Kitty Virgil

Author : Paul Bailey
Publisher : ABRAMS
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2000-04-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781468305555

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Kitty & Virgil by Paul Bailey Pdf

A “luminous” story of love and sorrow spanning from London to Romania, from a prize-winning novelist (Publishers Weekly, starred review). Kitty Crozier first laid eyes on Virgil Florescu, a dissident poet who swam across the Danube to escape Ceausescu’s Romania, in the hospital. She woke up after surgery to find a stranger sitting beside her bed gazing at her. He just smiled, then stood and left the room. She next sees him in London’s Green Park picking up litter from the grass with a long spike. So begins the most important, most demanding, most exhilarating relationship of Kitty’s life. As their love for each other deepens, their previous lives, and very different families, reveal themselves to be oddly connected, in this novel from a recipient of literary honors including a Somerset Maugham Award, an E. M. Forster Award, and a George Orwell Prize, as well as two Man Booker Prize nominations. “At once a wistful and tender love story and a harrowing account of how people from two utterly different cultures and ways of looking at the world can find, then lose, each other . . . Virgil is a superb creation.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)

Author : Dorie LaRue
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2001-11
Category : Funeral homes
ISBN : 0967714966

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Resurrecting Virgil by Dorie LaRue Pdf

Winner of the Omaha Prize for Novel for the year 2000, selected by Mark Spencer. A modern comic-romance with a generous dollop of Southern Gothic, Resurrecting Virgil will keep readers turning the pages long into the night.

Author : Pia Brînzeu
Publisher : University Press of America
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0761817476

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Corridors of Mirrors by Pia Brînzeu Pdf

This contribution to imagology, the science which deals with images and stereotypes that people have of a nation, examines the complicated game of mirroring that both the British and the Romanians play when trying to define themselves and others, drawing on national images as reflected in fiction. R

Author : Christopher Isherwood,Don Bachardy
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 529 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2014-05-13
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780374712112

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The Animals: Love Letters Between Christopher Isherwood and Don Bachardy by Christopher Isherwood,Don Bachardy Pdf

The love story between Christopher Isherwood and Don Bachardy—in their own words The English novelist and screenwriter Christopher Isherwood was already famous as the author of Goodbye to Berlin when he met Don Bachardy, a California teenager, on the beach in Santa Monica in 1952. Within a year, they began to live together as an openly gay couple, defying convention in the closeted world of Hollywood. Isherwood was forty-eight; Bachardy was eighteen. The Animals is the testimony in letters to their extraordinary partnership, which lasted until Isherwood's death in 1986—despite the thirty year age gap, affairs and jealousy (on both sides), the pressures of increasing celebrity, and the disdain of twentieth-century America for love between two men. The letters reveal the private world of the Animals: Isherwood was "Dobbin," a stubborn old workhorse; Bachardy was the rash, playful "Kitty." Isherwood had a gift for creating a safe and separate domestic milieu, necessary for a gay man in midtwentieth-century America. He drew Bachardy into his semi-secret realm, nourished Bachardy's talent as a painter, and launched him into the artistic career that was first to threaten and eventually to secure their life together. The letters also tell of public achievements—the critical acclaim for A Single Man, the commercial success of Cabaret—and the bohemian whirl of friendships in Los Angeles, London, and New York with such stars as Truman Capote, Julie Harris, David Hockney, Vanessa Redgrave, Gore Vidal, and Tennessee Williams. Bold, transgressive, and playful, The Animals articulates the devotion, in tenderness and in storms, between two uniquely original spirits.

Author : Yann Martel
Publisher : Random House
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2010-04-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780679603733

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Beatrice and Virgil by Yann Martel Pdf

BONUS: This edition contains a Beatrice and Virgil discussion guide. When Henry receives a letter from an elderly taxidermist, it poses a puzzle that he cannot resist. As he is pulled further into the world of this strange and calculating man, Henry becomes increasingly involved with the lives of a donkey and a howler monkey—named Beatrice and Virgil—and the epic journey they undertake together. With all the spirit and originality that made Life of Pi so beloved, this brilliant new novel takes the reader on a haunting odyssey. On the way Martel asks profound questions about life and art, truth and deception, responsibility and complicity.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1192 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : STANFORD:36105073082260

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New Statesman by Anonim Pdf

Author : Hazel K. Bell
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 080208494X

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Indexers and Indexes in Fact and Fiction by Hazel K. Bell Pdf

Bell examines the history of the index and the depiction of the indexer (from diffident drudge to frankly insane) in both fact and fiction. A fascinating look at a previously little-considered element of the book.

Author : Cristina Pividori,David Owen
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2024-07-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781040043301

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(Re)Writing War in Contemporary Literature and Culture by Cristina Pividori,David Owen Pdf

(Re)Writing War in Contemporary Literature and Culture: Beyond Post-Memory is an exploration of war narratives through the lens of postmemory, offering a critical re-evaluation of how contemporary literature and cultural products reshape our understanding of past conflicts. This volume presents a rich tapestry of perspectives, drawing from an array of conflicts and incorporating insights from international experts across various disciplines, including contemporary literature, film studies, visual arts, and cultural studies. It critically builds upon and extends Marianne Hirsch's concept of postmemory, engaging with complex themes like the ethical dimensions of war writing, the authenticity of representations, and the creative power of art in reimagining traumatic events. This study not only challenges traditional boundaries in war literature and memory studies but also resonates with contemporary concerns about societal engagement with violent pasts, making it a significant addition to scholarly discourse and essential reading for those interested in the intersection of history, memory, and literature.

