The Angel Of The Left Bank

Author : Jean-Paul Kauffmann
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 0812970861
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Angel of the Left Bank written by Jean-Paul Kauffmann and published by Random House Trade Paperbacks. This book was released on 2004-02-10 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this mesmerizing examination of Delacroix’s crowning masterwork, Jacob Wrestling with the Angel, and of Saint-Sulpice, the grand church that houses it, Jean-Paul Kauffmann reveals the city of Paris in an entirely new way. With the same insight and understanding he brought to his National Book Critics Circle Award–nominated The Black Room at Longwood, in The Angel of the Left Bank Jean-Paul Kauffmann confronts humanity’s struggle with God. His muse is Jacob Wrestling with the Angel, Eugène Delacroix’s “spiritual testimony” and certainly one of his masterpieces, a painting that portrays one of the most enigmatic episodes in Genesis. Throughout his careful, impassioned examination of the work, which Delacroix labored over for eight years and finished in 1861, Kauffmann touches on architecture and art history, philosophy and religion, and the luminous city of Paris itself. Like a detective, he looks for lingering clues in the places Delacroix frequented and the objects he touched some 150 years ago, seeking to connect with the artist’s philosophical and artistic process—and, in turn, to discover what truths we might ultimately glean from it. His journey makes for enthralling reading.

Author : Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Publisher : Algonquin Books
ISBN 13 : 1616202424
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Purple Hibiscus written by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and published by Algonquin Books. This book was released on 2012-04-17 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “One of the most vital and original novelists of her generation.” —Larissa MacFarquhar, The New Yorker From the bestselling author of Americanah and We Should All Be Feminists Fifteen-year-old Kambili and her older brother Jaja lead a privileged life in Enugu, Nigeria. They live in a beautiful house, with a caring family, and attend an exclusive missionary school. They're completely shielded from the troubles of the world. Yet, as Kambili reveals in her tender-voiced account, things are less perfect than they appear. Although her Papa is generous and well respected, he is fanatically religious and tyrannical at home—a home that is silent and suffocating. As the country begins to fall apart under a military coup, Kambili and Jaja are sent to their aunt, a university professor outside the city, where they discover a life beyond the confines of their father’s authority. Books cram the shelves, curry and nutmeg permeate the air, and their cousins’ laughter rings throughout the house. When they return home, tensions within the family escalate, and Kambili must find the strength to keep her loved ones together. Purple Hibiscus is an exquisite novel about the emotional turmoil of adolescence, the powerful bonds of family, and the bright promise of freedom.

Author : Rabih Alameddine
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0802190111
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Angel of History written by Rabih Alameddine and published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc.. This book was released on 2016-10-04 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gay poet is haunted by war and the AIDs crisis in this “sprawling fever dream of a novel” by the Dos Passos Prize-winning author of An Unnecessary Woman (NPR.org). Set over the course of one night in the waiting room of a psych clinic, The Angel of History follows Yemeni-born poet Jacob as he revisits the events of his life. His memories take him from his maternal upbringing in an Egyptian whorehouse to his adolescence under the aegis of his wealthy father and his life as a gay Arab man in San Francisco at the height of AIDS. Haunted by an alluring, sassy Satan, who taunts Jacob to remember his painful past, and by dour, frigid Death, who urges him to forget and give up on life, Jacob is also attended to by fourteen saints. With Jacob recalling his life in Cairo, Beirut, Sana’a, Stockholm, and San Francisco, Alameddine gives us a charged philosophical portrayal of a brilliant mind in crisis. This is a profound story that “marks the triumph of memory over oblivion” (Bookforum).

Author : Mari Silva
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Spirit Guides written by Mari Silva and published by . This book was released on 2021-02-27 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you ever imagine what it would be like to connect with the spirit world? Do you wonder what it might be like to feel euphoric with the light of knowledge filling your body? Do you envision yourself having deep conversations with the spirits as you ponder life and what it's all about? The truth is that all these things can really happen. The spirits love to communicate with you and share your emotions. They are eager to share their spiritual world with you and help you progress in the natural world. They chose you as their companion even before you took your first breath, and they want to be a part of your life. If you want to understand more, in this book, you will: Go beyond the seven most well-known Archangels Learn from the lesser-known Archangels and what they can do for you Learn how to stay safe when communicating with spirits Discover how to make sure your guides are on hand to lead you every step of the way Discover how the spirits communicate with you and how you can answer them Find out what a spirit animal is and how to find them Understand how to speak to the ascending masters Find out how to get in touch with your loved ones who have passed away Ponder what happens to people when they die and why it takes so long for spirits to contact people after death Discover how to strengthen your vibration Learn how you can benefit from spiritual sites, even if you can't visit them in person Identify why finding your inner child is an important part of spirituality Uncover the six steps to connect with your spirit guides And so much more... This book has all the information you need to help you become awakened to the spirit world. Whether you long to contact a deceased loved one or are seeking guidance from the spirits, you'll find the answers in this guide. Get your copy of this book now to begin your spiritual journey.

Author : Traci Angel
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
ISBN 13 : 1557286566
Total Pages : 165 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Scars of Project 459 written by Traci Angel and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 2014-05-01 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shows how the populairty of the Lake of the Ozarks has resulted in major present-day problems, including poor water quality, loss of habitat, and increasing concerns about aging waste-management systems.

Author : Lucie Delarue-Mardrus
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 081475080X
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Angel and the Perverts written by Lucie Delarue-Mardrus and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1995-07 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in the lesbian and gay circles of Paris in the 1920s, this is the story of a hermaphrodite born to upper-class parents in Normandy and ignorant of his/her physical difference.

Author : Nalini Singh
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101019530
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Angels' Blood written by Nalini Singh and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2009-03-03 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FIRST IN THE GUILD HUNTER SERIES! Nalini Singh introduces readers to a world of beauty and bloodlust, where angels hold sway over vampires. Vampire hunter Elena Deveraux is hired by the dangerously beautiful Archangel Raphael. But this time, it’s not a wayward vamp she has to track. It’s an archangel gone bad. The job will put Elena in the midst of a killing spree like no other—and pull her to the razor’s edge of passion. Even if the hunt doesn’t destroy her, succumbing to Raphael’s seductive touch just may. For when archangels play, mortals break.

Author : Rosemary Flannery
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1936941015
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Angels of Paris written by Rosemary Flannery and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2012-11-06 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Angels are sculpted everywhere in Paris, not just on churches but in unexpected places: holding a lightning rod atop the Théâtre du Châtelet’s roof, adorning a seventeenth-century gilded sundial inside a courtyard at the Sorbonne, hovering above a railroad headquarters where a beautiful stone frieze features young angels flying in to work on the tracks. Subtly, subliminally, the angels are a part of the fanciful and romantic spirit of Paris. Angels of Paris is the first book to explore this intriguing and extraordinary subject. Angels of Paris features beautiful photographs taken from dawn to dusk, in all seasons, accompanied by text explaining the story behind the creation of each angel and of the location in which it is found. Organized chronologically, the book delves into the artistic trends and historic movements the angels reflect and the stories of the artists who created them and of those who commissioned them. Readers will learn about Paris’s history, buildings, and monuments through the abundant, beautiful, and surprising depictions of angels from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century. Rosemary Flannery has found angels in friezes, plaques, and free-standing sculpture; on fountains and façades, clocks and sundials, monuments and mansions, rooftops and window frames. Angels of Paris is a unique way for lovers of Paris to learn more about the city in a new and unusual way.

Author : Jerzy Peterkiewicz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book That Angel Burning at My Left Side written by Jerzy Peterkiewicz and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : M. Godfroy
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137363479
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kourou and the Struggle for a French America written by M. Godfroy and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-03-30 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kourou was to be a wonderful revenge, a French colony in America after the Seven Years War in 1763. However, the fantastic ideal became a grand failure and political disaster, marking the end of the French attempts for an American colony.