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Book Synopsis The Man Who Loved Children by : Christina Stead
Download or read book The Man Who Loved Children written by Christina Stead and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2012-10-23 with total page 733 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “This crazy, gorgeous family novel” written at the end of the Great Depression “is one of the great literary achievements of the twentieth century” (Jonathan Franzen, The New York Times). First published in 1940, The Man Who Loved Children was rediscovered in 1965 thanks to the poet Randall Jarrell’s eloquent introduction (included in this ebook edition), which compares Christina Stead to Leo Tolstoy. Today, it stands as a masterpiece of dysfunctional family life. In a country crippled by the Great Depression, Sam and Henny Pollit have too much—too much contempt for one another, too many children, too much strain under endless obligation. Flush with ego and chilling charisma, Sam torments and manipulates his children in an esoteric world of his own imagining. Henny looks on desperately, all too aware of the madness at the root of her husband’s behavior. And Louie, the damaged, precocious adolescent girl at the center of their clashes, is the “ugly duckling” whose struggle will transfix contemporary readers. Named one of the best novels of the twentieth century by Newsweek, Stead’s semiautobiographical work reads like a Depression-era The Glass Castle. In the New York Times, Jonathan Franzen wrote of this classic, “I carry it in my head the way I carry childhood memories; the scenes are of such precise horror and comedy that I feel I didn’t read the book so much as live it.”
Download or read book Christina Stead written by Hazel Rowley and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This biography is of Christina Stead, born in Australia in 1902, and who sailed to England at age twenty-six, and not returning to Australia until she was 72. This intellectually rigorous and riveting tells of Stead's life, a life that was stormy, eccentric and brave.
Book Synopsis Christina Stead and the Matter of America by : Fiona Morrison
Download or read book Christina Stead and the Matter of America written by Fiona Morrison and published by Sydney University Press. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although Christina Stead is best known for the mid-century masterpiece set in Washington D.C. and Baltimore, The Man Who Loved Children, it was not her only work about the America. Five of Christina Stead’s mid-career novels deal with the United States, capturing and critiquing American life with characteristic sharpness and originality. In this examination of Stead’s American work, Fiona Morrison explores Stead’s profound engagement with American politics and culture and their influence on her “restlessly experimental” style. Through the turbulent political and artistic debates of the 1930s, the Second World War, and the emergence of McCarthyism, the “matter” of America provoked Stead to continue to create new ways of writing about politics, gender and modernity. This is the first critical study to focus on Stead’s time in America and its influence on her writing. Morrison argues compellingly that Stead’s American novels “reveal the work of the greatest political woman writer of the mid twentieth century”, and that Stead’s account of American ideology and national identity remains extraordinarily prescient, even today.
Download or read book Christina Stead written by Diana Brydon and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1987 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stead's novels have gained growing readership and critical attention in recent years. This feminist reading of the life and work of Christina Stead focuses on her characters and themes that question established assumptions about gender and class relations and the aesthetic values they support.
Book Synopsis How Decent Folk Behave by : Maxine Beneba Clarke
Download or read book How Decent Folk Behave written by Maxine Beneba Clarke and published by Hachette Australia. This book was released on 2021-10-27 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: we are all just one small disaster away from sinking, and sometimes you only realise when you're gasping for air On a daylight street in Minneapolis Minnesota, a Black man is asphyxiated - by callous knee of an officer, by cruel might of state, and under crushing weight of colony. In Melbourne the body of another woman has been found - this time, after catching a late tram home. The Atlantic has run out of the English alphabet, when christening hurricanes this season. The earth is on fire - from the redwoods of California, to Australia's east coast. The sea draws back, and tsunamis lash out in Samoa and Sumatra. Water rises in Sulawesi and Nagasaki. Bloated cod are surfacing, all along the Murray Darling. The virus arrives, and the virus thrives. Authorities seal the public housing towers up, and truck in one cop to every five residents. Notre Dame is ablaze - the cathedral spire blackened, and teetering. Out in Biloela, the deportation vans have arrived. Every Friday, in cities all across the world, children are walking out of school. The wolves are circling. The wolves are circling. These poems speak of the world that is, and sing for a world that may one day be. 'One of the most compelling voices in Australian poetry this decade' Overland Literary Journal 'a powerful and fearless storyteller' Dave Eggers 'Readers are left with the sense they have been seen, heard and understood' Books + Publishing
Book Synopsis I'm Dying Laughing by : Christina Stead
Download or read book I'm Dying Laughing written by Christina Stead and published by Owl Books. This book was released on 1994 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Christina Stead and the Socialist Heritage by : Michael Ackland
Download or read book Christina Stead and the Socialist Heritage written by Michael Ackland and published by Cambria Australian Literature. This book was released on 2016-11-25 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christina Stead (1902-1983) was an Australian novelist and short-story writer acclaimed for her satirical wit and penetrating psychological characterizations. In this book, author Michael Ackland argues that the single most important influence on Stead's life, socialism, has been seriously neglected in studies of her life and work.
Book Synopsis A Study Guide for Christina Stead's "The Man Who Loved Children" by : Gale, Cengage Learning
Download or read book A Study Guide for Christina Stead's "The Man Who Loved Children" written by Gale, Cengage Learning and published by Gale, Cengage Learning . This book was released on 2016-06-29 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Study Guide for Christina Stead's "The Man Who Loved Children," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Novels for Students for all of your research needs.
Book Synopsis Christina Stead by : Christina Stead
Download or read book Christina Stead written by Christina Stead and published by UQP. This book was released on 1994 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes excerpts from novels, short fiction, unpublished prose, book reviews, interviews and letters.
Download or read book Dearest Munx written by Christina Stead and published by Melbourne University. This book was released on 2005 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the time Christina Stead, a shy Australian girl in London, met William J Blake, a cosmopolitan American, theirs was one of the great love stories. This work presents the correspondence that records their lives together from 1928 until Blake's death in 1968. It gives a glimpse into the life and thoughts of one of Australia's renowned novelist.
Download or read book Christina Stead written by Hazel Rowley and published by Heinemann Educational Books. This book was released on 1993 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A critical biography of Christina Stead.
Download or read book Miss Herbert written by Christina Stead and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2010-05-20 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eleanor Herbert Brent is a beautiful woman – tall, blond and athletic. Sexuality forms her personality and as a young English graduate on the loose in London, she savours the capacity to excite – and sleep with – every man she meets. At the same time she is deeply conventional, believing in respectability, in the desire to be a wife and mother in the ‘dear old-fashioned way’. But real love between a man and a woman – something which could transform her into the passionate woman she really is – Eleanor determinedly avoids. When she is thirty she marries and has children. However, her wholesome but unsatisfying suburban life collapses with the departure of her pompous prig of a husband. She survives to find some success on the fringes of literary life, new lovers, new friends, but never to know herself. Eleanor is a literary portrait on a magnificent scale, but she is more than that. Divided in herself and deeply self-deluded, Eleanor’s life is a powerful metaphor for the England of the 1920s to the 1950s through which she lives.
Book Synopsis Papers of Christina Stead by : Christina Stead
Download or read book Papers of Christina Stead written by Christina Stead and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Acc09.151 instalment comprises 17 letters from Christina Stead (C.E. Blake) to Betty and Gilbert Stead (1 packet).
Book Synopsis Where the Light Falls by : Gretchen Shirm
Download or read book Where the Light Falls written by Gretchen Shirm and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2016-06-22 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An expat photographer returns to Australia to make sense of his traumatic childhood and the disappearance of his former girlfriend. 'Shirm is a writer of deft skill. Her prose is gentle, uncluttered, and suffused with a compassionate, clear-eyed intelligence. Delicate, restrained and sensitive, Where the Light Falls is nonetheless steadfast in its examination of our responsibilities as artists, and as people'. Peggy Frew, author of Hope Farm 'In lean, elegant prose Shirm explores the silences and mysteries that shape the artist's mind and work. The novel's landscapes are vivid and charged - the mystical Lake George, the frozen streets of a scarred Berlin. Against these atmospheric backdrops guilt and regret, memory and sensation, art and life collide. Through her acutely observed portrait of Andrew, Shirm asks how deeply the artist must know himself before he can make art from the lives of others.' Mireille Juchau, author of The World Without Us Andrew, a photographer compelled by 'the honesty in broken things', returns to Australia when he hears that his former girlfriend has disappeared. By the time he gets back, no body has been found. He prolongs his stay in Australia to investigate her shadowy past, putting his current relationship at risk for reasons he barely understands. At the same time he meets a damaged girl whom he knows will be a riveting subject for his new series of photos. As he struggles to make sense of his motivations, Andrew realises that photography has become an obsession predicated on his need to hold on to the things he has lost in his life. He finds himself re-evaluating his past and his art in this deeply moving and insightful debut novel from a rising star of Australian literature.
Download or read book The World Book Encyclopedia written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An encyclopedia designed especially to meet the needs of elementary, junior high, and senior high school students.
Book Synopsis Talking Into the Typewriter by : Christina Stead
Download or read book Talking Into the Typewriter written by Christina Stead and published by . This book was released on 2018-10-25 with total page 684 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Letter writing was a vital part of Christina Stead's creative life and it grew increasingly important in her last decade. It was how she engaged with the outside world and became the focus of her writing energies. Stead was a vivacious, funny, erudite, expansive and witty correspondent. It was a practice she enjoyed, answering all correspondence she received, including Elizabeth Harrower, Stanley Burnshaw, Dorothy Green and H C Coombs. Beginning in England in 1973, the letters in Talking into the Typewriter span her return to Australia in 1973 until her death in 1983. Politics, friends and family, literary accolades and achievements, pets and reminiscences are all dissected, canvassed and considered.
Download or read book Dirt Music written by Tim Winton and published by Picador USA. This book was released on 2012 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Booker Prize nominee Tim Winton continues to astonish critics and captivate readers with this Australian love story about people stifled by grief and regret; a novel about the odds of breaking with the past.
