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The Last Days of Lacuna Cabal

Author : Sean Dixon
Publisher : Other Press, LLC
ISBN 13 : 1590513304
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (95 download)

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Download or read book The Last Days of Lacuna Cabal written by Sean Dixon and published by Other Press, LLC. This book was released on 2009-04-28 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The girls of the Lacuna Cabal Montreal Young Women’s Book Club are at a crossroads. One of their founding members is dead, they’ve made a few unfortunate compromises to their membership, some of them aren’t getting any younger, and they’ve been stuck on a single weepy tome for six long months. Resident maverick Runner Coghill decides to shake things up by introducing a cherished family heirloom to the group — ten pristine stone tablets, carved in cuneiform, telling the oldest story in the world: The Epic of Gilgamesh. Because their new book is written in an ancient language, the group must take the unprecedented step of allowing Runner to translate the whole story for them. But Runner’s narration is not of a common vein. Before they know it, the Cabalists have been thrust out to sea, on a journey in search of answers that extends halfway across the world to the war-torn land of this oldest story’s birth. The Last Days of the Lacuna Cabal is an offbeat rites-of-passage novel whose characters live out literature with ferocity and passion. It is a funny, quixotic debut that follows the members of a shallow, squabbling, time-wasting, protracted-adolescent book club as they find themselves transformed through the alchemy of the storyteller’s art.

A God in Need of Help

Author : Sean Dixon
Publisher : Coach House Books
ISBN 13 : 1770563814
Total Pages : 141 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book A God in Need of Help written by Sean Dixon and published by Coach House Books. This book was released on 2014-05-10 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It’s 1606 and Europe is at war over God. At the behest of the Holy Roman Emperor, Rudolf II, Venice’s four strongest men are charged with transporting a holy painting — Albrecht Dürer's The Brotherhood of the Rosary — across the Alps to Prague. In the small Alpine village of Pusterwald, they are set upon by Protestant zealots; their escape is attributed to a miracle. The strongmen and their captain are summoned to an inquiry, led by the magistrate of Venice and the cardinal archbishop of Milan, to determine whether something divine did indeed occur. Each man's recounting adds a layer of colour to the canvas. Through this vividly painted mystery, inspired by true events, Sean Dixon challenges the role of faith at the dawn of the Age of Reason. Sean Dixon is a playwright, novelist, and actor. His plays are collected in AWOL: Three Plays for Theatre SKAM. Sean's novels are The Last Days of the Lacuna Cabal and The Many Revenges of Kip Flynn.

The Many Revenges of Kip Flynn

Author : Sean Dixon
Publisher : Coach House Books
ISBN 13 : 177056280X
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book The Many Revenges of Kip Flynn written by Sean Dixon and published by Coach House Books. This book was released on 2011-10-04 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Praise for Sean Dixon: “Energetic. . . . Full of sound and fury.”—Kirkus Review “Reminiscent of the kind of irrepressibly mischievous and literary novels that John Barth used to write. Call it populist poindexterism.”—Quill & Quire It all started with a black rose and a rich young man. And a house with a creek running through it. And then there she was, Kip Flynn, standing beside her boyfriend's dead body and agreeing to take a large sum of money from the young man's father to keep quiet. As if she could have done anything else, being so scared and grief-stricken and maybe pregnant. But that's not the end of it. You see, there's some kind of connection between Kip and this rich developer's son that keeps them tight in one another's orbit. So when Kip awakens from her grief, intent on revenge, they find themselves pursuing one another with a ferocity they can barely understand, one that spirals outward, with subway accidents and arson and drainpipes and backhoe wars, to envelop roommates, two guilty fathers, a window-cleaner or two, landlords, family secrets, a Vietnamese gangster, a stand-up bass player and an activist tour guide. And concluding in the subterranean heart of Toronto itself, which, like Kip, is torn between vengefulness and growth. Sean Dixon is a novelist, playwright, and banjo player. He's the author of the novel The Last Days of the Lacuna Cabal; two novels for young readers, The Feathered Cloak and The Winter Drey; and several plays, including those collected in AWOL: Three Plays for Theatre SKAM.

