We Want Everything

Author : Nanni Balestrini
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1784783692
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book We Want Everything written by Nanni Balestrini and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2022-04-12 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The explosive novel of Italy’s revolutionary 1969 It was 1969, and temperatures were rising across the factories of the north as workers demanded better pay and conditions. Soon, discontent would erupt in what became known as Italy’s Hot Autumn. A young worker from the impoverished south arrives at Fiat’s Mirafiori factory in Turin, where his darker complexion begins to fade from the fourteen-hour workdays in sweltering industrial heat. His bosses try to withhold his wages. Our cynical, dry-witted narrator will not bend to their will. “I want everything, everything that’s owed to me,” he tells them. “Nothing more and nothing less, because you don’t mess with me.” Around him, students are holding secret meetings and union workers begin halting work on the assembly lines, crippling the Mirafiori factory with months of continuous strikes. Before long, barricades line the roads, tear gas wafts into private homes, and the slogan “We Want Everything” is ringing through the streets. Wrought in spare and measured prose, Balestrini’s novel depicts an explosive uprising. Introduced by Rachel Kushner, the author of the best-selling The Flamethrowers, We Want Everything is the incendiary fictional account of events that led to a decade of revolt.

Author : Nanni Balestrini
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1784783706
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book We Want Everything written by Nanni Balestrini and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2016-06-21 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was the Autumn of 1969, and Italy exploded. Across the north of the country, factory workers stormed out on strike, demanding better pay and working conditions. The slogan "We Want Everything" rang through the streets. Italy's "Hot Autumn" had begun. In Nanni Balestrini's fictionalized account of the uprising, a young worker from Italy's impoverished south arrives at Fiat's Mirafiori factory in Torino, where he barely scrapes by with fourteen hour days of backbreaking work. His frustration is palpable, and soon he is agitating again his bosses for fun and giving himself minor injuries to win sick leave. Soon enough, he is swept up by a snowballing worker movement that leads to months of continuous strikes at Mirafiori. Eventually, the conflict bubbles out of the factory. The growing pressure having produced an inevitable crack, the streets are lined with barricades, and tear gas wafts into private homes. Introduced by Rachel Kushner, author of the critically acclaimed The Flamethrowers, We Want Everything is an explosive account of a revolution that would clear the way for another decade of radical unrest.

Author : Barbara Shoup
Publisher : North Star Editions, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0738729191
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Everything You Want written by Barbara Shoup and published by North Star Editions, Inc.. This book was released on 2010-12-08 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With high school mercifully drawing to a close, Emma's only question is, "What next? And can it please be completely unlike what happened before?" Then one lucky little lotto ticket seems to give the answer—there are suddenly fifty million reasons for Emma to be happy. So what’s the problem?

Author : Mindy Mejia
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1501123424
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Everything You Want Me to Be written by Mindy Mejia and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-01-03 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Hattie Hoffman has spent her whole life playing many parts: the good student, the good daughter, the good girlfriend. When she's found brutally stabbed to death, the tragedy rips right through the fabric of her small-town community. Full of twists and turns, Everything You Want Me to Be reconstructs a year in the life of a dangerously mesmerizing young woman, during which a small town's darkest secrets come to the forefront, and she inches closer and closer to her death."--

Author : Andrew F. Sullivan
Publisher : Arp Books
ISBN 13 : 9781894037846
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book All We Want is Everything written by Andrew F. Sullivan and published by Arp Books. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The debut collection of short stories by Canadian author Andrew F. Sullivan. Includes 20 stories.

