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Category : Albuquerque Metropolitan Area (N.M.)
Languages : en
Pages : 46
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North and Central
Author: Bob Hartley
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ISBN: 9780986092282
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Andy's a bartender in North Austin in the late 1970s. For years, he's been slinging beers to corrupt cops and fat Zenith employees, but given the neighborhood's ongoing decline (and his own serious health issues), he's starting to wonder how long it can go on. He's a dying man serving workers from a dying factory in a dying neighborhood; he sees crime on the rise--and he decides to become a criminal himself."North and Central" perfectly evokes Chicago in the epic winter of '78-'79--the bleak season of blizzards and disco and John Wayne Gacy--capturing the city in microcosm through the denizens of one blue-collar watering hole. If Springsteen and Bukowski had teamed up to write a story about a Chicago bar, they'd have been hard pressed to do better than this; it's an anti-Cheers, a bittersweet story about a place where everybody knows your nickname, and they're tired of you coming around because you're a degenerate. But it's more than just a static portrait; it's a gripping and moving story destined to earn its own place among the classics of Chicago literature.
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ISBN: 9780986092282
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Andy's a bartender in North Austin in the late 1970s. For years, he's been slinging beers to corrupt cops and fat Zenith employees, but given the neighborhood's ongoing decline (and his own serious health issues), he's starting to wonder how long it can go on. He's a dying man serving workers from a dying factory in a dying neighborhood; he sees crime on the rise--and he decides to become a criminal himself."North and Central" perfectly evokes Chicago in the epic winter of '78-'79--the bleak season of blizzards and disco and John Wayne Gacy--capturing the city in microcosm through the denizens of one blue-collar watering hole. If Springsteen and Bukowski had teamed up to write a story about a Chicago bar, they'd have been hard pressed to do better than this; it's an anti-Cheers, a bittersweet story about a place where everybody knows your nickname, and they're tired of you coming around because you're a degenerate. But it's more than just a static portrait; it's a gripping and moving story destined to earn its own place among the classics of Chicago literature.
Geologic Map of the Albuquerque 30ʹ X 60ʹ Quadrangle, North-central New Mexico
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Category : Albuquerque Metropolitan Area (N.M.)
Languages : en
Pages : 46
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Publisher:
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Category : Albuquerque Metropolitan Area (N.M.)
Languages : en
Pages : 46
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Chemical Composition of Bulk Precipitation in the North-central and Northeastern United States, December 1980 Through February 1981
Author: Norman E. Peters
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Category : Precipitation (Meteorology)
Languages : en
Pages : 72
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Category : Precipitation (Meteorology)
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
Current Industrial Reports
Viral Modernism
Author: Elizabeth Outka
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231546319
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 355
Book Description
The influenza pandemic of 1918–1919 took the lives of between 50 and 100 million people worldwide, and the United States suffered more casualties than in all the wars of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries combined. Yet despite these catastrophic death tolls, the pandemic faded from historical and cultural memory in the United States and throughout Europe, overshadowed by World War One and the turmoil of the interwar period. In Viral Modernism, Elizabeth Outka reveals the literary and cultural impact of one of the deadliest plagues in history, bringing to light how it shaped canonical works of fiction and poetry. Outka shows how and why the contours of modernism shift when we account for the pandemic’s hidden but widespread presence. She investigates the miasmic manifestations of the pandemic and its spectral dead in interwar Anglo-American literature, uncovering the traces of an outbreak that brought a nonhuman, invisible horror into every community. Viral Modernism examines how literature and culture represented the virus’s deathly fecundity, as writers wrestled with the scope of mass death in the domestic sphere amid fears of wider social collapse. Outka analyzes overt treatments of the pandemic by authors like Katherine Anne Porter and Thomas Wolfe and its subtle presence in works by Virginia Woolf, T. S. Eliot, and W. B. Yeats. She uncovers links to the disease in popular culture, from early zombie resurrection to the resurgence of spiritualism. Viral Modernism brings the pandemic to the center of the era, revealing a vast tragedy that has hidden in plain sight.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231546319
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 355
Book Description
The influenza pandemic of 1918–1919 took the lives of between 50 and 100 million people worldwide, and the United States suffered more casualties than in all the wars of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries combined. Yet despite these catastrophic death tolls, the pandemic faded from historical and cultural memory in the United States and throughout Europe, overshadowed by World War One and the turmoil of the interwar period. In Viral Modernism, Elizabeth Outka reveals the literary and cultural impact of one of the deadliest plagues in history, bringing to light how it shaped canonical works of fiction and poetry. Outka shows how and why the contours of modernism shift when we account for the pandemic’s hidden but widespread presence. She investigates the miasmic manifestations of the pandemic and its spectral dead in interwar Anglo-American literature, uncovering the traces of an outbreak that brought a nonhuman, invisible horror into every community. Viral Modernism examines how literature and culture represented the virus’s deathly fecundity, as writers wrestled with the scope of mass death in the domestic sphere amid fears of wider social collapse. Outka analyzes overt treatments of the pandemic by authors like Katherine Anne Porter and Thomas Wolfe and its subtle presence in works by Virginia Woolf, T. S. Eliot, and W. B. Yeats. She uncovers links to the disease in popular culture, from early zombie resurrection to the resurgence of spiritualism. Viral Modernism brings the pandemic to the center of the era, revealing a vast tragedy that has hidden in plain sight.
Proceedings of the ... Annual Meeting of the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools
Author: North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools
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Category : Education, Secondary
Languages : en
Pages : 450
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Publisher:
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Category : Education, Secondary
Languages : en
Pages : 450
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North-Central Section of the Geological Society of America
Author: Donald L. Biggs
Publisher: Geological Society of America
ISBN: 0813754038
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
Publisher: Geological Society of America
ISBN: 0813754038
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
Range Plants of North Central Texas
Author: Ricky J. Linex
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781495121654
Category : Grassland plants
Languages : en
Pages : 345
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781495121654
Category : Grassland plants
Languages : en
Pages : 345
Book Description
Monthly Wholesale Trade Report; Sales, Inventories, and Credits
Inventory of Power Plants in the United States
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Category : Electric power-plants
Languages : en
Pages : 312
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Publisher:
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Category : Electric power-plants
Languages : en
Pages : 312
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