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The Colonel's Wife

Rosa Liksom
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Author : Rosa Liksom
Publisher : Graywolf Press
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781644451076

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A bold, dark-hued novel by a writer who “conjures beauty from the ugliest of things” (The Wall Street Journal) In the final twilit moments of her life, an elderly woman looks back on her years in the thrall of fascism and Nazism. Both her authoritarian tendencies and her ecstatic engagement with the natural world are vividly and terrifyingly evoked in The Colonel’s Wife, an astonishing and brave novel that resonates painfully with our own strained political moment. At once complex and hideous, sexually liberated and sympathetic to the darkest of political movements, the narrator describes her childhood as the daughter of a member of the right-wing Finnish Whites before World War II, and the way she became involved with and eventually married the Colonel, who was thirty years her senior. During the war, he came and went as they fraternized with the Nazi elite and retreated together into the deepest northern wilds. As both the marriage and the war turn increasingly dark and destructive, Rosa Liksom renders a complex and unsavory character in a prose style that is striking in its paradoxical beauty. Based on a true story, The Colonel’s Wife is both a brilliant portrayal of an individual psychology and a stark warning about the perils of nationalism.

Judy O'Grady and the Colonel's Lady

Noel T. St. John Williams
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Author : Noel T. St. John Williams
Publisher : Brassey's
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : UVA:X001452246

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Judy O'Grady and the Colonel's Lady by Noel T. St. John Williams Pdf

A history of the lives of women connected to the military--an overlooked segment of British Army life. This fresh perspective belongs in women's studies. Good reading. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

The Aviator's Wife

Melanie Benjamin
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Author : Melanie Benjamin
Publisher : Bantam
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780345528674

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A story inspired by the marriage between Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh traces the romance between a handsome young aviator and a shy ambassador's daughter whose relationship is marked by wild international acclaim, history-making flights and the world-shocking abduction of their child. 30,000 first printing.

The Colonel's Wife

Andre Dubus
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Author : Andre Dubus
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2015-05-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101970270

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A Vintage Shorts “Short Story Month” Selection The colonel had served in two wars with the Marines, without being injured. Then, at home, he breaks both legs falling off a horse, and learns that his knees will never fully recover. Together with his wife, he will have to relearn everything, all over again. “The Colonel’s Wife” is the moving story of a man and his wife, the woman for whom, when he met her for the first time, he felt “that he was looking at the sun without burning his eyes.” A story of peace after war and the continued drama of real life. From Andre Dubus’s masterful and compassionate collection Dancing After Hours, a New York Times Notable Book. An eBook short.

The Colonel

Mahmoud Dowlatabadi
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Author : Mahmoud Dowlatabadi
Publisher : Haus Publishing
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2015-08-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781907822896

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A pitch black, rainy night in a small Iranian town. Inside his house the Colonel is immersed in thought. Memories are storming in. Memories of his wife. Memories of the great patriots of the past, all of them assassinated or executed. Memories of his children, who had joined the different factions of the 1979 revolution. There is a knock on the door. Two young policemen have come to summon the Colonel to collect the tortured body of his youngest daughter and bury her before sunrise. The Islamic Revolution, like every other revolution in history, is devouring its own children. And whose fault is that? This shocking diatribe against the failures of the Iranian left over the last fifty years does not leave one taboo unbroken.

The Magician's Wife

Brian Moore
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Author : Brian Moore
Publisher : Vintage Canada
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Canadian fiction
ISBN : 0676971407

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In this mesmerising novel that blends political intrigue and moral inquiry with an unforgettable portrait of a lady, Brian Moore takes us into the deserts of Algeria and the courts of Napoleon III. Based on a small but remarkable moment in history, this is the rich and moving story of an illusionist's wife who finds herself unexpectedly entangled in the politics of the Imperial and Arab worlds.

