The Dancers At The End Of Time

Author : Michael Moorcock
Publisher : Orion
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Science fiction
ISBN : 057510855X

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The Dancers at the End of Time by Michael Moorcock Pdf

'What follows, then, is the story of Jherek Carnelian, who did not know the meaning of morality, and Mrs Amelia Underwood, who knew everything about it.' In a decaying far, far future, where everything and anything is possible, the citizens of the End of Time while away their days in an exuberance of wild parties, outlandish competitions and emotionless affairs. At the world's end, all love is timeless and all age-old disputes irrelevant. However Jherek Carnelian, a bemused denizen of the End of Time, is in danger of taking reality too seriously, and grows tired of his pleasures. So when love mysteriously blooms between Mrs Amelia Underwood, transported unwillingly from the nineteenth century, and Carnelian, only one question matters. Is his love true, or is it just another attempt to stave off the boredom that ultimate power and the End of Time bring? Contains An Alien Heat, The Hollow Lands and The End of All Songs

Author : Michael Moorcock
Publisher : White Wolf Games Studio
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Fantasy fiction, English
ISBN : 1565041860

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The Dancers at the End of Time by Michael Moorcock Pdf

Introduces Captain Graf Ulrich von Bek, his relatives, and his family's quest: the protection of the Holy Grail.

Author : Padma Venkatraman
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2014-05-01
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780698158269

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A Time to Dance by Padma Venkatraman Pdf

Padma Venkatraman’s inspiring story of a young girl’s struggle to regain her passion and find a new peace is told lyrically through verse that captures the beauty and mystery of India and the ancient bharatanatyam dance form. This is a stunning novel about spiritual awakening, the power of art, and above all, the courage and resilience of the human spirit. Veda, a classical dance prodigy in India, lives and breathes dance—so when an accident leaves her a below-knee amputee, her dreams are shattered. For a girl who’s grown used to receiving applause for her dance prowess and flexibility, adjusting to a prosthetic leg is painful and humbling. But Veda refuses to let her disability rob her of her dreams, and she starts all over again, taking beginner classes with the youngest dancers. Then Veda meets Govinda, a young man who approaches dance as a spiritual pursuit. As their relationship deepens, Veda reconnects with the world around her, and begins to discover who she is and what dance truly means to her.

Author : Andrew Holleran
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2023-12-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780063299498

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Dancer from the Dance by Andrew Holleran Pdf

“An astonishingly beautiful book. The best gay novel written by anyone of our generation.”—Harper’s “Through the sweat and haze of longing come piercing insights – about the closeness of gay male friendship, about the vanity and imperfections of men. The more one reads the novel, we realise that what Holleran has given us is our very own queer (queerer?) Great Gatsby: its decadence, its fear, its violence, its ecstasy, its transience.”—The Guardian Andrew Holleran’s landmark novel of a young man's search for love and companionship in New York’s emerging gay world in the 1970s, with a new introduction by Garth Greenwell. Young, astonishingly beautiful, and tired of living a lie, Anthony Malone trades life as a seemingly straight small-town lawyer for the decadence of New York’s emerging gay scene—an odyssey that takes him from Manhattan’s Everard baths and after hour discos, to lavish orgies on Fire Island and parks after dark. Rescuing Malone from a possessive lover and shepherding him through his immersion in this life of fierce joys and cheap truths is the flamboyant Sutherland, a high-camp quintessential queen. But for Malone, the endless city nights and Fire Island days are close to burning out, and despite Sutherland’s abundant attentiveness and glittering world-weary wisdom, Malone soon realizes what he is truly looking for may not be found in these beautiful places, where life is crowded, and people are forever outrunning their own desires and death.

Author : Lloyd Jones
Publisher : Vintage Canada
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2010-10-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307369680

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Here at the End of the World We Learn to Dance by Lloyd Jones Pdf

Available in Canada for the first time from the author of Mister Pip The two intertwined love stories in this brilliant novel take the reader from New Zealand to Buenos Aires to Sydney, from the final days of WWI, to the present moment, and back again. Drawing on the intimate rhythms of the tango to find its shape, Jones has written a thrilling and sensuous essay on how we can fall in love, while brilliantly evoking the spare and windswept landscapes of New Zealand’s South Island and the stately sensuous contours of one of the world’s most famous dances.

Author : Alison Acheson
Publisher : Brindle and Glass
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2019-10-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781927366875

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Dance Me to the End by Alison Acheson Pdf

A profoundly honest and intensely personal story of a woman who cares for her husband after the devastating terminal diagnosis of ALS. Marty, age 57, was given a preliminary diagnosis of ALS by his family doctor. Seven weeks later, the diagnosis was confirmed by a neurologist. Ten months and ten days later, Marty passed away. From day one, Alison, Marty’s spouse of over twenty-five years, kept a journal as a way to navigate the overwhelming state of her mind and soul. Soon the rawness of her words harmonized to tell the story of Marty’s diagnosis, illness, and decline. Her journal became a chronicle of caregiving as well as an emotional exploration of the tensions between the intuitive and the pragmatic, the logical and illogical, and the all-consuming demands of being both spouse and nurse. Divided into short pieces, some of which reads as free verse, Alison’s words are at times profoundly intense and painfully private. The composition of the intricate notes of a life in its final movements includes another stanza of the journal that became Dance Me to the End: the guiding of children grappling with the imminent loss of a parent, and the shifting roles of family, friends, and community—all of which add their own complex rhythms. Dance Me to the End is an evocative memoir about the emotional impact of witnessing a loved one suffer from a neurological, degenerative, and terminal disease. This is a detailed account of grief, shock and pain coexisting with the levity, laughter and love shared with her husband and sons in those final months of Marty's life.

