Exiles in the Garden

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Publisher : HMH
ISBN 13 : 0547394373
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (473 download)

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Book Synopsis Exiles in the Garden by : Ward Just

Download or read book Exiles in the Garden written by Ward Just and published by HMH. This book was released on 2010-07-01 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “fascinatingly readable” novel that ponders “where the personal becomes the political or if it is possible to maintain a distinction at all” (Miami Herald). In his fifty-four years in the US Senate, Kim Malone made a difference. Emulating FDR, he advocated and agitated, fighting for the ideals in which he believed. His son, Alec, however, was a different story—one Kim thinks on as he lies on his deathbed, with only the prodigal Alec for company. Eschewing his congressional heritage for a career as a newspaper photographer and distancing himself even further from politics by refusing to cover the Vietnam War, Alec has seemed to live a never-ending series of misadventures, complete with a failed marriage and a floundering vocation. So when his long-absent father-in-law, an antifascist commando from Czechoslovakia, appears on his doorstep, Alec finds himself confronting uncomfortable truths about his life, his choices, and the pasts of those surrounding him. Ward Just has been praised as “one of the most astute writers of American fiction,” and Exiles in the Garden stands as one of his most challenging, insightful, and compulsively readable works—an examination of personal morality, American politics, and the universal desires that bind us all (The New York Times Book Review).

Gardens, Covenants, Exiles

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Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442638451
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)

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Book Synopsis Gardens, Covenants, Exiles by : Dennis Duffy

Download or read book Gardens, Covenants, Exiles written by Dennis Duffy and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1982-12-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scraps, tags, figments of the United Empire Loyalist heritage dot the Ontario landscape. Something of Loyalism lies in the very Ontario air and pervades the imagination of its people. In Gardens, Covenants, Exiles, Dennis Duffy sets out to describe and analyse the effects of Loyalism on the literary culture of Ontario. He explores the enduring nature of an attitude of mind whose historical origins lie in the Loyalist settlements in the forests of Upper Canada. No single source can explain a culture's characteristic way of viewing moral, social, and literary matters. This study, however, reveals how one historical event and the mythology it engendered have helped to shape a province and its literature. The collective experience of the Loyalists underlies Ontario's view of the Canadian destiny. Their defeat, exile, endurance, and their final mastery of a new land confirmed their belief that their own destiny lay within a larger imperial framework. But they lived at the same time as both North Americans and monarchists, victims and founders, heroes and the dispossessed. Writers in this culture, faced with the declining importance of the British connection and the rising of American presence, were ill-prepared by their political and imaginative lives to comprehend the vision of an independent nation. In our own time this has led to a renewed sense of fall, to a disillusionment that contrasts sharply with the feeling of 'paradise regained; that pervaded an earlier era. The book is a study of dislocation, seen through vignettes of various authors and their writings: William Kirby's The Golden Dog, Major Richardson's Wacousta, Charles Mair's Tecumseh, and the Jalna series by Mazode la Roche. Contemporary analogues of the Loyalist habit of mind are pursued in the works of George Grant, Dennis Lee, Al Purdy, and Scott Symons: the journey returns to its Loyalist starting point, in pain, loss, and the sense of a vanished home. Loyalism, both as fact and as myth, is one of the cultural forces that has given Ontario its sense of place. Professor Duffy concludes that in some way the culture of Upper Canada/Ontario remains continuous, that it has kept faith with its origins. His study heightens our understanding of a nation's roots.

Rebels and Exiles

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Publisher : InterVarsity Press
ISBN 13 : 0830843825
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (38 download)

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Book Synopsis Rebels and Exiles by : Matthew S. Harmon

Download or read book Rebels and Exiles written by Matthew S. Harmon and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2020-10-27 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We all share an experience of exile—of longing for our true home. In this ESBT volume, Matthew S. Harmon explores how the theme of sin and exile is developed throughout Scripture, tracing a common pattern of human rebellion, God's judgment, and the hope of restored relationship, beginning with the first humans and concluding with the end of exile in a new creation.

Exile's Garden

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ISBN 13 : 9780991090440
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (94 download)

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Book Synopsis Exile's Garden by : Simone Martel

Download or read book Exile's Garden written by Simone Martel and published by . This book was released on 2014-12-12 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of beautifully cultivated short stories with garden themes.

Honest Bodies

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Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199396957
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (993 download)

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Book Synopsis Honest Bodies by : Hannah Kosstrin

Download or read book Honest Bodies written by Hannah Kosstrin and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-07-24 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Honest Bodies: Revolutionary Modernism in the Dances of Anna Sokolow illustrates the ways in which Sokolow's choreography circulated American modernism among Jewish and communist channels of the international Left from the 1930s-1960s in the United States, Mexico, and Israel. Drawing upon extensive archival materials, interviews, and theories from dance, Jewish, and gender studies, this book illuminates Sokolow's statements for workers' rights, anti-racism, and the human condition through her choreography for social change alongside her dancing and teaching for Martha Graham. Tracing a catalog of dances with her companies Dance Unit, La Paloma Azul, Lyric Theatre, and Anna Sokolow Dance Company, along with presenters and companies the Negro Cultural Committee, New York State Committee for the Communist Party, Federal Theatre Project, Nuevo Grupo Mexicano de Clásicas y Modernas, and Inbal Dance Theater, this book highlights Sokolow's work in conjunction with developments in ethnic definitions, diaspora, and nationalism in the US, Mexico, and Israel.

The Garden

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 728 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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The Garden Next Door

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Publisher : Grove Press
ISBN 13 : 9780802133687
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (336 download)

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Book Synopsis The Garden Next Door by : José Donoso

Download or read book The Garden Next Door written by José Donoso and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Chilean writer named Julio and his wife, Gloria, are at a low point in their lives. Constantly bickering, the pair are beset by worries about money, their writing, and their son (who may or may not be plying the oldest profession in Marrakesh). When Julio's boyhood best friend, now a famous artist, lends the couple his luxurious Madrid apartment for the summer, it is an escape for both - but in particular for Julio, who fantasizes about the garden next door and the erotic life of the lovely young aristocratic woman who inhabits it. But Julio's life - and career - unravel In Madrid: he is rebuffed by a famous literary agent, Nuria Monclus, who detests him and his novel; his son's friend from Marrakesh moves in and causes havoc; and Gloria begins to drink. In the face of pitiless adversity, Julio's talent inexorably begins to fade. The garden next door, however, is also Gloria, who has been doing some creating of her own. It is this twist that transforms Donoso's brilliant satire of the writer's life into something even greater: a carefully crafted and bitteily comic meditation on gardens, deceit, and the nature of a writer's muse.

Misunderstood Stories

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Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1625640072
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (256 download)

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Book Synopsis Misunderstood Stories by : Robert Karl Gnuse

Download or read book Misunderstood Stories written by Robert Karl Gnuse and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2014-03-20 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Narratives in Genesis 1-11 have been misunderstood in many ways, but they especially have been used to oppress women and African Americans and to present a God of wrath and judgment. This commentary seeks to explain the real message behind those narratives, which is one that speaks of human dignity and equality, that affirms monotheism, that criticizes kings and tyrants, that declares our oneness with the animal realm and nature, and that proclaims a powerful message of divine grace with a deity personally involved in the human world. Humor may also be found in some of these stories. These biblical passages can be best explicated by close reading as well as by knowledge of comparable stories from the ancient Near East and from the classical world, and finally by knowledge of the concomitant social and political values connected with those other myths and narratives.

Food and Faith

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521195500
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (211 download)

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Book Synopsis Food and Faith by : Norman Wirzba

Download or read book Food and Faith written by Norman Wirzba and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-05-23 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive theological framework for assessing the significance of eating, demonstrating that eating is of profound economic, moral and theological significance.

Literature in our Lives

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429581327
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (295 download)

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Book Synopsis Literature in our Lives by : Richard Jacobs

Download or read book Literature in our Lives written by Richard Jacobs and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-02-04 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book recreates in written form seventeen of the most popular, frankly personal and engaging lectures on literature given by the award-winning teacher Richard Jacobs, who has been working with students for over forty years. This is a book written for students, whether starting their studies or more experienced, and also for all lovers of literature. At its heart is the conviction that reading, thinking about, and writing or talking about literature involves us all personally: texts talk to us intimately and urgently, inviting us to talk back, intervening in and changing our lives. These lectures discuss, in an open but richly informed way, a wide range of texts that are regularly studied and enjoyed. They model what it means to be excited about reading and studying literature, and how the study of literature can be life-changing - perhaps even with the effect of changing the lives of readers of this eloquent and remarkable book.

Pirkei Avot

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Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1105680541
Total Pages : 83 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (56 download)

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Book Synopsis Pirkei Avot by : mike gilgal

Download or read book Pirkei Avot written by mike gilgal and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-04-17 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A zionistic commentary on Pirkei Avot also known as ethics of the fathers

Andrew Marvell

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317181204
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)

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Book Synopsis Andrew Marvell by : A. D. Cousins

Download or read book Andrew Marvell written by A. D. Cousins and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-02 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph studies how, across the Folio of 1681, Marvell's poems engage not merely with different kinds of loss and aspiration, but with experiences of both that were, in mid-seventeenth-century England, disturbingly new and unfamiliar. It particularly examines Marvell's preoccupation with the search for home, and with redefining the homeland, in times of civil upheaval. In doing so it traces his progression from being a poet who plays sophisticatedly with received myth to being one who is a national mythmaker in rivalry with his poetic contemporaries such as Waller and Davenant. Although focusing primarily on poems in the Folio of 1681, this book considers those poems in relation to others from the Marvell canon, including the Latin poems and the satires from the reign of Charles II. It closely considers them as well in relation to verse by poets from the classical past and the European, especially English, present.

City of Exiles

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Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101607599
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book City of Exiles written by Alec Nevala-Lee and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-12-04 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the lightning-paced sequel to The Icon Thief, Europe’s turbulent past and terrifying future are set to collide in the streets and prisons of London—and beyond. Rachel Wolfe, a gifted FBI agent assigned to a major investigation overseas, discovers that a notorious gun runner has been murdered at his home in London, his body set on fire. When a second victim is found under identical circumstances, the ensuing chase plunges Wolfe and her colleagues into a breathless race across Europe, a secret war between two ruthless intelligence factions, and a hunt for a remorseless killer with a deadly appointment in Helsinki. At the heart of the mystery lies one of the strangest unsolved incidents in the history of Russia—the unexplained death of nine mountaineers in the Dyatlov Pass five decades before. And at the center of it all stands a figure from Wolfe’s own past, the Russian thief and former assassin known in another life as the Scythian…

The Colonel's Jewels

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book The Colonel's Jewels written by Silva Kingstandish and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Scribner's Magazine

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 814 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Scribner's Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 814 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Social Organization of Exile

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134436823
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (344 download)

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Book Synopsis The Social Organization of Exile by : Margaret E. Kenna

Download or read book The Social Organization of Exile written by Margaret E. Kenna and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-19 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illustrated with prints from a unique archive of glass and celluloid negatives from the Aegean island of Anafi, this book deals with the life of people who were sent into internal exile under the Metaxas dictatorship (1936-1942). Like others before and after, this regime used imprisonment, internal deportation and exile as a means of containing and isolating a wide variety of people who were thought to be 'public dangers'. Drawing on published and unpublished memoirs and on firsthand accounts of former exiles, it gives a vivid picture of a by no means unified collection of people, facing a common set of problems on an island at the borders of the Greek State. During the Occupation, the Anafi exiles faced privation, hunger and finally the dissolution of the commune. This is a human drama which will interest a wide range of readers.

The Churchman's companion

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 494 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book The Churchman's companion written by and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: