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Kimonos
Much more than simply a garment, the kimono is one of the most emblematic symbols in Japan. It is rich in symbolism and social messages. With photographs and drawings, 'Kimonos' illustrates the various facets of this garment, historically and in modern times.
Fear and Clothing
Through analyzing dress in detective fiction, Fear and Clothing reveals a cultural history of identity affected by the social upheaval caused by war. In-depth analysis of interwar publications by a comprehensive range of writers reveals readers' anxieties and fears about class, gender and race and how these changed over the period. Although read and written by both men and women, detective fiction was deemed at the time to be a masculine and high-status entertainment. However the literature demonstrates an admiration and acceptance of the woman's identity, performed during the Great War and continuing throughout the interwar period, as girl pal and female gentleman. In chapters that explore ...
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Leaving Sophie Dean
Adam and Sophie Dean's good-enough marriage could easily have lasted forever. But Adam succumbs to pressure from his mistress to leave Sophie, and in the course of his carefully prepared farewell speech, Sophie has a revelation: unless she leaves him in the family home in the role of primary caregiver, he'll have a severely diminished role in the lives of their two sons. So while Adam continues to live in the suburban house he despises-with his two children and his angry mistress, who'd never planned for this turn of events-Sophie sets out alone into an alluring new life nearby, close enough to see her sons every day, but far removed from her former life of domestic drudgery. As she and Adam grow into their new roles, they discover what it actually means to act in their children's best interests, and that the end of a marriage can be a beginning.
The Glass House
In this portrait of a family’s gradual descent into chaos, 14-year old Vanessa, recently expelled from boarding school, watches as her autocratic, glamorous mother unravels. Her friend Alan McAlpine offers an impossible comfort, one that she cannot accept.
Under the Mountain
It is the hot summer of 1981 and Catherine is laid low by childhood illness, stuck inside the sprawling Victorian mansion at the foot of the mountain. Confined to her sickbed with fever, she can only look down into the garden and observe the goings-on upon the lawn, or lie back and listen to the hushed conversations in the hall.
Kimono
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