Catapult feb 2018 (3 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'The tight-knit residents of Blue Moon Mountain, nestled high in the Colorado Mountains, form an interconnected community of those living off the land, stunned by the beauty and isolation all around them. So when, at the onset of winter, the town veterinarian commits a violent act, the repercussions of that tragedy will be felt all across the mountainside, upending their lives and causing their paths to twist and collide in unexpected ways . They will all rise and converge upon the blue hour--the l'heure bleu--the hour of twilight, a time of desire, lust, honesty. The strong, spirited people of Blue Moon Mountain must learn to navigate the line between violence and sex, tenderness and the hard edge of yearning, and the often confusing paths of mourning and lust'--.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - "Tense and evocative . . . Despite its powerful social critique, Vengeance is cautious and prismatic, openly troubled by its own claims to authority." Katy Waldman, The New YorkerAs someone who writes "fiction, nonfiction, sometimes a hybrid of both," the narrator ofVengeance, a character much like Zachary Lazar himself, tries to accurately view a world he knows is "beyond the limits of my small understanding." In particular, he is compelled to unravel the truth behind the supposed crime of an inmate he meets and befriends, Kendrick King, who is serving a life sentence at Angola for murder.As the narrator attempts to sort out what happened in King's lifepaying visits to his devoted mother, his estranged young daughter and her mother, his girlfriend, his brother, and his cousinthe writer's own sense of identity begins to feel more and more like a fiction. He is one of the "free people" while Kendrick, who studies theology and philosophy, will never get his only wish, expressed plainly as "I just need to get out of here." The dichotomy between their lives forces the narrator to confront the violence in his own past, and also to reexamine American notions of guilt and penance, racial bias, and the inherent perversity of punitive justice.Inspired by a passion play,The Life of Jesus Christ, he witnessed at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, Vengeance, by way of vivid storytelling, helps us to understand the failure of empathy and imagination that perpetuates theincarceration crisis in our country."The state of Louisiana is the world's incarceration capital, and Zachary Lazar is aworld-class novelist, who brings humility and sensitivity' to this book (Rachel Kushner).…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'A Girl's Guide to Personal Hygiene is everything I never knew I wanted: a disgusting, hilarious, and honest book that pays tribute to the female body and all of its habits and suppurations. It is delightfully and uncomfortably relatable and I love it with my whole selfheart, sweat, bowels, and all.'Carmen Maria Machado, author of Her Body and Other PartiesWe sniff our knickers; we bite our own toenails; we laboriously dig out ingrown hairs: Women aren't as ladylike as people would like to imagine. Using anecdotes collected from hundreds of anonymous sources, this gleefully disgusting illustrated book rewrites our definition of femininity.One day, the artist Tallulah Pomeroy overhead a conversation between two girls about another friend of theirs they knew in college. Apparently, when this friend had been on tour with the rugby team, she'd drunkenly 'done a shit in the sink.' 'She's not a girl if she did that,' said one to the other. 'She may have a vagina, but she's not a girl.'This exchange made Tallulah laugh, but it also made her think. How many things had her friends done that meant they 'weren't girls ' She made a Facebook group and asked people to submit stories about their 'unladylike' behaviors. The page was soon flooded with more stories than she could have ever imagined: about ear wax and trapped wind, gray pubes and bloody pajamas. It became a community of honest, funny, and supportive women, who, by admitting to things they'd thought were shameful, no longer had to feel ashamed.For A Girl's Guide to Personal Hygiene, Tallulah made original illustrations to accompany a selection of those Facebook postsplus dozens more from an expanded call for submissionsto create an exuberant and galvanizing handbook for all the nasty women of the world.…