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| sorrow floats tim sandlin: Social Blunders Tim Sandlin, 2010-09-01 Wild , wonderful, and wickedly funny...Highly recommended. - Library Journal One of five men could be Sam Callahan's father. Is knowing the truth worth the havoc he'll cause trying to find out? Laid low by divorce-the result of an endless stream of poor choices-Sam decides it's time he met his dad. But his quest to meet the men and discover the truth does more than just shake up the five likely suspects-it pretty much napalms the lives of everyone he meets. A comic novel of dysfunctional family and raucous debauchery, fans of Nick Hornby, Jack Kerouac, Tom Robbins, Larry McMurtry, Joseph Heller, Kurt Vonnegut, Carl Hiaasen will appreciate Sandlin's humor and Sam's journey. Other books in Tim Sandlin's GroVant Trilogy: Skipped Parts, Book 1 Sorrow Floats, Book 2 Social Blunders, Book 3 Lydia, Book 4 What readers are saying about Social Blunders: one of the funniest writers alive. I am a huge fan of Nick Hornby and Richard Russo, and Tim Sandlin belongs in their club. Besides being hilarious and lewd (a very good start), the novel is quite touching. Sandlin's narrative voice combines the absurdity of Tom Robbins, the pithy social observation of Douglas Coupland, the male sexual wanderlust of Phillip Roth. Rollicking raunchy raucous debaucherous dysfunctional good time fun-- with genuine heart and emotion mixed in for good measure absolutely hysterical and touching. I haven't looked at treadmills the same way since! What reviewers are saying about Social Blunders: A story of grand faux pas and dazzling dysfunction...a wildly satirical look at the absurdities of modern life. -The New York Times Book Review Ribald... comic and bawdy...oddly endearing...an effective blend of flippancy and compassion. -Publishers Weekly Tim Sandlin only gets better. Social Blunders is an affecting book...It is fiction to be savored. -Larry McMurtry A weird, funny, raunchy novel that veers wildly from pathos to slapstick and back again, and it's surprisingly effective. -Booklist What everyone is saying about Tim Sandlin: Tim Sandlin's stuff is as tight and funny as anyone doing this comedy novel thing. -Christopher Moore His prose, his characters, all amazing. A story of grand faux pas and dazzling dysfunction...a wildly satirical look at the absurdities of modern life. -The New York Times Book Review |
| sorrow floats tim sandlin: Sex and Sunsets Tim Sandlin, 2011-05-01 Soon to be a major motion picture called The Right Kind of Wrong, starring Ryan Kwanten from True Blood! Kelly Palamino's engagingly idiosyncratic voice falls somewhere between On the Road and Bright Lights, Big City. He's the Lone Ranger in love, riding out the rough patches on a Thorazine habit. —People At twenty-nine, Kelly Palamino's a little off-kilter but settled into his career of professional dishwasher. His big, blond, ex-hippie wife has left him for good. So it's with no particular purpose that Kelly positions himself on his porch across the street from an Episcopal church in Jackson, Wyoming, to witness a singular sight: a dark-haired bride in full regalia punting a football over the rectory before turning resolutely to walk down the aisle. It's love at first sight for Kelly, and he'll do absolutely anything and everything to get his girl... Kelly is full-tilt Gonzo crazy. But crazy people can make good protagonists, particularly when they narrate in their own uniquely whacked-out voice. —Atlanta Journal-Constitution Tim Sandlin's first novel is impressive...[He] may be compared to Tom Robbins...but Sandlin appears to be more subtle...a fun read. —San Diego Union-Tribune An anarchic novel that is by turns wryly observant and outrageously slapstick...a novel that shows wit and strength and a sweet sensibility toward the loser in everyone. —Kansas City Star A potent cocktail mixture of Jack Kerouac, Tom Robbins, and David Lynch topped off with a western twist. —Denver Post |
| sorrow floats tim sandlin: Skipped Parts Tim Sandlin, 2010-09-01 Skipped Parts is somewhere between The Catcher in the Rye and Even Cowgirls Get the Blues.-Los Angeles Times Book Review The novel that inspired the movie starring Mischa Barton and Drew Barrymore Banished to the hinterlands of Wyoming, rebellious Lydia Callahan and her thirteen-year-old son Sam have no choice but to cope. But while Lydia drinks and talks to the moose head on the wall, Sam finds a friend in local girl Maurey Pierce. Sam and Maurey set out to discover for themselves what happens in the skipped parts of the novels they read – between the first kiss and the next morning. With Lydia's support the two teens set out on their sexual exploration, and deal with its consequences. One of the wildest, raunchiest, most heartfelt coming-of-age novels of the past thirty years, Skipped Parts puts Tim Sandlin in the upper echelon of contemporary comic novelists. This contemporary novel is raunchy, funny, and full of heart, perfect for fans of Nick Hornby, Jack Kerouac, Tom