LIBROS DEL AUTOR: david manning

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  • Brain Storms
    David Manning
    This collection of imaginative short fiction by David Manning is gleaned from a lifetime afflicted with creativity, including selections from his inventive 1970s 'Blurbs' column, excerpts from a novel-in-progress set at Duke University in 1968, a metaphysical carnival of short stories, and multi-media formats ranging from radio to stage to film to song lyrics. ...
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    22,22 €

  • Sailing the Bright Stream
    David Treadway Manning
    In Sailing the Bright Stream: New & Selected Poems, David Treadway Manning, Three-time winner of the North Carolina Poetry Society’s Poet Laureate Award, offers us an in-depth look at his writing career that spans seven decades, taking readers from this young rowdy days in California, to philosophical conversations around campfires in the deserts of the Southwest, to small-town...
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    22,51 €

  • Singularities
    David T. Manning / David TManning
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    17,18 €

  • How to Live Like an Artist Even If You’re Not One
    David Manning
    This collection of published and unpublished creative non-fiction essays represents the lifelong reflections of a creatively afflicted mind, from humorous to serious, extraordinary to ordinary, biographical to metaphysical and other alliterations lurking between the lines, all organized into thematic topics including Homefront, Internal and External Travels, the title section, ...
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    24,94 €

  • Half Slave Half Free
    David Manning
    Two homeless beggars meet on the streets of New York in the winter of 1870. One is a handicapped Irish Civil War veteran with a low self-esteem trying to find something in life to hang on to; the other a confident, well-educated former slave trying to make the most of his considerable potential as an accomplished chef. An exploration of the two men’s lives is augmented by image...
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    11,19 €

  • Sylvia’s Violin
    David Manning
    Sylvia Solo is a seventh-grade student at an ultra-expensive private school that she attends by virtue of a violin scholarship. As part of a class assignment, Sylvia visits the Metropolitan Museum’s ancient Egyptian collection. While there in Perneb’s tomb, the lights go out. As she begins playing her violin, a guard investigates, and his flashlight reveals ancient symbols carv...
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    23,30 €

  • A Brief History of the Recent Future
    David Manning
    David Manning wrote A Brief History of the Recent Future in the mid 1970s with the idea of satirizing the present by forecasting the most bizarre imaginable future. The result was a 'verbally animated cartoon' tracing the evolution of an apocalyptic conflict between proponents of ganic garbage vs those advocating ficial garbage as civilization’s final energy resource. Along the...
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    23,71 €

  • Dead Letters
    David Manning
    Labor Day 1989: Duncan Twist’s sleazy client, Nick Varnish, has loaned him a cottage overlooking the salt marshes of Dusktide Beach, a barrier island in southeast North Carolina. Just to the south lies Lorn Island, which is deserted, except for one ethereal resident: the Kindred Spirit. Duncan accidentally encounters a former lover, Tendency Specter, who introduces him to the K...
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    22,88 €

  • Jerry Peyton’s Notched Inheritance
    David Manning
    Jerry Peyton’s Notched Inheritance is a Western novel written by David Manning in 1920. The story follows the titular character, Jerry Peyton, who inherits his father’s ranch after his death. However, Jerry soon discovers that his father’s death was not an accident, but rather a murder. As he investigates his father’s death, Jerry must navigate a web of deceit and danger in ord...
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    32,21 €