Benchere in Wonderland

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Author: Steven Gillis

Publisher: Hawthorne Books

Published: 2015-08-17

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 0990437078

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What is the role of art in the world? And what is the responsibility of the artist? After the death of his wife, Michael Benchere, a well-respected sculptor and once-famous architect, looks for ways to redefine the meaning of his life through the purpose of his art. Determined to create a sculpture that celebrates nothing more than the pure beauty of art, Benchere heads into the Kalahari desert where he is followed quite unexpectedly by a ragtag mix of people. Over the course of his months in the desert, Benchere must address not only the relationship of his art to the world at large, but his own relationship to the world and how our responsibilities, our loves and dreams don’t ever fade in time but, in effect, become evermore defined.

The Weight of Nothing

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Author: Steven Gillis

Publisher:

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 9780972429559

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Gillis's second novel returns to the mythical university town of Renton to explore issues of memory, regret, revenge, and forgiveness through the eyes of Bailey Finne, a graduate student.

Autobiography of a Recovering Skinhead

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Author: Frank Meeink

Publisher: Hawthorne Books

Published: 2013-12-13

Total Pages: 297

ISBN-13: 0979018897

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Autobiography of a Recovering Skinhead is Frank Meeink's raw telling of his descent into America's Nazi underground and his ultimate triumph over drugs and hatred. Frank's violent childhood in South Philadelphia primed him to hate, while addiction made him easy prey for a small group of skinhead gang recruiters. By 16 he had become one of the most notorious skinhead gang leaders on the East Coast and by 18 he was doing hard time. Teamed up with African-American players in a prison football league, Frank learned to question his hatred, and after being paroled he defected from the white supremac.

The Fractured Hues of White Light

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Author: Laura J. W. Ryan

Publisher:

Published: 2010-05

Total Pages: 448

ISBN-13: 9780982491645

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Samantha Ryder, a young autistic woman who is an artist; agrees to marry Preston Ackerman, believing that she can learn to love him. When the marriage falls apart and Preston becomes dangerous, Samantha must go on a journey of self-preservation away from the familiar security of home, which threatens to be her undoing.

I Loved You More

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Author: Tom Spanbauer

Publisher: Hawthorne Books

Published: 2014-03-17

Total Pages: 468

ISBN-13: 0989360423

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Tom Spanbauer’s first novel in seven years is a love story triangle akin to The Marriage Plot and Freedom, only with a gay main character who charms gays and straights alike. I Loved You More is a rich, expansive tale of love, sex, and heartbreak, covering twenty-five years in the life of a striving, emotionally wounded writer. In New York, Ben forms a bond of love with his macho friend and foil, Hank. Years later in Portland, a now ill Ben falls for Ruth, who provides the care and devotion he needs, though they cannot find true happiness together. Then Hank reappears and meets Ruth, and real trouble starts. Set against a world of struggling artists, the underground sex scene of New York in the 1980s, the drab, confining Idaho of Ben’s youth, and many places in between, I Loved You More is the author’s most complex and wise novel to date.

Dusty Waters

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Author: Laura J. W. Ryan

Publisher: Laura J. W. Ryan

Published: 2009-03-21

Total Pages: 334

ISBN-13: 098249162X

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For three years after Dad's death, his ghost remained seated at the kitchen table, puzzling over why no one but me could see him.

The Bushmen

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Author: Jirō Tanaka

Publisher: Apollo Books

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 302

ISBN-13: 9781920901660

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The Bushmen archives nearly 50 years of research with some of Southern Africa's remotest groups. Author Jiro Tanaka's deep connection with his subject matter is evident through his insightful and often touching stories and reflections on a rich and challenging life work. Tanaka interweaves ethnographic materials with broader reflections on the changes that have beset Bushman groups carried by waves of global political and economic developments. While some of the characteristics of the process of transformation are specific to Bushman society, many others are shared by other indigenous and minority societies around the world. The book analyzes the transformation process from this perspective and at the same time serves as a catalyst for readers to look back and question the state of our own civilization. ** "This book chronicles the ecology, society, and lifeways of the Bushmen before settlement, and their mixed fate afterward. Tanaka's efforts continue through the many students now working there. This book is a rather breathless overview of the 50-year adventure. It is a wonderful read... Recommended." - Choice, Vol. 52, No. 3, November 2014 [Subject: Ethnography, Anthropology, African Studies, Indigenous Studies]Ã?Â?Ã?Â?

Life Is Short ? Art Is Shorter

Life Is Short ? Art Is Shorter PDF

Author: David Shields

Publisher: Hawthorne Books

Published: 2015-04-20

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 0990437043

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Life Is Short—Art Is Shorter is not just the first anthology to gather both mini-essays and short-short stories; readers, writers, and teachers will get will get an anthology; a course’s worth of writing exercises; a rally for compression, concision, and velocity in an increasingly digital, post-religious age; and a meditation on the brevity of human existence. 1. We are mortal beings. 2. There is no god. 3. We live in a digital culture. 4. Art is related to the body and to the culture. 5. Art should reflect these things. 6. Brevity rules. The book’s 40 contributors include Donald Barthelme, Kate Chopin, Lydia Davis, Annie Dillard, Jonathan Safran Foer, Barry Hannah, Amy Hempel, Jamaica Kincaid, Wayne Koestenbaum, Anne Lamott, Daphne Merkin, Rick Moody, Dinty W. Moore, George Orwell, Jayne Anne Phillips, George Saunders, Lauren Slater, James Tate, and Paul Theroux.

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