Guernica Editions
ISBN13: 9781550714340
English
Weaving homage and history, this collection of poetry was inspired by the life of Charlotte Saloman, the Berlin-born artist who perished at Auschwitz. Saloman was the author of Life? or Theatre? an evocative fictionalized autobiography in paint that Saloman described as a means of conquering death. Bringing together biography and...
Guernica Editions
ISBN13: 9781550714357
English
Weaving homage and history, this collection of poetry was inspired by the life of Charlotte Saloman, the Berlin-born artist who perished at Auschwitz. Saloman was the author of Life? or Theatre? an evocative fictionalized autobiography in paint that Saloman described as a means of conquering death. Bringing together biography and...
Guernica Editions
ISBN13: 9781771830768
ISBN10: 177183076X
English
Max has been a freelance reporter dodging bullets in Latin America, a small-time newspaper editor who delights in infuriating his publisher and, finally, a flack for a communications company -- the elephant's graveyard for journalists. But none of this compares with the terrors of assisted living, so instead Max risks...
Guernica Editions
ISBN13: 9781771830775
ISBN10: 1771830778
English
Max has been a freelance reporter dodging bullets in Latin America, a small-time newspaper editor who delights in infuriating his publisher and, finally, a flack for a communications company -- the elephant's graveyard for journalists. But none of this compares with the terrors of assisted living, so instead Max risks...
Anthony M. Graziano
2016
ePub
Guernica Editions
ISBN13: 9781771831390
ISBN10: 1771831391
English
McKinley's Ghost & the Little Tin Truck tells the story of the Millers, a fictional family struggling among the real events of the early 20th century: the end of the Progressive Era, The Great War and influenza pandemic, prohibition, voting rights for women, the conservative take-over, the Red Scare, xenophobic...
Anthony M. Graziano
2016
Kindle
Guernica Editions
ISBN13: 9781771831406
ISBN10: 1771831405
English
McKinley's Ghost & the Little Tin Truck tells the story of the Millers, a fictional family struggling among the real events of the early 20th century: the end of the Progressive Era, The Great War and influenza pandemic, prohibition, voting rights for women, the conservative take-over, the Red Scare, xenophobic...
Reesa Steinman Brotherton
2019
ePub
Guernica Editions
ISBN13: 9781771834018
ISBN10: 1771834013
English
Melba's Wash is a rich telling of the archetypal search. In this fractured familial story, Esther Prat wraps her fingers with her diamond necklace and reflects on the secrets, lies, and pain that haunt her life, and makes her choice. Born on Grand Manan Island, New Brunswick, as an infant...
Reesa Steinman Brotherton
2019
Kindle
Guernica Editions
ISBN13: 9781771834025
ISBN10: 1771834021
English
Melba's Wash is a rich telling of the archetypal search. In this fractured familial story, Esther Prat wraps her fingers with her diamond necklace and reflects on the secrets, lies, and pain that haunt her life, and makes her choice. Born on Grand Manan Island, New Brunswick, as an infant...
Guernica Editions
ISBN13: 9781771830706
ISBN10: 1771830700
English
We all know adults who are stranded in the amber of adolescence. Growing older but not necessarily growing up is the central theme of Middle-Aged Boys & Girls, featuring characters who, to varying degrees, are stuck in adolescent roles of rebel, outcast, enfant terrible and cool kid. All are linked...
Guernica Editions
ISBN13: 9781771830713
ISBN10: 1771830719
English
We all know adults who are stranded in the amber of adolescence. Growing older but not necessarily growing up is the central theme of Middle-Aged Boys & Girls, featuring characters who, to varying degrees, are stuck in adolescent roles of rebel, outcast, enfant terrible and cool kid. All are linked...
Mini Musings
Miniature Thoughts on Theatre and Poetry
Keith Garebian
2020
ePub
Guernica Editions
ISBN13: 9781771835350
ISBN10: 1771835354
English
Inspired by American playwright Sarah Ruhl's 100 Essays I Don't Have Time to Write, this collection is a series of miniature reflections, meditations, and ruminations on subjects encompassing matters of theatre and poetry, two subjects very close to Garebian's heart. Perceptive, witty, and intimate, the mini musings bubble with a...
Mini Musings
Miniature Thoughts on Theatre and Poetry
Keith Garebian
2020
Kindle
Guernica Editions
ISBN13: 9781771835367
ISBN10: 1771835362
English
Inspired by American playwright Sarah Ruhl's 100 Essays I Don't Have Time to Write, this collection is a series of miniature reflections, meditations, and ruminations on subjects encompassing matters of theatre and poetry, two subjects very close to Garebian's heart. Perceptive, witty, and intimate, the mini musings bubble with a...
Guernica Editions
ISBN13: 9781771837156
ISBN10: 1771837152
English, French, Italian, Spanish
The golden days of MaryAnne's singing career, of sold-out concert halls and hit records have given way to shabby rooms and paltry CD sales, battered by YouTube and streaming. But, MaryAnne, nearing 60, refuses to retire. When her party-animal single daughter becomes pregnant, MaryAnne rebels against becoming a grandmother and...
Keith Garebian
2013
Kindle
Guernica Editions
ISBN13: 9781550716863
ISBN10: 1550716867
English
Moon on Wild Grasses, with illustrations by the author, shows the unsuspected scope of a very concise, precise poetic form. Keith Garebian's haiku encompass a wide range of themes in a vividly elegant style that combines the pictorial with the passionate, erotic or reflective. Nature, empirical experience, the self, love,...
Guernica Editions
ISBN13: 9781550716856
ISBN10: 1550716859
English
Moon on Wild Grasses, with illustrations by the author, shows the unsuspected scope of a very concise, precise poetic form. Keith Garebian's haiku encompass a wide range of themes in a vividly elegant style that combines the pictorial with the passionate, erotic or reflective. Nature, empirical experience, the self, love,...
Guernica Editions (Guernica World Editions)
ISBN13: 9781771833073
ISBN10: 1771833076
English
Fans of Anne Tyler's quirky characters and her attention to family life, or Pete Hamill's depiction of diverse, ethnic, urban neighborhoods will connect to Most Precious Blood, set in the eleventh-hour of a declining Italian-American neighborhood where complex and often destructive loyalties have dire consequences. Hard Luck Lenny is the...
Vince Sgambati
2018
Kindle
Guernica Editions (Guernica World Editions)
ISBN13: 9781771833080
ISBN10: 1771833084
Fans of Anne Tyler's quirky characters and her attention to family life, or Pete Hamill's depiction of diverse, ethnic, urban neighborhoods will connect to Most Precious Blood, set in the eleventh-hour of a declining Italian-American neighborhood where complex and often destructive loyalties have dire consequences. Hard Luck Lenny is the...
Kristin Andrychuk
2019
ePub
Guernica Editions
ISBN13: 9781771834254
ISBN10: 1771834250
English
Set in the small town of Grenville, Ontario, a setting perhaps familiar to the reader from the author's previous novel Cadillac Road, this story progresses from the 1950s through the 1980s. In 1940, five-year-old Martin Thorton fell from the family's apartment balcony, suffering catastrophic and permanent injuries. His accident plays...
Kristin Andrychuk
2019
Kindle
Guernica Editions
ISBN13: 9781771834261
ISBN10: 1771834269
English
Set in the small town of Grenville, Ontario, a setting perhaps familiar to the reader from the author's previous novel Cadillac Road, this story progresses from the 1950s through the 1980s. In 1940, five-year-old Martin Thorton fell from the family's apartment balcony, suffering catastrophic and permanent injuries. His accident plays...
Mouth of Truth
Buried Secrets
Lillian Boraks-Nemetz
2018
Kindle
Guernica Editions
ISBN13: 9781771833240
ISBN10: 1771833246
English
Mouth of Truth is a gripping account of impossible choices , divided loyalties and unimaginable horrors. Batya Lightenberg , a Canadian wife and mother tries to live a normal life in oblivion of her troubled past while carrying a legacy of guilt and buried secrets inherited partly from her father,...
Mouth of Truth
Buried Secrets
Lillian Boraks-Nemetz
2018
ePub
Guernica Editions
ISBN13: 9781771833233
ISBN10: 1771833238
English
Mouth of Truth is a gripping account of impossible choices , divided loyalties and unimaginable horrors. Batya Lightenberg , a Canadian wife and mother tries to live a normal life in oblivion of her troubled past while carrying a legacy of guilt and buried secrets inherited partly from her father,...
Guernica Editions
ISBN13: 9781550715569
ISBN10: 1550715569
English
Karen Shenfeld's careful, concentrated language draws the reader in. Hers is a charged, physical world where figure skates are "a shock of alpine white," and the Torah's "crowned letters dance." It is also a world marked by profound metaphysical connections where fireflies flash "coded signals of their secret selves." There...
Karen Shenfeld
2011
Kindle
Guernica Editions
ISBN13: 9781550715576
ISBN10: 1550715577
English
Karen Shenfeld's careful, concentrated language draws the reader in. Hers is a charged, physical world where figure skates are "a shock of alpine white," and the Torah's "crowned letters dance." It is also a world marked by profound metaphysical connections where fireflies flash "coded signals of their secret selves." There...
Guernica Editions
ISBN13: 9781550718171
ISBN10: 1550718177
English
A story of mean drunks and happy ones, and of the women who often outlive them, My Grandmother's Pill is a rollercoaster ride through three generations of abuse and addiction. On the heels of divorce, Maude's relationship with Seamus sets the scene for her struggle to break free.
Guernica Editions
ISBN13: 9781550718188
ISBN10: 1550718185
English
A story of mean drunks and happy ones, and of the women who often outlive them, My Grandmother's Pill is a rollercoaster ride through three generations of abuse and addiction. On the heels of divorce, Maude's relationship with Seamus sets the scene for her struggle to break free.
My Silent Pledge
A Journey of Struggle, Survival and Remembrance
Sidney J. Zoltak
2013
ePub
Guernica Editions (MiroLand)
ISBN13: 9781550718089
ISBN10: 1550718088
English
A child survivor, a child of survivors and a grandchild of a survivor, Sidney Zoltak is all these things. His story about a family that struggled and endured, the generosity of those who saved them against all odds, and a vow never to forget is a remarkable journey through the...
My Silent Pledge
A Journey of Struggle, Survival and Remembrance
Sidney J. Zoltak
2013
Kindle
Guernica Editions (MiroLand)
ISBN13: 9781550718096
ISBN10: 1550718096
English
We follow the Zoltak family as they make their way to Italy where young Sidney encounters a generosity of spirit that helps to heal war's wounds and prepares him for life in Canada. Sidney Zoltak's chronicle is a lesson in the importance of honouring your story for the generations to come.
My Whirlwind Lives
A Political Memoir & Manifesto
Dee Knight
2022
ePub
Guernica Editions (Guernica World Editions)
ISBN13: 9781771837248
ISBN10: 1771837241
English
Our recent storms didn't start in 2020 or 2016. They started decades ago in the 1960s -- a whirlwind of threatened nuclear catastrophe, then police dogs and rednecks terrorizing civil rights marchers down south, then Vietnamese children fleeing from napalm flames. Then draft notices to go to Vietnam to “fight...
Luigi Pirandello, Nina da Vinci Nichols
2003
ePub
Guernica Editions
ISBN13: 9781550714241
English
Naked brilliantly illustrates the theatricalist mode Pirandello invented for dramatizing multiple points of view simultaneously. As characters unwittingly echo each other, we come to see them as aspects of one controlling consciousness, the playwright's. For ultimately, metaphysically, Pirandello's deep subject is the creative process, his characters' as well as his...
Luigi Pirandello, Nina da Vinci Nichols
2003
Kindle
Guernica Editions
ISBN13: 9781550714258
English
Naked brilliantly illustrates the theatricalist mode Pirandello invented for dramatizing multiple points of view simultaneously. As characters unwittingly echo each other, we come to see them as aspects of one controlling consciousness, the playwright's. For ultimately, metaphysically, Pirandello's deep subject is the creative process, his characters' as well as his...