The Destiny Thief

2018-05-08 Literary Collections

Author : Richard Russo
Release : 2018-05-08
Genre : Literary Collections
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Book Rating : 520/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book The Destiny Thief written by Richard Russo. This book was released on 2018-05-08. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "It turns out that Russo the nonfiction writer is a lot like Russo the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist. He is affably disagreeable, wry, idiosyncratic, vulnerably bighearted, a craftsman of lubricated sentences."—Jay Fielden, New York Times Book Review A master of the novel, short story, and memoir, the best-selling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Everybody's Fool now gives us his very first collection of personal essays, ranging throughout writing and reading and living. In these nine essays, Richard Russo provides insight into his life as a writer, teacher, friend, and reader. From a commencement speech he gave at Colby College, to the story of how an oddly placed toilet made him reevaluate the purpose of humor in art and life, to a comprehensive analysis of Mark Twain's value, to his harrowing journey accompanying a dear friend as she pursued gender-reassignment surgery, The Destiny Thief reflects the broad interests and experiences of one of America's most beloved authors. Warm, funny, wise, and poignant, the essays included here traverse Russo's writing life, expanding our understanding of who he is and how his singular, incredibly generous mind works. An utter joy to read, they give deep insight into the creative process from the prospective of one of our greatest writers.

The Destiny Thief

2019-06-04 Literary Collections

Author : Richard Russo
Release : 2019-06-04
Genre : Literary Collections
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 336/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book The Destiny Thief written by Richard Russo. This book was released on 2019-06-04. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “I’ve written a lot about destiny in my fiction,” admits Richard Russo, “not because I understand it, but because I’d like to.” In the first of these eleven remarkable essays, Russo shares the story of his onetime fiction workshop classmate who, of the two of them, was considered the class star, bound for literary glory. Yet it was Russo who emerged as a major writer. How, he wonders, did he manage to steal his classmate’s destiny? What twists of talent and fate determine a would-be writer’s path? In each of the pieces collected here, Russo considers the unexpected turns of the creative life. From his grandfather’s years cutting gloves to his own teenage dreams of rock stardom; from his first college teaching jobs to his dazzling reads of Dickens and Twain; from the roots of his famous novels to his journey accompanying a dear friend—the writer Jennifer Finney Boylan—as she pursued gender reassignment surgery, The Destiny Thief powerfully reveals the inner workings of one of America’s most beloved authors. With Two New Essays

Destiny Thieves

2007-02 Religion

Author : Sandie Freed
Release : 2007-02
Genre : Religion
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 206/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Destiny Thieves written by Sandie Freed. This book was released on 2007-02. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This liberating book reveals tactics Satan uses against believers and charges believers with a new level of faith to claim the victorious life God has planned for them.

Museum of Thieves

2010-09-28 Juvenile Fiction

Author : Lian Tanner
Release : 2010-09-28
Genre : Juvenile Fiction
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Book Rating : 953/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Museum of Thieves written by Lian Tanner. This book was released on 2010-09-28. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to the tyrannical city of Jewel, where impatience is a sin and boldness is a crime. Goldie Roth has lived in Jewel all her life. Like every child in the city, she wears a silver guardchain and is forced to obey the dreaded Blessed Guardians. She has never done anything by herself and won’t be allowed out on the streets unchained until Separation Day. When Separation Day is canceled, Goldie, who has always been both impatient and bold, runs away, risking not only her own life but also the lives of those she has left behind. In the chaos that follows, she is lured to the mysterious Museum of Dunt, where she meets the boy Toadspit and discovers terrible secrets. Only the cunning mind of a thief can understand the museum’s strange, shifting rooms. Fortunately, Goldie has a talent for thieving. Which is just as well, because the leader of the Blessed Guardians has his own plans for the museum—plans that threaten the lives of everyone Goldie loves. And it will take a daring thief to stop him. . . . Museum of Thieves is a thrilling tale of destiny and danger, and of a courageous girl who has never been allowed to grow up—until now.

Dream Thieves

1992 Religion

Author : Rick Renner
Release : 1992
Genre : Religion
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 095/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Dream Thieves written by Rick Renner. This book was released on 1992. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Readers will learn how to identify and defeat dream thieves - the people and circumstances that keep Christians from fulfilling their divine destiny A great book for those who are discouraged, tired, or burned out in their ministry or their walk with the Lord.

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