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A family epic blending mystery and romance set in the luxurious trappings of London and the turbulent economies of Eastern Europe.
The thirteen stories in this collection concern people from a wide variety of backgrounds. As they struggle with the problems they meet physical, emotional, or spiritual they become conscious of past failures and missing necessities for their futures. While they have various degrees of success or failure, it's the awareness of the reasons for one's fate that emerges as the central value. This knowledge of limitations, sometimes bolstered by compassion or will, empowers some of the characters but remains elusive for others.
The three works in this volume concern people either slipping from or trying to grasp needed levels in life. In The Case of Arlene, a mental patient will only reveal her traumatic past to an itinerant part-time worker, creating intrigues within their facility. The Lightweight, written in verse, is essentially an epic poem about a regular guy. His story offers meaning in its commonality with the aspirations and weaknesses of many other people. In The Celestial Opera, a reunion of two old friends at a funeral leads to deeper understanding of life, death, and what may lie beyond.
A rock star branded by a demon… A fallen angel with wings black as night… Florian, a fallen angel, on the verge of losing his powers and turning human, meets Seth, an up and coming rock star with a demonic secret, on the roof of a gay bar. They only decide on one night of strictly no-strings-attached fun. It seems like a great idea, until the next morning, when they realise their lives are more intertwined than they expected. But the music industry isn’t kind on rock stars with a preference for men. And how can an angel protect someone, when he has failed so spectacularly before? Can these two men work it out? Or have they been cursed from the start? This is the full five-part serial in one set. It includes: Branded, Stage, Fear, Lost and Winged.
A Companion to Literature in Film provides state-of-the-art research on world literature, film, and the complex theoretical relationship between them. 25 essays by international experts cover the most important topics in the study of literature and film adaptations. Covers a wide variety of topics, including cultural, thematic, theoretical, and genre issues Discusses film adaptations from the birth of cinema to the present day Explores a diverse range of titles and genres, including film noir, biblical epics, and Italian and Chinese cinema
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This text explores the ways in which crime fiction manipulates cultural constructions such as race and gender to inscribe dominant cultural discourses. It notes that even those writers who set out to revise conventions repeatedly produce some of the genre's most conservative elements.