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The Otherworlds of Liz Jensen

Author : Helen Esther Mundler
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1571139621
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (711 download)

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Download or read book The Otherworlds of Liz Jensen written by Helen Esther Mundler and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2016 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first study of one of the most innovative of contemporary novelists, Liz Jensen, and of the "otherworlds" in her fiction. Liz Jensen, a British author of eight novels, is among today's most innovative writers. Her literary thrillers occupy the terrain between realism and science fiction. This first study of Jensen centers on the very diverse "otherworlds" she creates in each of her novels, which can consist of an indeterminate space of ontological instability, a zone in which real and unreal converge to destabilize the realist text, as in Egg Dancing (1995) and TheNinth Life of Louis Drax (2004). In other novels the otherworld relies on defamiliarization: thus in War Crimes for the Home (2002) the experience of war is transformed by being seen from a woman's perspective. In stillother cases, the otherworld spans the novel's entire topos, as in The Paper Eater (2000), the full-blown utopia at the center of Jensen's oeuvre. Jensen's work approaches contemporary social issues such as religious fundamentalism, ecological disaster, and assisted procreation. Simultaneously, it displays a number of characteristics of erudite fiction, including self-reflexivity, inter- and intratextual reference, parody, pastiche, and burlesque. Notwithstanding the "popular" elements of Jensen's work, Helen E. Mundler's study adopts a rigorously academic approach to it, referencing canonical works but also more innovative texts, particularly by contemporary women writers, as points of comparison. Helen E. Mundler is Senior Lecturer in English Studies at UPEC (Université Paris-Est Créteil) with a research affiliation at the Université Paris-X Nanterre-La Défense.

My Dirty Little Book of Stolen Time

Author : Liz Jensen
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1596919981
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (969 download)

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Download or read book My Dirty Little Book of Stolen Time written by Liz Jensen and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2008-12-11 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charlotte Schleswig, the delightful narrator of Liz Jensen's latest novel, supports herself and the lumpen Fru Schleswig (who may or may not be her mother) as a prostitute in 1890s Copenhagen. While she is no small success at the trade, she leaps at a new job opportunity for herself and Fru Schleswig, as cleaning ladies for the wealthy widow Krak. But mysteries abound at Fru Krak's dark old mansion. The basement appears to be haunted, townspeople claim to have seen the dead Professor Krak walking the streets as a ghost, and there are stories of desperate souls who paid the professor a visit and never emerged. In fact, as Charlotte will discover, there is a simple explanation for all this: the basement is home to a time machine. When their cunning investigations land them in trouble, Charlotte and Fru Schleswig find themselves catapulted through time and space to modern-day London, and there their adventures truly begin. With the minxy, intrepid Charlotte, Liz Jensen introduces a heroine every bit as memorable as Louis Drax. And with My Dirty Little Book of Stolen Time, she delivers yet another outlandishly entertaining novel, in which the seemingly insurmountable obstacle of spacetime proves no match for human ingenuity and earthly passion.

The Rapture

Author : Liz Jensen
Publisher : Doubleday
ISBN 13 : 0385530447
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (855 download)

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Download or read book The Rapture written by Liz Jensen and published by Doubleday. This book was released on 2009-08-11 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An electrifying story of science, faith, love, and self-destruction in a world on the brink. It is a June unlike any other before, with temperatures soaring to asphyxiating heights. All across the world, freak weather patterns—and the life-shattering catastrophes they entail—have become the norm. The twenty-first century has entered a new phase. But Gabrielle Fox’s main concern is a personal one: to rebuild her life after a devastating car accident that has left her disconnected from the world, a prisoner of her own guilt and grief. Determined to make a fresh start, and shake off memories of her wrecked past, she leaves London for a temporary posting as an art therapist at Oxsmith Adolescent Secure Psychiatric Hospital, home to one hundred of the most dangerous children in the country. Among them: the teenage killer Bethany Krall. Despite two years of therapy, Bethany is in no way rehabilitated and remains militantly nonchalant about the bloody, brutal death she inflicted on her mother. Raised in evangelistic hellfire, the teenager is violent, caustic, unruly, and cruelly intuitive. She is also insistent that her electroshock treatments enable her to foresee natural disasters—a claim which Gabrielle interprets as a symptom of doomsday delusion. But as Gabrielle delves further into Bethany’s psyche, she begins to note alarming parallels between her patient’s paranoid disaster fantasies and actual incidents of geological and meteorological upheaval—coincidences her professionalism tells her to ignore but that her heart cannot. When a brilliant physicist enters the equation, the disruptive tension mounts—and the stakes multiply. Is the self-proclaimed Nostradamus of the psych ward the ultimate manipulator or a harbinger of global disaster on a scale never seen before? Where does science end and faith begin? And what can love mean in “interesting times”? With gothic intensity, Liz Jensen conjures the increasingly unnerving relationship between the traumatized therapist and her fascinating, deeply calculating patient. As Bethany’s warnings continue to prove accurate beyond fluke and she begins to offer scientifically precise hints of a final, world-altering cataclysm, Gabrielle is confronted with a series of devastating choices in a world in which belief has become as precious - and as murderous—as life itself.

