Boston Marriage

Author : David Mamet
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2010-02-17
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780307482419

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Boston Marriage by David Mamet Pdf

One of America's most provocative dramatists conquers new territory with this droll comedy of errors set in a Victorian drawing room. Anna and Claire are two bantering, scheming "women of fashion" who live together on the fringes of society. Anna has just become the mistress of a wealthy man, from whom she has received an enormous emerald. Claire, meanwhile, is infatuated with a young girl and wants to enlist the jealous Anna's help for an assignation. As the two women exchange barbs and taunt their hapless maid, Claire's inamorata arrives and sets off a crisis that puts both the valuable emerald and the women's future at risk. Mamet brings his trademark tart dialogue and impeccable plotting, spiced with Wildean wit, to this wickedly funny comedy.

Author : Esther D. Rothblum,Kathleen A. Brehony
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : UVA:X002405460

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Boston Marriages by Esther D. Rothblum,Kathleen A. Brehony Pdf

Author : SJ Sindu
Publisher : Soho Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2017-06-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781616957919

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Marriage of a Thousand Lies by SJ Sindu Pdf

“What a gorgeous, heartbreaking novel.”—Roxane Gay ​​ A necessary and exciting addition to both the Sri Lankan-American and LGBTQ canons, SJ Sindu's debut novel offers a moving and sharply rendered​ exploration of friendship, family, love, and loss. Lucky and her husband, Krishna, are gay. They present an illusion of marital bliss to their conservative Sri Lankan–American families, while each dates on the side. It’s not ideal, but for Lucky, it seems to be working. She goes out dancing, she drinks a bit, she makes ends meet by doing digital art on commission. But when Lucky’s grandmother has a nasty fall, Lucky returns to her childhood home and unexpectedly reconnects with her former best friend and first lover, Nisha, who is preparing for her own arranged wedding with a man she’s never met. As the connection between the two women is rekindled, Lucky tries to save Nisha from entering a marriage based on a lie. But does Nisha really want to be saved? And after a decade’s worth of lying, can Lucky break free of her own circumstances and build a new life? Is she willing to walk away from all that she values about her parents and community to live in a new truth? As Lucky—an outsider no matter what choices she makes—is pushed to the breaking point, Marriage of a Thousand Lies offers a vivid exploration of a life lived at a complex intersection of race, sexuality, and nationality. The result is a profoundly American debut novel shot through with humor and loss, a story of love, family, and the truths that define us all.

Author : History Project (Boston, Mass.)
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 0807079499

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Improper Bostonians by History Project (Boston, Mass.) Pdf

Surprising, fun, and magnificently illustrated with two hundred images, Improper Bostonians is the first book to depict Boston's three centuries of gay and lesbian life, and--since it treats the American city with the longest gay and lesbian history--the most comprehensive and meticulously researched gay city history ever written.

Author : Timothy Murphy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 749 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-18
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781135942342

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Reader's Guide to Lesbian and Gay Studies by Timothy Murphy Pdf

The Reader's Guide to Lesbian and Gay Studies surveys the field in some 470 entries on individuals (Adrienne Rich); arts and cultural studies (Dance); ethics, religion, and philosophical issues (Monastic Traditions); historical figures, periods, and ideas (Germany between the World Wars); language, literature, and communication (British Drama); law and politics (Child Custody); medicine and biological sciences (Health and Illness); and psychology, social sciences, and education (Kinsey Report).

Author : Jodi O'Brien
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 1033 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781412909167

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Encyclopedia of Gender and Society by Jodi O'Brien Pdf

Entries discuss the impact gender has had on cultural beliefs and practices, social and economic organizations, and individual lives.

Author : Benjamin Kahan
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780822377184

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Celibacies by Benjamin Kahan Pdf

In this innovative study, Benjamin Kahan traces the elusive history of modern celibacy. Arguing that celibacy is a distinct sexuality with its own practices and pleasures, Kahan shows it to be much more than the renunciation of sex or a cover for homosexuality. Celibacies focuses on a diverse group of authors, social activists, and artists, spanning from the suffragettes to Henry James, and from the Harlem Renaissance's Father Divine to Andy Warhol. This array of figures reveals the many varieties of celibacy that have until now escaped scholars of literary modernism and sexuality. Ultimately, this book wrests the discussion of celibacy and sexual restraint away from social and religious conservatism, resituating celibacy within a history of political protest and artistic experimentation. Celibacies offers an entirely new perspective on this little-understood sexual identity and initiates a profound reconsideration of the nature and constitution of sexuality.

Author : Amy Sutherland
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2009-04-14
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9780812978087

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What Shamu Taught Me About Life, Love, and Marriage by Amy Sutherland Pdf

While observing trainers of exotic animals, journalist Amy Sutherland had an epiphany: What if she used their techniques with the human animals in her own life–specifically her dear husband, Scott? As Sutherland put training principles into action, she noticed that not only did her twelve-year-old marriage improve, but she herself became more optimistic and less judgmental. What started as a goofy experiment had such good results that Sutherland began using the training techniques with all the people in her life, including her mother, her friends, her students, even the clerk at the post office. Full of fun facts, fascinating insights, hilarious anecdotes, and practical tips, What Shamu Taught Me About Life, Love, and Marriage reveals the biggest lesson Sutherland learned: The only animal you can truly change is yourself.

