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Ending Up
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Author : Kingsley Amis
language : en
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Release Date : 2015-04-28
Ending Up written by Kingsley Amis 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 2015-04-28 with Fiction categories.
A group of disgruntled septuagenarians prepare for their final days in this dark and “very funny” English novel about death and the inevitability of growing old (The Observer) Everyone wants a comfortable place to die, and Kingsley Amis’s characters have found it in Tuppeny-happeny Cottage, where assorted septuagenarians have come together to see one another out the door of life. There’s grotesque Adela, whose sole passion is her cheapness; her brother Brigadier Bernard Bastable, always strategizing a new retreat to the bathroom before sallying forth to play some especially nasty practical joke; Shorty, the servant, who years ago had a fling with the brigadier in the barracks and now organizes his day around a trail of hidden bottles; George Zeyer, the distinguished professor of history, bedridden and helpless to articulate his still-coherent thoughts; and Marigold, who slowly but surely is forgetting it all. And now it is Christmas. Children and grandchildren are coming to visit their ailing elders. They don’t know what lies in store before the story ends. None of us do. Ending Up is a grimly hilarious dance of death, full of bickering, bitching, backstabbing, drinking (of course), and idiocy of all sorts. It is a book about dying people and about a dying England, clinging to its memories of greatness as it succumbs to terminal decay.
Ending Up
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Author : Kingsley Amis
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2011-06-02
Ending Up written by Kingsley Amis and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-06-02 with Fiction categories.
At Tuppenny-hapenny Cottage in the English countryside, five elderly people live together in rancorous disharmony. Adela Bastable bosses the house, as her brother Bernard passes his days thinking up malicious schemes against the baby-talking Marigold and secret drinker Shorty, while kindly George lies bedridden upstairs. The mismatched quintet keep their spirits alive by bickering and waiting for grandchildren to visit at Christmas. But the festive season does not herald goodwill to all at Tuppenny-hapenny Cottage. Disaster and chaos, it seems, are just around the corner ... Told with Amis's piercing wit and humanity, Ending Up (1974) is a wickedly funny black comedy of the indignities of old age. With a new introduction by Helen Dunmore.
Ending Up
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Author : Kingsley Amis
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1976
Ending Up written by Kingsley Amis and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1976 with Fiction in English categories.
Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself
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Author : David Lipsky
language : en
Publisher: Crown
Release Date : 2010-04-13
Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself written by David Lipsky and has been published by Crown this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-04-13 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE, STARRING JASON SEGAL AND JESSE EISENBERG, DIRECTED BY JAMES PONSOLDT An indelible portrait of David Foster Wallace, by turns funny and inspiring, based on a five-day trip with award-winning writer David Lipsky during Wallace’s Infinite Jest tour In David Lipsky’s view, David Foster Wallace was the best young writer in America. Wallace’s pieces for Harper’s magazine in the ’90s were, according to Lipsky, “like hearing for the first time the brain voice of everybody I knew: Here was how we all talked, experienced, thought. It was like smelling the damp in the air, seeing the first flash from a storm a mile away. You knew something gigantic was coming.” Then Rolling Stone sent Lipsky to join Wallace on the last leg of his book tour for Infinite Jest, the novel that made him internationally famous. They lose to each other at chess. They get iced-in at an airport. They dash to Chicago to catch a make-up flight. They endure a terrible reader’s escort in Minneapolis. Wallace does a reading, a signing, an NPR appearance. Wallace gives in and imbibes titanic amounts of hotel television (what he calls an “orgy of spectation”). They fly back to Illinois, drive home, walk Wallace’s dogs. Amid these everyday events, Wallace tells Lipsky remarkable things—everything he can about his life, how he feels, what he thinks, what terrifies and fascinates and confounds him—in the writing voice Lipsky had come to love. Lipsky took notes, stopped envying him, and came to feel about him—that grateful, awake feeling—the same way he felt about Infinite Jest. Then Lipsky heads to the airport, and Wallace goes to a dance at a Baptist church. A biography in five days, Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself is David Foster Wallace as few experienced this great American writer. Told in his own words, here is Wallace’s own story, and his astonishing, humane, alert way of looking at the world; here are stories of being a young writer—of being young generally—trying to knit together your ideas of who you should be and who other people expect you to be, and of being young in March of 1996. And of what it was like to be with and—as he tells it—what it was like to become David Foster Wallace. "If you can think of times in your life that you’ve treated people with extraordinary decency and love, and pure uninterested concern, just because they were valuable as human beings. The ability to do that with ourselves. To treat ourselves the way we would treat a really good, precious friend. Or a tiny child of ours that we absolutely loved more than life itself. And I think it’s probably possible to achieve that. I think part of the job we’re here for is to learn how to do it. I know that sounds a little pious." —David Foster Wallace
If Hovercraft Can Go Anywhere How Did We End Up Here
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Author : Russ Bagley
language : en
Publisher: Shivering Sheep
Release Date : 2018-05-01
If Hovercraft Can Go Anywhere How Did We End Up Here written by Russ Bagley and has been published by Shivering Sheep this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-05-01 with Travel categories.
If Hovercraft Can Go Anywhere, How Did We End Up Here? tells the stories of two hovercraft fixers who gave up some of the best years of their lives to repair and commission hovercraft all over the world. Unfortunately, the places that need hovercraft are tough, rugged, god-forsaken and not in the least bit glamorous - just like John and Russ, in fact. Whether impounded in the docks, in pieces in a hanger or strapped to a stranded lorry, as John once put it, "There's always a bloody hovercraft waiting to be fixed."
