Solo Faces

Solo Faces
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Publisher : Open Road Media
Total Pages : 240
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781453243824
ISBN-13 : 1453243828
Rating : 4/5 (24 Downloads)

Synopsis Solo Faces by : James Salter

A novel about a lonely mountain climber from the author of All That Is: “Beautifully composed . . . will remind readers of Camus and Saint-Exupéry” (The Washington Post). Vernon Rand is a charismatic figure whose great love—whose life, in fact—is climbing. He lives alone in California, where he combats the drudgery of a roofing job with the thrill of climbing in the nearby mountain ranges. Sure of only his talent and nerve, Rand decides to test himself in the French Alps, with their true mountaineering and famed, fearsome peaks. He soon learns that the most perilous moments are, for him, the moments when he feels truly alive. One of the great novels of the outdoors, Solo Faces is as thrilling, beautiful, and immediate as the Alpine peaks that have enthralled climbers for centuries. This ebook features an illustrated biography of James Salter including rare photos from the author’s personal collection.

Solo Faces

Solo Faces
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Publisher : Macmillan
Total Pages : 232
Release :
ISBN-10 : 0865473218
ISBN-13 : 9780865473218
Rating : 4/5 (18 Downloads)

Synopsis Solo Faces by : James Salter

With prose at once stark and lyrical, Salter elucidates the spirit of those who abandon material pursuits in search of an unspoiled honesty. He tells of one man's quest to rise above the mundane in search of peace and self-fulfillment.

The Solotype Catalog of 4,147 Display Typefaces

The Solotype Catalog of 4,147 Display Typefaces
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Publisher : Courier Corporation
Total Pages : 242
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780486144061
ISBN-13 : 0486144062
Rating : 4/5 (61 Downloads)

Synopsis The Solotype Catalog of 4,147 Display Typefaces by : Dan X. Solo

The author of many books on typography, Dan X. Solo was also the proprietor of his own typography shop in Oakland, California — an establishment dedicated to unusual typography and special effects. This comprehensive catalog offers graphic designers a dazzling selection of over 4,000 typefaces and optical effects available from Solotype Typographers. Here, in Solo's words, is "a great cast of characters" — the alphabet — abetted by a cornucopia of typographical ideas and an endless resource of letters, words, phrases, slogans, logos, humorous comments, headlines, and graphic symbols. Individual sections of the book display a rich variety of typefaces in categories such as Condensed, Victorian, Art Nouveau, Art Deco, Rustic, Thick-and-tin, Calligraphic, Uncials, Latins, and Blackletter. Samples are imaginatively presented. "Stagecoach," for example, is printed in Fargo typeface, evoking dusty trails, rawhide, and ten-gallon hats, while "Sizzling summer savings" appears appropriately in the flamboyant Firebug typeface. All typefaces are indexed for quick and easy reference. As entertaining as it is practical and useful, this impressive treasury of versatile typefaces and optical effects will be indispensable to busy commercial artists as an inexhaustible source of typographic ideas and a "swipe file" of words, phrases, and letters for use in graphic art projects.

Dances, Solo and Group

Dances, Solo and Group
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 422
Release :
ISBN-10 : NYPL:33433079677906
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (06 Downloads)

Synopsis Dances, Solo and Group by : Louis Harvy Chalif

Books of the Times

Books of the Times
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 708
Release :
ISBN-10 : UCAL:B3556157
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (57 Downloads)

Synopsis Books of the Times by :

Our Paper

Our Paper
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 662
Release :
ISBN-10 : NYPL:33433003028226
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (26 Downloads)

Synopsis Our Paper by :

James Salter

James Salter
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Publisher : Macmillan Reference USA
Total Pages : 184
Release :
ISBN-10 : UOM:39015043188146
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (46 Downloads)

Synopsis James Salter by : William Dowie

In this, the first book-length study of Salter, William Dowie distills the essence of Salter's literary achievement and discusses the vicissitudes of literary glory. With copious biographical material based upon personal interviews and a twelve-year correspondence, Dowie tracks Salter from his Manhattan youth and West Point days through careers as an Air Force pilot, screenwriter, and journalist, to his blossoming as a writer of novels and short stories. What emerges is a portrait of the writer as a risk taker, willing to discard whole careers in his quest for literary immortality.

Unity

Unity
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 436
Release :
ISBN-10 : IOWA:31858030371037
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (37 Downloads)

Synopsis Unity by :

The Pacific Ensign

The Pacific Ensign
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 258
Release :
ISBN-10 : CHI:100882217
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (17 Downloads)

Synopsis The Pacific Ensign by :