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Eli,Ely - a San Francisco dramedy of sex, tears, and a life lived in not-so-quiet desperation Unstable, struggling writer, Eli Trocchi is in a relationship with serious grad student, Jennifer Ely. Friends speculate they hooked-up to say their own names during sex. In this tragicomedy, Miss Ely breaks up with Eli the same week he is fired from a sales job. Humiliated, the writer proceeds to have a meltdown both hilarious and sad, reflecting upon a lifetime of bad decisions, abject failure and vivid experiences. Through Eli, we discover another San Francisco, one as eccentric and deeply flawed as the character himself.
In recent years interest has increased in the links between stress and breast cancer, reflecting the growing concern at the continuing increase in the disease. This book brings together leading researchers in the field to review the evidence available.
Princeton grad John Hopkins came to Tangier after adventures in Peru. In addition to the portraiture of the city and its inhabitants, Hopkins' life in Marrakech and his trips into Morocco's Sahara, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Spanish Sahara, Mauretania, Senegal, Ghana, Nigeria, Togo, Cameroun, Swaziland and Mozambique are chronicled in entries rich with detail. The glamour, mystery, poverty and opulence of Tangier, the country of Morocco and Africa jumps from every page. The author presents a huge and dizzying cast of writers, painters, socialites, trance dancers, eccentrics, party-givers, magicians, aristocrats, confidence men and expat residents from the early sixties through the late seventi...
When Norman, a young American lands up in Tangier,he little realises that his affair with Alice, a,woman of a certain age, will end in tragedy. His,quest takes him back to New York and then again to,Morocco, where he falls in love with Miss,Toledano, a crippled Moraccan Jewess. Hopkin's,richly evocative novel culminates in a dersert,scene worthy of Paul Boweles's 'the Sheltering,Sky'.
A story about writer's friendship with a Moroccan he met while prospecting for oil in the Spanish Sahara.