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The Last Happy Year: A Novel by Rod Coneybeare
A coming-of-age story of an American Jew and aspiring writer in the '60s and '70s. In this memoir in six movements, Alan Shapiro recalls how poetry helped him make sense of his own and other people's lives.
A definitive, career-spanning, best-of tribute to a master of the modern American short story, featuring work from his final unpublished collection. A fitting summation of one of America’s greatest short story masters, this towering tribute features stories from Airships, Captain Maximus, Bats Out of Hell, High Lonesome, and Barry Hannah’s final unfinished collection, Long, Last, Happy. The astonishingly varied stories in this collection span nearly five decades of unremitting brilliance. Praised for writing “the most consistently interesting sentences of any writer in America” (Sven Birkerts), Hannah’s ferocious, glittering prose and sui generis worldview introduced readers to a literary New South—a fictional landscape that encompasses “women, God, lust, race, nature, gay Confederates, good old boys, bad old boys, guns, animals, fishing, fighting, cars, pestilence, surrealism, gritty realism, the future, and the past . . . tossed together in glorious juxtapositions” (Vanity Fair). Long, Last, Happy confirms Barry Hannah as one of our most brilliant voices. “Hannah is the Jimi Hendrix of American short fiction; an electrifying Mark Twain—a wailing genius of literary twang, reverb, feedback, and general sonic unholiness that results in grace notes so piercing you heart melts like an overloaded amp.” —Interview
Combines the best from the author's four story collections as well as the final manuscript he left behind after his death.
What if you could change your life--without changing your life? Gretchen had a good marriage, two healthy daughters, and work she loved--but one day, stuck on a city bus, she realized that time was flashing by, and she wasn’t thinking enough about the things that really mattered. “I should have a happiness project,” she decided. She spent the next year test-driving the wisdom of the ages, current scientific studies, and lessons from popular culture about how to be happier. Each month, she pursued a different set of resolutions: go to sleep earlier, quit nagging, forget about results, or take time to be silly. Bit by bit, she began to appreciate and amplify the happiness that already existed in her life. Written with humour and insight, Gretchen’s story will inspire you to start your own happiness project. Now in a beautiful, expanded edition, Gretchen offers a wealth of new material including happiness paradoxes and practical tips on many daily matters: being a more light-hearted parent, sticking to a fitness routine, getting your sweetheart to do chores without nagging, coping when you forget someone’s name and more.
Series of six essays that move back and forth between poetry and the author's personal experience, examining how certain poems taught him to read his own and other people's lives, and how those lives, in turn, shaped his understanding of certain poems.
This is a sequel novel to the "Scarlet Pimpernel." The novel revolves around Juliette Marny and Paul Déroulède. On hearing of the death of his only son, the Duc de Marny is distraught. The Duc summons his daughter, Juliette, to his side and forces her to swear an oath to ruin Déroulede in revenge for her brother's death, telling her that her brother's soul will remain in torment until the final judgment day should she break her promise. Ten years later, when she finally meets Paul Déroulède, she finds out the truth about her brother's death. Will she honor her oath or protect the man she finally loves?
An Interactive Guide to Determine Your Happiness From the author of Goal Setting, Motivation, Attitude Is # 1, Job Satisfaction, Success Is For Everyone, and Why Is It Hard To Find A Job After 50? This book will help you analyze your own level of happiness. If happiness is a moving target, will people always try to achieve total happiness? Everyone has the awesome power to change a situation that makes them unhappy. It's an individual choice. Change it, or complain about it. After reading this book, hopefully you will choose to change your situation to obtain or maintain happiness. We have discovered many ways to create happiness and prevent unhappiness; it's an individual choice and mind-set. Additional information can be obtained from the website www.donwicker.com