The Prince of West End Avenue

The Prince of West End Avenue
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Publisher : Bridge Works Publishing Company
Total Pages : 264
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015031818142
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Book Synopsis The Prince of West End Avenue by : Alan Isler

Download or read book The Prince of West End Avenue written by Alan Isler and published by Bridge Works Publishing Company. This book was released on 1994 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Holocaust survivor in zany retirement home replays haunting life.Rich. --L.A. Times Finalist National Book Critics Circle Winner, National Jewish Book Award, 1994 for fiction.

The Prince of West End Avenue

The Prince of West End Avenue
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Publisher : Arrow
Total Pages : 246
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ISBN-10 : 0099701510
ISBN-13 : 9780099701514
Rating : 4/5 (10 Downloads)

Book Synopsis The Prince of West End Avenue by : Alan Isler

Download or read book The Prince of West End Avenue written by Alan Isler and published by Arrow. This book was released on 1996 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Emma Lazarus retirement home in uptown Manhattan, the Jewish inmates embark on a chaotic, bitchy production of Hamlet. Comedy and tragedy combine as our hero, Otto Korner, directs his quirky, libidinous fellow residents in the play and looks back over his adventures in Germany, Zurich, (where he met Lenin and inadvertently invented Dada), Auschwitz and America. Winner of the National Jewish Book Award and finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.

Kraven Images

Kraven Images
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Publisher : Random House
Total Pages : 198
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ISBN-10 : 9781448114894
ISBN-13 : 1448114896
Rating : 4/5 (94 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Kraven Images by : Alan Isler

Download or read book Kraven Images written by Alan Isler and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-11-30 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is 1974 and Nicolas Kraven, lecturer in English Literature at Mosholu College in the Bronx, is adrift upon a sea of troubles: his affair with his neighbour's wife threatens to progress from Thursday night to permanence; his students are a mixture of campus revolutionaries, predatory sexual exhibitionists and an old man intent on proving Merlin was a Jew; an elderly academic specialist in Love, possessor of a devastatingly effective aphrodisiac and a libido that belies her years, has alarming designs on his person; the Kraven demons, a familial curse, are in hot pursuit; and a spectre from his past, the one man who can smash this already chaotic life into ruins, is expected imminently. Kraven flies to London, where he finds brief consolation in the arms of Candy Peaches, a stripper from Sausalito, and then to Harrogate, the town to which he was evacuated as a child, there to confront the ghost of his father, and to slay Kraven's demons.

Prince of Thieves

Prince of Thieves
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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Total Pages : 381
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ISBN-10 : 9780743270519
ISBN-13 : 0743270517
Rating : 4/5 (19 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Prince of Thieves by : Chuck Hogan

Download or read book Prince of Thieves written by Chuck Hogan and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2004-08-10 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of The Strain comes a tense, psychologically gripping, Hammet award-winning thriller. Four masked men—thieves, rivals, and friends from the tough streets of Charlestown—take on a Boston bank at gunpoint. Holding bank manager Claire Keesey hostage and cleaning out the vault were simple. But career criminal Doug MacRay didn't plan on one thing: falling hard for Claire. When he tracks her down without his mask and gun, their mutual attraction is undeniable. With a tenacious FBI agent following his every move, he imagines a life away from his gritty, dangerous work—a life centered around Claire. But before that can happen, Doug and his crew learn that there may be a way to rob Boston's venerable baseball stadium, Fenway Park. Risky yet utterly irresistible, it would be the perfect heist to end his criminal career and begin a new life. But, as it turns out, pursuing Claire may be the most dangerous act of all. Racing to an explosive climax, Prince of Thieves is a brash tale of robbery in all its forms—and an unforgettable odyssey of crime, love, ambition, and dreams.

Cultural Encounters in the New World

Cultural Encounters in the New World
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Publisher : Gunter Narr Verlag
Total Pages : 466
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ISBN-10 : 3823360442
ISBN-13 : 9783823360445
Rating : 4/5 (42 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Cultural Encounters in the New World by : Harald Zapf

Download or read book Cultural Encounters in the New World written by Harald Zapf and published by Gunter Narr Verlag. This book was released on 2003 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Address Book

The Address Book
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Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Total Pages : 182
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ISBN-10 : 9781250134783
ISBN-13 : 1250134781
Rating : 4/5 (83 Downloads)

Book Synopsis The Address Book by : Deirdre Mask

Download or read book The Address Book written by Deirdre Mask and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2020-04-14 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finalist for the 2020 Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction | One of Time Magazines's 100 Must-Read Books of 2020 | Longlisted for the 2020 Porchlight Business Book Awards "An entertaining quest to trace the origins and implications of the names of the roads on which we reside." —Sarah Vowell, The New York Times Book Review When most people think about street addresses, if they think of them at all, it is in their capacity to ensure that the postman can deliver mail or a traveler won’t get lost. But street addresses were not invented to help you find your way; they were created to find you. In many parts of the world, your address can reveal your race and class. In this wide-ranging and remarkable book, Deirdre Mask looks at the fate of streets named after Martin Luther King Jr., the wayfinding means of ancient Romans, and how Nazis haunt the streets of modern Germany. The flipside of having an address is not having one, and we also see what that means for millions of people today, including those who live in the slums of Kolkata and on the streets of London. Filled with fascinating people and histories, The Address Book illuminates the complex and sometimes hidden stories behind street names and their power to name, to hide, to decide who counts, who doesn’t—and why.

Adaptation and Appropriation

Adaptation and Appropriation
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 255
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ISBN-10 : 9781317572213
ISBN-13 : 1317572211
Rating : 4/5 (13 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Adaptation and Appropriation by : Julie Sanders

Download or read book Adaptation and Appropriation written by Julie Sanders and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-11-19 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the apparently simple adaptation of a text into film, theatre or a new literary work, to the more complex appropriation of style or meaning, it is arguable that all texts are somehow connected to a network of existing texts and art forms. In this new edition Adaptation and Appropriation explores: multiple definitions and practices of adaptation and appropriation the cultural and aesthetic politics behind the impulse to adapt the global and local dimensions of adaptation the impact of new digital technologies on ideas of making, originality and customization diverse ways in which contemporary literature, theatre, television and film adapt, revise and reimagine other works of art the impact on adaptation and appropriation of theoretical movements, including structuralism, post-structuralism, postcolonialism, postmodernism, feminism and gender studies the appropriation across time and across cultures of specific canonical texts, by Shakespeare, Dickens, and others, but also of literary archetypes such as myth or fairy tale. Ranging across genres and harnessing concepts from fields as diverse as musicology and the natural sciences, this volume brings clarity to the complex debates around adaptation and appropriation, offering a much-needed resource for those studying literature, film, media or culture.