Blood And Oranges

Author : James O. Goldsborough
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1947951300
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Blood and Oranges written by James O. Goldsborough and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-05-04 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Blood and Oranges: The Story of Los Angeles tells the story of how Los Angeles got that way--you know, THAT way, with Hollywood, mega-churches, impossible traffic, oil wells on the beaches, murders in the foothills, and riots in the suburbs. You have to go back a ways to understand, back to when the water came. Twin brothers Willie and Eddie Mull, a preacher and a high roller, arrive with the water and set out to make their marks. They rise with the city and reach the top. The brothers have much to answer for, especially to their children. Maggie and Lizzie, Eddie's daughters, don't like Eddie's mob ties, oil wells, or his gambling ship in Santa Monica Bay. Cal Mull, Willie's son, watches his father rise to become the nation's top evangelistic preacher, but like his idol, St. Augustine, Willie is weak in the flesh. Maggie, an aviator, wants women to fly in the war, but must get past Howard Hughes and find help in Washington. Lizzie works for the LA Times, wants women to be able to write for more than just the society pages in the paper, and does her best to get crime out of the D.A.'s department. The second generation of the family reacts to the first, but then must face the revolt of its own children"--

Author : John Hawkes
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0811222551
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Blood Oranges: A Novel written by John Hawkes and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1972-04-17 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No synopsis or comparison can convey the novel's lyric comedy or, indeed, its sinister power—sinister because of the strength of will Cyril exerts over his wife, his mistress, his wife's reluctant lover; lyric, since he is also a “sex-singer" in the land where music is the food of love. "Need I insist that the only enemy of the mature marriage is monogamy? That anything less than sexual multiplicity . . . is naive? That our sexual selves are merely idylers in a vast wood?" Thus the central theme of John Hawkes's widely acclaimed novel The Blood Oranges is boldly asserted by its narrator, Cyril, the archetypal multisexualist. Likening himself to a white bull on Love's tapestry, he pursues his romantic vision in a primitive Mediterranean landscape. There two couples—Cyril and Fiona, Hugh and Catherine—mingle their loves in an "lllyria" that brings to mind the equally timeless countryside of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night.

Author : John Hawkes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780811200615
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Blood Oranges written by John Hawkes and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Kathleen Tierney
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0451465016
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Blood Oranges written by Kathleen Tierney and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-02-05 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My name’s Quinn. If you buy into my reputation, I’m the most notorious demon hunter in New England. But rumors of my badassery have been slightly exaggerated. Instead of having kung-fu skills and a closet full of medieval weapons, I’m an ex-junkie with a talent for being in the wrong place at the right time. Or the right place at the wrong time. Or…whatever. Wanted for crimes against inhumanity I (mostly) didn’t commit, I was nearly a midnight snack for a werewolf until I was “saved” by a vampire calling itself the Bride of Quiet. Already cursed by a werewolf bite, the vamp took a pint out of me too. So now…now, well, you wouldn’t think it could get worse, but you’d be dead wrong.

Author : Timothy P. Bowman
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 1623494141
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Blood Oranges written by Timothy P. Bowman and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2016-05-20 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blood Oranges traces the origins and legacy of racial differences between Anglo Americans and ethnic Mexicans (Mexican nationals and Mexican Americans) in the South Texas borderlands in the twentieth century. Author Tim Bowman uncovers a complex web of historical circumstances that caused ethnic Mexicans in the region to rank among the poorest, least educated, and unhealthiest demographic in the country. The key to this development, Bowman finds, was a “modern colonization movement,” a process that had its roots in the Mexican-American war of the nineteenth century but reached its culmination in the twentieth century. South Texas, in Bowman’s words, became an “internal economy just inside of the US-Mexico border.” Beginning in the twentieth century, Anglo Americans consciously transformed the region from that of a culturally “Mexican” space, with an economy based on cattle, into one dominated by commercial agriculture focused on citrus and winter vegetables. As Anglos gained political and economic control in the region, they also consolidated their power along racial lines with laws and customs not unlike the “Jim Crow” system of southern segregation. Bowman argues that the Mexican labor class was thus transformed into a marginalized racial caste, the legacy of which remained in place even as large-scale agribusiness cemented its hold on the regional economy later in the century. Blood Oranges stands to be a major contribution to the history of South Texas and borderland studies alike.

Author : Kathleen Tierney
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101594853
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Blood Oranges written by Kathleen Tierney and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-02-05 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My name’s Quinn. If you buy into my reputation, I’m the most notorious demon hunter in New England. But rumors of my badassery have been slightly exaggerated. Instead of having kung-fu skills and a closet full of medieval weapons, I’m an ex-junkie with a talent for being in the wrong place at the right time. Or the right place at the wrong time. Or…whatever. Wanted for crimes against inhumanity I (mostly) didn’t commit, I was nearly a midnight snack for a werewolf until I was “saved” by a vampire calling itself the Bride of Quiet. Already cursed by a werewolf bite, the vamp took a pint out of me too. So now…now, well, you wouldn’t think it could get worse, but you’d be dead wrong.

Author : Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher : Gale, Cengage Learning
ISBN 13 : 1410341631
Total Pages : 18 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Study Guide for Lisel Mueller's "Blood Oranges" written by Gale, Cengage Learning and published by Gale, Cengage Learning . This book was released on 2016 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Study Guide for Lisel Mueller's "Blood Oranges," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Poetry for Students for all of your research needs.

Author : Troy Blacklaws
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1480410012
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Blood Orange written by Troy Blacklaws and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2013-03-26 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Troy Blacklaws’s follow-up to his internationally acclaimed Karoo Boy is the bittersweet tale of a South African boy coming of age during apartheid Gecko’s childhood is one of sheltered, almost magical innocence on a farm in Natal. He spends his days taking barefoot expeditions with his dogs and his nights listening to Springbok Radio, unaware of the cruel force in his life that apartheid will soon become. With the start of high school in the Cape, Gecko is thrust into a political and personal awakening that is both tragic and heartfelt. With conscription into the South African army looming over him, Gecko’s future is as uncertain as his country’s. Blood Orange evokes the absurdity, longing, and fear of growing up white in the last decades of apartheid.

Author : H. A. L. Wagner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780988397231
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Blood Oranges written by H. A. L. Wagner and published by . This book was released on 2013-02 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nothing bleeds quite like a Florida orange! And NOBODY knows this better than: Chamberlain Cotton. Cotton is a Private Investigator - eking out an existence in Orlando, Florida during a time before the mouse - when the landscape was fruitful with orange groves as far as the eye could see. With his only client murdered in the street, the owner of the area's largest fruit distribution center looks to have been involved. Fueled by the need for revenge and the fiery eyes of his client's attractive grieving sister, Cotton must flip the City Beautiful upside down to solve the case. The only things standing in his way are crooked cops and a haunting memory of the woman he failed. PLUS BONUS COTTON SHORT STORY! You will only find in paperback.

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book LIFE written by and published by . This book was released on 1971-10-08 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LIFE Magazine is the treasured photographic magazine that chronicled the 20th Century. It now lives on at LIFE.com, the largest, most amazing collection of professional photography on the internet. Users can browse, search and view photos of today’s people and events. They have free access to share, print and post images for personal use.