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Beauties of the Gloaming (Classic Reprint)

Author : Harvey Austin Fuller
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780484194044
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book Beauties of the Gloaming (Classic Reprint) written by Harvey Austin Fuller and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-20 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Beauties of the Gloaming Of sunshine or of gloom, of shadow or of glow, That shall ourselves upbuild to stature brave and 'good, Uniting all that's best in bravest brotherhood. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Some Beauties of the Seventeenth Century (Classic Reprint)

Author : Allan Fea
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781333634339
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (343 download)

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Download or read book Some Beauties of the Seventeenth Century (Classic Reprint) written by Allan Fea and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-09-17 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Some Beauties of the Seventeenth Century Comparatively speaking, to the task of the judges of a modern living beauty competition, theirs was an easy one, for the feelings of the ladies had not to be taken into account, nor their muscular development and power of retaliation should they be unsuccessful in drawing a prize. So varying are our ideals of beauty that the odds are a jury of twelve picked connoisseurs would never agree. And yet these things are officially settled somehow. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Beauties

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781331713401
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (134 download)

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Download or read book Beauties written by and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-18 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Beauties: Selected From the Writings of Thomas De Quincey The writings of Thomas de Quincey occupy more than a score of volumes. Comparatively few persons have leisure for the pereusal of so many miscellaneous works by the same author; yet, all who pretend to a knowledge of English Literature should be familiar with the chefs-d' uvre of De Quincey - one of the greatest masters of the English Language. His autobiography, scattered through many volumes, is here collected and so arranged as to give a complete view of his early life and his peculiar character. The other selections from his various works, furnish striking examples of the pathetic and the humorous, the quaint and the ludicrous, the serious and the sublime. The miscellaneous nature of De Quincey's writings renders them specially fit for this kind of eclecticism. It is hoped that the present volume will prove an acceptable addition to our current literature, and induce a desire for a still farther acquaintance with the elegant author. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."

The Beauties of Washington Irving (Classic Reprint)

Author : Washington Irving
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781331445043
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (45 download)

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Download or read book The Beauties of Washington Irving (Classic Reprint) written by Washington Irving and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-15 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Beauties of Washington Irving Her aunts, too, having been great ﬂirts and coquettes in their younger days, were admirably calculated to be vigilant guardians and strict censors of the conduct of their niece; for there is no duenna so rigidly prudent and inexorably decorous, as a superannuated coquette. She was rarely suffered out of their sight; never went be yond the domains of the castle, unless well attended, or rather well watched; had continual lectures read to her about strict decorum and implicit obedience; and, as to the men - pah! She was taught to hold them at such distance, and in such absolute distrust, that, unless pro perly authorised she would not have cast a glance upon the handsomest cavalier in the world - no, not if he were even dying at her feet. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Lady Beauty

Author : Alan Muir
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780483603103
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Lady Beauty written by Alan Muir and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-22 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Lady Beauty: Or Charming to Her Latest Day Mrs. Barbara Temple, was her reply, when the agent asked her name. She delivered it with decided emphasis, as if the syllables might be pondered and forthwith she gave orders for many things to be done to the house and grounds, saying that she would come in next month. You may be sure we were all alive with curiosity to know everything about Mrs. Barbara Temple. She turned out to be a widow - a widow for the second time, we heard and with three daughters. She had first married an old man of vast wealth, who died when she was two -and twenty, leaving her with no children, and a great fortune settled on her. Next, to avenge herself for the privations of her first marriage, she allied herself to a young ensign of twenty-five, handsome and penniless. With him she lived happily for seven years, during'which time she gave birth to three daughters. Then the young ofiicer died; and so, having got a fortune by the first husband, and a family by the second, Mrs. Barbara Temple was now mak ing ready to lead the remainder of her life according to her own heart. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The Beauty Spot (Classic Reprint)

Author : Alfred De Musset
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780484101349
Total Pages : 78 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book The Beauty Spot (Classic Reprint) written by Alfred De Musset and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-05-03 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Beauty Spot Every one knows that Louis XV. With all his manifold weaknesses, had one, and only one, strong point - he was inexorable. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The Reigning Beauty, Vol. 1 of 3 (Classic Reprint)

Author : Georgiana Chatterton
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780265204214
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book The Reigning Beauty, Vol. 1 of 3 (Classic Reprint) written by Georgiana Chatterton and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-12 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Reigning Beauty, Vol. 1 of 3 Just below the windows of this long gal lery, there was abroad gravel walk, bordered with ﬂowers, and then a terraced garden that sloped down as far as the river. And at the western corner of the lowest terrace, there was an Old fashioned summer-house with a pinnacled roof, like a miniature of the beauti ful clock-tower that surmounted the centre of the old house. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Scenes of Gloaming Original Scottish Songs (Classic Reprint)

Author : Willison Glass
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781332193318
Total Pages : 54 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (933 download)

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Download or read book Scenes of Gloaming Original Scottish Songs (Classic Reprint) written by Willison Glass and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-04 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Scenes of Gloaming Original Scottish Songs From the real unaffected lovers of the Scottish Muse, W. G. naturally enough expects this little volume to meet with a favourable reception. The native garb in which her unborrowed beauties are embodied, is to them endeared by a thousand associations into which a stranger cannot enter, and by feelings of the fondest remembrence, with which he is not disposed to sympathize. It is on this account chiefly, that they are always the very first to detect her charms, and generally the very last to confess her imperfections. Without entertaining any doubt, however, that the success of this work will be commensurate with his fondest expectations, he cannot help noticing, with a mingled emotion of shame and regret, the long and unjust neglect with which Scottish song has been treated. The cause to which this neglect is chiefly to be ascribed, is no doubt sufficiently apparent. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Fellowship Point

Author : Alice Elliott Dark
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1982131829
Total Pages : 608 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (821 download)

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Download or read book Fellowship Point written by Alice Elliott Dark and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2023-05-09 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER “Engrossing...studded with wisdom about long-held bonds.” —People, Book of the Week “Enthralling, masterfully written...rich with social and psychological insights.” —The New York Times Book Review “A magnificent storytelling feat.” —The Boston Globe The “utterly engrossing, sweeping” (Time) story of a lifelong friendship between two very different “superbly depicted” (The Wall Street Journal) women with shared histories, divisive loyalties, hidden sorrows, and eighty years of summers on a pristine point of land on the coast of Maine, set across the arc of the 20th century. Celebrated children’s book author Agnes Lee is determined to secure her legacy—to complete what she knows will be the final volume of her pseudonymously written Franklin Square novels; and even more consuming, to permanently protect the peninsula of majestic coast in Maine known as Fellowship Point. To donate the land to a trust, Agnes must convince shareholders to dissolve a generations-old partnership. And one of those shareholders is her best friend, Polly. Polly Wister has led a different kind of life than Agnes: that of a well-off married woman with children, defined by her devotion to her husband, a philosophy professor with an inflated sense of stature. She strives to create beauty and harmony in her home, in her friendships, and in her family. Polly soon finds her loyalties torn between the wishes of her best friend and the wishes of her three sons—but what is it that Polly wants herself? Agnes’s designs are further muddied when an enterprising young book editor named Maud Silver sets out to convince Agnes to write her memoirs. Agnes’s resistance cannot prevent long-buried memories and secrets from coming to light with far-reaching repercussions for all. “An ambitious and satisfying tale” (The Washington Post), Fellowship Point reads like a 19th-century epic, but it is entirely contemporary in its “reflections on aging, writing, stewardship, legacies, independence, and responsibility. At its heart, Fellowship Point is about caring for the places and people we love...This magnificent novel affirms that change and growth are possible at any age” (The Christian Science Monitor).

Wayside Blossoms (Classic Reprint)

Author : C. E. S. Brewster
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781331741565
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (415 download)

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Download or read book Wayside Blossoms (Classic Reprint) written by C. E. S. Brewster and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-19 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Wayside Blossoms Twilight. There's a calmness that comes with the twilight We feel at no other hour, An influence floating around us That holds us with mystical power. And it steals o'er our spirit as gently As a breath from a soft zephyr blown; And it brings us such peace and contentment, As we sit in the gloaming alone. We forget all the cares and the turmoil That have crowded our life through the day; And Thought goes a roaming in Dreamland, Whilst Fancy holds despotic sway. And faces come crowding around us That long since had passed from our sight; But they come to us now in the twilight, With the deepening shadows of night. And the faces, dim outlined and misty, Seem to beckon us back through the years; And again we're a child, free and happy, Though our eyelids are heavy with tears. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Looking Through Water

Author : Bob Rich
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1637632541
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (376 download)

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Download or read book Looking Through Water written by Bob Rich and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2024-09-03 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A father and son, long-estranged, fight to win a fishing competition together—and lose the pain that’s kept them apart. It’s 1976, and William McKay is at the top of his game. He’s taken over the family brokerage firm. He has a stunning and accomplished fiancée. The NYC Chamber of Commerce has named him the Under 40 Executive of the Year. And yet . . . William knows something is missing. Then he receives a phone call from his father, who disappeared eleven years earlier while William's mother was dying from Alzheimer’s. Leo's living in the Florida Keys now, and he wants William to join him in a father-son fishing competition. Stunned by this father’s audacity, suspicious of his motives, but even more desperate to leave New York, William agrees and heads south in his private jet. The basis for the forthcoming film Blood Knot starring Oscar-winner Michael Douglas and his own son Cameron Douglas, Looking Through Water chronicles the indelible impact that long-festering pain can have on a family, and the healing that comes with forgiveness—once we learn when to reel in a big catch and when to let it all go.

Think of England

Author : Alice Elliott Dark
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0743234979
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (432 download)

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Download or read book Think of England written by Alice Elliott Dark and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2003-05-06 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: N rural eastern Pennsylvania, nine-year-old Jane MacLeod is writing a book about the happy family she desperately wishes she had. Her mother, Via, is dissatisfied and petulant, always resentful of the time Jane's father, Emlin, a heart surgeon, must spend with his patients at the hospital. One night in 1964, the family (including Jane's two younger brothers and sister and Via's homosexual brother, Uncle Francis) gathers to watch the Beatles on The Ed Sullivan Show. All goes well until Emlin discovers that someone has taken the phone off the hook, so that he can't receive emergency calls. Angrily, he accuses Via (who accuses Jane) and rushes off to the hospital. He is killed in an automobile accident. Fifteen years later, Jane has moved to London, where she's become friends with bohemians Nigel and Colette. A political bombing and an affair with aloof (and married) American writer Clay West lead Jane to confront her long-buried guilt over her parents' unhappiness and father's death.

The Beautiful

Author : Renée Ahdieh
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0593462661
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (934 download)

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Download or read book The Beautiful written by Renée Ahdieh and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-06-29 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in paperback, the first book--an instant bestseller--in the sumptuous, sultry, and romantic YA vampire series from New York Times bestselling author Renee Ahdieh. In 1872, New Orleans is a city ruled by the dead. But to seventeen-year-old Celine Rousseau, New Orleans is a safe haven after she's forced to flee her life as a dressmaker in Paris. Taken in by the sisters of the Ursuline convent, Celine is quickly enraptured by the vibrant city becoming embroiled in the glitzy underworld, known as La Cour des Lions, after catching the eye of the group's enigmatic leader, Sébastien Saint Germain. When the body of one of the girls from the convent is found in Sébastien's own lair--the second dead girl to turn up in recent weeks--Celine must battle her attraction to Sébastien and suspicions about his guilt along with the shame of her own horrible secret.

A People's History of the Vampire Uprising

Author : Raymond A. Villareal
Publisher : Mulholland Books
ISBN 13 : 0316561657
Total Pages : 439 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book A People's History of the Vampire Uprising written by Raymond A. Villareal and published by Mulholland Books. This book was released on 2018-06-05 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this ambitious and wildly original debut -- part social-political satire, part international mystery -- a new virus turns people into something a bit more than human, upending society as we know it. This panoramic fictional oral history begins with one small mystery: the body of a young woman found in an Arizona border town, presumed to be an illegal immigrant, disappears from the town morgue. To the young CDC investigator called in to consult with the local police, it's an impossibility that threatens her understanding of medicine. Then, more bodies, dead from an inexplicable disease that solidified their blood, are brought to the morgue, only to also vanish. Soon, the U.S. government -- and eventually biomedical researchers, disgruntled lawmakers, and even an insurgent faction of the Catholic Church -- must come to terms with what they're too late to stop: an epidemic of vampirism that will sweep first the United States, and then the world. With heightened strength and beauty and a stead diet of fresh blood, these changed people, or "Gloamings," rapidly rise to prominence in all aspects of modern society. Soon people are beginning to be "re-created," willingly accepting the risk of death if their bodies can't handle the transformation. As new communities of Gloamings arise, society is divided, and popular Gloaming sites come under threat from a secret terrorist organization. But when a charismatic and wealthy businessman, recently turned, runs for political office -- well, all hell breaks loose. Told from the perspective of key players, including a cynical FBI agent, an audacious campaign manager, and a war veteran turned nurse turned secret operative, A People's History of the Vampire Uprising is an exhilarating, genre-bending debut that is as addictive as the power it describes.

Blue Nights

Author : Joan Didion
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307700518
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book Blue Nights written by Joan Didion and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A work of stunning frankness about losing a daughter, from the bestselling, award-winning author of The Year of Magical Thinking and Let Me Tell You What I Mean Richly textured with memories from her own childhood and married life with her husband, John Gregory Dunne, and daughter, Quintana Roo, this new book by Joan Didion is an intensely personal and moving account of her thoughts, fears, and doubts regarding having children, illness and growing old. As she reflects on her daughter’s life and on her role as a parent, Didion grapples with the candid questions that all parents face, and contemplates her age, something she finds hard to acknowledge, much less accept. Blue Nights—the long, light evening hours that signal the summer solstice, “the opposite of the dying of the brightness, but also its warning”—like The Year of Magical Thinking before it, is an iconic book of incisive and electric honesty, haunting and profound.

Meatless Days

Author : Sara Suleri Goodyear
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022605084X
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (26 download)

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Download or read book Meatless Days written by Sara Suleri Goodyear and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013-01-08 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this finely wrought memoir of life in postcolonial Pakistan, Suleri intertwines the violent history of Pakistan's independence with her own most intimate memories—of her Welsh mother; of her Pakistani father, prominent political journalist Z.A. Suleri; of her tenacious grandmother Dadi and five siblings; and of her own passage to the West. "Nine autobiographical tales that move easily back and forth among Pakistan, Britain, and the United States. . . . She forays lightly into Pakistani history, and deeply into the history of her family and friends. . . . The Suleri women at home in Pakistan make this book sing."—Daniel Wolfe, New York Times Book Review "A jewel of insight and beauty. . . . Suleri's voice has the same authority when she speaks about Pakistani politics as it does in her literary interludes."—Rone Tempest, Los Angeles Times Book Review "The author has a gift for rendering her family with a few, deft strokes, turning them out as whole and complete as eggs."—Anita Desai, Washington Post Book World "Meatless Days takes the reader through a Third World that will surprise and confound him even as it records the author's similar perplexities while coming to terms with the West. Those voyages Suleri narrates in great strings of words and images so rich that they left this reader . . . hungering for more."—Ron Grossman, Chicago Tribune "Dazzling. . . . Suleri is a postcolonial Proust to Rushdie's phantasmagorical Pynchon."—Henry Louise Gates, Jr., Voice Literary Supplement

Elders

Author : Ryan McIlvain
Publisher : Hogarth Press
ISBN 13 : 0307955699
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (79 download)

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Download or read book Elders written by Ryan McIlvain and published by Hogarth Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A glorious debut that T.C. Boyle calls "powerful and deeply moving" that follows two young Mormon missionaries in Brazil and their tense, peculiar friendship. Elder McLeod--outspoken, surly, a brash American--is nearing the end of his mission in Brazil. For nearly two years he has spent his days studying the Bible and the Book of Mormon, knocking on doors, teaching missionary lessons--"experimenting on the word." His new partner is Elder Passos, a devout, ambitious Brazilian who found salvation and solace in the church after his mother's early death. The two men are at first suspicious of each other, and their work together is frustrating, fruitless. That changes when a beautiful woman and her husband offer the missionaries a chance to be heard, to put all of their practice to good use, to test the mettle of their faith. But before they can bring the couple to baptism, they must confront their own long-held beliefs and doubts, and the simmering tensions at the heart of their friendship. A novel of unsparing honesty and beauty, Elders announces Ryan McIlvain as a writer of enormous talent.