The Year Of The Locust
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The Years of the Locust
TRUE CRIME. A true story of intrigue, paranoia, murder and money set in the shimmering cities of South Florida in the 1990s. It's the story of two men who never should have met; and when they did, one killed the other. It would be impossible to invent a man like Rick Parker, a freakishly fat ginger-haired giant who modelled his personal style on Elvis Presley and wanted to become the next Don King. Then Rick met Tim Anderson, a handsome, funny former baseball pro - was he the fighter to take Parker all the way? Rick left a trail of fixed fights and violent mayhem all across the South, but his dream stayed out of reach. By the end of his reign of terror the heroic Tim would be broke, poisoned and facing the hardest choice of his life. "The Years of The Locust" turns a remarkable, riotous true-crime story into a profound examination of fate, choices and remorse - one that's scary, sad and blackly, bleakly funny.
Year of the Locust
Author: Salim Tamari
language: en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date: 2011-09-01
Year of the Locust captures in page-turning detail the end of the Ottoman world and a pivotal moment in Palestinian history. In the diaries of Ihsan Hasan al-Turjman (1893–1917), the first ordinary recruit to describe World War I from the Arab side, we follow the misadventures of an Ottoman soldier stationed in Jerusalem. There he occupied himself by dreaming about his future and using family connections to avoid being sent to the Suez. His diaries draw a unique picture of daily life in the besieged city, bringing into sharp focus its communitarian alleys and obliterated neighborhoods, the ongoing political debates, and, most vividly, the voices from its streets—soldiers, peddlers, prostitutes, and vagabonds. Salim Tamari’s indispensable introduction places the diary in its local, regional, and imperial contexts while deftly revising conventional wisdom on the disintegration of the Ottoman Empire.