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Examines every aspect of Kerouac's life--his childhood, his restlessness, his obsessive relationships and travels, and his final years of failure

"A blockbuster of a biography . . . absolutely magnificent."--San Francisco ChronicleJack Kerouac--"King of the Beats," unwitting catalyst for the '60s counterculture, groundbreaking author--was a complex and compelling man: a star athlete with a literary bent; a spontaneous writer vilified by the New Critics but adored by a large, youthful readership; a devout Catholic but aspiring Buddhist; a lover of freedom plagued by crippling alcoholism.Desolate Angel follows Kerouac from his childhood in the mill town of Lowell, Massachusetts, to his early years at Columbia where he met Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, and Neal Cassady, beginning a four-way friendship that would become a sociointellectual legend. In rich detail and with sensitivity, Dennis McNally recounts Kerouac's frenetic cross-country journeys, his experiments with drugs and sexuality, his travels to Mexico and Tangier, the sudden fame that followed the publication of On the Road, the years of literary triumph, and the final near-decade of frustration and depression. Desolate Angel is a harrowing, compassionate portrait of a man and an artist set in an extraordinary social context. The metamorphosis of America from the Great Depression to the Kennedy administration is not merely the backdrop for Kerouac's life but is revealed to be an essential element of his art . . . for Kerouac was above all a witness to his exceptional times.

Translated by Iain White. First printing.

The book is divided into seven chapters. The first discusses general anthropological principles and theories pertaining to human adaptation and development in cold environments. The second outlines the environmental conditions of the specific area under study in the book.The next two chapters focus on Neanderthal finds in the area. The following two chapters discuss the replacement of the local Neanderthal population by the Cro-magnons, and the development of their way of life in the cold Loess Steppe environment. The final chapter summarizes the discussion and is followed by an extremely valuable and extensive bibliography, more than half of which consists of non-English (primarily Russian) sources.

Harper and Row, San Francisco, 1986. Hardcover with dust jacket. Stated First American edition. (ISBN 0-06-066038-4) Owner's name written on inside front board. Good copy, fair dust jacket."Muggeridge pulls no punches. The book is written with.... Passion, always under the control of reason.... [She] is a thoroughly convinced Roman Catholic and a tenacious fighter for what she loves. Anne Roche Muggeridge is a Catholic 'Contra'...opposing the Modernist revolutionaries who have taken over most of the Catholic Church." - Kenneth Baker, S.J., Editor, "Homiletic and Pastoral Review." In this passionate, but carefully reasoned book, Anne Roche Muggeridge assesses the controversial issues facing the Catholic Church today. "The Desolate City," she writes, "is an attempt to explain the complete and extraordinary rapid collapse of the Catholic world in which I grew up, a society still in 1960 at the peak of confidence and unity.... I argue that a revolution is taking place within the Roman Catholic Church, a classic revolution in the pattern of those that from time to time convulse and transform secular human societies. I try to trace the pedigree of the controlling idea behind the present revolution, which, I contend, is that view of authority that has variously been called that Protestant principle, the anti-dogmatic or anti-hierarchical principle, or liberalism.... The Catholic Church has always resisted the Protestant principle of authority, basing its opposition on both universal natural law and the scriptural account of the Fall of Man. The appeal from private judgment alone has been rejected by the Church whenever it has appeared, from the Acts of the Apostles to the Modernist movement of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, which attempted to adapt Catholic beliefs to developments in science.... Religion.

Limited color vinyl LP pressing. 2016 release. When boundaries disintegrate, anything is possible. While making their fifth full-length album, Desolate Divine, The Color Morale consciously evolved and expanded their creative palette, while preserving the lyrical message that's earned them a diehard global fan base, to inspire and influence. For the Rockford, IL quintet, treading new territory uncovered their most poetic, potent, and powerful body of work to date. The Color Morale is a post-hardc

In April, 1866, at the height of the Black Hawk Wars, Mormon settlers in the village of Circleville, Utah, took a band of Paiute Indians hostage and murdered all of them, except four young children thought too young to bear witness. Sue Jensen Weeks' great-great-grandfather, James Tillman Sanford Allred, was one of those responsible. Her great-aunt later married one of the few Paiute survivors, David Monson. How Desolate Our Home Bereft Of Thee is Sue Jensen Weeks' resonant retelling of these events. Weaving together strands of family history, letters, diaries, eye-witness accounts, and reminiscences, Sue Jensen Weeks traces a path through the shadows and pain of one of the more significant events in the near annihilation of Native American peoples in Utah.

