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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - She lives in the desert a few miles outside Barstow in an old Airstream trailer. In the dirt off the side of the Airstream there's a small table with two foldout wooden chairs shaded by a big umbrella. When I pull up, she rises from one of the chairs and steps out into the sun. Tall, the muscles in her arms and legs defined in the way of an athlete, lean, dressed in pastel blue shorts and a sleeveless yellow top, she's still a striking woman for being in her sixties. There's a dancer's fluid and suggestive grace in the way she moves that echoes her years as a Las Vegas showgirl in her twenties and thirties. Her skin wears a smooth and even desert tan. Her hair, a soft faded red in the late morning sunlight, is loose and moves in cadence with her walk. This is Mavis Hopgood, the author of this itinerant collection of 29 stories, short prose pieces, anecdotes, and poems that come from different places and events of what she calls the pinball life she has lived across the country. In 'Oasis' there's the tragic portrait of Katy, once a lawyer, now a bartender in a dive bar with its circle of regulars n a field of oil refineries. In 'The China Doll' there's Frankie, a New York trumpet player on his way to a gig in L.A. who stops in Salt Lake for lunch and an attempt to reconcile with his recently widowed father. There's the Pushcart Prize story 'Utah Died for Your Sins.' In 'City of Uncles' a young soldier on his way to another assignment wanders a blue collar neighborhood yearning to finally come off the road and find belonging and permanence . There are Brazilian wolves. There's a magic radio in a 1953 Buick Roadmaster. There's winter in an upstate town and anecdotes about what people did to stay sane in 25 feet of snow. There's a dying refrigerator. There's Pearlita who works in a dashboard factory in the midwest. Jimmy, a street guy from the South, who keeps his New York neighborhood honest. The poems in her collection are equally wide ranging and surprising in style, range, and subject. There are lighthearted poems about a dying refrigerator and . Powerful purely imagistic poems like 'After You Set Your Head on Fire' and 'A Woman's Ass Is a Sometime Wondrous Moment.' Love poems like 'That You Will Awaken ' and 'Asking for Nothing.' In 'Newly Wed' a young freshly married couple can't wait to get home from work to do what a priest gave them the right to do. After fifteen years in Vegas, dancing in one casino hotel after another, she realized there was more to life than doing leg kicks in a chorus line. She wanted to let her life just happen. Let life come at her. Let it be spontaneous. Let its path be accidental, like the ball in a pinball machine, sent off in new directions with new possibilities one bumper or flipper to the next. Sometimes the bumpers hurt. Sometimes the flippers were mean. But there was always another bumper. Always another flipper. And usually there was a man involved. The pieces in her collection reflect the expanse, diversity, unpredictability, and poetic courage of that life. She has always loved writing. Whether the occasional poem, brief prose piece, or short story, it has been the one consistent and indestructible attribute of who she is. The one attribute that has never been accidental but has always held steady. From the slimness of this collection you can tell that she'd written only intermittently. She was always on the move. But writing held everything together for her.…

Zustand: Hervorragend. Zustand: Hervorragend | Seiten: 652 | Sprache: Englisch | Produktart: Bücher | Told in astonishing prose, "Not into Night" is the long-awaited third novel of the series "If Where You're Going Isn't Home," the story of a boy growing up Mormon in America in pursuit of a dream to play jazz trumpet. At nineteen, Shake Tauffler is no stranger to conflict. A father who lets him know he'd rather have anyone else for a son. A disturbed mother who can switch from sweetness to rage in a heartbeat. In the summer of 1963, as the civil rights movement inflames America, he leaves Utah, his unprotected younger siblings, and his life as a gifted jazz trumpet player behind to spend two and a half years trying to convert Austria to the Mormon faith. A mission is his last obligation - and his last chance to prove himself - to his zealous father. At the same time, his interest in the fight for civil rights is deep and visceral. Back home, the girl he loves is black, as are his heroes, the dark-skinned men from whom he's learned everything he knows about playing jazz. In Austria he tries to satisfy his father's expectation to "harvest" its people for the church. But he's irresistibly drawn to the brutal and courageous struggle in the South. He tracks its events in foreign news articles, questioning whether his true allegiance lies there, with a people his faith wants him to believe are cursed and undeserving. The racism of his faith has long taught Shake to keep a bright line between jazz and religion. But in Austria, once his musical gift is discovered, he's recruited by the mission leaders to use it to "lure" people to the church. He resists but finally obeys, playing trumpet in the jazz clubs of Vienna, aware that he's betraying his black heroes in putting the music they invented to an underhanded purpose. The volatile mix of jazz and religion, sparked by a violent and predatory mission companion, ignites an in an explosive night with devastating consequences that end the life he knows, and make him a fugitive from the punishing hand of religious law. More than half his mission - now a dark road he travels with a terrible secret - still lies ahead. His only refuge is an Austrian family whose daughter, an only child, is as eager for a big brother as Shake is for the shelter of her family's love.…

Zustand: Wie neu. 1. 255 Seiten Max Bill global: an artist building bridges widmet sich dem vielseitigen Werk des Künstlers, Architekten und Designers Max Bill. Der englischsprachige Kunstband beleuchtet sein internationales Wirken und zeigt, wie seine Arbeiten Brücken zwischen Kunst, Gestaltung, Architektur und Kultur schlugen. Mit hochwertigen Abbildungen und fundierten Beiträgen bietet das Buch einen umfassenden Einblick in Leben und Werk eines der bedeutendsten Gestalter des 20. Jahrhunderts. Eine wertvolle Publikation für Kunstinteressierte, Sammler und Bibliotheken. Warum dieses Buch interessant ist: Hochwertiger englischsprachiger Kunstband über Max Bill und sein internationales Wirken. Behandelt Kunst, Design, Architektur und konkrete Kunst in einem Werk. Attraktiv für Sammler, Museen und Liebhaber moderner Kunst. Fundierte Begleitung zu Leben, Werk und gestalterischem Einfluss Max Bills. Empfehlenswerte Fachliteratur für Kunstgeschichte und Design. Butterfly Books Wissensnotiz: Max Bill zählt zu den prägenden Persönlichkeiten der modernen Kunst und Gestaltung. Seine Arbeiten beeinflussen bis heute Architektur, Design und Kunst weltweit. HC-917-8/8-01383039 Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 1270 Taschenbuch, Maße: 20.96 cm x 2.29 cm x 27.94 cm. …

Zustand: Gut. 237 S. Gebrauchtes Exemplar in gutem Zustand. - Wir versenden aus unserem deutschen Lager heraus in plastikfreien oder wiederverwendeten Polstertaschen. Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 500.