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Fierce Appetites

Author : Elizabeth Boyle
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1844885453
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (448 download)

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Download or read book Fierce Appetites written by Elizabeth Boyle and published by Random House. This book was released on 2022-03-03 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Like nothing else you will read' Hilary Mantel Top 25 History Books of the Year, The Times - the perfect gift for book lovers this Christmas! Every day a beloved father dies. Every day a lover departs. Every day a woman turns forty. All three happening together brings a moment of reckoning. Medieval historian Elizabeth Boyle made sense of these events the best way she knew how - by immersing herself in the literature that has been her first love and life's work for over two decades. Fierce Appetites is the exhilarating and deeply humane result. Not only does Elizabeth Boyle write dazzling accounts of ancient stories, familiar and obscure, from Ireland and further afield, but she uses her historical learning to grapple with the raw and urgent questions she faces, questions that have bedevilled people in every age. She writes on grief, addiction, family breakdown, the complexities of motherhood, love and sex, memory, class, education, travel (and staying put) with unflinching honesty, deep compassion and occasional dark humour. Fierce Appetites is captivating and original - as an insight into the mind and heart of a groundbreaking scholar, and as a wise and reassuring account of what it is to be human. _____________________ 'Wonderful . . . I laughed. I cried. I was blown away' The Times 'Pure nectar for the imagination' Irish Examiner 'Unusual, arresting and genuinely enriching' Irish Times 'I loved this luminous, radical book about bodies in time. It is a deeply personal history, that simultaneously brings medieval myth and poetry to breathing, bleeding life. An education for the mind and the heart' Clare Pollard 'Highly original . . . engagingly candid [and] thought-proviking' Irish Independent 'An eloquent plea for the value of curiosity and the life of the mind, standing up the robustness of scholarship against the frailty of individuals, the resilience of myth against brittle daily preoccupations. It's an agile story, irreverent, capacious and constantly surprising: like nothing else you will read' Hilary Mantel 'Bracingly honest, fiery, funny, scholarly, Fierce Appetites really is a wildly good book' Hilary Fannin 'Extremely intriguing . . . I found myself completely absorbed' Ryan Tubridy 'I absolutely loved this utterly original book. Immersing myself in Elizabeth Boyle's considerable brain was a true privilege, and the way she uses medieval narratives to unpick her own present was endlessly surprising and beautiful. I read it in two sittings, devouring her perspective on life, love, loss' Clover Stroud 'Fiercely smart, strange, surprising, unsettling, unflinching' Jennifer O'Connell, Irish Times 'An outstanding achievement. Fierce Appetites defies easy categorization, is brilliantly written and simply deserves to be read' Darach Ó Séaghdha 'Everything is illuminated, magnified, revisioned: sexual desire, motherhood, family. Her writing is unorthodox, unnerving, and very exciting' Tanya Shadrick

Fierce Attachments

Author : Vivian Gornick
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 1466819006
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book Fierce Attachments written by Vivian Gornick and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2005-09-14 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vivian Gornick’s Fierce Attachments—hailed by the New York Times for the renowned feminist author’s “mesmerizing, thrilling” truths within its pages—has been selected by the publication’s book critics as the #1 Best Memoir of the Past 50 Years. In this deeply etched and haunting memoir, Vivian Gornick tells the story of her lifelong battle with her mother for independence. There have been numerous books about mother and daughter, but none has dealt with this closest of filial relations as directly or as ruthlessly. Gornick’s groundbreaking book confronts what Edna O’Brien has called “the principal crux of female despair”: the unacknowledged Oedipal nature of the mother-daughter bond. Born and raised in the Bronx, the daughter of “urban peasants,” Gornick grows up in a household dominated by her intelligent but uneducated mother’s romantic depression over the early death of her husband. Next door lives Nettie, an attractive widow whose calculating sensuality appeals greatly to Vivian. These women with their opposing models of femininity continue, well into adulthood, to affect Gornick’s struggle to find herself in love and in work. As Gornick walks with her aged mother through the streets of New York, arguing and remembering the past, each wins the reader’s admiration: the caustic and clear-thinking daughter, for her courage and tenacity in really talking to her mother about the most basic issues of their lives, and the still powerful and intuitively-wise old woman, who again and again proves herself her daughter’s mother. Unsparing, deeply courageous, Fierce Attachments is one of the most remarkable documents of family feeling that has been written, a classic that helped start the memoir boom and remains one of the most moving examples of the genre. “[Gornick] stares unflinchingly at all that is hidden, difficult, strange, unresolvable in herself and others—at loneliness, sexual malice and the devouring, claustral closeness of mothers and daughters...[Fierce Attachments is] a portrait of the artist as she finds a language—original, allergic to euphemism and therapeutic banalities—worthy of the women that raised her.”—The New York Times

Past and present. Latter-Day pamphlets, etc

Author : Thomas Carlyle
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 756 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Past and present. Latter-Day pamphlets, etc written by Thomas Carlyle and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 756 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Works ...

Author : Thomas Carlyle
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 630 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Works ... written by Thomas Carlyle and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Past and present. Miscellaneous

Author : Thomas Carlyle
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (197 download)

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Download or read book Past and present. Miscellaneous written by Thomas Carlyle and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Past and present, the portraits of John Knox, miscellanies

Author : Thomas Carlyle
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 470 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book Past and present, the portraits of John Knox, miscellanies written by Thomas Carlyle and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Pen Portraits by Thomas Carlyle

Author : Thomas Carlyle
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Pen Portraits by Thomas Carlyle written by Thomas Carlyle and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Past & Present

Author : Thomas Carlyle
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 756 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Past & Present written by Thomas Carlyle and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 756 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Latter-day Pamphlets

Author : Thomas Carlyle
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Latter-day Pamphlets written by Thomas Carlyle and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Collected works

Author : Carlyle
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Collected works written by Carlyle and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Past and present. John Knox. Miscellanies

Author : Thomas Carlyle
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Past and present. John Knox. Miscellanies written by Thomas Carlyle and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

History of Friedrich the Second

Author : Thomas Carlyle
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 724 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book History of Friedrich the Second written by Thomas Carlyle and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Australia in the making

Author : William Henry Fitchett
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Australia in the making written by William Henry Fitchett and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Duke's Forbidden Ward

Author : Millie Adams
Publisher : Harlequin
ISBN 13 : 0369711807
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (697 download)

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Download or read book The Duke's Forbidden Ward written by Millie Adams and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2022-04-26 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thrillingly sensual Regency romance from Millie Adams! Her unattainable guardian The man she secretly yearns for! This season, Eleanor Jennings must find a husband. Her guardian, Hugh, the autocratic and devastatingly alluring Duke of Kendal, has made that abundantly clear. The only flaw in his plan? Eleanor’s scandalous longing for him! Hugh might consider her off-limits and dangerously innocent, but Eleanor can see the pain and secrets he hides. Can Eleanor also be brave enough to make Hugh see the passion that exists between them? From Harlequin Historical: Your romantic escape to the past. Scandalous Society Brides Book 1: The Duke's Forbidden Ward

Endangered Tigers

Author : Carl R. Green
Publisher : Enslow Publishing, LLC
ISBN 13 : 0766069060
Total Pages : 50 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (66 download)

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Download or read book Endangered Tigers written by Carl R. Green and published by Enslow Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2015-07-15 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The tiger is a legendary big cat inspiring stories, fear, awe, and admiration in people around the world. So why are tigers in danger of becoming extinct? Learn why they are threatened and how to help save this beautiful big cat.

Fifty Years History

Author : J. Stebbins
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3368831011
Total Pages : 510 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (688 download)

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Download or read book Fifty Years History written by J. Stebbins and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-07-20 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.

New York by Gas-Light and Other Urban Sketches

Author : George G. Foster
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520067223
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book New York by Gas-Light and Other Urban Sketches written by George G. Foster and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1990-11-21 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1850, New York by Gas-Light explores the seamy side of the newly emerging metropolis: "the festivities of prostitution, the orgies of pauperism, the haunts of theft and murder, the scenes of drunkenness and beastly debauch, and all the sad realities that go to make up the lower stratum—the underground story—of life in New York!" The author of this lively and fascinating little book, which both attracted and offended large numbers of readers in Victorian America, was George G. Foster, reporter for Horace Greeley's influential New York Tribune, social commentator, poet, and man about town. Foster drew on his daily and nightly rambles through the city's streets and among the characters of the urban demi-monde to produce a sensationalized but extraordinarily revealing portrait of New York at the moment it was emerging as a major metropolis. Reprinted here with sketches from two of Foster's other books, New York by Gas-Light will be welcomed by students of urban social history, popular culture, literature, and journalism. Editor Stuart M. Blumin has provided a penetrating introductory essay that sets Foster's life and work in the contexts of the growing city, the development of the mass-distribution publishing industry, the evolving literary genre of urban sensationalism, and the wider culture of Victorian America. This is an important reintroduction to a significant but neglected work, a prologue to the urban realism that would flourish later in the fiction of Stephen Crane, the painting of George Bellows, and the journalism of Jacob Riis.