Tom And Huck Dont Live Here Anymore

Author : Ron Powers
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1429979445
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tom and Huck Don't Live Here Anymore written by Ron Powers and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2002-09-14 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Tom and Huck Don't Live Here Anymore is a powerful, disturbing, and eye-opening dispatch from the homefront that will take its place alongside the works of Antony Lucas, Robert Coles, and Tracy Kidder. Ron Powers' hometown is Hannibal, Missouri, home of Mark Twain, and therefore birthplace of our image of boyhood itself. Powers returns to Hannibal to chronicle the horrific story of two killings, both committed by minors, and the trials that followed. Seamlessly weaving the narrative of the events in Hannibal with the national withering of the very concept of childhood, Powers exposes a fragmented adult society where children are left adrift, transforming isolation into violence. "Powers's storytelling style keeps such good control over the pacing, readers will know they're not headed for a disappointment at the ending." - Publishers Weekly

Author : Ron Powers
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312303242
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tom and Huck Don't Live Here Anymore written by Ron Powers and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2002-09-14 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Tom and Huck Don't Live Here Anymore illuminates the tortured paradox of childhood in present-day America: romanticized in public rhetoric but brutalized by countless acts of indifference, ignorance, and aggression. While no one can fully explain what makes children kill, Powers places the unthinkable squarely at the heart of America's story."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Robert S. Levinson
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780765341679
Total Pages : 830 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hot Paint written by Robert S. Levinson and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2003-08-18 with total page 830 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: L.A. newspaper columnist Neil Gulliver and his ex-wife, Stevie Marriner, chase after priceless art masterpieces stolen more than 70 years ago and believed lost forever.

Author : Arlene S. Skolnick
Publisher : Allyn & Bacon
ISBN 13 : 9780205482658
Total Pages : 548 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Family in Transition written by Arlene S. Skolnick and published by Allyn & Bacon. This book was released on 2007 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This bestselling reader on families and intimate relationships identifies the most current trends, places them in historical context, and balances cutting-edge scholarship with perennial favorites. The authors, who are leading scholars, build each new edition from classic literature in a variety of disciplines as well as from the continuing stream of new family scholarship. Contributions provide new insights into family and explore many myths about family life. New to This Edition Twelve of the thirty-eight readings are new. A new section, "Family and the Economy," explores some of the structural changes in the economy that have had an impact on family life. New topics include: changing family demographics over the course of U.S. history, why gay men and women want to marry, the decline of dating and the rise of hooking up, adoption past and present, how a 24/7 economy affects families, financial pressures on middle-class mothers and fathers, gay and lesbian families, and the families of prison inmates.

Author : Joseph W. Slade
Publisher : Greenwood
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 642 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Midwest written by Joseph W. Slade and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 2004-12-30 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From architecture to food to music, this volume provides a textured examination of the many ways in which the Midwest has served as an undeniable cross-section of American culture. Includes the states of Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Ohio, and Wisconsin.

Author : Granville Hicks
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 9780823223572
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Small Town written by Granville Hicks and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Granville Hicks was one of America's most influential literary and social critics. Along with Malcolm Cowley, F. O. Matthiessen, Max Eastman, Alfred Kazin, and others, he shaped the cultural landscape of 20th-century America. In 1946 Hicks published Small Town, a portrait of life in the rural crossroads of Grafton, N.Y., where he had moved after being fired from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute for his left-wing political views. In this book, he combines a kind of hand-crafted ethnographic research with personal reflections on the qualities of small town life that were being threatened by spreading cities and suburbs. He eloquently tried to define the essential qualities of small town community life and to link them to the best features of American culture. The book sparked numerous articles and debates in a baby-boom America nervously on the move. Long out of print, this classic of cultural criticism speaks powerfully to a new generation seeking to reconnect with a sense of place in American life, both rural and urban. An unaffected, deeply felt portrait of one such place by one of the best American critics, it should find a new home as a vivid reminder of what we have lost-and what we might still be able to protect.

Author : Geoffrey C. Ward
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mark Twain written by Geoffrey C. Ward and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2001 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here the master storytellers Geoffrey Ward, Ken Burns, and Dayton Duncan give us the first fully illustrated biography of Mark Twain, American literature's touchstone, its funniest and most inventive figure.".

Author : Chap Clark
Publisher : Baker Academic
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hurt written by Chap Clark and published by Baker Academic. This book was released on 2004-10 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides an inside look at the world of today's teenagers based on the author's firsthand experience.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 806 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Author : Francis Asbury Sampson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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