Piantagione di Beauvais, Virginia. Guerra civile americana. Il proprietario terriero Antony Levallois è stanco della produzione di tabacco e cotone. Sa che il futuro appartiene ai grandi capitali e all'industria. È un uomo senza scrupoli, che mira soltanto a difendere i suoi interessi e a ingrandire la sua ricchezza. Quando il vicino Bob Reid parte per la guerra, Levallois sfrutta la sua assenza per soffiargli la proprietà, sedurre e sposare Emily, la figlia dodicenne di Reid e prendersi i suoi schiavi, fra cui la giovane Nurse. Quando Bob Reid torna a casa dal fronte, sfigurato e mutilato, non trova più nessuno ad attenderlo, la sua tenuta non gli appartiene più e sua figlia è sposata con il responsabile della sua rovina. A un uomo disperato resta una sola scelta: la vendetta. L'autore di 'Yellow birds' torna con un romanzo faulkneriano sul potere e la violenza. Un libro che solo apparentemente racconta la guerra civile americana e lo schiavismo, per esplorare piuttosto la potenza delle pulsioni che muovono ogni uomo.

An Iraq war veteran, National Book Award finalist and author of The Yellow Birds offers poems capturing the life of a soldier, including waiting in the dusty Middle Eastern heat and writing a love letter back home. 100,000 first printing.

Two friends, both U.S. soldiers in Iraq, cling to life and each other as a bloody fight to take control of the city of Al Tafar rages around them and they stave off fatigue, mental stress and insurgents. (action & adventure).

Two friends, both U.S. soldiers in Iraq, cling to life and each other as a bloody fight to take control of the city of Al Tafar rages around them and they stave off fatigue, mental stress and insurgents. Reprint. 100,000 first printing.

Although it lasted only twenty-three years (1933--1956) and enrolled fewer than 1,200students, Black Mountain College was one of the most fabled experimental institutions in arteducation and practice. Faculty members included Josef Albers, Ilya Bolotowsky, Willem de Kooning,Buckminster Fuller, Franz Kline, Robert Motherwell, John Cage, and Merce Cunningham. Among theirstudents were Kenneth Noland, Robert Rauschenberg, and Cy Twombly. Literature teachers and studentsincluded Robert Creeley, Fielding Dawson, Robert Duncan, Francine du Plessix Gray, and CharlesOlson. This book -- the paperback edition of a milestone work that has been unavailable for severalyears -- documents the short but influential life of Black MountainCollege.

Nearly 500 images, many in color and published for the first time in thisbook, show important works of art created by Black Mountain College faculty and students as well assnapshots of campus life. Four essays, all commissioned for the book, offer closer looks at theworld of Black Mountain. Poet Robert Creeley recounts his first meeting with his mentor and friendCharles Olson. Composer Martin Brody offers a history of the musical world of the 1930s to 1950s, inwhich Black Mountain played a significant role. Critic Kevin Power looks at the experimentalliterary journal The Black Mountain Review, which was instrumental in launchingthe Black Mountain school of poetry. The book's editor, Vincent Katz, discusses the philosophy ofthe college's founders, the Bauhaus principles followed by art instructor Josef Albers, and the manyinteractions among the arts in the college's later years.

'The war tried to kill us in the spring,' begins this breathtaking account of friendship and loss. In Al Tafar, Iraq, twenty-one-year old Private Bartle and eighteen-year-old Private Murphy cling to life as their platoon launches a bloody battle for the city. In the endless days that follow, the two young soldiers do everything to protect each other from the forces that press in on every side: the insurgents, physical fatigue, and the mental stress that comes from constant danger.

Bound together since basic training when their tough-as-nails Sergeant ordered Bartle to watch over Murphy, the two have been dropped into a war neither is prepared for. As reality begins to blur into a hazy nightmare, Murphy becomes increasingly unmoored from the world around him and Bartle takes impossible actions.

With profound emotional insight, especially into the effects of a hidden war on mothers and families at home, THE YELLOW BIRDS is a groundbreaking novel about the costs of war that is destined to become a classic.

'The war tried to kill us in the spring,' begins this breathtaking account of friendship and loss. In Al Tafar, Iraq, twenty-one-year old Private Bartle and eighteen-year-old Private Murphy cling to life as their platoon launches a bloody battle for the city. In the endless days that follow, the two young soldiers do everything to protect each other from the forces that press in on every side: the insurgents, physical fatigue, and the mental stress that comes from constant danger.

Bound together since basic training when their tough-as-nails Sergeant ordered Bartle to watch over Murphy, the two have been dropped into a war neither is prepared for. As reality begins to blur into a hazy nightmare, Murphy becomes increasingly unmoored from the world around him and Bartle takes impossible actions.

With profound emotional insight, especially into the effects of a hidden war on mothers and families at home, THE YELLOW BIRDS is a groundbreaking novel about the costs of war that is destined to become a classic.

A Blackrock, quartiere di Dublino simbolo del boom economico irlandese, l'ultima notte d'agosto del 2004, all'uscita di un locale notturno un giovane viene preso a calci brutalmente da alcuni suoi coetanei, fino alla morte, dopo una serata trascorsa tra pinte di Guinness, avances alle ragazze e 'cheers!' alla vittoria sul campo da rugby. La genesi e la dinamica dell'accaduto sono l'oggetto di questo noir. Conor Harris, i suoi killer (accusati di omicidio volontario), il giudice e il narratore, il cui legame con vittima e carnefici si svelerà solo alla fine, condividono l'infanzia, le scuole e gli ambienti cool di Dublino. Il corso imprevedibile delle loro vite lascerà le rispettive famiglie straziate e nude di fronte a un futuro che collassa e che trascinerà sul banco degli imputati anche l'ipocrisia dei valori tradizionali, l'upper-middle class, e le abitudini sociali e sessuali dei suoi migliori rampolli, mentre il bisogno catartico della verità si fa più solido e inconfondibile. Kevin Power ricostruisce, tra cronaca giudiziaria e indagine personale, presupposti, moventi e conseguenze di un omicidio che ha scosso l'Irlanda, e come solo la letteratura può fare, sottopone le coscienze a un esame improrogabile.