released on 2022-01-15 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of 48 raw and explosive poems that draw from the themes of violence, queerness, memory and hope. It puts gender in a witness box, asks it to explain where its hands have been. It prods violence with questions about its omnipresence and its celebration. It spells queerness with an arresting alphabet. The poems attempt to carve words from a place of memory and also a place of anticipation, it’s not simply a recollection, but also hope as a metaphor “What they do not tell you, about kissing a girl is even when you like it - your eyes will always stay open on the lookout for fire, but there might be lipstick and hers might wear on yours like a swatch Make a colour you can’t name, and when you get home your mother might say this shade; This shade makes you glow.” From “Of Lipsticks and Labels”

The Heroes of the Last Lustre

The Heroes of the Last Lustre
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Total Pages : 148
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ISBN-10 : HARVARD:HN1P7D
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Rating : 4/5 (7D Downloads)

Book Synopsis The Heroes of the Last Lustre by : John Flavel Mines

Download or read book The Heroes of the Last Lustre written by John Flavel Mines and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Surrogate, Tenth Lustre, and Other Poems. By Φιλογαμος..

The Surrogate, Tenth Lustre, and Other Poems. By Φιλογαμος..
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Total Pages : 58
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ISBN-10 : BL:A0026933486
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Rating : 4/5 (86 Downloads)

Book Synopsis The Surrogate, Tenth Lustre, and Other Poems. By Φιλογαμος.. by : pseud PHILOGAMOS

Download or read book The Surrogate, Tenth Lustre, and Other Poems. By Φιλογαμος.. written by pseud PHILOGAMOS and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Innocence in Eminent Lustre, and Malevolence Confounded

Innocence in Eminent Lustre, and Malevolence Confounded
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Total Pages : 54
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ISBN-10 : BL:A0021563792
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Rating : 4/5 (92 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Innocence in Eminent Lustre, and Malevolence Confounded by : William Augustus Clarke

Download or read book Innocence in Eminent Lustre, and Malevolence Confounded written by William Augustus Clarke and published by . This book was released on 1781 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: