Myron E Sharpe

Candide the Tenth and Other Agitations

Prose and Poetry

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. August 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 281g
• ISBN-13: 9780765636775
• ISBN-10: 0765636778
• Artikelnr.: 41782474

Autorenporträt

Mike Sharpe

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1 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
Part 2 Prose
Chapter 26 God Is Guilty
Chapter 27 Ruthless
Chapter 28 An End to Fighting
Chapter 29 The Voyage of the Titanic
Chapter 30 The Hangman's Handbook
Chapter 31 Everybody's Political ABCs
Chapter 32 Five Variations on Jack and Jill
Chapter 33 Eternal Bliss
Chapter 34 I Divorce Myself
Chapter 35 Grand Old Times
Chapter 36 On Books
Chapter 37 A Surprise for the Dictator
Chapter 38 The Man of Many Masks
Part 3 Poetry
Chapter 39 The Day the World Came to an End
Chapter 40 Letters to Emily Dickinson
Chapter 41 Testimony of a War Criminal
Chapter 42 The Good Soldier
Chapter 43 Iraq-Free at Last
Chapter 44 Spread It All Around
Chapter 45 Give It to Them
Chapter 46 Connecting Flights
Chapter 47 Lessons from New Orleans
Chapter 48 Quote from an Unidentified Source in Washington
Chapter 49 I'll Never See Him Again
Chapter 50 You Lied to Us
Chapter 51 My First Son
Part 4 Selected Poems from Thou Shalt Not Kill Unless Otherwise Instructed, 2005
Chapter 52 Heartbreak House
Chapter 53 I Saw This
Chapter 54 The Eyeball
Chapter 55 The Wrong House
Chapter 56 His Heart Was Heavy
Chapter 57 The Life of a Snowflake
Chapter 58 Intelligent Design
Chapter 59 The Helpless Giant
Part 5 Selected Poems from A Requiem for New Orleans, 2006
Chapter 60 Where Are You, God?
Chapter 61 A Dream Deferred
Part 6 Selected Agitations from Challenge
Chapter 62 Little Red Riding Hood
Chapter 63 The Truman Show
Chapter 64 JKG Versus the Angel
Chapter 65 The Poorest Rich Country in the World: Address to the Graduating Class of 2011