A Life Discarded 148 Diaries Found In A Skip
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A Life Discarded
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Author : Alexander Masters
language : en
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Release Date : 2016-10-18
A Life Discarded written by Alexander Masters and has been published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-10-18 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Alexander Masters, the bestselling author of Stuart: A Life Backwards, asks you to join him in celebrating an unknown and important life left on the scrap heap In 2001, 148 tattered and mold-covered notebooks were discovered lying among broken bricks in a skip on a building site in Cambridge. Tens of thousands of pages were filled to the edges with urgent handwriting. They were a small part of an intimate, anonymous diary, starting in 1952 and ending half a century later, a few weeks before the books were thrown out. Over five years, the award-winning biographer Alexander Masters uncovers the identity and real history of their author, with an astounding final revelation. A Life Discarded is a true, shocking, poignant, often hilarious story of an ordinary life. The author of the diaries, known only as 'I,' is the tragicomic patron saint of everyone who feels their life should have been more successful. Part thriller, part love story, part social history, A Life Discarded is a biographical detective story that unfolds with the suspense of a mystery but has all the warmth, respect, humor, and dazzling originality that made Masters's Stuart: A Life Backwards such a beloved book.
A Life Discarded 148 Diaries Found In A Skip
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Author : Alexander Masters
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Release Date : 2016-05-05
A Life Discarded 148 Diaries Found In A Skip written by Alexander Masters and has been published by HarperCollins UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-05-05 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Unique, transgressive and as funny as its subject, A Life Discarded has all the suspense of a murder mystery. Written with his characteristic warmth, respect and humour, Masters asks you to join him in celebrating an unknown and important life left on the scrap heap.
Stuart A Life Backwards
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Author : Alexander Masters
language : en
Publisher: Delacorte Press
Release Date : 2006-05-30
Stuart A Life Backwards written by Alexander Masters and has been published by Delacorte Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-05-30 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
In this extraordinary book, Alexander Masters has created a moving portrait of a troubled man, an unlikely friendship, and a desperate world few ever see. A gripping who-done-it journey back in time, it begins with Masters meeting a drunken Stuart lying on a sidewalk in Cambridge, England, and leads through layers of hell…back through crimes and misdemeanors, prison and homelessness, suicide attempts, violence, drugs, juvenile halls and special schools–to expose the smiling, gregarious thirteen-year-old boy who was Stuart before his long, sprawling, dangerous fall. Shocking, inspiring, and hilarious by turns, Stuart: A Life Backwards is a writer’s quest to give voice to a man who, beneath his forbidding exterior, has a message for us all: that every life–even the most chaotic and disreputable–is a story worthy of being told.
Simon
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Author : Alexander Masters
language : en
Publisher: Delacorte Press
Release Date : 2012-02-28
Simon written by Alexander Masters and has been published by Delacorte Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-02-28 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Alexander Masters tripped over his first book subject on a Cambridge sidewalk, and the result was the multi-award-winning bestseller Stuart: A Life Backwards. His second, he’s found under his floorboards. One of the greatest mathematical prodigies of the twentieth century, Simon Norton stomps around Alexander’s basement in semidarkness, dodging between stalagmites of bus timetables and engorged plastic bags, eating tinned kippers stirred into packets of Bombay mix. Simon is exploring a theoretical puzzle so complex and critical to our understanding of the universe that it is known as the Monster. It looks like a sudoku table—except a sudoku table has nine columns of numbers. The Monster has 808017424794512875886459904961710757005754368000000000 columns. But that’s not the whole story. What’s inside the decaying sports bag he never lets out of his clutches? Why does he hurtle out of the house in the middle of the night? And—good God!—what is that noxious smell that creeps up the stairwell? Grumpy, poignant, comical—more intimate than either the author or his quarry intended—Simon: The Genius in My Basement is the story of a friendship and a pursuit. Part biography, part memoir, and part popular science, it is a study of the frailty of brilliance, the measures of happiness, and Britain’s most uncooperative egghead eccentric.
Satan Loves You
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Author : Grady Hendrix
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012-04-01
Satan Loves You written by Grady Hendrix and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-04-01 with categories.
Satan hates his job. Managing Hell is the worst job ever invented and after several millenia of listening to the constant whining of damned souls, Satan is completely and totally burnt out. But there are no holidays in Hell, and now, in the face of a power grab by the officious and smarmy Heavenly Host, Satan's got to reach deep and find a way to save his home from corporate takeover. Featuring hat-wearing chihuahuas, hyper-violent nuns with poor impulse control, and metaphysical wrestling matches, SATAN LOVES YOU is the book for everyone who hates boring books. Do you love romance? Do you adore fantasy epics about anorexic elves who sing? Is your idea of a perfect evening curling up with a cozy mystery and a nice cup of tea? Then go away! SATAN LOVES YOU is a high-octane injection of literary adrenaline that annihilates romance, kills elves, and makes hot tea explode into a massive fireball that will melt your face!
Ground Zero
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Author : Bina Artiste
language : en
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Release Date : 2019-03-20
Ground Zero written by Bina Artiste and has been published by AuthorHouse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-03-20 with Poetry categories.
