Late Fragments

Author : Julie Gross
Publisher : William Collins
ISBN 13 : 9780008103453
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Late Fragments written by Julie Gross and published by William Collins. This book was released on 2015-01-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *THE NUMBER 1 BESTSELLER* What are the things we live for? What matters most in life when your time is short? This brave, frank and heartbreaking book shows what it means to die before your time; how to take charge of your life and fill it with wonder, hope and joy even in the face of tragedy. Ambitious and talented, Kate Gross worked at Number 10 Downing Street for two British Prime Ministers whilst only in her twenties. At thirty, she was CEO of a charity working with fragile democracies in Africa. She had married 'the best looking man I've ever kissed' - and given birth to twin boys in 2008. The future was bright. But aged 34, Kate was diagnosed with advanced colon cancer. After a two-year battle with the disease, Kate died peacefully at home on Christmas morning, just ten minutes before her sons awoke to open their stockings. She began to write as a gift to herself, a reminder that she could create even as her body began to self-destruct. Written for those she loves,her book is not a conventional cancer memoir; nor is it filled with medical jargon or misery. Instead, it is Kate's powerful attempt to make sense of the woman who emerged in the strange, lucid final chunk of her life. Her book aspires to give hope and purpose to the lives of her readers even as her own life drew to its close. Kate should have been granted decades to say all that she says in these pages. Denied the chance to bore her children and grandchildren with stories when she became fat and old, she offers us all instead her thoughts on how to live; on the wonder to be found in the everyday; the importance of friendship and love; what it means to die before your time and how to fill your life with hope and joy even in the face of tragedy.

Author : Kate Gross
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780008103477
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Late Fragments written by Kate Gross and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kate Gross was a woman who 'leaned in' until cancer stopped her in her tracks. Now terminal, this brave, frank and heartbreaking book shows what it means to die before your time, and how to fill your life with wonder, hope and joy even in the face of tragedy.

Author : Charles Baudelaire
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300185189
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Late Fragments written by Charles Baudelaire and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2022 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first English collection of the late poetry and prose fragments of literary icon Charles Baudelaire "[A] handsome new book . . . all this inchoate material is given context by Sieburth's learned, elegantly written commentary. He is the perfect guide."--Michael Dirda, Washington Post "[These] unfinished works written after 1861 . . . deliver what their titles seem to promise: a soul stripped of guises and illusions."--Ange Mlinko, New York Review of Books While not as well-known as his other works, Charles Baudelaire's late poems, drafts of poems, and prose fragments are texts indispensable to the history of modern poetics. This volume brings together Baudelaire's late fragmentary writings, aphoristic in form and radical in thought, into one edited collection for the first time. Substantial introductions to each work by Richard Sieburth combine the literary context with formal analysis and reception history to give readers a comprehensive picture of the genesis of these works and their subsequent fate. Baudelaire's turn toward fragmentary writing involved not only a conscious renunciation of his aesthetics of perfection and unity, but a desertion of the harmonies of the traditional lyric in favor of the disjunctions of prose. These are daring works, often painful to read in their misanthropy and unconventional beauty.

Author : Jeffry W. Johnston
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416924868
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fragments written by Jeffry W. Johnston and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-01-09 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chase wishes he could remember the events of his accident, but when the memories begin to come back in his dreams, Chase must face the reality of his past and finally deal with the part he played in the tragic event.

Author : Ariane Magny
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317077792
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Porphyry in Fragments written by Ariane Magny and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-08 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Greek philosopher Porphyry of Tyre had a reputation as the fiercest critic of Christianity. It was well-deserved: he composed (at the end the 3rd century A.D.) fifteen discourses against the Christians, so offensive that Christian emperors ordered them to be burnt. We thus rely on the testimonies of three prominent Christian writers to know what Porphyry wrote. Scholars have long thought that we could rely on those testimonies to know Porphyry's ideas. Exploring early religious debates which still resonate today, Porphyry in Fragments argues instead that Porphyry's actual thoughts became mixed with the thoughts of the Christians who preserved his ideas, as well as those of other Christian opponents.

