How I Became One of the Invisible, new edition

How I Became One of the Invisible, new edition
Title How I Became One of the Invisible, new edition PDF eBook
Author David Rattray
Publisher MIT Press
Pages 425
Release 2019-09-17
Genre Literary Collections
ISBN 1635900751

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The only collection of Rattray's prose: essays that offer a kind of secret history and guidebook to a poetic and mystical tradition. In order to become one of the invisible, it is necessary to throw oneself into the arms of God... Some of us stayed for weeks, some for months, some forever. —from How I Became One of the Invisible Since its first publication in 1992, David Rattray's How I Became One of the Invisible has functioned as a kind of secret history and guidebook to a poetic and mystical tradition running through Western civilization from Pythagoras to In Nomine music to Hölderlin and Antonin Artaud. Rattray not only excavated this tradition, he embodied and lived it. He studied at Harvard and the Sorbonne but remained a poet, outside the academy. His stories “Van” and “The Angel” chronicle his travels in southern Mexico with his friend, the poet Van Buskirk, and his adventures after graduating from Dartmouth in the mid-1950s. Eclipsed by the more mediagenic Beat writers during his lifetime, Rattray has become a powerful influence on contemporary artists and writers. Living in Paris, Rattray became the first English translator of Antonin Artaud, and he understood Artaud's incisive scholarship and technological prophecies as few others would. As he writes of his translations in How I Became One of the Invisible, “You have to identify with the man or the woman. If you don't, then you shouldn't be translating it. Why would you translate something that you didn't think had an important message for other people? I translated Artaud because I wanted to turn my friends on and pass a message that had relevance to our lives. Not to get a grant, or be hired by an English department.” Compiled in the months before his untimely death at age 57, How I Became One of the Invisible is the only volume of Rattray's prose. This new edition, edited by Robert Dewhurst, includes five additional pieces, two of them previously unpublished.

How I Became One of the Invisible

How I Became One of the Invisible
Title How I Became One of the Invisible PDF eBook
Author David Rattray
Publisher
Pages 324
Release 1992
Genre Authors
ISBN

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This collection of stories and essays reveals the erudite as well as the adventurous side of David Rattray, whose writing lies at the conjunction of travel and wisdom, where the spiritual informs the sinful.

Harvey

Harvey
Title Harvey PDF eBook
Author HervŽ Bouchard
Publisher Groundwood Books Ltd
Pages 170
Release 2010
Genre Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN 1554980755

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When Harvey and his little brother come home from playing they find a crowd gathered in front of their house and their father being taken away in an ambulance, dead from a heart attack, and soon Harvey's favorite movie begins to dominate his fantasy life.

Invisible Monsters: A Novel

Invisible Monsters: A Novel
Title Invisible Monsters: A Novel PDF eBook
Author Chuck Palahniuk
Publisher W. W. Norton & Company
Pages 297
Release 2011-03-21
Genre Fiction
ISBN 0393341429

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"A harrowing, perverse, laugh-aloud funny rocket ride of catastrophes…Gutsy, terse and cunning, Invisible Monsters may emerge as Palahniuk’s strongest book." —Greg Berkman, Seattle Times She’s a fashion model who has everything: a boyfriend, a career, a loyal best friend. But when a sudden freeway "accident" leaves her disfigured and incapable of speech, she goes from being the beautiful center of attention to being an invisible monster, so hideous that no one will acknowledge she exists. Enter Brandy Alexander, Queen Supreme, one operation away from becoming a real woman, who will teach her that reinventing yourself means erasing your past and making up something better. And that salvation hides in the last places you’ll ever want to look.

An Invisible Thread

An Invisible Thread
Title An Invisible Thread PDF eBook
Author Laura Schroff
Publisher Simon and Schuster
Pages 263
Release 2012-08-07
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 1451648979

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A cloth bag containing eight copies of the title, that may also include a folder.

The Invisible Boy

The Invisible Boy
Title The Invisible Boy PDF eBook
Author Alyssa Hollingsworth
Publisher Roaring Brook Press
Pages 203
Release 2020-09-08
Genre Juvenile Fiction
ISBN 1250155738

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If no one sees him, does he exist? This superhero-inspired adventure story with short comics between each chapter explores friendship and what it means to be truly brave. Nadia looks for adventure in the pages of her Superman comic books, until a mysterious boy saves her dog from drowning during a storm and then disappears. Now she finds herself in the role of Lois Lane, hunting down the scoop of the Invisible Boy. Suddenly she’s in a real-life adventure that’s far more dangerous than anything in her comic books. The Invisible Boy is a mystery and an adventure story, as well as a story about child labor trafficking. Like Katherine Applegate, author of Crenshaw and Wishtree, Alyssa Hollingsworth takes a difficult subject matter and makes it accessible for middle-grade readers. Featuring illustrations by Deborah Lee

An Invisible Thread

An Invisible Thread
Title An Invisible Thread PDF eBook
Author Laura Schroff
Publisher Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pages 224
Release 2019-05-07
Genre Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN 1534437274

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A Parents’ Choice Recommended Award Winner A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection From New York Times bestselling authors Laura Schroff and Alex Tresniowski comes the young readers edition of an unbelievable memoir about an unlikely friendship that forever changed the lives of a busy sales executive and a hungry eleven-year-old boy. On one rainy afternoon, on a crowded New York City street corner, eleven-year-old Maurice met Laura. Maurice asked Laura for spare change because he was hungry, and something made Laura stop and ask Maurice if she could take him to lunch. Maurice and Laura went to lunch together, and also bought ice cream cones and played video games. It was the beginning of an unlikely and magical friendship that changed both of their lives forever. An Invisible Thread is the true story of the bond between an eleven-year-old boy and a busy sales executive; a heartwarming journey of hope, kindness, adventure, and love—and the power of fate to help us find our way.