The Purple Decades

The Purple Decades
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Publisher : Macmillan
Total Pages : 418
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ISBN-10 : 9780374239282
ISBN-13 : 0374239282
Rating : 4/5 (82 Downloads)

Synopsis The Purple Decades by : Tom Wolfe

This collection of Wolfe's essays, articles, and chapters from previous collections is filled with observations on U.S. popular culture in the 1960s and 1970s.

You Can't Go Home Again

You Can't Go Home Again
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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Total Pages : 658
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ISBN-10 : 9781451650501
ISBN-13 : 1451650507
Rating : 4/5 (01 Downloads)

Synopsis You Can't Go Home Again by : Thomas Wolfe

Now available from Thomas Wolfe’s original publisher, the final novel by the literary legend, that “will stand apart from everything else that he wrote” (The New York Times Book Review)—first published in 1940 and long considered a classic of twentieth century literature. A twentieth-century classic, Thomas Wolfe’s magnificent novel is both the story of a young writer longing to make his mark upon the world and a sweeping portrait of America and Europe from the Great Depression through the years leading up to World War II. Driven by dreams of literary success, George Webber has left his provincial hometown to make his name as a writer in New York City. When his first novel is published, it brings him the fame he has sought, but it also brings the censure of his neighbors back home, who are outraged by his depiction of them. Unsettled by their reaction and unsure of himself and his future, Webber begins a search for a greater understanding of his artistic identity that takes him deep into New York’s hectic social whirl; to London with an uninhibited group of expatriates; and to Berlin, lying cold and sinister under Hitler’s shadow. He discovers a world plagued by political uncertainty and on the brink of transformation, yet he finds within himself the capacity to meet it with optimism and a renewed love for his birthplace. He is a changed man yet a hopeful one, awake to the knowledge that one can never fully “go back home to your family, back home to your childhood…away from all the strife and conflict of the world…back home to the old forms and systems of things which once seemed everlasting but which are changing all the time.”

The Web and the Rock

The Web and the Rock
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Publisher : DigiCat
Total Pages : 733
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ISBN-10 : EAN:8596547185291
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (91 Downloads)

Synopsis The Web and the Rock by : Thomas Wolfe

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Web and the Rock" by Thomas Wolfe. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

The Lost Boy

The Lost Boy
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Publisher : UNC Press Books
Total Pages : 102
Release :
ISBN-10 : 0807844861
ISBN-13 : 9780807844861
Rating : 4/5 (61 Downloads)

Synopsis The Lost Boy by : Thomas Wolfe

Grover Gant, a young boy who died of typhoid fever at the turn of the century, is portrayed through the eyes of family members

I Am Charlotte Simmons

I Am Charlotte Simmons
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Publisher : Macmillan
Total Pages : 758
Release :
ISBN-10 : 0312424442
ISBN-13 : 9780312424442
Rating : 4/5 (42 Downloads)

Synopsis I Am Charlotte Simmons by : Tom Wolfe

At Dupont University, an innocent college freshman named Charlotte Simmons learns that her intellect alone will not help her survive.

The Nightingale's Sonata

The Nightingale's Sonata
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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Total Pages : 433
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781643131627
ISBN-13 : 1643131621
Rating : 4/5 (27 Downloads)

Synopsis The Nightingale's Sonata by : Thomas Wolf

*Winner of the Sophie Brody Medal* A moving and uplifting history set to music that reveals the rich life of one of the first internationally renowned female violinists. Spanning generations, from the shores of the Black Sea to the glittering concert halls of New York, The Nightingale's Sonata is a richly woven tapestry centered around violin virtuoso Lea Luboshutz. Like many poor Jews, music offered an escape from the predjudices that dominated society in the last years of the Russian Empire. But Lea’s dramatic rise as an artist was further accentuated by her scandalous relationship with the revolutionary Onissim Goldovsky. As the world around them descends in to chaos, between revolution and war, we follow Lea and her family from Russia to Europe and eventually, America. We cross paths with Pablo Casals, Isadora Duncan, Emile Zola and even Leo Tolstoy. The little girl from Odessa will eventually end up as one of the founding faculty of the prestigious Curtis Institute of Music, but along the way she will lose her true love, her father, and watch a son die young. The Iron Curtain would rise, but through it all, she plays on. Woven throughout this luminous odyssey is the story is Cesar Franck’s “Sonata for Violin and Piano.” As Lea was one of the first-ever internationally recognized female violinists, it is fitting that this pioneer was one of the strongest advocates for this young boundary-pushing composer and his masterwork.

