The Uptown Local - 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 Uptown Local write by Cory Leadbeater. This book was released on 2024-06-11. The Uptown Local available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A brilliant debut memoir about a young writer—struggling with depression, family issues, and addiction—and his life-changing decade working for Joan Didion As an aspiring novelist in his early twenties, Cory Leadbeater was presented with an opportunity to work for a well-known writer whose identity was kept confidential. Since the tumultuous days of childhood, Cory had sought refuge from the rougher parts of life in the pages of books. Suddenly, he found himself the personal assistant to a titan of literature: Joan Didion. In the nine years that followed, Cory shared Joan’s rarefied world, transformed not only by her blazing intellect but by her generous friendship and mentorship. Together they recited poetry in the mornings, dined with Supreme Court justices, attended art openings, smoked a single cigarette before bed. But secretly, Cory was spiraling. He reeled from the death of a close friend. He spent his weekends at a federal prison, visiting his father as he served time for fraud. He struggled day after day to write the novel that would validate him as a real writer. And meanwhile, the forces of addiction and depression loomed large. In hypnotic prose that pulses with life and longing, The Uptown Local explores the fault lines of class, family, loss, and creativity. It is a love letter to a cultural icon—and a moving testament to the relationships that sustain us in the eternal pursuit of a life worth living.
Supreme Court
Supreme Court - 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 Supreme Court write by . This book was released on . Supreme Court available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Headgear Worker
The Headgear Worker - 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 Headgear Worker write by . This book was released on 1919. The Headgear Worker available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Upholsterers' Journal
Upholsterers' Journal - 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 Upholsterers' Journal write by . This book was released on 1926. Upholsterers' Journal available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Lost Van Gogh
The Lost Van Gogh - 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 Lost Van Gogh write by A. J. Zerries. This book was released on 2007-04-03. The Lost Van Gogh available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. When Vincent van Gogh's Portrait of Monsieur Trabuc turns up unexpectedly at the Metropolitan Museum of Art—a $50 million painting shipped from Argentina via UPS, like an ordinary package—the case goes to Clay Ryder, the NYPD Major Case Squad detective assigned to art theft. Ryder discovers that in Paris, late 1944, a Jewish widow accused a German SS officer of stealing the painting. The officer was reported to have died in a car crash at the war's end, and the whereabouts of the Trabuc between then and now remain a mystery. Ryder's search for the widow's heirs leads him to Rachel Meredith, who teaches at NYU. The museum presents the painting to her in a spectacular public ceremony that winds up on the front page of newspapers around the world. Though the case is closed, Ryder can't seem to shake it. When Rachel Meredith is attacked, she calls on him; what might be a simple assault doesn't quite add up. And he still wonders who sent the van Gogh from Argentina. One of his most reliable contacts in the art world floats a theory that ties the van Gogh portrait to a black market auction in the 70's that might have involved a Swiss art dealer and an international crime kingpin with unlimited cash. Then Israel's Mossad pays Ryder a clandestine visit; the news splash about the van Gogh is the first link they've had to the SS officer in decades. Meanwhile, art dealers, auction houses, and museums vie to buy the van Gogh from Rachel Meredith. When she refuses to sell, the situation goes from predatory to violent. Ryder has to race against time to outmaneuver a cunning mastermind who will resort to as many murders as it takes to get hold of the Trabuc. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
