Too Long at the Dance
Title | Too Long at the Dance PDF eBook |
Author | Mike Blakely |
Publisher | Macmillan |
Pages | 542 |
Release | 1998-07-15 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0812548329 |
Cowboy musician Caleb Holcomb and his sidekick, Kinchelo, become embroiled in a family feud, Wyoming's Johnson County War, and an Arapaho uprising as Caleb struggles to win the heart of his brother's widow, Emilia.
Dance Dance Dance
Title | Dance Dance Dance PDF eBook |
Author | Haruki Murakami |
Publisher | Vintage |
Pages | 417 |
Release | 2010-11-17 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0307777685 |
Dance Dance Dance—a follow-up to A Wild Sheep Chase—is a tense, poignant, and often hilarious ride through Murakami’s Japan, a place where everything that is not up for sale is up for grabs. As Murakami’s nameless protagonist searches for a mysteriously vanished girlfriend, he is plunged into a wind tunnel of sexual violence and metaphysical dread. In this propulsive novel, featuring a shabby but oracular Sheep Man, one of the most idiosyncratically brilliant writers at work today fuses together science fiction, the hardboiled thriller, and white-hot satire.
What You Become in Flight
Title | What You Become in Flight PDF eBook |
Author | Ellen O'Connell Whittet |
Publisher | Melville House |
Pages | 241 |
Release | 2020-04-14 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1612198333 |
"Poignant and exquisite"--The Los Angeles Review of Books "An inspiring and powerful book"--Booklist "A genuinely absorbing read"--Kirkus "Revelatory, honest, and wondrous."--Chanel Miller, author of Know My Name A lyrical and meditative memoir on the damage we inflict in the pursuit of perfection, the pain of losing our dreams, and the power of letting go of both. With a promising career in classical ballet ahead of her, Ellen O'Connell Whittet was devastated when a misstep in rehearsal caused a career-ending injury. Ballet was the love of her life. She lived for her moments under the glare of the stage-lights--gliding through the air, pretending however fleetingly to effortlessly defy gravity. Yet with a debilitating injury forcing her to reconsider her future, she also began to reconsider what she had taken for granted in her past. Beneath every perfect arabesque was a foot, disfigured by pointe shoes, stuffed--taped and bleeding--into a pink, silk slipper. Behind her ballerina's body was a young girl starving herself into a fragile collection of limbs. Within her love of ballet was a hatred of herself for struggling to achieve the perfection it demanded of her. In this raw and redemptive debut memoir, Ellen O'Connell Whittet explores the silent suffering of the ballerina--and finds it emblematic of the violence that women quietly shoulder every day. For O'Connell Whittet, letting go of one meant confronting the other--only then was it possible to truly take flight.
The English Review
Title | The English Review PDF eBook |
Author | Ford Madox Ford |
Publisher | |
Pages | 816 |
Release | 1911 |
Genre | Modernism (Literature) |
ISBN |
Beauty Is Experience
Title | Beauty Is Experience PDF eBook |
Author | Emmaly Wiederholt |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 2017-04-01 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780998247809 |
Beauty is Experience is a collaboration between dancer/writer Emmaly Wiederholt and photographer Gregory Bartning. For more than two years, they collected interviews and photographs of dancers over age 50 along the West Coast. Spanning from Los Angeles and the San Francisco Bay Area to Portland and Seattle, the culmination includes over 50 interviews with dancers ranging in age from 50 to 95, and ranging in practice from ballet and Argentine tango to African and contact improvisation.
A Time to Dance
Title | A Time to Dance PDF eBook |
Author | Karen Kingsbury |
Publisher | Thomas Nelson Inc |
Pages | 325 |
Release | |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1418578711 |
American Country-dances: Twenty-eight contra-dances largely from the New England States
Title | American Country-dances: Twenty-eight contra-dances largely from the New England States PDF eBook |
Author | Elizabeth Burchenal |
Publisher | |
Pages | 28 |
Release | 1918 |
Genre | Country dancing |
ISBN |