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Song of the Silent Snow

Song of the Silent Snow

Hubert Selby, Jr.

In this collection of short stories, Hubert Selby Jr. plunges the reader into the violent, passionate worlds of his protagonists and captures perfectly the delicate balance between joy and despair.
The Willow Tree: A Novel

The Willow Tree: A Novel

Hubert Selby

Hubert Selby Jr., acclaimed author of the classic novel Last Exit to Brooklyn, tells the powerful story of an extraordinary bond between an African-American teen seeking vengeance in the wake of tragedy and an old man who guides him toward ...
Song of the Silent Snow: Stories

Song of the Silent Snow: Stories

Hubert Selby

From the the acclaimed author of Last Exit to Brooklyn come these fifteen stories of love and despair, destiny and dumb luck, and the small tragedies and poignant victories of the unremarkable inhabitants of a heartless city Hubert Selby Jr ...
Waiting Period: A Novel

Waiting Period: A Novel

Hubert Selby

A brilliant and terrifying nightmare from the author of the critically acclaimed classics Last Exit to Brooklyn and Requiem for a Dream, Hubert Selby Jr.’s Waiting Period views a grim modern world of pain and injustice through the eyes of ...
Requiem for a Dream: A Novel

Requiem for a Dream: A Novel

Hubert Selby

Tragic and captivating, Requiem for a Dream is one of Selby’s most powerful works, and an indelible portrait of the ravages of addiction.
Understanding Hubert Selby, Jr

Understanding Hubert Selby, Jr

James Richard Giles

In this study, James Giles examines the controversial writer's four novels and one collection of short stories to make the case that Selby's writings represent an innovative merger of both "naturalistic" and "surrealistic" modes.
Edible Selby

Edible Selby

Todd Selby

Photographer Todd Selby focuses his lens on the kitchens, gardens, homes and restaurants of more than 40 figures working in the culinary world today, with each profile accompanied by watercolor illustrations and a handwritten questionnaire, ...
The Room: A Novel

The Room: A Novel

Hubert Selby

The Room is a tale so terrifying the author himself couldn’t read it for decades after writing it.
The Demon: A Novel

The Demon: A Novel

Hubert Selby

Shocking and enthralling, The Demon is an unflinching meditation on male vanity by one of the most acclaimed and original writers of the twentieth century.
Last Exit to Brooklyn: A Novel

Last Exit to Brooklyn: A Novel

Hubert Selby

Last Exit to Brooklyn offers a disturbing yet hauntingly sensitive portrayal of American life, and nearly fifty years after publication, it stands as a crucial and masterful work of modern fiction.
The Demon

The Demon

Hubert Selby Jr.

A demon within drives him to sexual excess, petty crime and eventually murder. The Demon explores the dark side of a man's ambitions with unflinching determination. Harry White's story is a gripping twentieth-century tragedy.
Ghetto Images in Twentieth-Century American Literature: ...

Ghetto Images in Twentieth-Century American Literature: ...

Tyrone R. Simpson II

John O'Brien, “An Interview with Hubert Selby, Jr.” in Review of Contemporary Fiction 1:2, 315. 2. “Tralala,” Provincetown Review 4 (Summer 1960): 73. 3. “ Provincetown Review on Trial,” Provincetown Review 5 (Winter 1961): 40. 4. Marjorie ...
Zu: Hubert Selby, Jr. - Last Exit to Brooklyn

Zu: Hubert Selby, Jr. - Last Exit to Brooklyn

Gritt Hönighaus

Seminar paper from the year 2000 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1,3 (A), Humboldt-University of Berlin (American Studies), course: Hauptseminar Words of the City - City of Words: The City in American Literature III: ...
Hubert Keller's Christmas in Alsace

Hubert Keller's Christmas in Alsace

Hubert Keller

Well-known chef, Hubert Keller, shares his family Christmas traditions and 20 of his favorite recipes from his boyhood home of Alsace, France.
Burger Bar: Build Your Own Ultimate Burgers

Burger Bar: Build Your Own Ultimate Burgers

Hubert Keller

In this book, Hubert Keller turns out original and delicious burgers and raises the bar for everyone else."—Alain Ducasse Drawing on his experience as a four-star chef and using only the finest fresh ingredients, Chef Hubert Keller, the ...
Global Governance, Conflict and Resistance

Global Governance, Conflict and Resistance

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Editorial matter and selection © Feargal Cochrane, Rosaleen Duffy and Jan Selby 2003 Chs 1 and 7 © Jan Selby 2003 Ch ... Data Global governance, conflict and resistance / edited by Feargal Cochrane, Rosaleen Duffy, and Jan Selby. p.cm.
J'arrête le cinéma: Entretiens avec Hubert Prolongeau

J'arrête le cinéma: Entretiens avec Hubert Prolongeau

Hubert Prolongeau

Cinéaste inclassable, Patrice Leconte ne cesse de surprendre.
World Potato Congress: proceedings of the fourth World ...

World Potato Congress: proceedings of the fourth World ...

Purdue University (COR)

Hubert Zandstra Name: Zandstra, Hubert George Nationality: Canadian Address: c/o CIP, P.O. Box 1558 Lima 12, PERU Hubert G. Zandstra is the Director General of the International Potato Centre (CIP) in Lima, Peru. Before joining CIP he ...
The Cuisine of Hubert Keller

The Cuisine of Hubert Keller

Hubert Keller

The executive chef and owner of Fleur de Lys in San Francisco shares recipes stemming from both his French background and his commitment to California-style healthfulness
Undoing Fgm: Pierre Foldes, the Surgeon Who Restores the ...

Undoing Fgm: Pierre Foldes, the Surgeon Who Restores the ...

Hubert Prolongeau

This is what hubert Prolongeau tells us, narrating not only an unadorned tale of admiration but a beautiful book, written by a master's pen. useful and convincing." -- From back cover.
Embassies of other days: and further recollections

Embassies of other days: and further recollections

Walpurga Ehrengarde Helena (von Hohenthal) Paget (lady)

The year after me, my brother Maurice was born, then my sister Valerie, and then little Hubert, all in quick succession. I remember little Hubert's christening though I was only three. It took place in a large red drawing-room at Puechau.
Caqueza:

Caqueza:

Hubert G. Zandstra

Hubert G. Zandstra. The International Development Research Centre is a public corporation created by the Parliament of Canada in 1970 to support research designed to adapt science and technology to the needs of developing countries.
Petit dico de U2

Petit dico de U2

Hubert Allin

Hubert ALLIN est journaliste et auteur de plusieurs ouvrages sur la musique, notamment une biographie de Serge Gainsbourg et un dictionnaire sur les Rolling Stones.
A Hubert Harrison Reader

A Hubert Harrison Reader

Hubert Harrison

Critical writings by the "father of Harlem radicalism".
A Childhood Memory by Piero Della Francesca

A Childhood Memory by Piero Della Francesca

Hubert Damisch

Hubert Damisch undertakes an anthropological and historical analysis of an artwork he constructs as a childhood dream of one of humanity's oldest preoccupations, the mysteries of our origins, of our conception and birth.
Terracide

Terracide

Hubert Reeves

With Terracide, Hubert Reeves joins the ranks of scientists that include David Suzuki and James Hansen (of NASA) demanding that we pay closer attention to our consumption of non-renewable resources and the pollution and global warming they ...
Sans domicile fixe

Sans domicile fixe

Hubert Prolongeau

Comment devient-on SDF et comment survit-on dans la rue ? Pour le savoir, Hubert Prolongeau a partagé pendant quatre mois la vie des sans-abri.
Kitchens: California Design Library

Kitchens: California Design Library

Diane Dorrans Saeks

HUBERT KELLER Every night, limousines line up outside Fleur de Lys, the beautiful downtown San Francisco restaurant where chef/co-owner Hubert Keller works his magic. The flower-filled interiors were originally designed by Michael ...
A Methodology for On-farm Cropping Systems Research

A Methodology for On-farm Cropping Systems Research

Hubert G. Zandstra

Hubert G. Zandstra. of net returns (30% rule) and MBCRs then allows determination of the alternative or experimental patterns that will expand into the area planted to the farmers' patterns. A prospective shift to a new cropping pattern should ...
Le baiser de Judas

Le baiser de Judas

Hubert Prolongeau

En s'imprégnant des études les plus récentes sur le sujet, en envisageant la vie entière de Judas - une vie dont la rencontre avec Jésus ne serait que le dernier épisode - Hubert Prolongeau a développé l'option la plus vraisemblable ...

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