... Isaiah Israel, the shifty halfback; and Ennis Williams, an end player. Israel and Burroughs are members of the “W” club. On the tennis club we have the following enthusiasts: Spencer Roberts, “Spence”; Thomas Fawcette, “The Devil”; ...
When confronted, Rogers adamantly declared I he archdiocese in compliance with court ortlers. ... l ather Paul J. McLaughlin was accused of accosting three youths in the Arlington suburb, one of whom was eleven or twelve.
In his last weeks he took to the water off the Solway Strand. The Brow-well was rich in iron; a bottomless, salted mud. The wind of Annandale cut to the very bone. The poet waded out: he shivered in the green cordial, knowing death, ...
This book brings to life an unreported but significant phenomenon that black businesses played during the Great Migration of African Americans from the South.
And to what extent is Tommy his father’s son? With unflinching candor and powerful prose, Our Fathers interrogates the damaging legacy of toxic masculinity, and reveals how family can both wound us and help us heal.
I think my father first heard about Gladstone at one of these Midwinter Conferences and lately I've been thinking how right they were — Gladstone , my father . My father died three years ago tomorrow on an island off the Gulf Coast of ...
Publisher's description: Our Fathers is history at its best--as intimate as a diary, as immediate and epic as a novel. When, in early 2002, a team of Boston Globe reporters...
Our Fathers is the translation of the Afrikaans bestseller Onse vaders, a novel that sees the return of Karin Brynard’s much-loved hero Beeslaar and establishes Brynard as one of the country’s finest writers of crime fiction.
His grandson Jamie comes home to watch over him, and it is Jamie who tells the story of their family, of three generations of pride and delusion, of nationality and strong drink, of Catholic faith and the end of the old left.
Hugh Bawn was a modern hero, a dreamer, a Socialist, a man of the people who revolutionized Scotland's residential development after World War II. Now he lies dying on the...