Author : Cynthia Thomason
Publisher : Harlequin
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Blue Ridge Mountains
ISBN : 9780373367252

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Firefly Nights by Cynthia Thomason Pdf

"Hoping for a fresh start, Kitty Galloway packs up her son and a few bare necessities and hits the road. Only now they're stranded in the Blue Ridge Mountains and at the mercy of small-town justice. But it's the temporary gig she gets caring for an injured pilot that makes her start believing in second chances. After completing his tour of duty, Campbell Oakes came home a hero to his North Carolina town. Until a freak accident forces the decorated soldier to accept the help of the down-on-her-luck single mother. Quirky and far too appealing, Kitty?along with her sassy kid?is making Campbell trust in the future again. Except it turns out that Kitty isn't the woman he thought she was..."--

Author : John Sandford
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2008-09-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781440632204

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Heat Lightning by John Sandford Pdf

Virgil Flowers hunts a killer responsible for a strange string of murders in this thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author John Sandford. On a hot, humid summer night in Minnesota, Virgil Flowers gets a call from Lucas Davenport. A body has been found near a veterans’ memorial in Stillwater with two shots to the head and a lemon in his mouth—exactly like the body they found two weeks ago. Working the murders, Flowers becomes convinced that someone is keeping a list—with many more names on it. And when he discovers what connects them all, he’s almost sorry. Because if it’s true, then this whole thing leads down a lot more trails than he thought it did—and every one of them is booby-trapped.

Author : Cristina M. Gámez-Fernández,Om Prakash Dwivedi
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2014-03-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781443857888

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Tabish Khair by Cristina M. Gámez-Fernández,Om Prakash Dwivedi Pdf

This volume approaches Tabish Khair’s writings (both his theoretical proposals and his novels) from numerous different perspectives. Contributors engage from varied critical stances with Khair’s academic writings in a fruitful dialogue, analyze his social, political and religious concerns, and elucidate his characteristics as a novelist and his literary powers. Furthermore, this volume is highly enriched by the presence of a hitherto unpublished play by Khair, entitled The One Percent Agency, which focuses on a tourism agency specializing in bringing “Bollywood”-style Indian weddings to foreign tourists. In the process, it becomes a satirical commentary on the packaging of international tourism as well as the ability of common Indians to adapt and thrive. It depicts the “metropolitan” India of the new millennium and inter-community relations in subtle and powerful ways.

Author : Paul Bailey
Publisher : Fourth Estate Classic House
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 1857025687

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Kitty and Virgil by Paul Bailey Pdf

A love story set in Romania and England by the author of the Booker shortlisted bestseller, 'Gabriel's Lament'. Paul Bailey's most ambitious novel yet. Kitty Crozier wakes up in a hospital ward and finds a stranger looking down at her. Thus begins the most important, most demanding, most exhilarating relationship of Kitty's life. Her lover's name is Virgil Florescu, a poet who has escaped from Ceausescu's Romania. As their liaison deepens, more is revealed of their previous lives and of their different families. Both Kitty and Virgil have unusual fathers: Kitty's is a phenomenally accomplished philanderer, while Virgil's has changed his political allegiances from left to right and back again in order to ensure his survival. The book is rich in characters and despite its tragic theme -- which is not revealed until late in the narrative -- is often fiendishly funny. For all its concern with public issues of morality, it is very much about family life -- or rather, that of two distinct families with interesting histories and secrets, not all of them unhappy.

Author : Merritt Moseley
Publisher : Dictionary of Literary Biograp
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105026157474

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British and Irish Novelists Since 1960 by Merritt Moseley Pdf

Essays on British and Irish novelists discusses the combination of desperation and avant-gardism, bestsellers, masterpieces, competing technologies, hyper fiction, the future of the novel, recent changes in British publishing, and the increase in writings by celebrity authors.

Author : Catherine McKinnon
Publisher : HarperCollins Australia
Page : 489 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2024-05-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781460711736

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To Sing of War by Catherine McKinnon Pdf

From the author of the Miles Franklin Award shortlisted Storyland, comes a rich, layered and thrilling novel of love, war and friendship, To Sing of War. 'Transcends the boundaries of historical fiction' Books+Publishing DECEMBER 1944 In New Guinea, a young Australian nurse, Lotte Wyld, chances upon her first love, Virgil Nicholson, a soldier in the Allies' hard-fought jungle campaign. At Los Alamos in the United States, idealistic physicists Miriam Carver and Fred Johnson join Robert Oppenheimer and a team of brilliant scientists in a collective dream to build a weapon that will stop all war, while Kitty Oppenheimer wrestles with restrictions on her freedom. And on the sacred island of Miyajima in Japan, Hiroko Narushima is doing her best to protect her family. Each of these people yearns to belong, yet each fiercely protects their independence. Secrets, misunderstandings and fears burden them; shame shapes them; hope and imagination lift them up. They are caught in a moment of history, both enthralled and appalled by actions they must undertake. A beautiful, rich and intricately woven novel, To Sing of War asks how one person can make a difference in a world that is wondrous, thrilling and endangered. It insists on our interconnectedness, hums with the energy of the world and is a blazingly powerful and deeply moving account of friendship, love and war.

Author : Chandler McGrew
Publisher : House of Stratus
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2015-07-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781941286470

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Night Terror by Chandler McGrew Pdf

Two boys vanish and the mother of one is convinced her son is still alive and that somewhere in her own past lies the key to his disappearance. She must confront the tortuous maze of her memory. As she and the local Sherriff both move closer to the truth in their own ways, they are aware someone knows exactly what happened–and who must die next.