Robbins, Larry McMurtry, Joseph Heller, John Irving, Kurt Vonnegut, Carl Hiaasen. Other books in Tim Sandlin's GroVant Trilogy: Skipped Parts, Book 1 Sorrow Floats, Book 2 Social Blunders, Book 3 Lydia, Book 4 What readers are saying about Skipped Parts: deals with coming of age in a humorous and often poignant way Plot twists that would make J.K. Rowling jealous, humor, beautifully drawn characters, a great sense for the detail of the West sometimes heartwarming, often heartbreaking poignant, FUNNY, SHOCKING, and even heartbreaking the deep humor comes from the extraordinary characters funny, sad, and full of heart What reviewers are saying about Skipped Parts: DAZZLING...moving...Sam's carapace is humor...He thinks like Holden Caulfield and has Joseph Heller's take on despair. His Walter Mitty–like fantasies are tiny comic gems... In the end you'll find yourself rooting for Sam. -New York Times Book Review A lighthearted, amusing, and tender story of preteen wisdom, adult immaturity, and the fine line between...An offbeat, engaging novel. -Publisher's Weekly This witty, often touching portrayal of a dirt-street-wise youth's coming-of-age sparkles with intelligence. -Booklist Thoughtful, surprising, and delightful entertainment. -St. Louis Post-Dispatch What everyone is saying about Tim Sandlin: Tim Sandlin's stuff is as tight and funny as anyone doing this comedy novel thing. -Christopher Moore His prose, his characters, all amazing. A story of grand faux pas and dazzling dysfunction...a wildly satirical look at the absurdities of modern life. -The New York Times Book Review |
| sorrow floats tim sandlin: Jimi Hendrix Turns Eighty Tim Sandlin, 2008-01-02 Guy Fontaine realizes that the residents in his assisted-living facility are living out their golden years in tribute to the 1960s and becomes involved in a media circus involving an illegal pet cat, the facility's domineering administrator, and governorDrew Barrymore. |
| sorrow floats tim sandlin: Western Swing Tim Sandlin, 2011 A spirited tale of love and loss, of country music and coming home--Page 4 of cover. |
| sorrow floats tim sandlin: Lydia Tim Sandlin, 2012-04 LYDIA, Tim Sandlin's acclaimed return to his GroVont characters, was called Uplifting...immensely satisfying by the New York Times Book Review and a gem of a novel as audacious as it is sentimental in a starred Booklist review. Managing the Virgin Birth Home for Unwed Mothers means the women in Sam Callahan's life keep his world interesting. But it's his family members that really take the cake. His daughter may be having a nervous breakdown, and his mother's just out of prison for attempting to poison the president's dog. And when they hit the road with a geriatric, an adoptive son trying to discover his parentage, and an enraged psychopath on their tails, all hell may break loose. And you thought your family was strange... Fifteen years ago, Tim Sandlin concluded his GroVont trilogy, a string of books that included a New York Times Notable Book and earned such accolades as funny and compelling (LA Times), zany (Cosmo), and dazzling and moving (New York Times). But some characters call a writer back. Welcome to the ribald, rollicking, and sometimes peculiar world of Tim Sandlin's GroVont, Wyoming, where family is always paramount, no matter how strange. |
| sorrow floats tim sandlin: Sorrow Floats Tim Sandlin, 2010-09-01 Tim Sandlin's stuff is as tight and funny as anyone doing this comedy novel thing. -Christopher Moore Maurey has hit rock bottom, with a bottle of whiskey and an infamous reputation, she'll do anything to get out of town. Even drive two ex-drunks cross-country hauling a trailer full of illegal beer. Everyone in GroVont, Wyoming, knows everybody else's business, but Maurey Pierce Talbot is practically famous around town. Sunk low since her father died, whiskey - specifically Yukon Jack - is her best friend. When she makes the mistake of a lifetime, Maurey finds herself looking up from rock bottom. So when two bumbling ex-drunks need to get cross-country with a trailer full of illegal beer, Maurey takes the wheel. Sometimes you just need to get out of town. And sometimes you need to get lost in order to get found. The dark comedy and heartfelt revelations will appeal to fans of Jack Kerouac, Tom Robbins, Larry McMurtry, Joseph Heller, John Irving, Kurt Vonnegut, and Carl Hiaasen. Other books in Tim Sandlin's GroVant Trilogy: Skipped Parts, Book 1 Sorrow Floats, Book 2 Social Blunders, Book 3 Lydia, Book 4 What readers are saying about Sorrow Floats: I've never cheered harder for a fictional character. Maurey is an appealing character; her voice is strong and clear even if her path forward isn't. Being a huge fan of ROAD TRIPS AND RAUNCHINESS, I absolutely loved this book. Sandlin really allows you to feel her anger, pain, confusion and tenderness. Funny, kind of wise and sentimental at the end. It's required reading for women, alcoholics, tortured writers Maurey Pierce is a flawed, broken, beautiful character... it's a NOVEL ABOUT BEING ALIVE. cathartic and deep Favorite. Book. Ever. What reviewers are saying about Sorrow Floats: Able storytelling and an engaging cast of dysfunctional modern American pilgrims... -Publishers Weekly (STARRED REVIEW) A rousing piece of Americana...rowdy, raunchy...A TOTAL DELIGHT. -Library Journal Tim Sandlin's fiction packs a punch. The writer's fictional Wyoming town is a grungier version of Garrison Keillor's Lake Wobegon. -Denver Post A zany road trip across America -CosmopolitanSandlin understands that black comedy is only a tiny slip away from despair, and he handles this walk without a misstep. -Dallas Morning News What everyone is saying about Tim Sandlin: Tim Sandlin's stuff is as tight and funny as anyone doing this comedy novel thing. -Christopher Moore His prose, his characters, all amazing. A story of grand faux pas and dazzling dysfunction...a wildly satirical look at the absurdities of modern life. -The New York Times Book Review |
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| sorrow floats tim sandlin: Hick Andrea Portes, 2007-05-01 This fall, the film festival circuit will be introduced to the indomitable Luli McMullen in Hick, the new film made from the acclaimed novel by Andrea Portes, who also adapted the screenplay. The film—directed by Derick Martini—stars Chloë Grace Moretz, Blake Lively and Eddie Redmayne and features Rory Culkin, Anson Mount, Juliette Lewis and Alec Baldwin in supporting roles. Hick is the story of Luli (Moretz), a bright kid from a hick town who’s had enough and strikes out on her own with some “borrowed” cash, a .45 and her wits. On the road, Luli is taken under the wing of a glamorous young grifter named Glenda (Lively), who has experienced worlds barely imaginable to Luli. As the two make their way across the American landscape, they encounter a captivating and dangerous young man named Eddie Kreezer (Redmayne), a disturbing criminal subculture, and some hard truths about what it means to be a young woman on the run, grasping at a future. Hick the movie is produced by Lighthouse Entertainment and Taylor Lane Productions, with Stone River Productions serving as executive producer. Though its first-person narrating voice is fast-paced, powerful and unquestionably authentic, Hick is a debut novel. Beyond this voice, what makes the book so extraordinary is that, although all of the worst things imaginable do befall this 13-year-old girl, she is never defeated by them. Luli always fights back; she always resurfaces. Set as a coming-of-age novel, Hick tracks the real perils that modern teenagers so often face. And it does so with bright wit, energy, and an indomitable spirit. This is a book that will grab the reader from the first page and not let go. And it is written by a woman who is becoming a cultural force in the hippest parts of Los Angeles. |
| sorrow floats tim sandlin: Permanent Obscurity Dolores Santana, 2010-04 Permanent Obscurity is a youthful bohemian satire, a story of alienated nonconformists, a Thelma & Louise story. This pulp epic could be labeled a black comedy. It could be labeled anticonsumer and subversive. Welcome to the psychosexual world of Permanent Obscurity. Inspired by the underground sexploitation films of the 1960s, this bold updating of the roughies subgenre largely takes place in New York City's East Village (ca. 2006), and it chronicles the rise and fall of a unique and intense friendship. Dolores and Serena, two chemically dependent, down-and-out artists set out to take control of their lives by making a fetish-noir/femdom movie. Of course, things don't exactly turn out as planned. |
| sorrow floats tim sandlin: The Diary of a Dude Wrangler (LARGE PRINT) Struthers Burt, 2020-10-26 The Diary of a Dude Wrangler is the quintessential book that describes living on a dude ranch in Wyoming. |
| sorrow floats tim sandlin: Sex & Sunsets Tim Sandlin, 1988 |
| sorrow floats tim sandlin: Honey Don't Tim Sandlin, 2014-03-15 Set in the very near future, Honey Don't features a hit list that runs the gamut: from a goatish president dying in flagrante, to an aging Don appalled by modern manners; from a certifiably stupid bagmen fleeing both the Secret Service and the mob with $656,000 of dirty money in a locked attache case and the presidents head in a carry -all, to a coke-snorting blow-dried VP who has suddenly caught the brass ring. Circling them are conniving White House staffers, corrupt politicos, sleazy journalists, and rancid pro football coaches: in short, the usual D.C. three-ring circus. And in the center ring is the eponymous Honey, one of those Texas women cursed with a given name that condemns her to a lifetime of cheerleading. But this Daddy's girl is a free spirit in full rebellion, and her take on life - offbeat but on target - is the heart and soul of this antic tale. Honey Don't is a full frontal assault on the inanities of our age. Often outrageous, sometimes shocking, always wickedly funny, it is, in the end, utterly and slyly subversive. It is also Tim Sandlin at his most maverick best. |
| sorrow floats tim sandlin: Idiot Nation Michael Moore, 2005 Every book tells a story . . . And the 70 titles in the Pocket Penguins series are emblematic of the renowned breadth and quality that formed part of the original Penguin vision in 1935 and that continue to define our publishing today. Together, they tell one version of the unique story of Penguin Books. Multi-million selling author; award-winning filmmaker, performer, activist and scourge of political hypocrites everywhere, Michael Moore is nothing less than a global phenomenon. Stupid White Men - the book they tried to ban in the US - was published by Penguin in the UK in 2002 and has since sold well over 1.5 million copies. These hilarious and scorching extracts show exactly why Moore is the man that everyone has an opinion on. |
| sorrow floats tim sandlin: High Fidelity Nick Hornby, 2005-05-05 THE MILLION-COPY INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER & SOURCE OF THE 2020 HULU SERIES 'One of my favourite novels' Zoë Kravitz in Vulture ________________ Do you know your desert-island, all-time, top five most memorable break-ups? Rob does. But Laura isn't on it - even though she's just become his latest ex. Finding he can't get over Laura, record-store owner Rob decides to revisit his relationship top hits to figure out what went wrong. But soon, he's asking himself some big questions: about relationships, about life and about his own self-destructive tendencies. Astutely observed and wickedly funny, Nick Hornby's cult classic explores love, loss and the need for a good playlist. A must for readers of David Nicholls and music geeks everywhere! ________________ 'A triumphant first novel. True to life, very funny and moving' Financial Times 'Extremely cleverly observed' Mail on Sunday 'If this book was a record, we would be calling it an instant classic. Because that's what it is' Guardian 'Leaves you believing not only in the redemptive power of music but above all the redemptive power of love. Funny and wise, sweet and true' Independent |
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| sorrow floats tim sandlin: The Fable of Bing Tim Sandlin, 2014-06-01 Raised by bonobos and a controlling zookeeper in the San Diego Wildlife Safari Park, Bing has no clue as to the outside world, until the girl of his dreams entices him into breaking free from the cages. Bing enters the outside world as a stranger in an even stranger land and the world will never quite be the same. |
| sorrow floats tim sandlin: Twisted Laurie Halse Anderson, 2007 After getting busted for doing graffiti and having to work all summer to pay for the damages, invisible Tyler's physique changes greatly and brings with it unexpected perks, including the attention of his father's boss's daughter, Bethany Millbury, and a change in the unspoken hierarchy at school. |
| sorrow floats tim sandlin: Hollywood Highbrow Shyon Baumann, 2018-06-05 Today's moviegoers and critics generally consider some Hollywood products--even some blockbusters--to be legitimate works of art. But during the first half century of motion pictures very few Americans would have thought to call an American movie art. Up through the 1950s, American movies were regarded as a form of popular, even lower-class, entertainment. By the 1960s and 1970s, however, viewers were regularly judging Hollywood films by artistic criteria previously applied only to high art forms. In Hollywood Highbrow, Shyon Baumann for the first time tells how social and cultural forces radically changed the public's perceptions of American movies just as those forces were radically changing the movies themselves. The development in the United States of an appreciation of film as an art was, Baumann shows, the product of large changes in Hollywood and American society as a whole. With the postwar rise of television, American movie audiences shrank dramatically and Hollywood responded by appealing to richer and more educated viewers. Around the same time, European ideas about the director as artist, an easing of censorship, and the development of art-house cinemas, film festivals, and the academic field of film studies encouraged the idea that some American movies--and not just European ones--deserved to be considered art. |
| sorrow floats tim sandlin: Sound Identities Cameron McCarthy, 1999 If it can be argued that young people construct their identities through the social formation of boundaries, then it is important to uncover how social, cultural, and political boundaries are created and lived through popular music. This is both a pedagogical and political concern. |
