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“thom jones”

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  • Autistics at Work

    A Practical Guide

    by Sandra Thom-Jones ...
    Sandra Thom-Jones has tried all kinds of work—selling flowers, tending bar, office work, university leadership. Along the way she has made some mistakes, had some successes, and learnt a lot about the barriers and facilitators for autistic people building a career in a predominantly neurotypical work environment.Thom-Jones shares her personal experiences and reflections as well as those of her ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Pugilist at Rest

    Stories

    by Thom Jones ...
    "Writers as good as Thom Jones appear but rarely. . . . His fiction world is irresistible" in this short story collection, a National Book Award finalist (N ew York Times Book Review ).Thom Jones made his literary debut in The New Yorker in 1991. Within six months his stories appeared in Harper's, Esquire, Mirabella, Story, Buzz, and in The New Yorker twice mor... ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • Autistics in Academia

    Narratives of Work, Adversity, and Achievement from Around the World

    by Sandra Thom-Jones ...
    Embracing neurodiversity, Autistics in the Academy amplifies the voices of thirty-seven Autistic academics from around the world, unveiling their unique perspectives in academia. Thom-Jones, an academic and advocate, spotlights overlooked contributions, addressing challenges veiled by stigma. The book aims to dismantle barriers and foster a more inclusive academic landscape. Drawing on firsthand ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Growing in to Autism

    by Sandra Thom-Jones ...
    From the outside looking in, Sandra Thom-Jones was living a successful life: she had a great career, a beautiful home, a loving family and supportive friends. But from the inside looking out, she was struggling to make sense of her place in the world, constantly feeling overwhelmed and exhausted, and convinced that her challenges with daily life just meant that she had to try harder. In Growing in ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Night Train

    New and Selected Stories

    by Thom Jones ...
    A posthumous and definitive collection of new and selected stories by the National Book Award finalist and "virtuoso of the short story" ( Esquire ).This scorching collection from award-winning author Thom Jones features his best new short fiction alongside a selection of outstanding stories from three previous books. Jones's stories are prose-drunk entertainment full of grifters, drifters, and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Cold Snap

    Stories

    by Thom Jones ...
    Following his celebrated debut collection, The Pugilist at Rest, National Book Award nominee Thom Jones delivers a lacerating collection of stories that plunges us once again into an edgy, adrenalized world of desire, mania, and rage. In ten new stories, Jones introduces us to hard-luck fighters steeling themselves for battles they've already lost, doctors who fall in love with their illnesses, ... Read more

    $9.89 USD

  • Growing in to Autism

    by Sandra Thom-Jones ...
    From the outside looking in, Sandra Thom-Jones was living a successful life: she had a great career, a beautiful home, a caring husband, two loving sons and supportive friends. But from the inside looking out, she was struggling to make sense of her place in the world, constantly feeling overwhelmed and exhausted, and convinced that her challenges with daily life just meant that she had to try ... Read more

    $14.44 USD

  • Sonny Liston Was a Friend of Mine

    Stories

    by Thom Jones ...
    The author's world encompasses dilapidated fight arenas, state mental hospitals & chaotic emergency rooms. The inhabitants are his brilliantly etched characters, who battle desperately against fate in a game of life they cannot win but dare not lose. As we approach the end of the century & the millennium, no one writes better or more vividly than Jones does about the personal, private apocalypses ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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    Night Train

    New and Selected Stories

    by Thom Jones ...
    Narrated by Amy Bloom, Kiff VandenHeuvel, Maxwell Hamilton, Jodi Carlisle, Will Collyer, Jim Meskimen, Adenrele Ojo, Cameron Bowen, Christine Lakin0 ...

    Unabridged

    18 hours 9 min

    A posthumous and definitive collection of new and selected stories by "virtuoso of the short story" (Esquire) and National Book Award finalist Thom Jones.This scorching collection from award-winning author Thom Jones features his best new short fiction alongside a selection of outstanding stories from three previous books. Jones's stories are full of high-octane, prose-drunk entertainment. His ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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  • Will Not Attend

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  • The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test

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    One of the most essential works on the 1960s counterculture, Tom Wolfe's The Electric Kool-Aid Test ushered in an era of New Journalism.This is the seminal work on the hippie culture, a report on what it was like to follow along with Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters as they launched the "Transcontinental Bus Tour" from the West Coast to New York, all while introducing acid (then legal) to ... Read more

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