You Can See More From Up Here

You Can See More From Up Here
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Publisher : Mark Guerin
Total Pages : 466
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781792309823
ISBN-13 : 1792309821
Rating : 4/5 (23 Downloads)

Synopsis You Can See More From Up Here by : Mark Guerin

The December, 2019, pick of The Nervous Breakdown Book Club “A poignantly told story of ruminative remembrance”— Kirkus Reviews "I was captured from the first sentence...superbly written" — Midwest Book Review “A sensitive, clear-eyed, unsentimental story”— Christopher Castellani, author of Leading Men “Self-assured prose, raw honesty and unwavering momentum” — Danny Rubin, screenwriter of Groundhog Day “A book about power, race, privilege and the failings we inherit”— Michelle Hoover, author of Bottomland In 2004, when middle-aged Walker Maguire is called to the deathbed of his estranged father, his thoughts return to 1974. He'd worked that summer at the auto factory where his dad, an unhappily retired Air Force colonel, was employed as plant physician. Witness to a bloody fight falsely blamed on a Mexican immigrant, Walker kept quiet, fearing his white co-workers and tyrannical father. Lies snowball into betrayals, leading to a life-long rift between father and son that can only be mended by the past coming back to life and revealing its long-held secrets. You Can See More From Up Here is a coming-of-age tale about the illusion of privilege and the power of the past to inform and possibly heal the present.

The Complete Short Stories Of Thomas Wolfe

The Complete Short Stories Of Thomas Wolfe
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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Total Pages : 660
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780020408918
ISBN-13 : 0020408919
Rating : 4/5 (18 Downloads)

Synopsis The Complete Short Stories Of Thomas Wolfe by : Thomas Wolfe

These fifty-eight stories make up the most thorough collection of Thomas Wolfe's short fiction to date, spanning the breadth of the author's career, from the uninhibited young writer who penned "The Train and the City" to his mature, sobering account of a terrible lynching in "The Child by Tiger". Thirty-five of these stories have never before been collected. Lightning Print On Demand Title

The Kingdom of Speech

The Kingdom of Speech
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Publisher : Hachette+ORM
Total Pages : 145
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ISBN-10 : 9780316404648
ISBN-13 : 0316404640
Rating : 4/5 (48 Downloads)

Synopsis The Kingdom of Speech by : Tom Wolfe

The maestro storyteller and reporter provocatively argues that what we think we know about speech and human evolution is wrong. Tom Wolfe, whose legend began in journalism, takes us on an eye-opening journey that is sure to arouse widespread debate. The Kingdom of Speech is a captivating, paradigm-shifting argument that speech -- not evolution -- is responsible for humanity's complex societies and achievements. From Alfred Russel Wallace, the Englishman who beat Darwin to the theory of natural selection but later renounced it, and through the controversial work of modern-day anthropologist Daniel Everett, who defies the current wisdom that language is hard-wired in humans, Wolfe examines the solemn, long-faced, laugh-out-loud zig-zags of Darwinism, old and Neo, and finds it irrelevant here in the Kingdom of Speech.

Back to Blood

Back to Blood
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Publisher : Little, Brown
Total Pages : 407
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780316214582
ISBN-13 : 0316214582
Rating : 4/5 (82 Downloads)

Synopsis Back to Blood by : Tom Wolfe

A big, panoramic story of the new America, as told by our master chronicler of the way we live now. As a police launch speeds across Miami's Biscayne Bay -- with officer Nestor Camacho on board -- Tom Wolfe is off and running. Into the feverous landscape of the city, he introduces the Cuban mayor, the black police chief, a wanna-go-muckraking young journalist and his Yale-marinated editor; an Anglo sex-addiction psychiatrist and his Latina nurse by day, loin lock by night-until lately, the love of Nestor's life; a refined, and oh-so-light-skinned young woman from Haiti and her Creole-spouting, black-gang-banger-stylin' little brother; a billionaire porn addict, crack dealers in the 'hoods, "de-skilled" conceptual artists at the Miami Art Basel Fair, "spectators" at the annual Biscayne Bay regatta looking only for that night's orgy, yenta-heavy ex-New Yorkers at an "Active Adult" condo, and a nest of shady Russians. Based on the same sort of detailed, on-scene, high-energy reporting that powered Tom Wolfe's previous bestselling novels, Back to Blood is another brilliant, spot-on, scrupulous, and often hilarious reckoning with our times.