Twenty Years And Twenty Days

Author : Giorgio De Maria
Publisher : Liveright Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1631492306
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Twenty Days of Turin: A Novel written by Giorgio De Maria and published by Liveright Publishing. This book was released on 2017-02-07 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Named one of NPR's Best Books of 2017 Written during the height of the 1970s Italian domestic terror, a cult novel, with distinct echoes of Lovecraft and Borges, makes its English-language debut. In the spare wing of a church-run sanatorium, some zealous youths create "the Library," a space where lonely citizens can read one another’s personal diaries and connect with like-minded souls in "dialogues across the ether." But when their scribblings devolve into the ugliest confessions of the macabre, the Library’s users learn too late that a malicious force has consumed their privacy and their sanity. As the city of Turin suffers a twenty-day "phenomenon of collective psychosis" culminating in nightly massacres that hundreds of witnesses cannot explain, the Library is shut down and erased from history. That is, until a lonely salaryman decides to investigate these mysterious events, which the citizenry of Turin fear to mention. Inevitably drawn into the city’s occult netherworld, he unearths the stuff of modern nightmares: what’s shared can never be unshared. An allegory inspired by the grisly neo-fascist campaigns of its day, The Twenty Days of Turin has enjoyed a fervent cult following in Italy for forty years. Now, in a fretful new age of "lone-wolf" terrorism fueled by social media, we can find uncanny resonances in Giorgio De Maria’s vision of mass fear: a mute, palpitating dread that seeps into every moment of daily existence. With its stunning anticipation of the Internet—and the apocalyptic repercussions of oversharing—this bleak, prescient story is more disturbingly pertinent than ever. Brilliantly translated into English for the first time by Ramon Glazov, The Twenty Days of Turin establishes De Maria’s place among the literary ranks of Italo Calvino and beside classic horror masters such as Edgar Allan Poe and H. P. Lovecraft. Hauntingly imaginative, with visceral prose that chills to the marrow, the novel is an eerily clairvoyant magnum opus, long overdue but ever timely.

Author : Nathaniel Hawthorne
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 9781590170427
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Twenty Days with Julian & Little Bunny by Papa written by Nathaniel Hawthorne and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2003-05-31 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On July 28, 1851, Nathaniel Hawthorne's wife Sophia and daughters Una and Rose left their house in Western Massachusetts to visit relatives near Boston. Hawthorne and his five-year-old son Julian stayed behind. How father and son got along over the next three weeks is the subject of this tender and funny extract from Hawthorne's notebooks. "At about six o'clock I looked over the edge of my bed and saw that Julian was awake, peeping sideways at me." Each day starts early and is mostly given over to swimming and skipping stones, berry-picking and subduing armies of thistles. There are lots of questions ("It really does seem as if he has baited me with more questions, references, and observations, than mortal father ought to be expected to endure"), a visit to a Shaker community, domestic crises concerning a pet rabbit, and some poignant moments of loneliness ("I went to bed at about nine and longed for Phoebe"). And one evening Mr. Herman Melville comes by to enjoy a late-night discussion of eternity over cigars. With an introduction by Paul Auster that paints a beautifully observed, intimate picture of the Hawthornes at home, this little-known, true-life story by a great American writer emerges from obscurity to shine a delightful light upon family life—then and now.

Author : Jorge Valls
Publisher : Human Rights Watch
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Twenty Years and Forty Days written by Jorge Valls and published by Human Rights Watch. This book was released on 1986 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Charlie Donlea
Publisher : Kensington Books
ISBN 13 : 1496727207
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Twenty Years Later written by Charlie Donlea and published by Kensington Books. This book was released on 2021-12-28 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Excellent…Donlea tells a propulsive tale.” – The New York Times The New York Times Best Thrillers This Season | E! NewsRecommended Books | Overdrive Biggest Books of the Month Fans of Verity by Colleen Hoover won’t want to miss this thrilling new suspense novel from the #1 internationally bestselling author of The Girl Who Was Taken! Hiding her own dark past in plain sight, a TV reporter is determined to uncover the truth behind a gruesome murder decades after the investigation was abandoned. But TWENTY YEARS LATER, to understand the present, you need to listen to the past… Avery Mason, host of American Events, knows the subjects that grab a TV audience’s attention. Her latest story—a murder mystery laced with kinky sex, tragedy, and betrayal—is guaranteed to be ratings gold. New DNA technology has allowed the New York medical examiner’s office to make its first successful identification of a 9/11 victim in years. The twist: the victim, Victoria Ford, had been accused of the gruesome murder of her married lover. In a chilling last phone call to her sister, Victoria begged her to prove her innocence. Emma Kind has waited twenty years to put her sister to rest, but closure won’t be complete until she can clear Victoria’s name. Alone she’s had no luck, but she’s convinced that Avery’s connections and fame will help. Avery, hoping to negotiate a more lucrative network contract, goes into investigative overdrive. Victoria had been having an affair with a successful novelist, found hanging from the balcony of his Catskills mansion. The rope, the bedroom, and the entire crime scene was covered in Victoria’s DNA. But the twisted puzzle of Victoria’s private life is just the beginning. And what Avery doesn't realize is that there are other players in the game who are interested in Avery’s own secret past—one she has kept hidden from both the network executives and her television audience. A secret she thought was dead and buried . . . Accused of a brutal murder, Victoria Ford made a final chilling call from the North Tower on the morning of 9/11. Twenty years ago, no one listened. Today, you will. “Breathtaking pacing and clever plot twists.” —Publishers Weekly “An entertaining thriller…surprises lurking around every corner.” —Kirkus Reviews “A superb storyteller.” —Robert Dugoni, New York Timesbestselling author

