Harvard Square

Author : André Aciman
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393240312
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Harvard Square: A Novel written by André Aciman and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2013-04-08 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "So candid, so penetrating and so beautifully written that it can make you feel cut open, emotionally exposed." —Sam Sacks, Wall Street Journal Harvard Square is the elegant and sexually charged story of a young émigré grad student, a Jew from Egypt, who meets a brash, magnetic Arab taxi driver—and how their friendship tests his loyalties and throws his life in America into doubt. André Aciman's writing has been hailed by Colm Tóibín as "fiction at its most supremely interesting," and here Aciman delivers a powerful tale of identity and the wages of assimilation.

Author : C. J. Farley
Publisher : Akashic Books
ISBN 13 : 1617757268
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Around Harvard Square written by C. J. Farley and published by Akashic Books. This book was released on 2019-04-01 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Race, class, and hormones combine and combust when a Harvard freshman and his two friends attempt to join the staff of the Harpoon, the school's iconic humor magazine. Around Harvard Square is the winner of the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work (Youth/Teens)! Around Harvard Square has been named a 2020 Honor Book by the Paterson Prize for Books for Young People "A smart, satirical novel about surviving the racial and cultural tensions ratcheted up in the elite Harvard hothouse. Farley has created a marvelously engaging and diverse set of characters, at the center of which is a nerdy Jamaican American with a philosophical bent and his cohort of oddballs struggling to win a spot on Harvard's brainy humor magazine, which provides a springboard for Farley to dive into the ethics of comedy, among other subjects." --National Book Review, included in Monday's 5 Hot Books "For anyone who likes satire, this quick-witted tale...catches a bundle of truths about a very particular and powerful corner of our world." --New West Indian Guide "Around Harvard Square [is] C.J. Farley's fun novel about an exceptional Jamaican student-athlete facing class and race issues to get a spot on an elite Harvard University humor magazine." --New York Daily News, included in CaribBeat column "C.J. Farley's Around Harvard Square is a witty and artful narrative of a society on the crossroads of change...A must read." --The Gleaner (Jamaica) Included in the American Booksellers Association's ABC Best Books for Young Adult Readers 2019! Included in Publishers Weekly's Spring 2019 Children's Announcements Included in Rich in Color's Six Books to Kickstart April "In his new novel, Around Harvard Square, Farley writes about a scandal strikingly similar to how Singer helped parents and coaches allegedly exploit athletic programs of schools like Yale, Georgetown, and USC." --Fox 5 (New York) "This former Lampoon editor, journalist, and now satirical novelist, has lots of insight into the discrepancies around race and gender that remain present in the comedy industry." --CityLine (WCVB-TV Boston) "Around Harvard Square brings social commentary to college life, approaching the issues in a humorous attitude...Farley makes the injustices more tangible to a younger audience who may be future students at such institutions, and he shows how little progression has been made in the educational system regarding institutional racism." --Prism Review Tosh Livingston, superstar student-athlete from small-town USA, thinks he's made it big as a rising freshman at Harvard University. Not so fast! Once on campus, he's ensnared in a frenzied competition to win a spot on Harvard's legendary humor magazine, the Harpoon. Tosh soon finds that joining the Harpoon is a weird and surprisingly dangerous pursuit. He faces off against a secret society of super-rich kids, gets schooled by a philosophy professor who loves flunking everyone, and teams up with a genius student-cartoonist with an agenda of her own. Along the way, Tosh and his band of misfit freshman friends unearth long-buried mysteries about the Ivy League that will rock the Ivory Tower and change their lives forever...if they can survive the semester. With its whip-smart humor and fast-paced narrative, Around Harvard Square will appeal to readers of all ages interested in exploring the complicated roles that race and class play in higher education.

Author : John Christopher Frame
Publisher : HarperChristian + ORM
ISBN 13 : 0310318688
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Homeless at Harvard written by John Christopher Frame and published by HarperChristian + ORM. This book was released on 2013-08-06 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harvard Square is at the center of Cambridge, Massachusetts, and is the business district around Harvard University. It’s a place of history, culture, and some of the most momentous events of the nation. But it’s also a gathering place for some of the city’s homeless. What is life like for the homeless in Harvard Square? Do they have anything to tell people about life? And God? That’s what Harvard student John Frame discovered and shares in Homeless at Harvard. While taking his final course at Harvard, John Frame stepped outside the walls of academia and onto the streets, pursuing a different kind of education with his homeless friends. What he found—in the way of community and how people understand themselves---may surprise you. In this unique book, each of these urban pioneers shares his own story, providing insider perspectives of life as homeless people see it. This heartwarming page-turner shows how John learned with, from, and about his homeless friends—who together tell an unforgettable story—helping readers’ better understand problems outside themselves and that they’re more similar to those on the streets than they may have believed.

Author : Sage Stossel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780692575932
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book We're Off to Harvard Square written by Sage Stossel and published by . This book was released on 2015-12-11 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Cambridge tribute, a children's rhyming story, and a coloring book for all ages

Author : Merve Emre
Publisher : Liveright Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1631496778
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Annotated Mrs. Dalloway written by Merve Emre and published by Liveright Publishing. This book was released on 2021-08-31 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Virginia Woolf’s groundbreaking novel, in a lushly illustrated hardcover edition with illuminating commentary from a brilliant young Oxford scholar and critic. “Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself.” So begins Virginia Woolf’s much-beloved fourth novel. First published in 1925, Mrs. Dalloway has long been viewed not only as Woolf’s masterpiece, but as a pivotal work of literary modernism and one of the most significant and influential novels of the twentieth century. In this visually powerful annotated edition, acclaimed Oxford don and literary critic Merve Emre gives us an authoritative version of this landmark novel, supporting it with generous commentary that reveals Woolf’s aesthetic and political ambitions—in Mrs. Dalloway and beyond—as never before. Mrs. Dalloway famously takes place over the course of a single day in late June, its plot centering on the upper-class Londoner Clarissa Dalloway, who is preparing to throw a party that evening for the nation’s elite. But the novel is complicated by Woolf’s satire of the English social system, and by her groundbreaking representation of consciousness. The events of the novel flow through the minds and thoughts of Clarissa and her former lover Peter Walsh and others in their circle, but also through shopkeepers and servants, among others. Together Woolf’s characters—each a jumble of memories and perceptions—create a broad portrait of a city and society transformed by the Great War in ways subtle but profound ways. No figure has been more directly shaped by the conflict than the disturbed veteran Septimus Smith, who is plagued by hallucinations of a friend who died in battle, and who becomes the unexpected second hinge of the novel, alongside Clarissa, even though—in one of Woolf’s many radical decisions—the two never meet. Emre’s extensive introduction and annotations follow the evolution of Clarissa Dalloway—based on an apparently conventional but actually quite complex acquaintance of Woolf’s—and Septimus Smith from earlier short stories and drafts of Mrs. Dalloway to their emergence into the distinctive forms devoted readers of the novel know so well. For Clarissa, Septimus, and her other creations, Woolf relied on the skill of “character reading,” her technique for bridging the gap between life and fiction, reality and representation. As Emre writes, Woolf’s “approach to representing character involved burrowing deep into the processes of consciousness, and, so submerged, illuminating the infinite variety of sensation and perception concealed therein. From these depths, she extracted an unlimited capacity for life.” It is in Woolf’s characters, fundamentally unknowable but fundamentally alive, that the enduring achievement of her art is most apparent. For decades, Woolf’s rapturous style and vision of individual consciousness have challenged and inspired readers, novelists, and scholars alike. The Annotated Mrs. Dalloway, featuring 150 illustrations, draws on decades of Woolf scholarship as well as countless primary sources, including Woolf’s private diaries and notes on writing. The result is not only a transporting edition of Mrs. Dalloway, but an essential volume for Woolf devotees and an incomparable gift to all lovers of literature.

Author : Scott Seider
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1441185615
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shelter written by Scott Seider and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2010-09-02 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A powerful and inspiring study of the Harvard Square Homeless Shelter: The only student-run shelter in the United States.

Author : Frank Schulman
Publisher : Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations
ISBN 13 : 9781558964662
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book This Day in Unitarian Universalist History written by Frank Schulman and published by Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations. This book was released on 2004 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Sam Baltrusis
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1614239754
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ghosts of Cambridge written by Sam Baltrusis and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2013-08-20 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to the paranormal history of this Massachusetts city—photos included. As one of the nation’s oldest cities, Cambridge, Massachusetts, has a tumultuous history filled with Revolutionary War beginnings, religious persecution, and centuries of debate among Ivy League intelligentsia. It should come as no surprise that the city is also home to spirits that are entangled with the past and now inhabit the dormitories, local watering holes and even military structures of the present. Discover the apparitions that frighten freshmen in Harvard’s Weld Hall, the Revolutionary War ghosts that haunt the estates of Tory Row, and the flapper who is said to roam the seats of Somerville Theatre. Using careful research and firsthand accounts, author Sam Baltrusis delves into ghastly tales of murder, crime, and the bizarre happenings in the early days of Cambridge to uncover the truth behind some of the city's most historic haunts.

Author : Harvard University
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780674061927
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Explore Harvard written by Harvard University and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As part of its 375th celebration, the University has created a new photo book, Explore Harvard: The Yard and Beyond. This collection of photographs, including contemporary images never before published and archival prints, brings to life the myriad intellectual exchanges that make Harvard one of the world's leading institutions of higher education.

Author : Committee on the Future Development of Harvard Square and Its Neighborhood
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 42 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Future Development of Harvard Square and Its Neighborhood written by Committee on the Future Development of Harvard Square and Its Neighborhood and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: