A Man With One of Those Faces
Title | A Man With One of Those Faces PDF eBook |
Author | Caimh Mcdonnell |
Publisher | |
Pages | 362 |
Release | 2020-08-30 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781912897292 |
A crime thriller set in modern-day Dublin.
The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat: And Other Clinical Tales
Title | The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat: And Other Clinical Tales PDF eBook |
Author | Oliver Sacks |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 260 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0684853949 |
Explores neurological disorders and their effects upon the minds and lives of those affected with an entertaining voice.
A Thousand Faces
Title | A Thousand Faces PDF eBook |
Author | Michael F. Blake |
Publisher | Vestal Press |
Pages | 417 |
Release | 1997-01-01 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 1461730767 |
For the first time, you can put conjecture aside and read definitive proof about the roles Chaney had behind the scenes as well as in front of the camera.
The Book of Faces
Title | The Book of Faces PDF eBook |
Author | Joseph Campana |
Publisher | |
Pages | 140 |
Release | 2005-11 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN |
In Joseph Campana's debut collection, starring Audrey Hepburn, icons of public consumption speak in the language of private devotion. Encourage emulation. Inspire idolatry. Be a muse, be a nymph, be a sprite, bewitch me. Rise from obscurity. Set trends. Break habits. Make statements. Count blessings. Distribute kindnesses. Arouse devotion. Devote yourself to nobility. Ascend, ascend, ascend. -from "How to Be a Star"
The Two Faces of January
Title | The Two Faces of January PDF eBook |
Author | Patricia Highsmith |
Publisher | Open Road + Grove/Atlantic |
Pages | 291 |
Release | 2014-06-10 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0802192424 |
The award-winning “classic psychological thriller” by the author of Strangers on a Train and The Talented Mr. Ripley (USA Today). In a grubby Athens hotel, Rydal Keener is bored and killing time with petty scams. But when he runs into another American, Chester MacFarland, dragging a man’s body down the hotel hall, Rydal impulsively agrees to help, perhaps because Chester looks like his father. Then Rydal meets Collete, Chester’s younger wife, and captivated, becomes entangled in their sordid lives, as the drama marches to a shocking climax at the ruins of the labyrinth at Knossos. A winner of a Crime Writers of America award, The Two Faces of January was the basis of a film starring Viggo Mortensen, Kirsten Dunst, and Oscar Isaac. “An offbeat, provocative and absorbing suspense novel.” —The New York Times “Patricia Highsmith is one of the few suspense writers whose work transcends genre.” —The Austin American-Statesman
A Man in Full
Title | A Man in Full PDF eBook |
Author | Tom Wolfe |
Publisher | Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Pages | 756 |
Release | 2010-04-01 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1429960698 |
The Bonfire of the Vanities defined an era--and established Tom Wolfe as our prime fictional chronicler of America at its most outrageous and alive. With A Man in Full, the time the setting is Atlanta, Georgia--a racially mixed late-century boomtown full of fresh wealth, avid speculators, and worldly-wise politicians. Big men. Big money. Big games. Big libidos. Big trouble. The protagonist is Charles Croker, once a college football star, now a late-middle-aged Atlanta real-estate entrepreneur turned conglomerate king, whose expansionist ambitions and outsize ego have at last hit up against reality. Charlie has a 28,000-acre quail-shooting plantation, a young and demanding second wife--and a half-empty office tower with a staggering load of debt. When star running back Fareek Fanon--the pride of one of Atlanta's grimmest slums--is accused of raping an Atlanta blueblood's daughter, the city's delicate racial balance is shattered overnight. Networks of illegal Asian immigrants crisscrossing the continent, daily life behind bars, shady real-estate syndicates, cast-off first wives of the corporate elite, the racially charged politics of college sports--Wolfe shows us the disparate worlds of contemporary America with all the verve, wit, and insight that have made him our most phenomenal, most admired contemporary novelist. A Man in Full is a 1998 National Book Award Finalist for Fiction.
The Dice Man
Title | The Dice Man PDF eBook |
Author | Luke Rhinehart |
Publisher | Abrams |
Pages | 347 |
Release | 1998-05-01 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1590207041 |
“One of the fifty most influential books of the last half of the twentieth century,” a comic novel about a therapist making life choices by rolling dice. (BBC) The cult classic that can still change your life . . . Let the dice decide! This is the philosophy that changes the life of bored psychiatrist Luke Rhinehart―and in some ways changes the world as well. Because once you hand over your life to the dice, anything can happen. Entertaining, humorous, scary, shocking, subversive, The Dice Man is one of the cult bestsellers of our time. “A fine piece of fiction . . . touching, ingenious and beautifully comic.” —Anthony Burgess, author of A Clockwork Orange “Luke Rhinehart and THE DICE MAN have launched a psychiatric revolution.” —London Sunday Telegraph “A blackly comic amusement park of a book.” —TIME Magazine “Weird, hilarious . . . an outlandishly enjoyable book.” —St. Louis Post-Dispatch “Witty reckless clever . . . . a caper at the edge of nihilism.” —LIFE Magazine “Brilliant . . . much like CATCH-22 . . . the sex extra-juicy.” —The Houston Post “Outrageously funny.” —Fort Worth Star-Telegram “Hilarious and well-written . . . A brilliant summary of modern nihilism. Dice living will be popular, no doubt of that.” —Time Out (London)