The Good Brother
Title | The Good Brother PDF eBook |
Author | Chris Offutt |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 324 |
Release | 2016-02-16 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1439129991 |
From the critically acclaimed author of the collection Kentucky Straight and memoir My Father the Pornographer, The Good Brother is the finely crafted debut novel from a talent the New York Times calls “a fierce writer”. Virgil Caudill has never gone looking for trouble, but this time he's got no choice—his hell-raising brother Boyd has been murdered. Everyone knows who did it, and in the hills of Kentucky, tradition won’t let a murder go unavenged. No matter which way he chooses, Virgil will lose. The Good Brother is the story of a man’s struggle to find his real self in the wake of an impossible choice. Traversing the American landscape from the hollows of Eastern Kentucky to the plains of Montana, Offutt explores the hunger for belonging that drives our most passionate beliefs, and in the process shows himself to be one of our most powerful storytellers.
Good, Brother
Title | Good, Brother PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Markus |
Publisher | |
Pages | 106 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | |
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Fiction. Illustrated by Derek White. "In this spare and simple novel, Markus shapes and reshapes river and mud into a protean world perpetually reasserting itself through rituals that are at once down-home and arcane. There is a whole mythology here, generated privately between two brothers engaged in an always childlike (and for that reason all the more serious) task of creation"--Brian Evenson. "Very little occurs in a Peter Markus story that does not involve a fish, mud, a brother, and, usually, a concluding act of brutality. Markus's language is primal, even primitive, but his sentence structure is among the most perplexing and, ultimately, fascinating I have ever encountered. Markus serves up sentence after sentence of startling musicality. These aren't stories in any traditional sense; they are works of a prose stylist with the ear of a poet"--Peter Conners.
Good Brother, Bad Brother
Title | Good Brother, Bad Brother PDF eBook |
Author | James Cross Giblin |
Publisher | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Pages | 270 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 9780618096428 |
On April 14, 1865, five days after the end of the Civil War, John Wilkes Booth fired a single shot and changed the course of American history. His infamous deed cost him his life and brought notoriety and shame to his family-particularly his elder brother, the renowned actor Edwin Booth. From that day forward, Edwin would be known as "the brother of the man who killed President Lincoln." In many ways, the Booth brothers were two of a kind. They were among America's finest actors, having inherited from their father, Junius Brutus Booth, a commanding stage presence and a rich, expressive voice. They also inherited Junius's penchant for alcohol and impulsive behavior. In other respects, the two brothers were very different. Edwin's introspective nature made him the perfect actor to play Hamlet, while John, with his dashing good looks and passionate intensity, excelled in romantic roles. They also stood at opposite poles politically. Edwin voted for Abraham Lincoln; John was an ardent advocate of the Confederacy. Award-winning author James Cross Giblin draws on first-hand accounts of family members, friends, and colleagues to create a vivid image of John Wilkes, the loving son and brother who became an assassin. Equally clear is the picture of Edwin, who battled his own weaknesses and emerged a pivotal figure in the development of the American theater. Comprehensive and compelling, this dual portrait illuminates a dark and tragic moment in the nation's history and explores the complex legacy of two leading men-one revered, the other abhorred. Book jacket.
Life's Good Brother
Title | Life's Good Brother PDF eBook |
Author | Nazim Hikmet |
Publisher | National Geographic Books |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2013-05-14 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0892554185 |
A contemporary international classic, available in English for the first time. Hikmet's final book--an autobiographical novel about a man who is imprisoned for being a Communist, his friends, and the women he loved. Considered to be a major work in his oeuvre. This is the first publication in English translation.
No Good Brother
Title | No Good Brother PDF eBook |
Author | Tyler Keevil |
Publisher | HarperCollins UK |
Pages | 329 |
Release | 2018-02-22 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0008228906 |
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WILBUR SMITH ADVENTURE WRITING PRIZE 2018 'A great, gripping story, ferociously well-written, with characters that live and breathe' STEF PENNEY, bestselling author of Under a Pole Star
Big Brothers Are the Best
Title | Big Brothers Are the Best PDF eBook |
Author | Fran Manushkin |
Publisher | Capstone |
Pages | 25 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 1404872248 |
A new big brother finds lots to love about his new baby.
The Big Brother Book
Title | The Big Brother Book PDF eBook |
Author | Sean Cliver |
Publisher | Gingko Press |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2016-03 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9781584236030 |
No other magazine pushed the boundaries of skateboarding and pop culture like Big Brother, the raunchiest, rowdiest magazine to come out of the 1990s. Constantly at the center of much-deserved controversy, the rag has been decried as pornography, bought and unexpectedly dropped by Larry Flynt of the Hustler empire, and credited as the genesis of the Jackass universe; it was also the champion of unknown skaters and featured some of today's biggest names in skate culture when they were just children. Now author Sean Cliver puts a bow on the publication with The Big Brother Book, a collection of covers and spreads from every issue of the notorious publication. Featuring high-quality scans of the magazine itself no production or layout files remain in existence with just enough text to explain what's going on and choice quotes from each issue, this book makes it easy as well as fun to stoop to Big Brother's level.