You may have to Search all our reviewed books and magazines, click the sign up button below to create a free account.
Dearborn's unprecedented access to Guggenheim's family, friends, and papers contributes rich insight to her traumatic childhood in New York, her self-education in the ways of art and artists, her battles with other art-collecting Guggenheims, and her legendary sexual appetites.
Salman Rushdie is perhaps the most important writer of the present time. His significant and controversial literary interventions in debates on post-colonial culture and contemporary South Asian Islam are matched by the contribution he has made to postmodern literature in the West (culminating in the award to him in 1993 of the twenty-fifth-anniversary Booker of Bookers prize). This collection of articles focuses on Rushdie's five novels. The context is set by the introduction, The Politics of Salman Rushdie's Fiction, which discusses the political stance of Rushdie's fiction, the various influences on his work, and the textual strategies and techniques he employs, for political expression and cultural critique. The postmodern/post-colonial interface, the carnivalesque, and satire are major themes treated here and in the articles that follow, which also provide diverse other perspectives on Rushdie's thought and method. A number of essays have been commissioned specially for this volume. An appendix listing selected writings by Rushdie and articles on the Satanic Verses Affair is followed by a comprehensive bibliography annotating critical studies of Rushdie's work.
The Closer the Bone The Closer the Bone, the third adventure of sleuths Clarice Campion and Miss Letty, finds Clarice, husband Otis, and Miss Letty, former star of the Silent Screen, acting as exchange innkeepers at Flanagan’s Guest House in Bray, County Wicklow, Ireland. From the first they are locked between two feuding families, the Quinns and the Donovans. Seamus Quinn is found stabbed and bleeding out on Flanagan’s doorstep although the trail of blood leads from the Donovans’. Assorted disparate winter boarders add fuel of their own. Had Seamus tried to blackmail someone? Why do people keep disappearing and reappearing at Flanagan’s? And why does Fergus Flanagan return abruptly ...
Mairead Kelly, only seventeen, barefoot, starving and alone, flees the unimaginable horror of the Irish Famine, only to find disease and desperate squalor in nineteenth century industrial Liverpool. Against all odds she rises triumphantly above the destitution - but what is the tragic secret she is harbouring?
HARDCOVER EDITION Thirty-five-year old Kate Flanagan, a junior detective, doesn't understand the indescribable forces pulling her into this murder case, but soon discovers that the spirit of the victim has entered her body. Haunting and suspenseful, "Death Spirits" tells of the shocking murder of a beloved school teacher and turns a small North Dakota village upside down as suspicion, accusations, and more murders fuel fear and distrust. "Death Spirits," a piercing mystery, is about a logical mind confronting the illogical idea that a murder victim's spirit lives on. It is a about what happens to the people of a small town who fear that a murderer may be one of them. Fully developed characters and strong visual images draw readers into the story with edge-of-your-seat suspense that builds to the spine-tingling end where the murderer is revealed..but not before fraying your nerves, and making you wonder what "Death Spirits" may be lurking around your corner!
Through close readings, this book explores T.E. Hulme's influence on key Modernist writers and how he might offer a new model of creative-critical practice.
Michael Joseph Maloney married Elizabeth Jane Flanagan in Ireland in 1901. They had 6 children before immigrating to Canada in 1910. Their 5 younger children were born in Alberta, Canada before they moved again to Portland Oregon about 1923. The majority of their descendants have remained in the northwestern states.
"Questions of Power: The Politics of Women's Madness Narratives explores the ways in which women have used autobiographical writing in response to psychiatric symptoms and treatment. By addressing health and healing from the patient's perspective, the study raises questions about psychiatric practice and mental health policy. The ultimate thesis is that autobiographies by women psychiatric patients can expose many of the problems in psychiatric treatment and indicate directions for change."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved