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My Homeplace Inheritance
Set largely in the 1960s and 70s, Susan Farrell's vivid memoir is a compelling account of what it was like to grow up in rural Armagh, a world rooted in tradition and in the seasons, and still recovering from the impact of the Second World War.Beginning with her grandparents, Susan uses food and family stories in abundance to trace the legacy of that way of life through rationing, the Troubles and the increasing pressures on our connection with seasonal eating and country living.
Jane Smiley's A Thousand Acres
Continuum Contemporaries will be a wonderful source of ideas and inspiration for members of book clubs and readings groups, as well as for literature students.The aim of the series is to give readers accessible and informative introductions to 30 of the most popular, most acclaimed, and most influential novels of recent years. A team of contemporary fiction scholars from both sides of the Atlantic has been assembled to provide a thorough and readable analysis of each of the novels in question. The books in the series will all follow the same structure:a biography of the novelist, including other works, influences, and, in some cases, an interview; a full-length study of the novel, drawing out the most important themes and ideas; a summary of how the novel was received upon publication; a summary of how the novel has performed since publication, including film or TV adaptations, literary prizes, etc.; a wide range of suggestions for further reading, including websites and discussion forums; and a list of questions for reading groups to discuss.
Myths of My Family
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Critical Companion to Kurt Vonnegut
Kurt Vonnegut is one of the most popular and admired authors of post-war American literaturefamous both for his playful and deceptively simple style as well as for his scathing critiques of social injustice and war. Criti.
52 Weeks of Wisdom, a Woman's Guide to Self-Empowerment, Volume 1
It's no secret that women face an uphill battle when trying to succeed in the working world. Sexist policies, bosses, and coworkers conspire to keep us from earning the promotions or wages we deserve. Times are changing, but they aren't changing fast enough; it's time for us to take charge of our own destinies. 52 Weeks of Wisdom contains salient suggestions from successful businesswoman Susan L. Farrell. There's one piece of wisdom for every week of the year, plus space for personal notes. Here are just a few examples: Finish what you start. Play your own game. Do things that make you smile. Embrace yourself while improving yourself. Just do something. Whether you feel utterly lost or are already the mistress of your domain, you'll find the wisdom in this book to be extremely helpful in your personal life as well as your professional life. Discover and put to work your values, beliefs, passions, and motivations with help from Farrell's decades of experience. You have the power to become the woman you want to be-but first you must discover who she is.
Don't Act Like Prey!
If you're like many women, from birth you were taught to be passive. While the boys were being rowdy, we were taught to be quiet. While men could argue, we were told to avoid conflict. Be nice. Speak softly. Don't make a fuss. Now we're adults, and we've discovered that passivity allows people to take advantage of us in both our personal and professional relationships. In response, some women adopt an aggressive stance. Unfortunately, that doesn't usually work either. If docility encourages disrespect and aggression makes us disrespectful, what choice is there? In Don't Act Like Prey!, author and women's self-empowerment consultant Susan L. Farrell offers a third option: respectful assertive...
Imagining Home
War has often been seen as the domain of men and thus irrelevant to gender analysis, and American writers have frequently examined war according to traditional gender expectations: that boys become men by going to war and girls become women by building a home. Yet the writers discussed in this book complicate these expectations, since their female characters often take part directly in war and especially since their male characters repeatedly imagine domestic spaces for themselves in the midst of war. Chapters on Hemingway and the First World War, Kurt Vonnegut and the Second World War, and Tim O'Brien and the Vietnam War place these writers in their particular historical and cultural contex...
Critical Companion to Tim O'Brien
Tim O'Brien is the one of the greatest living American authors. He was drafted for service in Vietnam as soon as he graduated from Macalester College in 1968. His Vietnam War novels The Things They Carried and Going After Cacciato are widely acknowledged as some of the best American war novels ever written. Critical Companion to Tim O'Brien is a comprehensive new resource for anyone interested in this author's life, works, and achievements. Coverage includes: A concise but thorough biography of O'Brien Entries on all O'Brien's works, including his war novels, Going After Cacciato, The Things They Carried, and In the Lake of the Woods; his memoir, If I Die in a Combat Zone, Box Me Up and Ship Me Home; and all his other published novels and short stories, including The Nuclear Age, July, July, and more Entries on related people, places, and topics, such as Green Berets, Ernest Hemingway, metafiction, and Viet Cong Appendixes, including a chronology, a bibliography of O'Brien's works, and a secondary source bibliography.
