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Agathe S Summer

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Author : Didier Pourquery
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2018-07-18

Agathe S Summer written by Didier Pourquery and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-07-18 with Biography & Autobiography categories.

One morning in August of 2007, Didier Pourquery’s daughter, Agathe, only a few days away from her twenty-third birthday, stopped breathing. Seven years after her death, her father tells her story, based on his notes taken during the last three weeks of her life. He shares not only his sadness and loss, but also the joy that characterized his relationship with his daughter. At her birth, Agathe’s doctors said the average life expectancy for a child born with cystic fibrosis was twenty-five years. Once he learned his daughter only had a few weeks left to live, Didier Pouquery began writing daily about her last weeks. The notes he took then became the source of this book: a homage that is full of hope and light, even as it boldly highlights deep human frailty and the pain of losing a child. Pourquery alternates between an account of Agathe’s physical condition and a letter addressed to her after her death. We get to know her—and her father—through this lyrical and poignant portrait and ode. Who was this joyful and straight-talking girl? How did she grow up in the shadow of this looming disease? How was she able to help those around her, even as she faced a certain and early death? Although Agathe’s Summer is one father’s testimony to the short life of a child grown into a young woman, it is also the story of the love, hope, fear, and joy that speaks to all parents.

Agathe

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Author : Robert Musil
language : en
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Release Date : 2019-12-17

Agathe written by Robert Musil and has been published by New York Review of Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-12-17 with Fiction categories.

From the author of 'A Man without Qualities,' a novel about spirituality in the modern world. Agathe is the sister of Ulrich, the restless and elusive “man without qualities” at the center of Robert Musil’s great, unfinished novel of the same name. For years Agathe and Ulrich have ignored each other, but when brother and sister find themselves reunited over the bier of their dead father, they are electrified. Each is the other’s spitting image, and Agathe, who has just separated from her husband, is even more defiant and inquiring than Ulrich. Beginning with a series of increasingly intense “holy conversations,” the two gradually enlarge the boundaries of sexuality, sensuality, identity, and understanding in pursuit of a new, true form of being that they are seeking to discover. Robert Musil’s The Man Without Qualities is perhaps the most profoundly exploratory and unsettling masterpiece of twentieth-century fiction. Agathe, or, The Forgotten Sister reveals with new clarity a particular dimension of this multidimensional book—the dimension that meant the most to Musil himself and that inspired some of his most searching writing. The outstanding translator Joel Agee captures the acuity, audacity, and unsettling poetry of a book that is meant to be nothing short of life-changing.

Last Summer In Agatha

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Author : Katherine Holubitsky
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001-10-01

Last Summer In Agatha written by Katherine Holubitsky and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-10-01 with categories.

Rachel's visit to a small prairie town is exciting at first, but a series of pranks send things spinning out of control. When fifteen-year-old Rachel Bennett goes to work at her uncle's veterinary clinic in Agatha, a dusty prairie town, she predicts an uneventful summer. But the reality turns out to be quite different. She soon falls for sixteen-year-old Michael Bell, and the attraction is mutual and immediate. The boring summer she's been expecting is suddenly looking exciting. And then her new beau's painful past begins to get in the way. Michael's life has been torn apart by the death two years earlier of the older brother he idolized. Despite his affection for Rachel, he can no longer hold his frustration and anger inside and he begins to strike out at the people around him. For years, Michael and his friend, Scott, have been at odds with Cory and Taylor. In the past, the four boys have amused themselves by exchanging insults. But this summer, things begin to spin out of control, and Rachel finds herself caught in the middle of a series of increasingly violent pranks that threaten the stability of the small community and force her to question the boundaries of friendship and trust.

Poetics Of Breathing

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Author : Stefanie Heine
language : en
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Release Date : 2021-05-01

Poetics Of Breathing written by Stefanie Heine and has been published by State University of New York Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-05-01 with Literary Criticism categories.

Breathing and its rhythms—liminal, syncopal, and usually inconspicuous—have become a core poetic compositional principle in modern literature. Examining moments when breath's punctuations, cessations, inhalations, or exhalations operate at the limits of meaningful speech, Stefanie Heine explores how literary texts reflect their own mediality, production, and reception in alluding to and incorporating pneumatic rhythms, respiratory sound, and silent pauses. Through close readings of works by a series of pairs—Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg; Robert Musil and Virginia Woolf; Samuel Beckett and Sylvia Plath; and Paul Celan and Herta Müller—Poetics of Breathing suggests that each offers a different conception of literary or poetic breath as a precondition of writing. Presenting a challenge to historical and contemporary discourses that tie breath to the transcendent and the natural, Heine traces a decoupling of breath from its traditional association with life, and asks what literature might lie beyond.

Interbellum Literature

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Author : Cor Hermans
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2017-07-10

Interbellum Literature written by Cor Hermans and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-10 with Literary Criticism categories.

In Interbellum Literature Cor Hermans offers an overview of modernist writing in the interwar years. The ideas embodied in the personalities and works of Proust, Woolf, Joyce, Kafka, Musil, Beckett, Céline and others are captured in a new synthesis.

A Brief Guide To The Sound Of Music

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Author : Paul Simpson
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2015-03-19

A Brief Guide To The Sound Of Music written by Paul Simpson and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-03-19 with Performing Arts categories.

Everyone has heard the songs from The Sound of Music by Rodgers and Hammerstein. The stage show was a roaring success in New York and London, and the much-loved feature film, directed by Hollywood veteran Robert Wise, continues to be a staple of television schedules 50 years after its release in 1965. In this fascinating and wide-ranging book, Paul Simpson explores the incredible story of the Von Trapp family and their escape from the Third Reich in all its incarnations, from real-life adventure, to book, to stage, to award-winning film to cultural phenomenon. He discusses the stage show, the many differences that were incorporated into the fictionalisation of the tale, and how that story was brought to the screen. He also looks at the numerous other ways in which the Von Trapp’s story has been told, including the two West German movies from the 1950s and the extensive forty-part Japanese anime series from the 1990s, to explain why the story of the Von Trapp family has appealed to so many generations. Praise for A Brief Guide to Stephen King: 'The best book about King and his work I have ever read' Books Monthly

Anywhere Anytime Art Gouache

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Author : Agathe Singer
language : en
Publisher: Quarto Publishing Group USA
Release Date : 2018-05-01

Anywhere Anytime Art Gouache written by Agathe Singer and has been published by Quarto Publishing Group USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-05-01 with Art categories.

Learn how to create vibrant paintings with this reworkable opaque paint. Subjects include a harlequin pattern, city rooftops, a nocturnal cat—and more. Gouache paint has a long history, but it’s often associated with watercolor and multimedia art. Until now, that is! Trendy artists with large social-media followings are reinvigorating gouache, making this the ideal time to add this medium to your toolbox . . . or start your art journey with it! Like the other books in the Anywhere, Anytime Art series, Gouache explores this medium in a portable, approachable, and contemporary way. Basic painting topics, such as tools and materials, techniques, and color theory, are presented in an easy-to-read, visual style. The subsequent step-by-step projects focus on various subjects that artists can find anywhere, whether they’re home or out and about. Artists can learn to paint their favorite things, including plants, flowers, cats, patterns, and more. Anywhere, Anytime Art: Gouache is filled with vibrant, colorful artwork that’s sure to inspire any artist to give gouache a try and get out there and paint! “Inventive and colorful.” —Arts & Activities “For the artist that is willing to begin an artistic journey and try out a new medium, this book is ideal.” —GeekDad