Author : Lesley Bannatyne
Publisher :
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 16,48 MB
Release : 2022-02-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781952224164
Debut short fiction collection. Runner-up for the 2021 Acacia Fiction Prize
Author : Jhumpa Lahiri
Publisher : Random House India
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 20,82 MB
Release : 2013-09-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8184004842
The stories of Unaccustomed Earth focus on second-generation immigrants making and remaking lives, loves and identities in England and America. We follow brothers and sisters, mothers and fathers, friends and lovers, in stories that take us from Boston and London to Bombay and Calcutta. Blending the individual and the generational, the exotic and the strikingly mundane, these haunting, exquisitely detailed and emotionally complex stories are intensely compelling elegies of life, death, love and fate. This is a dazzling work from a masterful writer.
Author : William Daniel Ehrhart
Publisher : Texas Tech University Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 28,50 MB
Release : 1989
Category : History
ISBN : 9780896721890
Every poet in this anthology represents the terrible beauty that Vietnam engendered in sensitive hearts, the curious grace with which the human spirit can endow even the ugliest realities."No one will get out of this volume without being hammered in the heart and singed in the soul. I could touch the tears on page after page."--Wallace Terry
Author : Natalie Robins
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 927 pages
File Size : 11,69 MB
Release : 2008-09-04
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 184739602X
On Friday, 17th November 1972, a shocking crime rocked London. Wealthy American socialite Barbara Baekeland had been stabbed to death in her Chelsea apartment. The man arrested for the murder: her own son. A spellbinding tale of money and madness, incest and matricide, SAVAGE GRACE is the saga of Brooks and Barbara Baekeland - heirs to the Bakelite plastics fortune - and their handsome, gentle son, Tony. Alternately neglected and smothered by his parents, he was finally driven to destroy the whole family in a violent chain of events.Unfolding against a glamorous international background, SAVAGE GRACE tells the doomed Baekelands' story through remarkably candid interviews, private letters and diaries, as well as confidential hospital and prison records. A true-crime classic, it exposes the harrowing truth behind the envied lives of the rich.
Author : Lesley Pratt Bannatyne
Publisher : Pelican Publishing Company, Inc.
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 30,28 MB
Release : 2011-04-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781589806801
America's leading authority on Halloween presents interviews with spooky rock groups, amateur vampires, haunted house creators, champion pumpkin carvers, and more, all in the quest of explaining the nation's unique love affair with this holiday. The collection of essays and interviews explores the pop culture phenomenon that is Halloween, and why we celebrate it the way we do today.
Author : John Bunyan
Publisher :
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 28,11 MB
Release : 1863
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Grace Paley
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 27,4 MB
Release : 2014-10-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1466883979
This rich and multifaceted collection is Grace Paley's vivid record of her life. As close to an autobiography as anything we are likely to have from this quintessentially American writer, Just As I Thought gives us a chance to see Paley not only as a writer and "troublemaker" but also as a daughter, sister, mother, and grandmother. Through her descriptions of her childhood in the Bronx and her experiences as an antiwar activist to her lectures on writing and her recollections of other writers, these pieces are always alive with Paley's inimitable voice, humor, and wisdom.
Author : Lesley Pratt Bannatyne
Publisher : Pelican Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,1 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Halloween
ISBN : 9781565543461
Traces the history of Halloween celebrations from their earliest roots through contemporary times.
Author : Kimberly Newton Fusco
Publisher : Knopf Books for Young Readers
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 15,80 MB
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 030743382X
Lenore is Cornelia’s mother—and Cornelia’s fix-up project. What does it matter that Cornelia won’t talk to anyone and is always stuck in the easiest English class at school, even though she’s read more books than anyone else? She feels strong in the fixing. She cooks vegetable soup so Lenore will eat something other than Ring Dings; she lures her out of bed with strong coffee and waffles. She looks after the house when Lenore won’t get out of bed at all. So when Lenore and her boyfriend take off for Vegas leaving Cornelia behind with eccentric Aunt Agatha, all Cornelia can do is wait for her to come back. Aunt Agatha sure doesn’t want any fixing. Maybe this time it’s Cornelia who could use it?
Author : Virginia Woolf
Publisher : Modernista
Page : 111 pages
File Size : 18,97 MB
Release : 2024-05-30
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9180949509
Virginia Woolf's playful exploration of a satirical »Oxbridge« became one of the world's most groundbreaking writings on women, writing, fiction, and gender. A Room of One's Own [1929] can be read as one or as six different essays, narrated from an intimate first-person perspective. Actual history blends with narrative and memoir. But perhaps most revolutionary was its address: the book is written by a woman for women. Male readers are compelled to read through women's eyes in a total inversion of the traditional male gaze. VIRGINIA WOOLF [1882–1941] was an English author. With novels like Jacob’s Room [1922], Mrs Dalloway [1925], To the Lighthouse [1927], and Orlando [1928], she became a leading figure of modernism and is considered one of the most important English-language authors of the 20th century. As a thinker, with essays like A Room of One’s Own [1929], Woolf has influenced the women’s movement in many countries.