Julian Turner’s Desolate Market takes as its tuning fork a line from William Blake’s Vela, or the 4 Zoas: "Wisdom is sold in the desolate market where none come to buy." Fascinated by the interaction of material and mystical forces, Turner sets up a series of test cases in which the power of the human imagination, and its susceptibility to quasi-mystical influence, are explored. Poems on influencing machines (mind-controlling contraptions housed in the brain, as described by some people experiencing psychosis) double as a critique of the totalitarian dreams of despots. The corrosive influence of the market economy (that other quasi-mystical force), with its power to bring about poverty, redundancy, terrorism, and alienation, is the subject of a later section of poems. The collection ends with the poet’s alternative vision of the birth of the cosmos, a "disinterested machine / spinning its great designs of flesh and soul." Turner’s "affecting, memorable and original" poems were shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection with Crossing the Outskirts, and his Planet-Struck was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. Desolate Market is his most ambitious and urgent work to date.

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Legendary death metal juggernaut Hate Eternal return on Season Of with Upon Desolate Sands, their heaviest and most ambitious album to date. Helmed by extreme metal luminary Erik Rutan, the new record sees the band take another huge step forward in their quest to push death metal to its outermost limits. From the scorching opener "Violent Fury," through to the epic, hypnotic, two-part title track closer, Upon Desolate Sands showcases a band operating at peak performance and raising the bar yet a

Winner of the coveted China Times Novel Prize, this postmodern, first-person tale of a contemporary Taiwanese gay man reflecting on his life, loves, and intellectual influences is among the most important recent novels in Taiwan.The narrator, Xiao Shao, recollects a series of friends and lovers, as he watches his childhood friend, Ah Yao, succumb to complications from AIDS. The brute fact of Ah Yao's death focuses Shao's simultaneously erudite and erotic reflections magnetically on the core theme of mortality. By turns humorous and despondent, the narrator struggles to come to terms with Ah Yao's risky lifestyle, radical political activism, and eventual death; the fragility of romantic love; the awesome power of eros; the solace of writing; the cold ennui of a younger generation enthralled only by video games; and life on the edge of mainstream Taiwanese society. His feverish journey through forests of metaphor and allusion―from Fellini and Lévi-Strauss to classical Chinese poetry―serves as a litany protecting him from the ravages of time and finitude.Impressive in scope and detail, Notes of a Desolate Man employs the motif of its characters' marginalized sexuality to highlight Taiwan's vivid and fragile existence on the periphery of mainland China. Howard Goldblatt and Sylvia Li-chun Lin's masterful translation brings Chu T'ien-wen's lyrical and inventive pastiche of political, poetic, and sexual desire to the English-speaking world.

Vinyl LP pressing. 2013 release from the Metal heads. Jesus Chrsler Supercar came together back in the spring of 2011 with the common goal to deliver a trashy, hard and "in your face"-mix of old school Death Metal and pure Rock 'n' Roll. Later that summer the band joined forces with Tomas Skogsberg, who also produced bands like Entombed, The Hellacopters and Backyard Babies, at the legendary Sunlight Studio to record their debut album. Jesus Chrsler Supercar will definitely make their mark on

2013 release from the Metal heads. Jesus Chrsler Supercar came together back in the spring of 2011 with the common goal to deliver a trashy, hard and "in your face"-mix of old school Death Metal and pure Rock 'n' Roll. Later that summer the band joined forces with Tomas Skogsberg, who also produced bands like Entombed, The Hellacopters and Backyard Babies, at the legendary Sunlight Studio to record their debut album. Jesus Chrsler Supercar will definitely make their mark on the Swedish Metal s

Christ came not to call saints but to make them often out of weak, stupid, and sinful men. That's why the saints are not only models of holiness for us to imitate; they're reminders that God's grace can outshine every human flaw. As Alban Goodier's classic Saints for Sinners shows us, even the greatest saints had to battle the same stubborn vices, temptations of the flesh, and bouts of spiritual dryness that afflict you and me today. In these pages, with a style that perfectly blends hagiographical detail, spiritual meditation, and a skilled storyteller's touch, Archbishop Goodier brings us the tales of: ·The mercenary fighting man and itinerant gambler who left behind his rough soldier's habits and founded a religious order to care for the sick ·The backward, sickly teenager, disowned by his family and dogged by the Inquisition, who became a miraculous healer and paragon of humble simplicity·The willful Tuscan beauty with a bad reputation who forsook vanity and lust to answer God's call to live in poverty and penitence< ·The brilliant, brooding Spanish nobleman who gave up everything to be a missionary only to see most of his efforts fail ·The royal chaplain and daring Counter-Reformer who escaped the gallows but had to endure a lifelong interior martyrdom of doubt and discouragement ·The hedonistic heretic and womanizer who traded worldly pleasure for divine happiness, and became one of the Church's greatest theologians ·And other inspiring tales of imperfect souls "made perfect in infirmity"Read these stories and find in them delight and encouragement, as well as hope. You'll come to see that there is no one so sinful, weak, or desolate that God has not already raised another like him to the heights of glory.

