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L'obiettivo ambizioso di Thomas Wolfe era, con le sue stesse parole, quello di narrare "l'intera intollerabile memoria dell'America, la sua violenza, la sua ferocia, immensità, bellezza, bruttezza e gloria". Questi cinque racconti, selezionati dalla sconfinata, caotica e affascinante opera di Wolfe, provano a restituire questo mirabile equilibrio giocato sul filo dei contrasti: luce e ombra, vita e morte, cultura e bestialità. La lingua di Wol...

This is the dramatic real life story of Celeste: A woman, who from a very early age, was tormented with severe physical and mental abuse. As she grows up into a young troubled adult, her haunting past leads her into the self-destructive choices of drug abuse, sexual immorality, depression and the endless looking for love in all the wrong places. Believing she can find and fill the empty void within herself she searches for years, her years tur...

Tom Wolfe (1930-2018) was the author of more than a dozen books, among them The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, The Right Stuff, The Bonfire of the Vanities, A Man in Full, I Am Charlotte Simmons and Back to Blood. He received the National Book Foundation's 2010 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters.

Excerpt from Durability and Maintenance as Related to the Selection of FlooringEconomic decision making has been applied to a variety of activities, including purchase of machinery and equipment, stock transactions, design and construction of buildings and dams, mining Operations, water supply.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduc...

Excerpt from Durability and Maintenance as Related to the Selection of FlooringEconomic decision making has been applied to a variety of activities, including purchase of machinery and equipment, stock transactions, design and construction of buildings and dams, mining Operations, water supply.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduc...

Excerpt from Men of CaliforniaGolden State, until it has won a foremost place in Amer ica's great co-operative sisterhood. To the student of physiognomy this book is invaluable, and even a cursory examination or a comparison of features, with the works of their possessors, cannot fail to impart to the veriest tyro a valuable knowledge of human nature and the art of j udg ing character from the face. As a work of general refer ence for Californ...

Excerpt from Men of CaliforniaGolden State, until it has won a foremost place in Amer ica's great co-operative sisterhood. To the student of physiognomy this book is invaluable, and even a cursory examination or a comparison of features, with the works of their possessors, cannot fail to impart to the veriest tyro a valuable knowledge of human nature and the art of j udg ing character from the face. As a work of general refer ence for Californ...

Excerpt from A Review of Federal and Military Specifications for Floor CoveringsIn this manual, which is organized so as to aid ready reference, requirements and test methods in Federal and Military Specifications for flooring, or floor coverings are combined, indexed and reviewed. The manual covers carpet, resilient flooring, monolithic surfacings or seam less flooring, and polyurethane coatings related to seamless flooring. It also covers al...

Excerpt from A Review of Federal and Military Specifications for Floor CoveringsIn this manual, which is organized so as to aid ready reference, requirements and test methods in Federal and Military Specifications for flooring, or floor coverings are combined, indexed and reviewed. The manual covers carpet, resilient flooring, monolithic surfacings or seam less flooring, and polyurethane coatings related to seamless flooring. It also covers al...

Excerpt from Clinical Demonstrations on Ophthalmic SubjectsHere, then, we have an eye, which is otherwise useful or capable of being rendered tolerably so, but which is tied down - buried, as it were - under an adherent lid, and rendered immovable. All the contrivances resorted to by surgeons to separate the lids from the globe have proved a mere waste of ingenuity - have, in other words, ended in dis appointment. Impelled by a feeling of perp...

Why has gambling become so accepted in the U.S. when other historical vices, like smoking and drinking, continue to evoke morality-based opposition? That simple but intriguing question guides this path-breaking volume, the first interdisciplinary academic study of gambling. Led by the renowned Alan Wolfe and with essays by experts at the country's premiere centers in public policy, clinical addiction, law, gaming, psychology, sociology, moral ...

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Excerpt from The Lodging House Problem in Boston The lodging-house of any sort has claimed comparatively little attention in the literature of the housing question, and the room ing-house specifically has fared still worse. The only definition we have been able to find, outside the dictionaries, is the following: A lodging-house shall be taken to mean and include any house or building or portion thereof in which persons are harbored, or recei...

Già in città avevo già visto la morte in faccia tre volte, e quella primavera stavo per incontrarla di nuovo. Una notte - in una delle mie caleidoscopiche e rabbiose notti di follia di quell'anno, quando vagavo ubriaco per le strade buie da mezzanotte all'alba del giorno dopo - mi capitò di vedere un uomo morire in metropolitana.

Opera postuma di Thomas Wolfe incentrata sul personaggio largamente autobiografico dello scrittore George Webber, "Ho una cosa da dirti" è la storia di una disillusione che segnerà profondamente la vita del grande scrittore americano. Fervente ammiratore della cultura e del popolo tedesco, George Webber - così come in realtà fece Thomas Wolfe - si concede, dopo la pubblicazione del suo ultimo romanzo, una lunga vacanza in Germania, dalla quale...

[...] Il bambino perduto restò nella piazza, vicinissimo alla veranda della bottega del padre. Ecco il Tempo, pensò Grover, ecco la Piazza, ecco la bottega di mio padre, ed eccomi qui. E la luce arrivò e se ne andò e ritornò ancora, ma adesso non era più come prima. Il bambino vedeva l'insieme delle forme conosciute sapeva che erano esattamente come erano sempre state. Ma qualcosa era uscito dal giorno, e qualcosa vi era tornato. Un po' dello ...

An essential guide to navigating the shifting Internet landscape The Internet is about to profoundly change when it explodes from a 21 top level domain world to a 500 to a 1, 000 .anything top level domain universe. How will you evolve your .com strategy? How will you keep your brands safe in the changing global Internet landscape? In an economic time where global brand protection is more important than ever and budgets are leaner, project l...

Diane Lane spielt Adrienne Willis, eine Frau, deren Leben gerade im Chaos versinkt. Deshalb zieht sie sich in das Küstenstädtchen Rodanthe in den Outer Banks von North Carolina zurück, um in der Pension einer Freundin in Ruhe ihre Probleme zu überdenken: Zuhause sitzen ein unberechenbarer Ehemann, der sie anfleht, zu ihm zurückzukehren, und eine Tochter im Teenageralter, der sie nichts Recht machen kann. Zeitgleich mit Adriennes Ankunft in Rod...

The second novel by the great American novelist, now the subject of a major new film, Genius, starring Jude Law, Colin Firth, Dominic West and Nicole Kidman. It is 1920 and Eugene Gant leaves the American South for Harvard, New York and Europe, determined to make his way as a writer. On the boat home, he meets Esther Jack, the woman who is to dominate his life. Autobiographical, vital and passionate, Wolfe's second novel blazes with energy an...