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Christopher Buckley (Author)

They Eat Puppies, Don't They?

Editura: TWELVE

Anul aparitiei: 2012

In an attempt to gain congressional approval for a top-secret weapons system, Washington lobbyist "Bird" McIntyre teams up with sexy, outspoken neocon Angel Templeton to pit the American public against the Chinese. When Bird fails to uncover an authentic reason to slander the nation, he and Angel put the Washington media machine to work, spreading a rumor that the Chinese secret service is working to assassinate the Dalai Lama. Meanwhile in China, mild-mannered President Fa Mengyao and his devoted aide Gang are maneuvering desperately against sinister party hard-liners Minister Lo and General Han. Now Fa and Gang must convince the world that the People's Republic is not out to kill the Dalai Lama, while maintaining Fa's small margin of power in the increasingly militaristic environment of the party. On the home front, Bird must contend with a high-strung wife who entertains Olympic equestrian ambition, and the qualifying competition happens to be taking place in China. As things unravel abroad, Bird and Angel's lie comes dangerously close to reality. And as their relationship rises to a new level, so do mounting tensions between the United States and China.

Christopher Buckley (Author)

Holy Days of Obligation: Essays on Santa Barbara & the Writing Life, at Home & Abroad

Editura: LYNX HOUSE PR

Anul aparitiei: 2014

Holy Days of Obligation , the third part of Christopher Buckley's memoir trilogy is a book about place and vocation. Set primarily in Santa Barbara and Montecito in the 1950's and 60's, among the woods and natural elements all around him, in the residue of light lifting from soda fountains, movies, surf boards, and old Chevrolets, the narrator of these crisp essays finds his consciousness forming a faith in the power of "place" and in the work of art.

Christopher Buckley (Author)

Losing Mum and Pup: A Memoir

Editura: TWELVE

Anul aparitiei: 2009

In twelve months between 2007 and 2008, Christopher Buckley coped with the passing of his father, William F. Buckley, the father of the modern conservative movement, and his mother, Patricia Taylor Buckley, one of New York's most glamorous and colorful socialites. He was their only child and their relationship was close and complicated. Writes Buckley: "They were not - with respect to every other set of loving, wonderful parents in the world - your typical mom and dad." As Buckley tells the story of their final year together, he takes readers on a surprisingly entertaining tour through hospitals, funeral homes, and memorial services, capturing the heartbreaking and disorienting feeling of becoming a 55-year-old orphan. Buckley maintains his sense of humor by recalling the words of Oscar Wilde: "To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune. To lose both looks like carelessness." Just as Calvin Trillin and Joan Didion gave readers solace and insight into the experience of losing a spouse, Christopher Buckley offers consolation, wit, and warmth to those coping with the death of a parent, while telling a unique personal story of life with legends.

Christopher Buckley (Author)

Varieties of Religious Experience

Editura: WOLTERS KLUWER LAW & BUSINESS

Anul aparitiei: 2013

Christopher Buckley investigates the large, unanswerable questions that have dogged humanity since the Beginning. Often the seascapes along the California coast toss their debris of ontological doubts upon the shores of his writing . . . uncertainties concerning God, the human condition, the limits of our knowing, and the universe. Buckley's poetry provides readers with the constant blending of beautiful language and stirring content. Full of emotion, Varieties of Religious Experience promises to deliver meaningful messages.

Christopher Buckley (Author)

Petits Hommes Verts(les)

Editura: JOSSEY BASS

Anul aparitiei: 2008

Leading authorities share their approaches to understanding, managing and changing organizational cu

Christopher Buckley (Author)

D'Parts Anticip's

Editura: TEXAS STATE HISTORICAL ASSN

Anul aparitiei: 2010

McKinney Falls State Park, which lies across the Colorado River from Austin, is the 672-acre center

Christopher Buckley (Author)

The Relic Master

Editura: KESSINGER PUB LLC

Anul aparitiei: 2015

From New York Times bestselling author Christopher Buckley, "one of the funniest writers in the English language" (Tom Wolfe), a compelling and hilarious adventure featuring a sixteenth-century relic hunter and his best friend, Albrecht Durer, who conspire to forge the Shroud of Turin. The year is 1517. Dismas is a relic hunter: one who procures "authentic" religious relics for wealthy and influential clients. His two most important patrons are Frederick the Wise, Elector of Saxony and soon-to-be Cardinal Albrecht of Mainz. While Frederick is drawn to the recent writing of Martin Luther, Albrecht pursues the financial and political benefits of religion and seeks to buy a cardinalship through the selling of indulgences. When Albrecht's ambitions increase his demands for grander and more marketable relics, Dismas and his artist friend Durer conspire to manufacture a shroud to sell to the unsuspecting noble. Unfortunately Durer's reckless pride exposes Albrecht's newly acquired shroud as a fake, so Albrecht puts Dismas and Durer in the custody of four loutish mercenaries and sends them all to steal Christ's burial cloth (the Shroud of Chambery), Europe's most celebrated relic. On ...

