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Apprenticed to Venus

Author : Tristine Rainer
Publisher : Skyhorse
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781628727791

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A Revealing Look at the Mentorship—and Manipulation—of Anaïs Nin In 1962, eighteen-year-old Tristine Rainer was sent on an errand to Anaïs Nin’s West Village apartment. The chance meeting would change the course of her life and begin her years as Anaïs’s accomplice, keeping her mentor’s confidences—including that of her bigamy—even after Anaïs Nin’s death and the passing of her husbands, until now. Set in the underground literary worlds of Manhattan and Los Angeles during the sixties and seventies, Tristine charts her coming of age under the guidance of the infamous Anaïs Nin: author of the erotic bestseller Delta of Venus, lover to Henry Miller, Parisian diarist, and feminist icon of the sexual revolution. As an inexperienced college-bound girl from the San Fernando Valley, Tristine was dazzled by the sophisticated bohemian author and sought her instruction in becoming a woman. Tristine became a fixture of Anaïs’s inner circle, implicated in the mysterious author’s daring intrigues—while simultaneously finding her own path through love, lust, and loss. In what Kirkus calls a “spicy and saucy hybrid of memoir and novel,” Apprenticed to Venus brings to life a seductive and entertaining character —the pioneer whose mantra was, “A woman has as much right to pleasure as a man!” An intimate look at the intricacies—and risks—of the female mentor-protégé relationship, Tristine Rainer’s Apprenticed to Venus stories her deep friendship, for good or ill, with a pivotal historical figure.

The Birth Of Venus

Author : Sarah Dunant
Publisher : Virago
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2009-07-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780748112937

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Alessandra is not quite fifteen when her prosperous merchant father brings a young painter back with him from Holland to adorn the walls of the new family chapel. She is fascinated by his talents and envious of his abilities and opportunities to paint to the glory of God. Soon her love of art and her lively independence are luring her into closer involvement with all sorts of taboo areas of life. On excursions into the streets of night-time Florence she observes a terrible evil stalking the city and witnesses the rise of the fiery young priest, Savanarola, who has set out to rid the city of vice, richness, even art itself. Alessandra must make crucial decisions about the shape of her adult life, as Florence itself must choose between the old ways of the luxury-loving Medicis and the asceticism of Savanorola. And through it all, there is the painter, whose love will change everything.

Incest

Author : Anaïs Nin
Publisher : HMH
Page : 443 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1993-09-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780547540788

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The trailblazing memoirist and author of Henry & June recounts her relationships with Henry Miller and others—including her own father. Anaïs Nin wrote in her uncensored diaries like they were a broad-minded confidante with whom she shared the liberating psychosexual dramas of her life. In this continuation of her notorious Henry & June, she recounts a particularly turbulent period between 1932 and 1934, and the men who dominated it: her protective husband, her therapist, and the poet Antonin Artaud. However, most consuming of all is novelist Henry Miller—a man whose genius, said Anaïs, was so demonic it could drive people insane. Here too, recounted in extraordinary detail, is the sexual affair she had with her father. At once loving, exciting, and vengeful, it was the ultimate social transgression for which Anaïs would eventually seek absolution from her analysts. “Before Lena Dunham there was Anaïs Nin. Like Dunham, she’s been accused of narcissism, sociopathy, and sexual perversion time and again. Yet even that comparison undercuts the strangeness and bravery of her work, for Nin was the first of her kind. And, like all truly unique talents, she was worshipped by some, hated by many, and misunderstood by most . . . A woman who’d spent decades on the bleeding edge of American intellectual life, a woman who had been a respected colleague of male writers who pushed the boundaries of acceptable sex writing. Like many great . . . experimentalists, she wrote for a world that did not yet exist, and so helped to bring it into being.” —The Guardian Includes an introduction by Rupert Pole

Accounts and Papers

Author : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 598 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1838
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:555096614

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Accounts and Papers of the House of Commons

Author : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 602 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1838
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:555094828

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Parliamentary Papers

Author : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 598 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1838
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : HARVARD:32044106491095

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Larklight

Author : Philip Reeve
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2013-01-07
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781619631182

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Arthur (Art) Mumby and his irritating sister Myrtle live with their father in the huge and rambling house, Larklight, travelling through space on a remote orbit far beyond the Moon. One ordinary sort of morning they receive a correspondence informing them that a gentleman is on his way to visit, a Mr Webster. Visitors to Larklight are rare if not unique, and a frenzy of preparation ensues. But it is entirely the wrong sort of preparation, as they discover when their guest arrives, and a Dreadful and Terrifying (and Marvellous) adventure begins. It takes them to the furthest reaches of Known Space, where they must battle the evil First Ones in a desperate attempt to save each other - and the Universe. Recounted through the eyes of Art himself, Larklight is sumptuously designed and illustrated throughout.

African Queen

Author : Rachel Holmes
Publisher : Random House
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2009-03-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307510730

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Saartjie Baartman was twenty-one years old when she was taken from her native South Africa and shipped to London. Within weeks, the striking African beauty was the talk of the social season of 1810–hailed as “the Hottentot Venus” for her exquisite physique and suggestive semi-nude dance. As her fame spread to Paris, Saartjie became a lightning rod for late Georgian and Napoleonic attitudes toward sex and race, exploitation and colonialism, prurience and science. In African Queen, Rachel Holmes recounts the luminous, heartbreaking story of one woman’s journey from slavery to stardom. Born into a herding tribe known as the Eastern Cape Khoisan, Saartjie was barely out of her teens when she was orphaned and widowed by colonial war and forced aboard a ship bound for England. A pair of clever, unscrupulous showmen dressed her up in a body stocking with a suggestive fringe and put her on the London stage as a “specimen” of African beauty and sexuality. The Hottentot Venus was an overnight sensation. But celebrity brought unexpected consequences. Abolitionists initiated a lawsuit to win Saartjie’s freedom, a case that electrified the English public. In Paris, a team of scientists subjected her to a humiliating public inspection as they probed the mystery of her sexual allure. Stared at, stripped, pinched, painted, worshipped, and ridiculed, Saartjie came to symbolize the erotic obsession at the heart of colonialism. But beneath the costumes and the glare of publicity, this young Khoisan woman was a person who had been torn from her own culture and sacrificed to the whims of fashionable Europe. Nearly two centuries after her death, Saartjie made headlines once again when Nelson Mandela launched a campaign to have her remains returned to the land of her birth. In this brilliant, vividly written book, Rachel Holmes traces the full arc of Saartjie’s extraordinary story–a story of race, eros, oppression, and fame that resonates powerfully today.

The Tinted Venus

Author : F. Anstey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Aphrodite (Greek deity)
ISBN : UCAL:B3550188

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Your Life as Story

Author : Tristine Rainer
Publisher : Tarcher
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Autobiography
ISBN : 0874778611

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Forgotten, how to unify a story with thematic conflict, how to write scenes with dialogue and employ other fictional devices, how to use humor and perspective, and how to move through time. The author shares her remarkable techniques for finding the essentials of story structure within your life's scattered experiences. She also shows that autobiography need not be a linear, heroic quest, but may be assembled like a quilt, the pattern gradually emerging.

Tomato Red

Author : Daniel Woodrell
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2012-04-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780316206228

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A sharp and funny addition to Daniel Woodrell's collection of "country noir" novels, featuring anti-hero Sammy Barlach and Jamalee Merridew, her hair tomato red with rage and ambition. In the Ozarks, what you are is where you are born. If you're born in Venus Holler, you're not much. For Jamalee Merridew, Venus Holler just won't cut it. Jamalee sees her brother Jason, blessed with drop-dead gorgeous looks and the local object of female obsession, as her ticket out of town. But Jason may just be gay, and in the hills and hollows of the Ozarks that is the most dangerous and courageous thing a man could be. Enter Sammy Barlach, a loser ex-con passing through a tired nowhere on the way to a fresher nowhere. Jamalee thinks Sammy is just the kind of muscle she and Jason need.

Future Babble

Author : Dan Gardner
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2010-10-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780771035210

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In 2008, as the price of oil surged above $140 a barrel, experts said it would soon hit $200; a few months later it plunged to $30. In 1967, they said the USSR would have one of the fastest-growing economies in the year 2000; in 2000, the USSR did not exist. In 1911, it was pronounced that there would be no more wars in Europe; we all know how that turned out. Face it, experts are about as accurate as dart-throwing monkeys. And yet every day we ask them to predict the future — everything from the weather to the likelihood of a catastrophic terrorist attack. Future Babble is the first book to examine this phenomenon, showing why our brains yearn for certainty about the future, why we are attracted to those who predict it confidently, and why it’s so easy for us to ignore the trail of outrageously wrong forecasts. In this fast-paced, example-packed, sometimes darkly hilarious book, journalist Dan Gardner shows how seminal research by UC Berkeley professor Philip Tetlock proved that pundits who are more famous are less accurate — and the average expert is no more accurate than a flipped coin. Gardner also draws on current research in cognitive psychology, political science, and behavioral economics to discover something quite reassuring: The future is always uncertain, but the end is not always near.

A Cafe in Space

Author : Paul Herron,Anaïs Nin,Hugh Guiler,Rupert Pole,Sonya Blades,Sarah Burghauser,Joel Enos,Benjamin Franklin, 5th,Anita Jarczok,Dawn Kaczmar,Satoshi Kanazawa,Harry Kiakis,Kim Krizan,Barbara Kraft,Tristine Rainer,Colette Standish
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2011-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 097748517X

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A Cafe in Space by Paul Herron,Anaïs Nin,Hugh Guiler,Rupert Pole,Sonya Blades,Sarah Burghauser,Joel Enos,Benjamin Franklin, 5th,Anita Jarczok,Dawn Kaczmar,Satoshi Kanazawa,Harry Kiakis,Kim Krizan,Barbara Kraft,Tristine Rainer,Colette Standish Pdf

Joachim Wtewael

Author : Anne W. Lowenthal
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Mars (Roman deity)
ISBN : 9780892363049

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The Dutch history painter Joachim Wtewael is widely admired for his astonishing small paintings on copper. The Getty Museum's Mars and Venus Surprised by Vulcan is one of his finest works in this unusually demanding medium. Though only eight inches high, this Mannerist painting contains eleven figures in three different spaces, captured in a dramatically charged moment from the famous story told by Ovid in his Metamorphoses. The author's detailed analysis of Wtewael's painting also serves as a fine introduction to Dutch art of the Golden Age. Illustrated with seventy reproductions of paintings, drawings, etchings, and decorative objects, Anne W. Lowenthal's study ranges over the broad historical and cultural context in which Mars and Venus was created.