Flesh Wounds

Author : David Holbrook
Publisher : Spellmount, Limited Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781862273917
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.1X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Flesh Wounds written by David Holbrook and published by Spellmount, Limited Publishers. This book was released on 2007-03-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Follows a young Cambridge undergraduate from his call-up in 1942, through training as a tank officer, the landings in Normandy, and his command of a Sherman tank in the vicious post - D-Day battles to his eventual return. This work gives an first-hand account of the effect of military service, culminating in battle, death and injury.

Author : Richard Glover
Publisher : HarperCollins Australia
ISBN 13 : 1460705025
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Flesh Wounds written by Richard Glover and published by HarperCollins Australia. This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A deluded mother who invented her past, an alcoholic father who couldn't deal with the present, a son who wondered if this could really be his family. Richard Glover's favourite dinner party game is called 'Who's Got the Weirdest Parents?'. It's a game he always thinks he'll win. There was his mother, a deluded snob, who made up large swathes of her past and who ran away with Richard's English teacher, a Tolkien devotee, nudist and stuffed-toy collector. There was his father, a distant alcoholic, who ran through a gamut of wives, yachts and failed dreams. And there was Richard himself, a confused teenager, vulnerable to strange men, trying to find a family he could belong to. As he eventually accepted, the only way to make sense of the present was to go back to the past - but beware of what you might find there. Truth can leave wounds - even if they are only flesh wounds. Part poignant family memoir, part hopeful search for the truth, this is a book for anyone who's wondered if their family is the oddest one on the planet. The answer: 'No'. There is always something stranger out there. PRAISE FOR FLESH WOUNDS 'Both poignant and wildly entertaining' - Sydney Morning Herald 'A new classic ... a breathtaking accomplishment in style and empathy' - The Australian 'Heartbreaking and hilarious ... I couldn't put it down' - Sun Herald 'Engrossing and extremely funny'- The Saturday Paper 'Not since Unreliable Memoirs by Clive James has there been a funnier, more poignant portrait of an Australian childhood.' - Australian Financial Review 'Sad, funny, revealing, optimistic and hopeful' - Jeanette Winterson

Author : Virginia L. Blum
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520244737
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Flesh Wounds written by Virginia L. Blum and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2005-04-04 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An impressive book. An important book."—Jamie Lee Curtis "I blame mirrors. If it weren't for them we wouldn't need plastic surgeons. In the meantime, anyone tempted to re-shape face, body and mind by means of knife should first read Blum's intelligent, persuasive and absorbing book. Both enticed and alarmed, the reader will at least know what she's doing and more importantly why. This is a book that takes you and shakes you by the throat, and leaves you the better for it."—Fay Weldon, author of The Life and Loves of a She-Devil "An eye-opening look at the dangers, both physical and emotional, of plastic surgery and of the power of beauty in all of our lives. Blum's book is an impressive interweaving of observation, oral interviews, cultural studies, and historical sources. An absorbing read, this is a scholarly book that general readers can enjoy."—Lois Banner, author of American Beauty "A provocative and thoroughly persuasive argument that we live in a culture of cosmetic surgery where identity is sited on the shifting surfaces of the body. Flesh Wounds brilliantly explores the link between the seductions of surgical self-fashioning and the star system, drawing on a stunning array of materials ranging from interviews with plastic surgeons, psychoanalytic theory, and the novel to the visual media of digital photography, film, and television."—Kathleen Woodward, author of Aging and Its Discontents: Freud and Other Fictions

Author : Mick Cochrane
Publisher : Penguin Group
ISBN 13 : 9780140277227
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Flesh Wounds written by Mick Cochrane and published by Penguin Group. This book was released on 1999 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Flesh Wounds is a portrait of an American family in crisis. When the police come to arrest Hal Lamm, a Minneapolis salesman, for abusing his 13-year-old granddaughter Becky, his entire family must come to terms with its secrets and unhealed wounds.

Author : S. Covington
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230101097
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wounds, Flesh, and Metaphor in Seventeenth-Century England written by S. Covington and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-08-31 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wounds, Flesh and Metaphor in Seventeenth-Century England explores the theme of physical and symbolic woundedness in mid-seventeenth century English literature. This book demonstrates the ways in which writers attempted to represent the politically and religiously fractured state of the time and re-imagined the nation through language and metaphor in the process. By examining the creative permutations of the wound metaphor, Covington argues for the centrality of the charged imagery, and language itself, in shaping the self-representations of an age.

Author : Mick Cochrane
Publisher : Ember
ISBN 13 : 0375846115
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fitz written by Mick Cochrane and published by Ember. This book was released on 2013-11-12 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sometimes Fitz would look at himself in the mirror, an expression of pathetic eagerness on his face. He was a dog in the pound, wanting to be adopted. He'd smile. What father wouldn't want this boy? Fifteen-year-old Fitzgerald—Fitz, to his friends—has just learned that his father, whom he's never met, who supports him but is not a part of his life, is living nearby. Fitz begins to follow him, watch him, study him, and on an otherwise ordinary May morning, he executes a plan to force his father, at gunpoint, to be with him. Over the course of one spring day, Fitz and his father become real to one another. Fitz learns about his father, why he's chosen to remain distant and what really happened between him and Fitz's mother. And his father learns what sort of boy his son has grown up to become.

Author : Jason Karlawish
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472028049
Total Pages : 391 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Open Wound written by Jason Karlawish and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2011-08-30 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A shotgun misfires inside the American Fur Company store in Northern Michigan, and Alexis St. Martin's death appears imminent. It's 1822, and, as the leaders of Mackinac Island examine St. Martin's shot-riddled torso, they decide not to incur a single expense on behalf of the indentured fur trapper. They even go so far as to dismiss the attention of U.S. Army Assistant Surgeon William Beaumont, the frontier fort's only doctor. Beaumont ignores the orders and saves the young man's life. What neither the doctor nor his patient understands—yet—is that even as Beaumont's care of St. Martin continues for decades, the motives and merits of his attention are far from clear. In fact, for what he does to his patient, Beaumont will eventually stand trial and be judged. Rooted deeply in historic fact, Open Wound artfully fictionalizes the complex, lifelong relationship between Beaumont and his illiterate French Canadian patient. The young trapper's injury never completely heals, leaving a hole into his stomach that the curious doctor uses as a window to understand the mysteries of digestion. Eager to rise up from his humble origins and self-conscious that his medical training occurred as an apprentice to a rural physician rather than at an elite university, Beaumont seizes the opportunity to experiment upon his patient's stomach in order to write a book that he hopes will establish his legitimacy and secure his prosperity. As Jason Karlawish portrays him, Beaumont, always growing hungrier for more wealth and more prestige, personifies the best and worst aspects of American ambition and power.

Author : John Lawton
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN 13 : 0802195830
Total Pages : 508 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Flesh Wounds written by John Lawton and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A serial killer stalks post-WWII London in a gritty detective novel featuring Scotland Yard’s Inspector Troy. An old flame has returned to Troy’s life: Kitty Stilton, wife of an American presidential hopeful. Private eye Joey Rork has been hired to make sure Kitty’s amorous liaisons with a rat pack crooner don’t ruin her husband’s political career. But he also wants to know why Kitty has been spotted with Danny Ryan, whose twin brothers, in addition to owning one of London’s hottest jazz clubs, are said to have inherited the crime empire of a fallen mobster. Before Rork can find out, he meets a gruesome end. And he isn’t the only one: bodies have started turning up around London, dismembered in the same bizarre and horrifying way. Is it possible that the blood trail leads back to Troy’s own police force and into Troy’s own forgotten past? Flesh Wounds, a compulsively readable thriller, finds one of our most able storytellers at the height of his game. “There are characters based on (or at least inspired by) everyone from Frank Sinatra to Meyer Lansky, enough dismembered bodies to satisfy the most morbid imaginations and frequent flashes of sly wit and social conscience that illuminate a vanished world.” —Publishers Weekly

Author : Stephen Greenleaf
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504027434
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Flesh Wounds written by Stephen Greenleaf and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2016-02-09 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To help an old flame, John Marshall Tanner tracks a missing model in Seattle As far as John Marshall Tanner can tell, everyone in San Francisco is lonely, and few are lonelier than him. He’s lost too many friends, either to death or distance, and there’s no one he misses more than Peggy Nettleton, his beloved former secretary, who left his detective agency six years ago, and broke his heart on her way out the door. When she calls out of the blue, Tanner can tell she’s in trouble—and that means he’s in trouble too. Peggy is due to get married in three weeks, and her soon-to-be stepdaughter, Nina Evans, has disappeared. Nina worked as a model, and it doesn’t take long for Tanner to discover that she was in over her head. As he combs the unfamiliar city in search of the vanished girl, he finds that his old feelings for Peggy are stronger than ever—strong enough to get him killed. Flesh Wounds is the 11th book in the John Marshall Tanner Mysteries, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.

Author : Jose Francisco Ibáñez-Carrasco
Publisher : arsenal pulp press
ISBN 13 : 9781551520988
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Flesh Wounds and Purple Flowers written by Jose Francisco Ibáñez-Carrasco and published by arsenal pulp press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nominated for a Commonwealth Writers Prize, this extravagant and tragicomic novel is told in the musical lilt of Spanglish. Camilo, a strong-willed queen from Chile, tells his story as he lays dying in his hospital bed, recalling a life of sequins and disco. "Realistic, stream-of-consciousness style."--Time Out (London)