Toronto Noir

Author : Janine Armin
Publisher : Akashic Books
ISBN 13 : 1617750999
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (177 download)

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Download or read book Toronto Noir written by Janine Armin and published by Akashic Books. This book was released on 2008-05-01 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Stories of murder, passion, betrayal . . . grounded very firmly and specifically in Toronto—Dundas Square, The Beach, Dufferin Mall, Yorkville, etc.” —BlogTO A multicultural nexus, Toronto hosts Indian, Portuguese, African, Italian, and Chinese communities that provide fertile backdrops for crimes of passion and perfidy. Toronto Noir proves that Ontario’s clean-cut capital hides an underworld of sin, scandal, and everyday evil. This anthology features stories by RM Vaughan, Nathan Sellyn, Ibi Kaslik, Peter Robinson, Heather Birrell, Sean Dixon, Raywat Deonandad, Christine Murray, Gail Bowen, Emily Schultz, Andrew Pyper, Kim Moritsugu, Mark Sinnett, George Elliott Clarke, Pasha Malla, and Michael Redhill. “With the help of some very skilled local writers, they’ve shown Toronto Noir is no oxymoron . . . Our authors also come up with rattling good and dark yarns from such yuppie hangouts as the Beach, Bloor West Village and the Distillery District.” —Toronto Reads “The collection by no means neglects the multi-racial, multi-ethnic character of the new Toronto . . . a most successful anthology.” —ReviewingTheEvidence.com

Library Journal

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 670 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Library Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 670 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Girls who Saw Everything

Author : Sean Dixon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781554353781
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (537 download)

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Download or read book The Girls who Saw Everything written by Sean Dixon and published by . This book was released on 2010* with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Lacuna Cabal Montreal Young Woman's Book Club loves to bring to life tableaux from the books they read. But when they begin to enact the Epic of Gilgamesh, in the early days of the Iraq War, the book begins to enact them instead. And, as it does, the Cabal starts to splinter, driving our narrators out of their own tale. Cross-dressing Aline becomes obsessed with the Baghdad Blogger, Anna with dabbling in prostitution, and Emily with the maker of the Fitzbot, an ambulatory artificial-intelligence experiment. In the centre of it all is Runner Coghill, who is still mourning her twin sister and who brought to the group the ten priceless cuneiform Gilgamesh stones. Underlying it all is the tale of telling the tale, the convolutedness and self-consciousness of our delightful narrators, Jennifer and Danielle, as they reconstruct the tangled story to bring us a novel that is cryptographically charming and eruditely engrossing. 'A sort of Tristram Shandy for the twenty-first century, Sean Dixon's first novel is an intellectual, sexual, logorrheac, bibliophilic, cryptological, political and archaeological rant of the first order. It'll change your idea of what "written in stone" means, and itll blow your mind too.' - Michael Redhill

The Lacuna LP

Author : Barbara Kingsolver
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061927562
Total Pages : 788 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (619 download)

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Download or read book The Lacuna LP written by Barbara Kingsolver and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-11-03 with total page 788 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her most accomplished novel, Barbara Kingsolver takes us on an epic journey from the Mexico City of artists Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo to the America of Pearl Harbor, FDR, and J. Edgar Hoover. The Lacuna is a poignant story of a man pulled between two nations as they invent their modern identities. Born in the United States, reared in a series of provisional households in Mexico—from a coastal island jungle to 1930s Mexico City—Harrison Shepherd finds precarious shelter but no sense of home on his thrilling odyssey. Life is whatever he learns from housekeepers who put him to work in the kitchen, errands he runs in the streets, and one fateful day, by mixing plaster for famed Mexican muralist Diego Rivera. He discovers a passion for Aztec history and meets the exotic, imperious artist Frida Kahlo, who will become his lifelong friend. When he goes to work for Lev Trotsky, an exiled political leader fighting for his life, Shepherd inadvertently casts his lot with art and revolution, newspaper headlines and howling gossip, and a risk of terrible violence. Meanwhile, to the north, the United States will soon be caught up in the internationalist goodwill of World War II. There in the land of his birth, Shepherd believes he might remake himself in America's hopeful image and claim a voice of his own. He finds support from an unlikely kindred soul, his stenographer, Mrs. Brown, who will be far more valuable to her employer than he could ever know. Through darkening years, political winds continue to toss him between north and south in a plot that turns many times on the unspeakable breach—the lacuna—between truth and public presumption. With deeply compelling characters, a vivid sense of place, and a clear grasp of how history and public opinion can shape a life, Barbara Kingsolver has created an unforgettable portrait of the artist—and of art itself. The Lacuna is a rich and daring work of literature, establishing its author as one of the most provocative and important of her time.

