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Author |
: Pete Postlethwaite |
Publisher |
: Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
Total Pages |
: 326 |
Release |
: 2011-06-23 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780297864943 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0297864947 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (43 Downloads) |
Synopsis A Spectacle of Dust by : Pete Postlethwaite
Vibrant and candid memoirs of the late, great British character actor, Pete Postlethwaite. After training as a teacher, Pete Postlethwaite started his acting career at the Liverpool Everyman Theatre where his colleagues included Bill Nighy, Jonathan Pryce, Antony Sher and Julie Walters. After routine early appearances in small parts for television programmes such as THE PROFESSIONALS, Postlethwaite's first success came with the acclaimed British film DISTANT VOICES, STILL LIVES in 1988. He then received an Academy Award nomination for his role in THE NAME OF THE FATHER in 1993. His performance as the mysterious lawyer "Kobayashi" in THE USUAL SUSPECTS is well-known, and he appeared in many successful films including ALIEN 3, BRASSED OFF, THE SHIPPING NEWS, THE CONSTANT GARDENER, as Friar Lawrence in Baz Luhrmann's ROMEO + JULIET, and in INCEPTION with Leonardo diCaprio. Pete Postlethwaite was one of the best-loved and widely admired performers on stage, TV (SHARPE, THE SINS) and in cinema. In THE ART OF DISCWORLD, Terry Pratchett said that he had always imagined Sam Vimes as 'a younger, slightly bulkier version of Pete Postlethwaite', while Steven Spielberg called him 'the best actor in the world', about which Postlethwaite said: 'I'm sure what Spielberg actually said was, "the thing about Pete is that he thinks he's the best actor in the world."' This is the story of a diverse and multi-talented actor's eventful life, told in his own candid and vibrant words.
Author |
: Arthur Slade |
Publisher |
: Arthur Slade |
Total Pages |
: 164 |
Release |
: 2003 |
ISBN-10 |
: |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 ( Downloads) |
Synopsis Dust by : Arthur Slade
The children were disappearing. And the worst thing about it? No one noticed A rainmaker brings rain to a drought-stricken town. The stranger amazes the townspeople with magic mirrors and bewitches the children with his beautiful butterfly. First, one child vanishes. Then another. And another. Only one young man sees through the lies and decides to act. You'll love this dark, mysterious young adult novel. Winner of the Governor General's Award. Get it now.
Author |
: Patricia Cornwell |
Publisher |
: National Geographic Books |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2014-09-02 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780425270042 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0425270041 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (42 Downloads) |
Synopsis Dust by : Patricia Cornwell
With unparalleled high-tension suspense and the latest in forensic technology, Patricia Cornwell once again proves her exceptional ability to surprise—and to thrill—in this electrifying Kay Scarpetta novel. A body, oddly draped in an unusual cloth, has just been discovered inside the sheltered gates of MIT, and it’s suspected the identity is that of missing computer engineering grad student Gail Shipton, last seen the night before at a trendy Cambridge bar. It appears she’s been murdered, mere weeks before the trial in her $100 million lawsuit against her former financial manager, and Massachusetts Chief Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta doubts it’s a coincidence. She also fears the case may have a connection with her computer genius niece, Lucy. In Dust, Scarpetta and her colleagues are up against a force far more sinister than a sexual predator who fits the criminal classification of a “spectacle killer.” The murder of Gail Shipton soon leads deep into the dark world of designer drugs, drone technology, organized crime, and shocking corruption at the highest levels.
Author |
: David Liss |
Publisher |
: Random House |
Total Pages |
: 418 |
Release |
: 2004-03-16 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781588362421 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1588362426 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (21 Downloads) |
Synopsis A Spectacle of Corruption by : David Liss
Benjamin Weaver, the quick-witted pugilist turned private investigator, returns in David Liss’s sequel to the Edgar Award–winning novel, A Conspiracy of Paper. “[A] wonderful book . . . every bit as good as [Liss’s] remarkable debut . . . easily one of the year’s best.”—The Boston Globe Moments after his conviction for a murder he did not commit, at a trial presided over by a judge determined to find him guilty, Benjamin Weaver is accosted by a stranger who cunningly slips a lockpick and a file into his hands. In an instant he understands two things: Someone wants him to hang—and another equally mysterious agent is determined to see him free. After a daring escape from eighteenth-century London’s most notorious prison, Weaver must face another challenge: to prove himself innocent when the corrupt courts have shown they care nothing for justice. Unable to show his face in public, Weaver pursues his inquiry disguised as a wealthy merchant seeking to involve himself in the contentious world of politics. Desperately navigating a labyrinth of schemers, crime lords, assassins, and spies, Weaver learns that in an election year, little is what it seems and the truth comes at a staggeringly high cost. Praise for A Spectacle of Corruption “[A] rousing sequel of historical, intellectual suspense. ”—San Antonio Express-News “Liss is a superb writer who evokes the squalor of London with Hogarthian gusto.”—People “In Benjamin Weaver, Mr. Liss has created a multifaceted character and a wonderful narrator.”—The New York Sun
Author |
: Christopher A. Frilingos |
Publisher |
: University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages |
: 194 |
Release |
: 2004-10-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780812238228 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0812238222 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (28 Downloads) |
Synopsis Spectacles of Empire by : Christopher A. Frilingos
The author reads the Book of Revelation as a text firmly situated in the world of imperial Roman Asia Minor, where it was written. He argues that Revelation is a Christian version of that world, complete with its own gladiatorial combats and other public spectacles.
