Venus On The Half Shell

Author : Philip José Farmer
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504094522
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Venus on the Half-Shell written by Philip José Farmer and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2024-05-14 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Disaster sends a man across the universe in search of answers to life’s big questions in this humorous classic adventure by a Science Fiction Grand Master. When a massive flood wipes out Earth and spoils his date, lone survivor Simon Wagstaff finds refuge in an abandoned Chinese spaceship, the Hwang Ho. Accompanied by three new companions—a dog, an owl, and a beautiful robot—and his electric banjo, Wagstaff sets off on an extraterrestrial adventure. He travels from planet to planet, seeking the definitive answer to the ultimate question: Why are we created if only to suffer and die? Of course, after he drinks an elixir granting him eternal life, the real question is what to do for the rest of eternity after he answers his first question . . . “Lively and inventive and goes by faster than a holiday weekend.” —The Washington Post “A comedy of sexual mores, an investigative search for Love, a lampoon of people who require answers to imponderable questions.” —Science Fiction Review “Not only a science-fiction epic of the most incredible proportions, but it is also a satiric-fantasy, a clever parody of its own genre.” —The Daily Eastern News

Author : Robin Coste Lewis
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 1101911204
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Voyage of the Sable Venus written by Robin Coste Lewis and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2017-11-21 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This National Book Award-winning debut poetry collection is a "powerfully evocative" (The New York Review of Books) meditation on the black female figure through time. Robin Coste Lewis's electrifying collection is a triptych that begins and ends with lyric poems meditating on the roles desire and race play in the construction of the self. In the center of the collection is the title poem, "Voyage of the Sable Venus," an amazing narrative made up entirely of titles of artworks from ancient times to the present—titles that feature or in some way comment on the black female figure in Western art. Bracketed by Lewis's own autobiographical poems, "Voyage" is a tender and shocking meditation on the fragmentary mysteries of stereotype, juxtaposing our names for things with what we actually see and know. A new understanding of biography and the self, this collection questions just where, historically, do ideas about the black female figure truly begin—five hundred years ago, five thousand, or even longer? And what role did art play in this ancient, often heinous story? Here we meet a poet who adores her culture and the beauty to be found within it. Yet she is also a cultural critic alert to the nuances of race and desire—how they define us all, including her own sometimes painful history. Lewis's book is a thrilling aesthetic anthem to the complexity of race—a full embrace of its pleasure and horror, in equal parts.

Author : Philip José Farmer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Venus on the Half-shell and Others written by Philip José Farmer and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The controversial Kilgore Trout episode was neither the first nor the last time Farmer would impishly slip out of his own skin and assume the persona of another author. In Venus on the Half-Shell and Others, Philip Jose Farmer transforms himself into fictional personalities as compelling as they are diverse: Cordwainer Bird, Paul Chapin, Rod Keen, Harry "Bunny" Manders, Leo Queequeg Tincrowdor, John H. Watson, M.D. and even the real-life author William S. Burroughs.

Author : Pilaff Bey
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1582341818
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Venus in the Kitchen written by Pilaff Bey and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2002-02-14 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a collection of recipes for soups, rice, fish and shellfish, eggs, poultry and game, mushrooms and truffles, meat, sauces, and desserts that are guaranteed to spice up any relationship.

Author : Rebekah Compton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108916058
Total Pages : 637 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Venus and the Arts of Love in Renaissance Florence written by Rebekah Compton and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-03-11 with total page 637 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume, Rebekah Compton offers the first survey of Venus in the art, culture, and governance of Florence from 1300 to 1600. Organized chronologically, each of the six chapters investigates one of the goddess's alluring attributes – her golden splendor, rosy-hued complexion, enchanting fashions, green gardens, erotic anatomy, and gifts from the sea. By examining these attributes in the context of the visual arts, Compton uncovers an array of materials and techniques employed by artists, patrons, rulers, and lovers to manifest Venusian virtues. Her book explores technical art history in the context of love's protean iconography, showing how different discourses and disciplines can interact in the creation and reception of art. Venus and the Arts of Love in Renaissance Florence offers new insights on sight, seduction, and desire, as well as concepts of gender, sexuality, and viewership from both male and female perspectives in the early modern era.

Author : George O. Smith
Publisher : Del Rey
ISBN 13 : 9780345289537
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Complete Venus Equilateral written by George O. Smith and published by Del Rey. This book was released on 1980-09 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Tom Waltz
Publisher : IDW Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 38 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #95 written by Tom Waltz and published by IDW Publishing. This book was released on 2019-07-03 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "City at War," Part 3. The Turtles race against time to save one of their own, but beset by obstacles on all sides--including the Earth Protection Force and the tide of approaching battle between two warring ninja clans--will they be too late?

Author : Jackie Craven
Publisher : Omnidawn Fabulist Fiction Chap
ISBN 13 : 9781632430274
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Our Lives Became Unmanageable written by Jackie Craven and published by Omnidawn Fabulist Fiction Chap. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selected by Kate Bernheimer as winner of the 2014 Omnidawn Fabulist Fiction Contest

Author : Susan Ward
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780615975924
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Girl on the Half Shell written by Susan Ward and published by . This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: **Reader Testimonials**: "Raw, edgy and beautifully authentic - in a word, amazing!" "Emotionally charged, lyrical, beautiful!" "And the ending, while a surprise, was perfect. I cried, but it was perfect!" "This is one of those books that will stay with me for a long time...There is something very beautiful in its raw and dark complexity." "Its gut wrenching, emotional, sexual charged, beautiful, tortured and down right breathtaking." "Yes, it is a romance, and yes, it is a coming of age story...but there is much more.." Description: People think Chrissie Parker has a picture-perfect life. She leads an opulent lifestyle in Santa Barbara, her father, Jack, is a beloved music icon from the sixties, and she possesses a wealth of musical talent that will certainly lead to a promising future. But behind the facade, everything is far from perfect. When Chrissie journeys from Santa Barbara to New York City for an audition at Juilliard, romance is the last thing on her mind. She never anticipated encountering British Superstar Alan Manzone, a musician fresh out of Rehab, tormented by his own weakness and troubled past. Alan's life is everything Chrissie's is not; exciting, glitzy, and an all-out train wreck. Chrissie is soon consumed by Alan's shocking pursuit of her, his dark secrets, and his desires. Determined to save Alan from himself, is it possible Alan, this beautiful and brilliant musician, is really rescuing Chrissie from her artfully concealed secret addiction that even her best friend is unaware of? Can two lost people find a love meant to last a life time in only three weeks?"

Author : Edgar Rice Burroughs
Publisher : eStar Books
ISBN 13 : 1612105122
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pirates of Venus written by Edgar Rice Burroughs and published by eStar Books. This book was released on 2012-04-10 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Carson Napier is headed to Mars, but a navagation problem lands him on Venus instead! Where he discovers that this supposidly uninhabited world is filled with people and danger!