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Lowborn
Author: Kerry Hudson
Publisher: Vintage Books
Published: 2020
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781784708603
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"Chav, Lowlife, Ned. When every day of your life you have been told you are worth nothing to society, can you ever escape that sense of being 'lowborn'? Kerry Hudson grew up in grinding poverty with her sister and single mother. Always on the move, her childhood was spent in a series of BetBs and council flats - a new school every year or so and nowhere to truly call home. Twenty years later, Kerry's life is unrecognisable but she often finds herself looking over her shoulder, caught somehow between two worlds. In Lowborn she journeys into her past, revisiting the towns she grew up in to try to understand what made her who she is, as well as what being poor really means in Britain today." Klappentext.
Boys of Alabama: A Novel
Author: Genevieve Hudson
Publisher: Liveright Publishing
Published: 2020-05-19
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 1631496301
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A “soul-stirring debut,” Boys of Alabama tells the “bewitching” (Michelle Hart, O, The Oprah Magazine) tale of sixteen-year-old Max’s first year in America. “Daring, unusual . . . and startlingly fresh” (Don Noble, Alabama Public Radio), Boys of Alabama announced Genevieve Hudson’s place in the canon of the southern gothic alongside Donna Tartt and Harper Lee. Newly arrived in Alabama, Max falls in love, questions his faith, and navigates a strange power. Although his German parents don’t know what to make of a South pining for the past, shy Max thrives after being taken in by the football team. But when he meets fishnet-wearing Pan in physics class, they embark on a quixotic, consuming relationship. Writing in “prose that is always imaginative and sensual” (Sarah Neilson, Believer), Hudson offers a complex portrait of masculinity, religion, immigration, and the adolescent pressures that require total conformity.
Shadows on the Hudson
Author: Isaac Bashevis Singer
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2008-04-29
Total Pages: 564
ISBN-13: 9780374531225
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →From the Upper West Side to Miami's pastel resorts, "Shadows on the Hudson" traces the intertwined destiny of survivors in the aftermath of the Holocaust.
Thirst
Author: Kerry Hudson
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2014-07-17
Total Pages: 338
ISBN-13: 1448190215
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →From the prize-winning author of Tony Hogan Bought Me An Ice-Cream Float Before He Stole My Ma Winner of the Prix Femina Etranger London, in the frayed heat of summer. Alena is shoplifting shoes when Dave catches her in the act and so begins an unlikely relationship between two people with little in common and everything to lose. But the past is a dark place. And both of them have secrets they’ve no idea how to live with – or leave behind. Yet still they find themselves fighting with all they’ve got for a future together. But is love enough? 'Accomplished... Beautiful... Heart-wrenching' Independent on Sunday Shortlisted for the Prix Femina Prize
The Hudson
Author: Frances F. Dunwell
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2008-05-12
Total Pages: 402
ISBN-13: 0231136404
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Frances F. Dunwell presents a rich portrait of the Hudson and of the visionary people whose deep relationship with the river inspires changes in American history and culture. Lavishly illustrated with color plates of Hudson River School paintings, period engravings, and glass plate photography, The Hudson captures the spirit of the river through the eyes of its many admirers. It shows the crucial role of the Hudson in the shaping of Manhattan, the rise of the Empire State, and the trajectory of world trade and global politics, as well as the river's influence on art and architecture, engineering, and conservation.
The Hudson
Author: Tom Lewis
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2007-04-01
Total Pages: 350
ISBN-13: 0300119909
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Offers a history of the Hudson River, looking at explorers and traders, the arrival of the colonies, how it was transformed, and the landscape.
Revelations
Author: Elaine Pagels
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2012-03-06
Total Pages: 278
ISBN-13: 110157707X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A startling exploration of the history of the most controversial book of the Bible, by the bestselling author of Beyond Belief. Through the bestselling books of Elaine Pagels, thousands of readers have come to know and treasure the suppressed biblical texts known as the Gnostic Gospels. As one of the world's foremost religion scholars, she has been a pioneer in interpreting these books and illuminating their place in the early history of Christianity. Her new book, however, tackles a text that is firmly, dramatically within the New Testament canon: The Book of Revelation, the surreal apocalyptic vision of the end of the world . . . or is it? In this startling and timely book, Pagels returns The Book of Revelation to its historical origin, written as its author John of Patmos took aim at the Roman Empire after what is now known as "the Jewish War," in 66 CE. Militant Jews in Jerusalem, fired with religious fervor, waged an all-out war against Rome's occupation of Judea and their defeat resulted in the desecration of Jerusalem and its Great Temple. Pagels persuasively interprets Revelation as a scathing attack on the decadence of Rome. Soon after, however, a new sect known as "Christians" seized on John's text as a weapon against heresy and infidels of all kinds-Jews, even Christians who dissented from their increasingly rigid doctrines and hierarchies. In a time when global religious violence surges, Revelations explores how often those in power throughout history have sought to force "God's enemies" to submit or be killed. It is sure to appeal to Pagels's committed readers and bring her a whole new audience who want to understand the roots of dissent, violence, and division in the world's religions, and to appreciate the lasting appeal of this extraordinary text.
The Company
Author: Stephen Bown
Publisher: Anchor Canada
Published: 2021-10-26
Total Pages: 505
ISBN-13: 0385694091
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →NATIONAL BESTSELLER A thrilling new telling of the story of modern Canada's origins. The story of the Hudson's Bay Company, dramatic and adventurous and complex, is the story of modern Canada's creation. And yet it hasn't been told in a book for over thirty years, and never in such depth and vivid detail as in Stephen R. Bown's exciting new telling. The Company started out small in 1670, trading practical manufactured goods for furs with the Indigenous inhabitants of inland subarctic Canada. Controlled by a handful of English aristocrats, it expanded into a powerful political force that ruled the lives of many thousands of people--from the lowlands south and west of Hudson Bay, to the tundra, the great plains, the Rocky Mountains and the Pacific northwest. It transformed the culture and economy of many Indigenous groups and ended up as the most important political and economic force in northern and western North America. When the Company was faced with competition from French traders in the 1780s, the result was a bloody corporate battle, the coming of Governor George Simpson--one of the greatest villains in Canadian history--and the Company assuming political control and ruthless dominance. By the time its monopoly was rescinded after two hundred years, the Hudson's Bay Company had reworked the entire northern North American world. Stephen R. Bown has a scholar's profound knowledge and understanding of the Company's history, but wears his learning lightly in a narrative as compelling, and rich in well-drawn characters, as a page-turning novel.
Poets Translate Poets
Author: Paula Deitz
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Published: 2013-11-19
Total Pages: 502
ISBN-13: 081565247X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In reviewing the Hudson Review’s history of publishing poetry in translation since 1948, the editors have compiled a collection that highlights the work of major American and English poets, most of whom are prominent in their own right, who, for the last half-century, have made accessible through their translations the work of their international colleagues. “Poets Translate Poets” contains translations of classical Latin and Greek poetry, classical Chinese and medieval East Asian verse, canonical French, German, and Italian writers, twentieth-century Latin American poetry, and a sampling of works from Persian, South Asian, South East Asian, Scandinavian, and Eastern European poets.