The artiste is back with another splurge of poems hidden within the shadows of independent culture. Into the fading shadows upsprings light and postfuturistic hope. In a continuous world of depression and suicide fads, we need to work together as a community to end the oppression by being strong within ourselves and believing in whatever each of us as individuals believe in. We need to fight against the stereotypes and adult bullying and start appreciating one another for our uniqueness. It’s mental wellness with we in it, and the cure starts with us caring about ourselves first. Here is the fourth book, Ground Zero (2019), following Treasures of Light & Darkness (2014), Of Jewels and Gems (2015), and Sliver Moon (2019).
The Lesser Bohemians
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Author : Eimear McBride
language : en
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Release Date : 2016-08-30
The Lesser Bohemians written by Eimear McBride and has been published by Faber & Faber this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-08-30 with Fiction categories.
** WINNER OF THE JAMES TAIT BLACK MEMORIAL PRIZE ** ** SHORTLISTED FOR THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZE ** The second novel from Eimear McBride, author of the Baileys Prize winning novel, A Girl is a Half-formed Thing. The vibrant energy of 1990s London. A year of passion and discovery. The anxiety and intensity of new love. An eighteen-year-old Irish girl arrives in London to study drama and falls violently in love with an older actor. While she is naive and thrilled by life in the big city, he is haunted by demons. The clamorous relationship that ensues risks undoing them both. At once epic and exquisitely intimate, The Lesser Bohemians is a celebration of the dark and the light in love.
Qualitative Research From Start To Finish First Edition
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Author : Robert K. Yin
language : en
Publisher: Guilford Press
Release Date : 2011-09-26
Qualitative Research From Start To Finish First Edition written by Robert K. Yin and has been published by Guilford Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-09-26 with Education categories.
This lively, practical text presents a fresh and comprehensive approach to doing qualitative research. The book offers a unique balance of theory and clear-cut choices for customizing every phase of a qualitative study. A scholarly mix of classic and contemporary studies from multiple disciplines provides compelling, field-based examples of the full range of qualitative approaches. Readers learn about adaptive ways of designing studies, collecting data, analyzing data, and reporting findings. Key aspects of the researcher's craft are addressed, such as fieldwork options, the five phases of data analysis (with and without using computer-based software), and how to incorporate the researcher's “declarative” and “reflective” selves into a final report. Ideal for graduate-level courses, the text includes:* Discussions of ethnography, grounded theory, phenomenology, feminist research, and other approaches.* Instructions for creating a study bank to get a new study started.* End-of-chapter exercises and a semester-long, field-based project.* Quick study boxes, research vignettes, sample studies, and a glossary.* Previews for sections within chapters, and chapter recaps.* Discussion of the place of qualitative research among other social science methods, including mixed methods research.
A Lost Lady
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Author : Willa Cather
language : en
Publisher: E-Kitap Projesi & Cheapest Books
Release Date : 2023-11-15
A Lost Lady written by Willa Cather and has been published by E-Kitap Projesi & Cheapest Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-11-15 with Family & Relationships categories.
A Lost Lady is a novel by American author Willa Cather, first published in 1923. It centers on Marian Forrester, her husband Captain Daniel Forrester, and their lives in the small western town of Sweet Water, along the Transcontinental Railroad. However, it is mostly told from the perspective of a young man named Niel Herbert, as he observes the decline of both Marian and the West itself, as it shifts from a place of pioneering spirit to one of corporate exploitation. Exploring themes of social class, money, and the march of progress, A Lost Lady was praised for its vivid use of symbolism and setting, and is considered to be a major influence on the works of F. Scott Fitzgerald. It has been adapted to film twice, with a film adaptation being released in 1924, followed by a looser adaptation in 1934, starring Barbara Stanwyck. A Lost Lady begins in the small railroad town of Sweet Water, on the undeveloped Western plains. The most prominent family in the town is the Forresters, and Marian Forrester is known for her hospitality and kindness. The railroad executives frequently stop by her house and enjoy the food and comfort she offers while there on business. A young boy, Niel Herbert, frequently plays on the Forrester estate with his friend. One day, an older boy named Ivy Peters arrives, and shoots a woodpecker out of a tree. He then blinds the bird and laughs as it flies around helplessly. Niel pities the bird and tries to climb the tree to put it out of its misery, but while climbing he slips, and breaks his arm in the fall, as well as knocking himself unconscious. Ivy takes him to the Forrester house where Marian looks after him. When Niel wakes up, he's amazed by the nice house and how sweet Marian smells. He doesn't't see her much after that, but several years later he and his uncle, Judge Pommeroy, are invited to the Forrester house for dinner. There he meets Ellinger, who he will later learn is Mrs. Forrester's lover, and Constance, a young girl his age.
Desperate Romantics
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Author : Franny Moyle
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2012-11-08
Desperate Romantics written by Franny Moyle and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-11-08 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Their Bohemian lifestyle and intertwined love affairs shockingly broke 19th Century class barriers and bent the rules that governed the roles of the sexes. They became defined by love triangles, played out against the austere moral climate of Victorian England; they outraged their contemporaries with their loves, jealousies and betrayals, and they stunned society when their complex moral choices led to madness and suicide, or when their permissive experiments ended in addiction and death. The characters are huge and vivid and remain as compelling today as they were in their own time. The influential critic, writer and artist John Ruskin was their father figure and his apostles included the painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti and the designer William Morris. They drew extraordinary women into their circle. In a move intended to raise eyebrows for its social audacity, they recruited the most ravishing models they could find from the gutters of Victorian slums. The saga is brought to life through the vivid letters and diaries kept by the group and the accounts written by their contemporaries. These real-lie stories shed new light on the greatest nineteenth-century British art.