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Townie A Memoir
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Author : Andre Dubus III
language : en
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Release Date : 2011-02-23
Townie A Memoir written by Andre Dubus III 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 2011-02-23 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
"Dubus relives, absent self-pity or blame, a life shaped by bouts of violence and flurries of tenderness." —Vanity Fair After their parents divorced in the 1970s, Andre Dubus III and his three siblings grew up with their overworked mother in a depressed Massachusetts mill town saturated with drugs and everyday violence. Nearby, his father, an eminent author, taught on a college campus and took the kids out on Sundays. The clash between town and gown, between the hard drinking, drugging, and fighting of "townies" and the ambitions of students debating books and ideas, couldn’t have been more stark. In this unforgettable memoir, acclaimed novelist Dubus shows us how he escaped the cycle of violence and found empathy in channeling the stories of others—bridging, in the process, the rift between his father and himself.
Townies
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Author : William O'Shaughnessy
language : en
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
Release Date : 2022-11-15
Townies written by William O'Shaughnessy and has been published by Fordham Univ Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-11-15 with Social Science categories.
In his six previous books, William O’Shaughnessy, one of the nation’s best known and most beloved community broadcasters, has told the tales of the power brokers and visionaries of politics, government, business and industry, the arts, fine living—world famous figures like Joe DiMaggio, Fred Astaire, Nelson Rockefeller, the Bushes, Kennedys, and so many others. He elevated each encounter with his wisdom, wit, insight ... and compassion, and what emerged through words that carried the weight of authority as they danced with the delight of Nijinsky was nothing less than transformative for both subject and reader. In O’Shaughnessy, we have our modern day Plutarch, whose prose has run across the decades like a power strip illuminating the lives of the nation’s most incandescent leaders from every arena. Henry Kissinger, Rush Limbaugh, Mario Cuomo, Jacob K. Javits, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, John V. Lindsay, Dan Rather, President Richard Nixon, President Donald J. Trump, Jimmy Breslin, Pope Francis—his list of on-air guests and from-the-notebook subjects is the broadcasting world’s premier who’s who list. A “vivid man about town” known for his blazers, Belgian loafers, and the Yankees World Series ring given to him in appreciation by George M. Steinbrenner, O’Shaughnessy shared the gift of vividness not only with the great and powerful but also with the local characters who made their mark “about town,” the “Townies” of Westchester, a/k/a the “Golden Apple,” and beyond. Folks who may have been touched by fame, they were devoutly invested in the fortunes of their home heath, and O’Shaughnessy amplified their passions, priorities, quests, hurdles, and triumphs as a friend and champion who wielded the most respected and influential “megaphone” in the Eastern Establishment ... and far beyond. He shared the counsel and companionship of political influencers, and leading lights from the media, the arts, the sporting world, and the constellation of fine living ... who all were blessed with the heart and soul of a Townie. The Townies derives its power to inform and captivate from the radiance of these good people, their good will, and their good deeds, which shine brighter than the lights of Broadway on a Saturday night. Enjoy!
Townie Town
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Author : Barbara Joosse
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020-10-30
Townie Town written by Barbara Joosse and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-10-30 with categories.
My Townie Heart
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Author : Diana Sperrazza
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2015-06-16
My Townie Heart written by Diana Sperrazza 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 2015-06-16 with Fiction categories.
"Laura DiStefano, after flunking out of the University of Massachusetts, returns to her blue-collar home only to discover that her sister, a fierce survivor of a childhood attack has rather foolishly gotten pregnant and needs her help. As Laura adjusts to living in town again, she unexpectedly falls in love with a local guy and finds herself torn between dreams of a new and better life elsewhere and the undertow of a dysfunctional family. As the conflicts in her life threaten to drag her under, Laura becomes agoraphobic. How can she reconcile her divided loyalties and find her genuine life?"--Page 4 of cover.
Townie
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Author : Andre Dubus III
language : en
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Release Date : 2011-03-01
Townie written by Andre Dubus III and has been published by National Geographic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-03-01 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Won Book of the Year Adult Non-Fiction—2012 Indie Choice Awards Amazon Best Book of the Month February 2011 An acclaimed novelist reflects on his violent past and a lifestyle that threatened to destroy him—until he was saved by writing. After their parents divorced in the 1970s, Andre Dubus III and his three siblings grew up with their exhausted working mother in a depressed Massachusetts mill town saturated with drugs and everyday violence. To protect himself and those he loved, Andre started pumping iron and learned to use his fists so well that he became the kind of man who could send others to the hospital with one punch, and did. Irresistibly drawn to stand up for the underdog, he was on a fast track to getting killed—or killing someone else. Nearby, his father, an eminent author, taught on a college campus and took the kids out on Sundays. The clash of worlds between town and gown, between the hard drinking, drugging, and fighting of “townies” and the ambitions of well-fed students debating books and ideas, couldn’t have been more stark or more difficult for a son to communicate to a father. Only by finally putting pen to paper himself did young Andre come into his own, discovering the power of empathy in channeling the stories of others—and ultimately bridging the rift between his father and himself. An unforgettable book, Townie is a riveting and profound meditation on physical violence and the failures and triumphs of love.
Townie
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Author : Victoria Jenkins
language : en
Publisher: Permanent Press (NY)
Release Date : 2002
Townie written by Victoria Jenkins and has been published by Permanent Press (NY) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Fiction categories.