Compartment No. 6

Rosa Liksom
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Author : Rosa Liksom
Publisher : Graywolf Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2016-08-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781555979430

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Compartment No. 6 by Rosa Liksom Pdf

In the waning years of the Soviet Union, a sad young Finnish woman boards a train in Moscow. Bound for Mongolia, she's trying to put as much space as possible between her and a broken relationship. Wanting to be alone, she chooses an empty compartment--No. 6.--but her solitude is soon shattered by the arrival of a fellow passenger: Vadim Nikolayevich Ivanov, a grizzled, opinionated, foul-mouthed former soldier. Vadim fills the compartment with his long and colorful stories, recounting in lurid detail his sexual conquests and violent fights. There is a hint of menace in the air, but initially the woman is not so much scared of or shocked by him as she is repulsed. She stands up to him, throwing a boot at his head. But though Vadim may be crude, he isn't cruel, and he shares with her the sausage and black bread and tea he's brought for the journey, coaxing the girl out of her silent gloom. As their train cuts slowly across thousands of miles of a wintry Russia, where "everything is in motion, snow, water, air, trees, clouds, wind, cities, villages, people and thoughts," a grudging kind of companionship grows between the two inhabitants of compartment No. 6. When they finally arrive in Ulan Bator, a series of starlit and sinister encounters bring Rosa Liksom's incantatory Compartment No. 6 to its powerful conclusion.

No One Writes to the Colonel

Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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Author : Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2005-02-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0060751576

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Written with compassionate realism and wit, the stories in this mesmerizing collection depict the disparities of town and village life in South America, of the frightfully poor and outrageously rich, of memories and illusions, and of lost opportunities and present joys.

The Colonel

Alanna Nash
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Author : Alanna Nash
Publisher : Aurum Press
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2014-06-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781781312018

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Almost the only indisputable fact about Colonel Tom Parker is that he was the manager of the greatest performer in popular music: Elvis Presley. His real name wasn’t Tom Parker †“ indeed, he wasn’t an American at all, but a Dutch immigrant called Andreas van Kujik. And he certainly wasn’t a proper military colonel: he purchased his title from a man in Louisiana. But while the Colonel has long been acknowledged as something of a charlatan, this book is the first to reveal the extraordinary extent of the secrets he concealed, and the consequences for the career, and ultimately the life, of the star he managed. As Alanna Nash’ prodigious research has discovered, the Colonel left Holland most probably because, at the age of twenty, he bludgeoned a woman to death. Entering the US illegally, he then enlisted in the army as ‘Tom Parker’. But, with supreme irony for someone later styling himself as Colonel, Parker’s military career ended in desertion, and discharge after a psychiatrist had certified him as a psychopath. He then became a fairground barker, working sideshows with a zeal for small-scale huckstering and the casual scam that never left him. And by the height of Elvis’s success, Parker had become a pathological gambler who, at the same time as he was taking, amazingly, a full 50% of Presley’s earnings, frittered away all his wealth in the casinos of Las Vegas. As Nash shows, therefore, the often baffling trajectory of Elvis Presley’s career makes perfect sense once the secret imperatives of the Colonel’s life are known. Parker never booked Presley for a tour of Europe because of the dark secret that ensured he himself could never return there. Even at his most famous, Elvis was still being booked to play out-of-the-way towns in North Carolina †“ because the former fairground barker (who shamelessly negotiated as such even with top record company and film executives) knew them from his days on the circus circuit. And Elvis was trapped playing years of arduous seasons in Las Vegas †“ two shows nightly, seven days a week, until boredom and despair brought on the excessive drug use that killed him †“ because for Parker he was “an open chit†? whose huge earnings prevented his manager’s losses at the gambling tables being called in. Alanna Nash knew Parker towards the end of his life, and has now uncovered the whole story, improbable, shocking, and never less than compelling, of how this larger-than-life man made, and then unmade, popular music’s first and greatest superstar.

Dancing After Hours

Andre Dubus
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Author : Andre Dubus
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2011-07-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307801913

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A New York Times Notable Book of the Year From a genuine hero of the American short story comes a luminous collection that reveals the seams of hurt, courage, and tenderness that run through the bedrock of contemporary American life. In these fourteen stories, Dubus depicts ordinary men and women confronting injury and loneliness, the lack of love and the terror of actually having it. Out of his characters' struggles and small failures--and their unexpected moments of redemption--Dubus creates fiction that bears comparison to the short story's greatest creators--Chekhov, Raymond Carver, Flannery O'Connor.

