5/13/2023 0 Comments The magician of lublin bookOL1345099W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 93.49 Pages 294 Ppi 600 Related-external-id urn:isbn:9575862325 Español (es) Français (fr) Hrvatski (hr) Português (pt) (te) (uk) (zh) My Books. Harold Bloom, The New York Review of Books Singer is a spellbinder as clever as Scheherazade he arrests the reader at once, transports him to a far place and a far, improbable time and does not let him go until the end. This book title, The Magician of Lublin (A Novel), ISBN: 9780374532543, by Isaac Bashevis Singer, published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (September 14. Urn:lcp:magicianoflublin00isaa:epub:58f0e5dc-44af-45e7-9aa2-6044c6385278 Extramarc University of Toronto Foldoutcount 0 Identifier magicianoflublin00isaa Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t3vt2xb6z Isbn 0449240592ĩ780449240595 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.17 Openlibrary OL7567702M Openlibrary_edition The magician of Lublin by Isaac Bashevis Singer, 1984, Limited Editions Club edition, in English. The dark power of The Magician of Lublin is nowhere clearer than in its concluding messagethat. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 18:08:11 Boxid IA160904 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New York Donorįriendsofthesanfranciscopubliclibrary External-identifier
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5/12/2023 0 Comments Annie jacobsen paperclipWas Operation Paperclip a moral outrage, or did it help America win the Cold War?ĭrawing on exclusive interviews with dozens of Paperclip family members, colleagues, and interrogators, and with access to German archival documents (including previously unseen papers made available by direct descendants of the Third Reich’s ranking members), files obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, and dossiers discovered in government archives and at Harvard University, Annie Jacobsen follows more than a dozen German scientists through their postwar lives and into a startling, complex, nefarious, and jealously guarded government secret of the twentieth century. They were also directly responsible for major advances in rocketry, medical treatments, and the U.S. Many of these men were accused of war crimes, and others had stood trial at Nuremberg one was convicted of mass murder and slavery. So began Operation Paperclip, a decades-long, covert project to bring Hitler’s scientists and their families to the United States. These were the brains behind the Nazis’ once-indomitable war machine. government faced many difficult decisions, including what to do with the Third Reich’s scientific minds. In the chaos following World War II, the U.S. The explosive story of America’s secret post-WWII science programs, from the author of the New York Times bestseller Area 51 I don't want to go into too much depth with each story to avoid spoilers, just enough to set the scene. It is divided into three specific sections, the first dealing with futuristic science fiction themes, the other two leaning toward folk tales and fantasy, along with a bit of horror. The rest are new to me, but I hope it won't be the last time I see their names. I had previously read stories and/or novels by only five of them, including Zoraida. All of the authors are Latin American, either still residing in their home countries, or from the diaspora. It will be published in two days, but I received an advance e-book from Edelweiss in exchange for an honest review. This seventeen story original anthology was edited by Zoraida Córdova, who also contributed the final tale. A purchase through our links may earn us a commission. 5/12/2023 0 Comments Once Were Warriors by Alan DuffA lot to take in, but these are only the most active moments in a book whose main action is interior. Beth receives a ``hiding'' for embarrassing her husband in front of his friends, her daughter is raped and commits suicide, her young son is carted off to juvenile hall, and his older brother dies in a gang fight, but Beth finds strength by summoning up her tribal heritage and teaching it to others. Instead, the men's lives consist of beer, gangs, fights, and beating their wives. As far as Beth is concerned, the Maoris would not have become impoverished lackeys with very little self-esteem had they stayed close to their warrior roots. Relegated to government housing in an unnamed city, she lives just two vacant blocks away from whites whose homes offer tantalizing glimpses of a privileged existence she and her family will never have. Beth, a Maori mother, feels nothing but anger and disgust at her people, who accept second-class citizenship as a given. Upon its New Zealand publication in 1990, this controversial debut novel rocketed to the bestseller list. This is The Captain’s Daughter by Alexander Pushkin. But I actually have an all-time favorite, the only short story I continuously and ritually reread about once a year. All this notwithstanding, “favorite” implies a subjective point of view and yet I think for most readers it’s difficult to choose a single short story that lives on in one’s mind above all the rest. Then again novels are not necessarily called “perfect” but rather just “great” and it is generally agreed that greatness does not preclude having flaws. This fact may be determined by the short story’s brevity and that there are many more “perfect” short stories than there are “perfect” novels. Writers and editors are often asked to name their favorite novel but seldom are asked to name their favorite short story. These are far from the only correlations between creator and protagonist. (The novel includes two of Adam’s full-length screenplays, and a character from the film business plays a central role.) Like Irving, Adam was born in 1942, raised in the town of Exeter, New Hampshire, and is a novelist with a “disaster-prone imagination” who writes several bestselling books after graduating from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. “My life could be a movie,” writes Adam Brewster, the first-person narrator of the novel, and there’s definitely a cinematic quality to the story. They’ll have plenty of time to savor that comfortable sensation in this 900-page family story that’s packed with emotion, insight and compassion for our flawed humanity. It’s been seven years since the publication of John Irving’s last novel ( Avenue of Mysteries), so for fans who’ve followed him over the course of a career spanning more than half a century, The Last Chairlift will feel like settling into a well-worn pair of slippers. He laid the groundwork for a systematic exploitation of the company’s massive stores of user query data for “behavioral modification.” “Surveillance capitalism” was born. Zuboff pays particular attention to the work of the chief economist at Google, the UC Berkeley Professor, Hal Varian. The company did not really have a business model. While the critique of this business model is well known, its detailed history and analysis are not.Īt the turn of the twenty first century, Google’s investors grew impatient with lack of revenue growth. Harvard Business School Professor Shoshana Zuboff’s new book is one of the most comprehensive explorations to date on how Google and Facebook silently and undisturbed have created a new economic order based on “reality mining” for commercial purposes. The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power. New York: PublicAffairs, 2019. 5/11/2023 0 Comments Author of death in veniceEven the same work, read by the same reader at different times (think King Lear) will feel different to the reader at different stages and ages. Both imperfect, both carrying their own history. All works differ, since they all are impacted by writer and reader. First, the introduction by Michael Cunningham is a fantastic introduction of the difficulties associated with translation. So, finding myself in a position where I really felt I could delay no longer, I started with his shorter work - Death in Venice. For me he has sat waiting like a distant leviathan or like death. I own a bunch of his works, in various translation, but keep finding reasons to walk another road, skip ahead, fall behhind. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportionate, the absurd, and the forbidden.” ― Thomas Mann, Death in Venice I've been intimidated by Mann. “Solitude produces originality, bold & astonishing beauty, poetry. 5/11/2023 0 Comments Challenger deep by neal shustermanThere were several passages where his interpretation of the world and society in general are just so poignant that I had to read and reread and really let it sink in, because it was freaking marvelous. Others, he’s so on point in assessing the people around him that it’s scary. At times, he’s totally out of it and wrapped in his own world, and it’s really hard to wade through the delusions. There’s a little bit of everything with this character, which is why I loved him. But some of the thoughts he has? So deep and inspiring I had to read them twice. He’s snarky enough to whet my appetite for sarcasm, but he’s also just as confused as I am and, frankly, scared. The things I feel cannot be put into words, or if they can, the words are in no language anyone can understand. 5/11/2023 0 Comments 1776 david mccullough sparknotesAnd it is the story of the British commander, William Howe, and his highly disciplined redcoats who looked on their rebel foes with contempt and fought with a valor too little known. In this stirring audiobook, David McCullough tells the intensely human story of those who marched with General George Washington in the year of the Declaration of Independence - when the whole American cause was riding on their success, without which all hope for independence would have been dashed and the noble ideals of the Declaration would have amounted to little more than words on paper.īased on extensive research in both American and British archives, 1776 is the story of Americans in the ranks, men of every shape, size, and color, farmers, schoolteachers, shoemakers, no-accounts, and mere boys turned soldiers. |