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Autore: Jim Christy | Casa editrice: Feltrinelli (Universale economica, 1478) Data di pubblicazione: Lingua: | Numero di pagine: 111 | Formato: Mass Market Paperback | ISBN-10: - 13: 9788807814785
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Real Gone
Autore: Jim Christy | Casa editrice: Quattro Books Data di pubblicazione: 2010 Lingua: | Numero di pagine: 108 | Formato: BOOK | ISBN-10: 1926802012 - 13: 9781926802015
Real Gone turns the myth of the Sixties on its head. The protagonist may be a peripatetic young man on an intense search but he knows, intuitively, that the gaff is in. There are sex and drugs, of course, and politics, even a little rock and roll. That m [...]
The Buk Book
Autore: Jim Christy | Casa editrice: Data di pubblicazione: 1997 Lingua: | Numero di pagine: 108 | Formato: BOOK | ISBN-10: 1926802012 - 13:
This book offers a unique look at the phenomenon of Charles Bukowski, the battered and scarred postal clerk, odd-jobs man, and lowly factotum who became the best-known "underground" writer in the English language. His work—raw, crude, heartbreaking, an [...]
The Redemption of Anna Dupree
Autore: Jim Christy | Casa editrice: Ekstasis Editions Data di pubblicazione: 2005 Lingua: | Numero di pagine: 220 | Formato: BOOK | ISBN-10: 1894800486 - 13: 9781894800488
An aging, wicked-tongued actress finds new life through the friendship of a young man employed in the retirement home where she resides. He helps her escape, and they embark on a road trip to Mexico, where the elderly actress revives and the young man fi [...]
Shanghai Alley
Autore: Jim Christy | Casa editrice: Ekstasis Editions Data di pubblicazione: 1997 Lingua: | Numero di pagine: 208 | Formato: BOOK | ISBN-10: 1896860109 - 13: 9781896860107
Vancouver, Chinatown, 1936. While the bread lines get longer and the whole world goes crazy, wise-cracking gumshoe Gene Castle has his own worries. In Shanghai Alley, while on the trail of missing union funds, he goes fist to fist with corrupt cops, slea [...]
The Long, Slow Death of Jack Kerouac
Autore: Jim Christy | Casa editrice: Data di pubblicazione: 1998 Lingua: | Numero di pagine: 118 | Formato: BOOK | ISBN-10: 1896860109 - 13:
One of the most widely read and influential American writers of the 20th century, Jack Kerouac is often misunderstood. This study examines the confessions of a 20th-century St. Augustine and traces the progress of a great pilgrim through the decline of m [...]
Princess and Gore
Autore: Jim Christy | Casa editrice: Ekstasis Editions Data di pubblicazione: 2000 Lingua: | Numero di pagine: 194 | Formato: BOOK | ISBN-10: 1896860869 - 13: 9781896860862
In 1939 the depression is lifting and war is threatening in Europe. Private Eye Gene Castle is back in Vancouver and there's even a client in his office. The case seems easy enough for a cynic and seasoned gumshoe like Castle - until people start dying.
Marimba Forever
Autore: Jim Christy | Casa editrice: Data di pubblicazione: 2010 Lingua: | Numero di pagine: 0 | Formato: BOOK | ISBN-10: 1550713167 - 13: 9781550713169
The poetry in Marimba Forever is concerned with love and longing, which the author displays in all their multifarious guises. Many of the poems can be regarded as small films: nourish, action, farce or slapstick; others call music to mind: a tenor saxoph [...]
Terminal Avenue
Autore: Jim Christy | Casa editrice: Ekstasis Editions Data di pubblicazione: 2002 Lingua: | Numero di pagine: 208 | Formato: BOOK | ISBN-10: 1894800087 - 13: 9781894800082
The war is in full swing and private eye Gene Castle is back on the wet streets of Vancouver. In this third installment of the Vancouver Trilogy Castle has to evade Nazis, a freakishly strong woman and the usual corrupt cops to find the kidnapped daughte [...]
Cavatinas for Long Nights
Autore: Jim Christy | Casa editrice: Ekstasis Editions Data di pubblicazione: 2001 Lingua: | Numero di pagine: 124 | Formato: BOOK | ISBN-10: 189686094X - 13: 9781896860947
A strong second book of poems from the unique voice of Jim Christy, who has been called "legendary" by the Globe & Mail. The jazz riffs of a global wanderer, from Mexico to South Philly, the vernacular of the street mixes with erudite references to inter [...]
