Barracuda

Author: Christos Tsiolkas
Publisher: Hogarth
ISBN: 0804138435
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 432

Book Description
Man Booker Prize-longlisted author of The Slap (soon to be an NBC miniseries) returns in an “immensely moving” (Sunday Times) story of a young athlete’s coming of age Fourteen-year-old Daniel Kelly is special. Despite his upbringing in working-class Melbourne, he knows that his astonishing ability in the swimming pool has the potential to transform his life, silence the rich boys at the private school to which he has won a sports scholarship, and take him far beyond his neighborhood, possibly to international stardom and an Olympic medal. Everything Danny has ever done, every sacrifice his family has ever made, has been in pursuit of this dream. But what happens when the talent that makes you special fails you? When the goal that you’ve been pursuing for as long as you can remember ends in humiliation and loss? Twenty years later, Dan is in Scotland, terrified to tell his partner about his past, afraid that revealing what he has done will make him unlovable. When he is called upon to return home to his family, the moment of violence in the wake of his defeat that changed his life forever comes back to him in terrifying detail, and he struggles to believe that he’ll be able to make amends. Haunted by shame, Dan relives the intervening years he spent in prison, where the optimism of his childhood was completely foreign. Tender, savage, and blazingly brilliant, Barracuda is a novel about dreams and disillusionment, friendship and family, class, identity, and the cost of success. As Daniel loses everything, he learns what it means to be a good person—and what it takes to become one.

Fishing for Barracuda

Author: Joel S. Bergman
Publisher: W W Norton & Company Incorporated
ISBN: 9780393700053
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 206

Book Description
Fishing For Barracuda? Is this a book about therapy? Most certainly!

Barracuda in the Attic

Author: Kipp Friedman
Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
ISBN: 1606996509
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 209

Book Description
The son of writer and satirist Bruce Jay Friedman, Kipp Friedman, wrote a memoir about growing up and getting into hi-jinx on both coasts with his brothers Drew and Josh Friedman (both famous in their own right): with appearances by mobster Joe Gallo, Groucho Marx, and others. Whether shooting pool with the mobster Crazy Joey Gallo, attending a dinner party hosted by an aged but remarkably spry Groucho Marx, or simply playing doctor with a classmate in the former estate of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Kipp Friedman led a colorful childhood. The youngest son of celebrated writer and satirist Bruce Jay Friedman, Kipp looks back fondly on the amusing and sometimes confusing events and encounters that helped shape his early life in this moving tribute to growing up among a family of creative artists―swept up in the whirlwind of the New York arts scene of the 1960s and ’70s. Follow Kipp’s exploits as bystander and willing participant as he joins older brothers Josh (writer and musician) and Drew (renowned cartoonist and illustrator) as three musketeers on a youthful quest to discover the scariest low-budget horror movies along 42nd Street and Times Square. Delight in their search for classic comic books, monster magazines (and the occasional “nudie” magazine) at their beloved, dingy “Back-Issue Store” in midtown Manhattan. Encounter his family’s bizarre Cold War-like relationship with their new neighbors in an updated suburban Jewish version of the Hatfields vs. the McCoys. Witness their Marx Brothers-like antics while on an all-expenses-paid junket at the Beverly Hills Hotel courtesy of CBS. The stage shifts from New York City to the Caribbean to the suburbs of Long Island, and from the South of France to Broadway and Hollywood as Kipp retraces his family’s defining moments―with the backdrop of his father’s meteoric rise from editor of men’s adventure magazines to successful novelist, playwright, and screenwriter. Through it all, Kipp paints a loving portrait of a childhood and family life that is both magical and yet familiar and real. Barracuda in the Attic is truly a family affair, written by Kipp, with a cover illustration by Drew Friedman, an introduction by paterfamilias Bruce Jay Friedman, and an afterword by Josh Friedman, and is copiously illustrated with photos of the family and their literati friends and hangers-on.

Barracuda and Challenger

Author: Paul Zazarine
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781610608169
Category : Barracuda automobile
Languages : en
Pages : 134

Book Description

The Treasure of Barracuda

Author: Llanos Campos
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN: 1939775175
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 147

Book Description
In this rollicking highseas adventure, a band of pirates must learn to read in order to find a buried treasure. Sparks is an 11-year-old cabin boy on the Southern Cross, a pirate ship led by Captain Barracuda. When he and the crew discover a book left by the infamous pirate Phineas Johnson Krane, they must learn to read in order to decipher its contents and go in search of Krane's hidden treasure. A satisfying tale packed with pirates, outlaws, danger and, in the words of its narrator, "no second chances."

Original Challenger and Barracuda 1970-1974

Author: Jim Schild James J. Schild
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781610591270
Category : Barracuda automobile
Languages : en
Pages : 310

Book Description
Renowned for their sleek shapes and prodigiously powerful engines, the Chrysler corporation's Challenger and Barracuda were among the top cars of the muscle car era. This book will demonstrate the correct parts, finishes, options, and trim pieces for all the versions of the E-body Dodge Challenger and Plymouth Barracuda, which appeared from 1970 to 1974. Especially important to this are the variety of engine options available, including the hemispherical-head engines-Hemis-that are so crucial to the mystique of these muscle cars.

Systematics and Life History of the Great Barracuda, Sphyraena Barracuda (Walbaum)

Author: Donald P. De Sylva
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780870240829
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 179

Book Description

Barracuda 945

Author: Patrick Robinson
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 0099439859
Category : Hijacking of ships
Languages : en
Pages : 610

Book Description
Major Ray Kerman, a high-ranking SAS officer and renowned submariner, mysteriously disappears amidst a blood bath on the streets of Hebron. In the following months, a series of utterly devastating Hamas terrorist hits, stuns the British and American gover

Challenger and Barracuda Restoration Guide, 1967-74

Author: Paul A. Herd
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781610608473
Category : Barracuda automobile
Languages : en
Pages : 276

Book Description
Revive the muscular good looks and horsepower of your E-body! This helpful guide contains hundreds of detailed photos, factory illustrations, and helpful data tables covering everything from decoding VIN tags to applying the correct finish to virtually every part on your car. All the information you'll ever need to authentically restore your monster-engine musclecar to show-winning perfection!

Barracuda

Author: Deborah Coldiron
Publisher: ABDO Publishing Company
ISBN: 1617860905
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 34

Book Description
Engaging text highlights the life cycle of barracuda, from birth through adulthood. This book's easy-to-read text and full-color photographs bring this animal's world to life, introducing readers to the barracuda's diet, habitat, and enemies and threats. Barracuda size, body description, and family are also discussed. A diagram helps readers identify body parts, from its mouth to its tail. Fast Facts are great for reports, while Fascinating Facts expand readers' knowledge of barracuda. Bold glossary words and an index enhance reader comprehension. Buddy Books is an imprint of ABDO Publishing Company.