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Desolate Places
Desolate Places. Over 150,000 words of imaginative fiction set in or about desolate places. From authors: Z. S. Adani, Camille Alexa, Michael Anthony, Tom Barlow, Paul Bates, Chris Benton, Skadi meic Beorh, Brenta Blevins, Gustavo Bondoni, Sue Burke, Jean-Michel Calvez, Scott Christian Carr, Willis Couvillier, Jennifer Crow, Hazel Dixon, F.V. "Ed" Edwards, Sara Genge, Jude-Marie Green, Max Habilis, James Hartley, Shelley Savran Houlihan, Davin Ireland, Meghan Jurado, Stephen Graham King, Fran LaPlaca, Gerri Leen, C. A. Manestar, Paul E. Martens, Lyn McConchie, Alex Moisi, Mari Ness, Stephen D. Rogers, Trent Roman, Shaun Ryan, Lawrence M. Schoen, Cavan Scott, Katherine Shaw, Douglas Smith, Eric Vogt, Bill Ward. Presented by Hadley Rille Books, Edited by Eric T. Reynolds..
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Mountains of the Mind: How Desolate and Forbidding Heights Were Transformed into Experiences of Indomitable Spirit
Three centuries ago, mountains were considered forbidding and forbidden—the abodes of dragons and other ill-tempered grotesque beasts. But with the growing recognition that the Earth’s surface had not been created once and for all but was slowly evolving, mountains came to be seen as the unexplored text of the Earth’s story—a terrain that scientists, adventurers, naturalists, and, finally, travelers began to explore. In Mountains of the Mind, Robert Macfarlane blends cultural history, meditation, and memoir to show how early geologists helped transform our perceptions of the wild, chaotic landscapes; how the allure of height increasingly drew fearless climbers, culminating in the romantic figure of George Mallory, the passionate Englishman who died on Mount Everest in 1924; and how the elemental beauty of snow and ice coalesced into an aesthetic of the sublime. Mountains of the Mind is at once an enthralling work of history, an intimate account of Macfarlane’s own experiences, and a beautifully written meditation on how memory, landscape, imagination, and the landscape of mountains are joined together in our minds and under our feet..
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Notes of a Desolate Man
"I am a sick man ... I am a spiteful man," cries the narrator of Dostoyevsky's Notes from the Underground. The narrator of Chu Tien-Wen's Notes of a Desolate Man might amend that to "I am not a sick man ... but I am by no means well." Xiao Shao has reached the age of 40 only to feel that his life has run its course. His close childhood friend has recently succumbed to AIDS, and while he remains "unbelievably, amazingly" free from infection, Ah Yao's death has sent him spiraling into depression. Like Dostoyevsky's hero, Xiao suffers from a profound alienation--as a Chinese deeply engaged with Western thought, as a gay man still coming to terms with his sexuality, and, by extension, as a Taiwanese citizen both cut off from and bound to the mainland. T'ien-Wen's narrative intercuts his reflections on the nature of desire with ruminations on culture both high and low--from Fellini and Goethe to Michael Jackson and Barbra Streisand. The result is a remarkable chronicle of life on the artistic, political, and sexual margins. A 1994 winner of the China Times Novel Prize, this dense, intelligent, deliberately paced novel is no less insightful for having been written not by a gay man, but by a woman: an author of 15 previous books and one of Taiwan's leading intellectuals. Her convincing account of Xiao's inner life is a testament to the powers of the creative imagination to transcend difference. --Chloe Byrne.
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Ice Cream Man From Hell Biography You're Next
You're Next is a snapshot of life in the fast lane. For the first time, the Ice Cream Man From Hell reveals his compelling story and is willing to share his psychedelic journey with anyone who has the notion to go along for the ride. This American Folk Hero accomplished success through violence, sexual controversy, and love by any means necessary. He's captivated the limelight through persistance and determination and without compromise. His philosophy paints a portrait of a dying breed of man. This honest and fresh chronicle is not for the weak of heart but it guarantees to be forever imbedded in your memory bank to ensure...YOU'RE NEXT!.
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Desolate Angel: Jack Kerouac, the Beat Generation, and America
Jack Kerouac-"King of the Beats," unwitting catalyst for the '60s counterculture, groundbreaking author-was a complex and compelling man: a star athlete with a literary bent; a spontaneous writer vilified by the New Critics but adored by a large, youthful readership; a devout Catholic but aspiring Buddhist; a lover of freedom plagued by crippling alcoholism. Desolate Angel follows Kerouac from his childhood in the mill town of Lowell, Massachusetts, to his early years at Columbia where he met Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, and Neal Cassady, beginning a four-way friendship that became a lifelong obsession. Kerouac's frenetic cross-country journeys, experiments with drugs and sexuality, travels to Mexico and Tangier, and years of failure, frustration, and depression are recounted with detail and sensitivity. Desolate Angel is a harrowing, compassionate portrait of a man and artist set against an extraordinary social backdrop. .
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A Desolate Woman
A Desolate Woman tells the tragedy of seventeen-year-old Mara, who is eager to conquer life. Mara is an average girl who is working hard toward her dreams and ambitions Suddenly her world comes to a crashing end when she is raped at a party by her best friendÂ’s boyfriend. Mara sadly finds herself pregnant and HIV positive. The relationships that she previously valued lose all of their significance. The once inspirational, determined, and positive girl becomes a mean, bitter and hateful woman. Her daughter, the product of her rape, Chelsey, tries her best to encourage her mother to give her pain to God before she dies. A Desolate Woman is the journey of a woman caught between tragedy and triumph whose only question to God is why..
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