![]() ![]() These two, along with “ The Metamorphosis,” form a suite of stories Kafka referred to as “The Sons,” and they collectively present a devastating portrait of the modern family.Īlso included are “ In the Penal Colony,” a story of a torture machine and its operators and victims, and “ A Hunger Artist,” about the absurdity of an artist trying to communicate with a misunderstanding public. ![]() “ The Judgment,” which Kafka considered to be his decisive breakthrough, and “ The Stoker,” which became the first chapter of his novel Amerika, are here included. This vision is most fully realized in Kafka’s masterpiece, “ The Metamorphosis,” a story that is both harrowing and amusing, and a landmark of modern literature.īringing together some of Kafka’s finest work, this collection demonstrates the richness and variety of the author’s artistry. His nightmarish novels and short stories have come to symbolize modern man’s anxiety and alienation in a bizarre, hostile, and dehumanized world. ![]() Virtually unknown during his lifetime, Franz Kafka is now one of the world’s most widely read and discussed authors. ![]()
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![]() Everyone already knows how fundamentally the automobile has shaped our physical environment, the residents of Los Angeles County perhaps most of all. If you live in or near a city - most of us do - the consequences are all around you. If you own a car, you’ve got to park it somewhere. The theme is our culture’s propensity to value automobile ownership over almost everything else, and at a heavy cost. The protagonist - and the villain - is the car. Henry Grabar’s “ Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World” is not a slog it’s a romp, packed with tales of anger, violence, theft, lust, greed, political chicanery and transportation policy gone wrong. Didn’t get far.īut I have news to report. I’ve tried to read a few in the public library. You might expect a book about parking to be a snore. If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from, whose fees support independent bookstores. ![]() Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World ![]() ![]() ![]() It is absolutely unputdownable." - Jill Santopolo, New York Times bestselling author of The Light We Lost "Bold, compelling, brutal and brilliant. Gritty, glittery, and pulsing with life." - Sara Sligar, author of Take Me Apart "With a fully-realized world, a compelling mystery, fascinating characters, and beautiful prose, Marie Rutkoski's REAL EASY will capture readers and stay in their minds forever. Rutkoski renders her characters with exquisite compassion and detail, even as the book accelerates toward an unforgettable conclusion. Real Easy is an electric thrill ride that takes a hard look at the high price women pay for men's desire. ![]() This book is a winner, whichever way you turn it." - Neel Mukherjee, Booker-finalist author of The Lives of Others and A State of Freedom "This book blew me away. ![]() But it is also so much more than that: every character is instantly alive and recognizable the moment they appear on the page the writing is sustainedly beautiful and intelligent, at times lyrical, at others, sassy and crackling and the psychological underpinnings are unerring, resonant, utterly convincing. "Very possibly the best crime fiction book since Gillian Flynn's Sharp Objects, Real Easy is turn-your-phone-off-and-cancel-all-your-meetings gripping. ![]() ![]() ![]() The City of Walled Lake Police Department is now accepting applications from MCOLES licensed applicants for the position of Part-Time Police Officer. View more property details, sales history and Zestimate data on Zillow.Walled Lake Police Department: Part-Time Officer Closing Date: May 29, 2023. ![]() In the last 5 years Wolverine Lake has seen decreasing violent crime and decline of property crime.2202 Woodlawn St, Wolverine Lake, MI 48390-1962 is a single-family home listed for-sale at $270,000. The 2020 Wolverine Lake crime rate rose by 5% compared to 2019. Wolverine Lake, MI 48390 T / 1-24The 2020 crime rate in Wolverine Lake, MI is 18 ( crime index), which is 14.0 times lower than the U.S. Wolverines are also adept scavengers, and indeed a large portion …Cầu Bãi Cháy nằm trên quốc lộ 18, nối hai phần của thành phố Hạ Long là Hòn Gai và Bãi Cháy qua vịnh Cửa Lục nơi đổ ra vịnh Hạ Long, thuộc địa phận tỉnh Quảng Ninh.Do điều …ADDRESS. ![]() Wolverine lake The wolverine is a solitary nocturnal hunter, preying on all manner of game and not hesitating to attack sheep, deer, wolves, or small bears. ![]() ![]() ![]() There are enough traumas here to fall an average-sized mental ward, but the biggie centers around Luke, who uses the skills learned as a Navy SEAL in Vietnam to fight a guerrilla war against the installation of a nuclear power plant in Colleton and is killed by the authorities. Susan (a shrink with a lot of time on her hands) says to Tom, "Will you stay in New York and tell me all you know?" and he does, for nearly 600 mostly-bloated pages of flashbacks depicting The Family Wingo of swampy Colleton County: a beautiful mother, a brutal shrimper father (the Great Santini alive and kicking), and Tom and Savannah's much-admired older brother, Luke. Savannah, it turns out, is catatonic, and before the suicide attempt had completely assumed the identity of a dead friend-the implication being that she couldn't stand being a Wingo anymore. When he hears that his fierce, beautiful twin sister Savannah, a well-known New York poet, has once again attempted suicide, he escapes his present emasculation by flying north to meet Savannah's comely psychiatrist, Susan Lowenstein. Tom Wingo is an unemployed South Carolinian football coach whose internist wife is having an affair with a pompous cardiac man. ![]() ![]() A flabby, fervid melodrama of a high-strung Southern family from Conroy ( The Great Santini, The Lords of Discipline), whose penchant for overwriting once again obscures a genuine talent. ![]() ![]() ![]() Tesla devotes a good portion of his work to explaining a recent project of his that involves transmitting power through the air. He describes his development of the concepts for these devices and explains the theory behind them with the use of illustrative diagrams. ![]() "My Inventions" is an assemblage of six magazine articles Tesla is asked to provide to the periodical "Electrical Engineering." Originally published in 1919, each article focuses on a certain period of Tesla's life, beginning with his early childhood in Croatia and spanning his education in Gospic and Prague, the beginning of his career in Budapest and Paris, and his moving to New York to work for Thomas Edison before founding a successful laboratory of his own.Īimed at a readership with a particular interest in electrical engineering, Tesla's articles focus on two of his best known inventions, the induction motor and the oscillating transformer, also called the Tesla coil. ![]() ![]() "My Inventions: The Autobiography of Nikola Tesla" is a brief account in Tesla's own words of his early life and education and his career as an important and prolific inventor in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() At twenty-four, Knight decides that rather than work for a big corporation, he will create something all his own, new, dynamic, different. In Shoe Dog, he tells his story at last. In this age of start-ups, Knight’s Nike is the gold standard, and its swoosh is one of the few icons instantly recognized in every corner of the world.īut Knight, the man behind the swoosh, has always been a mystery. Today, Nike’s annual sales top $30 billion. Selling the shoes from the trunk of his car in 1963, Knight grossed eight thousand dollars that first year. ![]() ![]() Phil Knight opens up in ways few CEOs are willing to do.”įresh out of business school, Phil Knight borrowed fifty dollars from his father and launched a company with one simple mission: import high-quality, low-cost running shoes from Japan. It’s a messy, perilous, and chaotic journey, riddled with mistakes, endless struggles, and sacrifice. In this instant and tenacious New York Times bestseller, Nike founder and board chairman Phil Knight “offers a rare and revealing look at the notoriously media-shy man behind the swoosh” ( Booklist, starred review), illuminating his company’s early days as an intrepid start-up and its evolution into one of the world’s most iconic, game-changing, and profitable brands.īill Gates named Shoe Dog one of his five favorite books of 2016 and called it “an amazing tale, a refreshingly honest reminder of what the path to business success really looks like. ![]() ![]() For an enslaved mother, daughter, and grandmother, Montpelier plantation in Virginia is a living hell- and the proprietor, at least initially, is none other than President James Madison. OL2004732W Page_number_confidence 94.52 Pages 422 Ppi 350 Related-external-id urn:isbn:0060996080 In Connie Briscoe's third novel, the connotations of home are anything but heartwarming. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 20:11:52 Bookplateleaf 0010 Boxid IA1130712 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New York Donor ![]() ![]() ![]() Peter David, New York Times best-selling authorIn the spirit of Firefly, Flash Gordon, Stargate, and Escape from New York. ![]() For more on Genius de Milo and Russ’ other wacky tales, you can visit Russ encourages you to email him at by Russ ColchamiroĬrossline is a classic sci-fi yarn reinvented through the wonderfully twisted mind of Russ Colchamiro. It’s just how he gets around - windier than the bus, for sure, but much quicker. As a matter of full disclosure, readers should not be surprised if Russ spontaneously teleports in a blast of white light followed by screaming fluorescent color and the feeling of being sucked through a tornado. ![]() He is now at work on the final book in the Finders Keepers trilogy, due in March 2017. Russ has also contributed to several anthologies including Tales of the Crimson Keep, Pangaea, and Altered States of the Union. ![]() Russ lives in West Orange, NJ, with his wife, two children, and crazy dog, Simon, who may in fact be an alien himself. For fans of Terry Pratchett, Douglas Adams, Christopher Moore, and Josh Whedon. Russ Colchamiro is the author of the rollicking space adventure Crossline, the hilarious scifi backpacking comedy Finders Keepers, and the outrageous sequel, Genius de Milo, all with Crazy 8 Press. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Trollope’s book is part of the reason I’ve been equally taken by the much more decided updated Schine book (I know I often like her book reviews for the NYRB.) While I have before on this blog written strongly praising this or that Austen sequel or film appropriation of a sequel (Jo Baker’s Longbourn, Helen Fielding’s Bridget Jones’s Diary, Cindy Jones’s My Jane Austen Summer: A Season in Mansfield Park, the film Julie Towhidi made from PD James’s Death Comes to Pemberley), I’ve never been quite so taken as I have by Joanna Trollope’s book. ![]() I’ve been surprised in how gripped I’ve been over these four books. For the last couple of weeks on and off I’ve been reading and considering Jane Austen and Anthony Trollope post-texts to wit, Joanna Trollope’s Sense & Sensibility The Rector’s Wife and The Choir, not to omit Joanna’s central contemporary fiction, thus far Other People’s Children. ![]() |