Skylight
Title | Skylight PDF eBook |
Author | José Saramago |
Publisher | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Pages | 321 |
Release | 2014 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0544090020 |
Published for the very first time, an early novel by Nobel Laureate and literary master José Saramago that tells the intertwined stories of the residents of a faded Lisbon apartment building in the late 1940s.
Skylight Confessions
Title | Skylight Confessions PDF eBook |
Author | Alice Hoffman |
Publisher | Hachette+ORM |
Pages | 159 |
Release | 2007-01-05 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0759516596 |
Writing at the height of her powers, Alice Hoffman conjures three generations of a family haunted by love. Cool, practical, and deliberate, John is dreamy Arlyn's polar opposite. Yet the two are drawn powerfully together even when it is clear they are bound to bring each other grief. Their difficult marriage leads them and their children to a house made of glass in the Connecticutcountryside, to the avenues ofManhattan, and to the blue waters of Long Island Sound. Glass breaks, love hurts, and families make their own rules. Ultimately, it falls to their grandson, Will, to solve the emotional puzzle of his family and of his own identity.
Through the Skylight
Title | Through the Skylight PDF eBook |
Author | Ian Baucom |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 400 |
Release | 2014-02-18 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 1442481676 |
Living temporarily in Venice, three American siblings uncover a mystery surrounding magical objects, an Arabian Nights book, and animals that can walk in and out of paintings.
Are You Anybody?
Title | Are You Anybody? PDF eBook |
Author | Jeffrey Tambor |
Publisher | Crown Archetype |
Pages | 306 |
Release | 2017-05-16 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 045149637X |
You know him from his breakout role as Hank Kingsley on The Larry Sanders Show, his outrageous turn as George and Oscar Bluth on Arrested Development, and his Emmy Award-winning performance as Maura Pfefferman on Transparent. A Broadway star, a television legend, an accomplished screen actor whose singular wit and heartrending performances have been entertaining audiences for more than four decades, but the question remains: Who the hell is Jeffrey Tambor? In his illuminating, often hilarious, and always honest memoir, Tambor looks back at the key moments in his life that taught him about creativity and play and pain and fear. The son of what you might call "eccentric" Russian and Hungarian Jewish parents, Tambor grew up in San Francisco a husy kid with a lisp, who suffered in his "otherness" and found salvation in the theater. While he learned his art from the best of the best—Al Pacino, George C. Scott, Garry Shandling, Mitch Hurwitz, Jill Soloway—he also introduces his many unexpected teachers, from the nameless man in a Detroit bookstore who gave him the love of reading, to his young children who (at this ridiculously late stage in his life) have reintroduced him to play, bravery, and the simple joy of not giving a shit. Tambor shares the triumph of landing his first Broadway role, but not before experiencing the humbling that is commercial work (and how even saying "my socks don't cling" can prove a challenge). He invites you behind the scenes of his wildly successful television shows, but he doesn't leave out the pit stops he made at addiction, Scientology, and what it feels like to get fourth billing after Sylvia the Seal on The Love Boat. At last, Tambor answers the question "Are you anybody?" with a promise that success doesn't mean perfection and failure most definitely is an option.
Mister Skylight
Title | Mister Skylight PDF eBook |
Author | Ed Skoog |
Publisher | Copper Canyon Press |
Pages | 98 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 1556592930 |
A seductive maelstrom of a debut, largely inspired during eight years of eavesdropping in New Orleans.
Skylight
Title | Skylight PDF eBook |
Author | David Hare |
Publisher | Faber & Faber |
Pages | 109 |
Release | 2013-04-18 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 0571301126 |
Skylight premiered at the National Theatre in 1995 and then went on to become one of the most internationally successful plays of recent years. This is the definitive edition of Skylight.
The Unsettlers
Title | The Unsettlers PDF eBook |
Author | Mark Sundeen |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 338 |
Release | 2017-01-10 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1101618051 |
“An in-depth and compelling account of diverse Americans living off the grid.” —Los Angeles Times The radical search for the simple life in today’s America. On a frigid April night, a classically trained opera singer, five months pregnant, and her husband, a former marine biologist, disembark an Amtrak train in La Plata, Missouri, assemble two bikes, and pedal off into the night, bound for a homestead they've purchased, sight unseen. Meanwhile, a horticulturist, heir to the Great Migration that brought masses of African Americans to Detroit, and her husband, a product of the white flight from it, have turned to urban farming to revitalize the blighted city they both love. And near Missoula, Montana, a couple who have been at the forefront of organic farming for decades navigate what it means to live and raise a family ethically. A work of immersive journalism steeped in a distinctively American social history and sparked by a personal quest, The Unsettlers traces the search for the simple life through the stories of these new pioneers and what inspired each of them to look for -- or create -- a better existence. Captivating and clear-eyed, it dares us to imagine what a sustainable, ethical, authentic future might actually look like.