Author : Michèle Audin
Publisher : Deep Vellum Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1941920330
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book One Hundred Twenty-One Days written by Michèle Audin and published by Deep Vellum Publishing. This book was released on 2016-04-25 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Audin plays with codes, numbers and dates to create a fascinating and unsettling story."—Le Temps This debut novel by mathematician and Oulipo member Michèle Audin retraces the lives of French mathematicians over several generations through World Wars I and II. The narrative oscillates stylistically from chapter to chapter—at times a novel, fable, historical research, or a diary—locking and unlocking codes, culminating in a captivating, original reading experience. Michèle Audin is the author of several works of mathematical theory and history and also published a work on her anticolonialist father's torture, disappearance, and execution by the French during the Battle of Algiers.

Author : Brian Sullivan
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1402231032
Total Pages : 719 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 20 Days to the Top written by Brian Sullivan and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2005-09-01 with total page 719 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I've been selling the same basic product to the same customers for over 10 years. I watched your video and it turned my thinking upside down!...And guess what?? I WAS my company's Top Sales Performer!" --Linda Jamison, National Account Manager, Time Warner Book Group Brian Sullivan is an award-winning salesperson and one of the most prominent and sought-after sales and leadership trainers. His high-energy, no-nonsense, interactive seminars on the PRECISE Selling Formula have become one of the hottest training courses in sales. Based around the notion that you should "Say less...while selling more," Sullivan teaches salespeople how to execute the PRECISE Selling Formula in just 20 days. They'll also learn how to: --Lead their company in sales --Be stupid to make stupid big money --Create a posture that attracts customers --Evaluate sales performance after every call

Author : Salman Rushdie
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0812998928
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights written by Salman Rushdie and published by Random House. This book was released on 2015-09-08 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post • Los Angeles Times • San Francisco Chronicle • Harper’s Bazaar • St. Louis Post-Dispatch • The Guardian • The Kansas City Star • National Post • BookPage • Kirkus Reviews From Salman Rushdie, one of the great writers of our time, comes a spellbinding work of fiction that blends history, mythology, and a timeless love story. A lush, richly layered novel in which our world has been plunged into an age of unreason, Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights is a breathtaking achievement and an enduring testament to the power of storytelling. In the near future, after a storm strikes New York City, the strangenesses begin. A down-to-earth gardener finds that his feet no longer touch the ground. A graphic novelist awakens in his bedroom to a mysterious entity that resembles his own sub–Stan Lee creation. Abandoned at the mayor’s office, a baby identifies corruption with her mere presence, marking the guilty with blemishes and boils. A seductive gold digger is soon tapped to combat forces beyond imagining. Unbeknownst to them, they are all descended from the whimsical, capricious, wanton creatures known as the jinn, who live in a world separated from ours by a veil. Centuries ago, Dunia, a princess of the jinn, fell in love with a mortal man of reason. Together they produced an astonishing number of children, unaware of their fantastical powers, who spread across generations in the human world. Once the line between worlds is breached on a grand scale, Dunia’s children and others will play a role in an epic war between light and dark spanning a thousand and one nights—or two years, eight months, and twenty-eight nights. It is a time of enormous upheaval, in which beliefs are challenged, words act like poison, silence is a disease, and a noise may contain a hidden curse. Inspired by the traditional “wonder tales” of the East, Salman Rushdie’s novel is a masterpiece about the age-old conflicts that remain in today’s world. Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights is satirical and bawdy, full of cunning and folly, rivalries and betrayals, kismet and karma, rapture and redemption. Praise for Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights “Rushdie is our Scheherazade. . . . This book is a fantasy, a fairytale—and a brilliant reflection of and serious meditation on the choices and agonies of our life in this world.”—Ursula K. Le Guin, The Guardian “One of the major literary voices of our time . . . In reading this new book, one cannot escape the feeling that [Rushdie’s] years of writing and success have perhaps been preparation for this moment, for the creation of this tremendously inventive and timely novel.”—San Francisco Chronicle “A wicked bit of satire . . . [Rushdie] riffs and expands on the tales of Scheherazade, another storyteller whose spinning of yarns was a matter of life and death.”—USA Today “A swirling tale of genies and geniuses [that] translates the bloody upheavals of our last few decades into the comic-book antics of warring jinn wielding bolts of fire, mystical transmutations and rhyming battle spells.”—The Washington Post “Great fun . . . The novel shines brightest in the panache of its unfolding, the electric grace and nimble eloquence and extraordinary range and layering of his voice.”—The Boston Globe

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Publisher : PublishAmerica
ISBN 13 : 1627721746
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Twenty Days in May, Vietnam 1968 written by and published by PublishAmerica. This book was released on 2008-12-08 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Holly Richard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781944662714
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book One Hundred and Twenty-Six Days written by Holly Richard and published by . This book was released on 2021-10-15 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One Hundred and Twenty-Six Days throws you onto the path of one family's unthinkable journey as their 27-year-old is violently hurled onto the cancer battlefield. What is to come was nothing anyone could ever imagine.

Author : Suzanne Roberts
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1496236920
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Almost Somewhere written by Suzanne Roberts and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2023-10 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This updated edition of a month-long backcountry trip on the John Muir Trail is part memoir, part nature writing, and part travelogue.