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Author : Victoria B. Cristiani Rossi
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1935278118
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Spangles, Elephants, Violets & Me written by Victoria B. Cristiani Rossi and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2009-04-15 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spangles, Elephants, Violets & Me is a moving and revealing journey back to the playground of Victoria Cristiani Rossis youth. It is, quite simply, one thought-provoking train rideone that involves fairy tales, nightmares and miracles. Victoria describes the tempestuous world of her Internationally Famous Cristiani Riding Act family (former Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey superstars), her life-altering convent experiences, starting at age six, and her near-fatal accident under the big top in Los Angeles. There are fascinating glimpses of Emmett Kelly, Karl Wallenda, Hugo Zacchini and disgraced 1950's quiz-show contestant Charles Van Doren. Spangles, Elephants, Violets & Me is also a story of the American dream, the confluence of wealth and fame, the strength and frailty of family, social and economic ambition, misplaced trust, conflict, loss and redemption. Victorias gift for writing is most evident as she builds dramatic contrast between days spent happily on the circus lot, and haunting nights spent away from it. Employing her authentic voice and role in circus history, Victoria honors an institution often caught publicly and unfortunately between its defenders and detractors, a situation that can preempt enjoyment of its true reason for being, or appreciation of the circus industrys numerous contributions to American culture.

Author : Michael N. McGregor
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 0823268020
Total Pages : 585 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pure Act written by Michael N. McGregor and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2015-09-22 with total page 585 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An intimate biography of the avant-garde poet and spiritual seeker who abandoned his career to join the circus and live among fishermen in Greece. Robert Lax inspired Thomas Merton, Jack Kerouac, William Maxwell and many others with his quest to live a true life as both an artist and a spiritual seeker. Known in Europe as a avant-garde poet, Lax worked at The New Yorker, wrote Hollywood screenplays and edited a Paris literary journal—when he wasn’t studying philosophy, serving the poor in Harlem or living in a sanctuary high in the French Alps. Lax called his approach to life pure act: a way of living in the moment that was both spontaneous and practiced, God-inspired and self-chosen. By devoting himself to simplicity, poverty and prayer, he expanded his capacity for peace, joy and love while producing distinctive poetry of such stark beauty critics called him “one of America’s greatest experimental poets” and “one of the new ‘saints’ of the avant-garde.” Biographer Michael N. McGregor met Lax in Greece when he was a young seeker himself. He continued to visit him regularly over fifteen years. Pure Act is a tale of adventure, an exploration of friendship, an anthology of wisdom, and a testament to the liberating power of living an uncommon life. Excellence in Publishing Award, Association of Catholic Publishers Honorable Mention, Catholic Press Association Book Award Finalist, Washington State Book Award

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Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Spectacle written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 840 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of Careers and Vocational Guidance: Career articles, A-C written by and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 840 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides detailed facts and current statistics for over 750 occupations in more than 90 key career fields. Contains more than 500 photographs.

Author : Emily Dickinson
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Poems by Emily Dickinson written by Emily Dickinson and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : James Hearst
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Complete Poetry of James Hearst written by James Hearst and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part of the regionalist movement that included Grant Wood, Paul Engle, Hamlin Garland, and Jay G. Sigmund, James Hearst helped create what Iowa novelist Ruth Suckow called a poetry of place. A lifelong Iowa farner, Hearst began writing poetry at age nineteen and eventually wrote thirteen books of poems, a novel, short stories, cantatas, and essays, which gained him a devoted following Many of his poems were published in the regionalist periodicals of the time, including the Midland, and by the great regional presses, including Carroll Coleman's Prairie Press. Drawing on his experiences as a farmer, Hearst wrote with a distinct voice of rural life and its joys and conflicts, of his own battles with physical and emotional pain (he was partially paralyzed in a farm accident), and of his own place in the world. His clear eye offered a vision of the midwestern agrarian life that was sympathetic but not sentimental - a people and an art rooted in place.

Author : John Ames Mitchell
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Life written by John Ames Mitchell and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 374 pages
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Download or read book Life written by and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Thomas Wolfe
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ISBN 13 : 9783965370951
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book You Can't Go Home Again written by Thomas Wolfe and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You Can't Go Home Again is a novel by Thomas Wolfe published posthumously in 1940. The novel tells the story of George Webber, a fledgling author, who writes a book that makes frequent references to his home town of Libya Hill. The book is a national success but the residents of the town, unhappy with what they view as Webber's distorted depiction of them, send the author menacing letters and death threats. (Wikipedia).

Author : Owen Wister
Publisher : The Floating Press
ISBN 13 : 1775455211
Total Pages : 485 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Virginian written by Owen Wister and published by The Floating Press. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 485 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This groundbreaking novel is considered by many to be one of the most important early entries in the western genre. Recounting in rich detail the daily life of a foreman on a vast ranch in Wyoming, this gripping tale has sparked imaginations for more than a century, inspiring at least six film and television versions.