“Amphetamines improved my performance about five percent,” Bouton once observed. In “Ball Four,” Bouton exposed in great detail the carousing of Yankees legend Mickey Mantle, the widespread use of stimulants (known as “greenies”) in Major League locket rooms, and the spectacularly foul mouth of Seattle Pilots manager Joe Schultz. Bouton spent that season collecting quotes, notes and anecdotes about life in the big leagues for his acclaimed book “Ball Four.” Released amid a storm of controversy, the account of Bouton’s tumultuous year was the only sports book cited when the New York Public Library drew up its list of the best books of the 20th century.
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OL72362W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 85.81 Pages 152 Pdf_module_version 0.0.18 Ppi 400 Related-external-id urn:isbn:0590190938 Urn:lcp:abominablesnowma00stin:epub:a3ae1dfa-3924-4308-bcac-2f3cdddda4f8 Extramarc University of Toronto Foldoutcount 0 Identifier abominablesnowma00stin Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t7cr6g48f Isbn 0590568752ĩ780590568753 Lccn 2004596337 Ocr ABBYY FineReader 8.0 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.16 Openlibrary_edition Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 16:55:00 Boxid IA111510 Boxid_2 CH120120330-BL1 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New York DonorĪlibris Edition An Apple Paperback. Umrigar, an English professor at Case Western Reserve University, has set several of her past novels in this tumultuous India, investigating fraught social issues such as caste and class divides, the lure of fundamentalism and culture clash. It's the unseemly side of the country, blighted by cultural conservatism, poverty, sectarian violence, caste hierarchies and misogyny. This isn't the globalized India of news or the India of IT excellence and an ambitious space mission. It's a searing meditation on the meaning of dignity in a dehumanizing world. Thrity Umrigar's important new novel Honor isn't an easy read.įrom depictions of casual misogyny to distressing scenes of public shaming, mistreatment and torture, the novel shows the terrifying social forces that strip vulnerable people of dignity and render them animal-like. A lot of people have said it reads like a thriller or a mystery. But there are so many other elements to consider. SP: A lot of people have said, "What genre would you consider the book?" And I think on its surface, and when you find it in a bookstore, it's probably going to be under historical fiction. KJ: That's the real crime! I feel like your novel is in this juicy Venn diagram of murder mystery and women's empowerment. That was really the first seed of the idea, and I stuck with it from there. When I set out to write this book I really wanted to develop something original, and I couldn't think of any books out on the market that were about poisonous apothecaries in 18th-century London. It's so exciting to be here talking to you today, and thank you for your compliment on the premise. And first, can I just say, you had me at this incredible premise. I'm Audible Editor Kat Johnson, and I'm talking today with Sarah Penner, whose new novel, The Lost Apothecary, is a twisty and empowering work of historical fiction about an 18th-century apothecary shop that dispenses poison to women who've been wronged by men, and a contemporary woman who discovers its secrets. Note: Text has been edited and does not match audio exactly. The appearance of such a book as this is an event.Dr. glows with the wisdom and originality of a scientist who has pondered the riddle of existence and possesses the eloquence to put his thinking into words.'-John Barkham in the Saturday Review Syndicate 'He is the master of an imaginative and swiftly moving prose that grips the reder and bears him willingly to enchanted realms. Eiseley reveals life's endless mysteries in his own experiences, departing from their immediacy into meditaionts on the long past, wandering-intimate with nature-along the paths and byways of time, and then returning to the present.'Once in a long while the reviewer comes across an unpetentious book which is such a delight that he feels like going out into the street and buttonholing passers-by into sharing his peasure. From coverIn an unsusual blend of Scientific knowledge and imaginative vision, Loren Eiseley tells the story of man. It’s angels without the accompanying drone of been-there-done-that paranormal fiction. This series has all of my favourite things – gloriously entertaining romance, heart-stopping action, clever and interesting plot – all skilfully tied together with barrels of tension and emotion. ‘Paula Weston is the queen of cliff-hanger endings, and this one’s going to blow your mind! I have absolutely loved reading Shimmer, and can’t praise the Rephaim series highly enough.’ Speculating on Spec Fic I picked up Shimmer and forgot everything else…a gripping tale of half angels, demons, love, sacrifice and very cool violence, wrapped up in one nicely written package.’ Adelaide Advertising ‘Late for dinner, late for work, late late late. The tension is palpable and the pacing is sharp making Shimmer the most fierce and kick-arse book in the series so far…I haven’t been this pumped for a series since those early Hunger Games days.’.’ Inkcrush ‘have been dying to get my hands on the third book of the Rephaim series ever since Haze officially turned the Rephaim series into my favourite angel series ever. I started writing this story during the COVID-19 pandemic, and with so many people out of work and getting sick, community is all the more important - even if we can’t physically be in the same room.Īt the time I was starting to develop this novel, one of my best friends began coming out as nonbinary. This one theme has remained the same from this original story concept - the importance of supporting and caring for the ones we love. This was because the story was told through a nameless character’s perspective, and the most important thing to them was their chosen family, their community. Initially, only three people in this family had names - Sergio, Ian, and Jen. Jericho began as a story about a family driving through the desert during the apocalypse. Then an insurgency swallowed the US capitol on January 6, 2021. Then federal officers were deployed to Portland’s streets. When I started working on Jericho, I just wanted to write a story with a nonbinary lead about a family in a dieselpunk dystopian world. There's zero supernatural or surrealness or really that much intrigue. I felt like all of a sudden, I put down a Stephen King novel and picked up some random author writing a fictional but somewhat accurate history of both the lead up to and the aftermath of the Vietnam war. But I just found it really uninteresting. The remaining short stories are all about the Vietnam era, which, if you're from that generation I can see how it may be appealing. I guess I'm the wrong audience/generation for the rest of the book. The first and longest of the stories (it's about 1/2 the book) is about the Low Men and gives you some cool background about them and a major character from the later DT books. In fact, if you've never read the Dark Tower series before, I'd suggest just reading it alone first, and then if, like me, you want to re-read it later and get your hands on anything and everything related to it (in more than just passing references, for example The Stand/Insomnia/Salem's Lot are hugely relevant whereas The Shining is more like easter eggs ). There's also some worth reading before you even start but none of them are necessary. I only got this to read between Dark Tower 4 and 4.5/5 as there's a few other books with pretty big ties to the Dark Tower series that are worth reading after book 4 (Salem's Lot, Insomnia, a few others). Superhero fantasies are usually seen as compensations for individual feelings of weakness, victimization, and vulnerability. Paik traces how this political theology is expressed, and indeed literalized, in popular superhero fiction, examining works including Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’s graphic novel Watchmen, the science fiction cinema of Jang Joon-Hwan, the manga of Hayao Miyazaki, Alan Moore’s V for Vendetta, and the Matrix trilogy. He reveals that the fantasy of putting annihilating omnipotence to beneficial effect underlies the revolutionary projects that have defined the collective upheavals of the modern age. Paik shows how science fiction generates intriguing and profound insights into politics. Through character and story, science fiction brings theory to life, giving shape to the motivations behind the action as well as to the consequences they produce. Revolutionary narratives in recent science fiction graphic novels and films compel audiences to reflect on the politics and societal ills of the day. However, trouble comes not from the obvious sources, but a jealous brothel owner Delilah and Lucky’s refusal to accept what his heart tells him. Still he wants her so he wants her to leave as someone as virgin pure cannot live in purgatory. Instead Tessa says her home cooked meals will sell and increase his business. He offers her passage anywhere, but she rejects his offer. Tessa swears she will pay him back, but Lucky prefers she leave and forget the debt. Although he prefers to ignore her as Lucky knows she is bad for business if she remains where she is he helps the waif anyway. She manages to make it to San Francisco Plaza near Lucky Monroe’s gambling tent. In 1849 a “Walker” on the trek west after losing her wagon and animals, Tessa White buried her parents on the way to making a fortune she lost everything she owned. |