The Quick And The Dead

Author : Joy Williams
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 030776382X
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Quick and the Dead written by Joy Williams and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2010-09-01 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • From one of our most heralded writers comes the “poetic, disturbing, yet very funny” (The Washington Post Book World) life-and-death adventures of three misfit teenagers in the American desert. Alice, Corvus, and Annabel, each a motherless child, are an unlikely circle of friends. One filled with convictions, another with loss, the third with a worldly pragmatism, they traverse an air-conditioned landscape eccentric with signs and portents—from the preservation of the living dead in a nursing home to the presentation of the dead as living in a wildlife museum—accompanied by restless, confounded adults. A father lusts after his handsome gardener even as he's haunted (literally) by his dead wife; a heartbroken dog runs afoul of an angry neighbor; a young stroke victim drifts westward, his luck running from worse to awful; a sickly musician for whom Alice develops an attraction is drawn instead toward darker imaginings and solutions; and an aging big-game hunter finds spiritual renewal through his infatuation with an eight-year-old—the formidable Emily Bliss Pickless. With nature thoroughly routed and the ambiguities of existence on full display, life and death continue in directions both invisible and apparent. Gloriously funny and wonderfully serious, The Quick and the Dead limns the vagaries of love, the thirst for meaning, and the peculiar paths by which all creatures are led to their destiny. A panorama of contemporary life and an endlessly surprising tour de force: penetrating and magical, ominous and comic, this is the most astonishing book yet in Joy Williams's illustrious career. Joy Williams belongs, James Salter has written, "in the company of Céline, Flannery O'Connor, and Margaret Atwood."

Author : Louis L'Amour
Publisher : Bantam
ISBN 13 : 0553899597
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Quick and the Dead written by Louis L'Amour and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2004-08-03 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Duncan McKaskel decided to move his family west, he knew he would face dangers, and he was prepared for them. He knew about the exhausting terrain, and he was expecting the punishing elements. What he worried about was having to use violence against other men—men who would follow him and try to steal the riches that he didn’t even possess. Yet bandits were only part of McKaskel’s worries. For a mysterious stranger, Con Vallian, had appeared one night and saved his life. But was Vallian’s true interest Duncan’s wife, Susanna? And, more important, how did she feel about him? As they push on into the wilderness, Duncan must discover who is the greater threat—the thieves outside his camp or the enigmatic stranger within. . . .

Author : Pavel Tsatsouline
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780989892421
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Author : Jack Curtis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780671518981
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Quick and the Dead written by Jack Curtis and published by . This book was released on 1995-03 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brutal, brilliant saga of the Old West--now a major motion picture starring Gene Hackman and Sharon Stone. The bullet-ridden sign says Redemption, the lawless town where frontier justice is quick-draw sport--where one man holds a terrified community in his ruthless grip.

Author : Cynric Temple-Camp
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 177549182X
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Quick and the Dead written by Cynric Temple-Camp and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2020-07-01 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: True stories of life and death from a New Zealand pathologist From the number-one bestselling author of The Cause of Death comes a book about the unlikely, extraordinary, obscure and often tragic ways humans meet their end. A dead body without a trace of trauma; alien parasites; worms of the brain; crocodile attacks and bizarre eating disorders ... In The Quick and the Dead, pathologist Dr Cynric Temple-Camp takes readers into a world of disease and death as he seeks answers for those who were unlucky, and those still alive to tell the tale.

Author : Deanna Petherbridge
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520217386
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Quick and the Dead written by Deanna Petherbridge and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To study anatomy, many artists dissected the dead to better depict the living. "The Quick and the Dead" focuses on a range of artists from Leonardo da Vinci to Cindy Sherman to show the great richness and complexity that can result when art and science intersect. The drawings, prints, photographs, and objects in this book span five centuries and mark numerous cultural shifts, yet their imagery is as powerful today as when they were created. 92 illustrations, 31 in color.

Author : Mairtin O Cadhain
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300262922
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Quick and the Dead written by Mairtin O Cadhain and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2021-10-26 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of the finest stories from the Irish author of The Dirty Dust, published fifty years after his death These colorful tales from renowned Irish author Máirtín Ó Cadhain (1906–1970) whisk readers to the salty western shores of Ireland, where close†‘knit farming communities follow the harsh rhythms of custom, family, and land, even as they dream together of a kinder world. In this collection, the resilient women and men of the Gaeltacht regions struggle toward self†‘realization against the brutal pressures of rural poverty, and later, the hollowing demands of modern city life. Weaving together tradition and modernity, and preserving the earthy cadence of the original language, this rich and heart-rending collection by one of Ireland’s most acclaimed fiction writers is a composite portrait of a country poised at the edge of irreversible transformation.

Author : Amélie Rives
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Quick Or the Dead? written by Amélie Rives and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Richard van Emden
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408822458
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Quick and the Dead written by Richard van Emden and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2012-06-07 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the end of the First World War more than 192,000 wives had lost their husbands, and nearly 400,000 children had lost their fathers. Few people remained unscathed. The Quick and the Dead pays tribute to the families who were left behind while their husbands, fathers and sons went off to fight, and the generations that followed. Through a unique collection of more than fifty interviews, private diaries and a remarkable collection of unpublished letters written by the soldiers to their families back home, The Quick and the Dead is a history of those who are commonly forgotten and neglected when the fallen are remembered on Armistice Day.

Author : Janine Di Giovanni
Publisher : Phoenix
ISBN 13 : 9781857993332
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Quick and the Dead written by Janine Di Giovanni and published by Phoenix. This book was released on 1995 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: