Bringing The Devil To His Knees

Author : Charles Baxter
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 9780472067749
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bringing the Devil to His Knees written by Charles Baxter and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fiction writers share the secrets of their craft in essays geared for the serious writer

Author : Andrea Barrett
Publisher : Trinity University Press
ISBN 13 : 1595341072
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Kite in the Wind written by Andrea Barrett and published by Trinity University Press. This book was released on 2011-04-15 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Kite in the Wind is an anthology of essays by 20 veteran writers and master teachers. While the contributors offer specific, practical advice on such fundamental aspects of craft as characterization, character names, the first person point of view, and unreliable narrators, they also give extended, thoughtful consideration to more sophisticated topics, including “imminence,” or the power of a sense of beginning; creating and maintaining tension; “lushness”; and the deliberate manipulation of information to create particular effects. The essays in A Kite in the Wind begin as personal investigations — attempts to understand why a decision in a particular story or novel seemed unsuccessful; to define a quality or problem that seemed either unrecognized or unsatisfactorily defined; to understand what, despite years of experience as a fiction writer, resisted comprehension; and to pursue haunting, even unanswerable questions. Unlike a how-to book, the anthology is less an instruction manual than it is an intimate visit with twenty very different writers as they explore topics that excite, intrigue, and even puzzle them. Each discussion uses specific examples and illustrations, including both canonical stories and novels and writing less frequently discussed, from the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries, by both American and international authors. The contributors share their hard-earned insights for beginning and advanced writers with humility, wit, and compassion. The first section of the book focuses on narration, with particular attention paid to various kinds of narrators; the second, on strategic creation and presentation of character; the third, on some of the roles of the visual, beginning with establishing setting; and the fourth, on structural and organizational issues, from movement through time to the manipulation of information to create mystery and suspense.

Author : Stephen Deusner
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 1477323937
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Where the Devil Don't Stay written by Stephen Deusner and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2021-09-07 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1996, Patterson Hood recruited friends and fellow musicians in Athens, Georgia, to form his dream band: a group with no set lineup that specialized in rowdy rock and roll. The Drive-By Truckers, as they named themselves, grew into one of the best and most consequential rock bands of the twenty-first century, a great live act whose songs deliver the truth and nuance rarely bestowed on Southerners, so often reduced to stereotypes. Where the Devil Don’t Stay tells the band’s unlikely story not chronologically but geographically. Seeing the Truckers’ albums as roadmaps through a landscape that is half-real, half-imagined, their fellow Southerner Stephen Deusner travels to the places the band’s members have lived in and written about. Tracking the band from Muscle Shoals, Alabama, to Richmond, Virginia, to the author’s hometown in McNairy County, Tennessee, Deusner explores the Truckers’ complex relationship to the South and the issues of class, race, history, and religion that run through their music. Drawing on new interviews with past and present band members, including Jason Isbell, Where the Devil Don’t Stay is more than the story of a great American band; it’s a reflection on the power of music and how it can frame and shape a larger culture.

Author : Robert Boswell
Publisher : Graywolf Press
ISBN 13 : 9781555970215
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Half-Known World written by Robert Boswell and published by Graywolf Press. This book was released on 2011-07-05 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rigorous examination of the workings of fiction by the novelist Robert Boswell, "one of America's finest writers" (Tom Perrotta) Robert Boswell has been writing, reading, and teaching literature for more than twenty years. In this sparkling collection of essays, he brings this vast experience and a keen critical eye to bear on craft issues facing literary writers. Examples from masters such as Leo Tolstoy, Flannery O'Connor, and Alice Munro illustrate this engaging discussion of what makes great writing. At the same time, Boswell moves readers beyond the classroom, candidly sharing the experiences that have shaped his own writing life. A chance encounter in a hotel bar leads to a fascinating glimpse into his imaginative process. And through the story of a boyhood adventure, Boswell details how important it is for writers to give themselves over to what he calls the "half-known world" of fiction, where surprise and meaning converge.

Author : Matthew Moses
Publisher : Matthew Moses
ISBN 13 : 1601451105
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Anti-Christ written by Matthew Moses and published by Matthew Moses. This book was released on 2007 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What began as a minor dispute between Matthew Ford and Jesus has escalated into a feud that threatens to undermine a Cold War that has existed between Heaven and Hell for two millennia. The question is.what will happen next?

Author : Shirley Graves
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1456763296
Total Pages : 86 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Getting Your Knees Right! written by Shirley Graves and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2011-05-24 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Getting your Knees Right! Can cause the world to change by having a better relationship with God, and also in helping to spread the good news. It aids in getting your attention to intercede and to have better communication with the Father. God is calling prayer to all the nations and to get our lives right with Him. Getting Your Knees Right! , will make a difference in your life, so God can answer your prayers and He can grant requests when we pray. Prayer is vital for everyones life. God wants us to be able to impact the kingdom through his word and praying not only for ourselves and families but for everyone. When we are getting our knees right, we can bombard heaven to get a real answer from God. While reading this book, I pray it will give you much insight and will make an impartation on your life. I pray it will fill your empty void, blessing your soul, and making a positive impact on your life. Getting Your Knees Right! Will bring unity to the body of Christ, and many more lives will be saved and restored back to God. I know without a shadow of doubt, Gods word will not return back to Him void and He is not a God that He should lie for He said it and he will bring it to pass. I promise you, when you have read this book, it will change your life, your mind set, and it will bring you more closely to God, staying focused on Him in Getting Your Knees Right! There is power in prayer when we are seeking an answer from God and when we are praying God will arise and the enemy will be scattered. God wants all his Sons and Daughters to be on one accord to defeat the enemy and to pull down every strong hold. I learned before going out to battle, you pray first and then you put on the whole armor of God. In writing this book God gave me the wisdom, knowledge, and understanding in what to say to the world, how to be an over comer in life, and how to come out of any situations. Last, but not least, God has used me to present to you this information on Getting Your Knees Right! And I pray that you will be truly blessed by what was given and presented unto you. May God continue to bless you.

Author : Joseph Pearce
Publisher : Saint Benedict Press
ISBN 13 : 161890065X
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Race with the Devil written by Joseph Pearce and published by Saint Benedict Press. This book was released on 2013-08-01 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before he was the world's foremost Catholic biographer, Joseph Pearce was a leader of the National Front, a British-nationalist, white-supremacist group. Before he published books highlighting and celebrating the great Catholic cultural tradition, he disseminated literature extolling the virtues of the white race, and calling for the banishment of all non-white from Britain. Pearce and his cohorts were at the center of the racial and nationalist tensions—often violent—that swirled around London in the late-1970s and early 80s. Eventually Pearce became a top member of the National Front, and the editor of its newspaper, The Bulldog. He was a full-time revolutionary. In 1982 he was imprisoned for six months for hate speech, but he came out with more anger, and more resolve. Several years later, he was imprisoned again, this time for a year and it spurred a sea change in his life. In Race with the Devil: My Journey from Racial Hatred to Rational Love, Pearce himself takes the reader through his journey from racist revolutionary to Christian, including: The youthful influences that lead him to embrace the National Front and their racist platform His dark, angry, exhilarating but ultimately empty days as a revolutionary on the front lines His imprisonment and subsequent dark night of the soul The role that Catholic luminaries such as G. K. Chesterton, Hilaire Belloc, and C. S. Lewis played in his conversion from racist radical to joyful Christian And his eventual reception in the Catholic Church Race with the Devil is one man's incredible journey to Christ, but it also much more. It is a testament to God's hand active among us and the infinite grace that Christ pours out on his people, showing that we can all turn—or return—to Christ and his Church.

Author : Frank E. Lasater Jr.
Publisher : WestBow Press
ISBN 13 : 1490840702
Total Pages : 381 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book God's Workmanship written by Frank E. Lasater Jr. and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2014-08-21 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We cannot know God, in depth without recognizing and acknowledging His absolute, glorious sovereignty over all things, in all times, and in every aspect of our lives. He is Lord and His will reigns supreme. When we finally come to this conclusion, when our thoughts, prayers, and daily actions finally align, at last, with the teachings of Scripture on this most important matter, we will know Him better. As a consequence, the good works to which we were ordained in the new birth will glorify God in His sovereignty.

Author : Paul Doherty
Publisher : Headline
ISBN 13 : 0755370376
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Angel of Death (Hugh Corbett Mysteries, Book 4) written by Paul Doherty and published by Headline. This book was released on 2012-10-30 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A shocking murder takes Hugh Corbett into a dark and dangerous investigation... In the fourth thrilling novel in Paul Doherty's medieval series, sleuth Hugh Corbett must discover how a man can be murdered in full view of the king and most of the notables of England. Perfect for Michael Jecks and Ellis Peters. In 1298, Edward I of England invaded Scotland and brutally sacked the town of Berwick, raising to the ground the Red House of the Flemings who had permission to trade there. He little knew his action would have far-reaching repercussions. A year later, Edward convokes a great assembly of the realm in St Paul's Cathedral. They are to hear Mass after which the main celebrant, Walter de Montfort, has been delegated to lecture the King on not taxing the Church. During the Mass, de Montfort dies a sudden and violent death. Hugh Corbett, the King's clerk, is given the task of solving the mystery and tracking down the murderer. Against the background of Edward's struggle to maintain himself, both at home and abroad, Corbett's investigations become tortuous and laced with danger... What readers are saying about The Angel of Death: 'This is the best murder mystery I've read' 'A plot to keep you on the edge of your seat' 'Well written, entertaining and keeps you guessing until the end'

Author : Louise Mühlbach
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Berlin and Sans-Souci, Or Frederick the Great and His Friends by L. Mühlbach written by Louise Mühlbach and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: