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Author : Dubravka Ugrešić
Publisher : Open Letter Books
ISBN 13 : 1934824003
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nobody's Home written by Dubravka Ugrešić and published by Open Letter Books. This book was released on 2008 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her long career, Ugresic has published several novels (e.g., The Ministry of Pain), but she made her name with her essay collections, which have caused controversy and earned her the admiration of writers and critics abroad. In these latest musings, written over the course of several years, Ugresic leaves no stone unturned and no thought contained, doing what she does best: writing about the human condition through her own experience. Refusing to establish a central theme, she touches upon a wide range of topics: the paradox of multiculturalism, metaphors as our "defense against nightmares," the eerie similarities between capitalism and communism, and ways in which we try to rise hopelessly above our less-than-perfect existence. Along the way, she pays homage to the works of literature that have influenced her own creative process, in an effort to pay "a symbolic literary tax on narcissim" because "writing is not the humblest of vocations." Perhaps not, but Ugresic certainly knows how to balance being a critic with being criticized. Recommended for all libraries collecting cultural criticism.--Mirela Roncevic, Library Journal Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

Author : Thomas Edward Gass
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801472619
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.1X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nobody's Home written by Thomas Edward Gass and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After caring for his mother at the end of her life, Thomas Gass took a job as a nursing home aide in a for-profit long term care home. This graphic, poignant & chilling book details his experiences in this 'warehouse' for the elderly & asks fundamental questions about care in American nursing homes.

Author : Michael S. Oden M.A.
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1496919645
Total Pages : 165 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book When Nobody’s Home: written by Michael S. Oden M.A. and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2014-06-23 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ...sometimes we need to go through the darkness to get to the light and that it may be emotionally painful...” the Needs Based Method of [overcoming] alcohol and drug abuse,” and how Oden deals with the why dependency happens. Many can benefit from Oden’s eye-opening and highly successful method. —”the emotional, physical, or social absence of or ‘neglect’ by a caretaker, or when nobody’s home.” -US Review of Books

Author : Thomas Gass
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801442438
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nobody's Home written by Thomas Gass and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gass has applied his psychology degree in a variety of settings, including a three-and-a-half-year period working in a for-profit long- term-care facility in the Midwest, first as a nursing aide and then as a director of social services. He draws on that experience to take readers into the world of a nursing home, in an account that is intimate, stark, funny, and poignant--and a wake-up call to Americans of the need to act now to make nursing homes a better place to live and work. No subject index. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).

Author : Tim Powers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781596066700
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nobody's Home written by Tim Powers and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the first time in his esteemed career, Tim Powers returns to the setting (and a central character) from his landmark time travel novel, "The Anubis Gates." Tracking the murderer of her fiancee through 19th century London's darkest warrens, Jacky Snapp has disguised herself as a boy but the disguise fails when, trying to save a girl from the ghost of her jealous husband, Jacky finds that she has made herself visible to the ghosts that cluster around the Thames And one of them is the ghost of her fiancee, who was poisoned and physically transformed by his murderer but unwittingly shot dead by Jacky herself. Jacky and the girl she rescued, united in the need to banish their pursuing ghosts, learn that their only hope is to flee upriver to the barge known as Nobody's Home where the exorcist whose name is Nobody charges an intolerable price.

Author : Arnold L. Weinstein
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 019508022X
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nobody's Home written by Arnold L. Weinstein and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1993 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this broad-based study of American fiction, canonical and otherwise, Arnold Weinstein examines closely the strong ties between language, history and culture, with a particular focus on freedom of the self.

Author : George Haddad
Publisher : Seizure
ISBN 13 : 1925143236
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Populate and Perish written by George Haddad and published by Seizure. This book was released on 2016-09-01 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Thomas McGuane
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 030782201X
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nobody's Angel written by Thomas McGuane and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2012-06-13 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A novel about a former soldier in Big Sky Country whose life is spiraling out of control, from the acclaimed author of Ninety-two in the Shade and Cloudbursts, who is "among the most arresting and fascinating [writers] of his generation" (San Francisco Chronicle). In McGuane's first novel set in his famed American West, Patrick Fitzpatrick is a former soldier, a fourth-generation cowboy, and a whiskey addict. His grandfather wants to run away to act in movies, his sister wants to burn the house down, and his new stallion is bent on killing him: all of them urgently require attention. But increasingly Patrick himself is spiraling out of control, into that region of romantic misadventure and vanishing possibilities that is Thomas McGuane's Montana. Nowhere has McGuane mapped that territory more precisely—or with such tenderhearted lunacy—than in Nobody's Angel, a novel that places him in a genre of his own.

Author : Luis Alberto Urrea
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 9780816522705
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nobody's Son written by Luis Alberto Urrea and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born in Tijuana to a Mexican father and an Anglo mother, Urrea moved to San Diego at age three. In this memoir of his childhood, Urrea describes his experiences growing up in the barrio and his search for cultural identity.

Author : Amelia Wilson
Publisher : Michael Dowell
ISBN 13 : 9781513648668
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lights are on But Nobody's Home written by Amelia Wilson and published by Michael Dowell. This book was released on 2019-04-10 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book details the journey I took from losing friendships and losing myself, to finding my independence and ability to live for me. The poems in this book range from naive in tone, to dark, to empowering. This is a documentation of my growth as a person. I've been in many toxic relationships, and I have hidden my own power deep inside me for fear of losing what relationships I did have. This book showcases the importance of loving yourself in order to face your fears, and to escape the bonds that prevent you from living a prosperous life.