Author : Daaimah S. Poole
Publisher : Kensington Publishing Corp.
ISBN 13 : 0758242328
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book All I Want Is Everything written by Daaimah S. Poole and published by Kensington Publishing Corp.. This book was released on 2009-08-04 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essence® bestselling author Daaimah S. Poole introduces readers to a young woman with a hot voice and superstar dreams. . . Talented Kendra Michelle Thomas always dreamed of becoming a singing sensation. But when a broken childhood lands her and her siblings in foster care, there's not much opportunity for making dreams come true. Before she knows it, Kendra's twenty-five years old, a bartender, and trapped in a relationship going nowhere. . . Determined to finally give her dreams a chance, Kendra spends her small savings on a demo. She soon gets a series of gigs. . .and finally a recording contract. But when a turn of events lands her right back where she started, she'll have to make a choice: sink back into obscurity--or discover if she's really got what it takes. . . "The voice of a new generation." --Karen Quinones Miller

Author : Nanni Balestrini
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 1781681694
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tristano written by Nanni Balestrini and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2014-02-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is unique as no other novel can claim to be: one of 109,027,350,432,000 possible variations of the same work of fiction. Inspired by the legend of Tristan and Isolde, Tristano was first published in 1966 in Italian. But only recently has digital technology made it possible to realise the author’s original vision. The novel comprises ten chapters, and the fifteen pairs of paragraphs in each of these are shuffled anew for each published copy. No two versions are the same. The random variations between copies enact the variegations of the human heart, as exemplified by the lovers at the centre of the story. The copies of the English translation of Tristano are individually numbered, starting from 10,000 (running sequentially from the Italian and German editions). Included is a foreword by Umberto Eco explaining how Balestrini’s experiment with the physical medium of the novel demonstrates ‘that originality and creativity are nothing more than the chance handling of a combination’.

Author : Nanni Balestrini
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1844677672
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Unseen written by Nanni Balestrini and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2012-01-02 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For a brief explosive period in the mid-1970s, the young and the unemployed of Italy’s cities joined the workers in an unexpectedly militant movement known simply as Autonomy (Autonomia). Its “politics of refusal” united its opponents behind draconian measures more severe than any seen since the war. Nanni Balestrini, the poet of youth rebellion, himself a victim of that repression, has invented a remarkable fictional form to express the hopes and conflicts of the movement. In spare but vivid prose, The Unseen follows Autonomy’s trajectory through the eyes of a single working-class protagonist—from high-school rebellion, squatting and attempts to set up a free radio station to arrest and the brutalities of imprisonment. This is a powerful and gripping novel: a rare evocation of the intensity of commitment, the passion of politics.

Author : Garret Keizer
Publisher : PublicAffairs
ISBN 13 : 9781610391108
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Unwanted Sound of Everything We Want written by Garret Keizer and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2012-03-13 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Noise is usually defined as unwanted sound: loud music from a neighbor, the honk of a taxicab, the roar of a supersonic jet. But as Garret Keizer illustrates in this probing examination, noise is as much about what we want as about what we seek to avoid. In a journey that leads us from the primeval Tanzanian veldt to wind farms in Maine, Keizer invites us to listen to noise in history, in popular culture, and not least of all in our own backyards. He follows noise throughout history and across the globe. He considers what it has to tell us about today's most pressing issues, from social inequality to climate change. The result is guaranteed to change how we hear the world, and how we measure our own personal volume within it.

Author : Adrian Calabrese
Publisher : Llewellyn Worldwide
ISBN 13 : 0738723878
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How to Get Everything You Ever Wanted written by Adrian Calabrese and published by Llewellyn Worldwide. This book was released on 2014-09-08 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Get everything you ever wanted in 6 easy steps! Within you lies the secret of your dreams—powerful spiritual and intuitive reserves that allow you to achieve your goals and transform your life. Learn how you can begin immediately to manifest everything you want or need with the step-by-step approach presented by Dr. Caeabrese. Hundreds of her clients and students have achieved outstanding practical results using the methods in this book, which includes interactive workbook sections. Follow the sure-fire 6-step method for drawing whatever you want into your life Use any of the 60 affirmations to help you manifest your goals Discover your hidden talents and creative abilities, and use them to give your manifesting work a final blast of energy Learn ways to ensure that your request to the universe has been transmitted Love, money, cars, homes, even good health-discover how to get whatever you desire in 6 easy steps with How to Get Everything You Ever Wanted.