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Bob Rose's story is one of humanity and great resilience in the face of adversity. It is the story of how a man climbed from obscurity weathering life's lows, to become one of the true greats of Australian life. It's a story for everyone.
Bob Rose was a hard footballer, a great man, a battler who knew extraordinary personal hardship, but above all he was a man of inspiring courage and dignity. This is the story of his life.
The Son’s Book of the Father, as Richard Freadman termed it, is a rich field of relational autobiography, offering a unique set of tensions and insights into modes of masculinity, notions of identity and the ethics of representing another’s life in writing one’s own. This study of modern Australian life writing by sons who focus on fathers places an emerging sub-genre within its literary ancestry and its contemporary milieu. Providing compelling readings of Raimond Gaita’s ‘Romulus, My Father’, Peter Rose’s ‘Rose Boys’ and many others, this is the first study of its kind within Australian literature.
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Explores BDSM, sexuality, disability, temporality, and artistic legacies in the career of Sheree Rose, partner of supermasochist Bob Flanagan.
In Captain Lucy in the Home Sector, Aline Havard crafts a thrilling science fiction adventure set in a space-faring world. The book follows the journey of Captain Lucy as she navigates political intrigue, interstellar conflict, and personal relationships. Havard's writing style is vivid and imaginative, immersing readers in a universe filled with advanced technology and complex moral dilemmas. The novel can be seen as a commentary on power dynamics and the consequences of personal choices within a futuristic society. Captain Lucy in the Home Sector is a must-read for fans of science fiction who enjoy thought-provoking narratives with compelling characters and intricate world-building. Havard's skillful storytelling and attention to detail make this book a captivating and engaging read that will leave readers eagerly anticipating the next installment in the series.
Sublime and Ridiculous are two views of the same reality. The search for meaning in life through God is sublime. Flirtations in a bar often look ridiculous. But to the nonbeliever, faith can look ridiculous and what is more sublime than the search for love. Two one act plays, Luci and No. Keywords - fiction, two views, god, devil, lucifer, love, screenplay, one act
A thriller issued from the pen of Canadian author, G. H. Teed. This is the exciting story of the Orient and of The Silver Lakes Tong, and how young Bob Kilgour struggles to save the Tong from the Black Abbot. This is the collection of six short stories featured in Modern Wonder magazine, 1938. Stillwoods.Blogspot.Ca
Colin's Big Thing relates a boy's journey from Hinton Alberta to the B.C. coast to Texas. And then the return. In a narrative sequence that startles with its clarity and force, Bruce Serafin illuminates the history of his generation.
These were unique, complex, personal and professional relationships between master director John Ford and his two favorite actors, John Wayne and Ward Bond. The book provides a biography of each and a detailed exploration of Ford's work as it was intertwined with the lives and work of both Wayne and Bond (whose biography here is the first ever published). The book reveals fascinating accounts of ingenuity, creativity, toil, perseverance, bravery, debauchery, futility, abuse, masochism, mayhem, violence, warfare, open- and closed-mindedness, control and chaos, brilliance and stupidity, rationality and insanity, friendship and a testing of its limits, love and hate--all committed by a "half-genius, half-Irish" cinematic visionary and his two surrogate sons: Three Bad Men.