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American Psycho: Picador Classic

American Psycho: Picador Classic

Bret Easton Ellis

Tentatively, I ask, “Did you know that Meredith Powell is dating Brock Thompson? ” He shrugs, sighs. “I don't know about that. All I know is that Paul Owen owes her supposedly a lot of money.” “Oh?” I say, nodding. “Really?” “Personally,” he ...
Crunch Lit

Crunch Lit

Katy Shaw

Examining a range of texts from such writers as John Lanchester, Jonathan Franzen, Don DeLillo, Sebastian Faulks and Bret Easton Ellis, this book offers the first wide-ranging guide to this new genre.
The Secret History: A Novel by Donna Tartt | Conversation ...

The Secret History: A Novel by Donna Tartt | Conversation ...

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It was mentioned that Donna Tartt shared her unfinished stories with Bret Easton Ellis, and he did the same. What benefit, if any, do you think there is from sharing writing with another writer? What would be a drawback, if any, of sharing writing ...
Bret Easton Ellis's Controversial Fiction: Writing Between ...

Bret Easton Ellis's Controversial Fiction: Writing Between ...

Sonia Baelo-Allué

Daniel Cojocaru (2008–9) argues that Bateman kills in a quest to find his own identity. He kills those who are different and who may have an identity that he lacks. Berthold Schoene (2008) also feels that Bateman's killings are acts of manly ...
Literary Rogues: A Scandalous History of Wayward Authors

Literary Rogues: A Scandalous History of Wayward Authors

Andrew Shaffer

Andrew Shaffer's Literary Rogues is an unflinching look at the bad behavior of some of our most beloved authors, from Oscar Wilde and Edgar Allan Poe, to Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald, to Hunter S. Thompson and Bret Easton Ellis.
George Formby: An Intimate Biography of the Troubled Genius

George Formby: An Intimate Biography of the Troubled Genius

David Bret

COTTRELL, Dorothy: Interview with David Bret, 1998. DANCE MUSIC POLICY COMPANY: Minutes (unpublished, 1944). DUNN, JH: Letters from Palestine ( unpublished, 1943). ELLIS, SqdLeader Frank: Letters from North Africa ( unpublished, ...
Thomas A. Easton’s GMO Future MEGAPACK®

Thomas A. Easton’s GMO Future MEGAPACK®

Thomas A. Easton

Thomas A. Easton. “Sure,” said Tom . Roots, he thought, and kidnappers, and mysterious masters who issue contracts. “But what will she be by then? What will they do to her? What will they use her to tell us to do?” Jim had no idea at all of ...
Compaq Visual Fortran: A Guide to Creating Windows Applications

Compaq Visual Fortran: A Guide to Creating Windows Applications

Norman Lawrence

bret = DlgSet(dlg,IDC_COMBO1, 3, DLG_NUMITEMS) bret = DlgSet(dlg, IDC_COMBO1, "y = a + x", 1) bret = DlgSet(dlg,IDC_COMBO1, "y = a + x + x^2", 2 ) bret = DlgSet(dlg,IDC_COMBO1, "y = a + x + x^2 + x^3", 3) bret = DLGSET (dlg ...
The Genealogy and History of the Guild, Guile and Gile Family

The Genealogy and History of the Guild, Guile and Gile Family

Charles Burleigh

Vlarv L. Eliot Samuel Eliot Samuel A. Elliot Andrew Elliot Freelove 1776 Elliot Lacretia 1881 Elliott Benson E. Elliott William Elliott Wyman Ellis Aaron 1734 Ellis Abel 1835 Ellis Albert Ellis Calvin F. Ellis Catherine L. Ellis Cora M. Ellis Egbert L.
Cannibalism in Literature and Film

Cannibalism in Literature and Film

Jennifer Brown

From the cannibal in colonial literature, to the idea of regional Gothic and the hillbilly cannibal, to serial killers, this book examines works by writers and directors including Joseph Conrad, H. Rider Haggard, Thomas Harris, Bret Easton ...
To Heal the Scourge of Prejudice: The Life and Writings of ...

To Heal the Scourge of Prejudice: The Life and Writings of ...

Hosea Easton

From the 1850s onward, only Beman. the Bostonian William Nell, and family members such as Benjamin Roberts and William Edgar Easton attempted to keep memories of James and Hosea Easton alive.41 Several factors explain this result.
Papers of Charles Howard "Dick" Ellis

Papers of Charles Howard "Dick" Ellis

Charles Howard Ellis

The MS Acc08.93 collection comprises letters to Ann Salwey on the history of the Ellis family and her father; letters to Charles Howard Ellis; news clippings on Ellis; copy of typescript "My early life (The Ellis family)" by Dick Ellis; ...
Putting One's Head Above the Parapet: My Autobiography

Putting One's Head Above the Parapet: My Autobiography

David Bret

French-born David Bret is one of Britain’s leading show business biographers and now dishes the dirt on himself.
Morrissey: Scandal and Passion

Morrissey: Scandal and Passion

David Bret

This biography of David Bret includes revelations; accusations of racism and fascism; confessions of physical abuse; High Court royalty battles and the public shaming, and more.
Tallulah Bankhead: A Scandalous Life

Tallulah Bankhead: A Scandalous Life

David Bret

In this highly entertaining book David Bret tells Tallulah's story in the only way it could be told: with shocking honesty and wit.
The Piaf We Loved: A Two-Act Play

The Piaf We Loved: A Two-Act Play

David Bret

David Bret is an authority of the chanson and has written two best-selling books about Edith Piaf.
The Rise of Tea Culture in China: The Invention of the ...

The Rise of Tea Culture in China: The Invention of the ...

Bret Hinsch

Western stereotypes portray a culture that values conformity and denigrates the individual, but Bret Hinsch convincingly explodes this facile myth.
Woodsman

Woodsman

Thomas A. Easton

Thomas A. Easton. out of his job. Yet he did not feel that he had done the wrong thing. What now? he asked himself. And then he realized. Breger had said nothing about canceling the tickets. She could have. Renny and Donna Rose would ...
Women in Imperial China

Women in Imperial China

Bret Hinsch

Rather than providing an exhaustive chronicle of this vast subject, Bret Hinsch pinpoints the themes that characterized distinct periods in Chinese women’s history and delves into the perception of female identity in each era.
Firefight

Firefight

Thomas A. Easton

Easton questions readers on their stance regarding the quote: "Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. Moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue."--Barry Goldwater.
Off the Main Sequence

Off the Main Sequence

Tom Easton

This companion volume to "Periodic Stars" (Borgo/Wildside) collects another 250 of Easton's best reviews from the last fifteen years of "The Reference Library.
Perry Ellis: An American Original

Perry Ellis: An American Original

Jeffrey Banks

Traversing and illuminating Perry Ellis's indelibly rich career, the book also includes ephemera, sketches, and never-before-published photos from the personal collections of the designer's friends and family, adding insight to Ellis's ...
Elizabeth Taylor: The Lady, The Lover, The Legend - 1932-2011

Elizabeth Taylor: The Lady, The Lover, The Legend - 1932-2011

David Bret

Elizabeth Taylor was the very last of the Hollywood greats. As David Bret writes, 'Most of her contemporaries - Garbo, Streisand and Dietrich excepted - were compelled to walk in the shadow of her sun.
Annals of Iowa

Annals of Iowa

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In 77k Indomitable Mary Easton Sibley, Kristie C. Wolferman recounts the remarkable life of the founder of Lindenwood College, the first women's college west of the Mississippi. The biography begins with the arrival of the Easton family in St.
Easton Pearson

Easton Pearson

Peter McNeil

Featuring creations drawn from Easton Pearson's own archive and exploring their eclectic sources of inspiration, this richly illustrated book is published in association with the major survey exhibition organised by the Queensland Art ...
Murder Mystery & Mayhem

Murder Mystery & Mayhem

Bret Herholz

Confessions * Peculiar Boy ...and Other Stories by Bret M. Herholz *The Stone- Toe Enigma of Ankleshire pg.03 ... written by Joshua Michael Stewart, gray tones by Rori Shapiro, lettering by John Shawer pg58 *The Year the Peduliar Boy ...
Bob Ellis: In His Own Words

Bob Ellis: In His Own Words

Bob Ellis

In His Own Words Bob Ellis. Published by Black Inc., an imprint of Schwartz Publishing Pty Ltd Level 1, 221 Drummond Street Carlton VIC 3053, Australia ...
The Great Flying Saucer Conspiracy

The Great Flying Saucer Conspiracy

Thomas A. Easton

AND WHY DOES THE FATE OF GALACTIC CIVILIZATION DEPEND UPON THE ANSWER? It is a vast conspiracy -- and you hold THE TRUTH in your hand. Read it -- if you dare! "Well, hot damn! Tom Easton has made science fiction fun again!

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