Author : Karen Kingsbury
Publisher : Thomas Nelson Inc
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781418578718

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A Time to Dance by Karen Kingsbury Pdf

John and Abby Reynolds were the perfect couple, sharing a love born of childhood friendship and deep family ties. They are envied by their friends, cherished by their children, admired by their peers. But John and Abby are about to lose it all. On the verge of having an affair, John is no more the man Abby married than she is the long-ago girl of his dreams. They are strangers whose days of dancing seem gone forever. They gather their three children to announce their plans, but before they can speak, their daughter makes an announcement of her own: she's getting married in the summer. Abby and John determine not to ruin their daughter's season of happiness, but as the wedding nears they are haunted by questions. Is the decision they've made irreversible? Are there times when marriage--even the marriage between two people of faith--is truly beyond repair? And is it possible, alone in the moonlight on an old wooden pier, to once more find ... a time to dance?

Author : Michael Moorcock
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Cornelius, Jerry (Fictitious character)
ISBN : UCAL:B4948956

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Elric at the End of Time by Michael Moorcock Pdf

Author : Margery Allingham
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2022-08-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547191018

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Dancers in Mourning by Margery Allingham Pdf

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Dancers in Mourning" by Margery Allingham. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Author : Leonard Cohen
Publisher : Rizzoli Publications
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2006-08-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781932183931

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Dance Me to the End of Love by Leonard Cohen Pdf

10 years ago, Welcome Books published the star of its Art & Poetry Series, Dance Me to the End of Love, a deliriously romantic song by Leonard Cohen that was brilliantly visualized through the sensual paintings of Henri Matisse. Now for its 10-year anniversary, Welcome is thrilled to present the entirely re-imagined and redesigned Dance Me to the End of Love. With the art of Matisse and the words of Cohen still at the heart of the book, the new look and feel of this Art & Poetry book is overwhelmingly beautiful. Cohen's song is a lyrical tribute to the miracle of love, the grace it bestows on us and its healing, restorative power. Originally recorded on his Various Positions album, and featured in Cohen's anthology, Stranger Music, this poetic song is gloriously married to the art works by Henri Matisse, perhaps the greatest artist of the twentieth century. "I had this dance within me for a long time," Matisse once said in describing one of his murals. Dance Me to the End of Love is the perfect book for art lovers, song lovers, and all other lovers as well.

Author : John Waller
Publisher : Icon Books Company
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Chorea, Epidemic
ISBN : IND:30000110583907

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A Time to Dance, a Time to Die by John Waller Pdf

"In July 1518 a terrifying and mysterious plague struck the medieval city of Strasbourg. Hundreds of men and women danced wildly, day after day, in the punishing summer heat. Their feet blistered and bled, and their limbs ached with fatigue, but they simply could not stop. Throughout August and early September more and more were seized by the same terrible compulsion." "By the time the epidemic subsided, heat and exhaustion had claimed an untold number of lives, leaving thousands bewildered and bereaved, and an enduring enigma for future generations." "This book explains why Strasbourg's dancing plague took place. In doing so, it leads us into a largely vanished world, evoking the sights, sounds, aromas, diseases and hardships, the fervent supernaturalism and the desperate hedonism of the late-medieval world." "At the same time, it offers insights into how people behave when driven beyond the limits of endurance. Not only a historical detective story, A Time to Dance, A Time to Die is also an exploration of the strangest capabilities of the human mind and the extremes to which fear and irrationality can lead us."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Janet McNaughton
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2017-06-27
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781443453028

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To Dance At The Palais Royale by Janet McNaughton Pdf

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Author : Haruki Murakami
Publisher : Random House
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2011-10-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781448103676

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Dance Dance Dance by Haruki Murakami Pdf

An assault on the senses, part murder mystery, part metaphysical speculation; a fable for our times as catchy as a rock song blasting from the window of a sports car. High-class call girls billed to Mastercard. A psychic 13-year-old dropout with a passion for Talking Heads. A hunky matinee idol doomed to play dentists and teachers. A one-armed beach-combing poet, an uptight hotel clerk and one very bemused narrator caught in the web of advanced capitalist mayhem. Combine this offbeat cast of characters with Murakami's idiosyncratic prose and out comes Dance Dance Dance. 'If Raymond Chandler had lived long enough to see Blade Runner, he might have written something like Dance Dance Dance' Observer

Author : Lars von Trier
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Motion picture plays
ISBN : UVA:X006175716

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Dancer in the Dark by Lars von Trier Pdf

Author : Michael Moorcock
Publisher : Gollancz
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2014-09-11
Category : Elric of Melniboné (Fictitious character)
ISBN : 0575092610

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Tales from the End of Time by Michael Moorcock Pdf

Return to the End of Time - the fabulous decadent last party of the human race - and the bizarre and jaded individuals who dwell there. From Lord Shark to The Everlasting Concubine, the denizens of the ageing Earth dance to the dying of the sun. Visited by various travellers - including Elric of Melniboné - the dancers are involved in a series of complicated plots and hilarious misunderstandings, and a final fate of the Eternal Champion is revealed. Contains The Transformation of Miss Mavis Ming, Legends from the Ends of Time and Elric at the End of Time.