Dance For Me When I Die

Author : Cristian Alarcón
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 147800441X
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dance for Me When I Die written by Cristian Alarcón and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2019-04-05 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the morning of February 6, 1999, Buenos Aires police officers shot and killed seventeen-year-old Víctor Manuel Vital, better known as Frente, while he was unarmed, hiding under a table, and trying to surrender. Widely known and respected throughout Buenos Aires's shantytowns for his success as a thief, commitment to a code of honor, and generosity to his community, Frente became a Robin Hood--style legend who, in death, was believed to have the power to make bullets swerve and save gang members from shrapnel. In Dance for Me When I Die—first published in Argentina in 2004 and appearing here in English for the first time—Cristian Alarcón tells the story and legacy of Frente's life and death in the context of the everyday experiences of love and survival, murder and addiction, and crime and courage of those living in the slums. Drawing on interviews with Frente's friends, family, and ex-girlfriends, as well as with local thieves and drug dealers, and having immersed himself in Frente's neighborhood for eighteen months, Alarcón captures the world of the urban poor in all of its complexity and humanity.

Author : Ahmad Joudeh
Publisher : Charlesbridge Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1623545137
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dance or Die written by Ahmad Joudeh and published by Charlesbridge Publishing. This book was released on 2021-09-21 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Syria-born dancer offers his deeply personal story of war, statelessness, and the pursuit of the art of dance in this inspirational memoir. DANCE OR DIE is an autobiographical coming-of-age account of Ahmad Joudeh, a young refugee who grows up in Damascus with dreams of becoming a dancer. When he is recruited by one of Syria’s top dance companies, neither bombs nor family opposition can keep him from taking classes, practicing hard, and becoming a Middle Eastern celebrity on a Lebanese reality show. Despite death threats if Ahmad continues to dance, his father kicking him out of the house, and the war around him intensifying, he persists and even gets a tattoo on his neck right where the executioner's blade would fall that says, "Dance or Die." A powerful look at refugee life in Syria, DANCE OR DIE tells of the pursuit of personal expression in the most dangerous of circumstances and of the power of art to transcend war and suffering. It follows Ahmad from Damascus to Beirut to Amsterdam, where he finds a home with one of Europe's top ballet troupes, and from where he continues to fight for the human rights of refugees everywhere through his art, his activism, and his commitment to justice.

Author : Heather Gilion
Publisher : Tate Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1607998718
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dancing on My Ashes written by Heather Gilion and published by Tate Publishing. This book was released on 2010-05 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Holly and Heather share their story and help to walk the reader through the painful yet necessary healing process for when life deals us its harshest blows. Dancing on my ashes soothes and empathizes with the broken heart, while sharing the truth of scripture, and the hope that comes from the heart of God.

Author : Katherine Ashenburg
Publisher : Vintage Canada
ISBN 13 : 0307398706
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mourner's Dance written by Katherine Ashenburg and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2010-01-12 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is no doubt that the death of a loved one has a profound - and unpredictable - effect on the lives of those left behind. Mourning is the price we pay for love. But how does anyone survive those first weeks, months, and even years after a death, and then eventually return to normal life? When her daughter's fiancé died suddenly, Katherine Ashenburg found herself drawn into the world of mourning customs. Finding little comfort in the stripped-down North American approach, she sought solace, and shaped the core of this much-praised book, by exploring the rich traditions that have sustained mourners in cultures around the world and across centuries. Intertwining anecdotes from past and present with her own story, Ashenburg uncovers the wisdom and creativity embedded in mourning rituals and their value in rebuilding those unravelled by loss. Somehow, as Ashenburg so deftly reveals, we find strength and go on living. With a new afterword by the author.

