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Soldier Boy
In 1962 when Tim Bazzett graduated from high school he'd had enough of academia and classroom drudgery, so he joined the army - and received an education he'd never imagined. Perhaps one of the most unlikely and inept citizen-soldiers since Gomer Pyle, Tim somehow survives the terrors and tribulations of basic training at "Fort Lost-in-the-Woods, Misery," and after further training in the mysteries of Morse code in Massachusetts and Maryland, the small-town innocent is launched overseas and into the larger world. In northern Turkey he finds himself a link in the outermost defenses of America during a Cold War he only imperfectly understands. There he sees poverty and hatred in the faces of c...
Reed City Boy
Meet Tim Bazzett, fifty years ago. This book is not so much a memoir as a rambling and luminous letter he is writing to his kids. In it he pays tribute and homage to his parents, to his teachers, and to Reed City, the town that shaped him. Mining his earliest memories, Bazzett tells of childhood scrapes, homemade toys, playing cowboys and "war" and even comes clean about an embarrassing feat of flatulence in a most unlikely place which became legend in family lore. He takes you along to Indian Lake, where he spent his summers swimming, and to Saturday matinees at the Reed Theater, where he learned homespun values from Gene and Roy. You'll meet the nuns who educated him at St. Philip's School...
Pinhead
That Reed City Boy is back! Fresh out of the army in the fall of '65, Tim Bazzett feels like he has fallen behind his former friends from high school, many of whom are already married and working, or nearly finished with college. Older than most of his fellow freshmen at Ferris State, Tim feels out of step and flounders about trying to find his proper place as he immerses himself in a work-study routine which only leaves him more isolated and lonely. Then, in his sophomore year, he joins the Ferris Vet's Club and re-enters that world of rough camaraderie of the shared military experience. Tim's social life improves, but his grades slide, until he meets the girl, and starts straightening out ...
Love, War & Polio
Combining copious and meticulous research with original letters, interviews, personal recollections and anecdotes, Tim Bazzett tells Bill Porteous's story with compassion, insight and humor. His narrative conveys a contagious and obvious delight in discovering how we are all connected. Here is a homespun history lesson about the nearly forgotten polio plague years and our fathers' and grandfathers' war, presented in a way that manages to bridge the gap between generations and even allows us to laugh a little as we learn of such serious matters. Perhaps in the end, however, Love, War & Polio is a simple and universal tale - one of faith, hope, and the healing power of love.
Amazon Sinop
Sinop’u Strabon anlatır: “... Palamut en önemli balığıdır.” Cevat Ulunay iki bin yıl sonra ekler: “Oynamayan balığı ölmüş kabul ediyorlar ve ölü balık diye yemiyorlar?” “Şeytanın oğlunun doğduğu bu yer, günün asla açık ve güneşin parlak olmadığı, gökyüzünden bulutların hiç eksilmediği ve sürekli kışı andıran hava şartlarının egemen olduğu bir yöre” diye yazıyor Tertullian. Bir zamanlar birbirinden farklı medeniyetlerin başkenti, Fatih Sultan Mehmet’in “Âşıklar Adası” iken Kazak baskınlarından sonra ‘Sürgünler Kalesi,’ “her birinin bıyığından on adam asılır nice azılı” iflah olmaz mahpusların da son durağı bir kasabaya dönüşür güzel Sinop. Düne kadarsa, hemşehrilileri Diyojen’in arkasından ‘aman kimse kaçmasın’ diye kapattıkları kale kapısının içinde keyf bağışlamamakla lanetli insanların yaşadığı bir yerdi. Günümüzdeyse, Sinop epik geçmişinin ayak izlerinden yükselen mistik bir öneme kavuşuyor.
Reading Aridity in Western American Literature
In literary and cinematic representations, deserts often betoken collapse and dystopia. Reading Aridity in Western American Literature offers readings of literature set in the American Southwest from ecocritical and new materialist perspectives. This book explores the diverse epistemologies, histories, relationships, futures, and possibilities that emerge from the representation of American deserts in fiction, film, and literary art, and traces the social, cultural, economic, and biotic narratives that foreground deserts, prompting us to reconsider new, provocative modes of human/nonhuman engagement in arid ecogeographies.
Lord of Misrule
Longlisted for the Orange Prize 2012. He planned to steal with these horses, who were all better than they looked on paper. The trick was to get in and get out fast. But could he really pull it off? Could he be that sure, could he count on being that lucky? Listen carefully my dear. Lord of Misrule, he whispered loudly. Lord of Misrule, Margaret. Memorize that name.
The Thing About December
From the twice Man Booker longlisted author of From a Low and Quiet Sea 'A force of nature ... a life-enhancing talent' SEBASTIAN BARRY While the Celtic Tiger rages, and greed becomes the norm, Johnsey Cunliffe desperately tries to hold on to the familiar, even as he loses those who all his life have protected him from a harsh world. Village bullies and scheming land-grabbers stand in his way, no matter where he turns. Set over the course of one year of Johnsey's life, The Thing About December breathes with his grief, bewilderment, humour and agonizing self-doubt. This is a heart-twisting tale of a lonely man struggling to make sense of a world moving faster than he is. Donal Ryan's award-wi...
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