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Dancing In The Dark
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Author : Shoshana Mael
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017-09-21
Dancing In The Dark written by Shoshana Mael and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-09-21 with categories.
To outsiders, Rikki Kasnett is a model student; co-dance head for the upcoming school production; a fun-loving friend. But on the inside, Rikki and her older sister Daniella are struggling to cope with their desperate home situation, which they must keep hidden at all costs. When their mother's mental illness reaches new depths, the facade that the two sisters have worked so hard to build is shattered. The girls valiantly attempt to keep their lives afloat, guarding their horrifying secrets from well-meaning friends and teachers who want to help. They're worn out by the deception, but can't imagine any other solution. Will Rikki and Daniella be able to transcend the secrecy that has ruled their lives and find the help they need to recover?
Dancing In The Dark
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Author : Robyn Bavati
language : en
Publisher: Penguin Group Australia
Release Date : 2010-02-01
Dancing In The Dark written by Robyn Bavati and has been published by Penguin Group Australia this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-02-01 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
He tossed her into the air as if she were weightless, and just for a moment she seemed suspended there, defying gravity. I couldn't take my eyes off her. I knew what she was feeling. It was in every movement of every limb. Here was a power I had never seen before, a kind of haunting loveliness I had never imagined. Seeing it made me long for something, I didn't know what . . . Ditty was born to dance, but she was also born Jewish. When her strictly religious parents won't let her take ballet lessons, Ditty starts to dance in secret. But for how long can she keep her two worlds apart? And at what cost? A dramatic and moving story about a girl who follows her dream, and finds herself questioning everything she believes in.
Dancing In The Dark
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Author : Caryl Phillips
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2010-07-28
Dancing In The Dark written by Caryl Phillips and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-07-28 with Fiction categories.
'The funniest man I ever saw, and the saddest man I ever knew.' This is how W.C. Fields described Bert Williams, the highest-paid entertainer in America in his heyday and someone who counted the King of England and Buster Keaton among his fans. Born in the Bahamas, he moved to California with his family. Too poor to attend Stanford University, he took to life on the stage with his friend George Walker. Together they played lumber camps and mining towns until they eventually made the agonising decision to 'play the coon'. Off-stage, Williams was a tall, light-skinned man with marked poise and dignity; on-stage he now became a shuffling, inept 'nigger' who wore blackface make-up. As the new century dawned they were headlining on Broadway. But the mask was beginning to overwhelm Williams and he sank into bouts of melancholia and heavy drinking, unable to escape the blackface his public demanded.
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1990
Dancing In The Dark written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with categories.
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Author : Quentin James Schultze
language : en
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Release Date : 1991
Dancing In The Dark written by Quentin James Schultze and has been published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with Social Science categories.
The authors offer an insightful analysis of the symbiotic relationship between the popular entertainment industry and America's youth, suggest principles for evaluating popular art and entertainment, and propose strategies for rebuilding strong local cultures in the face of global media giants.
Dancing In The Dark A Cultural History Of The Great Depression
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Author : Morris Dickstein
language : en
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Release Date : 2009-09-14
Dancing In The Dark A Cultural History Of The Great Depression written by Morris Dickstein and has been published by W. W. Norton & Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-09-14 with History categories.
Finalist for the 2009 National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism: from Agee to Astaire, Steinbeck to Ellington, the creative energies of the Depression against a backdrop of poverty and economic disaster. Only yesterday the Great Depression seemed like a bad memory, receding into the hazy distance with little relevance to our own flush times. Economists assured us that the calamities that befell our grandparents could not happen again, yet the recent economic meltdown has once again riveted the world’s attention on the 1930s. Now, in this timely and long-awaited cultural history, Morris Dickstein, whom Norman Mailer called “one of our best and most distinguished critics of American literature,” explores the anxiety and hope, the despair and surprising optimism of a traumatized nation. Dickstein’s fascination springs from his own childhood, from a father who feared a pink slip every Friday and from his own love of the more exuberant side of the era: zany screwball comedies, witty musicals, and the lubricious choreography of Busby Berkeley. Whether analyzing the influence of film, design, literature, theater, or music, Dickstein lyrically demonstrates how the arts were then so integral to the fabric of American society. While any lover of American literature knows Fitzgerald and Steinbeck, Dickstein also reclaims the lives of other novelists whose work offers enduring insights. Nathanael West saw Los Angeles as a vast dream dump, a Sargasso Sea of tawdry longing that exposed the pinched and disappointed lives of ordinary people, while Erskine Caldwell, his books Tobacco Road and God’s Little Acre festooned with lurid covers, provided the most graphic portrayal of rural destitution in the 1930s. Dickstein also immerses us in the visions of Zora Neale Hurston and Henry Roth, only later recognized for their literary masterpieces. Just as Dickstein radically transforms our understanding of Depression literature, he explodes the prevailing myths that 1930s musicals and movies were merely escapist. Whether describing the undertone of sadness that lurks just below the surface of Cole Porter’s bubbly world or stressing the darker side of Capra’s wildly popular films, he shows how they delivered a catharsis of pain and an evangel of hope. Dickstein suggests that the tragic and comic worlds of Broadway and Hollywood preserved a radiance and energy that became a bastion against social suffering. Dancing in the Dark describes how FDR’s administration recognized the critical role that the arts could play in enabling “the helpless to become hopeful, the victims to become agents.” Along with the WPA, the photography unit of the FSA represented a historic partnership between government and art, and the photographers, among them Walker Evans and Dorothea Lange, created the defining look of the period. The symbolic end to this cultural flowering came finally with the New York World’s Fair of 1939–40, a collective event that presented a vision of the future as a utopia of streamlined modernity and, at long last, consumer abundance. Retrieving the stories of an entire generation of performers and writers, Dancing in the Dark shows how a rich, panoramic culture both exposed and helped alleviate the national trauma. This luminous work is a monumental study of one of America’s most remarkable artistic periods.
Dancing In The Dark
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Author : Janet Hobhouse
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1988
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Dancing In The Dark
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Author : Joan Barfoot
language : en
Publisher: Vintage Canada
Release Date : 2010-04-23
Dancing In The Dark written by Joan Barfoot and has been published by Vintage Canada this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-04-23 with Fiction categories.
Edna Cormick, forty-three, is incarcerated in a mental hospital for murdering her husband. For twenty years, Edna escaped the world by devoting herself to the health and welfare of her husband and home, so when she learns he’s been having an affair, her sense of betrayal is devastating and literally maddening. And so she sits, silently filling notebooks, trying to find where and how her life went wrong. Dancing in the Dark is a tightly woven psychological novel, which explores the idea that madness is not necessarily self-destructive, and may lead to a kind of wisdom.
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Author : P.R. Prendergast
language : en
Publisher: The O'Brien Press
Release Date : 2012-09-01
Dancing In The Dark written by P.R. Prendergast and has been published by The O'Brien Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-09-01 with Young Adult Fiction categories.
Things haven't been easy for Jessie since her brother James - sports star and popular kid - died. Her mum and dad are lost in grief and she's feeling isolated at school; when the popular girls on her dance team give her a hard time, she just can't seem to remember the routines ... ... and Jessie can still see James. Talk to him, or quarrel with him, more like! They always bickered when James was alive, so why change now? But James might turn out to be her unlikely saviour. Along with Alan, the dorky new boy, can he give Jessie the confidence to show the rest of the dance team what she's got ... and help her and her parents on the road towards healing? Funny, sharp and poignant, a story about living with a ghost, and the pain of letting go.
Dancing In The Dark
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Author : Carolyn Ross
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1970
Dancing In The Dark written by Carolyn Ross and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1970 with categories.