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Author : Zoltan Gross
Publisher : Global Village Press (CA)
ISBN 13 : 9780963297709
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)
Download or read book A Portrait of the Person written by Zoltan Gross and published by Global Village Press (CA). This book was released on 1992 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Joseph Heller
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1849836515
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)
Download or read book Portrait Of The Artist As An Old Man written by Joseph Heller and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-08-18 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagine an author who has become a legend in his own lifetime - all because of the novel he wrote in the first flush of youth. Novelist Eugene Pota is a cultural icon of the twentieth century, struggling to write what will be the last novel of his career. But what to write about when, like so many noted authors before him, all of Pota's output since that first, landmark novel has been scrutinized and dissected - and found wanting? PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST, AS AN OLD MAN follows Pota's efforts to settle on a subject for his final work. In his search, Heller - through Pota - pays homage to his favourite authors and discusses the problems that have plagued so many writers whose later works failed to live up to the successes of their first: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Henry James, Jack London, Joseph Conrad, to name but a few. It is a rare and enthralling look into the artist's search for creativity, a search that comes at a point in life when impotence - both sexual and spiritual - has become a frustrating fact. Joseph Heller must have known that this would be his final novel; it stands as a fitting testament to the life and works of a leading light in modern literature.
Author : Sudhir Kakar
Publisher : Penguin Books India
ISBN 13 : 9780143066637
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Indians written by Sudhir Kakar and published by Penguin Books India. This book was released on 2009 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Compelling Work On The Cultural Character Of The Indian People&Both Provocative And Revealing -Shyam Benegal In Outlook A Remarkably Perceptive Analysis Of Indian Character -Khushwant Singh In This Bold, Illuminating And Superbly Readable Study, India S Foremost Psychoanalyst And Cultural Commentator Sudhir Kakar And Anthropologist Katharina Kakar Investigate The Nature Of Indian-Ness . What Makes An Indian Recognizably So To The Rest Of The World, And, More Importantly, To His Or Her Fellow Indians? For, As The Authors Point Out, Despite Ethnic Differences That Are Characteristic More Of Past Empires Than Modern Nation States, There Is An Underlying Unity In The Great Diversity Of India That Needs To Be Recognized. Looking At What Constitutes A Common Indian Identity, The Authors Examine In Detail The Predominance Of Family, Community And Caste In Our Everyday Lives, Our Attitudes To Sex And Marriage, Our Prejudices, Our Ideas Of The Other (Explored In A Brilliant Chapter On Hindu-Muslim Conflict), And Our Understanding Of Health, Right And Wrong, And Death. In The Final Chapter, They Provide Fascinating Insights Into The Indian Mind, Shaped Largely By The Culture S Dominant, Hindu World View. Drawing Upon Three Decades Of Original Research And Sources As Varied As The Mahabharata, The Kamasutra, The Writings Of Mahatma Gandhi, Bollywood Movies And Popular Folklore, Sudhir And Katharina Kakar Have Produced A Rich And Revealing Portrait Of The Indian People. An Important Book&A Readable And Carefully Considered Statement On The Issue Of Identity Pavan Varma In India Today
Author : Richard Stengel
Publisher : Crown Archetype
ISBN 13 : 0307460681
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)
Download or read book Mandela's Way written by Richard Stengel and published by Crown Archetype. This book was released on 2009 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Time" magazine editor Stengel, who collaborated with Mandela on his bestselling autobiography, distills Mandela's wisdom into 15 vital life lessons that have the power to deepen lives.
Author : Jeremy Paxman
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141032952
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)
Download or read book The English written by Jeremy Paxman and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2007-09-06 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jeremy Paxman is to many the embodiment of Englishness yet even he is sometimes forced to ask: who or what exactly are the English? And in setting about addressing this most vexing of questions, Paxman discovers answers to a few others. Like: � Why do the English actually enjoy feeling persecuted? � What is behind the English obsession with games? � How did they acquire their odd attitudes to sex and to food? � Where did they get their extraordinary capacity for hypocrisy? Covering history, attitudes to foreigners, sport, stereotypyes, language and much, much more, The English brims over with stories and anecdotes that provide a fascinating portrait of a nation and its people.
Author : Charles Kuralt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)
Download or read book Southerners written by Charles Kuralt and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles Kuralt, bestselling author and inveterate traveler, takes a nostalgic trip back to his early years in the South, sharing the phenomena that has made the Southern spirit what it is. Illustrated with over 400 duotone and 50 full color photographs.
Author : Andrew Barlow
Publisher : Three Rivers Press (CA)
ISBN 13 : 9781400050727
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)
Download or read book A Portrait of Yo Mama as a Young Man written by Andrew Barlow and published by Three Rivers Press (CA). This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Authored by two of the funniest twentysomethings writing today, this absurdist take on the oldest joke in the book--the yo mama snap--is warped, witty, ironic, and, frankly, sad in places.
Author : Martin Gayford
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
ISBN 13 : 0500770794
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)
Download or read book Man with a Blue Scarf: On Sitting for a Portrait by Lucian Freud written by Martin Gayford and published by Thames & Hudson. This book was released on 2013-09-09 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “An extraordinary record of a great artist in his studio, it also describes what it feels like to be transformed into a work of art.” —ARTnews Lucian Freud (1922-2011), widely regarded as the greatest figurative painter of our time, spent seven months painting a portrait of the art critic Martin Gayford. The daily narrative of their encounters takes the reader into that most private place, the artist’s studio, and to the heart of the working methods of this modern master—both technical and subtly psychological. From this emerges an understanding of what a portrait is, but something else is also created: a portrait, in words, of Freud himself. This is not a biography, but a series of close-ups: the artist at work and in conversation at restaurants, in taxis, and in his studio. It takes one into the company of the painter for whom Picasso, Giacometti, and Francis Bacon were friends and contemporaries, as were writers such as George Orwell and W. H. Auden. The book is illustrated with many of Lucian Freud’s other works, telling photographs taken by David Dawson of Freud in his studio, and images by such great artists of the past as van Gogh and Titian who are discussed by Freud and Gayford. Full of wry observations, the book reveals the inside story of how it feels to pose for a remarkable artist and become a work of art.
Author : Bill Clegg
Publisher : Back Bay Books
ISBN 13 : 0316084506
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)
Download or read book Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man written by Bill Clegg and published by Back Bay Books. This book was released on 2010-06-07 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bill Clegg had a thriving business as a literary agent, a supportive partner, trusting colleagues, and loving friends when he walked away from his world and embarked on a two-month crack binge. He had been released from rehab nine months earlier, and his relapse would cost him his home, his money, his career, and very nearly his life. What is it that leads an exceptional young mind want to disappear? Clegg makes stunningly clear the attraction of the drug that had him in its thrall, capturing in scene after scene the drama, tension, and paranoiac nightmare of a secret life--and the exhilarating bliss that came again and again until it was eclipsed almost entirely by doom. He also explores the shape of addiction, how its pattern--not its cause--can be traced to the past. Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man is an utterly compelling narrative--lyrical, irresistible, harsh, honest, and beautifully written--from which you simply cannot look away.
Author : John Fraser
Publisher : CNIB, [198-]
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Chinese written by John Fraser and published by CNIB, [198-]. This book was released on 1980 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
