Author: Zachary Schomburg
Publisher: Black Ocea
Keywords: suit, man
Number of Pages: 112
Published: 2007-04-06
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 0977770931
ISBN-13: 9780977770939
The Man Suit, a darkly comic debut from poet Zachary Schomburg, assembles a macabre cast of doppelgangers, talking animals and dead presidents in poems that explore concepts of identity, truth and fate. The resulting body of work walks a dynamic line often reading like anecdotal fables or cautionary tales in the form of prose poems. Through it all, Schomburg balances irony with sincerity; wit with candor; and a playful tone with the knowledge of inevitable sorrow. Praise for The Man Suit: "Zachary Schomburg’s ’The Man Suit’ comes to us from the past but it is a thoroughly new
Author: James Reaney
Publisher: Porcupine’s Quill
Keywords: nettles, suit
Number of Pages: 80
Published: 2010-04-01
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0889843309
ISBN-13: 9780889843301
A new edition of James Reaney’s classic long poem which has been described, variously, as `the toughest and funniest, most literary and most serious long poem in English-Canadian literature’ (Germaine Warkentin) and conversely as `whimsical self-indulgence’ (W. J. Keith). A Suit of Nettles won the Governor General’s award for poetry in 1958.
Author: Luis Valdez
Publisher: Arte Publico Pr
Keywords: plays, suit, zoot
Number of Pages: 214
Published: 1992-04-30
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 1558850481
ISBN-13: 9781558850484
This collection contains three of playwright and screenwriter Luis Valdez’s most important and recognized plays: Zoot Suit, Bandido! and I Don’t Have to Show You No Stinking Badges. The anthology also includes an introduction by noted theater critic Dr. Jorge Huerta of the University of California-San Diego. Luis Valdez, the most recognized and celebrated Hispanic playwright of our times, is the director of the famous farm-worker theater, El Teatro Campesino.
Author: Bob Paris
Publisher: St. Martin’s Press
Keywords: bodybuilding, adventures, suit, gorilla
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 1997-09
List price: $23.95
ISBN-10: 0312168551
ISBN-13: 9780312168551
This is the first-ever honest, behind-the-scenes look into the world of professional bodybuilding and what the actual life of a bodybuilder is like. Paris shows us the heart of the competition, explains what drives these athletes to push their bodies to the limits, and beyond, and discusses the price bodybuilders pay for this perfection, which includes the use of dangerous growth drugs.
Author: Sloan Wilson
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Keywords: suit, flannel, man
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2002-10-23
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 1568582463
ISBN-13: 9781568582467
Universally acclaimed when first published in 1955, The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit captured the mood of a generation. It was a national bestseller that was made into an award-winning film, it was translated into twenty-six languages, and its title has become a permanent part of our cultural vocabulary. Today, it is more relevant than ever. Here is the story of Tom and Betsy Rath, a young couple with everything going for them: three healthy children, a nice home, a steady income. They have every reason to be happy, but for some reason they are not. Like so many young men of the day, Tom f
Author: E.L. Konigsburg
Publisher: Atheneum
Keywords: suit, coat, shirts, backs
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 1993-10-31
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 0689318553
ISBN-13: 9780689318559
Going to Peco, Florida, for the summer to stay with Bernadette is not Chloe’s first choice. Or her second or her third. It’s her only choice. She has to leave town because of the hair contract. If she didn’t sign it, her friends would shun her; if she did sign it, anytime any one of them had a bad hair day it would mean total immersion in the local pool for all of them, Chloe included. Chloe not only hates total immersion, she fears it. So it’s off to Bernadette’s for the summer. "Help Bernadette," Nick, Chloe’s stepfather, says. Bernadette is his sister. "
Author: Bob Paris
Publisher: St. Martin’s Griffin
Keywords: bodybuilding, adventures, suit, gorilla
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 1998-10-15
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0312194587
ISBN-13: 9780312194581
"I built my American dream one rep at a time," says Bob Paris in Gorilla Suit, an unguarded memoir of his rise to the top of the world of professional bodybuilding. This is the first-ever, honest, behind-the-scenes look into the world of professional bodybuilding and what the actual life of a bodybuilder is like. Paris show us bodies to the limit, and beyond, and discusses the price bodybuilders pay for this perfection, which includes the use of dangerous growth drugs. Paris also looks at the driving forces behind the business of bodybuilding, including the extraordinary story of the Weider br
