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Author : Rusch Kristine Kathryn (author)
Release : 1901
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Book Rating : 679/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Crossing the River Styx by : Rusch Kristine Kathryn (author)
Download or read book Crossing the River Styx written by Rusch Kristine Kathryn (author). This book was released on 1901. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Russ Ford
Release : 2023-03-01
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 122/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Crossing the River Styx by : Russ Ford
Download or read book Crossing the River Styx written by Russ Ford. This book was released on 2023-03-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Reverend Russ Ford, who served as the head chaplain on Virginia’s death row for eighteen years, raged against the inequities of the death penalty—now outlawed in Virginia—while ministering to the men condemned to die in the 1980s and 1990s. Ford stood watch with twenty-eight men, sitting with them in the squalid death house during the final days and hours of their lives. In July 1990 he accidentally almost became the 245th person killed by Virginia’s electric chair as he comforted Ricky Boggs in his last moments, a vivid episode that opens this haunting book. Many chaplains get to know the condemned men only in these final moments. Ford, however, spent years working with the men of Virginia’s death row, forging close bonds with the condemned and developing a nuanced understanding of their crimes, their early struggles, and their challenges behind bars. His unusual ministry makes this memoir a unique and compelling read, a moving and unflinching portrait of Virginia’s death row inmates. Revealing the cruelties of the state-sanctioned violence that has until recently prevailed in our backyard, Crossing the River Styx serves as a cautionary tale for those who still support capital punishment.
Author : Edward Hoagland
Release : 2011-02-18
Genre : Literary Collections
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Book Rating : 386/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Sex and the River Styx by : Edward Hoagland
Download or read book Sex and the River Styx written by Edward Hoagland. This book was released on 2011-02-18. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Called the best essayist of his time by luminaries like Philip Roth, John Updike, and Edward Abbey, Edward Hoagland brings readers his ultimate collection. In Sex and the River Styx, the author's sharp eye and intense curiosity shine through in essays that span his childhood exploring the woods in his rural Connecticut, his days as a circus worker, and his travels the world over in his later years. Here, we meet Hoagland at his best: traveling to Kampala, Uganda, to meet a family he'd been helping support only to find a divide far greater than he could have ever imagined; reflecting on aging, love, and sex in a deeply personal, often surprising way; and bringing us the wonder of wild places, alongside the disparity of losing them, and always with a twist that brings the genre of nature writing to vastly new heights. His keen dissection of social realities and the human spirit will both startle and lure readers as they meet African matriarchs, Tibetan yak herders, circus aerialists, and the strippers who entertained college boys in 1950s Boston. Says Howard Frank Mosher in his foreword, the self-described rhapsodist "could fairly be considered our last, great transcendentalist."
Author : H. A. Guerber
Release : 1893
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Book Synopsis Myths of greece and rome by : H. A. Guerber
Download or read book Myths of greece and rome written by H. A. Guerber. This book was released on 1893. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Kendrick Bangs
Release : 2020-04-21
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Book Synopsis A House-Boat on the Styx Illustrated by : John Kendrick Bangs
Download or read book A House-Boat on the Styx Illustrated written by John Kendrick Bangs. This book was released on 2020-04-21. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A House-Boat on the Styx is a fantasy novel written by John Kendrick Bangs in 1895.The original full title was A House-Boat on the Styx: Being Some Account of the Divers Doings of the Associated Shades. The novel was first published by Harper Brothers in 1896 with illustrations by Peter Newell (24 plates)"
