The Junk-Drawer Corner-Store Front Porch Blues - 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 Junk-Drawer Corner-Store Front Porch Blues write by John R. Powers. This book was released on 1993-06. The Junk-Drawer Corner-Store Front Porch Blues available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Filled with charming and evocative details, this is both a moving account of a middle-aged man's belated coming-of-age and a classic growing-up story for the Baby Boom generation. At turns hilarious and bittersweet, this novel is destined to be a bookshelf classic.
The Last Catholic in America
The Last Catholic in America - 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 Last Catholic in America write by John R. Powers. This book was released on 2010-06. The Last Catholic in America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "It is fast-moving and often downright funny."—New York Times "He has recaptured childish innocence and presented it with adult enlightenment—plus a touch of cynicism—yet never with irreverence." —Book-of-the-Month Club News First confession and its terrors. Eighty-four first graders in a classroom ruled by just one nun. The agony and the ecstasy of Lent. The dubious honor of being declared the worst altar server ever. Dinah Shore and the Blessed Virgin haunting your dreams. This is Eddie Ryan's world as he grows up in the intensely Catholic world of South-Side Chicago's St. Bastion's parish in the 1950s. In this classic coming-of-age novel, John Powers draws readers into Eddie Ryan's world with deep affection and bittersweet humor.
The Chicago of Fiction
The Chicago of Fiction - 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 Chicago of Fiction write by James A. Kaser. This book was released on 2011-02-01. The Chicago of Fiction available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The importance of Chicago in American culture has made the city's place in the American imagination a crucial topic for literary scholars and cultural historians. While databases of bibliographical information on Chicago-centered fiction are available, they are of little use to scholars researching works written before the 1980s. In The Chicago of Fiction: A Resource Guide, James A. Kaser provides detailed synopses for more than 1,200 works of fiction significantly set in Chicago and published between 1852 and 1980. The synopses include plot summaries, names of major characters, and an indication of physical settings. An appendix provides bibliographical information for works dating from 1981 well into the 21st century, while a biographical section provides basic information about the authors, some of whom are obscure and would be difficult to find in other sources. Written to assist researchers in locating works of fiction for analysis, the plot summaries highlight ways in which the works touch on major aspects of social history and cultural studies (i.e., class, ethnicity, gender, immigrant experience, and race). The book is also a useful reader advisory tool for librarians and readers who want to identify materials for leisure reading, particularly since genre, juvenile, and young adult fiction, as well as literary fiction, are included.
The Unoriginal Sinner and the Ice-Cream God
The Unoriginal Sinner and the Ice-Cream God - 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 Unoriginal Sinner and the Ice-Cream God write by John R. Powers. This book was released on 2010-06. The Unoriginal Sinner and the Ice-Cream God available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. All religions have worked hard to give you the impression that I'm a stiff; the kind of guy you'd never invite to a party. . . . I like laughter and the people who do it; from the twitterers to the chucklers to those whose laughter roars out in a gallop of explosions. To me, laughter is taking a bite out of life and saying, "Just right." Signed: God Clever yet cynical Tim Conroy, a failed idealist with a chip on his shoulder, is unable to find a secure place for himself in 1960s South Side Chicago. He narrates his bittersweet struggles with God, sex, career, and education in a voice that evokes an Irish Catholic Holden Caulfield. This poignant, skillfully told tale concludes John R. Powers's memorable coming-of-age trilogy that includes The Last Catholic in America and Do Black Patent Leather Shoes Really Reflect Up?
Effective Speech & Oral Comm.
Effective Speech & Oral Comm. - 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 Effective Speech & Oral Comm. write by Aquino, F.O.. This book was released on 2002. Effective Speech & Oral Comm. available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
