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Child of Light

A Biography of Robert Stone

By: Madison Smartt Bell

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Child of Light

A Biography of Robert Stone

By: Madison Smartt Bell

The first and definitive biography of one of the great American novelists of the postwar era, the author of Dog Soldiers and A Flag for Sunrise, and a penetrating critic of American power, innocence, and corruption Robert Stone (1937-2015), probably the only postwar American writer to draw favorable comparisons to Ernest Hemingway, Graham Greene, and Joseph Conrad, lived a life rich in adventure, achievement, and inner turmoil. He grew up rough on the streets of New York, the son of a mentally troubled single mother. After his Navy service in the fifties, which brought him to such locales as pre-Castro Havana, the Suez Crisis, and Antarctica, he studied writing at Stanford, where he met Ken Kesey and became a core member of the gang of Merry Pranksters. The publication of his superb New Orleans novel, Hall of Mirrors (1967), initiated a succession of dark-humored novels that investigated the American experience in Vietnam (Dog Soldiers, 1974, which won the National Book Award), Central America (A Flag for Sunrise, 1981), and Jerusalem on the eve of the millennium (Damascus Gate, 1998). An acclaimed novelist himself, Madison Smartt Bell was a close friend and longtime admirer of Robert Stone. His authorized and deeply researched biography is both intimate and objective, a rich and unsparing portrait of a complicated, charismatic, and haunted man and a sympathetic reading of his work that will help to secure Stone's place in the pantheon of major American writers.

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726

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Doubleday

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0385541619

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9780385541619

The Shakespeare Name Dictionary

By: J. Madison Davis,Daniel A. Frankforter

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The Shakespeare Name Dictionary

By: J. Madison Davis,Daniel A. Frankforter

Entries provide the likely sources for a name; describe historical and mythological backgrounds; examine Shakespeare's presentation of a character or place; and suggest various interpretations of a name. Each entry contains line citations to William Shakespeare: The Complete Works. A guide to the historical, mythological, fictional, and geographic references that appear in Shakespeare's complete plays and poems, covering every name, proper adjective, official title, literary and mystical title, and place name.

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778

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Routledge

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1135875715

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9781135875718

The Shakespeare Name and Place Dictionary

By: J. Madison Davis,A. Daniel Frankforter

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The Shakespeare Name and Place Dictionary

By: J. Madison Davis,A. Daniel Frankforter

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548

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Routledge

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1884964176

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Slinging Doughnuts for the Boys

An American Woman in World War II

By: James H. Madison

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Slinging Doughnuts for the Boys

An American Woman in World War II

By: James H. Madison

Elizabeth Richardson was a Red Cross volunteer who worked as a Clubmobile hostess during World War II. Handing out free doughnuts, coffee, cigarettes, and gum to American soldiers in England and France, she and her colleagues provided a touch of home.--From publisher description.

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322

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Indiana University Press

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0253350476

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9780253350473

Lavoisier in the Year One: The Birth of a New Science in an Age of Revolution (Great Discoveries)

By: Madison Smartt Bell

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Lavoisier in the Year One: The Birth of a New Science in an Age of Revolution (Great Discoveries)

By: Madison Smartt Bell

Fresh…solid…full of suspense and intrigue." —Publishers Weekly Antoine Lavoisier reinvented chemistry, overthrowing the long-established principles of alchemy and inventing an entirely new terminology, one still in use by chemists. Madison Smartt Bell’s enthralling narrative reads like a race to the finish line, as the very circumstances that enabled Lavoisier to secure his reputation as the father of modern chemistry—a considerable fortune and social connections with the likes of Benjamin Franklin—also caused his glory to be cut short by the French Revolution.

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229

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393341100

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9780393341102

Waiting for the End of the World

By: Madison Smartt Bell

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Waiting for the End of the World

By: Madison Smartt Bell

An “exhilirating” novel of domestic terrorism in the gritty streets of 1980s New York from the National Book Award–finalist and author of Straight Cut (The New Yorker). As a staff photographer at Bellevue hospital in Manhattan, Clarence Dmitri Larkin is exposed to the fraying underbelly of New York City. Drawn in by the stories of the sick, the lost, and the insane, Larkin’s own dark impulses lead him through the streets of Brooklyn’s shadowy warehouse district. Increasingly isolated from the world around him, Larkin falls in with a disturbed cell of outcasts. Their ringleader, empowered by confused visions of grandeur and revolution, launches an outlandish scheme to plant an atomic bomb in the catacombs under Times Square. Narrated with unsettling plausibility, Bell’s debut novel demonstrates the remarkable literary skill celebrated in his later novels, such as Soldier’s Joy and The Year of Silence. With “real brilliance . . . full of fire . . . Bell provides promise: promise of his own talent and promise that young American writers are not all retreating from ‘big’ subjects” (The New York Times). “Every sentence [Bell] writes is a joy. His power is exhilarating.” —The New Yorker

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469

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Open Road Media

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1453235493

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9781453235492

Lavoisier in the Year One

The Birth of a New Science in an Age of Revolution

By: Madison Smartt Bell

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Lavoisier in the Year One

The Birth of a New Science in an Age of Revolution

By: Madison Smartt Bell

Antoine Lavoisier-who lived at the zenith of the Enlightenment and died at the hands of the Revolution-was himself a revolutionary.

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250

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393051552

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9780393051551

Unconditionally

By: Madison Anne

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Unconditionally

By: Madison Anne

Cassandra's life is finally returning back to normal; living with her birth mother, caring for her little sister, finally dating her best friend, Cassandra's free to live her life in Johnson City, Tennessee. There's just one catch: coming back from college, one of her high school friends is shot, and mayhem breaks throughout the town as they look for the killer. Soon, Cassandra is wrapped into the investigation, and her life, along with her family's, is threatened.

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210

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eBookIt.com

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1456630539

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Child of Light

Child of Light

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The Shakespeare Name and Place Dictionary

The Shakespeare Name and Place Dictionary

Slinging Doughnuts for the Boys

Slinging Doughnuts for the Boys

Lavoisier in the Year One: The Birth of a New Science in an Age of Revolution (Great Discoveries)

Lavoisier in the Year One: The Birth of a New Science in an Age of Revolution (Great Discoveries)

Waiting for the End of the World

Waiting for the End of the World

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Lavoisier in the Year One

Unconditionally

Unconditionally

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