Christopher Buckley (Editor)

Aspects of Robinson: Homage to Weldon Kees

Editura: OXFORD UNIV PR ESL

Anul aparitiei: 2011

2012 Nebraska Book Award In this remarkable anthology of poems about Weldon Kees or inspired by Weldon Kees--each accompanied by a statement by the poet regarding Kees's influence, magic, and power over the imagination of 20th Century American poetry--the editors Christopher Buckley and Christopher Howell have scored a major coup in American letters. Coupled with these poems are nearly 20 essays by some of the greatest lights of 20th Century American poetry, including Dana Gioia and Joseph Brodsky.

Christopher Buckley (Author)

Star Journal: Selected Poems

Editura: SPRINGER VERLAG GMBH

Anul aparitiei: 2016

Star Journal is a selection of poems from Christopher Buckley's twenty previous collections , from 1980-2014. Past praise from Philip Levine: "The poems are modest, straight forward, intensely lyrical and totally accessible. . . . This is a humble poetry of great truths and profound emotions that never overstates its concerns for the events both in and above the world. It rewards countless readings and never betrays itself." --Ploughshares

Christopher Buckley (Author)

Sleepwalk: California Dreamin' and a Last Dance with the 60s

Editura: CAMBRIDGE UNIV PR

Anul aparitiei: 2006

For Christopher Buckley, the West is more than just a direction: it stands for dreams and possibilities that are supple, color-filled, and bittersweet. Tinged with memories both comic and dark, this is a book about what it meant to grow up in California during the late '50s and early '60s, one written from the viewpoint of a spirited and insightful observer capable of deftly weaving tales about Catholic school, fashion, cars, music, and dances in the high school gym together with smooth-flowing personal reflections on poetry, politics, and life's many ironies. With uncanny accuracy, Buckley's essays show us how childhood follows us into adulthood, how the culture of our birth sustains, directs, and sometimes blinds us. Haunting in its observations, Sleepwalk is also vastly entertaining and, for anyone not familiar with the ethos of the period, terrifically informative.

Christopher Buckley (Author)

They Eat Puppies, Don't They?

Editura: KESSINGER PUB LLC

Anul aparitiei: 2012

In an attempt to gain congressional approval for a top-secret weapons system, Washington lobbyist "Bird" McIntyre teams up with sexy, outspoken neocon Angel Templeton to pit the American public against the Chinese. When Bird fails to uncover an authentic reason to slander the nation, he and Angel put the Washington media machine to work, spreading a rumor that the Chinese secret service is working to assassinate the Dalai Lama. Meanwhile in China, mild-mannered President Fa Mengyao and his devoted aide Gang are maneuvering desperately against sinister party hard-liners Minister Lo and General Han. Now Fa and Gang must convince the world that the People's Republic is not out to kill the Dalai Lama, while maintaining Fa's small margin of power in the increasingly militaristic environment of the party. On the home front, Bird must contend with a high-strung wife who entertains Olympic equestrian ambition, and the qualifying competition happens to be taking place in China. As things unravel abroad, Bird and Angel's lie comes dangerously close to reality. And as their relationship rises to a new level, so do mounting tensions between the United States and China.

Christopher Buckley (Editor)

What Will Suffice: Contemporary American Poets on the Art of Poetry

Editura: ROUTLEDGE CHAPMAN HALL

Anul aparitiei: 1995

'The Routledge Graded Dutch Reader' has been specially designed for intermediate learners of Dutch a

Christopher Buckley (Editor)

Homage to Vallejo

Editura: UNIV OF MICHIGAN PR

Anul aparitiei: 2006

Poetry. Latino/Latina Studies. 41 American poets respond to the poetry and life of the great Peruvian poet Cesar Vallejo. This anthology includes poetic homage, variations on a theme and imitations of this seminal 20th century master by such poets as Donald Justice, Philip Levine, Larry Levis, Luis Omar Salinas, Pamela Stewart and Charles Wright. Each poet has also written a prose complement in which they discuss Vallejo's influence on their own work and on contemporary American poetry. In his introduction, Christopher Buckley discusses Vallejo's unique influence on contemporary American poetry, and expresses the hope that this collection of poems will be, in some small part, a witness to the great and enduring life, poetry and soul of Cesar Vallejo.

