The Neversink Library champions books from around the world that have been overlooked, under appreciated, looked askance at, or foolishly ignored. In the tense environment of the wartime city, their love takes on a desperation transcending their youthfulness.Īnd as the badly-kept secret of their relationship unfolds, scandal descends, leading the story to a final, startling conclusion - and causing the book itself to become a scandal when it was first published in 1923, just before the author’s death at the age of 20. What seems to begin as a charming tale of puppy love quickly darkens, and they launch into a steamy affair. Set in Paris during the First World War, it tells the story of Francois, the 16-year-old narrator, who falls in love with Marthe, an older, married woman whose husband is off fighting at the front. Long unavailable in the U.S., it is here presented in a sparkling new translation. Hailed by Jean Cocteau as a “masterpiece,” and by the Guardian as “Bret Easton Ellis’s Less Than Zero, avant la lettre,” this taut tale written by a teenager in the form of a frank “confession” is a gem of early twentieth century romanticism.
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If Bastián and Lore don't want it bringing their secrets to the surface with it, they have to stop it, and to do that, they have to work together. The world under the lake drifts above the surface. Then the lines between air and water begin to blur. Lore's only seen the world under the lake once, but that one encounter changed their life and their fate. Bastián grew up both above the lake and in the otherworldly space beneath it. But Bastián Silvano and Lore Garcia are the only ones who've been there. Summary "In this young adult novel by award-winning author Anna-Marie McLemore, two non-binary teens are pulled into a magical world under a lake - but can they keep their worlds above water intact? Everyone who lives near the lake knows the stories about the world underneath it, an ethereal landscape rumored to be half-air, half-water. His books include The Circle of Reason, The Shadow Lines, In An Antique Land, Dancing in Cambodia, The Calcutta Chromosome, The Glass Palace, Incendiary Circumstances, The Hungry Tide. The Calc Amitav Ghosh is one of India's best-known writers. The Circle of Reason won the Prix Medicis Etranger, one of France's top literary awards, and The Shadow Lines won the Sahitya Akademi Award and the Ananda Puraskar. He earned a doctorate at Oxford before he wrote his first novel, which was published in 1986. He studied in Dehra Dun, New Delhi, Alexandria and Oxford and his first job was at the Indian Express newspaper in New Delhi. Amitav Ghosh was born in Calcutta in 1956. His most recent novel, Sea of Poppies, is the first volume of the Ibis Trilogy. Amitav Ghosh is one of India's best-known writers. While Foucault and Alexander differ on this point, they share an interpretation of how power is implemented on the everyday level, including the transformation of bodies into instruments of efficiency through punishment and surveillance.įoucault writes about society’s power structure as a sort of conspiracy towards efficiency. To Foucault, power seems to exist more for its’ own sake: an ingrained function of humanity wherein everyone partakes the opportunity to assign “delinquency” to another. In Foucault’s case, power does not take the form of a hierarchical structure of a controlling group and a victimized group. While Alexander does allude to power as a distributed force in society, it is a force that is contingent on a driving ideology: racial prejudice. In other words, to both Foucault and (to a lesser extent) Alexander, power lacks a concentrated focal point and is instead pervasive in society. Both Alexander and Foucault admit to a dispersion of power across all social institutions and exchanges. Michelle Alexander’s The New Jim Crow and Michel Foucault’s Discipline and Punish both outline the power structure surrounding crime and punishment in society over the course of history. Sometimes we may ship your order in several parts, particularly if you have 'Pre-Order' titles in your order or titles which are held in stock with our publishing partners. Signed Books are shipped in our specially made book mailing cartons, with the books themselves wrapped in paper to protect them. Orders for delivery in the UK are despatched by Courier and Signed For delivery services and will normally be delivered to you within a few days of placing your order. 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In Elevation, in Castle Rock, Maine, Scott Carey faces a mysterious illness which causes bizarre effects on his body and makes him rapidly lose weight, even if he appears healthy on the outside. King is a highly prolific writer and the winner of multiple awards including the prestigious Bram Stoker Awards. Funnily enough, the sale of Richard Bachman’s books increased manifold after it was revealed that Bachman was none other than Stephen King himself. The author who mostly publishes under his real name also used to publish under the pseudonym ‘Richard Bachman’. His writing career started when he started writing articles for his brother’s newspaper. He was interested in horror books and stories and used to read EC’s horror comics. Stephen Edwin King is an American author of suspense, horror, sci-fi and fantasy books. The last 20% of the book is very exciting but I'm not sure it is worth the buildup. So yes, author has totally lost the plot with this one. Oh, and it's all almost laughably USA-centric. When we do finally get back to space battles, I found it strangely unsatisfying, it leaves the main plot a bit unresolved and.There is no book 4. It could even have wrapped things up trilogy style, it could have been fun. It doesn't advance the main plot, at all, and if the time taken had been given to the main plot, then this book could have moved forward into really interesting territory. Seriously, it just goes on and on and on and. Ok, fine, I don't really care about PC thinking, I wasn't offended, I was just bored. Unfortunately most this book is an attack on South American culture and one sided multiculturalism, saying how we are supposed to understand them but oh, they are the ones who would be better off adopting our way of thinking. I love the ideas and the whole popcorn sci fi, massive super weapons, giant space battles thing. Her first job as a teenager was at a Subway restaurant, followed by various odd jobs, including working in a bookstore and a record shop. After being diagnosed with depression and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in her adolescence, she dropped out of school and began homeschooling to help cope with these issues. She was raised in the Greek Orthodox church. She is of Greek, Italian, and Portuguese descent. Her 2014 autobiography # GIRLBOSS was adapted into a television series of the same name for Netflix.Īmoruso was born in San Diego, California, in 1984. In 2017, Amoruso founded Girlboss Media, a company that creates content for women in the millennial generation to progress as people in their personal and professional life. In 2016, she was named one of the richest self-made women in the world by Forbes. Amoruso founded Nasty Gal, a women's fashion retailer, which went on to be named one of "the fastest growing companies" by Inc. Amoruso was born in San Diego, California, and moved to Sacramento, California after high school, soon after relocating to San Francisco. Sophia Christina Amoruso (born April 20, 1984) is an American businesswoman. However, Don John hears of this plan and intends to block it. Claudio tells Benedick that he intends to woo Hero, so Don Pedro promises to disguise himself as Claudio at the masked ball that evening, to gain Leonato’s approval for Claudio’s suit. When Leonato welcomes Don Pedro, Beatrice and Benedick engage in bitingly witty repartee. Thomas Francis Dicksee’s portrait of Beatrice from 1883 refers to this in the quoted lines: Thomas Francis Dicksee (1819–1895), Beatrice (1883), oil on canvas, 36.2 x 29.8 cm, location not known. In the Prince’s party are Count Claudio and his friend Benedick, who has become the butt of Beatrice’s wickedly derogatory humour. The Prince is about to visit Leonato, Governor of Messina, his daughter Hero and niece Beatrice. The Prince of Aragon, Don Pedro, has just defeated his illegitimate half-brother Don John, although the two have already been reconciled. As a result it has been painted by a range of British artists, and was well-covered in engravings for Boydell’s Shakespeare Gallery. Its underlying story has appeared in many places, but the parallel plot involving Beatrice and Benedick seems original. William Shakespeare’s play Much Ado About Nothing has remained a popular comedy with audiences since it was first performed, probably in the autumn of 1598. Freud left a fascinating and a subversive intellectual tradition. Indeed, his psychoanalytic concept of 'ambivalence' seems central if we hope to understand his personality & his work's significance. While Gay places Freud firmly within an Enlightened intellectual tradition, he also presents Freud as a dialectical thinker wrestling with speculative concepts like the metapsychology of human instinct and the nature of aggression in evolutionary biology. (Breuer, Fleiss, Jung, all figure prominently as Freud's personal oedipal figures.) Expounds expansively on the significance of Freud’s thought - theoretical breakthroughs and as a cultural force. Does an especially nice job weaving Freud’s personal life into the narrative though, it must be reiterated: Gay spends the bulk of his biography wrestling with the nuances of Freud’s personal life as it relates to his theories. Gay skilfully navigates through Freud’s vast literary catalogue, providing both the personal (i.e., argumentative) and scientific context to help his audience gain access to Freud's rather towering intellect. Freud’s writings can be quite difficult and theory-laden. Treats the psychoanalytic movement, in terms of its theory, technique, and, of course, its politics. scientific - e.g., Darwin & physiological school). Heavy emphasis on ideas, especially within the nineteenth century context (both bourgeois Vienna & 19th c. Brilliant biography of Freud (probably the best since Ernest Jones’s three v. |