Author |
: Don Kistler |
Publisher |
: Soli Deo Gloria Ministries |
Total Pages |
: 193 |
Release |
: 1994 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1877611980 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781877611988 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (80 Downloads) |
Synopsis A Spectacle Unto God by : Don Kistler
Christopher Love was a rising star in the world of Puritan ministry. A close friend of Thomas Manton and admired by Richard Baxter, Love was executed by Cromwell's forces for treason because of his loyalty to Charles II. A member of the Westminster Assembly, Love was read and respected by Jonathan Edwards. In this warm biography, Don Kistler tells the story of this little-known Puritan, and his early death for his religious and political convictions. The story of Christopher Love is weaved around the letters he wrote from prison to his wife Mary Love. Historically accurate, relationally poignant, and spiritually challenging.
Author |
: Nadja Durbach |
Publisher |
: Univ of California Press |
Total Pages |
: 289 |
Release |
: 2009-10-13 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780520944893 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0520944895 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (93 Downloads) |
Synopsis Spectacle of Deformity by : Nadja Durbach
In 1847, during the great age of the freak show, the British periodical Punch bemoaned the public's "prevailing taste for deformity." This vividly detailed work argues that far from being purely exploitative, displays of anomalous bodies served a deeper social purpose as they generated popular and scientific debates over the meanings attached to bodily difference. Nadja Durbach examines freaks both well-known and obscure including the Elephant Man; "Lalloo, the Double-Bodied Hindoo Boy," a set of conjoined twins advertised as half male, half female; Krao, a seven-year-old hairy Laotian girl who was marketed as Darwin's "missing link"; the "Last of the Mysterious Aztecs" and African "Cannibal Kings," who were often merely Irishmen in blackface. Upending our tendency to read late twentieth-century conceptions of disability onto the bodies of freak show performers, Durbach shows that these spectacles helped to articulate the cultural meanings invested in otherness--and thus clarified what it meant to be British—at a key moment in the making of modern and imperial ideologies and identities.
Author |
: Mark Arax |
Publisher |
: Vintage |
Total Pages |
: 577 |
Release |
: 2019-05-21 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781101875216 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1101875216 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (16 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Dreamt Land by : Mark Arax
A vivid, searching journey into California's capture of water and soil—the epic story of a people's defiance of nature and the wonders, and ruin, it has wrought Mark Arax is from a family of Central Valley farmers, a writer with deep ties to the land who has watched the battles over water intensify even as California lurches from drought to flood and back again. In The Dreamt Land, he travels the state to explore the one-of-a-kind distribution system, built in the 1940s, '50s and '60s, that is straining to keep up with California's relentless growth. The Dreamt Land weaves reportage, history and memoir to confront the "Golden State" myth in riveting fashion. No other chronicler of the West has so deeply delved into the empires of agriculture that drink so much of the water. The nation's biggest farmers—the nut king, grape king and citrus queen—tell their story here for the first time. Arax, the native son, is persistent and tough as he treks from desert to delta, mountain to valley. What he finds is hard earned, awe-inspiring, tragic and revelatory. In the end, his compassion for the land becomes an elegy to the dream that created California and now threatens to undo it.
Author |
: Paul Kwiatkowski |
Publisher |
: Catapult |
Total Pages |
: 116 |
Release |
: 2013-10-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781936787098 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1936787091 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (98 Downloads) |
Synopsis And Every Day Was Overcast by : Paul Kwiatkowski
This photography-driven fiction about coming of age in the creep show of south Florida's swamps and strip malls is "unlike any book I've ever read . . . A completely original and clearheaded voice" (Ira Glass, host of This American Life) Out of South Florida's lush and decaying suburban landscape bloom the delinquent magic and chaotic adolescence of And Every Day Was Overcast. Paul Kwiatkowski's arresting photographs amplify a novel of profound vision and vulnerability. Drugs, teenage cruelty, wonder, and the screen-flickering worlds of Predator and Married . . . With Children shape and warp the narrator's developing sense of self as he navigates adventures and misadventures, from an ill-fated LSD trip on an island of castaway rabbits to the devastating specter of HIV and AIDS. This alchemy of photography and fiction gracefully illuminates the travesties and triumphs of the narrator's quest to forge emotional connections and fulfill his brutal longings for love.
Author |
: Mark Hallett |
Publisher |
: Paul Mellon Ctr for Studies |
Total Pages |
: 259 |
Release |
: 1999 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0300077785 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780300077780 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (85 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Spectacle of Difference by : Mark Hallett
He shows how contemporary satirists mixed the materials of high and low art to create hybrid and provocative images that dealt with a broad range of controversial issues, including alcoholism, the excesses of fashion, financial collapse, freemasonry, political corruption and prostitution."--Jacket.