The Wampanaki Tales

Literature & Fiction

Kunstler, James Howard

Literary

Ballantine Books

DOUBLEDAY

On orders of President Thomas Jefferson, Samuel Walker and his botanist uncle, William, set out to search the southern wilderness for a live specimen of Megatherium, the giant ground sloth, and suffer kidnapping at the hands of pirates and torture by redskin savages

An Embarrassment of Riches: A Novel

Grover Graff, a reporter who specializes in investigating religious cults, discovers a link between the scattered pieces of the body of his best friend and the Children of Abraham, one of the cults he has been investigating

Blood Solstice

United States

Ten years after his reported death, rock star Byron Jaynes is discovered in a New England country store by ex-"Rolling Stone" reporter Rick Sears, who persuades Jaynes to recount his harrowing story

The Life of Byron Jaynes

W.W. Norton & Co., Inc.

Ten years after his reported death, rock star Byron Jaynes is discovered in a New England country store by ex-"Rolling Stone" reporter Rick Sears, who persuades Jaynes to recount his harrowing story

What happens when four guys confront the enormity of being thirty? If it’s Sandy Stern, he worries about the fact that he’s a down-and-out artist about to lose both his apartment and his girl. If it’s Joel Harlowe, a materialistic drug dealer, his charmed life in the fast lane is leading to a dead end. If it’s Edmund Black, he’s crushed by the weight of the past, seeking a precarious refuge in madness. And if it’s George Wells, he’s a waiter with a unfinished Ph.D., trying to cope with the impending death of his once powerful politician father. So when Joel Harlowe plans the biggest, most outrageous Halloween party ever to hit Excelsior Springs, New York, all hell breaks loose. A series of absurd and tragic events reveals each of these men’s most secret dreams, hopes and fears, and transforms his life in this once elegant upstate town. Four friend emerge from the illusions of youth to discover who ther really are in this unforgettable chronicle of life in a typical American town, 80s style James Howard Kunstler, author of five critically acclaimed novels, has created a masterfully drawn tragi-comic universe, poignant and devastating

The Halloween Ball

Bantam]

Seventeen year-old Andy Newmark is having the time of his life, but the 1967 Summer of Love also brings with it some important lessons about growing up

THUNDER ISLAND

Eighty percent of everything ever built in America has been built since the end of World War II. This tragic landscape of highway strips, parking lots, housing tracts, mega-malls, junked cities, and ravaged countryside is not simply an expression of our economic predicament, but in large part a cause. It is the everyday environment where most Americans live and work, and it represents a gathering calamity whose effects we have hardly begun to measure. In The Geography of Nowhere, James Howard Kunstler traces America's evolution from a nation of Main Streets and coherent communities to a land where everyplace is like noplace in particular, where the city is a dead zone and the countryside a wasteland of cars and blacktop. Now that the great suburban build-out is over, Kunstler argues, we are stuck with the consequences: a national living arrangement that destroys civic life while imposing enormous social costs and economic burdens. Kunstler explains how our present zoning laws impoverish the life of our communities, and how all our efforts to make automobiles happy have resulted in making human beings miserable. He shows how common building regulations have led to a crisis in affordable housing, and why street crime is directly related to our traditional disregard for the public realm. Kunstler takes the reader on a historical journey to understand how Americans came to view their landscape as a commodity for exploitation rather than a social resource. He explains why our towns and cities came to be wounded by the abstract dogmas of Modernism, and reveals the paradox of a people who yearn for places worthy of their affection, yet bend their efforts in an economic enterprise of destruction that degrades and defaces what they most deeply desire. Kunstler proposes sensible remedies for this American crisis of landscape and townscape: a return to sound principles of planning and the lost art of good place-making, an end to the tyranny of compulsive commuting, the unreality of the suburb, the alienation and violence of downtown, the vulgarity of the highway strip, and the destruction of our countryside. The Geography of Nowhere puts the issue of how we actually live squarely at the center of our ongoing debate about the nation's economy and America's future.

The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Simon&Schuster

The Geography of Nowhere traces America's evolution from a nation of Main Streets and coherent communities to a land where every place is like no place in particular, where the cities are dead zones and the countryside is a wasteland of cartoon architecture and parking lots. In elegant and often hilarious prose, Kunstler depicts our nation's evolution from the Pilgrim settlements to the modern auto suburb in all its ghastliness. The Geography of Nowhere tallies up the huge economic, social, and spiritual costs that America is paying for its car-crazed lifestyle. It is also a wake-up call for citizens to reinvent the places where we live and work, to build communities that are once again worthy of our affection. Kunstler proposes that by reviving civic art and civic life, we will rediscover public virtue and a new vision of the common good. "The future will require us to build better places," Kunstler says, "or the future will belong to other people in other societies."

History

Touchstone

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The Wampanaki Tales

The Wampanaki Tales

An Embarrassment of Riches: A Novel

Blood Solstice

The Life of Byron Jaynes

The Life of Byron Jaynes

The Halloween Ball

THUNDER ISLAND

The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape

The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape