Brophy C M (28 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Paperback. Binding sound, text clean, light shelfwear. 160 pages. ".account of the 2013 gold dredging season in Nome AK.". Book.

Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

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Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 84 pages. 11.00x8.50x0.19 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 65 pages. 11.00x8.50x0.17 inches. In Stock.

Condition: Very Good. Gift inscription on title page. No other markings.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Nice copy with just minor wear. Pages of text are clean, bright and free of markings. Binding is tight and secure. ***Shipped within 24 hours from the beautiful Baltimore inner harbor area. First class service; accurate descriptions. Most items packed in boxes, not envelopes.***. Inscribed by Author(s).

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 197 pages. 11.00x8.50x0.45 inches. In Stock.

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46 ills., X, 266 p. Hardcover. Versand aus Deutschland / We dispatch from Germany via Air Mail. Einband bestoßen, daher Mängelexemplar gestempelt, sonst sehr guter Zustand. Imperfect copy due to slightly bumped cover, apart from this in very good condition. Stamped. Gestempelt. Sprache: Englisch.

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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. These gripping, dark and funny character driven short stories depict the crazy people who inhabit the under water gold mining world of Nome Alaska. With sardonic wit and unique voice author C.M. Brophy describes in 14 short stories the madness at the end of the Iditarod trail; the same people and scenarios, flora and fauna as seen on the popular Discovery Channel TV show BERING SEA GOLD. The following blog post is not in the book but indicates the tone and locale of this fascinating and surreal quick read.: I will be leaving Nome after 86 days the day after tomorrow forever most likely. It's been an unprofitable venture financially but not as bleak as for some, many, most first time miners. Yes, gold mining didn't pan out. Surprise. The amount of creative writing I've been able to produce is rewarding and the unique experiences will stay with me forever probably, the negatives falling away as the positives become enhanced in my memory. Adventures aren't supposed to be fun while they're happening. I recognize the folly some people back home consider this trip to be, and actual miners and locals are right to observe that I'm not really a miner either. Nomeites and Alaskans in general enjoy and suffer under the belief that they are frontiersmen and free to do as they please and that this is a vast open land of opportunity. Environmentally it is hard for them to see what they are doing as disastrous as lower 48 southerners readily remark. A local bumper sticker reads, "Mining: the family farm of the north". Another argument goes: us miners make wealth from the dirt, we, with our toil feed the economy, producing something from nothing. The dredging operations I was directly involved with here in the Bering sea on D.N.R. controlled leases and recreational areas work alongside commercial fisheries and indigenous fishing hunting grounds as well as sport hunting and fishing grounds. The bottom minerals that are are sluiced up and re deposited are monitored for effluent plume debris readings/ turbidity- and there is a lot of reworking of others tailing piles. It is not a coral reef. Jellies, starfish, crabs, eels, bullheads, whales, seals, orcas swim right around the greasy noisy dredges and multi varieties of salmon spawn in the rivers. Caribou and musk ox have been re introduced since being all eaten up during the original lucky swedes gold rush of the late 1800s. There never were any trees or amphibians in this part of the Seward peninsula. The thawing permafrost is probably a global warming thing but this is a region where disbelief or ambivalence over man made world temperature change is prevalent. Compared to the oil industry it appears to me and the locals that gold extraction as practiced in Nome is nominal and there is much federal government animosity. My take on it is that if the feds think Alaskans shouldn't be allowed to take a shit in Alaska they either have the juice or don't to stop them, but without experiencing what is happening here, on the ground, culturally, economically, grassroots, they will never be able to effect any change here. Go piss up a rope, Washington, as the saying goes. As for being complicit myself I take no blame, we are all complicit driving our cars around to the wal mart for polyester toys made by chinese children- etc. etc. I am happy to have immersed myself in this world fully, it's not any worse than any other place, just different. I'm off to San Francisco for a little post deprivation rum and buggery decompression therapy before re entering life as a suburban dad and husband. I was supported by friends family and strangers all the way down the line on this experiment and am thankful. Life is the only thing worth living for. We all can and should do whatever the fuck we want to do, try whatever strikes our fancy, check out where it all breaks down, improvise, reflect, rin Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. 3 absurd and surreal plays, dramatic art for the stage, these humorous and unique rehearsal scripts for poor adult theater artists touch on socially relevant themes and questions of humanity, sexuality and class. Poetically realistic language and monologues redefines what it means to speak privately in public. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.

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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 48 pages. Professor J E Neale reviews C V Wedgwood's "Strafford" / H M Tomlinson reviews Monk Gibbon's "The Seals" / Geraint Goodwin "The Happy Valey" / Winifred Holtby reviews Elizabeth Cambridge's "Susan And Joanna" / Havelock Ellis reviews John Middleton's "Between Two Worlds" / Derek Verschoyle "A Note on Denis Johnston" / Bosworth Goldman "Travel as it Is" / Edward J O'Brien "Paul Engle" / Janet Adam Smith "Rocks of Hell" / H E Bates reviews Dora Birtles' "North-west by North" / George Blake reviews Eric linklater's "Ripeness is All" / Bernadette Murphy "The Glass Cage" / Paul Engle reviews Felix Salten's "Florian" / John brophy reviews Rebecca West's "The Harsh Voice" / E L Grant Watson reviews H E Bates' "The Poacher" / Ralph Bates reviews Reynold Bray's "Five Watersheds" / Rayner Heppenstall reviews Leo Walmsley's "Foreigners" / George Ellidge reviews J B Morton's "Stuff and Nonsense" / Eldon Rutter reviews Patrick mee's "Marine Gunner"/ Hamish Miles reviews Bernadette Murphy's "The Unwilling Player" - there photographs of authors; John Middleton Murry, Leo Walmsley, Erich Kastner, Canon Ernest Dimnet, Rebecca West and Bernadette Murphy. (BT#21).

Paperback / softback. Condition: New. This item is printed on demand. New copy - Usually dispatched within 5-9 working days.

Paperback / softback. Condition: New. This item is printed on demand. New copy - Usually dispatched within 5-9 working days.

Paperback / softback. Condition: New. This item is printed on demand. New copy - Usually dispatched within 5-9 working days.

Paperback / softback. Condition: New. This item is printed on demand. New copy - Usually dispatched within 5-9 working days.

Paperback / softback. Condition: New. This item is printed on demand. New copy - Usually dispatched within 5-9 working days.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. The 5 stories in Beginning to End were written primarily in the summer of 2014 except for 1980 San Diego. End of the N Judah is about a very specific time in my youth and has been written mostly in my head for over 35 years but only just put it down to paper. The Cruel pool is liable to cause me some grief. Lobster Zombie is for Queeny who is a real person I've never met but am very fond of. I have borrowed a story with minor changes, borrowed from myself, Heaven has been revised because I thought it fit better here than in the previous work, Winter Book. This collection of stories should be read in order, and will perhaps be reworked more tightly one day into a novel. Or maybe it's a novel now, a new important telling american bonafide important thing. I have another hot mess that's been rattling for a few years about a man who builds a boat in his backyard and plans to sail to Ireland to visit a little girl who used to live next door- It's called Shelby after a little girl I knew when I was a boy. I think that's next, dunno, probably not revising and polishing finished pieces though. I put down, give up on and lose plenty of the things I write. I try to obfuscate certain characters and situations from real life that I think might come back and bite me but if you think a section sounds like its about you, it is, weather your living or dead, and if you think I changed how something really happened or mis remembered something, well, you are just wrong, that's what it meant to me, sue me, I dare you. I continue to submit plays to contests and festivals. Thank you for opening my latest book. Reading the whole thing won't kill you. C.M. Brophy, Hyattsville, August 2014 This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. In this short novel - Frank Leigh Charles, obsessed with the idea of Freedom, attempts to reclaim his youth with an act of lust driven infidelity, causing himself mortal injury at the hands of a woman he hasn't seen since she was a girl. Brought back from the precipice to the living world by a northern shaman with unconventional methods, he takes his sons and some guns to the desert where the course of the august season of his life is set: A hermitage in the wilderness in the shadow of metropolis. Act 3 finds Frank transformed into a modern Saint Francis of Assisi, living practically on the streets of his old home port town, despite access to great, undeserved wealth. New horizons beckon as disease chases him off the earth's edge in a sinking plastic sailboat. Blindly he accepts delivery of exactly what he paid for. How funny failure is, the harder it hurts. Fate, his faithless muse is a fickle yet sexy bitch, taunting and useless to his ambitionless libido. What did he think would happen? -Ya gotta laugh and you gotta watch when the clown bleeds out cause he's only gonna bleed out once and it really is just too fucking funny. The big Nothing that follows in the 'Afterlife' is funnier still. When nothing is humorous, everything becomes hysterical, and the other different. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.