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The first book-length critical approach to the fiction of the award-winning author of Birds of America Understanding Lorrie Moore is a comprehensive companion to the works of this wickedly humorous writer, whose fiction shows a deep sensitivity to the dynamics of contemporary gender relations and an abiding interest in portraying and critiquing the American national character. The recipient of the 1998 O. Henry Award and the 2004 Rea Award for the Short Story, Lorrie Moore is best known for her short fiction. Alison Kelly shows that Moore's virtuosic prose, wry humor, and sense of irony are tools for registering how Americans face the discomfort of their daily lives as individuals and as a n...
Household gizmos with a mind of their own.Constant cold calls from unknown numbers.And the creeping suspicion that none of this is real.Reality, and Other Stories is a gathering of deliciously chilling entertainments - stories to be read as the evenings draw in and the days are haunted by all the ghastly schlock, uncanny technologies and absurd horrors of modern life.
A marriage reunion? Vanessa knew her shotgun wedding to Mitch had been a mistake—to be honest, it had been a disaster! So why was she now having so much trouble remembering that she and Mitch were divorced? Mitch wasn't helping. All Vanessa wanted to do was stop her daughter making the same mistakes in marriage that she had…. But Mitch would keep kissing Vanessa until she began to wonder if it was their divorce that had been a mistake, and they could be husband and wife again!
This new biography of the controversial, influential, and prize-winning American novelist Philip Roth, a writer with an international reputation for inventive, original novels from Portnoy's Complaint to American Pastoral and The Plot Against America, is based on new access to archival documents and new interviews with Roth's friends and associates.
Now in an updated third edition, this best-selling textbook introduces primary teachers to the key issues in how to teach reading. The authors celebrate reading as an important, exhilarating part of the curriculum with the potential to transform lives, whilst also giving a balanced handling of contentious issues. Strongly rooted in classroom practi
Now in its third edition and reflecting changes in the Primary National Strategy, this best-selling textbook introduces primary teachers to key issues in the teaching of writing. Strongly rooted in classroom practice, the book includes: the history, theory and practice of teaching writing children writing in and out of school EAL and gender issues in writing the development of writing across the years of the primary school planning classroom routines and organising resources balancing the composition and transcription elements in writing monitoring and assessing writing meeting individual needs managing specific learning difficulties in writing, such as dyslexia With its companion Reading under Control (also in its third edition), this book provides undergraduate and postgraduate teachers with comprehensive guidance for the teaching of literacy.
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These New editions of the successful, highly-illustrated study/revision guides have been fully updated to meet the latest specification changes. Written by experienced examiners, they contain in-depth coverage of the key information plus hints, tips and guidance about how to achieve top grades in the A2 exams.
Programmer Gina is sent to a ranch in the outback for work. The client is Parish, an unrefined man with a huge personality. Between the inconveniences of outback life and the self-centered things Parish says, Gina is almost driven crazy. But through all their disagreements, the two can’t take their eyes off each other. When Gina suddenly finds herself held snugly against his burly chest, kissed by him over and over again, her determination to resist him is put to the ultimate test!
Hidden Pasts. Unexpected Betrayals. Twisted Friendships. Sweet Revenge.The twists keep coming--and no secrets are safe.Her mother's in jail. Her best friend betrayed her. Who can Alison trust?Backstabber Kelly has the world at her feet. Who will she step on next?Sweet, handsome Chad seems like the perfect boyfriend. What is he hiding?Tough-as-nails Zoey is out for revenge. Is she more vulnerable than she thinks?Loyal friend. Bitter rival. Which is the real Tom?Let the drama begin...