Vlad

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Publisher : Deep Vellum Publishing
ISBN 13 : 156478780X
Total Pages : 78 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (647 download)

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Book Synopsis Vlad by : Carlos Fuentes

Download or read book Vlad written by Carlos Fuentes and published by Deep Vellum Publishing. This book was released on 2012-07-18 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Vlad" is Vlad the Impaler, of course, whose mythic cruelty was an inspiration for Bram Stoker's Dracula. In this sly sequel, Vlad really is undead: dispossessed after centuries of mayhem by Eastern European wars and rampant blood shortages. More than a postmodern riff on "the vampire craze," Vlad is also an anatomy of the Mexican bourgeoisie, as well as our culture's ways of dealing with death. For—as in Dracula—Vlad has need of both a lawyer and a real-estate agent in order to establish his new kingdom, and Yves Navarro and his wife Asunción fit the bill nicely. Having recently lost a son, might they not welcome the chance to see their remaining child live forever? More importantly, are the pleasures of middle-class life enough to keep one from joining the legions of the damned?

Black Sky, Black Sea

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Publisher : MacLehose Press
ISBN 13 : 1623655757
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (236 download)

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Book Synopsis Black Sky, Black Sea by : Izzet Celasin

Download or read book Black Sky, Black Sea written by Izzet Celasin and published by MacLehose Press. This book was released on 2014-11-04 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poised between the secular values of socialism and the conservatism of a tenuously balanced government, Istanbul of 1977 was a fractured city haunted by demons of its own making. Along with thousands of other left-wing activists, Oak's interest in politics leads him to join the annual May Day rallies. There he encounters Zuhal, a fearless girl with a gun. As battles rage between nationalists and socialists, Oak witnesses the violent suppression of dissident minorities by his fellow citizens. The bewitching Zuhal begins to shape his ideals, bringing him face to face with disillusionment, and death.

Under the Lemon Trees

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Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1429964812
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Book Synopsis Under the Lemon Trees by : Bhira Backhaus

Download or read book Under the Lemon Trees written by Bhira Backhaus and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2009-03-17 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A beautifully written debut novel of a young Indian woman struggling between embracing her heritage and fitting in as an American In Oak Grove, California, 1976, there are as many Sikh temples as Christian churches, the city council has prints announcements in both English and Punjabi and the large Indian immigrant community is gracefully coexists with the old farming families. But for 15-year-old Jeeto, figuring out where she fits best—and what she must do to find that fit—isn't so easy. Jeeto soon realizes that the women around her do far more than drink tea on balmy California afternoons—their traditions and religion give shape to fortune and destiny in a world of arranged marriages and strict family politics that force Jeeto to struggle with reconciling the possibilities of freedom and love. In the tradition of Jhumpa Lahiri and Arundhati Roy, Under the Lemon Trees is poised to speak to this same audience in an historically successful market. A stellar debut from an acclaimed writer, this is a story about finding love and discovering a true home while navigating traditions, family and faith—part Bend it Like Beckham, part Monsoon Wedding, this is a cultural and romantic tour de force.

The Nun

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Publisher : Europa Editions
ISBN 13 : 1609459105
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (94 download)

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Book Synopsis The Nun by : Simonetta Agnello Hornby

Download or read book The Nun written by Simonetta Agnello Hornby and published by Europa Editions. This book was released on 2011-12-27 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Italian PEN Prize: A tale of illicit love and a girl forced into a convent in the early nineteenth century. 1839, Messina, Italy: Agata is the daughter of an aristocrat, albeit an impoverished one, and she has fallen in love with wealthy Giacomo Lepre. Their families, however, view their romance as unacceptable and tawdry—and when Agata’s father dies, her mother decides to ferry her daughter far away, to Naples, where she hopes to garner a stipend from the king. The only boat leaving Messina that day is captained by young Englishman James Garson. Following a tempestuous passage to Naples, during which Agata confesses her troubles to James, Agata and her mother find themselves rebuffed by the king, and Agata is forced to join a convent. The Benedictine monastery of San Giorgio Stilita is rife with rancor and jealousy, illicit passions and ancient feuds. But Agata remains aloof, devoting herself to the cultivation of medicinal herbs, calmed by the steady rhythms of monastic life. She reads all the books James sends her and follows the news of the various factions struggling to bring unity to Italy. She has accepted her life as a nun, but she is divided between her yearnings for purity and religiosity and her desire to be part of the world. And she is increasingly torn when she realizes that her feelings for James, though he is only a distant presence in her life, have eclipsed those for Lepre . . . “Hornby enriches her story with sensuous details of food, fashion, furnishings, and the rules of an extravagant society, savoring local color and personality quirks.” —Publishers Weekly “An historical novel, a coming-of-age novel, a perfect portrait of family dynamics, The Nun also gives us, in Agata, an unforgettable heroine.” —Gazzetta di Mantova

Venetian Life

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Publisher : London, N. Trübner & Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)

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Book Synopsis Venetian Life by : William Dean Howells

Download or read book Venetian Life written by William Dean Howells and published by London, N. Trübner & Company. This book was released on 1866 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Blood on the Saddle

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ISBN 13 : 9781852424862
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (248 download)

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Book Synopsis Blood on the Saddle by : Rafael Reig

Download or read book Blood on the Saddle written by Rafael Reig and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dickens & Clot Investigations Ltd, a detective agency in a waterlogged, semi-buried Madrid of the near future, has a couple of unusual specialities: helping distraught authors and taking on Manex Chopeitia. The authors are frantically in search of characters who?ve quit the page and assumed a life of their own; Manex Chopeitia is the Big Brother of the genetic-engineering company that rules over both the capital and the destiny of the US-Iberian Federation. With the help of a cowboy sidekick, on the loose from an unfinished manuscript, Carlos Clot is on a personal quest to put some dodgy people (both ?real? and ?fictional?) in their place.

An Actor's Tricks

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Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408140950
Total Pages : 113 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (81 download)

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Book Synopsis An Actor's Tricks by : Lorna Marshall

Download or read book An Actor's Tricks written by Lorna Marshall and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-06-06 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A founding member of Peter Brook's international theatre company, Yoshi Oida infuses his acting and directing with the artistry of the Oriental traditions and a mastery of Western forms. In this disarmingly accessible study of the art of acting he shares his unique experience and range of expertise. An Actor's Tricks offers a meticulous scrutiny of the actor's preparation for performance and comes with a foreword by Peter Brook. Drawing on an unrivalled wealth and range of expertise in the fields of acting, directing and training, Yoshi Oida and Lorna Marshall provide an authoritative and fascinating study of the art of the actor. In scrutinising the process of performance from the twin perspectives of the actor and director, An Actor's Tricks is filled with hints, insights and stories from productions with Peter Brook and from around the world. Beginning with the daily preparation to train the body, it moves to the process of rehearsal for a performance right up to the moment when the actor steps onstage. An appendix of practical exercises is included for the actor to follow. The books combines principles and techniques from both Western and Eastern disciplines of acting to provide a masterful study essential for every actor and director.

Casanova the Irresistible

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Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252098153
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Book Synopsis Casanova the Irresistible by : Phillippe Sollers

Download or read book Casanova the Irresistible written by Phillippe Sollers and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2016-03-15 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: His is a name synonymous with seduction. His was a life lived without limits. Giacomo Casanova left behind thousands of pages detailing his years among Europe's notable and noble. In Casanova the Irresistible, Philippe Sollers--prolific intellectual and revered visionary of the French avant-garde--proffers a lively reading of and guide to the famed libertine's sprawling memoir. Armine Kotin Mortimer's translation of Sollers's reading tracks the alluring Venetian through the whole of his astounding and disreputable life. Eschewing myth, Sollers dares to present the plain realities of a man "simple, direct, courageous, cultivated, seductive, funny. A philosopher in action." The lovers are here, and the ruses and adventures. But Sollers also rescues Casanova the writer, a gifted composer of words who reigns as a titan of eighteenth-century literature. As always, Sollers seeks to shame society for its failure to recognize its failings. By admiring those of Casanova's admirable qualities present in himself, Sollers spurns bourgeois hypocrisy and cliché to affirm a jocund philosophy of life devoted to the twinned pursuits of pleasure and joy. A masterful translation that captures Sollers's idiosyncratic style, Casanova the Irresistible escorts readers on a journey into the heads and hearts of two singular personalities.

Dance With Snakes

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Publisher : Biblioasis
ISBN 13 : 192684503X
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (268 download)

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Download or read book Dance With Snakes written by Horatio Moya and published by Biblioasis. This book was released on 2011-08-27 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As El Salvador returns to peace after more than a decade of civil war, Eduardo Sosa, an unemployed sociologist, becomes fascinated by a homeless man who lives in a beat-up yellow Chevrolet Assuming his identity, Sosa unleashes a reign of terror on San Salvador with his snake accomplices. A macabre high-speed romp, in which violence and comedy become almost indistinguishable.

Snapshot

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Publisher : Soho Press
ISBN 13 : 1569477434
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (694 download)

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Book Synopsis Snapshot by : Garry Disher

Download or read book Snapshot written by Garry Disher and published by Soho Press. This book was released on 2007-07-01 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It takes months for Australian social psychologist Janine McQuarrie to succumb to her husband’s pressure to attend spouse-swapping parties, but eventually she gives in. Then, driving with her young daughter one day, she gets out of her car to ask directions and is shot and killed. The little girl escapes when the gunman's pistol misfires. Inspector Hal Challis of the Crime Investigation Unit is assigned the case, but his efforts are thwarted by his boss. The dead woman was Superintendent McQuarrie’s daughter-in-law, and he seems to be more interested in protecting his son than in finding his daughter-in-law’s murderer. Who might have a motive to kill this attractive young wife and mother? One of her clients? One of the swingers she’d gotten together with at a party? Or, the obvious suspect, her husband?

My Mother

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Publisher : Jonathan Cape
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book My Mother written by Georges Bataille and published by Jonathan Cape. This book was released on 1972 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Death of Sweet Mister

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Publisher : Hachette+ORM
ISBN 13 : 0316206156
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (162 download)

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Download or read book The Death of Sweet Mister written by Daniel Woodrell and published by Hachette+ORM. This book was released on 2012-04-24 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shug Akins is a lonely, overweight thirteen-year-old boy. His mother, Glenda, is the one person who loves him -- she calls him Sweet Mister and attempts to boost his confidence and give him hope for his future. Shuggie's purported father, Red, is a brutal man with a short fuse who mocks and despises the boy. Into this small-town Ozarks mix comes Jimmy Vin Pearce, with his shiny green T-bird and his smart city clothes. When he and Glenda begin a torrid affair, a series of violent events is inevitably set in motion. The outcome will break your heart. "This is Daniel Woodrell's third book set in the Ozarks and, like the other two, Give Us a Kiss and Tomato Red, it peels back the layers from lives already made bare by poverty and petty crime."-Otto Penzler, Penzler Pick, 2001

Too Good to Be True: The Colossal Book of Urban Legends

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Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393320886
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (28 download)

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Download or read book Too Good to Be True: The Colossal Book of Urban Legends written by Jan Harold Brunvand and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2001-10-17 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of oft-repeated urban legends brings together the best of modern myths, from the stoned baby sitter who mistook a baby for a turkey to the fabulously expensive recipe for chocolate chip cookies.

Nineteen Eighty

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Publisher : Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
ISBN 13 : 0307455122
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)

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Book Synopsis Nineteen Eighty by : David Peace

Download or read book Nineteen Eighty written by David Peace and published by Vintage Crime/Black Lizard. This book was released on 2009-09-08 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Continuing the narrative begun with Nineteen Seventy-Four and Nineteen Seventy-Seven, this electrifying third installment of David Peace’s Red Riding Quartet demonstrates a skill that goes above and beyond the limits of the genre. While Yorkshire is terrorized by the Ripper, the corrupt police continue to prosper. To give the case some new life, Peter Hunter, a “clean” cop from nearby Manchester, is brought in to offer a fresh perspective. As he goes about setting up a new case under the radar, he suffers the same fate as those who previously attempted to get in the way of the Ripper: his house is burned down, his wife threatened. But he soldiers on. And as he comes face to face with unthinkable evil, Hunter struggles to maintain his reputation, his sanity, and his life.

Tell Me

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Publisher : Counterpoint Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis Tell Me by : Mary Robison

Download or read book Tell Me written by Mary Robison and published by Counterpoint Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fiction

Mözart's Journey From Vienna To Prague

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Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781019409848
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (98 download)

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Book Synopsis Mözart's Journey From Vienna To Prague by : Eduard Friedrich Mörike

Download or read book Mözart's Journey From Vienna To Prague written by Eduard Friedrich Mörike and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mörike's romanticized account of Mozart's journey to Prague will transport readers back in time. Through rich descriptions and a unique perspective, the author offers a glimpse into the legendary composer's private life. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Blackout

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 258 pages
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Book Synopsis Blackout by : Gianluca Morozzi

Download or read book Blackout written by Gianluca Morozzi and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dark, twist-packed psychological thriller about three people trapped in an elevator for twelve hours.