At Home with the Glynns (trade paperback) - 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 At Home with the Glynns (trade paperback) write by Eric Kraft. This book was released on 2012-07. At Home with the Glynns (trade paperback) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Peter Leroy receives his sexual initiation at the hands of the Glynn twins, becomes a sketch doctor, listens to many tales about the night the Nevsky mansion burned, learns the value of hope, and discovers the love of his life. As is usual with Peter's recollections, we are never certain where memory ends and imagination begins-but we are certain that we are reading the work of a brilliant memoirist who reconstructs his past with wry humor, nostalgia, satire, and dazzling invention. "A witty and wildly digressive epistemological examination in the form of a childhood reminiscence." The New Yorker "Wholly engaging . . . a daring tour de force." Jonathan Baumbach, The New York Times Book Review "One of the more hilariously erotic pieces of writing since Lolita." Edward Hannibal, The East Hampton Star
The Glynns of Kilrush, Co. Clare, 1811-1940
The Glynns of Kilrush, Co. Clare, 1811-1940 - 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 The Glynns of Kilrush, Co. Clare, 1811-1940 write by Paul O'Brien. This book was released on 2019. The Glynns of Kilrush, Co. Clare, 1811-1940 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The book examines the fortunes of a provincial, entrepreneurial family, the Glynns of Kilrush, County Clare, who came to local prominence in the early years of the nineteenth-century. It explores their networking strategies and acumen, and traces the rapid expansion of their business activity from small-scale corn millers to proprietors of a multifaceted enterprise. It examines the rapid expansion of their various enterprises from milling to shipping and railways. Paul O'Brien places the Glynn family and businesses within the wider context of networks developing between the urban, provincial and metropolitan industrial class. Networks which helped shape Irish society and its economy. It examines the family primarily from a social point of view while also exploring the family's business and trade enterprises. It addresses the issue of middle-class identity, examining the ways in which it was constructed and represented to the wider community. The book also explores the mechanisms that were used by the middle classes to establish and maintain their economic, social and cultural hegemony, and how these were reproduced down the Glynn generations. The book was helped by the availability of a superb, hitherto undiscovered, family and business archive belonging to the Glynn family. The most fascinating aspects discussed in the book are the interactions between class, networking, local administration, associational culture, education, religion, the Glynn women and last, but by no means least, the town of Kilrush itself where the family still remain based.
Reservations Recommended (trade paperback)
Reservations Recommended (trade paperback) - 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 Reservations Recommended (trade paperback) write by Eric Kraft. This book was released on 2012-06. Reservations Recommended (trade paperback) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Peter Leroy constructs a plausible adult life for his grade school chum Matthew Barber, now living in Boston, where he is vice-president of a toy company by day, but becomes Bertram W. Beath, restaurant reviewer, when the sun goes down. Reservations Recommended is a satire of the critical mind; a dark commentary on contemporary culture; a story of midlife crisis; a morality play; and a book that matches bleakness against humor, seasoned throughout with B. W. Beath's hilariously acid reviews. We watch as Matthew Barber descends from a self-protective superiority into a species of madness, and into the dark night of the soul. "A brilliant satire." LA Life "A merciless sendup of contemporary American pretensions.' Janice Harayda, Cleveland Plain Dealer "Wonderfully readable . . . touching and intelligent." Richard Gehr, The Village Voice
Inflating a Dog (trade paperback)
Inflating a Dog (trade paperback) - 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 Inflating a Dog (trade paperback) write by Eric Kraft. This book was released on 2012-09. Inflating a Dog (trade paperback) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Peter Leroy struggles to win the affections of the toothsome Patti Fiorenza while keeping his mother's hopes and his mother's boat afloat. Ella Leroy dreams of escaping the dreary routine of her 1950s wife-and-mom life. Without telling her husband, she enlists her son Peter and his locally-notorious girlfriend Patti in a scheme to buy a run-down clamboat and re-invent it as an elegant cruising vessel for summer people in the bayside town of Babbington, Long Island. But after they've bought the boat, Peter discovers that it is slowly sinking. "Raucous, wise, and great fun, this is simply not to be missed." Nancy Pearl, Booklist "The secret dreams and yearnings of a soul in the making, a fool for beauty." Frederic Koeppel, Memphis Commercial Appeal "Fascinating and sophisticated." Jennifer Reese, The New York Times Book Review "The best description of sex appeal anywhere, ever." Peter Jon Shuler
Where Do You Stop? (trade paperback)
Where Do You Stop? (trade paperback) - 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 Where Do You Stop? (trade paperback) write by Eric Kraft. This book was released on 2009-02-13. Where Do You Stop? (trade paperback) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Peter Leroy finally completes a junior-high-school science assignment, thirty years late, exploring along the way quantum physics, entropy, epistemology, principles of uncertainty and discontinuity, a range of life's Big Questions, and his memories of his intoxicating science teacher, Miss Rheingold. "Warm . . . thought-provoking . . . charming . . . delightful." Library Journal (starred review) "A book designed to leave its readers-and it deserves many of them-as happy as clams." Walter Satterthwait, The New York Times Book Review "Luminously intelligent fun." Time