Three centuries ago, mountains were considered forbidding and forbidden—the abodes of dragons and other ill-tempered grotesque beasts. But with the growing recognition that the Earth’s surface had not been created once and for all but was slowly evolving, mountains came to be seen as the unexplored text of the Earth’s story—a terrain that scientists, adventurers, naturalists, and, finally, travelers began to explore. In Mountains of the Mind, Robert Macfarlane blends cultural history, meditation, and memoir to show how early geologists helped transform our perceptions of the wild, chaotic landscapes; how the allure of height increasingly drew fearless climbers, culminating in the romantic figure of George Mallory, the passionate Englishman who died on Mount Everest in 1924; and how the elemental beauty of snow and ice coalesced into an aesthetic of the sublime.Mountains of the Mind is at once an enthralling work of history, an intimate account of Macfarlane’s own experiences, and a beautifully written meditation on how memory, landscape, imagination, and the landscape of mountains are joined together in our minds and under our feet.

On the run at the end of the world, Abe Sapien's Dark and Terrible story reaches its finale, and the answers he uncovers about his own existence reveal some of the biggest secrets of the Hellboy saga.AWOL from the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense for more than a year, Abe travels to lost two lost kingdoms before returning to America. There he'll confront the most nightmarish version of the fate he's run from all along, as well as the necromancer who sees Abe as a means to control the end of mankind.Collects Abe Sapien #32-37Praise for the comics that comprise Abe Sapien Volume 8: The Desolate Shore:"The art by Max Fiumara is still tremendous too. Along with Dave Stewart's darkly textured color work, this series is so monster-ifficly good looking, I wish each issue would never end." -Coverless Reviews"If you already like Abe Sapien, you will continue to like it--buy this! If you like Hellboy but aren't reading Abe Sapien, you will definitely also like it!" -Geeks With Wives

On the run at the end of the world, Abe Sapien's Dark and Terrible story reaches its finale, and the answers he uncovers about his own existence reveal some of the biggest secrets of the Hellboy saga.AWOL from the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense for more than a year, Abe travels to lost two lost kingdoms before returning to America. There he'll confront the most nightmarish version of the fate he's run from all along, as well as the necromancer who sees Abe as a means to control the end of mankind.Collects Abe Sapien #32-37Praise for the comics that comprise Abe Sapien Volume 8: The Desolate Shore:"The art by Max Fiumara is still tremendous too. Along with Dave Stewart's darkly textured color work, this series is so monster-ifficly good looking, I wish each issue would never end." -Coverless Reviews"If you already like Abe Sapien, you will continue to like it--buy this! If you like Hellboy but aren't reading Abe Sapien, you will definitely also like it!" -Geeks With Wives

Shelf and edge wear. Pages are clean and binding is tight. Solid Book.

Contemporary Irish Plays showcases the new drama that has emerged since 2008. Featuring a blend of established and emerging writers, the anthology shows how Irish writers are embracing new methods of theatre-making to explore exciting new themes – while also finding new ways to come to terms with the legacies of the Troubles and the Celtic Tiger. Freefall is a sharp, humorous and exhilarating look at the fragility of a human life, blending impressionistic beauty, poignancy and comedy. Forgotten features the interconnecting stories of four elderly people living in retirement homes and care facilities around Ireland, who range in age from 80 to 100 years old. Drum Belly is a fascinating play about the Irish mafia in late 1960s' New York. It premiered at the Abbey Theatre in 2012. Previously unpublished, Planet Belfast by Rosemary Jenkinson is about a woman named Alice – Stormont's only Green MLA who must toe a delicate line between large, sectarian power bases in order to promote an environmental agenda in Northern Ireland. Desolate Heaven is a story about two young girls hoping to find freedom from home in the trappings of love. It was first performed at Theatre 503, London, in 2013 Written for the 2012 Dublin Theatre Festival, and previously unpublished, The Boys of Foley Street by Louise Lowe is a piece of site-specific theatre which led audience members on a tour of the backstreets of inner-city Dublin. Edited by the leading scholar on Irish theatre, Patrick Lonergan, Contemporary Irish Plays is a timely reminder of the long-held tradition and strength of Irish theatre which blossoms even in its new-found circumstances.

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