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The Naivety of Youth

2010-08-09 Poetry
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Release : 2010-08-09
Genre : Poetry
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Book Synopsis The Naivety of Youth by : Matthew Brierley

Download or read book The Naivety of Youth written by Matthew Brierley. This book was released on 2010-08-09. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Naivety of Youth Matthew Brierley explores themes ranging from adolescence to spirituality. Through poems and prose, the title piece written when Matthew was just nine years old, the sensuality and mysteries of land and sea compete alongside the stresses of city and working life. This debut collection is a journey of exploration and connection: to place, language and memory. A kiwi at heart Matthew currently lives and works in the north west of Australia, with his wife and 3 young children.

Young, Dumb, and Naive

2019-01-21
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Release : 2019-01-21
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Book Synopsis Young, Dumb, and Naive by : Alicia Caldwell Henderson

Download or read book Young, Dumb, and Naive written by Alicia Caldwell Henderson. This book was released on 2019-01-21. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After spending her middle school years playing second mom to her siblings, Azerica Christian has decided to live life for herself. She's in high school. She's a cheerleader. She's becoming popular and living life with no regrets... even if that means breaking all the rules.

The Distinction of the Mature and the Horror of the Naive and Other Stories of Youth in Limbo

2011-05 Fiction
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Release : 2011-05
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Book Synopsis The Distinction of the Mature and the Horror of the Naive and Other Stories of Youth in Limbo by : Ellison Fowler

Download or read book The Distinction of the Mature and the Horror of the Naive and Other Stories of Youth in Limbo written by Ellison Fowler. This book was released on 2011-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I started thinking that Grant was right, that we all came from too much money. Not enough to spare us any hardship, but enough to take the edge off. We were never going to really fail or really succeed. Everything was going to be blunted by a buffer of money. There would always be money. We were never going to be destitute or struggling or starving. We would have to break entirely from our parents and their money to get anywhere near an experience that was not lessened by the knowledge that we would always be protected, looked out for, and kept from anything unpleasant or dirty. It was not life at all but something else, something lived walking six inches off the ground. I had never dropped anything that could not be replaced or transgressed in a way that couldn't be corrected." - from THE DISTINCTION OF THE MATURE AND THE HORROR OF THE NAIVE A pair of teenagers live their own version of Hemingway's fiesta in Pamplona; a group of college students spends the weekend at a hotel for a friend's wedding; a young bartender at a Mexican resort flirts with a pretty tourist: the characters in the seven stories that make up Fowler's collection - his "youth in limbo" - share youth, but they also share a palpable uncertainty, a wavering and fragile becoming made all the more perilous by their awareness of it. They are characters on the brink: they are preparing to sacrifice their infinite possible futures for the singular lives they will live. While the anxiety of this phase of life is often forgotten in time, when memory has made the course of one's life seem inevitable, in Fowler's hands it becomes vividly palpable once more: these are characters staring down an impending tragedy, one made all the worse by its intangibility, by their uncertainty about it, by their inability to articulate its character, by the older world's indifference to it. It is a tragedy Fowler captures with due restraint, subtlety, art, and compassion. Written by Ellison Fowler Cover Design by Tom Maven

Racial Innocence

2011-12 History
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Release : 2011-12
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Racial Innocence by : Robin Bernstein

Download or read book Racial Innocence written by Robin Bernstein. This book was released on 2011-12. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner, Outstanding Book Award, Association for Theatre in Higher Education Winner, Grace Abbott Best Book Award, Society for the History of Children and Youth Winner, Book Award, Children's Literature Association Winner, Lois P. Rudnick Book Prize, New England American Studies Association Winner, IRSCL Award, International Research Society for Children's Literature Runner-Up, John Hope Franklin Publication Prize, American Studies Association Honorable Mention, Book Award, Society for the Study of American Women Writers Part of the American Literatures Initiative Series In Racial Innocence, Robin Bernstein argues that the concept of "childhood innocence" has been central to U.S. racial formation since the mid-nineteenth century. Children--white ones imbued with innocence, black ones excluded from it, and others of color erased by it--figured pivotally in sharply divergent racial agendas from slavery and abolition to antiblack violence and the early civil rights movement. Bernstein takes up a rich archive including books, toys, theatrical props, and domestic knickknacks which she analyzes as "scriptive things" that invite or prompt historically-located practices while allowing for resistance and social improvisation. Integrating performance studies with literary and visual analysis, Bernstein offers singular readings of theatrical productions from blackface minstrelsy to Uncle Tom's Cabin to The Wonderful Wizard of Oz literary works by Joel Chandler Harris, Harriet Wilson, and Frances Hodgson Burnett; material culture including Topsy pincushions, Uncle Tom and Little Eva handkerchiefs, and Raggedy Ann dolls; and visual texts ranging from fine portraiture to advertisements for lard substitute. Throughout, Bernstein shows how "innocence" gradually became the exclusive province of white children--until the Civil Rights Movement succeeded not only in legally desegregating public spaces, but in culturally desegregating the concept of childhood itself. Check out the author's blog for the book here.

Friend of My Youth

2012-04-25 Fiction
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Release : 2012-04-25
Genre : Fiction
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Book Synopsis Friend of My Youth by : Alice Munro

Download or read book Friend of My Youth written by Alice Munro. This book was released on 2012-04-25. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “wickedly funny” (Newsweek) collection of ten short stories from Nobel Prize–winning author Alice Munro, “one of the most eloquent and gifted writers of contemporary fiction” (Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times). “Each of her collections demonstrates such linguistic skill, delicacy of vision, and . . . moral strength and clarity.”—Chicago Tribune A woman haunted by dreams of her dead mother. An adulterous couple stepping over the line where the initial excitement ends and the pain begins. A widow visiting a Scottish village in search of her husband’s past—and instead discovering unsetting truths about a total stranger. The miraculously accomplished stories in this collection not only astonish and delight, but also convey the unspoken mysteries at the heart of all human experience. The mastery—the almost numinous ability to say the unsayable—makes Friend of My Youth a genuine literary event.

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