| sorrow floats tim sandlin: Stupid White Men Michael Moore, 2004-05-11 In the winter of 2002, Stupid White Men took America -- and the world -- by storm. Tired and skeptical of George W. Bush's high approval ating, frightened by the implications of the Enron scandal -- and generally just looking for a voice of honest dissent in the thick atmosphere of jingoism that followed 9/11 -- book buyers from coast to coast swiftly embraced Michael Moore's in-your-face anti-Bush-era manifesto, making it one of the bestselling nonfiction books of the year. With an unerring eye for greed, hypocrisy, and corruption, Michael Moore takes on the whole ugly mess of America at the dawn of the twenty-first century. Whether he's demanding U.N. action to overthrow the Bush Family Junta or calling on African Americans to place whites only signs over the entrances of unfriendly businesses, Stupid White Men is a pitch-perfect skewering of our culture of Malfeasance and Mediocrity. |
| sorrow floats tim sandlin: Michael Moore Is a Big Fat Stupid White Man David T. Hardy, Jason Clarke, 2009-03-17 Watching Michael Moore in action—passing off manipulating facts in Bowling for Columbine, spinning statistics in Stupid White Men and Dude, Where's My Country?, shamelessly grandstanding at the Academy Awards, and epitomizing the hypocrisy he's made a king's fortune railing against—has spurred authors David T. Hardy and Jason Clarke to take action into their own hands. In Michael Moore Is a Big Fat Stupid White Man, Hardy and Clarke dish it back hard to the fervent prophet of the far left, turning a careful eye on Moore's use of camera tricks and publicity ploys to present his own version of the truth. Postwar documentarians gave us the documentary, Rob Reiner gave us the mockumentary, and Moore initiated a third genre, the crockumentary. How, they ask, does Moore pull off a proletarian, man-of-the-people image so at odds with his lifestyle as a fabulously wealthy Manhattanite? And how large of an impact do his incendiary, ill-founded polemics have on the growing community that follows him with near-religious devotion? Loaded with well-researched, solidly reasoned arguments, and laced with irreverent wit, Michael Moore Is a Big Fat Stupid White Man fires back at one of the left's biggest targets—politically and literally. |
| sorrow floats tim sandlin: The Cheerleader Ruth Doan MacDougall, 1998 Here is what it was like to grow up in the 1950s in the years of ponytails, pajama parties, proms, and parking, when to be popular was important and when, if you were a girl, being important meant being a cheerleader. THE CHEERLEADER is a best-selling novel about the loss of innocence, the growth of passion, and the awakening of ambition.A classic.--PUBLISHERS WEEKLYOne of the truest portraits of an American girl ever written.--DETROIT FREE PRESSIt's heartbreaking at times, hilarious at others, and she's got it all down beautifully.--PHILADELPHIA INQUIRERIf future historians and sociologists are ever impelled to find out what it was like to be a high school student in America at mid 20th century, they will need go no farther than THE CHEERLEADER for documentation and enlightenment...Utterly honest, accurate, and sympathetic.--KANSAS CITY STARA devastatingly accurate portrait of the '50s.--LIBRARY JOURNAL |
| sorrow floats tim sandlin: Extracting the Stone of Madness: Poems 1962 - 1972 Alejandra Pizarnik, 2016-05-17 The first full-length collection in English by one of Latin America’s most significant twentieth-century poets. Revered by the likes of Octavio Paz and Roberto Bolano, Alejandra Pizarnik is still a hidden treasure in the U.S. Extracting the Stone of Madness: Poems 1962–1972 comprises all of her middle to late work, as well as a selection of posthumously published verse. Obsessed with themes of solitude, childhood, madness and death, Pizarnik explored the shifting valences of the self and the border between speech and silence. In her own words, she was drawn to the suffering of Baudelaire, the suicide of Nerval, the premature silence of Rimbaud, the mysterious and fleeting presence of Lautréamont,” as well as to the “unparalleled intensity” of Artaud’s “physical and moral suffering.” |
| sorrow floats tim sandlin: Dot Dot Dot 8 Peter Bilak, 2004-11 The journal whose very name promises more to come delivers two issues this season. There aren't too many places to find intelligent, passionate, and witty writing about the past, present, and future of visual culture. Dot Dot Dot, the brilliant journal edited by Stuart Bailey and Peter Bilak, is one of the few we've found, and we're happy to be able to present it in our catalog. Issue 8 contains articles by Ryan Gander, Paul Elliman, Stuart Bailey, Diedrich Diederichsen, Anna Gwendoline Jackson, Momus, Brian McMullen, Antonin Kosik, David Reinfurt, Graham Meyer, Katherine Gillieson, Karel Martens, and Peter Bilak, among others. Articles range from Why Are All These BooksOrange? to A Coming of Age Reading Checklist to City Turned Upside Down and concluding with About Nothing, Really. |
| sorrow floats tim sandlin: Smashed Koren Zailckas, 2006-01-31 Garnering a vast amount of attention from young people and parents, and from book buyers across the country, Smashed became a media sensation and a New York Times bestseller. Eye-opening and utterly gripping, Koren Zailckas’s story is that of thousands of girls like her who are not alcoholics—yet—but who routinely use booze as a shortcut to courage and a stand-in for good judgment. With one stiff sip of Southern Comfort at the age of fourteen, Zailckas is initiated into the world of drinking. From then on, she will drink faithfully, fanatically. In high school, her experimentation will lead to a stomach pumping. In college, her excess will give way to a pattern of self-poisoning that will grow more destructive each year. At age twenty-two, Zailckas will wake up in an unfamiliar apartment in New York City, elbow her friend who is passed out next to her, and ask, Where are we? Smashed is a sober look at how she got there and, after years of blackouts and smashups, what it took for her to realize she had to stop drinking. Smashed is an astonishing literary debut destined to become a classic. |
| sorrow floats tim sandlin: Western Swing Tim Sandlin, 1997-10-01 From the acclaimed author of Sorrow Floats, Social Blunders, and Skipped Parts, comes a wickedly funny novel about love, marriage, and life. When Loren Paul spends too much time contemplating the meaning of life, his gorgeous, headstrong wife Lana Sue drives South to meet some cowboys. While Lana Sue drinks and flirts in country bars, Loren soul searches and starves in the Wyoming mountains. Loren and Lana Sue couldn't be on more different paths, but they're both steering toward the same surprising truth: maybe they deserve each other. |
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| sorrow floats tim sandlin: Even Cowgirls Get the Blues Tom Robbins, 2003-06-17 “This is one of those special novels—a piece of working magic, warm, funny, and sane.”—Thomas Pynchon The whooping crane rustlers are girls. Young girls. Cowgirls, as a matter of fact, all “bursting with dimples and hormones”—and the FBI has never seen anything quite like them. Yet their rebellion at the Rubber Rose Ranch is almost overshadowed by the arrival of the legendary Sissy Hankshaw, a white-trash goddess literally born to hitchhike, and the freest female of them all. Freedom, its prizes and its prices, is a major theme of Tom Robbins’s classic tale of eccentric adventure. As his robust characters attempt to turn the tables on fate, the reader is drawn along on a tragicomic joyride across the badlands of sexuality, wild rivers of language, and the frontiers of the mind. |
| sorrow floats tim sandlin: Updating the Literary West , 1997 Western writers, says Thomas J. Lyon in his epilogue to Updating the Literary West, have grown up with the frontier myth but now find themselves in the early stages of creating a new western myth. The editors of the Literary History of the American West (TCU Press, 1987) hoped that the first volume would begin, not conclude, their exploration of the West's literary heritage. Out of this hope comes Updating the Literary West, a comprehensive reference anthology including essays by over one hundred scholars. A selected bibliography is included with each piece. In the ten years since publication of LHAW, western writing has developed a significantly larger presence in the national literary stream. A variety of cultural viewpoints have developed, along with new tactics for literary study. New authors have risen to prominence, and the range of subjects has changed and widened. Updating the Literary West looks at topics ranging from western classics to cowboys and Cadillacs and considers children's literature, ethnicity, environmental writing, gender issues and other topics in which change has been rapid since publication of LHAW. This volume again affirms the West's literary legitimacy--status hard earned by the Western Literary Association--and the lasting place of popular western writing as part of the growing and changing literary--and American--experience. An excellent reference for a wide range of readers and an invaluable resource for scholars and libraries. Selected list of contributors: James Maguire Fred Erisman Susan J. Rosowski Gerald Haslam Tom Pilkington A. Carl Bredahl Richard Slotkin John G. Cawelti Robert F. Gish Ann Ronald Mick McAllister |
| sorrow floats tim sandlin: Won by Love Norma McCorvey, Gary Lee Thomas, 1997 In Roe v. Wade, perhaps the most controversial United States Supreme Court decision, Norma McCorvey fought for and won the right to secure an abortion. Though she never had an abortion, under the pseudonym Jane Roe, Norma reluctantly became the poster child for the pro-choice movement. Over the next two decades, Norma experienced the grief and despair of millions of women who chose to abort their babies; she witnessed the destruction of thousands of human lives in abortion clinics where she worked; and the champion: of the pro-choice movement was soon being crushed by the weight of so much death, and so many ill-considered choices. Finally, she began to break. She found out that the real choice she had been burdened with was not about abortion but about eternal life. It was a choice that would shock the world and change Norma's life forever. |
| sorrow floats tim sandlin: The Hummingbird Wizard Meredith Blevins, 2003-09 Driving full steam ahead with her life after the unexpected death of her husband, Annie Szabo was not planning on veering off course again. But her late husband's family, an outrageous and proud clan of Gypsies, has other plans. When Annie's oldest friend, Jerry, turns up dead, she is plunged back into the family she tried to leave behind. Suspecting murder, Annie is forced to form an alliance with Madame Mina, her stubborn and powerful mother-in-law, the heart of the Szabo family. Determined to catch Jerry's killer, the two women must unlock the pattern of a tapestry wild with lawyers, criminals, kink, magic, and even more death. One thing is certain--to catch a killer with a hidden agenda, Annie and Mina must use all of their resources: ancient curses, a talent for petty theft, bizarre love magic, a Gypsy PI, and a strong sense of humor. |
| sorrow floats tim sandlin: Fashioning Kimono Annie M. Van Assche, 2008-10-01 |
| sorrow floats tim sandlin: Hooked Les Edgerton, 2007-04-12 The road to rejection is paved with bad beginnings. Agents and editors agree: Improper story beginnings are the single biggest barrier to publication. Why? If a novel or short story has a bad beginning, then no one will keep reading. It's just that simple. In Hooked, author Les Edgerton draws on his experience as a successful fiction writer and teacher to help you overcome the weak openings that lead to instant rejection by showing you how to successfully use the ten core components inherent to any great beginning. You'll find: • Detailed instruction on how to develop your inciting incident • Keys for creating a cohesive story-worthy problem • Tips on how to avoid common opening gaffes like overusing backstory • A rundown on basics such as opening scene length and transitions • A comprehensive analysis of more than twenty great opening lines from novels and short stories Plus, you'll discover exclusive insider advice from agents and acquiring editors on what they look for in a strong opening. With Hooked, you'll have all the information you need to craft a compelling beginning that lays the foundation for an irresistible story! |
| sorrow floats tim sandlin: Reincarnation Blues Michael Poore, 2018-07-10 A wildly imaginative novel about a man who is reincarnated over ten thousand lifetimes to be with his one true love: Death herself. “Tales of gods and men akin to Neil Gaiman’s Sandman as penned by a kindred spirit of Douglas Adams.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review) First we live. Then we die. And then . . . we get another try? Ten thousand tries, to be exact. Ten thousand lives to “get it right.” Answer all the Big Questions. Achieve Wisdom. And Become One with Everything. Milo has had 9,995 chances so far and has just five more lives to earn a place in the cosmic soul. If he doesn’t make the cut, oblivion awaits. But all Milo really wants is to fall forever into the arms of Death. Or Suzie, as he calls her. More than just Milo’s lover throughout his countless layovers in the Afterlife, Suzie is literally his reason for living—as he dives into one new existence after another, praying for the day he’ll never have to leave her side again. But Reincarnation Blues is more than a great love story: Every journey from cradle to grave offers Milo more pieces of the great cosmic puzzle—if only he can piece them together in time to finally understand what it means to be part of something bigger than infinity. As darkly enchanting as the works of Neil Gaiman and as wisely hilarious as Kurt Vonnegut’s, Michael Poore’s Reincarnation Blues is the story of everything that makes life profound, beautiful, absurd, and heartbreaking. Because it’s more than Milo and Suzie’s story. It’s your story, too. Praise for Reincarnation Blues “The most fun you’ll have reading about a man who has been killed by both catapult and car accident.”—NPR “This book made me laugh out loud. And then a page later, it made me sob. Reminiscent of Tom Robbins and Christopher Moore, Poore finds humor in the dark absurdities of life.”—Chicago Review of Books “Charming . . . surprisingly light and uplifting . . . It reads like a writer having fun.”—New York Journal of Books |
| sorrow floats tim sandlin: The Claims of Christ Chuck Smith, 1992-01-01 There is no denying the fact that the claims of Christ are radical. Jesus? statements concerning Himself present every person with a choice to be made. We must either accept or reject His claims. He was either telling the truth or He was lying. Pastor Chuck Smith takes a straightforward look at the claims of Jesus Christ, examining their validity. Readers are challenged to accept Christ, based upon these claims. |
| sorrow floats tim sandlin: Honey Don't Tim Sandlin, 2004-04-23 Well-loved author Sandlin eschews all political correctness in this hilariousdark comedy about the rather unseemly death of a President and the wacky castof characters caught up in the ensuing whirlwind. |
| sorrow floats tim sandlin: The Gospel of the Kingdom. A Popular Exposition of the Gospel According to Matthew C. H. Spurgeon, 2022-10-27 This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant. |
