Dog Days of Snake Pit

Dog Days of Snake Pit
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 288
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ISBN-10 : 1945509406
ISBN-13 : 9781945509407
Rating : 4/5 (06 Downloads)

Synopsis Dog Days of Snake Pit by : Ben Snakepit

Ben Snakepit has drawn a three-panel comic strip about his day, every single day, since 2001. This new book compiles the three years of comics from 2016-2018, seeing Ben through the loss of his beloved Peeber and getting to know Frankie, in the low-fi style that he's known for.

Snakepit

Snakepit
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Publisher : Vintage
Total Pages : 274
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ISBN-10 : 9780307427816
ISBN-13 : 0307427811
Rating : 4/5 (16 Downloads)

Synopsis Snakepit by : Moses Isegawa

Praised on both sides of the Atlantic as well as in the author’s native Uganda, Moses Isegawa’s first novel Abyssinian Chronicles was a “big, transcendently ambitious book” (Boston Globe) that “blasts open the tidy borders of the conventional novel and redraws the literary map to reveal a whole new world” (Elle). In Snakepit, Isegawa returns to the surreal, brutalizing landscapes of his homeland during the time of dictator Idi Amin, when interlocking webs of emotional cruelty kept tyrants gratified and servants cooperative, a land where no one–not husbands or wives, parents or lovers–is ever safe from the implacable desires of men in power. Men like General Bazooka, who rues the day he hired Cambridge-educated Bat Katanga as his “Bureaucrat Two”–a man too good at his job–and places in his midst (and his bed) a seductive operative named Victoria, whose mission and motives are anything but simple. Ambitious and acquisitive, more than a little arrogant, Katanga finds himself steadily boxed in by events spiraling madly out of control, where deception, extortion, and murder are just so many cards to be played.

Snake Pit Gets Old

Snake Pit Gets Old
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Publisher : Microcosm Publishing
Total Pages : 291
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ISBN-10 : 9781621062905
ISBN-13 : 1621062902
Rating : 4/5 (05 Downloads)

Synopsis Snake Pit Gets Old by : Ben Snakepit

Ben Snakepit returns with an all-new book of daily diary comics, continuing to draw years of his life, day-by-day in three panel comic format. Not knowing what the future will hold and no matter how mundane each appears at the time, an apparent narrative always begins to emerge in Ben's life as characters re-appear and interact with him at "Some Shitty Job," at the local tacqueria, or at home. As the title implies, Ben transitions from the pants-pooping idiocy of youth to the dark, sobering responsibilites of adulthood. Read along in amazement as he quits his bands, gets a real job, has a kidney stone removed and much much more. A truly existential text that can be 18+ fun for the whole family!

The Snake Pit

The Snake Pit
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Publisher : Vintage
Total Pages : 241
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ISBN-10 : 9780679755548
ISBN-13 : 0679755543
Rating : 4/5 (48 Downloads)

Synopsis The Snake Pit by : Sigrid Undset

Set in medieval Norway, The Snake Pit follows Olav and Ingunn, who, though raised as brother sister, have become lovers in a world caught between the fading sphere of pagan worship and vendettas and the expansion of Christianity.

So to Speak

So to Speak
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Publisher : Tiller Press
Total Pages : 288
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ISBN-10 : 9781982163761
ISBN-13 : 1982163763
Rating : 4/5 (61 Downloads)

Synopsis So to Speak by : Shirley Kobliner

Engage with everyday expressions in a completely different (and fun!) way, with this entertaining and interactive book of common phrases that can turn a humdrum gathering into a raucous game night. We use expressions and idioms all the time. When you feel sick, you’re “under the weather.” When you feel great, you’re “on top of the world.” But whether you’re a “smart cookie” or a tough one, you—and almost everyone you know—have a veritable smorgasbord of expressions stored deep in your brain. So to Speak: 11,000 Expressions That’ll Knock Your Socks Off is the largest collection of its kind. Thoughtfully divided into sixty-seven categories—from Animals to Food & Cooking, from Love to Politics, this reference guide may have more in common with an activity book! Don’t look for definitions and etymologies, because the book is just the beginning. So to Speak is the launchpad for your lifelong journey to explore the universe of expressions. In fact, it’s designed to get readers off the page—and engaging with each other through word games and puzzles. So to Speak spurs discussion, debate, and play, while encouraging the art of listening and celebrating the joy of words. Authors Shirley and Harold Kobliner spent more than half a century nurturing and teaching children. So to Speak is a reflection of their deeply held belief that regardless of a person’s age, the most impactful learning happens when you’re having fun. Whether it’s grandparents teaching their favorite expressions to their grandkids, teens helping adults with the latest lingo or slang, or millennials indulging in their love of wordplay and games, this is the perfect book for any lover of language.

