Candide the tenth and other agitations : prose and poetry / / Mike Sharpe

• Autore: Sharpe Mike <1928-, >
• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2015
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (208 p.)
• Disciplina: 818.609
• Soggetto topico: Current events; American literature
• Note generali: "First published 2012 by M.E. Sharpe"--t.p. verso.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Title Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Candide the Tenth; Chapter 1. My Background; Chapter 2. Tora Bora; Chapter 3. I Meet Joe Wilson in Niger; Chapter 4. I Go to the President's Press Conference; Chapter 5. Katrina; Chapter 6. Death; Chapter 7. I Meet Kurt Vonnegut; Chapter 8. I Meet Einstein; Chapter 9. Connie's Misadventures in Afghanistan, Israel, and Palestine; Chapter 10. I Meet the First Black President; Chapter 11. I Slip Into and Out of Iran; Chapter 12. I See What's Going On in China; Chapter 13. I See What's Going On in Russia ; Chapter 14. I Get a Job in Finance Chapter 15. I Visit Walter Reed Memorial Hospital; Chapter 16. Genocide in the Congo; Chapter 17. The Miner Rescue in Chile; Chapter 18. Langley Air Force Base; Chapter 19. Murder in Tucson; Chapter 20. The Disaster in Japan; Chapter 21. Blacks Out of Work; Chapter 22. Migrant Farm Workers; Chapter 23. A Narrow Escape in Libya; Chapter 24. The Hundred-Year-Old Man; Chapter 25. Candide Is Sentenced to Death; Prose; God Is Guilty; Ruthless; An End to Fighting; The Voyage of the Titanic; The Hangman's Handbook; Everybody's Political ABCs ; Five Variations on Jack and Jill Variation One: In the Style of Isaac Bashevis Singer; Variation Two: In the Style of Franz Kafka; Variation Three: In the Style of Ernest Hemingway; Variation Four: In the Style of George Bernard Shaw; Variation Five: In the Style of Jane Austen; Eternal Bliss; I Divorce Myself; Grand Old Times; On Books; A Surprise for the Dictator; The Man of Many Masks; Poetry; The Day the World Came to an End; Letters to Emily Dickinson; Testimony of a War Criminal; The Good Soldier; Iraq-Free at Last; Spread It All Around; Give It to Them; Connecting Flights ; Lessons from New Orleans Quote from an Unidentified Source in Washington; I'll Never See Him Again; You Lied to Us; My First Son; Selected Poems from Thou Shalt Not Kill Unless Otherwise Instructed, 2005; Heartbreak House; I Saw This; The Eyeball; The Wrong House; His Heart Was Heavy; The Life of a Snowflake; Intelligent Design; The Helpless Giant; Selected Poems from A Requiem for New Orleans, 2006; Where Are You, God?; A Dream Deferred; Selected Agitations from Challenge; Little Red Riding Hood; The Truman Show; JKG Versus the Angel ; The Poorest Rich Country in the World: Address to the Graduating Class of 2011About the Author
• Sommario/riassunto: In the stories and poetry that comprise 'Other Agitations, ' Mike Sharpe's ingathering of history, economics, literature, and philosophy richly informs his satire. Franz Kafka, Jane Austen and Ernest Hemingway, Bernard Shaw, Isaac Bashevis Singer and Emily Dickinson serve as 'agitators.' Sharpe rewrites familiar tales creating new originals in his unique style and weltanschauung. Truth, in human hands, becomes conditional.
• Titolo autorizzato: Candide the tenth and other agitations
• ISBN: 1-317-47542-9; 1-315-70596-6; 1-283-90151-X; 0-7656-3678-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910779475203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II