An intensely personal investigation of loss told with intelligence and restraint, Victoria Jenkins' second novel, Cruise Control, is an exploration of space and self, real and unreal, and a noir celebration of language and observation. Geographically and psychologically adrift following a divorce, Louise begins an odyssey that takes her from Seattle to Los Angeles, across Texas and into Mexico. Her big car, the expansive empty West, and a film director who is very precise and specific about what he wants, people her landscape. Louise herself is very unsure about what she desires, and characters, events and circumstances all contribute to her unmooring. While Louise herself may seem adrift, her wry wit and specificity of language make loneliness sexy, cinematic, and ultimately, deeply involving.
Townie
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Author : John Butman
language : en
Publisher: Open Road Media
Release Date : 2015-05-12
Townie written by John Butman and has been published by Open Road Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-05-12 with Fiction categories.
Townie takes place in Oldon, Massachusetts, a burgeoning New England village that has become the favored residence of the mega-rich, a town whose historic past has been preserved and polished until it gleams with the arrogant intensity of a Colonial theme park. Alan Lowe inhabits a different Oldon, however, a town that he loved as a boy for the “power and rightness of its countryside.” Now, in early middle age, he finds himself living on the margins of the changing town, in a camp deep within Oldon Woods, “inelegantly sheltered by a stale, army-surplus sheet, perforated here and there with pinholes and rudely draped into the equivalent of a teepee.” Then Alan’s seemingly rootless life converges with that of Arthur Worthy, a member of the recently-arrived elite, whose life “bristles with appointments, trips, activities, possessions, responsibilities, and business urgencies.” But Arthur lives on the margin, too, as alone and isolated in his mansion as Alan is in his teepee. They share, as they discover, an unexpected connection, a woman named Anna, “who must be understood as a catalytic force in both of our lives, the intoxicating girl who devolved into the equable woman whose existence served to define our own.” Alan abandons his camp in order to temporarily look after Arthur’s mansion and their lives soon become deeply intertwined in an adventure that is ostensibly a business deal but is, more essentially, a search for love and connection with place. Townie is a picaresque novel of the countryside, funny and skewering about our social and business pretensions, moving and true about our need for roots and authenticity.
Townies
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Author : Eryk Pruitt
language : en
Publisher: Polis Books
Release Date : 2018-10-16
Townies written by Eryk Pruitt and has been published by Polis Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-10-16 with Fiction categories.
A collection of riveting, funny, and captivating southern fried crime stories from Eryk Pruitt, one of the best new crime fiction writers working today. Townies, and Other Tales of Southern Mischief collects, for the first time, Pruitt's short fiction in a single volume. The title story, "Townies," details what really happened one night, after hours, in a once popular East Texas sports bar, and the sinister revenge that would soon follow. "Knacker," the story of a Texan who finds himself homeless in Dublin, Ireland, and willing to sacrifice damn near anything to scratch together what remaining pride he may have lost. "Let's Be Awful" tells the story of a cocktail waitress who decides that, after a horrid round of revenge porn, her days of playing the victim have past. In "A Lot Prettier (When You Smile)," we are introduced to a woman who can wrap any man around her finger and decides to put that powerful skill to use one last time. When a black sheep son comes home to his sick momma's deathbed in "The Only Hell My Momma Ever Raised," he discovers long lost family secrets, as well as how he can use his own set of skills to give her a proper send off. When Old Man McCarthy turns up dead in the bottoms of "Blood Holler," a cursory investigation turns up an unlikely suspect, which barely scratches the surface of the true implications of the brutal crime. These and other stories will have you turning the pages to read more of one of the most unique voices in southern fiction.
Townie S Book Of Great Ideas And Thoughts
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Author : 2 Scribble
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019-11-15
Townie S Book Of Great Ideas And Thoughts written by 2 Scribble and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-11-15 with categories.
Townie's Notebook Specifications; 150 Dotted grid and numbered cream 90g/m2 pages. Perfect matte 220g/m2 soft cover with clean design. "If Lost contact..." page Customised design for: Townie 6" x 9" dimensions; fits backpack, school, home or work. Good compromise between size and portability. Can be used as a notebook, journal, diary, composition book for school and work, and any other practical application where a medium sized notebook is required. Perfect gift for adults and kids for any gift giving occasion ( Christmas, Birthdays and other festive occasions. ) Designed with Love by the team at 2Scribble.
Townies
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Author : W.S. Long
language : en
Publisher: JMS Books LLC
Release Date : 2021-11-06
Townies written by W.S. Long and has been published by JMS Books LLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-11-06 with Fiction categories.
Back in high school, Johnny Cunningham had a secret crush on quarterback Zach Carpenter. Because of fear and anxiety, he didn’t do anything about it. A chance meeting after high school brings their paths together again, and sparks fly. Zach Carpenter was born into the richest family in town, but since tenth grade, he has been attracted to Johnny Cunningham and wasn’t sure if Johnny liked him too. When they meet again after high school, Zach cannot deny his strong attraction to Johnny and pursues him, even though Johnny is a Townie and dirt poor and Zach’s parents have already determined Zach’s path in life. When Johnny discovers Zach suffers from bipolar disorder and his parents have other plans for Zach that don’t include Johnny, can they overcome these obstacles and make their love last forever?