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Book Synopsis Miss Webster and Chérif by : Patricia Duncker
Download or read book Miss Webster and Chérif written by Patricia Duncker and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2011-08-01 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elizabeth Webster is a spinster pushing seventy. Forced out of her teaching job, she unleashes her sharp tongue and dogmatic opinions on everyone in the English village of Little Blessington. Then, one night, she grinds to a dead halt. To recover from this illness, she travels to North Africa where she has a brush with terrorism - not that she cares about politics. Three weeks after Miss Webster has returned home her doorbell rings. There stands a beautiful young Arab man carrying a large suitcase. Who is he, why is he there and what does he want?
Book Synopsis Miss Webster and Chérif by : Patricia Duncker
Download or read book Miss Webster and Chérif written by Patricia Duncker and published by Bloomsbury UK. This book was released on 2006 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A clever, entertaining novel about the unlikely friendship between an old woman and a beautiful young Arab man
Book Synopsis Miss Webster y Chérif by : Patricia Duncker
Download or read book Miss Webster y Chérif written by Patricia Duncker and published by Alianza Editorial Sa. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elizabeth Webster es una mujer de cierta edad con mucho carácter. Solitaria, soltera, temperamental, no le gustó tener que dejar de dar sus clases de francés. En su pueblo, Little Blessington, es conocida por su talante arisco, su lengua afilada y sus opiniones dogmáticas. Una imprevista afección viene a interrumpir su rutina cotidiana. Animada por su médico, decide realizar un viaje por el norte de África, por el desierto, un lugar de sorprendentes contrastes para el orden mental de Elizabeth Webster. Una vez de vuelta a su cottage, un buen día recibe la visita de un joven árabe. Es el hijo de la mujer que regentaba el hotel en el que se hospedó en el desierto. Un joven amable, encantador, que desea estudiar en la Universidad. Miss Webster decide alojarlo en su casa. La convivencia parece ir sobre ruedas, pero el peso de las noticias sobre el 11-S empiezan a ensombrecerla. Afloran las sospechas sobre si el joven es realmente quien dice ser y si realmente viene a estudiar o a algo más. Miss Webster y Chérif es una novela de intriga y de madurez. Una narración provocadora, emotiva, inteligente e incisiva. Con el fino y británico humor que caracteriza a Patricia Duncker, aborda un tema tan candente como es el de la xenofobia y el racismo, el de los temores y desconfianzas hacia el extraño, hacia quien no es como nosotros, sobre todo cuando el mundo que nos rodea es inquietante. No obstante, Patricia Duncker deja abierta la puerta a una esperanzadora superación de los prejuicios.
Book Synopsis Hallucinating Foucault by : Patricia Duncker
Download or read book Hallucinating Foucault written by Patricia Duncker and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-04-06 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this ravishing tale of sexual and textual obsession, the young unnamed narrator sets forth from Cambridge on a quest. He is to rescue the subject of his doctoral research, Paul Michel, the brilliant but mad writer, from incarceration in a mental institution in France. What ensues is a drama of terrible intimacy and tenderness played out one hot and humid summer in Paris and in the south of France. Hallucinating Foucault is a literary thriller that explores with consummate mastery the passionate relationship between reader and writer, between the factual and the fictional, between sanity and madness. In blurring these boundaries, Patricia Duncker has written a novel of astonishing power and beauty.
Book Synopsis Rethinking Race and Identity in Contemporary British Fiction by : Sara Upstone
Download or read book Rethinking Race and Identity in Contemporary British Fiction written by Sara Upstone and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-10-04 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book takes a post-racial approach to the representation of race in contemporary British fiction, re-imagining studies of race and British literature away from concerns with specific racial groups towards a more sophisticated analysis of the contribution of a broad, post-racial British writing. Examining the work of writers from a wide range of diverse racial backgrounds, the book illustrates how contemporary British fiction, rather than merely reflecting social norms, is making a radical contribution towards the possible future of a positively multi-ethnic and post-racial Britain. This is developed by a strategic use of the realist form, which becomes a utopian device as it provides readers with a reality beyond current circumstances, yet one which is rooted within an identifiable world. Speaking to the specific contexts of British cultural politics, and directly connecting with contemporary debates surrounding race and identity in Britain, the author engages with a wide range of both mainstream and neglected authors, including Ian McEwan, Zadie Smith, Julian Barnes, John Lanchester, Alan Hollinghurst, Martin Amis, Jon McGregor, Andrea Levy, Bernardine Evaristo, Hanif Kureishi, Kazuo Ishiguro, Hari Kunzru, Nadeem Aslam, Meera Syal, Jackie Kay, Maggie Gee, and Neil Gaiman. This cutting-edge volume explores how contemporary fiction is at the centre of re-thinking how we engage with the question of race in twenty-first-century Britain.
