gibson john fee (3 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: New. In.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A book of five short stories1. 'Oh threats of hell and hopes of paradise'2. 'One thing at least is certain, this life flies'3. 'One thing is certain and the rest is lies'4. 'The flower that once has blown forever dies'>My stories (five) are told in the first person and inspired by the 'Rubaiyat' of Omar Khayyam, the twelfth century philosopher and Edgar Allen Poe. They tell of rape, murder, a philandering preacher, an engineer driven to the gates of insanity by his perfectionist ideals and a despondent professor attempting to leave his legacy by trying to prove Carl Jung's theory of the collective unconscious. I have been writing on these stories for a few years as the spirit would move me to write. When someone asks me what they are about, or to summarize them, my brain sort of goes into neutral and I really don't know where to start. I generally try to change the subject since I can't summarize in 4000 characters or less what I had for breakfast this morning. If the inquisitive person is persistent I simply offer to let them read the book and then they change the subject. Actually, after meditating upon the 'Rubaiyat' of Omar Khayyam and wallowing his quatrains around in my mind for a while, I generally end up writing a little. I think I'm much like Omar; still trying to deduce what this thing we call 'life' is all about! My stories touch on things from the simple life of an Appalachian Mountains sharecropper, a dubious country preacher, rape, murder, an arduous and unnecessary flight from justice, snakebites and miraculous healings, the lynching of an innocent black man, and subsistence farm life to, the complicated motives of brainy engineers and chemists attempting to leave their legacy to science by proving knowledge can be transmitted genetically; thereby, proving Carl Jung's theory of the collective unconscious to be valid.

About 100 Color & B/w Photographs (illustrator). Softcover. Second printing. An overview of circa 1990-1994 nude photography, divided into two halves: the first half by seminal Japanese photographer Nobuyoshi Araki, and the second half a curated selection of nudes by Western photographers of note. Photos in color and black-and-white, presented in a catalog exhibition style. Fine in perfect-bound wrappers with Obi band, also Fine.