Telephone

Author : Percival Everett
Publisher : Picador
ISBN 13 : 1761561456
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Telephone written by Percival Everett and published by Picador. This book was released on 2024-03-26 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finalist for the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction Zach Wells is a perpetually dissatisfied geologist-slash-paleobiologist. Expert in a very narrow area – the geological history of a cave forty-four metres above the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon – he is a laconic man who plays chess with his daughter, trades puns with his wife while she does yoga, and dodges committee work at the college where he teaches. After a field trip to the desert yields nothing more than a colleague with a tenure problem and a student with an unwelcome crush on him, Wells returns home to find his world crumbling. His daughter has lost her edge at chess, she has developed mysterious eye problems, and her memory has lost its grasp. Powerless in the face of his daughter’s slow deterioration, he finds a mysterious note asking for help tucked into the pocket of a jacket he’s ordered off eBay. Desperate for someone to save, he sets off to New Mexico in secret on a quixotic rescue mission. A deeply affecting story about the lengths to which loss and grief will drive us, Telephone is a Percival Everett novel we should have seen coming all along, one that will shake you to the core as it asks questions about the power of narrative to save.

Author : Avital Ronell
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803289383
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Telephone Book written by Avital Ronell and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1989-01-01 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The telephone marks the place of an absence. Affiliated with discontinuity, alarm, and silence, it raises fundamental questions about the constitution of self and other, the stability of location, systems of transfer, and the destination of speech. Profoundly changing our concept of long-distance, it is constantly transmitting effects of real and evocative power. To the extent that it always relates us to the absent other, the telephone, and the massive switchboard attending it, plugs into a hermeneutics of mourning. The Telephone Book, itself organized by a "telephonic logic," fields calls from philosophy, history, literature, and psychoanalysis. It installs a switchboard that hooks up diverse types of knowledge while rerouting and jamming the codes of the disciplines in daring ways. Avital Ronell has done nothing less than consider the impact of the telephone on modern thought. Her highly original, multifaceted inquiry into the nature of communication in a technological age will excite everyone who listens in. The book begins by calling close attention to the importance of the telephone in Nazi organization and propaganda, with special regard to the philosophy of Martin Heidegger. In the Third Reich the telephone became a weapon, a means of state surveillance, "an open accomplice to lies." Heidegger, in Being and Time and elsewhere, elaborates on the significance of "the call." In a tour de force response, Ronell mobilizes the history and terminology of the telephone to explicate his difficult philosophy. Ronell also speaks of the appearance of the telephone in the literary works of Duras, Joyce, Kafka, Rilke, and Strindberg. She examines its role in psychoanalysis—Freud said that the unconscious is structured like a telephone, and Jung and R. D. Laing saw it as a powerful new body part. She traces its historical development from Bell's famous first call: "Watson, come here!" Thomas A. Watson, his assistant, who used to communicate with spirits, was eager to get the telephone to talk, and thus to link technology with phantoms and phantasms. In many ways a meditation on the technologically constituted state, The Telephone Book opens a new field, becoming the first political deconstruction of technology, state terrorism, and schizophrenia. And it offers a fresh reading of the American and European addiction to technology in which the telephone emerges as the crucial figure of this age.

Author : Mac Barnett
Publisher : Chronicle Books
ISBN 13 : 1452142122
Total Pages : 42 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Telephone written by Mac Barnett and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2014-09-09 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's time to fly home for dinner! In this witty picture book from award-winning and bestselling author Mac Barnett, a mother bird gives the bird next to her a message for little Peter. But passing messages on a telephone line isn't as simple as it sounds. Each subsequent bird understands Mama's message according to its own very particular hobbies. Will Peter ever get home for dinner? This uproarious interpretation of a favorite children's game will get everyone giggling and is sure to lead to countless rereads.

Author : Gianni Rodari
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781592702848
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Telephone Tales written by Gianni Rodari and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-08 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reminiscent of Scheherazade and One Thousand and One Nights, Gianni Rodari's Telephone Tales is many stories within a story. Every night, a traveling father must finish a bedtime story in the time that a single coin will buy. One night, it's a carousel that adults cannot comprehend, but whose operator must be some sort of magician, the next, it's a land filled with butter men who melt in the sunshine Awarded the Hans Christian Anderson Award in 1970, Gianni Rodari is widely considered to be Italy's most important children's author of the 20th century. Newly re-illustrated by Italian artist Valerio Vidali​ (The Forest)​, Telephone Tales​ entertains, while questioning and imagining other worlds.

Author : Ammon Shea
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101444118
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Phone Book written by Ammon Shea and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010-10-05 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Read Ammon Shea's blogs and other content on the Penguin Community. A surprising, lively, and rich history of that ubiquitous doorstop that most of us take for granted. Ammon Shea is not your typical thirtysomething book enthusiast. After reading the Oxford English Dictionary from cover to cover (and living to write about it in Reading the OED), what classic, familiar, but little-read book would he turn to next? Yes, the phone book. With his signature combination of humor, curiosity, and passion for combing the dustbins of history, Shea offers readers a guided tour into the surprising, strange, and often hilarious history of the humble phone book. From the first printed version in 1878 (it had fifty listings and no numbers) to the phone book's role in presidential elections, Supreme Court rulings, Senate filibusters, abstract art, subversive poetry, circus sideshows, criminal investigations, mental-health diagnoses, and much more, this surprising volume reveals a rich and colorful story that has never been told-until now.

Author : Susan E. Hamen
Publisher : Stem Smackdown (Alternator Boo
ISBN 13 : 1541512103
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Who Invented the Telephone? written by Susan E. Hamen and published by Stem Smackdown (Alternator Boo. This book was released on 2018 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone or did he? Inventor Antonio Santi Giuseppe Meucci was also working on a telephone at the same time. Watch Meucci and Bell race to be first to the invention finish line.

Author : H. M. Boettinger
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Telephone Book written by H. M. Boettinger and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jennifer Fandel
Publisher : Capstone
ISBN 13 : 0736864784
Total Pages : 19 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Alexander Graham Bell and the Telephone written by Jennifer Fandel and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2007 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In graphic novel format, tells the story of how Alexander Graham Bell came up with the telephone, and how his invention changed the way people communicate"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Percival Everett
Publisher : Graywolf Press
ISBN 13 : 1555979742
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book So Much Blue written by Percival Everett and published by Graywolf Press. This book was released on 2017-06-13 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new high point for a master novelist, an emotionally charged reckoning with art, marriage, and the past Kevin Pace is working on a painting that he won’t allow anyone to see: not his children; not his best friend, Richard; not even his wife, Linda. The painting is a canvas of twelve feet by twenty-one feet (and three inches) that is covered entirely in shades of blue. It may be his masterpiece or it may not; he doesn’t know or, more accurately, doesn’t care. What Kevin does care about are the events of the past. Ten years ago he had an affair with a young watercolorist in Paris. Kevin relates this event with a dispassionate air, even a bit of puzzlement. It’s not clear to him why he had the affair, but he can’t let it go. In the more distant past of the late seventies, Kevin and Richard traveled to El Salvador on the verge of war to retrieve Richard’s drug-dealing brother, who had gone missing without explanation. As the events of the past intersect with the present, Kevin struggles to justify the sacrifices he’s made for his art and the secrets he’s kept from his wife. So Much Blue features Percival Everett at his best, and his deadpan humor and insightful commentary about the artistic life culminate in a brilliantly readable new novel.

Author : H. M. Boettinger
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Telephone Book written by H. M. Boettinger and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: