Goodbye to the Orchard
Author: Steven Cramer
Publisher: Sarabande Books
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 98
ISBN-13: 9781932511055
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Poetry that finds sense in life through a confrontation with death.
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American Anti-Pastoral
Author: Thomas Gustafson
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 2024-06-14
Total Pages: 106
ISBN-13: 1978838042
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →One of the best-known novels taking place in New Jersey, Philip Roth’s 1997 American Pastoral uses the fictional hamlet of Old Rimrock, NJ as a microcosm for a nation in crisis during the cultural upheavals of the 1960s-70s. Critics have called Old Rimrock mythic, but it is based on a very real place: the small Morris county town of Brookside, New Jersey. American Anti-Pastoral reads the events in Roth’s novel in relation to the history of Brookside and its region. While Roth’s protagonist Seymour “Swede” Levov initially views Old Rimrock as an idyllic paradise within the Garden State, its real-world counterpart has a more complex past in its origins as a small industrial village, as well as a site for the politics of exclusionary zoning and a 1960s anti-war protest at its celebrated 4th of July parade. Literary historian and Brookside native Thomas Gustafson casts Roth’s canonical novel in a fresh light as he studies both Old Rimrock in comparison to Brookside and the novel in relationship to NJ literature, making a case for it as the Great New Jersey novel. For Roth fans and history buffs alike, American Anti-Pastoral peels back the myths about the bucolic Garden State countryside to reveal deep fissures along the fault-lines of race and religion in American democracy.
The Orchard Corner
Author: Ruth Kennedy
Publisher: Lapwing Publications
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 39
ISBN-13: 1905425473
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Author: Kristina Gorcheva-Newberry
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Published: 2023-03-07
Total Pages: 401
ISBN-13: 0593356039
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Four teenagers grow inseparable in the last days of the Soviet Union—but not all of them will live to see the new world arrive in this powerful debut novel, loosely based on Anton Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard. “Spectacular . . . intensely evocative and gorgeously written . . . will fill readers’ eyes with tears and wonder.”—Minneapolis Star Tribune ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: New York Post Coming of age in the USSR in the 1980s, best friends Anya and Milka try to envision a free and joyful future for themselves. They spend their summers at Anya’s dacha just outside of Moscow, lazing in the apple orchard, listening to Queen songs, and fantasizing about trips abroad and the lives of American teenagers. Meanwhile, Anya’s parents talk about World War II, the Blockade, and the hardships they have endured. By the time Anya and Milka are fifteen, the Soviet Empire is on the verge of collapse. They pair up with classmates Trifonov and Lopatin, and the four friends share secrets and desires, argue about history and politics, and discuss forbidden books. But the world is changing, and the fleeting time they have together is cut short by a sudden tragedy. Years later, Anya returns to Russia from America, where she has chosen a different kind of life, far from her family and childhood friends. When she meets Lopatin again, he is a smug businessman who wants to buy her parents’ dacha and cut down the apple orchard. Haunted by the ghosts of her youth, Anya comes to the stark realization that memory does not fade or disappear; rather, it moves us across time, connecting our past to our future, joys to sorrows. Inspired by Anton Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard, Kristina Gorcheva-Newberry’s The Orchard powerfully captures the lives of four Soviet teenagers who are about to lose their country and one another, and who struggle to survive, to save their friendship, to recover all that has been lost.
Gob's Grief
Author: Chris Adrian
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2003-05-20
Total Pages: 400
ISBN-13: 1400075823
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In the summer of 1863, Gob and Tomo Woodhull, eleven-year-old twin sons of Victoria Woodhull, agree to together forsake their home and family in Licking County, Ohio, for the glories of the Union Army. But on the night of their departure for the war, Gob suffers a change of heart, and Tomo is forced to leave his brother behind. Tomo falls in as a bugler with the Ninth Ohio Volunteers and briefly revels in camp life; but when he is shot clean through the eye in his very first battle, Gob is left to endure the guilt and grief that will later come to fuel his obsession with building a vast machine that will bring Tomo–indeed, all the Civil War dead–back to life. Epic in scope yet emotionally intimate, Gob’s Grief creates a world both fantastic and familiar and populates it with characters who breath on the page, capturing the spirit of a fevered nation populated with lost brothers and lost souls.
Crossing Borders, Dissolving Boundaries
Author: Hein Viljoen
Publisher: Rodopi
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9401209081
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Borders separate but also connect self and other, and literary texts not only enact these bordering processes, but form part of such processes. This book gestures towards a borderless world, stepping, as it were, with thousand-mile boots from south to north (even across the Atlantic), from South Africa to Scandinavia. It also shows how literary texts model and remodel borders and bordering processes in rich and meaningful local contexts. The essays assembled here analyse the crossing and negotiation of borders and boundaries in works by Nadine Gordimer, Ingrid Winterbach, Deneys Reitz, Janet Suzman, Marlene van Niekerk, A.S. Byatt, Thomas Harris, Frank A. Jenssen, Eben Venter, Antjie Krog, and others under different signs or conceptual points of attraction. These signs include a spiritual turn, eventfulness, self-understanding, ethnic and linguistic mobilization, performative chronotopes, the grotesque, the carceral, the rhetorical, and the interstitial. Contributors: Ileana Dimitriu, Heilna du Plooy, John Gouws, Anne Heith, Lida Krüger, Susan Meyer, Adéle Nel, Ellen Rees, Johan Schimanski, Tony Ullyatt, Phil van Schalkwyk, Hein Viljoen.
Ordinary Jews
Author: Yehoshue Perle
Publisher: SUNY Press
Published: 2011-09-01
Total Pages: 363
ISBN-13: 1438435509
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It's in the Book
Author: Arthur Sager
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13: 1412008794
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →To earn money for university, work for almost two years during separate periods at B.C. gold mines, latterly as a mucker underground. The life and characters in an isolated mining camp in the Thirties. After getting a B.A., sign on as a deckhand on a Norwegian freighter. See something of life and the world, learn Norwegian, and pay off in England. Go broke trying and failing to become an actor in London, sleep in parks and avoid starvation by getting a job as a lift boy at posh flats near Buckingham Palace, bossed and mothered by a sweet cockney landlady in Stockwell. By a stroke of luck accepted on trial as a cub reporter on the Daily Mirror, then become a full reporter and, with promotion, transferred for experience from Fleet Street to Manchester. Giving up a good salary and secure future in journalism, become an actor in a Shakespearean company in Manchester and then join the reportory at the historic Theatre Royal in Margate as assistant stage manager and character actor. Ambition realized but war breaks out and although previously a pacifist apply for the RAF, picking apples in Kent orchards while waiting. Not accepted as lacking a birth certificate, mother refusing to send notarized statement of birth. On borrowed money return to Canada where, to pay off debts, work for ten months as a master in a boys school, duties master in a farm school for underprivileged English children and, again, as a mucker underground. Join the RCAF for training as a fighter pilot.
The Lost Country
Author: J. R. Salamanca
Publisher: Tantor eBooks
Published: 2011-12-05
Total Pages: 878
ISBN-13: 1618030264
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The "lost country" is the familiar country of innocence and security known as youth—a country we have all known and which, occasionally, in a book like this one, we are able to rediscover. J. R. Salamanca's The Lost Country is the story of a boy, Jim Blackstarr, who grows up on a farm in Virginia. As a child, he delights in the beauty that surrounds him: the rivers and hills and trees, the seasons of the year, all the shapes and textures and patterns of his world. But, as he grows older, he makes other discoveries. He experiences brutality, passion, fear, and shame. These experiences destroy the simplicity of his early relationships; they complicate and darken his later ones. Ultimately, they drive him—as they drive all men—out of, and away from, the country of his youth.
Everyday Jews
Author: Yehoshue Perle
Publisher: Open Road Media
Published: 2013-10-15
Total Pages: 533
ISBN-13: 1480440825
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →“Hailed as a modern Yiddish masterpiece . . . Explor[es] the harsh reality of life for a poor family in a provincial Polish town around the year 1900” (The Huffington Post). When Everyday Jews was first published in Poland in 1935, the Jewish Left was scandalized by the sex scenes, and I. B. Singer complained that the novel was too bleak to be psychologically credible. Yet within two years, Perle’s novel was heralded as a modern Yiddish masterpiece. Offering a unique blend of raw sexuality and romantic love, thwarted desire and spiritual longing, Everyday Jews is now considered Perle’s consummate achievement. The voice of Mendl, the novel’s twelve-year-old narrator, is precisely captured by this artfully simple translation. Mendl’s impoverished and dysfunctional family struggles to survive in a nameless Polish provincial town. In this unsettled world, most ordinary people yearn to be somewhere else—or someone else. As Mendl journeys to adulthood, Perle captures the complex interplay of Christians and Jews, weekdays and Sabbaths, town and country, dream and reality, against a relentless and never-ending battle of the sexes.
