Letting Go

2011-04-20 Fiction

Author : Philip Roth
Release : 2011-04-20
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 628/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Letting Go written by Philip Roth. This book was released on 2011-04-20. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Letting Go is Roth's first full-length novel, published just after Goodbye, Columbus, when he was twenty-nine. Set in 1950s Chicago, New York, and Iowa city, Letting Go presents as brilliant a fictional portrait as we have of a mid-century America defined by social and ethical constraints and by moral compulsions conspicuously different from those of today. Newly discharged from the Korean War army, reeling from his mother's recent death, freed from old attachments and hungrily seeking others, Gabe Wallach is drawn to Paul Herz, a fellow graduate student in literature, and to Libby, Paul's moody, intense wife. Gabe's desire to be connected to the ordered "world of feeling" that he finds in books is first tested vicariously by the anarchy of the Herzes' struggles with responsible adulthood and then by his own eager love affairs. Driven by the desire to live seriously and act generously, Gabe meets an impassable test in the person of Martha Reganhart, a spirited, outspoken, divorced mother of two, a formidable woman who, according to critic James Atlas, is masterfully portrayed with "depth and resonance." The complex liason between Gabe and Martha and Gabe's moral enthusiasm for the trials of others are at the heart of this tragically comic work.

Monday's Child

2010-06-28 Health & Fitness

Author : Deborah Turner
Release : 2010-06-28
Genre : Health & Fitness
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Book Rating : 996/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Monday's Child written by Deborah Turner. This book was released on 2010-06-28. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Humor, essays and poetry. For everyone who has ever started a diet on Monday only to somehow lose focus and find Monday upon you once more. To those who have ever laid down to zip up, and any woman brave enough to tackle a pair of control top pantyhose. We are all in search of that mysterious place where we can be comfortable within our own body. This book is for all of Monday's Children, may we all learn that we are beautiful everyday!

Letters of the Century

2008-04-08 Literary Criticism

Author : Lisa Grunwald
Release : 2008-04-08
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 937/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Letters of the Century written by Lisa Grunwald. This book was released on 2008-04-08. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Immediate and evocative, letters witness and fasten history, catching events as they happen," write Lisa Grunwald and Stephen J. Adler in their introduction to this remarkable book. In more than 400 letters from both famous figures and ordinary citizens, Letters of the Century encapsulates the people and places, events and trends that shaped our nation during the last 100 years. Here is Mark Twain's hilarious letter of complaint to the head of Western Union, an ecstatic letter from a young Charlie Chaplin upon receiving his first movie contract, Einstein's letter to Franklin Roosevelt warning about atomic warfare, Mark Rudd's "generation gap" letter to the president of Columbia University during the student riots of the 60s, and a letter from young Bill Gates imploring hobbyists not to share software so that innovators can make some money... In these pages, our century's most celebrated figures become everyday people and everyday people become part of history. Here is a veteran's wrenching letter left at the Vietnam Wall, a poignant correspondence between two women trying to become mothers, a heart-breaking letter from an AIDS sufferer telling his parents how he wants to be buried, an indignant e-mail from a PC user to his on-line server... "Letters," write Grunwald and Adler, "give history a voice." Arranged chronologically by decade, illustrated with over 100 photographs, Letters of the Century creates an extraordinary chronicle of our history, through the voices of the men and women who have lived its greatest moments.

Women's Letters

2005 Literary Collections

Author : Lisa Grunwald
Release : 2005
Genre : Literary Collections
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Book Rating : 539/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Women's Letters written by Lisa Grunwald. This book was released on 2005. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A survey of American history collects more than four hundred letters, arranged chronologically by era, that document the experiences of women representing all walks of life from the eighteenth century to the present.

Cocaine Changes

1992-06 Psychology

Author : Dan Waldorf
Release : 1992-06
Genre : Psychology
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 132/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Cocaine Changes written by Dan Waldorf. This book was released on 1992-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In an arena of public policy where misinformation and disinformation reigns, ... facts are desperately needed, and Cocaine Changes gives us a bucketful of them. Anyone who values rationality and is concerned about the harmful efforts of our misbegotten drug policy should read this book." ?Ira Glasser, Executive Director, ACLU"I know of no other book that offers so much information on the subject so clearly and calmly presented. For anyone interested in the natural history of cocaine use in America now, Cocaine Changes provides the best, most comprehensive available resource." ?Lester Grinspoon, M.D., Harvard Medical School "This book puts the cocaine scare of the 1980s to the test and places cocaine in a more realistic perspective. By examining the lives of hundreds of heavy users, it discovers that even among this group, cocaine use is not always cocaine abuse." ?Kevin B. Zeese, Drug Policy Foundation "This provocative study challenges many of the prevailing myths about cocaine and crack use, and is essential reading for any researchers, educators, policymakers, law enforcement personnel, or concerned citizens who wish to make informed judgments." ?Patricia G. Erickson, Ph.D., Head, Drug Policy Research Program (Canada) "This book puts the cocaine scare of the 1980s to the test and places cocaine in a more realistic perspective. By examining the lives of hundreds of heavy users, it discovers that even among this group, cocaine use is not always cocaine abuse." ?Kevin B. Zeese, Vice-President and Counsel, Drug Policy Foundation

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