The Lonely Girl
Author : Edna O'Brien
Publisher :
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 32,33 MB
Release : 1962
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Author : Edna O'Brien
Publisher :
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 32,33 MB
Release : 1962
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Author : Jessie Tu
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,45 MB
Release : 2024
Category : Australian fiction
ISBN : 9781761471773
Jena Chung plays the violin. She was once a child prodigy and is now addicted to sex. She's struggling a little. Her professional life comprises rehearsals, concerts, auditions and relentless practice; her personal life is spent managing family demands, those of her creative friends, and lots of sex. Jena is selfish, impulsive and often behaves badly, though mostly only to her own detriment. And then she meets Mark - much older and worldly-wise - who bewitches her. Could this be love? When Jena wins an internship with the New York Philharmonic, she thinks the life she has dreamed of is about to begin. But when Trump is elected New York changes irrevocably, and Jena along with it. Is the dream over? With echoes of Frances Ha, Jena's favourite film, truths are gradually revealed to her. Jena comes to learn that there are many different ways to live and love and that no one has the how-to guide for any of it - not even her indomitable mother. A Lonely Girl is a Dangerous Thing unflinchingly explores the confusion of having expectations upturned, and the awkwardness and pain of being human in our increasingly dislocated world - and how, in spite of all this, we still try to become the person we want to be. It is a dazzling, original and astounding debut from a young writer with a fierce, intelligent and fearless new voice.
Author : Miriam Karpilove
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 24,67 MB
Release : 2020-01-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0815654901
First published serially in the Yiddish daily newspaper di Varhayt in 1916–18, Diary of a Lonely Girl, or The Battle against Free Love is a novel of intimate feelings and scandalous behaviors, shot through with a dark humor. From the perch of a diarist writing in first person about her own love life, Miriam Karpilove’s novel offers a snarky, melodramatic criticism of radical leftist immigrant youth culture in early twentieth-century New York City. Squeezed between men who use their freethinking ideals to pressure her to be sexually available and nosy landladies who require her to maintain her respectability, the narrator expresses frustration at her vulnerable circumstances with wry irreverence. The novel boldly explores issues of consent, body autonomy, women’s empowerment and disempowerment around sexuality, courtship, and politics. Karpilove immigrated to the United States from a small town near Minsk in 1905 and went on to become one of the most prolific and widely published women writers of prose in Yiddish. Kirzane’s skillful translation gives English readers long-overdue access to Karpilove’s original and provocative voice.
Author : Suzanne Forster
Publisher : Harlequin
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 19,9 MB
Release : 2014-07-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1460364694
At an exclusive California prep school,four young girls form a bond that willendure over two decades—a bond builton secrets, scandal and murder…a bondabout to be broken. Mattie, a federal judge…Breeze, a wealthyentrepreneur…and Jane, the first lady of theUnited States, have all enjoyed a meteoric rise tosuccess since their days at the Rowe Academyfor Girls. But now the truth behind the suicide oftheir friend Ivy and the murder of theirheadmistress twenty years ago is no longersafely hidden. The man imprisoned for the murder hasbeen exonerated, and a true crime reporteris relentlessly pursuing a loose thread in thedecades-old cover-up, one that threatens tounravel the women’s pact of silence. Butnone of them anticipated the twisted depthsof the secrets about to be exposed—or howthe truth could shatter all their lives.
Author : Lynne Vincent McCarthy
Publisher : Macmillan Publishers Aus.