Author : Marta L. Werner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780472002801
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Radical Scatters written by Marta L. Werner and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emily Dickinson's fragments, which appear at a late moment in the trajectory of her writing, are essentially private texts, belonging to the space of creation rather than communication. Never prepared for publication, perhaps never even meant to be read, they are symptoms of the processes of composition, data of the work of writing. Radical Scatters is an electronic archive of eighty-two documents carrying fragmentary texts written by Dickinson between c. 1870 and 1886, as well as fifty-four poems, letters, and other writings with direct links to the fragments. Conceding the inadequacy of conventional scholarly paradigms to represent them, Marta Werner has taken advantage of the capabilities of computer technology to conceive and develop an alternative model of presentation, a new paradigm that allows scholars to work with Dickinson's texts in unedited form and to draw on them in a nonlinear manner. The archive comprises six bodies of materials: high-quality facsimiles of the fragments and related texts; diplomatic transcriptions that display the documents's spatial dynamics; SGML-marked electronic texts; images of other documents drawn from the realm of Dickinson's late papers; various critical paratexts; and maps and code, type, and hand libraries. All of the primary materials in the archive are organized for full electronic search and analysis. Radical Scatters will revolutionize Dickinson scholarship in particular and textual scholarship more generally. Marta L. Werner is Assistant Professor of Literature, Georgia State University.

Author : Binjamin Wilkomirski
Publisher : Schocken
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fragments written by Binjamin Wilkomirski and published by Schocken. This book was released on 1996 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Memoir of a small boy who was separated from his family at the age of three or four-years-old after his father was killed during a round-up of Jews in Latvia, and was sent to the Majdanek death camp where he was discovered by Allied soldiers in 1945.

Author : Cornel West
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780802807212
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Prophetic Fragments written by Cornel West and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 1988 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This collection of writings, drawn from a wide variety of sources, reveals the intellectual depth and breadth of the author. The articles include political commentary, cultural critique, literary analysis, extended book reviews, and even a short story by West. All of these are held together by a prophetic Afro-American Christian perspective. The value of this book is that it provides easy access to a significant selection of the author's corpus." --Religious Studies Review (October 1989) "This volume collects over 50 articles, book reviews, and addresses by a Union Seminary theologian . . . . The most eloquent pieces are those in which West explains and interprets his more personally felt tradition of Afro-American Protestantism." -- Library Journal

Author : Charles H. Edwards
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781952248078
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Much Abides: A Survival Guide for Aging Lives written by Charles H. Edwards and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-28 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book is intended to be a survival guide for aging lives. It is intended to be the welcome marker that finally appears when you think you have lost the trail." -from the book's prologue

Author : Michael O'Loughlin
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442231866
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fragments of Trauma and the Social Production of Suffering written by Michael O'Loughlin and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2014-11-05 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fragments of Trauma and the Social Production of Suffering: Trauma, History, and Memory offers a kaleidoscope of perspectives that highlight the problem of traumatic memory. Because trauma fragments memory, storytelling is impeded by what is unknowable and what is unspeakable. Each of the contributors tackles the problem of narrativizing memory that is constructed from fragments that have been passed along the generations. When trauma is cultural as well as personal, it becomes even more invisible, as each generation’s attempts at coping push the pain further below the surface. Consequently, that pain becomes increasingly ineffable, haunting succeeding generations. In each story the contributors offer, there emerges the theme of difference, a difference that turns back on itself and makes an accusation. Themes of knowing and unknowing show the terrible toll that trauma takes when there is no one with whom the trauma can be acknowledged and worked through. In the face of utter lack of recognition, what might be known together becomes hidden. Our failure to speak to these unaspirated truths becomes a betrayal of self and also of others. In the case of intergenerational and cultural trauma, we betray not only our ancestors but also the future generations to come. In the face of unacknowledged trauma, this book reveals that we are confronted with the perennial choice of speaking or becoming complicit in our silence.