The Night Road is a better Hyroad X in my opinion and doesn’t need the surface care the Hyroad X did. I like the 4K fast surface for this ball. The Night Road has an excellent move to and through the pocket. This ball fits between my Electrify G/O and Phase 5 in total hook. I get more entry angle and continuation from the Night Road than the Max or Original. For me through the Night Road is giving me a different look from the series than I am used to. Some Road Balls seem to be conditional for me like the Hyroad Max and even the original Hyroad. I know the Road series has a great following but I have not been blown away like some people have. Speed at release 17 Review: This is probably my favorite Road Series Ball since the Hyroad X. Ball Specs: Storm Night Road Cover REX Pearl Reactive Symmetric Core Finish 4K Fast Layout 5 x 4 with 2” Pin Buffer Bowler Specs: Right Hand.
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A few days later, the suit arrives in a heart-shaped box. Although Jude doubts there is really a ghost in the suit, finding the possibility irresistible, he has Danny purchase it. She insists that Jude would not only be buying the suit but also the dead man's spirit connected to it. One day, his assistant, Danny, says he has received an email from a Jessica Price who offers to sell Jude her dead stepfather's funeral suit. His collection includes a real snuff film and a confession written by a witch. Judas Coyne, or "Jude," is a fifty-four-year-old heavy metal rock star who entertains himself in retirement by purchasing macabre memorabilia. The book became a New York Times bestseller and received the Bram Stoker Award for Best First Novel. Heart-Shaped Box (2007), a horror novel by American author Joe Hill, tells the story of an aging heavy metal star and collector of macabre memorabilia who discovers he is in possession of an actual ghost. The decency of some Germans served to lull Jews into a false sense of security, as did the Nazi regime's uncertainty about how it would deal with the Jews. Another Gentile, Emil Busse, was a close family friend who took many risks to help the Gays escape Germany. Even after the Nazis came to power, he continued to spend summers with the Gentile parents of the family's maid they were like a second set of parents to him. Gay was born in 1923 and recalls his first ten years as idyllic. In his examination of the behavior of German Jews, Gay rejects the claim made by Gershom Scholem that while the Jews loved the Germans, the Germans never loved the Jews. On a personal level Gay explores how growing up in Nazi Germany affected him. From a historical perspective he explains why German Jews did not leave the country as soon as Adolf Hitler became chancellor on 30 January 1933 and why they meekly submitted to increasingly anti-Semitic decrees and violence. 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This includes using first- and third-party cookies, which store or access standard device information such as a unique identifier. If you agree, we’ll also use cookies to complement your shopping experience across the Amazon stores as described in our Cookie Notice. We also use these cookies to understand how customers use our services (for example, by measuring site visits) so we can make improvements. We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice. “Vampires in the Lemon Grove,” “The Seagull Army Descends on Strong Beach, 1979,” and “Dougbert Shackleton’s Rules for Antarctic Tailgating” each utilize surreal elements, but are, at heart, relationship stories.Įach story in the collection utilizes animals or ghost-like creatures to reveal something deeper. In each of these stories, characters are tormented by their inability to change the past. 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The Tudor Spy series is a window into Elizabethan England through the eyes of John Shakespeare, a private investigator who introduces us to a world of murder, conspiracy, royals, criminals, spies, and his young brother Will Shakespeare. Holy Spy & John Shakespeare Tudor Spy series by Rory Clements The novel was a finalist for the 2006 National Book Award. His second novel, Only Revolutions, was released in 2006. He later served as an assistant editor and worked on sound for Derrida, a documentary based on the life of the Algerian-born French literary critic and philosopher Jacques Derrida. In the early 1990s, he pursued graduate studies at the USC School of Cinema-Television. He also spent time in Paris, preoccupied mostly with writing. He then decided to move to Berkeley, California, where he took a summer program in Latin at the University of California, Berkeley. Danielewski is an American author best known for his books House of Leaves, Only Revolutions, The Fifty Year Sword, The Little Blue Kite, and The Familiar series.ĭanielewski studied English Literature at Yale. Danielewski studied English Literature at Yale. Danielewski is an American author best known for his books House of Leaves, Only Revolutions, The Fifty Year Sword, The Little Blue Kite, and The Familiar series. In fact, the only possible solution that he has able to come to is one that is, by his own admission, actually possible only as theoretical construct, not in the actual, physical world. So she does what her boss has done for years when he was stymied – she calls upon Professor Manabu Yukawa.īut even the brilliant mind of Dr. While Utsumi’s instincts tell her one thing, the fact of the case are another matters. His assistant, however, Kaoru Utsumi, is convinced Ayane is guilty. The lead detective, Kusanagi, is immediately smitten with her and refuses to believe that she could have anything to do with the crime. His wife, Ayane, is the logical suspect except for that she was hundreds of miles away at her parent’s when her soon to be ex-husband was murdered.Īdd to that, she’s widely believed by friends and students to be a “saint” – an admirable and unflappable woman who accepts everything with a singular grace. Yoshitaka who was about to leave his marriage and his wife due to their inability to have children, is poisoned by arsenic laced coffee and dies alone in his home. Smith and published by Minotaur Books in New York. Japan’s best-selling crime novelist Keigo Higashino’s Salvation of a Saint is translated into English from Japanese by prolific author Alexander O. The first part of the story follows the narrator as an undergraduate, meeting for office hours with her professor and “languishing in the amnion of his office.” The year she graduates, he leaves his post. The story most explicitly about cinema is “Office Hours,” an examination of its female narrator’s close relationship with her film studies professor that makes an unexpected swerve into portal fantasy. Ma has identified “compromised pleasure” as a key theme of the collection, and the sense of brief and vivid joys set against a darker, more unsettling backdrop can be keenly felt throughout the book’s eight stories. It describes the brief intervals of happiness permitted to leading ladies in the old Hollywood genre of the “woman’s film” it is “a woman’s small piece of action, her marginal territory of joy.” This cinematic term may at first seem an odd title for Ling Ma’s often bleak and decidedly literary debut short story collection, but the bliss montage is an expressly temporary state of affairs, the snatch of pleasure claimed before a puritanical narrative brings things crashing down around its recipient. The term “bliss montage” was coined by film theorist Jeanine Basinger. |