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Author : Nina Bawden
Publisher : London : Royal National Institute for the Blind, [197-?]
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Fiction
ISBN : STANFORD:36105021729061
Author : Nina Bawden
Publisher : Virago
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2011-05-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780748127399
'One of the wisest and most versatile of our novelists' CHRISTOPHER WORDSWORTH, GUARDIAN 'So intelligent and clear-eyed that every page seems to peel another layer of pretence' ISABEL QUIGLEY, FINANCIAL TIMES 'Nina Bawden's novels are self-perpetuating pleasures' KIRKUS REVIEWS 'Today, Tuesday, the day that Penelope has chosen to leave her husband, is the first really warm day of spring . . . ' Penelope has always done her best to be a good wife, a good mistress, a good mother - and a good magistrate. Today she is more conscious that usual of the thinness of the thread that distinguishes good from bad, the law-abiding from the criminal. Sitting in court, hearing a short, sad case of indecent exposure and a long, confused theft, she finds herself examining her own sex life - what would that sound like in court? - and her own actions and intentions. How would the court judge what she's about to do this afternoon . . . ?
Author : Alice Munro
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2011-06-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781551993980
In eight stories, a master of the form extends and magnifies her great themes—the vagaries of love, the passion that leads down unexpected paths, the chaos hovering just under the surface of things, and the strange, often comical desires of the human heart. Time stretches out in some of the stories: a man and a woman look back forty years to the summer they met—the summer, as it turns out, that the true nature of their lives was revealed. In others time is telescoped: a young girl finds in the course of an evening that the mother she adores, and whose fluttery sexuality she hopes to emulate, will not sustain her—she must count on herself. Some choices are made—in a will, in a decision to leave home—with irrevocable and surprising consequences. At other times disaster is courted or barely skirted: when a mother has a startling dream about her baby; when a woman, driving her grandchildren to visit the lakeside haunts of her youth, starts a game that could have dangerous consequences. The rich layering that gives Alice Munro's work so strong a sense of life is particularly apparent in the title story, in which the death of a local optometrist brings an entire town into focus—from the preadolescent boys who find his body, to the man who probably killed him, to the woman who must decide what to do about what she might know. Large, moving, profound, these are stories that extend the limits of fiction.
Author : Geoff Berner
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781459737105
A biography that doesn’t quite exist, about a violinist who can’t be found, as told by people who don’t agree on much. Novelist Geoff Berner has been tasked with writing a biography of DD, a mysterious, charismatic, chimerical musician who has, it seems, dropped off the face of the earth. In the course of his search for DD, Berner interviews her friends, ex-bandmates, ex-lovers, and others. They paint such variable portraits of her that each successive attempt to describe her casts doubt on the previous testimony. As his project is taken over by the lively, infuriating, entertaining tales, a wounded, gifted, and complex DD starts to emerge from all the eyewitness accounts and swear-to-God true stories. Who is DD? Where did she go? And why didn’t that book get written? Travel through a world of knockabout musicians and chancers, on the trail of an inimitable artist who truly lives in the moment, for better or worse.
Author : Danielle Steel
Publisher : Random House Digital, Inc.
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Americans
ISBN : 9780385340267
Nineteen-year-old Annabelle Worthington was born into a life of privilege, raised amid the glamour of New York society, with glorious homes on Fifth Avenue and in Newport, Rhode Island. But everything changed on a cold April day in 1912, when the sinking of the Titanic shattered her family and her privileged world forever. When she is betrayed, and pursued by a scandal she does not deserve, Annabelle flees New York for war-ravaged France, hoping to lose herself in a life of service. There, in the heart of the First World War, in a groundbreaking field hospital run by women she finds her true calling. And when the war ends, Annabelle begins a new life in Paris--now a doctor, a mother, her past almost forgotten...until a fateful meeting opens her heart to the world she had left behind and she returns to New York one more time.
Author : Nina Bawden
Publisher : Little Brown and Company (UK)
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2006-11-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1844084264
Today, Tuesday, the day that Penelope has chosen to leave her husband, is the first really warm day of spring...' Penelope has always done her best to be a good wife, a good mistress, a good mother - and a good magistrate. Today she is more conscious that usual of the thinness of the thread that distinguishes good from bad, the law-abiding from the criminal. Sitting in court, hearing a short, sad case of indecent exposure and a long, confused theft, she finds herself examining her own sex life (how would all that sound in court?) her own actions and intentions while she observes the defendants in the dock. This novel is a tour-de-force , an ingeniously constructed novel in which Nina Bawden counterpoints public appearance with private behaviour in her heroine, Penelope. The result is a marvellous picture of a not always admirable but engagingly complex and very human heroine. As always, Bawden offers a compelling story, sharply witty and beautifully observed. But it is also an honest and provocative book tracing the divergent courses of morality and justice, and uncomfortably posing, as Penelope does of herself, the question: who and what is a good woman?
Author : Xinran
Publisher : Vintage Canada
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2011-03-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780307366269
An unprecedented, intimate account of the lives of modern Chinese women, told by the women themselves -- true stories of the political and personal upheavals they have endured in their chaotic and repressive society For eight groundbreaking years, Xinran hosted a radio program in China during which she invited women to call in and talk about themselves. Broadcast every evening, Words on the Night Breeze became famous throughout the country for its unflinching portrayal of what it meant to be a woman in modern China. Centuries of obedience to their fathers, husbands and sons, followed by years of fear under Communism, had made women terrified of talking openly about their feelings. Xinran won their trust and, through her compassion and ability to listen, became the first woman to hear their true stories. This unforgettable book is the story of how Xinran negotiated the minefield of restrictions imposed on Chinese journalists to reach out to women across the country. Through the vivid intimacy of her writing, these women confide in the reader, sharing their deepest secrets. Whether they are the privileged wives of party leaders or peasants in a forgotten corner of the countryside, they tell of almost inconceivable suffering: forced marriages, sexual abuse, separation of parents from their children, extreme poverty. But they also talk about love -- about how, despite cruelty, despite politics, the urge to nurture and cherish remains. Their stories changed Xinran’s understanding of China forever. Her book will reveal the lives of Chinese women to the West as never before.
Author : G. Peterman
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2006-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780595412594
Anyone researching their family history hopes to find more than names and dates. Corena, a wealthy Seattle socialite is no different. In a 1957 newspaper interview she tells of her genealogy project, and that she has decided to make public her findings. Her granmother, Molly Rosebrook age 92, reads the interview and asks Corena to visit her. Molly gives Corena a diary kept by Molly's parents, Corena's Great Grandparents. Read along with Corena the 1865-68 diary written during Molly's first three years. It is a story of romance, smuggling, poaching, death, prospecting, outlaws, Indians, escape from England and pursuit across America.
Author : Robert Kemp Philp
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 784 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1859
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:555019421
Author : NA NA
Publisher : Springer
Page : 1585 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2015-12-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781349813667
Author : Isis Press,Nina Bawden
Publisher : Brown & Benchmark
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Domestic fiction, English
ISBN : 0753155877
Leaving one's husband is not an easy thing to do, particularly after many years of comfortable married life. Penelope is forty-seven, a JP and the mother of two teenage daughters. Her sudden but carefully considered decision to leave Eddie causes Penelope to analyse her life. On this very same day she has received death threats complicating the situation yet further. Penelope struggles to find out not so much who is making these threats, as why they are making them. Realizing that she no longer needs to be needed, she is finally free to live her life for herself.
Author : Caitlin Moran
Publisher : Random House
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9780091940744
1913: Suffragette throws herself under the King's horse. 1969 u Feminists storm Miss World. NOW u Caitlin Moran rewrites The Female Eunuch from a bar stool and demands to know why pants are getting smaller. There's never been a better time to be a woman: we have the vote and the Pill, and we haven't been burnt as witches since 1727.
Author : Joyce N. Bennett
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2022-02-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780817321161
"Analyzes the forced migration of Maya women from the highlands of Guatemala and their turn toward language and indigenous clothing revitalization upon their return home"--
Author : Javier
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780595210879
From birth, little girls are given baby dolls and repeated countless fairy tales that all end the same way. Some handsome prince sweeps her off to live happily ever after. Meanwhile, everyone seems to be content in letting little boys eat dirt. Handsome knights don¡_t eat dirt. Consequently, they never learn how to treat their ladies like beautiful princesses. Dunt! Dunt! Dun! Javier to the rescue! That noble, gallant, father, husband of a servant. This, tell it like it is, author has taken years of hands on experience and written it in a language any knight in training can understand. Or, for that matter, any princess who is trying to turn her frog into a prince. It will make you laugh, think and change. It¡_s self-help. It¡_s a romance novel. It may even be a comedy to most but to me it¡_s just a few tips to guide your relationship to ¡°happily ever after¡±. It¡_s a great feeling to have someone love you so much, to be their heart. It¡_s an even greater feeling to know you inspire that feeling. Believe me, I know. I¡_m the one he puts his hands on to tell you about the experience. -The Wife
Author : Serena Burdick
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2016-07-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781250106681
"A tale brimming over with secrets, betrayals and redemption. Burdick keeps readers riveted." -RT Book Reviews (4 Stars HOT) "Moving, surprising, and thought-provoking." -The Emerald City Book Review "Burdick brings the sights and sounds of the Paris of the Impressionists to life." -Historical Novel Society “A provocative tale of family secrets, betrayal, and the renewal of self-discovery.” -Heather Webb, author of Rodin's Lover "Girl in the Afternoon is a love story, a mystery, a tragedy, and a moving study of the human capacity to contain both reckless error and surprising redemption.” -Carrie Brown, author of The Stargazer's Sister Born into a wealthy Parisian family at the center of Belle Epoque society, 18-year-old Aimée Savaray dreams of becoming a respected painter in the male-dominated art world; and secretly, she also dreams of being loved by Henri, the boy her parents took in as a child and raised alongside her. But when Henri inexplicably disappears, in the midst of the Franco-Prussian war, the Savarays’ privileged lives begin to unravel. Heartbroken, Aimée tries to find him, but Henri doesn’t want to be found—and only one member of the family knows why. As Aimée seeks refuge in the art world, mentored by the Impressionist Édouard Manet, she unwittingly finds her way back to Henri. With so many years gone by and secrets buried, their eventual reunion unmasks the lies that once held the family together, but now threaten to tear them apart. A rich and opulent saga, Girl in the Afternoon brings the Impressionists to life in this portrait of scandal, fortune, and unrequited love.