Peter De Lissovoy (23 results)

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

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

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Octavo, tan cloth (hardcover), uncut, 400 pp. Very Good, with small area of discoloration to upper cover -- interior clean, tight, and attractive; in a mylar protected dust jacket with palm-sized damp stain to spine & upper cover (otherwise, bright and attractive). From dust jacket: "In these pages, I offer only my story. You may suggest that the historian is also the diligent spinner of a tale." So writes Peter de Lissovoy, the young man at the center of this beautifully written narrative. He writes about a period of his life which took him from Harvard and the campus drug scene to a small Georgia town where he hoped to find a place in the civil rights movement. The futility of the movement was not unlike that he had felt at college, but it served as a spring-board for a passionate journey on the black side of a small southern town he calls Meansville, Georgia.His search ended in the cool earth on the banks of the Meansville River, and in the swamp next to it. Here he sat with Dr. Feelgood, a gentle sage who practiced root medicine, and Yellow, a cripple who spent his life fishing for sunnies in the peaceful river. Together they smoked the potent grass that Feelgood had gathered from the swamp where it grew wild. And listening to Feelgood think out loud, the wanderer began to understand the nature of his quest. His sympathy for the black American began to shift in its derivation from a vague wish for involvement in something to a truer understanding, and hence became a sympathy no longer confined to a praticular race. Literature, American Culture, Civil Rights movement, Southern Americana, American South, Georgia.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition. Binding and pages are intact. All pages are free from any notations. Scuffing and bumping visible to boards. This could have light cosmetic flaws, but remains in good condition. Dust jacket condition is Acceptable. This copy is the First Edition of the published work. This copy is the First Printing of the published work. Secure packaging for safe delivery.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. This book is in Very Good condition and is lacking the dust jacket. The book covers have some generalized ground-in dirt. There is some light bumping to the spine ends and corners of the book covers. The text pages are clean and bright. "Just before the hearing opened there was a disturbance in the hall. A field worker for the student committee, Peter de Lissovoy, 21, a former Harvard student who lives here, complained that he had been struck on the back of the neck by a police officer. Arrested four times in the past year and sentenced to a total of four weeks in various jails in southwest Georgia, Mr. De Lissovoy, who is white, has been a special target of the police. He is shunned by the other whites in this tightly segregationist city, and says he is occasionally saluted by Chief of Police Laurie Pritchett with the greeting: "Mawnin, n*** "" (New York Times, July 10, 1964). De Lissovoy was a member of SNNC (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee) " "The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC, often pronounced /sn? K/ SNIK) was the principal channel of student commitment in the United States to the civil rights movement during the 1960s. Emerging in 1960 from the student-led sit-ins at segregated lunch counters in Greensboro, North Carolina, and Nashville, Tennessee, the Committee sought to coordinate and assist direct-action challenges to the civic segregation and political exclusion of African Americans. From 1962, with the support of the Voter Education Project, SNCC committed to the registration and mobilization of black voters in the Deep South. Affiliates such as the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party and the Lowndes County Freedom Organization in Alabama also worked to increase the pressure on federal and state government to enforce constitutional protections. " (from Wikipedia).

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First Edition, First Printing. Not price-clipped ($6.95 price intact). Published by Houghton Milton Company, 1970. Octavo. Gray cloth boards stamped in brown. Book is very good; clean with no writing or names. Sharp corners and spine straight with light smudges and light spotting on pages. Binding tight and pages crisp with black endpapers. Dust jacket is very good with a few small nicks and spotting on back. 400 pages. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions or if you would like a photo. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Southampton, New York.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. 400pp. Spotting on the top page edge else near fine in a very good dust jacket with rubbing, some toning, and edgewear.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. In the middle of the lonely crowded barroom a young woman in a black gown that accentuated her figure and pinched her waist stood behind rows of glittering punchglasses. There was a gentle acceptance in her eyes that drew me. Suddenly I realized it was a painting! I had been staring into a print of an old impressionist painting from the nineteenth century, you probably know the painting, that had improbably been pinned to the barroom wall. Next to the rows of glittering punchglasses in the painting was a small elegantly handwritten sign: SHOTS $3.75. Only the girl in the poster offered consolation, and I glanced at her out of the corner of my eye to see if I could catch her moving, in case it was M after all. Then the exquisite slim hand of the girl reached out and placed yet another sign in front of her glassware, this one also in tasteful black letters. YOU MUST GO TO A FAR COUNTRY it said. She seemed to set it up for me . . . Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.

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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - What if there were a whole other reality, which they were tuned into, and maybe still are, which is still there as always, as Julie claimed, only invisible What if by pretend ing a totem pole like this was just a tourist attraction, we were kidding ourselves, like children playing with a live bomb We just couldn't see the fuse because it led into another dimension, maybe the future, where the match would be lit. What if the winning of the West had been all a vain delusion, and Destiny was Manifest on some unheard-of level where unbeknownst to us we were heading toward our ruin What if we hadn't stolen their land after all, and all that they had said about God really owning the land, making it unstealable, was the truth, and they were just lying low and biding their time What if under the eternal heavens we palefaces with our skyscrapers and high-tech gadgets are nothing but demented squatters, whom God will kick out by and by These thoughts troubled me, and yet uplifted me too, somehow.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - 'Like the cop, the cab driver was about to have his world disturbed by a strange girl. But being a weak denizen of the city jungle, the cab driver must have a very different first impression of Rita than a cop, who by function as well as by nature is a predatory creature. As unlikely as it must have been, from alien planes, and miles apart, inhabiting nearly polar ends of the urban wilderness, shortly these two would get to know each other, as guys do, that is, mix their misperceptions of each other dramatically and violently. It was the last thing Rita would have wished to happen, although women are often judged as aiming to create conflict and confusion. She had plenty of problems of her own. . . .'.

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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. What was it like in white supremacist Rhodesia before the devastating race war out of which the troubled country of Zimbabwe with all its bitterness was born? "Iron Man" Ian Smith and his White Front had declared Independence from the British Crown in 1965 and taken over Rhodesia with its splendid highlands, "God and white man's country." In the 1970s the Matabele and Mashona freedom fighters were once again in the hills, over the borders in Zambia and Mozambique, and war was in its beginnings. On an impulse to be part of it, an idealistic young American quits his teaching job in Kenya and heads down the Great North Road to see Rhodesia for himself, write something true about it, and help in some way the cause of freedom. In The Angels of Zimbabwe, readers are taken back to the early 1970s to join Joe, a young American, in Salisbury, the capital of Rhodesia, on an adventure to find the ZANU freedom fighters, where at first, instead, he lands a job with The Clarion, a local European newspaper, and makes friends with both white and black in this country where the mixing of races was illegal. As author Peter de Lissovoy's story delves deeper and deeper into this contradiction, readers are taken on a journey that is filled with tension and danger, but also hope, passion, and bitter humor. His best friend Shakespeare is an idealistic member of the ZANU freedom fighters, who hopes that communication with the European settlers is still possible, and his girlfriend Heather is white, from a wealthy liberal family, who fears the worst for her country. With Shakespeare, Joe gets involved in a protest march and land seizure intended to dramatize the plight of the poverty-stricken African tribespeople and make the whites aware of the danger not only the Africans but the white settlers are in too. His heart is with the freedom fighters, but he is astonished to find himself tied to the Europeans as well. Finding himself in the spiritual no-man's land between the races in Rhodesia, he wonders if he'll survive with skin and sanity intact and if in the end he will have done any good. With youthful abandon, Joe and Shakespeare hope to uproot the ancient tree of strife with a march and a newspaper headline, only to find they've planted a whole new seed of trouble. Will their effort to educate the European population prevent a race war from engulfing the whole country, or will all that follows be only more tragedy and murder? Hard as it is to imagine now, there was a time when such hopes of reconciliation still flourished in Zimbabwe. In The Angels of Zimbabwe, Peter de Lissovoy, who back then was briefly a member of the ZANU Youth Wing himself, recalls those forgotten days and casts a ray of hope for the future. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.