The Skin Of Our Teeth

Download or read book The Skin of Our Teeth written by Thornton Wilder and published by Samuel French, Inc.. This book was released on 1972 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An Eternal Family narrowly escape one disaster after another, from ancient times to the present. Meet George and Maggie Antrobus (married only 5,000 years); their two children, Gladys and Henry (perfect in every way!); and their maid, Sabina (the ageless vamp) as they overcome ice, flood, and war -- by the skin of their teeth."--Amazon

Download or read book Evolution of Desire written by Cynthia L Haven and published by MSU Press. This book was released on 2018-04-01 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: René Girard (1923–2015) was one of the leading thinkers of our era—a provocative sage who bypassed prevailing orthodoxies to offer a bold, sweeping vision of human nature, human history, and human destiny. His oeuvre, offering a “mimetic theory” of cultural origins and human behavior, inspired such writers as Milan Kundera and J. M. Coetzee, and earned him a place among the forty “immortals” of the Académie Française. Too often, however, his work is considered only within various academic specializations. This first-ever biographical study takes a wider view. Cynthia L. Haven traces the evolution of Girard’s thought in parallel with his life and times. She recounts his formative years in France and his arrival in a country torn by racial division, and reveals his insights into the collective delusions of our technological world and the changing nature of warfare. Drawing on interviews with Girard and his colleagues, Evolution of Desire: A Life of René Girard provides an essential introduction to one of the twentieth century’s most controversial and original minds.

Download or read book Conversations with Thornton Wilder written by Thornton Wilder and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 1992 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collected interviews with the Pulitzer Prize-winning author and playwright most widely known today for his play, Our Town

Download or read book The Story of My Teeth written by Valeria Luiselli and published by Coffee House Press. This book was released on 2015-09-07 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Luiselli follows in the imaginative tradition of writers like Borges and Márquez, but her style and concerns are unmistakably her own. This deeply playful novel is about the passion and obsession of collecting, the nature of storytelling, the value of objects, and the complicated bonds of family. . . Luiselli has become a writer to watch, in part because it’s truly hard to know (but exciting to wonder about) where she will go next.”—The New York Times I was born in Pachuca, the Beautiful Windy City, with four premature teeth and my body completely covered in a very fine coat of fuzz. But I'm grateful for that inauspicious start because ugliness, as my other uncle, Eurípides López Sánchez, was given to saying, is character forming. Highway is a late-in-life world traveler, yarn spinner, collector, and legendary auctioneer. His most precious possessions are the teeth of the "notorious infamous" like Plato, Petrarch, and Virginia Woolf. Written in collaboration with the workers at a Jumex juice factory, Teeth is an elegant, witty, exhilarating romp through the industrial suburbs of Mexico City and Luiselli's own literary influences. Valeria Luiselli was born in Mexico City in 1983 and grew up in South Africa. Her work has been translated into many languages and has appeared in publications including the New York Times, Granta, and McSweeney's. Her novel, The Story of My Teeth, is the winner of the LA Times Book Prize in Fiction.

Download or read book By the Skin of His Teeth written by Ann Walsh and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2006-09 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1870 British Columbia, racial tensions run high when a Chinese man is found stabbed to death. Ted MacIntosh must fight to reveal the truth.

Download or read book Teeth in the Back of my Neck written by Monika Radojevic and published by Random House. This book was released on 2021-05-04 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'This is a courageous, arresting debut from a poet to watch.' Independent 'A vital contribution to literature' HUCK Chosen as one of Bustle's Best Debut Books of 2021 Chosen as one of Glamour's 'best poetry books' _________________________________________________________ An arresting debut collection about identity, ancestry and history, from a young poet selected as an inaugural winner of the #Merky Books New Writers' Prize, dedicated to discovering the best writers of a new generation. Written with profound depth and insight, the poems in Teeth in the Back of My Neck explore the joys, the confusions and the moments of sadness behind having one's history scattered around the globe - and the way in which your identity is always worn on your skin, whether you like it or not. Bristling with tension and beautifully realised, Monika Radojevic's impressive debut collection is an introduction to one of the most exciting and impressive poets of her generation.

Download or read book The Letters of Gertrude Stein and Thornton Wilder written by Gertrude Stein and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Letters trace the friendship between Stein and Wilder from late 1934 until Stein's death in 1946