The Portrait Unbound
Title | The Portrait Unbound PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 120 |
Release | 2010 |
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The Portrait Unbound
Title | The Portrait Unbound PDF eBook |
Author | Julian Cox |
Publisher | |
Pages | 128 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN |
Text by Julian Cox.
Roth Unbound
Title | Roth Unbound PDF eBook |
Author | Claudia Roth Pierpont |
Publisher | Macmillan + ORM |
Pages | 364 |
Release | 2013-10-22 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0374710449 |
A critical evaluation of Philip Roth—the first of its kind—that takes on the man, the myth, and the work Philip Roth is one of the most renowned writers of our time. From his debut, Goodbye, Columbus, which won the National Book Award in 1960, and the explosion of Portnoy's Complaint in 1969 to his haunting reimagining of Anne Frank's story in The Ghost Writer ten years later and the series of masterworks starting in the mid-eighties—The Counterlife, Patrimony, Operation Shylock, Sabbath's Theater, American Pastoral, The HumanStain—Roth has produced some of the great American literature of the modern era. And yet there has been no major critical work about him until now. Here, at last, is the story of Roth's creative life. Roth Unbound is not a biography—though it contains a wealth of previously undisclosed biographical details and unpublished material—but something ultimately more rewarding: the exploration of a great writer through his art. Claudia Roth Pierpont, a staff writer for The New Yorker, has known Roth for nearly a decade. Her carefully researched and gracefully written account is filled with remarks from Roth himself, drawn from their ongoing conversations. Here are insights and anecdotes that will change the way many readers perceive this most controversial and galvanizing writer: a young and unhappily married Roth struggling to write; a wildly successful Roth, after the uproar over Portnoy, working to help writers from Eastern Europe and to get their books known in the West; Roth responding to the early, Jewish—and the later, feminist—attacks on his work. Here are Roth's family, his inspirations, his critics, the full range of his fiction, and his friendships with such figures as Saul Bellow and John Updike. Here is Roth at work and at play. Roth Unbound is a major achievement—a highly readable story that helps us make sense of one of the most vital literary careers of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
Portraits of Peace
Title | Portraits of Peace PDF eBook |
Author | John Noltner |
Publisher | Augsburg Fortress Publishers |
Pages | 214 |
Release | 2021-09-21 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1506471218 |
Frustrated with an increasingly polarized society, award-winning photographer John Noltner set out on a road trip across the US to rediscover the common humanity that connects us by asking people the simple question What does peace mean to you?
Amazon Unbound
Title | Amazon Unbound PDF eBook |
Author | Brad Stone |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 512 |
Release | 2022-05-10 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1982132620 |
Portrait of the growth of tech company Amazon and the evolution of its billionaire founder, Jeff Bezos.
Unbound: The Life and Art of Judith Scott
Title | Unbound: The Life and Art of Judith Scott PDF eBook |
Author | Joyce Scott |
Publisher | Knopf Books for Young Readers |
Pages | 49 |
Release | 2021-06-08 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 0525648119 |
A moving and powerful introduction to the life and art of renowned artist, Judith Scott, as told by her twin sister, Joyce Scott and illustrated by Caldecott Honor artist, Melissa Sweet. Judith Scott was born with Down syndrome. She was deaf, and never learned to speak. She was also a talented artist. Judith was institutionalized until her sister Joyce reunited with her and enrolled her in an art class. Judith went on to become an artist of renown with her work displayed in museums and galleries around the world. Poignantly told by Joyce Scott in collaboration with Brie Spangler and Melissa Sweet and beautifully illustrated by Caldecott Honor artist, Melissa Sweet, Unbound is inspiring and warm, showing us that we can soar beyond our perceived limitations and accomplish something extraordinary.
Unbound
Title | Unbound PDF eBook |
Author | Arlene Stein |
Publisher | Vintage |
Pages | 354 |
Release | 2019-05-14 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1101972491 |
An intimate portrait of a new generation of transmasculine individuals as they undergo gender transitions Award-winning sociologist Arlene Stein takes us into the lives of four strangers who find themselves together in a sun-drenched surgeon’s office, having traveled to Florida from across the United States in order to masculinize their chests. Ben, Lucas, Parker, and Nadia wish to feel more comfortable in their bodies; three of them are also taking testosterone so that others recognize them as male. Following them over the course of a year, Stein shows how members of this young transgender generation, along with other gender dissidents, are refashioning their identities and challenging others’ conceptions of who they are. During a time of conservative resurgence, they do so despite great personal costs. Transgender men comprise a large, growing proportion of the trans population, yet they remain largely invisible. In this powerful, timely, and eye-opening account, Stein draws from dozens of interviews with transgender people and their friends and families, as well as with activists and medical and psychological experts. Unbound documents the varied ways younger trans men see themselves and how they are changing our understanding of what it means to be male and female in America.