The Spectacular

Author : Zoe Whittall
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 1524799424
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Spectacular written by Zoe Whittall and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2021-09-14 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three generations of women strive for real freedom in this startling, provocative novel exploring sexuality, gender, and maternal ambivalence, from the acclaimed author of The Best Kind of People. “In the best books, characters feel like my friends, but with the mothers of The Spectacular, they came to feel like my family.”—Torrey Peters, author of Detransition, Baby It’s 1997 and Missy is a cellist in an indie rock band on tour across America. At twenty-two years old, she gets on stage every night and plays the song about her absent mother that made the band famous. As the only girl in the band, she’s determined to party just as hard as everyone else, loving and leaving a guy in every town. But then she meets a tomboy drummer who is hard to forget, and a forgotten flap of cocaine strands her at the border. Fortysomething Carola is just surfacing from a sex scandal at the yoga center where she has been living when she sees her daughter, Missy, for the first time in ten years—on the cover of a music magazine. Ruth is eighty-three and planning her return to the Turkish seaside village where she spent her childhood. But when her granddaughter, Missy, winds up crashing at her house, she decides it’s time that the strong and stubborn women in her family find a way to understand one another again. In this sharply observed novel, Zoe Whittall captures three very different women who each struggle to build an authentic life. Definitions of family, romance, gender, and love will radically change as they seek out lives that are nothing less than spectacular.

Author : Tim Tharp
Publisher : Scholastic UK
ISBN 13 : 1407146467
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Spectacular Now written by Tim Tharp and published by Scholastic UK. This book was released on 2014-02-06 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sutter's the guy you want at your party. Aimee's not. She needs help and it's up to Sutter to show Aimee a splendiferous time and then let her go forth and prosper. But Aimee's not like other girls and before long he's over his head. For the first time in his life he has the power to make a difference in someone else's life - or ruin it forever.

Author : Kat Patrick
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781913348793
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Spectacular Suit written by Kat Patrick and published by . This book was released on 2022-03-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A buoyant and heartwarming celebration of individuality, identity, and dressing to suit yourself! It's almost Frankie's birthday and everything is ready -- except for something to wear. All of her party dresses feel wrong. Her family tries to help, but it's no good. What Frankie longs for is a suit. A spectacular suit ... Can Frankie find the outfit of her dreams? The perfect gift for birthday parties, crafters, and children who don't identify with traditional gender roles Wonderful conversation starter for teachers and librarians to explore gender and identity with age-relevant material from creators whose life experience is reflected in the story

Author : Maurice Samuels
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501729837
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Spectacular Past written by Maurice Samuels and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-06 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Struggling to make sense of the Revolution of 1789, the French in the nineteenth century increasingly turned to visual forms of historical representation in a variety of media. Maurice Samuels shows how new kinds of popular entertainment introduced during and after the Revolution transformed the past into a spectacle. The wax display (in which visitors circulated amid life-size statues of historical figures), the phantasmagoria show (in which images of historical personages were projected onto smoke or invisible screens), and the panorama (in which spectators viewed giant circular canvases depicting historical scenes) employed new optical technologies to entice crowds of spectators. Such entertainments, Samuels asserts, provided bourgeois audiences with an illusion of mastery over the past, allowing them to picture their new role as historical agents.Samuels demonstrates how the spectacular mode of historical representation pervaded historiography, drama, and the novel during the Romantic period. He then argues that the early Realist fiction of Balzac and Stendhal emerged as a critique of the spectacular historical imagination. By investigating how postrevolutionary France envisioned the past, Samuels illuminates a vital moment in the cultural history of modernity.

Author : Scott Semegran
Publisher : Mutt Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Spectacular Simon Burchwood written by Scott Semegran and published by Mutt Press. This book was released on 2013-09-12 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recently divorced and his writing career in shambles, Simon Burchwood's life is a complete disaster. He reluctantly finds work as a computer support technician and resigns that his career as the next great American novelist will never come to fruition. When he learns that his ex-wife abruptly moves to Dallas with his children, he embarks on a crazy road trip with a nerdy coworker and a hitchhiking punk rock girl and discovers the inspiration he desperately needs for his new literary masterpiece. Take another trip with the one and only Simon Burchwood. From Kindle bestselling writer and cartoonist Scott Semegran, The Spectacular Simon Burchwood is for fans of literary fiction with a touch of magical realism and a dose of dark humor. This is the second book in the Simon Adventures Series which includes The Meteoric Rise of Simon Burchwood, The Spectacular Simon Burchwood, and Sammie & Budgie. "Simon is starting to understand something, and his luck literally changes. Semegran handles this quite deftly. We see the progress he is making in getting a grasp of what life is about." — The New Podler Review of Books What Reviewers Are Saying About Simon Burchwood: "Simon is such a character that I couldn't wait to find what he did next." — Great Books Under $5 (5 Stars) "It's pretty fun to be inside his head." — Red Adept Reviews (4.5 Stars) "Simon Burchwood Is A Genius, It's True!" — Bitsy Bling Books (4 Stars) "Cracked me up!" — Ashton the Book Blogger (4 Stars)

Author : Liz Conor
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253216700
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Spectacular Modern Woman written by Liz Conor and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2004-07-16 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Liz Conor explores the role of media technology in the emergence of the 'modern woman' in the 1920s. At once liberating & confining, the media images of women set standards of appearance that were closely tied to ideas about the roles a woman could fulfill, from city girl to mannekin to flapper.

Author : Jean Marzollo
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0545222788
Total Pages : 41 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book I Spy Spectacular written by Jean Marzollo and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2011 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of picture riddles for your enjoyment.

Author : Emma Thompson
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0723297541
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Spectacular Tale of Peter Rabbit written by Emma Thompson and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2014-10-02 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was high summer and a travelling fun-fair had come to the village... Peter Rabbit and Benjamin were forbidden to attend. But even the best-behaved rabbit can't keep away from a fun-fair; and Peter is far from being the best-behaved rabbit. With Benjamin at his side, Peter sneaks into the fair where a roller-coaster ride of an adventure begins... When Peter finds himself scooped up by a rather grumpy little girl and separated from his cousin he is helpless and very afraid. It takes the determined bravery of Benjamin to rescue Peter from the frightening hurly-burly of shouting stallholders and whirling rides.

Author : Timothy A. Gibson
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 9780739105696
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Securing the Spectacular City written by Timothy A. Gibson and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2004 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seattle's project of 'downtown revitalization' is often touted as a civic endeavour that serves the community as a whole. Gibson questions that assumption. He examines the trade-off between the gain produced by redevelopment and the loss of public space.

Author : Zoe Whittall
Publisher : House of Anansi
ISBN 13 : 177089943X
Total Pages : 387 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Best Kind of People written by Zoe Whittall and published by House of Anansi. This book was released on 2016-08-27 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and a national bestseller, Zoe Whittall’s The Best Kind of People is a stunning tour de force about the unravelling of an all-American family. George Woodbury, an affable teacher and beloved husband and father, is arrested for sexual impropriety at a prestigious prep school. His wife, Joan, vaults between denial and rage as the community she loved turns on her. Their daughter, Sadie, a popular over-achieving high school senior, becomes a social pariah. Their son, Andrew, assists in his father’s defense, while wrestling with his own unhappy memories of his teen years. A local author tries to exploit their story, while an unlikely men’s rights activist attempts to get Sadie onside their cause. With George locked up, how do the members of his family pick up the pieces and keep living their lives? How do they defend someone they love while wrestling with the possibility of his guilt? With exquisite emotional precision, award-winning author Zoe Whittall explores issues of loyalty, truth, and the meaning of happiness through the lens of an all-American family on the brink of collapse.