Charles Mcleod: 7 books

Charles McLeod's NATIONAL TREASURES is a mesmerizing study of America's margins. From back-country radicals to California rent boys to a man who puts his life up on eBay, this debut collection is a coast-to-coast assemblage of the American non-mainstream. A virtuoso storyteller, McLeod employs a dazzling range of styles in these unflinching portraits of contemporary life.

In these seven stories spanning the Midwest to California, Charles McLeod brings us characters estranged from their homelands and locked in conflict with their past and present selves. In “How to Start Your Own Midwestern Ghost Town,” an unnamed narrator hatches a plan to capitalize on rural decay....

Meet Jim Haskin. He's forty years old. He's worth around thirty-five million. He runs a successful San Francisco ad firm. His next big thing? A death row inmate, pay-per-view television and America's major corporations. It will be his greatest achievement yet... Charles McLeod's AMERICAN WEATHER is the debut novel from a writer of breathtaking talent.

CONTENTS: ALEXANDER PUSHKIN 1. The Queen of Spades ALGERNON BLACKWOOD: 2. Confession 3. S. O. S. 4. The Wings of Horus ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE 5. B. 24 ARTHUR O. FRIEL: 6. The Spider 7. The Vulture ARTHUR QUILLER-COUCH: 8. Statement of Gabriel Foot, Highwayman 9. The Affair of Bleakirk-on-Sands 10. The...

A moving portrait of how black Americans have spoken out against injustice—with speeches by Thurgood Marshall, Shirley Chisholm, Jesse Jackson, and more. In “full-throated public oratory, the kind that can stir the soul”, this unique anthology collects the transcribed speeches of the...

Canadian environmental law is a dynamic and exciting area that is playing an increasingly important role in furthering sustainable development policy. Environmental law has distinctive relevant principles, operating procedures, implications, and importance in comparison with other areas of law, and...

Fragments of Trauma and the Social Production of Suffering: Trauma, History, and Memory offers a kaleidoscope of perspectives that highlight the problem of traumatic memory. Because trauma fragments memory, storytelling is impeded by what is unknowable and what is unspeakable. Each of the contributors...