Threepenny Memoir

Threepenny Memoir
Title Threepenny Memoir PDF eBook
Author Carl Barat
Publisher HarperCollins UK
Pages 15
Release 2010
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 0007393768

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In the final years of the last millennium, Carl Barat and Pete Doherty forged a deep musical bond, formed The Libertines and set sail for Arcadia in the good ship Albion; a decade later, Carl would emerge from his second band, the Dirty Pretty Things, after one of the most significant - and turbulent - rock 'n' roll trajectories of recent times. An inside look at life in the eye of the storm, chronicling how a pair of romantics armed with little more than poetry and a punk attitude inspired adoration in millions worldwide - and proceeded to tear apart everything they had.

Made in China

Made in China
Title Made in China PDF eBook
Author Anna Qu
Publisher Catapult
Pages 157
Release 2021-08-03
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 1646220358

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A young girl forced to work in a Queens sweatshop calls child services on her mother in this powerful debut memoir about labor and self-worth that traces a Chinese immigrant's journey to an American future. As a teen, Anna Qu is sent by her mother to work in her family's garment factory in Queens. At home, she is treated as a maid and suffers punishment for doing her homework at night. Her mother wants to teach her a lesson: she is Chinese, not American, and such is their tough path in their new country. But instead of acquiescing, Qu alerts the Office of Children and Family Services, an act with consequences that impact the rest of her life. Nearly twenty years later, estranged from her mother and working at a Manhattan start-up, Qu requests her OCFS report. When it arrives, key details are wrong. Faced with this false narrative, and on the brink of losing her job as the once-shiny start-up collapses, Qu looks once more at her life's truths, from abandonment to an abusive family to seeking dignity and meaning in work. Traveling from Wenzhou to Xi'an to New York, Made in China is a fierce memoir unafraid to ask thorny questions about trauma and survival in immigrant families, the meaning of work, and the costs of immigration.

Eva's Threepenny Theatre

Eva's Threepenny Theatre
Title Eva's Threepenny Theatre PDF eBook
Author Andrew Steinmetz
Publisher
Pages 296
Release 2008
Genre Fiction
ISBN

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In an unusual fiction about memoir, Andrew Steinmetz tells the story of his great-aunt Eva who performed in the first workshop production of Bertolt Brecht's masterpiece The Threepenny Opera, in 1928. Steinmetz takes the story back to Eva's childhood in Germany, with her invalid mother and domineering siblings. Her training as an actress began just after her graduation from high school, and her introduction to the philosophies of Brecht and his contemporaries soon followed. With the pronouncement of the family's Jewish origins, both Eva and her brother left Germany to escape Nazi rule, Eva eventually settling in Canada. In their sessions with the tape recorder running, we see Steinmetz's own life as it intersects with Eva's, and his changing perspective on her life and work. Tied together with threads of Brecht's play, Steinmetz presents a life lived as though the world were a stage. A fictional tribute, Eva's Threepenny Theatre is as much concerned with what happened as what might have or was imagined to have been. "I'd known Eva since childhood," says Steinmetz, "and always in the back of my mind was this story I'd heard about her and The Threepenny Opera. I didn't know much about Bertolt Brecht, initially, but in my early twenties I was a songwriter and one night while I was in the studio recording, I got to talking with the engineer and later he pulled out a record of Lotte Lenya singing 'Seeräuberjenny' and 'Kanonen-Song.' That was it. Lenya's kitsch and the killer instinct: Eva talked like that. The droll, aloof, harsh cabaret style is incredibly moving, to me at least, something which seems to work almost despite itself. It was easy to see Eva as a product of Weimar Germany, of that precise period evoked by these songs. So I guess the initial and strongest connection between the novel and Brecht was through the lyrics he wrote for this music. As a socialist playwright, Brecht wouldn't touch naturalism, seeing it as an endorsement of a bourgeois or genteel world view, and I have to say, as a writer, I could never approach writing a family memoir wearing a straight face. Eva was schooled in Brecht, and so it felt right that the novel's form would reflect that, and at the same time bring about some genre consciousness. I also wanted some sort of emotional arc despite putting up with ideas of alienation and detachment. If this makes it sound like I've been working at cross purposes for the past fifteen years, which is as long as I've been at it, then that's exactly right." This book is a smyth-sewn paperback. The text is typeset in Sabon and printed offset on laid-finish paper making (estimated) 256 pages trimmed to 5.3 × 8.5 inches, bound into a paper cover and enfolded in a letterpress-printed jacket.

General Catalogue of the Publications of The Religious Tract Society

General Catalogue of the Publications of The Religious Tract Society
Title General Catalogue of the Publications of The Religious Tract Society PDF eBook
Author Religious Tract Society
Publisher
Pages 40
Release 1874*
Genre
ISBN

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Memoir of W.H. Harvey

Memoir of W.H. Harvey
Title Memoir of W.H. Harvey PDF eBook
Author W.H. Harvey
Publisher BoD – Books on Demand
Pages 390
Release 2020-09-22
Genre Fiction
ISBN 3752501235

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Reprint of the original, first published in 1869.

The lost shilling. The patient sufferer

The lost shilling. The patient sufferer
Title The lost shilling. The patient sufferer PDF eBook
Author Lost shilling
Publisher
Pages 74
Release 1868
Genre
ISBN

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Reference Catalogue of Current Literature

Reference Catalogue of Current Literature
Title Reference Catalogue of Current Literature PDF eBook
Author
Publisher
Pages 1120
Release 1877
Genre English literature
ISBN

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