Author : Adrienne Brodeur
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781328519030

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Wild Game by Adrienne Brodeur Pdf

On a hot July night on Cape Cod, at the age of 14, Brodeur became a confidante to her mother's affair with her husband's closest friend. Malabar came to rely on her daughter to help, but when the affair had calamitous consequences for everyone involved, Brodeau was driven into a precarious marriage of her own, and then into a deep depression. In her memoir she examines how the people close to us can break our hearts simply because they have access to them, and the lies we tell in order to justify the choices we make. -- adapted from jacket

Author : Gina Misiroglu
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1200 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2015-03-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317477297

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American Countercultures: An Encyclopedia of Nonconformists, Alternative Lifestyles, and Radical Ideas in U.S. History by Gina Misiroglu Pdf

Counterculture, while commonly used to describe youth-oriented movements during the 1960s, refers to any attempt to challenge or change conventional values and practices or the dominant lifestyles of the day. This fascinating three-volume set explores these movements in America from colonial times to the present in colorful detail. "American Countercultures" is the first reference work to examine the impact of countercultural movements on American social history. It highlights the writings, recordings, and visual works produced by these movements to educate, inspire, and incite action in all eras of the nation's history. A-Z entries provide a wealth of information on personalities, places, events, concepts, beliefs, groups, and practices. The set includes numerous illustrations, a topic finder, primary source documents, a bibliography and a filmography, and an index.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1999-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780804764094

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Regions of Identity by Anonim Pdf

Examining turn-of-the-century American women's fiction, the author argues that this writing played a crucial role in the production of a national fantasy of a unified American identity in the face of the racial, regional, ethnic, and sexual divisions of the period. Contributing to New Americanist perspectives of nation formation, the book shows that these writers are central to American literary discourses for reconfiguring the relationship among constituent regions in order to reconfigure the nation itself. Analyzing fiction by Sarah Orne Jewett, Florence Converse, Pauline Hopkins, María Amparo Ruiz de Burton, Kate Chopin, and Sui Sin Far, the book foregrounds the ways each writer's own location on the grid of American identities shapes her attempt to forge an inclusive narrative of America. This disparate group of writers--Northerners, Southerners, Californios, African Americans, Chinese Americans, Anglo Americans, heterosexuals, and lesbians--reflects the widespread nature of concerns over national identity and the importance of regions to representations of that identity. The author argues that femininity as a politicized cultural construct is basic to each of these author's attempts to recast America, because each understands the link between true womanhood and the longstanding equation of New England with the nation. But such attempts to mobilize the naturalized feminine to stabilize a fractured and exclusionary American identity inevitably reveal the fissures that undermine the universality of both categories. The book thus participates in several larger and ongoing conversations within American studies and feminist literary and genre criticism: the reassessment of regional and minor fiction in relation to national identity, the critique of the politics of genre construction, the uses and limits of identity politics, and the connections among all these issues.

Author : Benjamin Kahan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 1037 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108911337

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The Cambridge History of Queer American Literature by Benjamin Kahan Pdf

Moby-Dick's Ishmael and Queequeg share a bed, Janie in Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God imagines her tongue in another woman's mouth. And yet for too long there has not been a volume that provides an account of the breadth and depth of queer American literature. This landmark volume provides the first expansive history of this literature from its inception to the present day, offering a narrative of how American literary studies and sexuality studies became deeply entwined and what they can teach each other. It examines how American literature produces and is in turn woven out of sexualities, gender pluralities, trans-ness, erotic subjectivities, and alternative ways of inhabiting bodily morphology. In so doing, the volume aims to do nothing less than revise the ways in which we understand the whole of American literature. It will be an indispensable resource for scholars, graduate students, and undergraduates.

Author : Hazel Rowley
Publisher : Melbourne Univ. Publishing
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780522851793

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Franklin and Eleanor by Hazel Rowley Pdf

In this groundbreaking new account of their marriage, Rowley describes the remarkable courage and lack of convention--private and public--that kept Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt together.

Author : Naima Simone
Publisher : Harlequin
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2020-11-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781488063251

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Vows in Name Only by Naima Simone Pdf

An arranged marriage neither wants, but both soon crave… from USA TODAY bestselling author Naima Simone! Manipulated into a marriage of inconvenience, until one sizzling kiss changes everything… Devon Cole must marry Cain Farrell or lose everything. But she can never let her billionaire husband-to-be know why she agreed to her father’s dangerous machinations. Just as she’ll never know her father is blackmailing Cain to tie the knot, too. What kind of marriage can Devon even expect from a man with such cold eyes…and such hot kisses? She’s about to find out. From Harlequin Desire: Luxury, scandal, desire—welcome to the lives of the American elite. Billionaires of Boston

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1871
Category : American literature
ISBN : HARVARD:32044052770096

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The American Catalogue of Books: 1866-1871 ... with Supplement containing names of learned societies and ... their publications, 1866-1871 by Anonim Pdf