We Want Everything

We Want Everything
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Publisher : Verso Books
Total Pages : 225
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ISBN-10 : 9781784783693
ISBN-13 : 1784783692
Rating : 4/5 (93 Downloads)

Synopsis We Want Everything by : Nanni Balestrini

The explosive novel of Italy’s revolutionary 1969 It was 1969, and temperatures were rising across the factories of the north as workers demanded better pay and conditions. Soon, discontent would erupt in what became known as Italy’s Hot Autumn. A young worker from the impoverished south arrives at Fiat’s Mirafiori factory in Turin, where his darker complexion begins to fade from the fourteen-hour workdays in sweltering industrial heat. His bosses try to withhold his wages. Our cynical, dry-witted narrator will not bend to their will. “I want everything, everything that’s owed to me,” he tells them. “Nothing more and nothing less, because you don’t mess with me.” Around him, students are holding secret meetings and union workers begin halting work on the assembly lines, crippling the Mirafiori factory with months of continuous strikes. Before long, barricades line the roads, tear gas wafts into private homes, and the slogan “We Want Everything” is ringing through the streets. Wrought in spare and measured prose, Balestrini’s novel depicts an explosive uprising. Introduced by Rachel Kushner, the author of the best-selling The Flamethrowers, We Want Everything is the incendiary fictional account of events that led to a decade of revolt.

Everything You Want

Everything You Want
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Publisher : North Star Editions, Inc.
Total Pages : 313
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ISBN-10 : 9780738729190
ISBN-13 : 0738729191
Rating : 4/5 (90 Downloads)

Synopsis Everything You Want by : Barbara Shoup

With high school mercifully drawing to a close, Emma's only question is, "What next? And can it please be completely unlike what happened before?" Then one lucky little lotto ticket seems to give the answer—there are suddenly fifty million reasons for Emma to be happy. So what’s the problem?

Everything You Want Me to Be

Everything You Want Me to Be
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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Total Pages : 352
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ISBN-10 : 9781501123429
ISBN-13 : 1501123424
Rating : 4/5 (29 Downloads)

Synopsis Everything You Want Me to Be by : Mindy Mejia

"Hattie Hoffman has spent her whole life playing many parts: the good student, the good daughter, the good girlfriend. When she's found brutally stabbed to death, the tragedy rips right through the fabric of her small-town community. Full of twists and turns, Everything You Want Me to Be reconstructs a year in the life of a dangerously mesmerizing young woman, during which a small town's darkest secrets come to the forefront, and she inches closer and closer to her death."--

All We Want is Everything

All We Want is Everything
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Publisher : Arp Books
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 1894037847
ISBN-13 : 9781894037846
Rating : 4/5 (47 Downloads)

Synopsis All We Want is Everything by : Andrew F. Sullivan

The debut collection of short stories by Canadian author Andrew F. Sullivan. Includes 20 stories.

The Unseen

The Unseen
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Publisher : Verso Books
Total Pages : 257
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ISBN-10 : 9781844677672
ISBN-13 : 1844677672
Rating : 4/5 (72 Downloads)

Synopsis The Unseen by : Nanni Balestrini

For a brief explosive period in the mid-1970s, the young and the unemployed of Italy’s cities joined the workers in an unexpectedly militant movement known simply as Autonomy (Autonomia). Its “politics of refusal” united its opponents behind draconian measures more severe than any seen since the war. Nanni Balestrini, the poet of youth rebellion, himself a victim of that repression, has invented a remarkable fictional form to express the hopes and conflicts of the movement. In spare but vivid prose, The Unseen follows Autonomy’s trajectory through the eyes of a single working-class protagonist—from high-school rebellion, squatting and attempts to set up a free radio station to arrest and the brutalities of imprisonment. This is a powerful and gripping novel: a rare evocation of the intensity of commitment, the passion of politics.

We Want Everything

We Want Everything
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Publisher : Verso Books
Total Pages : 187
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ISBN-10 : 9781784783709
ISBN-13 : 1784783706
Rating : 4/5 (09 Downloads)

Synopsis We Want Everything by : Nanni Balestrini

It was the Autumn of 1969, and Italy exploded. Across the north of the country, factory workers stormed out on strike, demanding better pay and working conditions. The slogan "We Want Everything" rang through the streets. Italy's "Hot Autumn" had begun. In Nanni Balestrini's fictionalized account of the uprising, a young worker from Italy's impoverished south arrives at Fiat's Mirafiori factory in Torino, where he barely scrapes by with fourteen hour days of backbreaking work. His frustration is palpable, and soon he is agitating again his bosses for fun and giving himself minor injuries to win sick leave. Soon enough, he is swept up by a snowballing worker movement that leads to months of continuous strikes at Mirafiori. Eventually, the conflict bubbles out of the factory. The growing pressure having produced an inevitable crack, the streets are lined with barricades, and tear gas wafts into private homes. Introduced by Rachel Kushner, author of the critically acclaimed The Flamethrowers, We Want Everything is an explosive account of a revolution that would clear the way for another decade of radical unrest.

We Want It All

We Want It All
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 296
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ISBN-10 : 1643620339
ISBN-13 : 9781643620336
Rating : 4/5 (39 Downloads)

Synopsis We Want It All by : Andrea Abi-Karam

An anthology of poems by trans writers that explores the relationship between explicitly political desires and the formal inventions possible to enact or imagine those desires.Who is writing formally exciting, explicitly political poetry right now? Editors, Andrea Abi-Karam and Kay Gabriel bring together contributions by an intergenerational constellation of radical trans writers to both answer this question and enable writing in these modes. Writing in dialogue with emancipatory political movements, against capital, racism, empire, borders, prisons, ecological devastation; the writers here imagine an altogether different, overturned world in poems that pursue the particular and multiple trans relationships to desire, embodiment, housing, sex, ecology, history, pop culture and the working day. The editors offer this anthology as an experiment: how far can literature written and/or collected from an identitarian standpoint go as a fellow traveler with social movements and revolutionary demands?

Refuse to Choose!

Refuse to Choose!
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Publisher : Rodale
Total Pages : 290
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ISBN-10 : 9781594866265
ISBN-13 : 1594866260
Rating : 4/5 (65 Downloads)

Synopsis Refuse to Choose! by : Barbara Sher

Identifies seven personality types that share a common quality of having numerous unrelated interests, explaining how to prioritize and pursue multiple goals simultaneously in order to enjoy a successful and varied life.

The Unwanted Sound of Everything We Want

The Unwanted Sound of Everything We Want
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Publisher : PublicAffairs
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 1610391101
ISBN-13 : 9781610391108
Rating : 4/5 (01 Downloads)

Synopsis The Unwanted Sound of Everything We Want by : Garret Keizer

Noise is usually defined as unwanted sound: loud music from a neighbor, the honk of a taxicab, the roar of a supersonic jet. But as Garret Keizer illustrates in this probing examination, noise is as much about what we want as about what we seek to avoid. In a journey that leads us from the primeval Tanzanian veldt to wind farms in Maine, Keizer invites us to listen to noise in history, in popular culture, and not least of all in our own backyards. He follows noise throughout history and across the globe. He considers what it has to tell us about today's most pressing issues, from social inequality to climate change. The result is guaranteed to change how we hear the world, and how we measure our own personal volume within it.

Everything I Never Told You

Everything I Never Told You
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Publisher : Penguin
Total Pages : 306
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ISBN-10 : 9781101634615
ISBN-13 : 1101634618
Rating : 4/5 (15 Downloads)

Synopsis Everything I Never Told You by : Celeste Ng

The acclaimed debut novel by the author of Little Fires Everywhere and Our Missing Hearts “A taut tale of ever deepening and quickening suspense.” —O, the Oprah Magazine “Explosive . . . Both a propulsive mystery and a profound examination of a mixed-race family.” —Entertainment Weekly “Lydia is dead. But they don’t know this yet.” So begins this exquisite novel about a Chinese American family living in 1970s small-town Ohio. Lydia is the favorite child of Marilyn and James Lee, and her parents are determined that she will fulfill the dreams they were unable to pursue. But when Lydia’s body is found in the local lake, the delicate balancing act that has been keeping the Lee family together is destroyed, tumbling them into chaos. A profoundly moving story of family, secrets, and longing, Everything I Never Told You is both a gripping page-turner and a sensitive family portrait, uncovering the ways in which mothers and daughters, fathers and sons, and husbands and wives struggle, all their lives, to understand one another.