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Scratched
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Author : Elizabeth Tallent
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins
Release Date : 2020-02-25
Scratched written by Elizabeth Tallent and has been published by HarperCollins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-02-25 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
“Reading Scratched gave me the feeling of standing very close to a blazing fire. It is that brilliant, that intense, and one of the finest explorations I know of what it means to be a woman and an artist.”—Sigrid Nunez, author of The Friend and Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction In this bold and brilliant memoir, the acclaimed author of the novel Museum Pieces and the collection Mendocino Fire explores the ferocious desire for perfection which has shaped her writing life as well as her rich, dramatic, and constantly surprising personal life. In the decade between age twenty-seven and thirty-seven, Elizabeth Tallent published five literary books with Knopf, her short stories appeared in The New Yorker, and she secured a coveted teaching job at Stanford University. But this extraordinary start to her career was followed by twenty-two years of silence. She wrote —or rather published— nothing at all. Why? Scratched is the remarkable response to that question. Elizabeth’s story begins in a hospital in mid-1950s suburban Washington, D.C., when her mother refuses to hold her newborn daughter, shocking behavior that baffles the nurses. Imagining her mother’s perfectionist ideal at this critical moment, Elizabeth moves back and forth in time, juxtaposing moments in the past with the present in this innovative and spellbinding narrative. She traces her journey from her early years in which she perceived herself as “the child whose flaws let disaster into an otherwise perfect family,” to her adulthood, when perfectionism came to affect everything. As she toggles between teaching at Stanford in Palo Alto and the Mendocino coast where she lives, raises her son Gabriel, and pursues an important psychoanalysis, Elizabeth grapples with the ferocious desire for perfection which has shaped her personal life and writing life. Eventually, she finds love and acceptance in the most unlikely place, and finally accepts an “as is” relationship with herself and others. Her final triumph is the writing of this extraordinary memoir, filled with wit, humor, and heart—a brave book that repeatedly searches for the emotional truth beneath the conventional surface of existence.
Little Scratch
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Author : Rebecca Watson
language : en
Publisher: Anchor
Release Date : 2021-07-06
Little Scratch written by Rebecca Watson and has been published by Anchor this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-07-06 with Fiction categories.
A dazzlingly original, shot-in-the-arm of a debut that reveals a young woman's every thought over the course of one deceptively ordinary day, in the formally innovative tradition of Grief Is the Thing with Feathers and Ducks, Newburyport. • "Extraordinary."—The New Yorker She wakes up, goes to work. Watches the clock and checks her phone. But underneath this monotony there's something else going on: something under her skin. Relayed in interweaving columns that chart the feedback loop of memory, the senses, and modern distractions with wit and precision, our narrator becomes increasingly anxious as the day moves on: Is she overusing the heart emoji? Isn't drinking eight glasses of water a day supposed to fix everything? Why is the etiquette of the women's bathroom so fraught? How does she define rape? And why can't she stop scratching? Fiercely moving and slyly profound, little scratch is a defiantly playful look at how our minds function in—and survive—the darkest moments.
Scritch Scratch
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Author : Lindsay Currie
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-08-03
Scritch Scratch written by Lindsay Currie and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-08-03 with categories.
Haunted after helping her father on his ghost-themed Chicago bus tour, twelve-year-old Claire must discover what the spectral boy from the bus wants before it is too late.
Scratched
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Author : Marie Long
language : en
Publisher: Chikara Press
Release Date : 2015-08-04
Scratched written by Marie Long and has been published by Chikara Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-08-04 with Fiction categories.
"Scratched" is a New Adult, multicultural contemporary romance. "Kevin Anderson lost his opportunity to play basketball during his senior year at college. Determined to not let his extraordinary athletic ability go to waste, Kevin trains for a chance at the pros. Basketball is only matched by his love for music--one is his talent, the other is his passion. Trinity Brown keeps her life on track as she focuses on finishing her last year of college. She is shocked when her admiration for a local deejay captures his attention. Unsure of their future, Trinity is torn between her feelings for Kevin and her responsibility to her family. Kevin soon realizes that his talent for basketball and his love of music means nothing if he doesn’t have Trinity to share it with, but he’s unsure if she feels the same. He’s not giving up on her without a fight. Can Kevin convince Trinity that the beautiful music they make together is worth fighting for? Or will he lose Trinity to a family that threatens to pull her away?"
