Itna press sep 2022 (3 risultati)

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Twenty-First Century Mad MenPure Creative, the hottest new ad agency in New York City, has set its sights on rap superstar Markus in hopes of cinching one of the most profitable collaborations ever: turning his viral music video depicting acts of generosity in poor communities into an ad campaign for its most lucrative client.Account lead Ella begins to crumble under work stress and past traumas, mishandling the make-or-break client. Her boss Link sees the campaign as his shot at doing good, even as he wrestles with imposter syndrome. And just as production ramps up, Markus' unseemly private life threatens to ignite a PR firestorm around Pure's idealized image.In this Swiftian, often comical narrative, author Christopher Stoddard satirizes the ad industry's most insidious ploy today: branded content that promotes progressive social values for the unadulterated goal of pure profit. Buckle up for a hilarious, unsettling look at the hollow virtue signaling behind modern marketing.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - In Aaron's Rod, a satirical, ultra-masculine narrative with unconsciously homosexual undertones by controversial literary legend D. H. Lawrence, protagonist Aaron Sisson has grown tired of his dulling marriage and monotonous daily life working a desk job for a coal mine business in the Midlands of England. He abandons his wife and children to chase dreams of fame and fortune as a professional flutist, and embarks on an impulsive trip to Italy. There, he networks in various inner circles of artists, intellects and socialites, soon meeting the mesmerizing writer Rawdon Lilly, who acts as Aaron's pseudo-spiritual guru in this thrilling new world free of domestic duties, and sparks a 'bromance' that just may shift Aaron's impression of himself, life and art forever.With a sharp introduction by David McConnell, author of the forthcoming The Beads (ITNA, 2023) and winner of the 2014 Stonewall Book Award for his non-fiction work American Honor Killings: Desire and Rage Among Men (Akashic, 2013), this new edition of Aaron's Rod, as part of the ITNA ICONS collection, is a fascinating portrayal of a burnt-out working-class man of early twentieth century England, replete with the polarizing, often frankly misogynistic themes that made the book the target of controversy.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - For more than five decades, with relentless candor, biting wit, and striking imagery, Bruce Benderson's fiction has celebrated the warped beauty of our megalopolises, including their clashes between the classes and their subcultures of sex and drugs. Oppressed but flamboyant, the voices of his subterranean worlds have become just too intense to be ignored. Now, for the first time, all his short texts, including 21 never before published, appear together in the same volume. This is the complete and definitive Bruce Benderson reader.Benderson's most well-known book, The Romanian: Story of an Obsession, was awarded the prestigious Prix de Flore in its French edition. Other publications include the essay collection Sex and Isolation, the short story collection Pretending to Say No, and the novels Pacific Agony and User.…