Book Synopsis The Strange Case of the Composer and His Judge by : Patricia Duncker
Download or read book The Strange Case of the Composer and His Judge written by Patricia Duncker and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the vineyards of Southern France to the gabled houses of Lubeck, through cathedrals, opera houses, museums and the cobbled streets of an Alpine village, this literary thriller is a metaphysical mystery of astonishing verve and power.
Book Synopsis Norma Jean, the Termite Queen by : Sheila Ballantyne
Download or read book Norma Jean, the Termite Queen written by Sheila Ballantyne and published by Penguin Group. This book was released on 1983 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sheriff's Secret written by K Webster and published by . This book was released on 2020-12-23 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From USA Today bestselling author K Webster comes a steamy and emotional MM romance!When you're the sheriff of Brigs Ferry Bay, certain things are expected of you.Marry a local girl, settle down, have a few kids. You know, the small-town dream.But I've got a secret I'm terrified will get out.I'm gay.Not bi. Not curious. Not confused.Just gay.So, settling for that dream won't be happening.If this secret gets out, the people I serve and protect, especially my father, won't be accepting. I'm not brave like my high school sweetheart, Kian.The day he came out was the day I had to let him go, and with it, love.I've done a great job of pretending I'm perfectly fine being single. Until a villainous and annoyingly charming new B&B owner, Dante Kincaid, rolls into town. The spark between us is electric and undeniable. He wants to give me a taste of what he has to offer, and better yet, he vows to be discreet. I'm too selfish to refuse. But my secret is still a heavy burden, leaving me handcuffed to expectations and unable to fully grasp what I want-him. History has a way of repeating itself, but this time around, with Dante, it'll hurt a lot worse.I have to decide if I'm going to let love slip away again or if I'm going to finally fight for it. ***Brigs Ferry Bay is a steamy MM romance series. While each book can be read as a standalone, in order to get the full experience, they're best read in order. Enemies to lovers, friends to lovers, hurt comfort, age-gap romance, and so much more. Fall in love with the charming small-town gay romances of Brigs Ferry Bay...***
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Book Synopsis Sophie and the Sibyl by : Patricia Duncker
Download or read book Sophie and the Sibyl written by Patricia Duncker and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2015-08-04 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Berlin, Max Duncker and his brother, Wolfgang, own a thriving publishing business, which owes its success to one woman: the Sibyl, or Mary Ann Evans, better known as George Eliot,who is writing the final installment of her bestselling serial Middlemarch. Max is as fond of gambling and brothels as Wolfgang is of making a profit and berating his spendthrift brother, but Max is given a chance to prove his worth by visiting the Sibyl and her not-quite-husband Lewes, to finalize the publishing rights to her new novel. The Sibyl proves to be as enthralling and intelligent as her books, bewitching Max and all of those around her. But Wolfgang has an ulterior motive for Max's visit; he wants his brother to consider the beautiful eighteen-year-old Countess Sophie von Hahn as a potential wife. An acquaintance from Max's childhood, she comes from a German family of great wealth. However, Sophie proves to be nothing like the angelic vision of domesticity Max envisaged; wild and willful, she gambles recklessly yet always wins, rides horses fiercely, and is happy to disobey authority, especially when it comes to her idol, George Eliot. Enchanted by this whirlwind of a woman, Max nevertheless fears he will never be able to tame her. With its vivid portrayal of George Eliot and how she lived her life, and the turbulent love story of the countess and Max, Sophie and the Sibyl is both a compulsive read and a high literary achievement.
Book Synopsis Integrity and Historical Research by : Tony Gibbons
Download or read book Integrity and Historical Research written by Tony Gibbons and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-03-12 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There have been serious debates between historians, novelists and filmmakers as to how best present historical narratives. When writers and filmmakers talk of using historical research with integrity, what exactly do they mean? Integrity and Historical Research examines this question in detail. The first chapter discusses the concept of integrity. The chapters that follow reflect on this philosophical treatment in the light of fiction and film that deals with history in a number of ways. How should writers and filmmakers use lives? Can, and may, people who are now dead and who may have lived long ago, be defamed? The authors include academics, historians, social historians, medievalists, oral historians, literary theorists, historical novelists and script writers. They examine the theoretical influences and practical choices that involve and concern writers and filmmakers who rely on historical research. The desire to be accurate may often conflict with the need to produce a work that goes beyond the mere depiction of events in order to excite the interest of readers and to hold that interest. At the same time there is a developing emphasis on historians, to write well in clear, accessible prose, which may involve using the novelists’ techniques. How much license may be given to writers of fiction and filmmakers in their depiction of historical characters and events? This book begins to answer this question, while inviting further discussion.
Download or read book Wordsmithery written by Jayne Steel and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2006-11-09 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This stimulating workbook is aimed at committed writers and students of creative writing who want to engage with ideas about writing and develop their craft and practice. Drawing on the expertise of a range of professional and award-winning contributors, the focus is on writing as 'process', moving from practical guidance on 'form and style' through to using themes such as 'body' or 'house' as a creative springboard. Including specially designed writing exercises and illustrative extracts, this innovative guide will inspire and challenge. It is an essential resource for anyone who wishes to master the art and practice of creative writing and galvanise their talent to professional and publication level. Contributions by: Linda Anderson, Theodore Deppe, George Green, Graeme Harper (aka Brooke Biaz), William Herbert, Lee Martin, Jenny Newman, Jayne Steel and a Foreword by Patricia Duncker.
Book Synopsis Imagining Gender in Biographical Fiction by : Julia Novak
Download or read book Imagining Gender in Biographical Fiction written by Julia Novak and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-12-15 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume addresses the current boom in biographical fictions across the globe, examining the ways in which gendered lives of the past become re-imagined as gendered narratives in fiction. Building on this research, this book is the first to address questions of gender in a sustained and systematic manner that is also sensitive to cultural and historical differences in both raw material and fictional reworking. It develops a critical lens through which to approach biofictions as ‘fictions of gender’, drawing on theories of biofiction and historical fiction, life-writing studies, feminist criticism, queer feminist readings, postcolonial studies, feminist art history, and trans studies. Attentive to various approaches to fictionalisation that reclaim, appropriate or re-invent their ‘raw material’, the volume assesses the critical, revisionist and deconstructive potential of biographical fictions while acknowledging the effects of cliché, gender norms and established narratives in many of the texts under investigation. The introduction of this book is available open access under a CC BY 4.0 license at link.springer.com Chapter 1 is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.
Book Synopsis Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley by : Harold Bloom
Download or read book Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley written by Harold Bloom and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a collection of critical essays on Mary Shelley and her works and includes a chronology of events in the author's life.
Book Synopsis The Strange Case of the Composer and His Judge by : Patricia Duncker
Download or read book The Strange Case of the Composer and His Judge written by Patricia Duncker and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2010-10-25 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bodies are discovered on New Year's Day, sixteen dead in the freshly fallen snow. The adults lie stiff in a semicircle; the children, in pajamas and overcoats, are curled at their feet. When he hears the news, Commissaire André Schweigen knows who to call: Dominique Carpentier, the Judge, also known as the "sect hunter." Carpentier sweeps into the investigation in thick glasses and red gloves, and together the Commissaire and the Judge begin searching for clues in a nearby chalet. Among the decorations and unwrapped presents of a seemingly ordinary holiday, they find a leather-bound book, filled with mysterious code, containing maps of the stars. The book of the Faith leads them to the Composer, Friedrich Grosz, who is connected in some way to every one of the dead. Following his trail, Carpentier, Schweigen, and the Judge's assistant, Gaëlle, are drawn into a world of complex family ties, seductive music, and ancient cosmic beliefs. Hurtling breathlessly through the vineyards of Southern France to the gabled houses of Lübeck, Germany, through cathedrals, opera houses, museums, and the cobbled streets of an Alpine village, this ferocious new novel is a metaphysical mystery of astonishing verve and power.
Book Synopsis Seven Tales of Sex and Death by : Patricia Duncker
Download or read book Seven Tales of Sex and Death written by Patricia Duncker and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-04-21 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illuminating the dark side of the erotic, these interwoven stories explore obsession, violence, and the thin line between sex and death. Under a Mediterranean sun a man searches for the Temple of Zeus as his wife awaits her stalker; a sex worker at an illegal fetish club contemplates her options; a strike spirals out of control with eerie consequences; and a conflict with noisy neighbours reaches theatrical heights. Driven by lust, greed and revenge, chillingly calm or maddened by rage, Patricia Duncker's characters use every tool at their disposal to get what they want. Unapologetically disturbing and provocative like the B movies that inspired them, Seven Tales of Sex and Death holds up a mirror to humanity at its most flawed, ruthless and seductive.
Book Synopsis James Miranda Barry by : Patricia Duncker
Download or read book James Miranda Barry written by Patricia Duncker and published by Bloomsbury Paperbacks. This book was released on 2011 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the turn of the nineteenth century, ten-year-old James Miranda Barry enrolled as a medical student in Edinburgh, the start of a glorious career as a military surgeon. Across the Empire, Barry achieved fame not only as a brilliant physician, but also a legendary duellist and a celebrated social figure. But James Miranda Barry was also a woman. Her greatest achievement of all had been to 'pass' for a man for more than fifty years. Patricia Duncker's novel tells Barry's story for the first time, in a richly inventive and entertaining tale of dark family screts, adultery, questioned paternity and colonial history. It confirms her rare talent as a writer of profound ideas and immense storytelling power.
