It is depression-era America & notorious huckster Flanagan plans the ultimate race reeling in contestants with the promise of a glittering jackpot prize At the starting line 2000 audacious hopefuls line up from every walk of life & all ends of the globe each with something to prove As they run themselves ragged across America they come up against numerous hazards including the precipitous Rockies shady mobsters & crooked officials Their different stories ambitions & dreams converge through a shared determination which will inspire you to push on to the finishing line ...

Shortlisted for the PENDiamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay Selected as a Book of the Year 2016 by the Financial Times Guardian New Statesman Observer The Millions & Emerald Street' Flaneuse flanne-euhze noun from the French Feminine form of flaneur flanne-euhr an idler a dawdling observer usually found in cities That is an imaginary definition' If the word flaneur conjures up visions of Baudelaire boulevards & bohemia
- then what exactly is a flaneuse? In this gloriously provocative & celebratory book Lauren Elkin defines her as a determined resourceful woman keenly attuned to the creative potential of the city & the liberating possibilities of a good walk' Part cultural meander part memoir Flaneuse traces the relationship between the city & creativity through a journey that begins in New York & moves us to Paris via Venice Tokyo & London exploring along the way the paths taken by the flaneuses who have lived & walked in those cities From nineteenth-century novelist George Sand to artist Sophie Calle from war correspondent Martha Gellhorn to film-maker Agnes Varda Flaneuse considers what is at stake when a certain kind of light-footed woman encounters the city & changes her life one step at a time
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Seeing Flannery O' Connor in the company of poets rather than realistic prose writers this work shows how she uses recurring figures of speech to transform or re-create the external world Originally published in 1986 The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback & hardcover editions The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905 ...

This is the complete collection of stories from one of the most original & powerful American writers of the twentieth century Including A Good Man is Hard to Find & Everything That Rises Must Converge this collection also contains several stories only available in this volume ...

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Encompassing the very best of F Scott Fitzgerald's short fiction this collection spans his career from the early stories of the glittering Jazz Age through the lost hopes of the thirties to the last twilight decade of his life It brings together his most famous stories including ' The Diamond as Big as the Ritz' a fairy tale of unlimited wealth; the sad & hilarious stories of Hollywood hack Pat Hobby; & ' The Lost Decade' written in Fitzgerald's last years ...

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