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 34,33 MB
Release : 2018-06-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1760781401
LONGLISTED FOR THE NED KELLY BEST FIRST FICTION AWARD 2019 This voice is something else, it belongs to her as surely as the things in this room do. It's one thing Ana has always known about herself. She can be cruel. In the shadow of a mountain in small-town Tasmania, a woman named Ana is watching the clock, marking the days until she ends her life. The strange, reclusive daughter of the local pariah, that's how the people will remember her, when they remember her at all. No one will mourn her, she reasons, not really. Not even her faithful dog River. The only thing she's waiting for is the opportunity. But then, on the very day she planned to end it all, the police find the body of local woman Rebecca Marsden. And for Ana, that changes everything. Because Ana was the last person to see Rebecca alive. Because Ana thinks she knows who killed her. And because Ana has decided to keep him for herself... PRAISE FOR LONELY GIRL "Lonely Girl is dark, disturbing and utterly compelling. Lynne Vincent McCarthy has created a unique protagonist in Ana, and an atmospheric story that will keep you reading long into the night. I can't wait to read more." Emma Viskic, author of the Caleb Zelic series
Author : J. Lin
Publisher :
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 18,60 MB
Release : 2016-03-04
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ISBN : 9780692616086
Who is Lonely Girl? You might imagine her life as rather lifeless and loveless - at worst, a forgotten and an abandoned unknown or at best, a beautiful disaster. Which do you suppose she is? Are you desperate enough to know or too afraid to find out? Whether she's a forgotten and an abandoned unknown or a beautiful disaster, that's for you to decide. Experience for yourself the life - the private life - of a girl who has experienced both the highs and the lows of living a kind of 'blacklisted lifestyle, ' according to a culture shaped by those generations before her and the people who surrounded her in her early years. To understand Lonely Girl, you must know her full story - unfiltered. Her story is a true story and it's told by Lonely Girl herself, with such courage, raw intensity and honesty that few would dare to do.
Author : Josephine Cox
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 17,35 MB
Release : 2015-01-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0007476744
The new novel from Sunday Times bestselling author Josephine Cox gets straight to the hope and heartbreak of family drama.
Author : Edna O'Brien
Publisher : Plume Books
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 21,99 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780452283756
The Lonely Girl follows the story of childhood friends Kate and Baba, now both twenty-one, as they navigate the rocky, sometimes treacherous pathways of urban life. With hearts as big as Dublin, and hopes as bright as new pennies, they move bravely and eagerly toward the future. Yet the two couldn't be more different. Kate toils in a grocery shop and lives out her romantic fantasies in books. Baba entertains more earthbound dreams. Their principles - and friendship - are tested when Kate meets a dashing married man, and discovers the exhilaration of passion ... and the consequences of falling in love.
Author : Martin Millar
Publisher : Catapult
Page : 561 pages
File Size : 25,19 MB
Release : 2008-02-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0979663660
The hard-edged, hilarious, and utterly believable first entry in a trilogy featuring troubled teenage werewolf Kalix MacRinnalch introduces readers to a world where werewolves--friendly werewolves, fashionista werewolves, cross-dressing werewolves, werewolves of every sort--walk among us. Teenage werewolf Kalix MacRinnalch is being pursued through the streets of London by murderous hunters. She could certainly use a little help right about now, but her sister, the Werewolf Enchantress, is too busy designing clothes for the Fire Queen. So it looks like Kalix is on her own, as usual. This problem all started back at home in the Scottish Highlands where Kalix's family, the MacRinnalch Clan, is plotting and feuding after the head of the clan died suddenly without having named a successor. As the court intrigue threatens to blow up into all-out civil war, the competing factions determine that Kalix is the swing vote necessary to determine the new leadership of the clan. Unfortunately, Kalix isn’t really into clan politics--laudanum’s more her thing. But since Kalix might just be the reason the head of the clan ended up dead, she'll need to abandon her bad habits, if only long enough to stay alive.
Author : April Henry
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 10,1 MB
Release : 2019-01-29
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 1250157587
A killer is on the loose, and only one girl has the power to find him. But in this genre-bending YA thriller, she must first manage to avoid becoming a target herself. For Adele, the dead aren’t really dead. She can see them and even talk to them. But she’s spent years denying her gift. When she encounters her ex-best friend Tori in the woods and then realizes that Tori is actually dead in a shallow grave—that gift turns into a curse. Without an alibi, Adele becomes the prime suspect in Tori’s murder. She must work with Tori’s ghost to find the real killer. But what if the killer finds Adele first? In The Lonely Dead, master mystery writer April Henry adds a chilling paranormal twist to this incredibly suspenseful young adult novel. Christy Ottaviano Books