Scratched
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Author : J. J. Partridge
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014-11
Scratched written by J. J. Partridge and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-11 with Legal stories categories.
When Algy Temple, pool player, sleuth and Ivy League university lawyer, investigates the highly suspicious death of a retired university don, his contemporaneous involvement in a high stakes pool tournament in Providence becomes a tiresome, contentious obligation that must be endured. As he delves into the life of the deceased, he unexpectedly finds himself on a path that leads him to Rome, the vendetta-ridden Boot of Italy and into a haunted past of corruption and conspiracy with a linkage to the tournament, gambling, shylocks, and mobsters unexpected even in Providence where old world shadows hang heavy in the air. Add an abduction, a Ponzi, an outraged Italo-American community locked in a culture war with the University, a hustler's last gambit for recognition, and a fiancé focused on their wedding in two weeks, his investigation becomes a match of wits with a dead man, and a pool wager of life and death.
Scratch
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Author : Manjula Martin
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2017-01-03
Scratch written by Manjula Martin 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 2017-01-03 with Literary Collections categories.
A collection of essays from today’s most acclaimed authors—from Cheryl Strayed to Roxane Gay to Jennifer Weiner, Alexander Chee, Nick Hornby, and Jonathan Franzen—on the realities of making a living in the writing world. In the literary world, the debate around writing and commerce often begs us to take sides: either writers should be paid for everything they do or writers should just pay their dues and count themselves lucky to be published. You should never quit your day job, but your ultimate goal should be to quit your day job. It’s an endless, confusing, and often controversial conversation that, despite our bare-it-all culture, still remains taboo. In Scratch, Manjula Martin has gathered interviews and essays from established and rising authors to confront the age-old question: how do creative people make money? As contributors including Jonathan Franzen, Cheryl Strayed, Roxane Gay, Nick Hornby, Susan Orlean, Alexander Chee, Daniel Jose Older, Jennifer Weiner, and Yiyun Li candidly and emotionally discuss money, MFA programs, teaching fellowships, finally getting published, and what success really means to them, Scratch honestly addresses the tensions between writing and money, work and life, literature and commerce. The result is an entertaining and inspiring book that helps readers and writers understand what it’s really like to make art in a world that runs on money—and why it matters. Essential reading for aspiring and experienced writers, and for anyone interested in the future of literature, Scratch is the perfect bookshelf companion to On Writing, Never Can Say Goodbye, and MFA vs. NYC.
The Cat That Scratched
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Author : Jonathan Long
language : en
Publisher: Arrow
Release Date : 1994
The Cat That Scratched written by Jonathan Long and has been published by Arrow this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Cats categories.
This Book Scratches
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Author : Sarah Machajewski
language : en
Publisher: Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP
Release Date : 2019-07-15
This Book Scratches written by Sarah Machajewski and has been published by Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-07-15 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
Swipe! Scratch! Watch out for the animals on the attack! This elementary science book introduces readers to animals that scratch. From big cats to beastly bears, readers will delight in learning more about their favorite animals and why they scratch. Through exploring physical characteristics, habitat, environment, and life cycles readers will learn how this behavior is a survival instinct and a unique kind of defense. Fact boxes and impactful images offer opportunities for additional learning.
Document
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Author : Boston (Mass.)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1886
Document written by Boston (Mass.) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1886 with categories.
Embodied
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Author : Christopher Eccleston
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2015-11-26
Embodied written by Christopher Eccleston and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-11-26 with Psychology categories.
We grow up thinking there are five senses, but we forget about the ten neglected senses of the body that both enable and limit our experience. Embodied explores the psychology of physical sensation in ten chapters: balance, movement, pressure (acting in gravity), breathing, fatigue, pain, itch, temperature, appetite, and expulsion (the senses of physical matter leaving the body). For each sense, two people are interviewed who live with extreme experiences of the sense being investigated; their stories bring to life how far physical sensations matter to us and how much they define what is possible in our life. How physical sensation shapes behavior and how behavior is shaped by sensation are examined. A final chapter presents a theory of what is common across the ten senses: of how we deal with being urged to act, and what happens when extreme sensation is inescapable.