The British National Bibliography

Author : Arthur James Wells
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1922 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The British National Bibliography written by Arthur James Wells and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 1922 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Cabal

Author : Clive Barker
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0007369042
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book Cabal written by Clive Barker and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2011-11-24 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fabulous journey through the mind of the master of dark imaginative fiction, Clive Barker.

The Girls who Saw Everything

Author : Sean Dixon
Publisher : Coach House Press
ISBN 13 : 9781552451847
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (518 download)

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Download or read book The Girls who Saw Everything written by Sean Dixon and published by Coach House Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Lacuna Cabal Montreal Young Women's Book Club is not content simply to read and discuss books. Their process is a little more involved. They once kidnapped Irving Layton and took him for an excursion up a mountain. They attempted to recreate a scene of a nun swinging from a bridge-builder's broken arm in Michael Ondaatje's In the Skin of a Lion . But when they begin to re-enact the Epic of Gilgamesh , in the early daysof the Iraq War, the book begins to enact them instead, sending the Cabalists across the globe and driving the narrators out of their own tale. Cross-dressing Aline becomes obsessed with the Baghdad Blogger, Anna with dabbling in prostitution, Missy with the ticking of her biological clock, Romy with Emmy, and the striped (yes, striped!) Emmy with the maker of the fitzbot, an ambulatory artificial-intelligence experiment. In the centre of it all are Runner Coghill and her little brother Neil, who are still mourning their sister and who brought to the group the ten priceless cuneiform Gilgamesh stones. Underlying it all is the tale of telling the tale, the convolutedness and self-consciousness of our delighted narrators, Jennifer and Danielle, as they reconstruct the tangled story - with more than their fair share of asides - to bring us a novel that is cryptographically charming and eruditely engrossing. The Girls Who Saw Everything presents a bizarre book club like no other, and a story so delightfully allusive to literature that it may very well become a book club favourit itself - though only among the slightly strange. 'A sort of Tristram Shandy for the twenty-first century, Sean Dixon's first novel is an intellectual, sexual, logorrheic, bibliophilic, cryptological, political and archeological rant of the first order. It'll change your idea of what "written in stone" means, and it'll blow your mind too.' - Michael Redhill ( Consolation, Martin Sloane )

The Dog of the South

Author : Charles Portis
Publisher : Abrams
ISBN 13 : 1590206584
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book The Dog of the South written by Charles Portis and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2007-06-05 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “[Charles Portis] understood, and conveyed, the grain of America, in ways that may prove valuable in future to historians trying to understand what was decent about us as a nation.” --Donna Tartt, New York Times Book Review Ray Midge is waiting for his credit card bill to arrive. His wife, Norma, has run off with her ex-husband, taking Ray's cards, shotgun and car. But from the receipts, Ray can track where they've gone. He takes off after them, as does an irritatingly tenacious bail bondsman, both following the romantic couple's spending as far as Mexico. There Ray meets Dr Reo Symes, the seemingly down-on-his-luck and rather eccentric owner of a beaten up and broken down bus, who needs a ride to Belize. The further they drive, in a car held together by coat-hangers and excesses of oil, the wilder their journey gets. But they're not going to give up easily.

Alanbrooke

Author : David Fraser
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1448204623
Total Pages : 725 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (482 download)

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Download or read book Alanbrooke written by David Fraser and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2011-09-28 with total page 725 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1982, this is the story of 'Alanbrooke,' of whom General MacArthur wrote, 'is undoubtedly the greatest soldier that England has produced since Wellington.' He fought with the artillery in the First World War, had a brilliant career as a peacetime soldier, and conducted his Corps with exemplary calm and courage in the retreat to Dunkirk. In November 1941 Churchill selected him as Chief of the Imperial General Staff, and from that moment he became indispensable in Whitehall, the one man who could never be spared for the more spectacular feats of war on the battlefield which he longed to undertake. Alanbrooke was the master strategist of the British military effort. His partnership with Churchill - the statesman's imagination and inspired energy perfectly complementing the soldier's clarity of mind and unflinching realism - was often turbulent, yet endlessly fruitful. Under his chairmanship the Chiefs of Staff became the most efficient machine for the conduct of war which Britain, perhaps the world, had ever seen. His influence in the shaping of global strategy was immeasurable.

Inheritance

Author : David Mulwa
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Inheritance written by David Mulwa and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The School Gates

Author : Fiona Snyckers
Publisher : African Books Collective
ISBN 13 : 1928433200
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (284 download)

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Download or read book The School Gates written by Fiona Snyckers and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2021-05-28 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "We know what's best for our children." Burnt out after years as a professional dancer, Ella Burchell moves to a small town on the KwaZulu Natal north coast hoping to rebuild her life. Things look up when she gets a job teaching dance to children at a for-profit private school. But Ella hasn't reckoned with the cabal of private-school mums who run the Pines Academy as their own personal fiefdom. Circling into cliques at the school gates every morning, the mums are a force to be reckoned with. Soon Ella is too busy fielding their demands to concentrate on her own troubles. Distraction arrives in the form of an attractive cricket coach, but Ella hardly has time to pay attention. Fun, fast-paced and hilarious, this novel by an award-winning author skewers the world of private-school privilege.

Curiosities of Literature

Author : Isaac Disraeli
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Curiosities of Literature written by Isaac Disraeli and published by . This book was released on 1823 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Economics of Fantasy

Author : Sharon Stockton
Publisher : Ohio State University Press
ISBN 13 : 081421018X
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (142 download)

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Download or read book The Economics of Fantasy written by Sharon Stockton and published by Ohio State University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author examines the evolution of the rape narrative in twentieth-century literature: What accounts for the persistence of the old story of male power and violence, and female passivity and penetrability? How has the story changed over the course of the twentieth century? She investigates the manner in which the violation of the female body serves as a metaphor for a synthesis of masculinity and political economy.

The Ritual Process

Author : Victor Turner
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351474901
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (514 download)

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Download or read book The Ritual Process written by Victor Turner and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Ritual Process: Structure and Anti-Structure, Victor Turner examines rituals of the Ndembu in Zambia and develops his now-famous concept of "Communitas." He characterizes it as an absolute inter-human relation beyond any form of structure.The Ritual Process has acquired the status of a small classic since these lectures were first published in 1969. Turner demonstrates how the analysis of ritual behavior and symbolism may be used as a key to understanding social structure and processes. He extends Van Gennep's notion of the "liminal phase" of rites of passage to a more general level, and applies it to gain understanding of a wide range of social phenomena. Once thought to be the "vestigial" organs of social conservatism, rituals are now seen as arenas in which social change may emerge and be absorbed into social practice.As Roger Abrahams writes in his foreword to the revised edition: "Turner argued from specific field data. His special eloquence resided in his ability to lay open a sub-Saharan African system of belief and practice in terms that took the reader beyond the exotic features of the group among whom he carried out his fieldwork, translating his experience into the terms of contemporary Western perceptions. Reflecting Turner's range of intellectual interests, the book emerged as exceptional and eccentric in many ways: yet it achieved its place within the intellectual world because it so successfully synthesized continental theory with the practices of ethnographic reports."