Christopher Buckley (Editor)

Bear Flag Republic: Prose Poems and Poetics from California

Editura: UNIV OF MICHIGAN PR

Anul aparitiei: 2008

Poetry. BEAR FLAG REPUBLIC features poems from ninety poets, including Killarney Clary, Wanda Coleman, Peter Everwine, Richard Garcia, Amy Gerstler, Robert Hass, Eloise Klein Healy, Jane Hirshfield, Garrett Hongo, Mark Jarman, Dorianne Laux, Philip Levine, Larry Levis, Morton Marcus, Czeslaw Milosz, Luis Omar Salinas, David St. John, Joseph Stroud, Amy Uyematsu, Diane Wakoski, Charles Wright, and Al Young, among many others. This great anthology also includes twenty-two essays from poets, including Robert Bly, Maxine Chernoff, Mark Jarman, Diane Wakoski, Charles Harper Webb, and more. Speaking is natural; writing is not. Prose and poetry will forever combine and recombine to express what utterly needs to be told--Al Young. A prose poem has the shape of water; it spreads out. Some poems are that expansive, that open and fluid, and their shape needs to reflect their nature...--Marsha de la O.

Christopher Buckley (Author)

The Relic Master

Editura: PRINCETON UNIV PR

Anul aparitiei: 2016

Christopher Buckley's "hilarious, bawdy, and irreverent frolic of a tale" about a sixteenth-century relic hunter and the artist Albrecht Dürer who conspire to fabricate Christ's burial shroud reads "like Indiana Jones gone medieval" (USA TODAY).The year is 1517. Dismas is a relic hunter who procures "authentic" religious relics for wealthy and influential clients. His two most important patrons are Frederick the Wise and soon-to-be Cardinal Albrecht of Mainz. While Frederick is drawn to the recent writing of Martin Luther, Albrecht pursues the financial and political benefits of religion and seeks to buy a cardinalship through the selling of indulgences. When Albrecht's demands for grander relics increase, Dismas and his artist friend Dürer fabricate a shroud to sell to the unsuspecting noble. Unfortunately Dürer's reckless pride exposes the trickery, so Albrecht puts Dismas and Dürer in the custody of four mercenaries and sends them all to steal Christ's burial cloth (the Shroud of Chambéry), Europe's most celebrated artifact. On their journey to Savoy where the Shroud will be displayed, they battle a lustful count and are joined by a beautiful female apothecary. It is only ...

Christopher Buckley (Author)

Boomsday

Editura: THAMES & HUDSON

Anul aparitiei: 2008

Outraged over the mounting Social Security debt, Cassandra Devine, a charismatic 29-year-old blogger and member of Generation Whatever, incites massive cultural warfare when she politely suggests that Baby Boomers be given government incentives to kill themselves by age 75. Her modest proposal catches fire with millions of citizens, chief among them "an ambitious senator seeking the presidency." With the help of Washington's greatest spin doctor, the blogger and the politician try to ride the issue of euthanasia for Boomers (called "transitioning") all the way to the White House, over the objections of the Religious Right, and of course, the Baby Boomers, who are deeply offended by demonstrations on the golf courses of their retirement resorts.

Christopher Buckley (Author)

Little Green Men

Editura: ALLISON & BUSBY

Anul aparitiei: 2001

TV host John O. Banion is arguably the most powerful man in Washington. He has it all: wealth, political influence, and the power to mock the president on live television. But his privileged life is thrown into upheaval when he is abducted by aliens...twice. Page dim. 197 x 129 x 24 Weight: 262 grams

Christopher Buckley (Author)

Thank You for Smoking

Editura: ALLISON & BUSBY

Anul aparitiei: 2003

Nick Naylor is a regular guy trying to earn a living. In these neo-puritanical times, it's a challenge to defend the rights of smokers and a privilege to promote their liberty. Sure, it hurts a little when you're compared to Nazi war criminals, but he can handle the insults from the antismoking zealots, but death threats are a different matter. Page dim. 197 x 130 x 19 Weight: 260 grams

Christopher Buckley (Author)

Wry Martinis

Editura: ALLISON & BUSBY

Anul aparitiei: 2004

Christopher Buckley, author of 'Thank You for Smoking', is the man who persuaded America's ABC News

Christopher Buckley (Author)

Dark Matter

Editura: COPPER BEECH PR

Anul aparitiei: 1993

Poetry. DARK MATTER is a beautifully focused book, the work of a gifted poet coming, at midlife, into his full powers. Time and the shifts of time are the burden: not simply time as recollection or loss, but also and everywhere the persistent loneliness of star time, mastodon time, so that finally these are poems in which reflection takes on uncommon amplitude and presence. There is something here that is deeply human and courageous, something like what I find in the essays of Loren Eiseley. And all this would be nothing, of course, without the language, which is the glory of these poems -Peter Everwine.