Bøger af Jim Carroll

Why does God take His time with us? Are we worth it?Life in the Arabian Peninsula during the first half of the twentieth century was a place of trials for its inhabitants. Muslims had it tough enough. But for Christians - well that's another matter.Our hero, Pliny Oslander, an Englishman, lived hard, thrived, feared his enemies, loved his Arab friends, adopted the ways of the Bedouins, and struggled with himself in matters of faith. Our story takes Pliny through the key forty years of his life in the Middle East.How will God lead Pliny through his long battle? What are the costs? Can God make everything right again?For Pliny, Spiritual Passage in Arabia is an expedition only God can organize.My other novels about the Middle East include Kuwaiti Seeker, Hot Spot, and Prince of the Sand.Find out how God wins. See my book page on Amazon and BUY.

A moving, vividly rendered novel from the author of The Basketball Diaries Suffused with Jim Carroll's humor and sharp wit, his delicate yet hallucinatory imagery, and his cool, sophisticated, streetsmart voice, The Petting Zoo is a frank, haunting examination of one artist's personal and spiritual quest. Billy Wolfram, an enigmatic thirty-eight- year-old star of the late -1980s New York art scene, views a show of Velázquez paintings and is so humbled by their spiritual power that he suffers an emotional breakdown and retreats to his Chelsea loft. In seclusion, he recalls the most emblematic moments and figures of his childhood and early career as he searches to recover the spark of inspiration in his own work and life.

Sara Ann is very active and athletic, but one day she does not feel well. The doctor orders a CBC blood test be performed. Sara Ann is afraid of the needle. The doctor¿s office suggests she watch a video that explains what a CBC is to eliminate her fears. The items measured in the CBC: Charlie Circulatory System, Rudi Red Cell, Herman Hemoglobin, Lulu Leukocyte and Patti Platelet come alive in the video and explain what they do in blood. Ned Needle and Betsy Butterfly relate how easy it is to take blood from people¿s veins. After seeing the video, Sara Ann has blood taken from her arm. She bravely wears a big band-aid on her arm and feels taller than her mother. The band-aid is her Badge of Courage as she walks out of the doctor¿s office with her mother.

In 1973, at the age of twenty-three, Jim Carroll burst upon the poetry scene with his first collection, Living at the Movies, a book of vivid and inventive verse that won him comparisons to everyone from Arthur Rimbaud to Frank O'Hara. Carroll's first new book of poetry in more than a decade, Void of Course presents work composed over the last two years. His major themes--love, friendship, desire, time and memory, and, above all, the ever-present city--emerge in an atmosphere where dream and reality mingle on equal terms. These seventy-seven poems range from graphic, sensuous shorter pieces to edgy stream-of-consciousness prose poems to longer, more contemplative works such as "While She's Gone," an eerie tour de force of longing over a departed lover. Void of Course establishes that Carroll's power and purity of vision are stronger than ever.