Richard b snodgrass (13 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. The Building, the first book of the Furnass Towers Trilogy, is the story of the well-intentioned but ill-conceived attempt to construct a high-rise building in the middle of a stricken mill town. It is the story of a head-strong superintendent who pours concrete when he's told not to . . . of a rebar foreman whose insecurities make him dangerous to everyone around him . . . the story of an architect who hides the project's true cost so he can build a monument to himself . . . a young inspector totally out of his depth . . . a local developer content to wait and pick up the pieces when the dust settles . . . and it is the story of a young woman across the alley who dances each morning in her window as she takes her shower, who distracts one worker to the point of a fatal accident and provides sanctuary for another.…

Paperback. Zustand: Good. The Building, the first book of the Furnass Towers Trilogy, is the story of the well-intentioned but ill-conceived attempt to construct a high-rise building in the middle of a stricken mill town. It is the story of a head-strong superintendent who pours concrete when he's told not to . . . of a rebar foreman whose insecurities make him dangerous to everyone around him . . . the story of an architect who hides the project's true cost so he can build a monument to himself . . . a young inspector totally out of his depth . . . a local developer content to wait and pick up the pieces when the dust settles . . . and it is the story of a young woman across the alley who dances each morning in her window as she takes her shower, who distracts one worker to the point of a fatal accident and provides sanctuary for another.…

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 320 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.80 inches. In Stock.

Zustand: New. In English.

Zustand: New. In English.

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 276 pages. 6.00x0.75x9.00 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 390 pages. 9.00x6.00x1.00 inches. In Stock.

Zustand: New. In English.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The Building, the first book of the Furnass Towers Trilogy, is the story of the well-intentioned but ill-conceived attempt to construct a high-rise building in the middle of a stricken mill town. It is the story of a head-strong superintendent who pours concrete when he's told not to . . . of a rebar foreman whose insecurities make him dangerous to everyone around him . . . the story of an architect who hides the project's true cost so he can build a monument to himself . . . a young inspector totally out of his depth . . . a local developer content to wait and pick up the pieces when the dust settles . . . and it is the story of a young woman across the alley who dances each morning in her window as she takes her shower, who distracts one worker to the point of a fatal accident and provides sanctuary for another.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Shadow of the Valley is a story within a story within a story - an innovative historical novel in three parts that tells the tale of an orderly's day book written at the end of the French and Indian War by an Ensign in the 42nd Royal Highland Regiment of Foot, the Black Watch, the history of what transpired at an outpost on the frontier of an endless wilderness that was America, as well as how the book influenced the lives of those who came to live here afterwards. At the heart of the book is 'The Journal of Thomas Keating,' the story of a young Scottish Ensign in the Western Pennsylvania wilderness of 1753 leading a band of misfits upriver to find what happened to an outpost's lost command, and how he came later to seek refuge in a blockhouse with a woman in search of her baby's father. It is the story of Duncan, the sole survivor of that Black Watch detachment, a fiddler whose hands were chopped off by Indians, who in 1776 farms the land around the abandoned blockhouse.and the story of the young woman who found Keating's Journal and brings it to Duncan hoping he can help her learn the fate of her mother. And it is the story of two children in 1821, descendants of Duncan, who find the strange book hidden away in the abandoned blockhouse on their father's iron plantation, and use the ancient language in their games to explore their awakening bodies and emotions.…

Gebunden. Zustand: New. &Uumlber den AutorrnrnRichard Snodgrass is the author of the critically acclaimed Books of Furnass series as well as the novel There s Something in the Back Yard, and two books of prose and photographs: An Uncommon Field: The Flight 93 Temporar.

Zustand: New. KlappentextrnrnThe Building, the first book of the Furnass Towers Trilogy, is the story of the well-intentioned but ill-conceived attempt to construct a high-rise building in the middle of a stricken mill town. It is the story of a head-strong s.

Softcover. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. First edition. Octavo. P.167-239. Printed cream wrappers. Wrappers age-toned, bottom corners bumped, very good. "A Visit with E.M. Forster" by William Van O'Connor. *Voice as Vision* by W.D. Snodgrass. "Jean Stafford: The Expense of Style and the Scope of Sensibility" by Ihab H. Hassan. Poetry by William Belvin, Edgar Bowers, Charles Aufderheide, James Wright, Brewster Ghiselin, Henry Ayling, Howard Levant. Stories by Richard G. Stern, James B. Hall. Books by Ralph Freedman and Hazard Adams. Scarce.…