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2) Breakfast with Lucian: the astounding life and outrageous times of Britain's great modern painter
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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2013.
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xi, 260 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), genealogical table ; 25 cm
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"A memoir about the author's relationship with renowned painter Lucian Freud that includes interviews with many close friends and family members as well as critical analyses of Freud's art"--
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When he was nine years old, Paul Polson lay on his bed in his family home, burning up with fever. He experienced a "vision" during that fever that repeated itself several times throughout his life. The message was clear during the vision, but Paul couldn't describe it when he woke. What it did do was give him confidence that he could do anything he wanted and succeed.
In The Vision, he shares his story: A lifelong passion for the arts and a quest...
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"A stunning life of the iconic American artist, Keith Haring, by the acclaimed biographer Brad Gooch. In the 1980s, the subways of New York City were covered with art. In the stations, black matte sheets were pasted over outdated ads, and unsigned chalk drawings often popped up on these blank spaces. These temporary chalk drawings numbered in the thousands and became synonymous with a city as diverse as it was at war with itself, ravaged by poverty...
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Your outlook on life is so different from mine that I can hardly imagine you being built of the same stuff as myself. Yet I venture to put my difficulty before you. It is, of course, no question of mental grasp or capacity or artistic endowment. I am, so far as these are concerned, merely the man in the street, the averagely endowed and the ordinarily educated. I call myself a Puritan and a Christian. I run continually against walls of convention,...
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"You can be lonely anywhere, but there is a particular flavor to the loneliness that comes from living in a city, surrounded by thousands of strangers. The Lonely City is a roving cultural history of urban loneliness, centered on the ultimate city: Manhattan, that teeming island of gneiss, concrete, and glass. What does it mean to be lonely? How do we live, if we're not intimately involved with another human being? How do we connect with other people,...
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Sons and Lovers, by D. H. Lawrence, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
• New introductions commissioned from todays top writers and scholars
• Biographies of the authors
• Chronologies of...
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Actrice, chanteuse, animatrice, professeur d'art dramatique et communicatrice hors pair, Ghislaine Paradis, dans cette autobiographie captivante, nous entraîne avec enthousiasme au coeur de sa vie et de sa passion d'artiste. 1ier prix de Conservatoire , elle est d'abord connue pour son rle de Nicole dans la populaire émission de télévision " Quelle Famille " à Radio-Canada. Elle sera aussi Hélène dans " À Coeur Battant " qui l'emmènera au...
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Este libro es una biografía elegíaca del poeta, en el que Rilke habla a través de sus cartas, enlazadas artesanalmente por la autora. Se trata de un poeta que parte en busca de su propia voz, su sí mismo, en una enconada lucha con su propia naturaleza. Lou Andreas-Salomé muestra el revés de la trama de la creación, el riesgo vital que supone encontrar al poeta en cada uno de nosotros y, a la vez, el poder salvador que entraña. En un mundo...
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"Juan Carlos Jara es poeta, historiador y ensayista. Como poeta, ha optado —según la enseñanza de Homero Manzi— por "no ser hombre de letras" sino "hacer letras para los hombres".
Trabajador infatigable, Jara descubre perlas luminosas sumergiéndose en lo profundo de las aguas, desinteresado de las glorias efímeras, jugando sus cartas a la suerte del pueblo, en cuya experiencia nutre su poesía y su prosa militante. Y hace todo ello dando ejemplo...
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In my fourth book, In it for the Long Run, one of the most popular chapters with the readers was You can call me Al. It was all about my good friend Al Barker, the only person Ive ever met who brakes with his left foot. Wanting to capitalize on the popularity of using titles of Paul Simon songs, I reviewed his repertoire for an applicable title for this book. Since the book is about my last year on earth before turning 60 years of age, I initially...
13) Escape Artist
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William A. Noguera has spent thirty-four years at the notorious San Quentin Prison, home to the nation's largest and deadliest death row. Each day, men plot against you and your life rests on a razor's edge. In Escape Artist, he describes his personal growth as a man and artist and shares his insights into daily life and the fight to survive in the underworld of prison culture.
After being sentenced to death, he arrived at San Quentin Prison and...
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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
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#1 I went to the House to speak to Gerry a few days after receiving his voicemail.
#2 I went to the House to speak to Gerry, and met a boy named Leon, who was Black. He was a bit shorter than me, but I didn't say anything.
#3 I went to visit Gerry and met a boy named Leon, who told me that people didn't cook. I decided that if Leon agreed to help, cooking could work....
15) Vejestud
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Los momentos posteriores a la meditación diaria, los ratos de esparcimiento en el hogar, las horas de espera en aeropuertos y en vuelos al trasladarme de un país a otro, son espacios para reflexionar, rememorar, evaluar, proyec- tar o pasar revista de mis actos y de mis pensamientos... Y, muy particularmente, para visualizar la vida desde la pers- pectiva cronológica en que ésta se halla: etapa a la que me ha dado por llamar vejestud, como reflejo...
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If you desire to wake up each day with positivity, this is the ideal guide for you to rise and thrive from a simple and successful morning routine!
Rise & Thrive is an ethos to live by - an ideology constructed by motivating quotes to prepare you for when you arise so you can set your mind on the right path for the day and enable your decision-making to influence your life with meaningfulness and ambition.
To manifest a positive mindset and behaviour,...
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The Victoria Memorial in front of Buckingham Palace is a national icon, yet few have heard of its sculptor, Thomas Brock. He left school at 12 to be an apprentice at the Worcester Royal Porcelain Works, then joined the London studio of John Henry Foley. He completed the figure of the Prince Consort for the Albert Memorial after Foleys death. One of the young sculptors encouraged by Sir Frederic Leighton, he became famous for his lifelike portrait...
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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Book Preview: #1 I was born on a Monday in Chicago during the Great Blizzard of 1946. My mother took in ironing while I waited on the stoop of our rooming house for the iceman to give me slivers of ice wrapped in brown paper. I would slip one in my pocket for my baby sister.
#2 I was completely smitten by the book. I loved to read, and the things I read of produced new yearnings....
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Ed Pusick was a quiet and eccentric man, a bachelor all his life, whose passion was his artwork. After his time in the Navy when an accident disabled his legs for the rest of his life, Ed became a source of many inventive designs as a professional but apparently never took the trouble to seek patents, recognition, nor much gratitude for his work. Ed later drew sketches as an illustrator for an architectural firm in Grand Rapids, where he met a co-worker...
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