The Snake Pit Book

The Snake Pit Book
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Publisher : Microcosm Publishing
Total Pages : 290
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781621069546
ISBN-13 : 1621069540
Rating : 4/5 (46 Downloads)

Synopsis The Snake Pit Book by : Ben Snakepit

By now you know the drill: Ben White draws his life everyday in 3 comic panels. This was his first book, collecting quite a few various zines. After describing dozens of various Snakepit titles I'm going to defer to the wisdom of Jimmi Payne's Punk Zine, "Taken individually, each strip resembles what a friend would say if you asked what they had done that day. Ben sifts through the minutiae of life as well as the full experience of time in a day. This is different than James Kochalka's work as there is no pretense at narrative or point. The narratives in Snakepit open up on the macro level. If Snakepit is to be read on the toilet, a mere bowel movement is enough time to live months through the protagonist's eyes. Patterns emerge and story arcs materialize and years of common actions load into a highly concentrated snapshot that wakes you up to the ongoing machinations of life beyond your present day. This has led many to label Snakepit an existential text." Introduction about doing cocaine by Aaron Cometbus.

David 'Chim' Seymour

David 'Chim' Seymour
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Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages : 302
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ISBN-10 : 9783110706345
ISBN-13 : 3110706342
Rating : 4/5 (45 Downloads)

Synopsis David 'Chim' Seymour by : Carole Naggar

"He used his camera like a doctor would use a stethoscope in order to diagnose the state of the heart. His own was vulnerable.", Cartier-Bresson wrote about David Seymour, who liked to be called Chim. Chim is best known as one of the cofounders of photojournalism’s famous cooperative Magnum Photos. Weaving Chim’s life and work, this book discovers this empathetic photographer who has been called "The First Human Rights Photographer". In 1947, Chim was one of the four cofounders of the Magnum Photos cooperative with Robert Capa, Henri Cartier-Bresson and George Rodger. He also wrote Magnum’s 1955 bylaws, which are still in effect today. But he is the only one of those famous photographers who does not have a full biography to his name. This book examines his life and work from Poland to France to the Spanish Civil War, his work for British intelligence during World War II, his reportage on Europe’s children after the war, his reportages on Italian actors, illiteracy and religious festivals in Southern Italy, his coverage of Israel’s beginnings before his 1956 death during the Suez war. His complex itinerary is emblematic of the displacements and passages of the XXth century.

Visiting Elizabeth

Visiting Elizabeth
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Publisher : Dundurn
Total Pages : 385
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ISBN-10 : 9781554886845
ISBN-13 : 1554886848
Rating : 4/5 (45 Downloads)

Synopsis Visiting Elizabeth by : Gisèle Villeneuve

Visiting Elizabeth harnesses the power of two languages and charges them with new energy and rhythms. The story is an adrenaline rush that pulls the reader through the front and back streets of Montr, and the recesses of Arianes mind.

The Wabash Trilogy

The Wabash Trilogy
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Publisher : Parlor Press LLC
Total Pages : 627
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ISBN-10 : 9781602351684
ISBN-13 : 1602351686
Rating : 4/5 (84 Downloads)

Synopsis The Wabash Trilogy by : William J. Palmer

THE WABASH TRILOGY includes three new novels by William J. Palmer: THE WABASH BASEBALL BLUES, THE REDNECK MAFIA, and CIVIC THEATER. Each novel shows Palmer at his most poignant and hilarious as he tracks his characters through the tragicomedy of life in the Midwest.

Dodgerland

Dodgerland
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Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Total Pages : 468
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780803249400
ISBN-13 : 0803249403
Rating : 4/5 (00 Downloads)

Synopsis Dodgerland by : Michael Fallon

"Chronicles two memorable seasons of the late 70s Los Angeles Dodgers and a transformative, multilayered tale of LA in a time of promise unrealized and great potential squandered"--