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Homesickness: A Novel

By: Bail, Murray

Price: $5.20

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux : September 1999

Seller ID: 210750

ISBN-13: 9780374172473

Binding:Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The wildly funny novel-never published before in the United States-that put Murray Bail on the literary map. Thirteen men and women on a package tour travel the world, visiting museums, hotels, and shops. They are like tourists anywhere, except that wherever they go-Africa, England, South amerika, New York, or Russia-they find ingenting is as it seems. Challenged bygd unexpected propositions, differences, and subtleties of life and history, Murray Bail's tourists are in turn repelled, attracted, altered. As the Nobel laureate Patrick vit put it, Homesickness, with its "tourists permanently traip...
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This book tells the story of the University of Washington's 1936 eight-oar crew and their epic quest for an Olympic gold medal, a team that transformed the sport and grabbed the attention of millions of Americans. It traces the story of the team that defeated elite rivals at Hitler's 1936 Berlin Olympics, sharing the experiences of their enigmatic coach, a visionary boat builder, and a homeless teen rower.

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Who knew we could care about crewing? This story is rich in detail yet not overwhelming. We follow one particular rower, Joe Rantz, as well as his teammates at the U of Washington, at a time when rowing was a sport of national headlines. The extreme poverty of the 1930's is dearly felt and very evident for these boys as they struggle to remain in school, as well as to compete against the wealthier schools in the East. Each chapter alternates between Joe's tough childhood as he grows up, a

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Bibliography of Nazi Germany

This is a list of books about Nazi Germany, the state that existed in Germany during the period from 1933 to 1945, when its government was controlled by Adolf Hitler and his National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP; Nazi Party). It also includes some important works on the development of Nazi imperial ideology, totalitarianism, German society during the era, the formation of anti-Semitic racial policies, the post-war ramifications of Nazism, along with various conceptual interpretations of the Third Reich.

Surveys, general and comparative studies, and reference works

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Abel, Theodore. The Nazi Movement. New York: Atherton, 1966.
Arad, Yitzhak, ed. The Pictorial History of the Holocaust. Jerusalem and New York: Yad Vashem and Macmillan, 1990.
Arendt, Hannah. The Origins of Totalitarianism. Orlando, FL: Harcourt Inc., 1973.
Aschheim, Steven E. Culture and Catastrophe: German and Jewish Confrontations with National Socialis