That Distant Land

Author : Wendell Berry
Publisher : Catapult
ISBN 13 : 1582439303
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book That Distant Land written by Wendell Berry and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2009-05-01 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 2005, That Distant Land brings together twenty–three stories from the Port William Membership. Arranged in their fictional chronology, the book is not an anthology so much as it is a coherent temporal mapping of this landscape over time, revealing Berry’s mastery of decades of the life lived alongside this clutch of interrelated characters bound by affection and followed over generations. This volume combines the stories found in The Wild Birds (1985), Fidelity (1992), and Watch with Me (1994), together with a map and a charting of the complex and interlocking genealogies.

Author : Bo Caldwell
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780156027137
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Distant Land of My Father written by Bo Caldwell and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2002 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anna had a charmed childhood in 1930s Shanghai with her smuggler father. Anna and her mother fled the Japanese occupation and settled in California, but her father stayed behind. Fifteen years later, Anna is grown with a family of her own in Los Angeles when her father reappears.

Author : Philip Booth
Publisher : New York : Viking Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Letter from a Distant Land written by Philip Booth and published by New York : Viking Press. This book was released on 1957 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Monika Ghattas
Publisher : Sunstone Press
ISBN 13 : 1611394783
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Los Arabes of New Mexico written by Monika Ghattas and published by Sunstone Press. This book was released on 2016-09-05 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the outset, Los Arabes (Arabic-speaking individuals) were peddlers, carrying a variety of wares that often included exotic items from the Holy Land. These skilled cross-cultural traders expected to strike it rich in the United States and then return to

Author : Chieh Chieng
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1596917407
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Long Stay in a Distant Land written by Chieh Chieng and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2008-12-01 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Lums are cursed. Their early deaths come randomly, strangely, and often, be it by tainted cheeseburger or speeding ice cream truck. The most recent victim is Louis Lum's mother. Now Louis must move back home with his gangsta rap-obsessed father, Sonny, to prevent him from enacting the revenge he promises. But soon Louis's concern shifts to his uncle Bo Lum, who has disappeared in Hong Kong. As Louis's search progresses, the tragicomic story of three generations of Lums in America is revealed. Chieh Chieng graduated from the creative writing program at the University of California, Irvine, and has been published in Glimmer Train, the Threepenny Review, and the Santa Monica Review. * Chosen for Barnes and Noble's Discover Great New Writers Program * "This is a dazzling debut: poignant, prickly, and deliciously absurd."-Booklist "[Chieng is] a fresh comic voice...a touching and auspicious debut."-Orange Country Register

Author : Mark Anthony Signorelli
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1466950935
Total Pages : 65 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Distant Lands and Near written by Mark Anthony Signorelli and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2012-08 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume, the tradition of formal poetry comes to life again. Based on various stories drawn from "distant lands and near," the poems collected here draw their inspiration from the classic poetry of the past, while exploring themes that are timeless to human life.

Author : Wendell Berry
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1458796086
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A World Lost written by Wendell Berry and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2010-08 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brilliantly detailed characters and subtle social observations distinguish Berry's unassuming but powerful fifth novel. The T.S. Eliot Award-winning poet, essayist and novelist writes with the authority of a man steeped in the culture of a time an...

Author : Julien Green
Publisher : Marion Boyars Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780714530222
Total Pages : 905 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Distant Lands written by Julien Green and published by Marion Boyars Publishers. This book was released on 1996-07-01 with total page 905 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second volume of Julian Green's autobiography. "A compelling drama of the 1850s South. . . A delicious immersion into time and place." -Booklist. "There lurks in the shade of each magnolia and is heard rustling in every crinoline the South's impendin

Author : Alan Beukers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Exotic Postcards written by Alan Beukers and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Haunting postcard images of the non-Western world from a century ago. The antique postcards depicted here were acquired in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries by Western tourists, business people, traders, and colonialists. The circumstances in which the cards were sent, and the details of those who sent them, are largely lost. Yet the audience for collecting them has enjoyed a spectacular growth in recent years and includes not only those with the collecting instinct or the desire to travel but also artists, photographic historians, fashion and jewelry specialists, and designers everywhere. Once it was believed that by taking someone's portrait you stole that person's soul. Here, the human subjects have a powerful presence because they express a deep-seated connection with the land and customs that gave them their identities. Their stories are implicit in their eyes, their costumes, and their postures. Reproduced with complete fidelity, these postcards take us on a magical journey across the world in five travelogues, depicting Asia, the Arab Lands, Africa, the Americas, and Oceania. The book is introduced by one of the greatest and most successful travel writers of our time.

Author : Alison Booth
Publisher : Random House Australia
ISBN 13 : 1864711957
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Distant Land written by Alison Booth and published by Random House Australia. This book was released on 2012-06-01 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The enchanting Jingera trilogy concludes with a heart-rending story of love and the callous twists of fate. Back in 1957, nine-year-old Zidra Vincent met Jim Cadwallader for the first time. Fourteen years later, their bond of friendship - forged during a childhood in the beautiful coastal town of Jingera - is still strong. But is friendship all they dream of? Jim is now a respected war correspondent in Cambodia, though he has plans to come home for good. because there is something very important he wants to say to Zidra. Zidra, meanwhile, is an ambitious reporter at the Sydney Morning Chronicle, and the seeds of a major story have just landed in her lap. Life is looking good, if only she could share it with the man who knows her best. Then, while at work in the newsroom one morning, Zidra catches sight of a wire service bulletin. A story out of Cambodia. The body of a Western journalist has been discovered near Phnom Penh. And her world collapses around her ...