Author : Deb Olin Unferth
Publisher : Graywolf Press
ISBN 13 : 1555979629
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wait Till You See Me Dance written by Deb Olin Unferth and published by Graywolf Press. This book was released on 2017-03-21 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Deb Olin Unferth’s stories are so smart, fast, full of heart, and distinctive in voice—each an intense little thought-system going out earnestly in search of strange new truths. What an important and exciting talent.”—George Saunders For more than ten years, Deb Olin Unferth has been publishing startlingly askew, wickedly comic, cutting-edge fiction in magazines such as Granta, Harper’s Magazine, McSweeney’s, NOON, and The Paris Review. Her stories are revered by some of the best American writers of our day, but until now there has been no stand-alone collection of her short fiction. Wait Till You See Me Dance consists of several extraordinary longer stories as well as a selection of intoxicating very short stories. In the chilling “The First Full Thought of Her Life,” a shooter gets in position while a young girl climbs a sand dune. In “Voltaire Night,” students compete to tell a story about the worst thing that ever happened to them. In “Stay Where You Are,” two oblivious travelers in Central America are kidnapped by a gunman they assume to be an insurgent—but the gunman has his own problems. An Unferth story lures you in with a voice that seems amiable and lighthearted, but it swerves in sudden and surprising ways that reveal, in terrifying clarity, the rage, despair, and profound mournfulness that have taken up residence at the heart of the American dream. These stories often take place in an exaggerated or heightened reality, a quality that is reminiscent of the work of Donald Barthelme, Lorrie Moore, and George Saunders, but in Unferth’s unforgettable collection she carves out territory that is entirely her own.

Author : Patricia Butler
Publisher : Omnibus Press
ISBN 13 : 0857123599
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Angels Dance and Angels Die: The Tragic Romance of Pamela and Jim Morrison written by Patricia Butler and published by Omnibus Press. This book was released on 2010-05-25 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Angels Dance and Angels Die tells the story of the turbulent relationship between legendary Doors front man, Jim Morrison, and his common-law wife, Pamela Courson. Follow the lives of Courson and Morrison before their fateful meeting in 1965; their lives together until Morrison's death in 1971; and Courson's life without Morrison, including her fight to gain the rights to his estate until her death from a heroin overdose on April 25, 1974.

Author : John Pavlovitz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780578682501
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stuff That Needs To Be Said written by John Pavlovitz and published by . This book was released on 2020-04-22 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past few years, John Pavlovitz's blog, Stuff That Needs To Be Said, has become a virtual hub for millions of people from all over the world, drawn there by his clear, compelling words on compassion, equity, love, and justice. This expansive, like-hearted community transcends race, orientation, gender, religious tradition, political affiliation, and nation of origin--and finds its affinity in the deeper place of our shared humanity, which is the True North of his writing. This collection lovingly pulls together some of John's most widely-read and most beloved essays on faith, politics, grief, and the elemental parts of being human. It is an encouraging, inspiring, challenging storehouse of "stuff that needs to be said."

Author : Thomas Tomkins
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Songs of 3. 4. 5. and 6. Parts (published in 1622) ; a Madrigal by Thomas Tomkins (included by Morley in the "Triumphs of Oriana," Published in 1601) written by Thomas Tomkins and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Thomas Tomkins
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Songs of 3, 4, 5, and 6 Parts written by Thomas Tomkins and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enthält ausserdem ein Madrigal von Thomas Tomkins (included by Morley in the "Triumphs of Oriana", published in 1601).

Author : Andrew Holleran
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0063299496
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dancer from the Dance written by Andrew Holleran and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2023-12-05 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “An astonishingly beautiful book. The best gay novel written by anyone of our generation.”—Harper’s “Through the sweat and haze of longing come piercing insights – about the closeness of gay male friendship, about the vanity and imperfections of men. The more one reads the novel, we realise that what Holleran has given us is our very own queer (queerer?) Great Gatsby: its decadence, its fear, its violence, its ecstasy, its transience.”—The Guardian Andrew Holleran’s landmark novel of a young man's search for love and companionship in New York’s emerging gay world in the 1970s, with a new introduction by Garth Greenwell. Young, astonishingly beautiful, and tired of living a lie, Anthony Malone trades life as a seemingly straight small-town lawyer for the decadence of New York’s emerging gay scene—an odyssey that takes him from Manhattan’s Everard baths and after hour discos, to lavish orgies on Fire Island and parks after dark. Rescuing Malone from a possessive lover and shepherding him through his immersion in this life of fierce joys and cheap truths is the flamboyant Sutherland, a high-camp quintessential queen. But for Malone, the endless city nights and Fire Island days are close to burning out, and despite Sutherland’s abundant attentiveness and glittering world-weary wisdom, Malone soon realizes what he is truly looking for may not be found in these beautiful places, where life is crowded, and people are forever outrunning their own desires and death.