| sorrow floats tim sandlin: The Also People Ben Aaronovitch, 1995 The Tardis has arrived in a paradise : a world where there is neither poverty, violence nor suffering. But the idyllic atmosphere is soon shattered by a vicious murder. 11-14 yrs. |
| sorrow floats tim sandlin: Glister John Burnside, 2010-08-31 The children of Innertown exist in a state of suspended terror. Every year or so, a boy from their school disappears, vanishing into the wasteland of the old chemical plant. Nobody knows where these boys go, or whether they are alive or dead, and without evidence the authorities claim they are simply runaways. The town policeman, Morrison knows otherwise. He was involved in the cover-up of one boy's murder, and he believes all the boys have been killed. Though he is seriously compromised, he would still like to find out the killer's identity. The local children also want to know and, in their fear and frustration, they turn on Rivers, a sad fantasist and suspected paedophile living alone at the edge of the wasteland. Trapped and frightened, one of the boys, Leonard, tries to escape, taking refuge in the poisoned ruins of the old plant; there he finds another boy, who might be the missing Liam and might be a figment of his imagination. With his help, Leonard comes to understand the policeman's involvement, and exacts the necessary revenge - before following Liam into the Glister: possibly a disused chemical weapons facility, possibly a passage to the outer world. A terrifying exploration of loss and the violence that pools under the surface of the everyday, Glister is an exquisitely written, darkly imagined novel by one of our greatest contemporary writers. |
SORROW Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster
The meaning of SORROW is deep distress, sadness, or regret especially for the loss of someone or something loved. How to use sorrow in a sentence. Synonym Discussion of Sorrow.
SORROW | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary
SORROW definition: 1. (a cause of) a feeling of great sadness: 2. to feel great sadness: 3. (a cause of) a feeling…. Learn more.
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Sorrow, distress, grief, misery, woe imply bitter suffering, especially as caused by loss or misfortune. Sorrow is the most general term. Grief is keen suffering, especially for a particular …
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[uncountable] sorrow (at/for/over something) (rather formal) a feeling of being very sad because something very bad has happened synonym grief. He expressed his sorrow at the news of her …
Sorrow - definition of sorrow by The Free Dictionary
Mental suffering caused by loss, disappointment, or misfortune, or an instance of this: tried to assuage her sorrows. See Synonyms at regret. 2. A source or cause of sorrow; a misfortune: …
sorrow - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
May 24, 2025 · sorrow (third-person singular simple present sorrows, present participle sorrowing, simple past and past participle sorrowed) (intransitive) To feel or express grief. Synonyms: …
Sorrow - Definition, Meaning & Synonyms - Vocabulary.com
Sorrow is a feeling of immense sadness, like the sorrow you would feel if your best friend suddenly moved across the country. Sorrow is an almost unbearable sadness. In fact, it is …
SORROW Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster
The meaning of SORROW is deep distress, sadness, or regret especially for the loss of someone or something loved. How to use sorrow in a sentence. Synonym Discussion of Sorrow.
SORROW | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary
SORROW definition: 1. (a cause of) a feeling of great sadness: 2. to feel great sadness: 3. (a cause of) a feeling…. Learn more.
SORROW Definition & Meaning | Dictionary.com
Sorrow, distress, grief, misery, woe imply bitter suffering, especially as caused by loss or misfortune. Sorrow is the most general term. Grief is keen suffering, especially for a particular …
sorrow noun - Definition, pictures, pronunciation and usage ...
[uncountable] sorrow (at/for/over something) (rather formal) a feeling of being very sad because something very bad has happened synonym grief. He expressed his sorrow at the news of her …
Sorrow - definition of sorrow by The Free Dictionary
Mental suffering caused by loss, disappointment, or misfortune, or an instance of this: tried to assuage her sorrows. See Synonyms at regret. 2. A source or cause of sorrow; a misfortune: "I …
sorrow - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
May 24, 2025 · sorrow (third-person singular simple present sorrows, present participle sorrowing, simple past and past participle sorrowed) (intransitive) To feel or express grief. Synonyms: …
Sorrow - Definition, Meaning & Synonyms - Vocabulary.com
Sorrow is a feeling of immense sadness, like the sorrow you would feel if your best friend suddenly moved across the country. Sorrow is an almost unbearable sadness. In fact, it is …