Apocalyptic Visions in the Anthropocene and the Rise of Climate Fiction

Author : Kübra Baysal
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 152757363X
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)

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Download or read book Apocalyptic Visions in the Anthropocene and the Rise of Climate Fiction written by Kübra Baysal and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2021-08-10 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the increasing interest of pop culture and academia towards environmental issues, which has simultaneously given rise to fiction and artworks dealing with interdisciplinary issues, climate change is an undeniable reality of our time. In accordance with the severe environmental degradation and health crises today, including the COVID-19 pandemic, human beings are awakening to this reality through climate fiction (cli-fi), which depicts ways to deal with the anthropogenic transformations on Earth through apocalyptic worlds as displayed in works of literature, media and art. Appealing to a wide range of readers, from NGOs to students, this book fills a gap in the fields of literature, media and art, and sheds light on the inevitable interconnection of humankind with the nonhuman environment through effective descriptions of associable conditions in the works of climate fiction.

The Uninvited

Author : Liz Jensen
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 162040026X
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (24 download)

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Download or read book The Uninvited written by Liz Jensen and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2013-01-08 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A seven-year-old girl puts a nail gun to her grandmother's neck and fires. An isolated incident, say the experts. The experts are wrong. Across the world, children are killing their families. Is violence contagious? As chilling murders by children grip the country, anthropologist Hesketh Lock has his own mystery to solve: a bizarre scandal in the Taiwan timber industry. Hesketh has never been good at relationships: Asperger's Syndrome has seen to that. But he does have a talent for spotting behavioral patterns and an outsider's fascination with group dynamics. Nothing obvious connects Hesketh's Asian case with the atrocities back home. Or with the increasingly odd behavior of his beloved stepson, Freddy. But when Hesketh's Taiwan contact dies shockingly and more acts of sabotage and child violence sweep the globe, he is forced to acknowledge possibilities that defy the rational principles on which he has staked his life, his career, and, most devastatingly of all, his role as a father. Part psychological thriller, part dystopian nightmare, The Uninvited is a powerful and viscerally unsettling portrait of apocalypse in embryo.

The Ninth Life of Louis Drax

Author : Liz Jensen
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1596918152
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (969 download)

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Download or read book The Ninth Life of Louis Drax written by Liz Jensen and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2008-12-17 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ninth Life of Louis Drax packs an irresistibly twisted wallop . . . An exhilarating, darkly inventive read. -Elle Now a major feature film starring Jamie Dornan and Aaron Paul Nine-year-old Louis Drax is a problem child: bright, precocious, deceitful, and dangerously accident-prone. Every year something violent seems to happen to him. His psychologist is baffled, and his mother lives in constant panic. He has always managed to survive-to land on his feet, like a cat. But cats have only nine lives, and Louis has used up eight, one for every year.. When he falls off a cliff during a picnic, the accident seems almost predestined. Louis miraculously survives-but the family has been shattered. Louis' father has vanished, his mother is in shock, and Louis lies in a deep coma from which he may never emerge. In a renowned coma clinic, a specialist tries to coax Louis back to consciousness. But the boy defies medical logic, startling the doctor out of his safe preconceptions, and drawing him inexorably into the dark heart of Louis' buried world. Only Louis holds the key to the mystery surrounding his fall-and he can't communicate. Or can he? The Ninth Life of Louis Drax is the story of a family falling apart, told in the vivid voices of its comatose son and Dr. Dannachet as he is drawn into the Draxes' circle. Full of astonishing twists and turns, this is a masterful tale of the secrets the human mind can hide.

The Football Girl

Author : Thatcher Heldring
Publisher : Delacorte Press
ISBN 13 : 0375987142
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (759 download)

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Download or read book The Football Girl written by Thatcher Heldring and published by Delacorte Press. This book was released on 2017-04-04 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For every athlete or sports fanatic who knows she's just as good as the guys. This is for fans of The Running Dream by Wendelin Van Draanen, Grace, Gold, and Glory by Gabrielle Douglass and Breakaway: Beyond the Goal by Alex Morgan. The summer before Caleb and Tessa enter high school, friendship has blossomed into a relationship . . . and their playful sports days are coming to an end. Caleb is getting ready to try out for the football team, and Tessa is training for cross-country. But all their structured plans derail in the final flag game when they lose. Tessa doesn’t want to end her career as a loser. She really enjoys playing, and if she’s being honest, she likes it even more than running cross-country. So what if she decided to play football instead? What would happen between her and Caleb? Or between her two best friends, who are counting on her to try out for cross-country with them? And will her parents be upset that she’s decided to take her hobby to the next level? This summer Caleb and Tessa figure out just what it means to be a boyfriend, girlfriend, teammate, best friend, and someone worth cheering for. “A great next choice for readers who have enjoyed Catherine Gilbert Murdock’s Dairy Queen and Miranda Kenneally’s Catching Jordan.”—SLJ “Fast-paced football action, realistic family drama, and sweet romance…[will have] readers looking for girl-powered sports stories…find[ing] plenty to like.”—Booklist “Tessa's ferocious competitiveness is appealing.”—Kirkus Reviews “[The Football Girl] serve[s] to illuminate the appropriately complicated emotions both of a young romance and of pursuing a dream. Heldring writes with insight and restraint.”—The Horn Book

The Noah Myth in Twenty-First-Century Cli-Fi Novels

Author : Helen E. Mundler
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1640141316
Total Pages : 143 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book The Noah Myth in Twenty-First-Century Cli-Fi Novels written by Helen E. Mundler and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2022 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Breaks new ground by analyzing four recent rewritings of the Noah myth not just as ideological statements but as literary artifacts and by contextualizing them within the wider crises of the Anthropocene.

The Girl Who Wrote in Silk

Author : Kelli Estes
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1492608343
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (926 download)

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Download or read book The Girl Who Wrote in Silk written by Kelli Estes and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2015-07-07 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A USA TODAY BESTSELLER! "A powerful debut that proves the threads that interweave our lives can withstand time and any tide, and bind our hearts forever."—Susanna Kearsley, New York Times bestselling author of Belleweather and The Vanished Days A historical novel inspired by true events, Kelli Estes's brilliant and atmospheric debut is a poignant tale of two women determined to do the right thing, highlighting the power of our own stories. The smallest items can hold centuries of secrets... While exploring her aunt's island estate, Inara Erickson is captivated by an elaborately stitched piece of fabric hidden in the house. The truth behind the silk sleeve dated back to 1886, when Mei Lien, the lone survivor of a cruel purge of the Chinese in Seattle found refuge on Orcas Island and shared her tragic experience by embroidering it. As Inara peels back layer upon layer of the centuries of secrets the sleeve holds, her life becomes interwoven with that of Mei Lein. Through the stories Mei Lein tells in silk, Inara uncovers a tragic truth that will shake her family to its core—and force her to make an impossible choice. Should she bring shame to her family and risk everything by telling the truth, or tell no one and dishonor Mei Lien's memory? A touching and tender book for fans of Marie Benedict, Susanna Kearsley, and Duncan Jepson, The Girl Who Wrote in Silk is a dual-time period novel that explores how a delicate piece of silk interweaves the past and the present, reminding us that today's actions have far reaching implications. Praise for The Girl Who Wrote in Silk: "A beautiful, elegiac novel, as finely and delicately woven as the title suggests. Kelli Estes spins a spellbinding tale that illuminates the past in all its brutality and beauty, and the humanity that binds us all together." —Susan Wiggs, New York Times bestselling author of The Beekeeper's Ball "A touching and tender story about discovering the past to bring peace to the present." —Duncan Jepson, author of All the Flowers in Shanghai "Vibrant and tragic, The Girl Who Wrote in Silk explores a horrific, little-known era in our nation's history. Estes sensitively alternates between Mei Lien, a young Chinese-American girl who lived in the late 1800s, and Inara, a modern recent college grad who sets Mei Lien's story free." —Margaret Dilloway, author of How to Be an American Housewife and Sisters of Heart and Snow

War Crimes for the Home

Author : Liz Jensen
Publisher : Bloomsbury Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 9780747561460
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (614 download)

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Download or read book War Crimes for the Home written by Liz Jensen and published by Bloomsbury Paperbacks. This book was released on 2003-04 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During World War II, Gloria grabbed what she wanted - ciggies, sex, American soldiers. She did everything, some evil, because she might be dead tomorrow. Fifty years on, it's payback time and she is forced to confront the secret at the heart of her dramatic home front story.

Get Dirty

Author : Gretchen McNeil
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 006226088X
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (622 download)

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Download or read book Get Dirty written by Gretchen McNeil and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2015-06-16 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now streaming on Netflix and BBC iPlayer! The Breakfast Club meets Pretty Little Liars in Gretchen McNeil's sharp and thrilling sequel to Get Even. Perfect for fans of E. Lockhart, Karen M. McManus, and Maureen Johnson. The members of Don't Get Mad aren't just mad anymore . . . they're afraid. And with Margot in a coma and Bree under house arrest, it's up to Olivia and Kitty to try to catch their deadly tormentor. But just as the girls are about to go on the offensive, Ed the Head reveals a shocking secret that turns all their theories upside down. The killer could be anyone, and this time he—or she—is out for more than just revenge. The girls desperately try to discover the killer's identity as their own lives are falling apart: Donté is pulling away from Kitty and seems to be hiding a secret of his own, Bree is sequestered under the watchful eye of her mom’s bodyguard, and Olivia's mother is on an emotional downward spiral. The killer is closing in, the threats are becoming more personal, and when the police refuse to listen, the girls have no choice but to confront their anonymous “friend” . . . or die trying.

Ark Baby

Author : Liz Jensen
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780747557029
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (57 download)

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Download or read book Ark Baby written by Liz Jensen and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2001-09-03 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Five years have passed since a mysterious millennial downpour sent Homo Britannicus hurtling towards extinction. As a century's logic, religion, magic and science begin to connect, two men, three women and Queen Victoria's entire bestiary find themselves catapulted into a hilarious tale of rampant Darwinism, vegetarian conversion, true love and extinction. 'Superb … a complex, intelligent novel which draws upon a vast array of ideas without ever losing coherence … wonderfully funny fiction' DAILY TELEGRAPH 'As much a comedic riff on the assumptions of social progress as it is on the eccentricities of natural selection … think of Ark Baby as "Monty Python's Origin of Species"' NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW

Love, Lucas

Author : Chantele Sedgwick
Publisher : Sky Pony
ISBN 13 : 9781632204172
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book Love, Lucas written by Chantele Sedgwick and published by Sky Pony. This book was released on 2015-05-05 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A 2015 Whitney Award Nominee! A powerful story of loss, second chances, and first love, reminiscent of Sarah Dessen and John Green. When Oakley Nelson loses her older brother, Lucas, to cancer, she thinks she’ll never recover. Between her parents’ arguing and the battle she’s fighting with depression, she feels nothing inside but a hollow emptiness. When Mom suggests they spend a few months in California with Aunt Jo, Oakley isn’t sure a change of scenery will alter anything, but she’s willing to give it a try. In California, Oakley discovers a sort of safety and freedom in Aunt Jo’s beach house. Once they’re settled, Mom hands her a notebook full of letters addressed to her—from Lucas. As Oakley reads one each day, she realizes how much he loved her, and each letter challenges her to be better and to continue to enjoy her life. He wants her to move on. If only it were that easy. But then a surfer named Carson comes into her life, and Oakley is blindsided. He makes her feel again. As she lets him in, she is surprised by how much she cares for him, and that’s when things get complicated. How can she fall in love and be happy when Lucas never got the chance to do those very same things? With her brother’s dying words as guidance, Oakley knows she must learn to listen and trust again. But will she have to leave the past behind to find happiness in the future? Sky Pony Press, with our Good Books, Racehorse and Arcade imprints, is proud to publish a broad range of books for young readers—picture books for small children, chapter books, books for middle grade readers, and novels for young adults. Our list includes bestsellers for children who love to play Minecraft; stories told with LEGO bricks; books that teach lessons about tolerance, patience, and the environment, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.

Egg Dancing

Author : Liz Jensen
Publisher : Bloomsbury Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 9780747585268
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (852 download)

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Download or read book Egg Dancing written by Liz Jensen and published by Bloomsbury Paperbacks. This book was released on 2006 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a gynecologist and his wife experiment with fertility, they produce an unusual son who at four communicates telepathically with his crazy grandmother. Then there is the wife's groupie sister who follows a seductive televangelist. For anyone who ever thought they were sane and that doctors and psychiatrists should be locked up, here is an utterly offbeat story about the perfect dysfunctional family.

Paper Eater

Author : Liz Jensen
Publisher : Bloomsbury Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 9780747585336
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (853 download)

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Download or read book Paper Eater written by Liz Jensen and published by Bloomsbury Paperbacks. This book was released on 2006 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The whole world is beginning to fall in love with Atlantica. With a thriving economy based on global waste disposal and an infrastructure run by advanced software, politician-free Atlantica is the envy of other nations and a consumer paradise. This title asks a question: is the system about to discover that it spat out its difficult customer soon?

Climate Change and the Contemporary Novel

Author : Adeline Johns-Putra
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108427375
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Climate Change and the Contemporary Novel written by Adeline Johns-Putra and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-03-21 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analysing how contemporary fiction explores climate change, Johns-Putra argues that literature can help us understand our obligations to the future.

How Alternative is Alternative?

Author : Matthew M. Mars
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN 13 : 180071775X
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book How Alternative is Alternative? written by Matthew M. Mars and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2022-08-23 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Asking “How alternative are alternative marketscapes?”, Volume 29 of Advances in the Study of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Economic Growth provides entrepreneurs and companies a concise understanding of alternative marketscapes through theoretical arguments and case studies, paving the way for development and success.