The Tenants Of Time

Author : Thomas Flanagan
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1590179293
Total Pages : 824 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Tenants of Time written by Thomas Flanagan and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2016-04-05 with total page 824 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 2 of Thomas Flanagan’s Irish History Trilogy The second volume of Thomas Flanagan’s best-selling Irish-history trilogy (which begins with The Year of the French and closes with The End of the Hunt) is set at the turn of the twentieth century, though its action revisits the thrilling revolutionary period of nearly half a century earlier. It is 1904 and the young historian Patrick Prentiss is visiting rural Kilpeder to research the townspeople’s rebellion during the 1867 Fenian Rising. Drawn into the events of that turbulent year by the intimate narration of the survivors, Prentiss discovers the struggles of the Irish nationalist movement refracted in the lives of those who participated in the failed revolt and its aftermath.

Author : Thomas Flanagan
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1590179307
Total Pages : 628 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The End of the Hunt written by Thomas Flanagan and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2016-04-05 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 3 of Thomas Flanagan’s Irish History Trilogy This third volume of Thomas Flanagan’s best-selling Irish-history trilogy (which begins with The Year of the French and continues with The Tenants of Time) brings to epic life the events of the Irish War of Independence. Flanagan’s gaze is both world historical and intimate as he tells the story of Janice Nugent, a recent war widow who strikes up a romance with Christopher Blake, a historian and propagandist for the IRA; of Patrick Prentiss, discharged from the British army after losing an arm in World War I to find Dublin engulfed in civil turmoil; of a Virgil-toting gunman named Frank Lacy; and of a panorama of meticulously drawn historical figures on both sides of the conflict, from Winston Churchill and Lloyd George to Eamon de Valera and Michael Collins. While violence escalates and losses mount, the once-mighty British Empire shows signs of strain and Irish independence finally glimmers on the horizon.

Author : Edward Lewis Wallant
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 9781590170700
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Tenants of Moonbloom written by Edward Lewis Wallant and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2003-11-30 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Norman Moonbloom is a loser, a drop-out who can't even make it as a deadbeat. His brother, a slumlord, hires him to collect rent in the buildings he owns in Manhattan. Making his rounds from apartment to apartment, Moonbloom confronts a wildly varied assortment of brilliantly described urban characters, among them a gay jazz musician with a sideline as a gigolo, a Holocaust survivor, and a brilliant young black writer modeled on James Baldwin. Moonbloom hears their cries of outrage and abuse; he learns about their secret sorrows and desires. And as he grows familiar with their stories, he finds that he is drawn, in spite of his best judgment, into a desperate attempt to improve their lives. Edward Lewis Wallant's astonishing comic tour de force is a neglected masterpiece of 1960s America.

Author : Bernard Malamud
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 1466804971
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Tenants written by Bernard Malamud and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2003-09-18 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a new introduction by Aleksandar Hemon In The Tenants (1971), Bernard Malamud brought his unerring sense of modern urban life to bear on the conflict between blacks and Jews then inflaming his native Brooklyn. The sole tenant in a rundown tenement, Henry Lesser is struggling to finish a novel, but his solitary pursuit of the sublime grows complicated when Willie Spearmint, a black writer ambivalent toward Jews, moves into the building. Henry and Willie are artistic rivals and unwilling neighbors, and their uneasy peace is disturbed by the presence of Willie's white girlfriend Irene and the landlord Levenspiel's attempts to evict both men and demolish the building. This novel's conflict, current then, is perennial now; it reveals the slippery nature of the human condition, and the human capacity for violence and undoing.

Author : Thomas Flanagan
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1590176863
Total Pages : 548 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Year of the French written by Thomas Flanagan and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2012-11-14 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the National Book Critics Award for Fiction This “classic of historical fiction” takes readers to 18th-century Ireland when French troops supported Irish rebels in their struggle for independence from Britain (The Times, London). In 1798, Irish patriots, committed to freeing their country from England, landed with a company of French troops in County Mayo, in westernmost Ireland. They were supposed to be an advance guard, followed by other French ships with the leader of the rebellion, Wolfe Tone. Briefly they triumphed, raising hopes among the impoverished local peasantry and gathering a group of supporters. But before long the insurgency collapsed in the face of a brutal English counterattack. Very few books succeed in registering the sudden terrible impact of historical events; Thomas Flanagan’s is one. Subtly conceived, masterfully paced, with multiple narrators and a wide and memorable cast of characters, The Year of the French brings to life peasants and landlords, Protestants and Catholics, along with old and abiding questions of secular and religious commitments, empire, occupation, and rebellion. It is quite simply a great historical novel. “I haven’t so enjoyed a historical novel since The Charterhouse of Parma and War and Peace.” — John Leonard, The New York Times

Author : Catharine Anne Wilson
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773575138
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tenants in Time written by Catharine Anne Wilson and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2009 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life as a tenant farmer in a society where ownership was revered but tenancy was of vital importance.

Author : Walter H. Baumgartel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1208 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Centralized Management of a Large Corporate Estate Operated by Tenants in the Wheat Belt written by Walter H. Baumgartel and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 1208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : William Frederick Barry
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 826 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Times Law Reports written by William Frederick Barry and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 826 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 926 pages
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Download or read book The Irish Law Times and Solicitors' Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 926 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Regis A. Duffy
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1608995348
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An American Emmaus written by Regis A. Duffy and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2010-04-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A penetrating study of the impact of culture on the Catholic Church in the U.S., and the importance of the Church to the culture."Emmaus," writes the author, "is not only the name of a town in the gospel of Luke. It is also a state of mind." He portrays the American Emmaus as an ongoing conversion walk of twentieth-century Christians who attempt to recognize the crucified and risen Christ within the complex and pluralistic cultures of the United States. He focuses on the connections between being Catholic and American at this point in history, challenges the Church to give witness to the gospel message, and shows how it is through liturgy (the gathered American community) that the Church once again takes the walk to Emmaus. Here are insights not only for Catholics but for Christians of every denomination.