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The Given World

2016-04-05 Fiction
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Release : 2016-04-05
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 043/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis The Given World by : Marian Palaia

Download or read book The Given World written by Marian Palaia. This book was released on 2016-04-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When her big brother is declared MIA in Vietnam, young Riley packs up her shattered heart and leaves her family, her first love, and a few small things behind. By trial and error she builds a new life, working on cars, delivering newspapers, tending bar. She befriends, rescues, and is rescued by a similarly vagabond cast of characters. Foolhardy, funny, and wise, Riley's challenge as she grows into a woman is simple: survive long enough to go home again, or at least figure out where home is, and who might be among the living there.

The Given World

2015-04-14 Fiction
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Release : 2015-04-14
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 051/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis The Given World by : Marian Palaia

Download or read book The Given World written by Marian Palaia. This book was released on 2015-04-14. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Complex and haunting…vivid and unforgettable” (People), this story of one injured but indefatigable young woman is a stunning portrait of a family, a generation, and a country all coming of age. From a quiet family farm in Montana in the 60s to the grit and haze of San Francisco in the 70s to a gypsy-populated, post-war Saigon, The Given World spins around its unconventional and unforgettable heroine, Riley. When her big brother is declared MIA in Vietnam, young Riley packs up her shattered heart and leaves her family, her first love, and “a few small things” behind. By trial and error she builds a new life, working on cars, delivering newspapers, tending bar. She befriends, rescues, and is rescued by a similarly vagabond cast of characters whose “‘unraveled souls’ sting hardest and linger the longest” (The New York Times Book Review). Foolhardy, funny, and wise, Riley’s challenge as she grows into a woman is simple: survive long enough to go home again, or at least figure out where home is, and who might be among the living there. Lorrie Moore said, “It’s been a long time since a first book contained this much wisdom and knowledge of the world.” The Given World is “an immensely rewarding and remarkable debut” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review).

Given World and Time

2008-10-10 Philosophy
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Release : 2008-10-10
Genre : Philosophy
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Book Rating : 590/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Given World and Time by : Tyrus MIller

Download or read book Given World and Time written by Tyrus MIller. This book was released on 2008-10-10. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The interconnections of time with historical thought and knowledge have come powerfully to the fore since the 1970s. An international group of scholars, from a range of fields including literary theory, history of ideas, cultural anthropology, philosophy, intellectual history and theology, philology, and musicology, address the matter of time and temporalities.The volume's essays, divided into four main topical groups question critically the key problem of context, connecting it to the problem of time. Contexts, the essays suggest, are not timeless. Time and its contexts are only partly "given" to us: to the primordial donations of time and world correspond our epistemic, moral, and practical modes of receiving what has been granted. The notion of context may have radically different parameters in different historical, cultural, and disciplinary situations. Topics include the deep antiquity, and the timeless time of eternity, as well as formal philosophies of history and the forms of histories implicit in individual and community experience. The medium specific use of time and history are examined with regard to song, image, film, oral narration, and legal discourse.

Given World and Time

2008-01-01 Social Science
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Release : 2008-01-01
Genre : Social Science
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Book Rating : 272/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Given World and Time by : Tyrus Miller

Download or read book Given World and Time written by Tyrus Miller. This book was released on 2008-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The interconnections of time with historical thought and knowledge have come powerfully to the fore since the 1970s. An international group of scholars, from a range of fields including literary theory, history of ideas, cultural anthropology, philosophy, intellectual history and theology, philology, and musicology, address the matter of time and temporalities. The volume's essays, divided into four main topical groups question critically the key problem of context, connecting it to the problem of time. Contexts, the essays suggest, are not timeless. Time and its contexts are only partly "given" to us: to the primordial donations of time and world correspond our epistemic, moral, and practical modes of receiving what has been granted. The notion of context may have radically different parameters in different historical, cultural, and disciplinary situations. Topics include the deep antiquity, and the timeless time of eternity, as well as formal philosophies of history and the forms of histories implicit in individual and community experience. The medium specific use of time and history are examined with regard to song, image, film, oral narration, and legal discourse.

The Given Day

2009-10-06 Fiction
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Release : 2009-10-06
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 288/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis The Given Day by : Dennis Lehane

Download or read book The Given Day written by Dennis Lehane. This book was released on 2009-10-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Gut-wrenching force...A majestic, fiery epic. The Given Day is a huge, impassioned, intensively researched book that brings history alive." - The New York Times Dennis Lehane, the New York Times bestselling author of Live by Night—now a Warner Bros. movie starring Ben Affleck—offers an unflinching family epic that captures the political unrest of a nation caught between a well-patterned past and an unpredictable future. This beautifully written novel of American history tells the story of two families—one black, one white—swept up in a maelstrom of revolutionaries and anarchists, immigrants and ward bosses, Brahmins and ordinary citizens, all engaged in a battle for survival and power at the end of World War I.

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