You Cannot Live As I Have Lived And Not End Up Like This
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Author : Terence Blacker
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2012-02-29
You Cannot Live As I Have Lived And Not End Up Like This written by Terence Blacker and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-02-29 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Though born into privilege and inheriting a fortune, Willie Donaldson ended up dying alone in a seedy rented flat, his computer still logged on to a lesbian porn site. To some, he had been one of the great, under-rated comic writers of our time, and to others, a dangerous force of corruption and decadence. His achievements were significant - he published Sylvia Plath while still at Cambridge, as a producer in the Sixties he staged Beyond the Fringe, and he was later to write the celebrated Henry Root Letters - but not as impressive as his reckless talent for self-destruction. The impresario became a serial bankrupt. The man about town, who had lived with Sarah Miles and been engaged to Carly Simon, ended up as a ponce in a Chelsea brothel. Success as a writer quickly led him into a dark underworld of crack addiction, fraud and sexual obsession. Now friend and collaborator, Terence Blacker unravels the intimate truth of Willie Donaldson's strange story in all its glamour, hilarity and pain. 'What a young fool I was. But how I adored him' Carly Simon 'A slimy crook' Private Eye 'For the skill and wit of his writing he deserves to be hailed as the English Nabokov' Auberon Waugh 'I am someone who always answers the phone at 1.00 am, because I know it isn't going to be my bank manager or the Inland Revenue, but probably a crack dealer or a prostitute' Willie Donaldson
How Not To End Up With The Wrong Man
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Author : Judith C. Awusah
language : en
Publisher: iUniverse
Release Date : 2015-02-13
How Not To End Up With The Wrong Man written by Judith C. Awusah and has been published by iUniverse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-02-13 with Family & Relationships categories.
As a single woman, are you experiencing painful disappointments, rejections, setbacks, and stagnancy in your courtship relationships? In How Not to End Up With the Wrong Man, author Judith. C. Awusah offers a guide for Christian, single women who have been unfortunate in love, particularly singles who are afflicted by the continuous problem of courting the wrong kinds of men. How Not to End Up With the Wrong Man discusses the pressures placed on single women by society and churches, and it provides practical insights into how to think about the issue and then how to live a victorious life as a single woman. Awusah exposes some of the spiritual, behavioral, and physical causes of bad relationships that could result in cyclical courtship relationship problems. Most importantly, she shows the single woman how to stop the constant barrage of the bad type of men coming her way, while assisting her to make room and prepare for the right man who will provide a fulfilling and stable relationship, and eventual marriage. Filled with practical, common-sense advice and biblical instruction in regard to dating relationships, How Not to End Up With the Wrong Man helps women guard against making some of the more common errors that lead to broken relationships.
I Would Love To End Up With You But
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Author : Anup Nair
language : en
Publisher: Partridge Publishing
Release Date : 2013-07-08
I Would Love To End Up With You But written by Anup Nair and has been published by Partridge Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-07-08 with Fiction categories.
You fall in love, and you can fall out of it. Love is the attachment that results from deeply appreciating anothers goodness. The life of Anurag, Shreya, and Anisha gives a new dimension for the definition of true love. The love triangle forms a repetitive cycle of unrealised events in which each character ends up at the point of no return. They all understood the definition of true love the hard waythrough I would love to end up with you, but . . . Anurag throws some light on how the true aim of his life becomes part and parcel of an unending love story. The unintended discoveries of difficulties give way to life-changing opportunities. The ones who cash in on the opportunities would have a smooth sail through the rough and rocking journey called life.
Getting Your Kids Through Church Without Them Ending Up Hati
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Author : Rob Parsons
language : en
Publisher: Monarch Books
Release Date : 2011-04-01
Getting Your Kids Through Church Without Them Ending Up Hati written by Rob Parsons and has been published by Monarch Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-04-01 with Religion categories.
How to raise kids with a healthy view of Christians, the church, themselves and God. It is every Christian parent's fear: what if my child falls away because of something I did, or said, or was? Rob Parsons is extremely reassuring. His pragmatic, candid approach provides both parenting advice and guidance for parents about their own spiritual development. Rob identifies five traits which can quench faith in your child: busyness, cynicism, hypocrisy, judgementalism and over-familiarity (your children never know when they should take off their shoes). He teaches that disappointment is an inevitable part of growing up. There will come a time when they are disappointed with Christians, the Church, themselves and even God. We should teach our children how to love God even when things fall apart. Do not hide your children from the world: instead, help them to discriminate. Above all, provide them with a vision or what they can be and can achieve. Peter became a fisher of men.
How To Deal With The Police Without Ending Up Wearing Orange Jammies
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Author : E.G. Voss
language : en
Publisher: E.G. Voss
Release Date : 2018-01-30
How To Deal With The Police Without Ending Up Wearing Orange Jammies written by E.G. Voss and has been published by E.G. Voss this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-01-30 with Fiction categories.
The police. You know everything about them. Or do you? To a lot of people, the world of police officers is a secretive and mysterious place. They’re either omnipresent or never around. Saving lives or roughing people up. Being jerks or buying groceries for a family caught shoplifting for food. In reality, all of the above are true. But what’s not known is why it’s true. Like any job, there are things about policing the general public doesn’t know (or want to know) about. And given the age we live in, the proliferation of police experts who don’t know anything about policing has exploded. So many experts with so little knowledge giving away so much bad advice. This is a guide with real life humorous examples on how to successfully deal with police written by a nearly 30-year veteran police sergeant. A guide to improving police-community relations. A guide to understanding why cops do what they do. And most importantly, a guide to avoiding ending your night wearing orange jammies. Oh, and don't forget wearing underwear that hundreds of other people have worn too. Yes, that's what really happens.