Hopscotch

Author: Julio Cortázar
Publisher: Pantheon
ISBN: 1101870141
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 719

Book Description
"Cortazar's masterpiece ... The first great novel of Spanish America" (The Times Literary Supplement) • Winner of the National Book Award for Translation in 1967, translated by Gregory Rabassa Horacio Oliveira is an Argentinian writer who lives in Paris with his mistress, La Maga, surrounded by a loose-knit circle of bohemian friends who call themselves "the Club." A child's death and La Maga's disappearance put an end to his life of empty pleasures and intellectual acrobatics, and prompt Oliveira to return to Buenos Aires, where he works by turns as a salesman, a keeper of a circus cat which can truly count, and an attendant in an insane asylum. Hopscotch is the dazzling, freewheeling account of Oliveira's astonishing adventures.

Hopscotch

Author: Brian Garfield
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1453237704
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 192

Book Description
Bored with retirement, an ex-spy embarks on a dangerous game, in this Edgar Award winner from a crime writer who is “one of the best” (The New York Times). Miles Kendig is one of the CIA’s top deep-cover agents, until an injury ruins him for active duty. Rather than take a desk job, he retires. But the tawdry thrills of civilian life—gambling, drinking, sex—offer none of the pleasures of the intelligence game. Even a Russian agent’s offer to go to work against his old employers seems dull. Without the thrill of unpredictable conflict, Kendig skulks through Paris like the walking dead. To revive himself, he begins writing a tell-all memoir, divulging every secret he accumulated in his long career. Neither CIA nor KGB can afford to have it in print, and so he challenges them both: Until they catch him, a chapter will go to the publisher every week. Kendig’s life is fun again, with survival on the line.

I Am an Adventurer, Artist & Athlete: a Coloring Book for Girls

Author: Hopscotch Girls
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781734287660
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description

Hopscotch Around the World

Author: Mary D. Lankford
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0688147453
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 50

Book Description
Presents directions for playing variations of hopscotch, an ancient game still played worldwide.

Hopscotch

Author: Kevin J Anderson
Publisher: WordFire +ORM
ISBN: 1680572512
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 498

Book Description
An “ingenious” science-fiction fantasy about a man who body swaps, and the lengths he must go to get his life back, from a New York Times–bestselling author (Kirkus Reviews). For a fee, Eduard Swan will swap bodies with people in distress—those facing surgeries, emotional crises, moments of unpleasantness, or discomfort they can’t or would rather not deal with. Eduard will experience the suffering for them. It’s a lucrative business, and in a society in which you can hopscotch from body to body, there is no end of clients seeking to avoid pain. But someone doesn’t want to play by the rules. Someone doesn’t want to return Eduard’s body. And, unfortunately for Eduard, that someone is one of the world’s most powerful men. Now Eduard has no choice but to steal back his life. He has the perfect alibi, or so he thinks. On the run with the only friends he can trust—Eduard struggles to find the meaning of identity in a culture in which appearances mean everything—and nothing. Where everything is relative . . . even murder. “Hopscotch is cracking good—swift, sure storytelling, with more plot twists than a snake and twice the bite.” —Gregory Benford, author of Eater “Kevin J. Anderson is in top form in Hopscotch, a rousing tale that charges hard into territory where nobody has gone before. This one may be the most original book of the year.” —Jack McDevitt, author of Infinity Beach

Hopscotch

Author: Faiza Qureshi
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781521326558
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 95

Book Description
This thought provoking, entertaining book is aimed at young, adolescent readers, and has been written with language development in mind. These beautifully crafted stories span across the ages and continents to inspire creativity and unleash the imagination of the reader.

Lola Hopscotch and the First Day of School

Author: Marie Whittaker
Publisher: Amity Studios LLC
ISBN: 9781949906042
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 52

Book Description
Hardcover format, first book in The Adventures of Lola Hopscotch book series for children.

Nobody Wants to Read Your Sh*t

Author: Steven Pressfield
Publisher: Black Irish Entertainment LLC
ISBN: 1936891506
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 192

Book Description
There's a mantra that real writers know but wannabe writers don’t. And the secret phrase is this: NOBODY WANTS TO READ YOUR SH*T. Recognizing this painful truth is the first step in the writer's transformation from amateur to professional. From Chapter Four: “When you understand that nobody wants to read your shit, you develop empathy. You acquire the skill that is indispensable to all artists and entrepreneurs—the ability to switch back and forth in your imagination from your own point of view as writer/painter/seller to the point of view of your reader/gallery-goer/customer. You learn to ask yourself with every sentence and every phrase: Is this interesting? Is it fun or challenging or inventive? Am I giving the reader enough? Is she bored? Is she following where I want to lead her?

Let's Play Hopscotch

Author: Sarah Hughes
Publisher: Children's Press(CT)
ISBN: 9780516231129
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 26

Book Description
Rosa and her friends play hopscotch and explain the steps of the game.

Hopscotch in the Sky

Author: Lucinda Jacob
Publisher: Little Island Books
ISBN: 9781910411933
Category : Children's poetry, English
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
From ice creams to Christmas trees, flying grannies to reading mermaids, haiku to rhyming verse, Hopscotch in the Sky takes children on a magical poetic journey through the seasons of the year. Funny and touching, sweet and sharp, these poems are full of life and verve. With a rainbow of enchanting illustration by award-winning artist Lauren O'Neill, winner of the Children's Books Ireland Award for Illustration in 2016. An accompanying ebook, The Hopscotch in the Sky Poetry Kit, will be free to download, introducing children to the poetic forms used in the book and chock-full of ideas to encourage readers to try their hand at writing their own poems. It will be especially helpful also to teachers who would like to include writing poetry as a classroom activity with their pupils. You can download it for free on the Little Island website.