Untitled 2, Evison, Jonathan

Автор: Evison Jonathan
Название: Lawn Boy
ISBN: 1616209232 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781616209230
Издательство: Little Brown
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Описание: `Jonathan Evison`s voice is pure magic. In Lawn Boy, at once a vibrant coming-of-age novel and a sharp social commentary on class, Evison offers a painfully honest portrait of one young man`s struggle to overcome the hand he`s been dealt in life and reach for his dreams. It`s a journey you won`t want to miss, with an ending you won`t forget.` - Kristin Hannah, author of The Nightingale

Автор: Evison Jonathan
Название: Legends of the North Cascades
ISBN: 1643750100 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781643750101
Издательство: Неизвестно
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"A beautifully rendered and cinematic portrait of a place and its evolution through time . . . A story of survival and the love and devotion between parent and child."
--Jill McCorkle, author of Hieroglyphics

Dave Cartwright used to be good at a lot of things: good with his hands, good at solving problems, good at staying calm in a crisis. But on the heels of his third tour in Iraq, the fabric of Dave's life has begun to unravel. Gripped by PTSD, he finds himself losing his home, his wife, his direction. Most days, his love for his seven-year-old daughter, Bella, is the only thing keeping him going. When tragedy strikes, Dave makes a dramatic decision: the two of them will flee their damaged lives, heading off the grid to live in the wilderness of the Pacific Northwest.

As they carve out a home in a cave in that harsh, breathtaking landscape, echoes of its past begin to reach them. Bella retreats into herself, absorbed by visions of a mother and son who lived in the cave thousands of years earlier, at the end of the last ice age. Back in town, Dave and Bella themselves are rapidly becoming the stuff of legend--to all but those who would force them to return home.

As winter sweeps toward the North Cascades, past and present intertwine into a timeless odyssey. Poignant and profound, Legends of the North Cascades brings Jonathan Evison's trademark vibrant, honest voice to bear on an expansive story that is at once a meditation on the perils of isolation and an exploration of the ways that connection can save us.

Автор: Evison, Jonathan
Название: Untitled 2
ISBN: 0593184157 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780593184158
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Автор: Evison, Jonathan
Название: Small World
ISBN: 0593184130 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780593184134
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Описание: A modern presentation of multiphase flow in environmental and engineered systems, from basic principles to new developments. This book incorporates detailed theory and practical applications, while drawing on cutting-edge advances. With extensive end-of-chapter problems, this is an ideal resource for graduate students, researchers or professionals.

Автор: Evison, Jonathan
Название: Small World
ISBN: 0593184122 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780593184127
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Описание: A New York Times Editor's Choice!

One of the LA Times's 10 Books to Add to Your Reading List

One of Book Culture's Most Anticipated Reads

"A bighearted, widescreen American tale."--Kirkus Reviews (starred)

"Masterpiece...the quintessential Great American Novel."--Booklist (starred)

"A vivid mosaic."--BookPage (starred)

Jonathan Evison's Small World is an epic novel for now. Set against such iconic backdrops as the California gold rush, the development of the transcontinental railroad, and a speeding train of modern-day strangers forced together by fate, it is a grand entertainment that asks big questions.

The characters of Small World connect in the most intriguing and meaningful ways, winning, breaking, and winning our hearts again. In exploring the passengers' lives and those of their ancestors more than a century before, Small World chronicles 170 years of American nation-building from numerous points of view across place and time. And it does it with a fullhearted, full-throttle pace that asks on the most human, intimate scale whether it is truly possible to meet, and survive, the choices posed--and forced--by the age.

The result is a historical epic with a Dickensian flair, a grand entertainment that asks whether our nation has made good on its promises. It dazzles as its characters come to connect with one another through time. And it hits home as it probes at our country's injustices, big and small, straight through to its deeply satisfying final words.

Автор: MacDonald George
Название: Weighed and Wanting. Illustrated by Cyrus Cuneo & G.H. Evison
ISBN: 1356336582 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781356336586
Издательство: Неизвестно
Цена: 45310.00 T
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Описание: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.

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Автор: Evison Jonathan
Название: This Is Your Life, Harriet Chance!
ISBN: 1616206012 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781616206017
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Цена: 17460.00 T
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Описание: "Evison's writing crackles on the page."*

With Bernard, her husband of fifty-five years, now in the grave, seventy-eight-year-old Harriet Chance impulsively sets sail alone on an Alaskan cruise that her late husband had planned. But what Harriet hoped would be a voyage leading to a new lease on life becomes a wildly surprising and revelatory journey into her past.
Jonathan Evison has crafted a bighearted novel with an endearing heroine at the helm. Part dysfunctional love story, part poignant exploration of mother-daughter relationships, nothing is what it seems in this bittersweet tale, told with humor and humanity.

"An irresistible, inventive novel full of important ideas about how we live our lives as parents, children, partners, and human beings." --Jami Attenberg, author of The Middlesteins

"Infused with Evison's characteristic empathy and heart and humor . . . He's got a talent for character, emotion and pacing." --Los Angeles Times

"Open-hearted, effervescent." --The Washington Post

"Wildly entertaining." --The Seattle Times

"This Is Your Life, Harriet Chance is a pleasurable mix of the crazy escapades, changing relationships and thoughtful reflections that make up a life." --The Toronto Star

"Slowly, and with admirable, dark precision, Evison lays Harriet bare . . . And with Harriet Chance--poor, frustrated, flummoxed Harriet--Evison has found his ideal foil." --NPR.com

"It's hard to imagine the reader who won't be moved by this lively, lovely work." --The Denver Post

Автор: Evison Jonathan
Название: The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving
ISBN: 1616203153 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781616203153
Издательство: Неизвестно
Цена: 17460.00 T
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In The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving (releasing June 24, 2016 as a Netflix Original Film titled The Fundamentals of Caring, starring Paul Rudd and Selena Gomez), Jonathan Evison, author of the new novel This Is Your Life, Harriet Chance and the New York Times bestseller West of Here, has crafted a novel of the heart, a story of unlikely heroes in a grand American landscape.

For Ben Benjamin, all has been lost--his wife, his family, his home, his livelihood. Hoping to find a new direction, he enrolls in a night class called The Fundamentals of Caregiving, where he will learn to take care of people with disabilities. He is instructed about professionalism, about how to keep an emotional distance between client and provider, and about the art of inserting catheters while avoiding liability. But when Ben is assigned his first client--a tyrannical nineteen-year-old boy named Trevor, who is in the advanced stages of Duchenne muscular dystrophy--he soon discovers that the endless service checklists have done nothing to prepare him for the reality of caring for a fiercely stubborn, sexually frustrated teenager who has an ax to grind with the whole world.

Over time, the relationship between Ben and Trev, which had begun with mutual misgivings, evolves into a close friendship, and the traditional boundaries between patient and caregiver begin to blur. The bond between them strengthens as they embark on a road trip to visit Trev's ailing father--a journey rerouted by a series of bizarre roadside attractions that propel them into an impulsive adventure disrupted by one birth, two arrests, a freakish dust storm, and a six-hundred-mile cat-and-mouse pursuit by a mysterious brown Buick Skylark. By the end of that journey, Trev has had his first taste of love, and Ben has found a new reason to love life.

Bursting with energy and filled with moments of absolute beauty, this big-hearted and inspired novel ponders life's terrible surprises as well as what it takes to truly care for another human being.

Автор: Reeves-evison, Dr Theo (senior Lecturer, Birmingham School Of Art, Uk)
Название: Ethics of contemporary art
ISBN: 1501339907 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781501339905
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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Описание: What happens when the shock of artistic transgression wears off, when scandal dissipates, when outrage becomes a tired routine? In this original new book, Theo Reeves-Evison argues that transgressive art no longer succeeds on its own terms in societies where language, prohibition and morality have become increasingly malleable. This compels us to rethink the relationship between contemporary art and ethics, and focus our attention on the potential of artworks to propose new values rather than simply challenge pre-existing moral codes.Assembling a novel theoretical framework from the writings of Felix Guattari, Jacques Lacan and others, Ethics of Contemporary Art narrates a journey away from transgression towards a new critical paradigm for the relationship between ethics and aesthetics that places questions of subjectivity centre stage. Along the way artworks by Kader Attia, Artur Zmijewski, Dora Garcia and others serve as springboards launching discussions of the varied pathways along which a renewed ethics of contemporary art might develop.

Автор: Shaw Jon K., Reeves-Evison Theo
Название: Fiction as Method
ISBN: 3956793641 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783956793646
Издательство: MIT Press
Цена: 31600.00 T
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See the world through the eyes of a search engine, if only for a millisecond; throw the workings of power into sharper relief by any media necessary; reveal access points to other worlds within our own. In the anthology Fiction as Method, a mixture of new and established names in the fields of contemporary art, media theory, philosophy, and speculative fiction explore the diverse ways fiction manifests, and provide insights into subjects ranging from the hive mind of the art collective 0rphan Drift to the protocols of online self-presentation. With an extended introduction by the editors, the book invites reflection on how fictions proliferate, take on flesh, and are carried by a wide variety of mediums--including, but not limited to, the written word. In each case, fiction is bound up with the production and modulation of desire, the enfolding of matter and meaning, and the blending of practices that cast the existing world in a new light with those that participate in the creation of new openings of the possible.

"Fiction--it's not just for storytelling anymore. This book takes readers on a whirlwind tour through a range of perspectives from the arts and the humanities in order to reveal fiction's prevalence and functionality in the objects and processes that we are convinced are completely real. More significantly, however, it describes the myriad ways in which the elements that comprise this greater universe of fiction have been discovered, produced, harnessed, and/or used for purposes that stretch from the malevolent to the compassionate. This volume is a thought-provoking and enjoyable read--even at its most disconcerting moments."
--Steve Kurtz, Professor Emeritus, University of Buffalo, cofounder of Critical Art Ensemble

"Fictions, by definition, are works that present us with unreal stories and situations. And yet, these fictions--novels, songs, pictures, theories, and so on--are themselves actual things in the world. They are processes, performances, and objects. They portray unrealities, but they themselves are real. The essays in this volume, from a wide variety of points of view, all consider the reality of avowed fictions: their powers and effects, both for good and ill."
--Steven Shaviro, DeRoy Professor of English, Wayne State University

Contributors
Justin Barton, Delphi Carstens & Mer Roberts, Tim Etchells, Matthew Fuller, David Garcia, Dora Garc a, M. John Harrison, Simon O'Sullivan, Erica Scourti, Jon K Shaw and Theo Reeves-Evison