Falling And Laughing

Author : Grace Maxwell
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1407028057
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Falling and Laughing written by Grace Maxwell and published by Random House. This book was released on 2010-07-06 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In February 2005, Edwyn Collins suffered two devastating brain haemorrhages. He should have died. Doctors advised that if he did survive, there would be little of him left. If that wasn't enough, he went on to contract MRSA as a result of an operation to his skull and spent six months in hospital. Initially, Edwyn couldn't speak, read, write, walk, sit up or feed himself. He had lost all movement in his right side and was suffering from aphasia - an inability to use or understand language. When he initially recovered consciousness the only words he could say were 'Grace', 'Maxwell', 'yes' and 'no'. But with the help of his partner Grace and their son Will, Edwyn fought back. Slowly, and with monumental effort, he began to teach his brain to read and speak all over again - with some areas of his mind it was if he had been a slate wiped utterly clean. Through a long and arduous road of therapy he began to re-inhabit his body until he could walk again. Grace's story is an intimate and inspiring account of what you do to survive when your husband is all but taken away without warning by a stroke.

Author : David L. Lander
Publisher : Tarcher
ISBN 13 : 9781585420520
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fall Down, Laughing written by David L. Lander and published by Tarcher. This book was released on 2000 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The former "Laverne and Shirley" sitcom actor David Lander recounts his life and career, particularly his battle with multiple sclerosis, which he kept secret for fifteen years.

Author : Lance Rubin
Publisher : Ember
ISBN 13 : 0525644709
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Crying Laughing written by Lance Rubin and published by Ember. This book was released on 2021-08-03 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tragicomic story of bad dates, bad news, bad performances, and one girl's determination to find the funny in high school from the author of Denton Little's Deathdate. Winnie Friedman has been waiting for the world to catch on to what she already knows: she's hilarious. It might be a long wait, though. After bombing a stand-up set at her own bat mitzvah, Winnie has kept her jokes to herself. Well, to herself and her dad, a former comedian and her inspiration. Then, on the second day of tenth grade, the funniest guy in school actually laughs at a comment she makes in the lunch line and asks her to join the improv troupe. Maybe he's even . . . flirting? Just when Winnie's ready to say yes to comedy again, her father reveals that he's been diagnosed with ALS. That is . . . not funny. Her dad's still making jokes, though, which feels like a good thing. And Winnie's prepared to be his straight man if that's what he wants. But is it what he needs? Caught up in a spiral of epically bad dates, bad news, and bad performances, Winnie's struggling to see the humor in it all. But finding a way to laugh is exactly what will see her through. **A Junior Library Guild Selection**

Author : Denis Johnson
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0374709238
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Laughing Monsters written by Denis Johnson and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2014-11-04 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Denis Johnson's New York Times bestseller, The Laughing Monsters, is a high-suspense tale of kaleidoscoping loyalties in the post-9/11 world that shows one of our great novelists at the top of his game. Roland Nair calls himself Scandinavian but travels on a U.S. passport. After ten years' absence, he returns to Freetown, Sierra Leone, to reunite with his friend Michael Adriko. They once made a lot of money here during the country's civil war, and, curious to see whether good luck will strike twice in the same place, Nair has allowed himself to be drawn back to a region he considers hopeless. Adriko is an African who styles himself a soldier of fortune and who claims to have served, at various times, the Ghanaian army, the Kuwaiti Emiri Guard, and the American Green Berets. He's probably broke now, but he remains, at thirty-six, as stirred by his own doubtful schemes as he was a decade ago. Although Nair believes some kind of money-making plan lies at the back of it all, Adriko's stated reason for inviting his friend to Freetown is for Nair to meet Adriko's fiancée, a grad student from Colorado named Davidia. Together the three set out to visit Adriko's clan in the Uganda-Congo borderland—but each of these travelers is keeping secrets from the others. Their journey through a land abandoned by the future leads Nair, Adriko, and Davidia to meet themselves not in a new light, but rather in a new darkness.

Author : Sam Wedelich
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1338686151
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chicken Little: The Real and Totally True Tale (The Real Chicken Little) written by Sam Wedelich and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2020-06-02 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you like Mo Willems’ Pigeon, you’ll love Sam Wedelich’s Chicken Little! Who are you calling little?"In this clever spin on the classic tale... empathy ends up saving the day, and the moral (don't believe everything you hear; check the facts) is broadcast loud and clear." -- The Horn Book"Whimsy reigns in Wedelich's debut picture book... A spry readaloud that will entertain adults and listeners in equal measure." -- Publishers WeeklyChicken Little is NOT afraid of anything. Well, okay, maybe a mysterious BONK to the head can produce panic. But only momentarily. It's not as though she meant to send the barnyard into a tailspin, thinking that the sky was falling. How ridiculous! But can she calm her feathered friends with facts and reason?A timeless favorite becomes a clever cautionary tale in this FUNNY, fresh, and timely picture book debut by cartoonist, Sam Wedelich!

Author : B.T. Scherer
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1665550902
Total Pages : 41 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Skeeter, the Ski Bunny written by B.T. Scherer and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2022-02-13 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Skeeter, the Ski Bunny is about learning a new activity and sharing it with one's friends and family. While playing a game of Hide and Seek, the curious little bunny stumbles upon a fun activity, and decides to try it himself. Although, at first, he falls down over and over, he does not give up. By practicing and using trial and error techniques, Skeeter teaches himself how to ski. Then he shares the fun with his bunny family so that all can enjoy the snow activity together.

Author : Anca Parvulescu
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262514745
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Laughter written by Anca Parvulescu and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2010-08-27 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uncovering an archive of laughter, from the forbidden giggle to the explosive guffaw. Most of our theories of laughter are not concerned with laughter. Rather, their focus is the laughable object, whether conceived of as the comic, the humorous, jokes, the grotesque, the ridiculous, or the ludicrous. In Laughter, Anca Parvulescu proposes a return to the materiality of the burst of laughter itself. She sets out to uncover an archive of laughter, inviting us to follow its rhythms and listen to its tones. Historically, laughter—especially the passionate burst of laughter—has often been a faux pas. Manuals for conduct, abetted by philosophical treatises and literary and visual texts, warned against it, offering special injunctions to ladies to avoid jollity that was too boisterous. Returning laughter to the history of the passions, Parvulescu anchors it at the point where the history of the grimacing face meets the history of noise. In the civilizing process that leads to laughter's “falling into disrepute,” as Nietzsche famously put it, we can see the formless, contorted face in laughter being slowly corrected into a calm, social smile. How did the twentieth century laugh? Parvulescu points to a gallery of twentieth-century laughers and friends of laughter, arguing that it is through Georges Bataille that the century laughed its most distinct laugh. In Bataille's wake, laughter becomes the passion at the heart of poststructuralism. Looking back at the century from this vantage point, Parvulescu revisits four of its most challenging projects: modernism, the philosophical avant-gardes, feminism, and cinema. The result is an overview of the twentieth century as seen through the laughs that burst at some of its most convoluted junctures.

Author : Richard Faulk
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 1936976676
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Next Big Thing written by Richard Faulk and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2015-06-16 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces 3,000 years of Western history to profile influential ideas and setbacks that have shaped the modern world, from the spread of monotheism and the invention of the printing press to the U.S. metric campaign and the smart drink trend. By the author of Gross America. Original. Simultaneous eBook. 10,000 first printing.

Author : Louise Owen
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 0810146061
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Restaging the Future written by Louise Owen and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2023-12-15 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of neoliberal ideology’s ascendance in 1990s and 2000s British politics and society through its effect on state-supported performance practices Post-Thatcher, British cultural politics were shaped by the government’s use of the arts in service of its own social and economic agenda. Restaging the Future: Neoliberalization, Theater, and Performance in Britain interrogates how arts practices and cultural institutions were enmeshed with the particular processes of neoliberalization mobilized at the end of the twentieth century and into the twenty-first. Louise Owen traces the uneasy entanglement of performance with neoliberalism's marketization of social life. Focusing on this political moment, Owen guides readers through a wide range of performance works crossing multiple forms, genres, and spaces—from European dance tours, to Brazilian favelas, to the streets of Liverpool—attending to their distinct implications for the reenvisioned future in whose wake we now live. Analyzing this array of participatory dance, film, music, public art, and theater projects, Owen uncovers unexpected affinities between community-based, experimental, and avant-garde movements. Restaging the Future provides key historical context for these performances, their negotiations of their political moment, and their themes of insecurity, identity, and inequality, created in a period of profound ideological and socioeconomic change.

Author : Anne Black Gray
Publisher : BookPros, LLC
ISBN 13 : 1933538937
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Laughing Sickness written by Anne Black Gray and published by BookPros, LLC. This book was released on 2007 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "One afternoon without warning a terrible illness strikes Jessica Shephard, a 25-year-old who normally sails through life on a sea of laughter"--Cover