Wayne clifford gordon (16 Ergebnisse)

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A collection of 13 short stories that form a story cycle of seven individuals, who are connected by their Gulf Coast origins. While the stories of Cocobolo are intended to be read in sequence, each building thematically on the previous, they also stand alone and provide the reader time to linger on character and description. That is pretty much the way life moves on the Gulf Coast. Read them the way life is lived on the southern coast. Languidly and savoring the details.…

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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A 3-act play, French Defense, uses a fictional New Orleans chess club as its primary setting to explore reality, perception, and truth through dialogue-driven scenes and a series of chess matches. The play uses chess matches as its central metaphor, with their moves and openings mirroring the characters' psychological conflicts, strategic choices, and shifting power dynamics.The story centers on troubled characters grappling with trauma, addiction, paranoia, and fractured relationships, creating a dark, introspective tone. The narrative includes both imagined and real violence, crime, and moral ambiguity, with references to gangs, self-defense, death, and existential guilt that propel the plot. Literary, film, and philosophical references add depth, but the document's central takeaway is its focus on questions of human fragility, moral uncertainty, and the blurred line between appearance and reality.Chess serves as a metaphor throughout the story, reflecting themes of life, conflict, and personal struggle. The narrative includes detailed descriptions of chess moves, such as the Steinitz Variation and the French Defense, with moves presented in descriptive notation that emphasizes tension and strategy. Chess matches symbolize characters' internal conflicts, choices, and psychological states. The game serves as a backdrop for discussions of war, life, and death, offering insight into the characters' moral dilemmas and internal battles.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A narrative of the lives and interactions of members of a Texas university ground crew. The narrative is presented in the form of two plays.

Zustand: New. KlappentextThe three plays forming the French Defense trilogy, center on the Paul Morphy Chess Club of New Orleans and a club member s psychotic breakdown - a modern ghost story. Playing serious chess, of course, provides an excellent me.

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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A collection of short stories that form a story cycle of Gulf Coast residents and expatriates engaged in the struggle to maintain a cultural identity in a realm of change. For the author, one of the advantages of 'being southern' is luxuriating in complex ambiguity, time shifting at will, nonlinear thought, love of the absurd (which it often seems to be the way of life), nostalgia, and an opposition to manufactured realms of reality found in modernist fiction. This collection is southern, an organic unit, a piece of string. The first story is one end and the last is the other. The bits in the middle reflect the ends and all things are related. …

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