World of Books - Find your book here

States of Trial: Manhood in Philip Roth’s Post-War America

States of Trial: Manhood in Philip Roth’s Post-War America

Ann Basu

A number of scholars, notably Debra Shostak andDerek Parker Royal, have written about the political and cultural critique contained inRoth's 'state of the nation' novels. Debra Shostak, as editor of the collection Philip Roth: American Pastoral, ...
Philip Roth: American Pastoral, The Human Stain, The Plot ...

Philip Roth: American Pastoral, The Human Stain, The Plot ...

Preview

Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Contents Series Editors Introduction Acknowledgments Introduction: Roth's America Debra Shostak Part I American Pastoral Introduction Debra Shostak “What was not supposed to happen ...
The Cambridge Companion to Philip Roth

The Cambridge Companion to Philip Roth

Preview

His juggling of identities makes clear, as Debra Shostak suggests, “Roth's evident pleasure in the potentialities of self-invention.”9 Eli Peck may well be an amateur, but in his “doubling,” in his attempts to become the other and so create a self ...
Edinburgh Companion to Modern Jewish Fiction

Edinburgh Companion to Modern Jewish Fiction

David Brauner

Debra. Shostak. Guildenstern: Death is the ultimate negative. Notbeing. You can't notbe on a boat. Rosencrantz: I've frequently not been on boats. (Stoppard 1967: 109) OW DOES ONE write as a 'marginal' Jew? What is Jewish literature ...
9/11: Topics in Contemporary North American Literature

9/11: Topics in Contemporary North American Literature

Preview

Prosthetic fictions: Reading Jonathan Safran Foer's Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close through Philip Roth's The Plot Against America Debra Shostak The most searing and uncanny image that Philip Roth provides in The Plot Against ...
Faith and Expression: The Debra Powell Story

Faith and Expression: The Debra Powell Story

Debra Powell

Debra Powell has loved God since five years of age. She is a mother of five wonderful sons. Debra developed this unique way of writing poetry in her early childhood.
The Grift: A Novel

The Grift: A Novel

Debra Ginsberg

A Novel Debra Ginsberg. \l\n l)_\ Debra Ginsberg Blind Submission N o N F I c -r 1 o N About My Sixters Raising Blaze Whiting: The True Confissions afa Wlzitress Wfift Debra Ginsberg 5 6 Shay: Arebearr B001'! unw Yon!
Roth and Trauma: The Problem of History in the Later Works ...

Roth and Trauma: The Problem of History in the Later Works ...

Aimee Pozorski

I am especially indebted to David Brauner, Ross Posnock, Debra Shostak, Elaine Safer, Catherine Morley, and Derek Royal for their creative and liberating approaches to Roth's later works. David Brauner's 2007 monograph, Philip Roth,  ...
Philip Roth -- Countertexts, Counterlives

Philip Roth -- Countertexts, Counterlives

Debra B. Shostak

"I think of my life as one long speech that I've been listening to ... how to think, how not to think; how to behave, how not to behave; ... the book of my life is a book of voices," reflects Nathan Zuckerman, Philip Roth's alter ego, in I ...
The Cambridge Companion to American Novelists

The Cambridge Companion to American Novelists

Preview

DEBRA SHOSTAK I was a Jewish child, but I didn't care to partake of the Jewish character. I wanted to partake of the national character. You flood into history and history floods into you. You flood into America and America floods into you.
Michelle and Debra

Michelle and Debra

Jack Weyland

Michelle and Debra, Mormons and best friends, see their lives diverging at the end of their teen years, as Michelle meets and decides to marry a boy who follows the standards of their church while Debra must deal with the many times she has ...
Literaten küsst man nicht: Roman

Literaten küsst man nicht: Roman

Debra Ginsberg

Humorvolle Liebeskomödie in einer Literaturagentur von Bestsellerautorin Debra Ginsberg!
Pennsylvania County Data Book: Schuylkill County

Pennsylvania County Data Book: Schuylkill County

More editions

Union Venango Warren Washington Wayne Westmoreland Wyoming York Contact Person Research and Statistics Roberta Wilson Roberta Wilson Debra Nicholson Roberta Wilson Debra Nicholson Debra Nicholson Larry Baugher Larry ...
Dove/O'Keeffe: circles of influence

Dove/O'Keeffe: circles of influence

Debra Bricker Balken

Renowned scholar Debra Bricker Balken here offers the first investigation into the interrelationship between these two great artists.
French Food, American Accent: Debra Ponzek's Spirited Cuisine

French Food, American Accent: Debra Ponzek's Spirited Cuisine

Debra Ponzek

A collection of more than 160 recipes provides a range of simply prepared soups and stocks, salads, grains, vegetables, fish, meat and poultry, and flavored oils and vinegars
The Black Messiah Murders

The Black Messiah Murders

Shelly Waxman

On a typical evening, O'Neal met at the apartment with other Panthers, including Hampton and Debra, Mark Clark, Louis Truelock, Brenda Harris, and maybe a half dozen or so others. The women fixed dinner and Debra hap— pily showed off ...
Geo Broadsheets

Geo Broadsheets

Debra Owens

"This exciting resource covers the most commonly taught topics in Geography.Authors: Brian Parker, Debra Owens, Greg ReidA wealth of contemporary, interesting and relevant materials help students develop strong broadsheet analysis skills.
HSC Geography

HSC Geography

Debra Owens

"This leading revision guide for HSC Geography presents a concise, systematic review of coursework and provides practice in skills essential to high level performance in the HSC.Authors: John Paine, Greg Reid, Debra OwensStudents, tutors, ...
Trying Neaira: The True Story of a Courtesan's Scandalous ...

Trying Neaira: The True Story of a Courtesan's Scandalous ...

Debra Hamel

Building on Apollodorus' speech from the trial and other source material, Debra Hamel recreates Neaira's life and experiences from her lowly origins in a brothel in Corinth, to a highly paid courtesan and sex slave, her retirement and 30 ...
An Uncommon Dialogue

An Uncommon Dialogue

Debra J. Drake

An Uncommon Dialogue is Debra Drake's gripping autobiographical account of two years in psychotherapy.
Unequal Health: How Inequality Contributes to Health Or Illness

Unequal Health: How Inequality Contributes to Health Or Illness

Grace Budrys

Blackwell, Debra, Mark Hayward, and Eileen Crimmins. 2001. Does childhood health affect chronic morbidity in later life? Social Science and Medicine 52 (8): 1269–84. Blair, Steven, Harold Kohl, Ralph Paffenbarger, Debra Clark, Kenneth  ...
Raising Blaze: A Mother and Son's Long, Strange Journey into ...

Raising Blaze: A Mother and Son's Long, Strange Journey into ...

Debra Ginsberg

With the same honesty that made Waiting a success, Raising Blaze: Bringing Up an Extraordinary Son in an Ordinary World chronicles Debra's experience in raising a child who has defied definition by the host of professionals who have sought ...
enCouraged

enCouraged

Kathy DiSarli; Valerie Crawford

... Mark Laaser 6. Shattered Vows, By Debra Laaser 7. Seven Desiresof Every Heart, by Mark and Debra Laaser ORGANIZATIONS www.sexaddict.com Dr Weiss www.bethesdaworkshops.org (foraddicts andspouses) www. sexualrecovery.com ...
Movements in Modern Art: Abstract Expressionism

Movements in Modern Art: Abstract Expressionism

Debra Bricker Balken

In this incisive study, the curator and writer Debra Bricker Balken examines the work of the leading artists associated with Abstract Expressionism, including Willem de Kooning, Lee Krasner, Robert Motherwell, Barnett Newman, Jackson ...
Soldier, Spy, Heroine: A Novel Based on a True Story of the ...

Soldier, Spy, Heroine: A Novel Based on a True Story of the ...

Debra Ann Pawlak

A Novel Based on a True Story of the Civil War Debra Ann Pawlak, Cheryl Bartlam du Bois. SOLDIER. SPY. |H| E R O IN E of WWYAH c//ased on so 7" R. My E S TO WI" O. F. Y." FI F C / I'M L 14". 1 o' Debra Ann Pawlak & Cheryl Bartlam du ...
Media Circus: A Look at Private Tragedy in the Public Eye

Media Circus: A Look at Private Tragedy in the Public Eye

Kim Goldman

For more information on the families featured in Media Circus and their advocacy work: Debra Tate Sharon Tate: Recollection, by Debra Tate and Roman Polanski Tate family website: www.sharontate.net Mildred Muhammad Scared Silent: ...
Sensational Succulents: An Adult Coloring Book of Amazing ...

Sensational Succulents: An Adult Coloring Book of Amazing ...

Debra Lee Baldwin

Featuring 75 illustrations by Laura Serra based on photographs from Debra Lee Baldwin's bestselling books, Sensational Succulents is filled with a huge array of succulents, the relaxing patterns that naturally occur in the plant world, fun ...
The Seven Desires of Every Heart: Looking Past What ...

The Seven Desires of Every Heart: Looking Past What ...

Mark Laaser

Also by Mark and Debra Laaser Healing the Wounds of Sexual Addiction by Mark Laaser Shattered Vows: Hope and Healing for Women Who Have Been Sexually Betrayed by Debra Laaser #SEVEN DES I RES *EVERY HEART MARK ...
American Indian Culture and Research Journal

American Indian Culture and Research Journal

More editions

American Indians' Knowledge about Fetal Alcohol Syndrome: An Exploratory Study MYRA SHOSTAK AND LESTER B. BROWN INTRODUCTION The purpose of this study was to determine the kinds and amounts of information possessed by ...

who called from an unknown number?