This Is My Office And Notes On My Mothers Decline

Author : Andy Bragen
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 081014462X
Total Pages : 97 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book This Is My Office and Notes on My Mother’s Decline written by Andy Bragen and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2022-01-15 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These plays by Andy Bragen examine the intimacies and shadows that exist between parents and children. In This Is My Office, a guided tour through an empty office becomes the unexpected portal to a forgotten New York and a father’s legacy. This play brings you face-to-face with a narrator who finds his way through doubt, soul-sickness, and doughnut cravings by telling you a story. Not the one he meant to tell, but a richer one about family, redemption, and love. The autobiographical Notes on My Mother’s Decline evokes the final days of a woman’s life. Late at night, while his baby daughter sleeps, a son takes notes on his mother’s daily life and scenes from their complicated relationship. He is shaping a play, as well as a perspective. Two blocks away, his mother naps, smokes, reads, and drinks coffee. She is shaping her existence within encroaching confines. Bragen plumbs silences and one-sided conversations to ask how we come to know one another as parents and as children. How do we care for those we love, and what does it take to live with—and without—them?

Author : Richard Baer
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595361447
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book I Don't Drop Names Like Marilyn Monroe Just to Sell Books written by Richard Baer and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2005-09 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early 1950's, in Los Angeles, at 6 AM, John West, vice-president of the National Broadcasting Company in charge of west coast, gets a phone call from New York City on the NBC tie line. The caller is General David Sarnoff, chairman of the Board of RCA, the Radio Corporation of America, NBC's parent company. Awakened from sleep, Mr. West groggily says "Hello" "John, this is General Sarnoff." Mr. West swiftly clears the cobwebs. "Good morning, General, it's always good to hear from you." "John, you're acquainted with my nephew Richard Baer, aren't you?" "Yes, General, I am. He's a fine young man. I think very highly of him." "Last night I spoke with his mother, my sister. She's upset. The reason she's upset is that Richard has been out of work for four months and he has no prospects, so it looks like his life is going nowhere." "General, I'm surprised and sorry to hear that." "John, I want you to find Richard a job. And I want you to find him a job by nine o'clock this morning, your time. I'll be waiting for your call saying you took care of it. Goodbye."

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Total Pages : 1342 pages
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Download or read book The South Western Reporter written by and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 1342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes the decisions of the Supreme Courts of Missouri, Arkansas, Tennessee, and Texas, and Court of Appeals of Kentucky; Aug./Dec. 1886-May/Aug. 1892, Court of Appeals of Texas; Aug. 1892/Feb. 1893-Jan./Feb. 1928, Courts of Civil and Criminal Appeals of Texas; Apr./June 1896-Aug./Nov. 1907, Court of Appeals of Indian Territory; May/June 1927-Jan./Feb. 1928, Courts of Appeals of Missouri and Commission of Appeals of Texas.

Author : Heather Raffo
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780822220978
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Heather Raffo's 9 Parts of Desire written by Heather Raffo and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 2006 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Iraqi artist paints-into-life an astonishing generation of women, exposing their radical, sexy and ultimately human stories beneath. Nine Parts of Desire is inspired by live interviews and events of the last ten years on both sides of the Iraqi border.

Author : Aron Ralston
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1849835098
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 127 Hours written by Aron Ralston and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-02-03 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On Sunday April 27, 2003, 27-year old Aron Ralston set off for a day's hiking in the Utah canyons. Dressed in a t-shirt and shorts, Ralston, a seasoned climber, figured he'd hike for a few hours and then head off to work. 40 miles from the nearest paved road, he found himself on top of an 800-pound boulder. As he slid down and off of the boulder it shifted, trapping his right hand against the canyon wall. No one knew where he was; he had little water; he wasn't dressed correctly; and the boulder wasn't going anywhere. He remained trapped for five days in the canyon: hypothermic at night, de-hydrated and hallucinating by day. Finally, he faced the most terrible decision of his life: braking the bones in his wrist by snapping them against the boulder, he hacked through the skin, and finally succeeded in amputating his right hand and wrist. The ordeal, however, was only beginning. He still faced a 60-foot rappell to freedom, and a walk of several hours back to his car - along the way, he miraculously met a family of hikers, and with his arms tourniqued, and blood-loss almost critical, they heard above them the whir of helicopter blades; just in time, Aron was rescued and rushed to hospital. Since that day, Aron has had a remarkable recovery. He is back out on the mountains, with an artificial limb; he speaks to select groups on his ordeal and rescue; and amazingly, he is upbeat, positive, and an inspiration to all who meet him. This is the account of those five days, of the years that led up to them, and where he goes from here. It is narrative non-fiction at its most compelling.

Author : Samuel Pepys
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 470 pages
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Author : STEPHANIE ARDREY
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1456831054
Total Pages : 155 pages
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Download or read book SHOW ME THE MONEY THE 9P's TO PROFIT! written by STEPHANIE ARDREY and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-04-19 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Show Me The Money: The 9Ps to Profit! Is for you if you are a business owner with the following challenges: • Reduced profits - lost sales or major clients • Increased costs - operational cost increases and inability to manage or address • Market Position - decline of market share due to reductions in advertising and sales efforts • Management - productivity down due to over taxed management and line staff If any of these situations apply, and you have the desire to remain in business - “Show Me The Money: The 9Ps To Profit” is a must read treatise detailing specific strategies to rescue and recast the financial future of your firm.

Author : Teresa Cardenas
Publisher : Groundwood Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1554980577
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Letters to My Mother written by Teresa Cardenas and published by Groundwood Books Ltd. This book was released on 2006-06-23 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The narrator of Letters to My Mother is a young Afro-Cuban girl who, upon the death of her mother, must live with her aunt and cousins. Dependent on them and their good will, she finds their taunts about how dark her skin is and their attacks on her behavior, including her choice not to straighten her hair, deeply wounding. To keep her mother alive somehow, and to remember that she was once deeply loved, she writes letters telling Mamita what she is suffering and feeling. Over the course of this powerful and moving novel, the heroine grows up. Her inner strength helps her to overcome her pain and the racism of at least some of the people around her. And her position in the family changes as she learns to accept herself and others.

Author : Delia Santo
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1514412861
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Malice written by Delia Santo and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2015-11-21 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What would you expect from a girl named Malice? At twelve, her definition of family is nixed when her father, Rick, reveals that he is gay and leaves home. Ruth, her emotionally distant mother, punishes Rick by delivering Malice at midnight ("like some ding-dong ditch it game") on the doorstep of the house he shares with his lover, Grey. Disillusioned by her parents separation, and her religion, Malice sculpts a private world, out ofof all thingschewed gum. How does Malice deal with becoming a woman in a household of men?

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Total Pages : 96 pages
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Download or read book New York Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1993-07-26 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York magazine was born in 1968 after a run as an insert of the New York Herald Tribune and quickly made a place for itself as the trusted resource for readers across the country. With award-winning writing and photography covering everything from politics and food to theater and fashion, the magazine's consistent mission has been to reflect back to its audience the energy and excitement of the city itself, while celebrating New York as both a place and an idea.