An American (Homeless) in Paris - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook An American (Homeless) in Paris write by Chris Ames. This book was released on 2017. An American (Homeless) in Paris available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Before a post-divorce road trip Chris Ames had been ensconced in French domesticity, with a wife, two children, and a regular job. Returning to Paris after that trip, he became an American vagabond and seeker who, lacking sufficient means and motivation to pay the rent and invest again in permanence, opted for homelessness. He soon found an unexpected place to pitch his tent--an abandoned golf course. Ames recounts a full year spent living there, with little baggage, through snow and heat, while commuting to his job as an English teacher in the city. Developing his urban-survivor skills, he rekindles relationships, starts others, offers glimpses of Parisian society--homeless and not--and ruminates on direction and the lack thereof. Ames circles serious questions, rarely losing a sense of irony, bewilderment, or amusement, especially at his circumstances, with their inherent discomforts, risks, and not-so-reassuring self-revelation. As readers see him stumble into renewed social bonds, his skewed searching and unconventional existence will engage and sometimes befuddle them. "I'm not saying become homeless, but do understand it opens many doors, and helps us appreciate the doors we can close."--from the introduction Winner of the Nonfiction Award in the Utah Division of Arts and Museums Original Writing Competition
Down and Out in Paris and London
Down and Out in Paris and London - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Down and Out in Paris and London write by George Orwell. This book was released on 2024-04-26. Down and Out in Paris and London available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Through George Orwell's firsthand accounts, readers are exposed to the harsh realities of life as a member of the destitute underclass. Orwell works various menial jobs, as dishwasher and plongeur in Parisian restaurants, and encounters a cast of characters from all walks of life. These include fellow down-and-outs, as well as the exploitative and indifferent employers and landlords who profit from their desperation. Down and Out in Paris and London sheds light on the daily challenges faced by those living in poverty, from the constant struggle to secure food and shelter to the lack of dignity and respect afforded to the working poor. Orwell's experiences also serve as a critique of societal structures and attitudes that perpetuate poverty and inequality, offering insight into the systemic failures that marginalize and oppress the most vulnerable members of society. GEORGE ORWELL was born in India in 1903 and passed away in London in 1950. As a journalist, critic, and author, he was a sharp commentator on his era and its political conditions and consequences.
One Foot in Front of the Other
One Foot in Front of the Other - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook One Foot in Front of the Other write by Ann Webb. This book was released on 2012-09. One Foot in Front of the Other available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Ann Webb shares her amazing true story of becoming homeless in Paris after a European vacation goes...
Roissy
Roissy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Roissy write by Tiffany Tavernier. This book was released on 2021-11-15. Roissy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Disguised as a passenger, a homeless woman lives in Paris's Roissy airport until she meets a man who makes her confront her past. Every day the narrator of this gripping novel hurries from one terminal to another in Charles de Gaulle Roissy airport, Paris, pulling her suitcase behind her, talking to people she meets--but she never boards an airplane. She becomes an "unnoticeable," a homeless woman disguised as a passenger, protected by her anonymity. When a man who comes to the airport every day to await the Rio-to-Paris flight--the same route on which a plane crashed into the sea a few years earlier--attempts to approach her, she flees, terrified. But eventually, she accepts his kindness and understands his loss, and she gives in to the grief they share, forming a bond with him that becomes more than friendship. A magnificent portrait of a woman who rediscovers herself through a chance connection, Roissy is a powerful, polyphonic book, a glimpse at the infinite capacity of the human spirit to be reborn.
Surviving Poverty in Medieval Paris
Surviving Poverty in Medieval Paris - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Surviving Poverty in Medieval Paris write by Sharon A. Farmer. This book was released on 2005. Surviving Poverty in Medieval Paris available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Farmer extends and deepens the understanding of urban poverty in the high middle ages. She explores the ways in which cultural elites thought about the poor and shows that their conceptions of poor men and women were derived from the roles assigned to men and women in the opening chapters of the Book of Genesis - men are associated with productive labour; of labour within the public realm, and women with reproductive labour; or labour within the private realm.