The Colonel's Lady on the Western Frontier

Alice Kirk Grierson
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Author : Alice Kirk Grierson
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1989-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0803279299

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The Colonel's Lady on the Western Frontier by Alice Kirk Grierson Pdf

Collects the letters of the wife of Civil War major general Benjamin H. Grierson, describing daily life and hardships at frontier posts like Fort Riley, Fort Concho, Fort Davis, and Fort Grant

The Lifeline

Margaret Mayhew
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Author : Margaret Mayhew
Publisher : Severn House Publishers Ltd
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2020-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781448304141

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The Lifeline by Margaret Mayhew Pdf

When a chilling discovery is made in one of the manor’s greenhouses, the Frog End villagers rely on the Colonel to reluctantly solve another baffling mystery. Following the untimely death of her mother, Ursula Swynford, Ruth Harvey has taken over the manor in Frog End, where she runs a successful plant-selling business and provides gardening therapy for an increasing number of her husband Dr Tom Harvey’s troubled patients: embittered Lawrence Deacon, lonely Joyce Reed, widowed Tanya Carberry and wheelchair-bound Johnny Turner, the young victim of a horrific motorbike crash. Gardening at the manor quickly becomes a much-needed lifeline for the group, and all seems to be going well – until the major stumbles across a body among the tomato plants in one of the greenhouses. Once again, the manor is the scene of a brutal murder – and, once again, the Colonel reluctantly finds himself drawn into solving the mystery.

The Colonel's Wife

J Robert Kennedy
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Author : J Robert Kennedy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2023-02-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1998005399

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"Dylan Kane leaves James Bond in his dust!" What would you do if solving a murder meant the certain death of an innocent? FROM AWARD-WINNING USA TODAY & MILLION-COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR J. ROBERT KENNEDY WHILE WAR RAGED IN NAZI GERMANY, ONE MAN WAS DETERMINED TO KEEP THE PEACE. Berlin. 1941. Nazi Germany controls most of Europe, and the war has barely touched the German capital. Life goes on, with most civilians optimistic about the future. Bakers baked. Fishermen fished. Cleaners cleaned. And murderers murdered. When a body is found after an air raid, it is treated as routine until an anonymous tip has the case assigned to Kriminalinspektor Wolfgang Vogel, who discovers the death was anything but a casualty of war. It was murder. A murder beyond the routine, with a motive so shocking, it will leave Vogel questioning his own morality, and whether his oath to uphold the law is absolute, no matter what the cost. The Colonel's Wife, the first in a new series from award-winning USA Today and million-copy bestselling author J. Robert Kennedy, will have you lost in the mysteriousness of World War Two Nazi Germany, where life went on much as it did in cosmopolitan America, where crime continued unabated, and where police struggled as they always have to maintain the peace. Get your copy of The Colonel's Wife today, then decide what you would have done had you been thrust into the same situation as Kriminalinspektor Wolfgang Vogel...

The General's Daughter

Nelson DeMille
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Author : Nelson DeMille
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2001-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780759522640

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The gripping murder mystery about an upstanding military officer - the base commander's daughter - who's been leading an unsavory double life. When a professional military woman with a pristine reputation is found raped and murdered, a preliminary search turns up certain paraphernalia, and sex toys that point to a scandal of major proportions, The chief investigator is reluctant to take the case when he learns that his partner will be a woman with whom he had a tempestuous affair and an unpleasant parting. But duty calls and intrigue begins when they learn that several top-level people may have been involved with the "golden girl" - and many have wanted her dead. "DeMille is a master at keeping the reader hanging on to see what happens next." - Associated Press

One Hundred Years of Solitude

Gabriel García Márquez
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Author : Gabriel García Márquez
Publisher : Blackstone Publishing
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2022-10-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9798200952090

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One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez Pdf

One of the twentieth century’s enduring works, One Hundred Years of Solitude is a widely beloved and acclaimed novel known throughout the world and the ultimate achievement in a Nobel Prize–winning career. The novel tells the story of the rise and fall of the mythical town of Macondo through the history of the Buendía family. Rich and brilliant, it is a chronicle of life, death, and the tragicomedy of humankind. In the beautiful, ridiculous, and tawdry story of the Buendía family, one sees all of humanity, just as in the history, myths, growth, and decay of Macondo, one sees all of Latin America. Love and lust, war and revolution, riches and poverty, youth and senility, the variety of life, the endlessness of death, the search for peace and truth—these universal themes dominate the novel. Alternately reverential and comical, One Hundred Years of Solitude weaves the political, personal, and spiritual to bring a new consciousness to storytelling. Translated into dozens of languages, this stunning work is no less than an account of the history of the human race.