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Beach Read

Emily Henry

Author : Emily Henry
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2020-05-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781984806741

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FROM THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF PEOPLE WE MEET ON VACATION AND BOOK LOVERS! A romance writer who no longer believes in love and a literary writer stuck in a rut engage in a summer-long challenge that may just upend everything they believe about happily ever afters. Augustus Everett is an acclaimed author of literary fiction. January Andrews writes bestselling romance. When she pens a happily ever after, he kills off his entire cast. They’re polar opposites. In fact, the only thing they have in common is that for the next three months, they're living in neighboring beach houses, broke, and bogged down with writer's block. Until, one hazy evening, one thing leads to another and they strike a deal designed to force them out of their creative ruts: Augustus will spend the summer writing something happy, and January will pen the next Great American Novel. She’ll take him on field trips worthy of any rom-com montage, and he’ll take her to interview surviving members of a backwoods death cult (obviously). Everyone will finish a book and no one will fall in love. Really.

The Literary Beach

Carsten Meiner,Katrine Helene Andersen

Author : Carsten Meiner,Katrine Helene Andersen
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781040014134

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The Literary Beach by Carsten Meiner,Katrine Helene Andersen Pdf

As a geo-historical place, the beach integrates a variety of characteristics and functions so multiple that they tend to contradict each other. The beach is both a place of work and trade but also of leisure; it is both a place of therapy and health but also of migration, war, and death; it is a place of mass tourism and boredom but also the place of experiencing the Other; it is a public place but also an uncivilized and desolate place. This book studies the literary representation of the beach from ancient Greek literature up until today, drawing on English, French, Italian, American, and Spanish literatures from various periods and genres and presenting multiple ways of comparing and understanding literary beaches as a ubiquitous literary phenomenon. It demonstrates how the literary beach as a both geo-historical place and as an aesthetic literary commonplace has been a constant and privileged resource for the analysis of more general existential, sociological, and moral problems. This is the case when for instance the Tahitian beach becomes the place of the "already modern" in Stevenson's tales, or when the Italian beach becomes a question of modern feminism in Ferrante. In this sense, literature expands the local or national beach by articulating its transnational complexities.

On Chesil Beach

Ian McEwan

Author : Ian McEwan
Publisher : Vintage Canada
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2009-02-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307371218

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NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE The #1 bestselling author of Saturday and Atonement brilliantly illuminates the collision of sexual longing, deep-seated fears and romantic fantasy in his unforgettable, emotionally engaging novel. The year is 1962. Florence, the daughter of a successful businessman and an aloof Oxford academic, is a talented violinist. She dreams of a career on the concert stage and of the perfect life she will create with Edward, the earnest young history student she met by chance and who unexpectedly wooed her and won her heart. Edward grew up in the country on the outskirts of Oxford where his father, the headmaster of the local school, struggled to keep the household together and his mother, brain-damaged from an accident, drifted in a world of her own. Edward’s native intelligence, coupled with a longing to experience the excitement and intellectual fervour of the city, had taken him to University College in London. Falling in love with the accomplished, shy and sensitive Florence—and having his affections returned with equal intensity—has utterly changed his life. Their marriage, they believe, will bring them happiness, the confidence and the freedom to fulfill their true destinies. The glowing promise of the future, however, cannot totally mask their worries about the wedding night. Edward, who has had little experience with women, frets about his sexual prowess. Florence’s anxieties run deeper: she is overcome by conflicting emotions and a fear of the moment she will surrender herself. From the precise and intimate depiction of two young lovers eager to rise above the hurts and confusion of the past, to the touching story of how their unexpressed misunderstandings and fears shape the rest of their lives, On Chesil Beach is an extraordinary novel that brilliantly, movingly shows us how the entire course of a life can be changed—by a gesture not made or a word not spoken.

The Beach in Anglophone Literatures and Cultures

Ursula Kluwick,Virginia Richter

Author : Ursula Kluwick,Virginia Richter
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317040545

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The Beach in Anglophone Literatures and Cultures by Ursula Kluwick,Virginia Richter Pdf

From early colonial encounters to the ecological disasters of the twenty-first century, the performativity of contact has been a crucial element in the political significance of the beach. Conceptualising the beach as a creative trope and as a socio-cultural site, as well as an aesthetically productive topography, this collection examines its multiplicity of meanings and functions as a natural environment engendering both desire and fear in the human imagination from the Victorian period to the present. The contributors examine literature, film, and art, in addition to moments of encounter and environmental crisis, to highlight the beach as a social space inspiring particular codes of behaviour and specific discourses, as a geographical frontier between land and water, as an historical site of contact and conflict, and as a vacationscape promising regeneration and withdrawal from everyday life. The diversity of the beach is reflected in the geographical range, with essays on locales and texts from Britain, Ireland, the Caribbean, South Africa, the United States, Polynesia, and New Zealand. Focusing on the changed function of the beach as a result of processes of industrialisation and the rise of a modern leisure and health culture, this interdisciplinary volume theorises the beach as a demarcater of the precarious boundary between land and the sea, as well as between nature and culture.

Monkey Beach

Eden Robinson

Author : Eden Robinson
Publisher : Vintage Canada
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2011-10-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307363930

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Monkey Beach by Eden Robinson Pdf

“Monkey Beach creates a vivid contemporary landscape that draws the reader deep into a traditional world, a hidden universe of premonition, pain and power.” --Thomas King Tragedy strikes a Native community when the Hill family’s handsome seventeen-year-old son, Jimmy, mysteriously vanishes at sea. Left behind to cope during the search-and-rescue effort is his sister, Lisamarie, a wayward teenager with a dark secret. She sets off alone in search of Jimmy through the Douglas Channel and heads for Monkey Beach—a shore famed for its sasquatch sightings. Infused by turns with darkness and humour, Monkey Beach is a spellbinding voyage into the long, cool shadows of B.C.’s Coast Mountains, blending teen culture, Haisla lore, nature spirits and human tenderness into a multi-layered story of loss and redemption.

The Beach

Alex Garland

Author : Alex Garland
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2007-07-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780141941448

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The Beach by Alex Garland Pdf

A 20th anniversary edition of this million copy bestseller, with a new introduction by John Niven: a classic story of paradise found - and lost. Richard lands in East Asia in search of an earthly utopia. In Thailand, he is given a map promising an unknown island, a secluded beach - and a new way of life. What Richard finds when he gets there is breathtaking: more extraordinary, more frightening than his wildest dreams. But how long can paradise survive here on Earth? And what lengths will Richard go to in order to save it?

Mrs. Everything

Jennifer Weiner

Author : Jennifer Weiner
Publisher : Washington Square Press
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2020-04-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781501133497

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Mrs. Everything by Jennifer Weiner Pdf

In this instant New York Times bestseller and “multigenerational narrative that’s nothing short of brilliant” (People), two sisters’ lives from the 1950s to the present are explored as they struggle to find their places—and be true to themselves—in a rapidly evolving world from #1 New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Weiner. Jo and Bethie Kaufman were born into a world full of promise. Growing up in 1950s Detroit, they live in a perfect “Dick and Jane” house, where their roles in the family are clearly defined. Jo is the tomboy, the bookish rebel with a passion to make the world more fair; Bethie is the pretty, feminine good girl, a would-be star who enjoys the power her beauty confers and dreams of a traditional life. But the truth ends up looking different from what the girls imagined. Jo and Bethie survive traumas and tragedies. As their lives unfold against the background of free love and Vietnam, Woodstock and women’s lib, Bethie becomes an adventure-loving wild child who dives headlong into the counterculture and is up for anything (except settling down). Meanwhile, Jo becomes a proper young mother in Connecticut, a witness to the changing world instead of a participant. Neither woman inhabits the world she dreams of, nor has a life that feels authentic or brings her joy. Is it too late for the women to finally stake a claim on happily ever after? In “her most sprawling and intensely personal novel to date” (Entertainment Weekly), Jennifer Weiner tells a “simply unputdownable” (Good Housekeeping) story of two sisters who, with their different dreams and different paths, offer answers to the question: How should a woman be in the world?

Cherry Beach

Laura McPhee-Browne

Author : Laura McPhee-Browne
Publisher : Text Publishing
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2020-02-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781925923117

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Cherry Beach by Laura McPhee-Browne Pdf

A hypnotic and absorbing debut novel from an extraordinary new talent—a must-read for fans of Sally Rooney, Jennifer Down, Siri Hustvedt and André Aciman (Call Me By Your Name)

Two Gentlemen on the Beach

Michael Köhlmeier

Author : Michael Köhlmeier
Publisher : Haus Publishing
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2016-11-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781910376478

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Two Gentlemen on the Beach by Michael Köhlmeier Pdf

On the face of it, Winston Churchill and Charlie Chaplin—two icons of the twentieth century—couldn’t be more different. One is the grand statesman whose resolve led a nation in the struggle against Nazi Germany, the other the world-famous actor and comedian behind The Great Dictator, whose owns roots were in poverty and hardship. But in this moving novel, they are bound by a dark secret: both suffer from depression. When a chance encounter reveals what they share, an unusual and unlikely friendship ensues. A series of therapeutic meetings across the world, in Germany, England, and America, sees each become the other’s confidant as they talk of their “black dog days.” With the eye of a masterfully subtle narrator, Michael Köhlmeier imagines a startling friendship of unique understanding between this extraordinary pair: a friendship of the twentieth century between art and politics, humor and seriousness, but which at heart remains an understanding between two men—the poor tramp and the grand statesman—who bring together the history of the century.

Bring on the Books for Everybody

Jim Collins

Author : Jim Collins
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2010-06-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780822391975

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Bring on the Books for Everybody is an engaging assessment of the robust popular literary culture that has developed in the United States during the past two decades. Jim Collins describes how a once solitary and print-based experience has become an exuberantly social activity, enjoyed as much on the screen as on the page. Fueled by Oprah’s Book Club, Miramax film adaptations, superstore bookshops, and new technologies such as the Kindle digital reader, literary fiction has been transformed into best-selling, high-concept entertainment. Collins highlights the infrastructural and cultural changes that have given rise to a flourishing reading public at a time when the future of the book has been called into question. Book reading, he claims, has not become obsolete; it has become integrated into popular visual media. Collins explores how digital technologies and the convergence of literary, visual, and consumer cultures have changed what counts as a “literary experience” in phenomena ranging from lush film adaptations such as The English Patient and Shakespeare in Love to the customer communities at Amazon. Central to Collins’s analysis and, he argues, to contemporary literary culture, is the notion that refined taste is now easily acquired; it is just a matter of knowing where to access it and whose advice to trust. Using recent novels, he shows that the redefined literary landscape has affected not just how books are being read, but also what sort of novels are being written for these passionate readers. Collins connects literary bestsellers from The Jane Austen Book Club and Literacy and Longing in L.A. to Saturday and The Line of Beauty, highlighting their depictions of fictional worlds filled with avid readers and their equations of reading with cultivated consumer taste.

Beowulf on the Beach

Jack Murnighan

Author : Jack Murnighan
Publisher : Crown
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2009-05-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780307409577

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Beowulf on the Beach by Jack Murnighan Pdf

Feel bad about not reading or not enjoying the so-called great books? Don’t sweat it, it’s not your fault. Did anyone tell you that Anna Karenina is a beach read, that Dickens is hilarious, that the Iliad’s battle scenes rival Hollywood’s for gore, or that Joyce is at his best when he’s talking about booze, sex, or organ meats? Writer and professor Jack Murnighan says it’s time to give literature another look, but this time you’ll enjoy yourself. With a little help, you’ll see just how great the great books are: how they can make you laugh, moisten your eyes, turn you on, and leave you awestruck and deeply moved. Beowulf on the Beach is your field guide–erudite, witty, and fun-loving–for helping you read and relish fifty of the biggest (and most skipped) classics of all time. For each book, Murnighan reveals how to get the most out of your reading and provides a crib sheet that includes the Buzz, the Best Line, What’s Sexy, and What to Skip.

The Letters of Sylvia Beach

Sylvia Beach

Author : Sylvia Beach
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780231145367

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The Letters of Sylvia Beach by Sylvia Beach Pdf

The first collection of selected correspondence of the noted bookseller and publisher includes letters to Ernest Hemingway, James Joyce, William Carlos Williams, Marianne Moore, and Gertrude Stein.

The Literary Beach Bum

Valerie M. Sebestyen

Author : Valerie M. Sebestyen
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1500388483

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The Literary Beach Bum by Valerie M. Sebestyen Pdf

This anthology of beach-related poems is for readers who find themselves thinking—or wishing they could think—poetical thoughts while listening to or watching the interplay of water with land. Whether it be ocean-side or lake-side, sandy or pebbled, the beach can be a place of contemplation, reminding us of things both bigger and smaller than ourselves.Many of the poets you'll recognize, some you may not, but whatever your mood, they've written a poem to suit, an image to inspire, and perhaps a reminder to find your own unique voice within.

The Boy on the Beach

Tima Kurdi

Author : Tima Kurdi
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2018-04-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781501175251

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The Boy on the Beach by Tima Kurdi Pdf

An intimate and poignant memoir about the family of Alan Kurdi—the young Syrian boy who became the global emblem for the desperate plight of millions of Syrian refugees—and of the many extraordinary journeys the Kurdis have taken, spanning countries and continents. Alan Kurdi’s body washed up on the shore of the Mediterranean Sea on September 2, 2015, and overnight, the political became personal, as the world awoke to the reality of the Syrian refugee crisis. Tima Kurdi first saw the shocking photo of her nephew in her home in Vancouver, Canada. But Tima did not need a photo to understand the truth—she and her family had already been living it. In The Boy on the Beach, Tima recounts her idyllic childhood in Syria, where she grew up with her brother Abdullah and other siblings in a tight‑knit family. A strong‑willed, independent woman, Tima studied to be a hairdresser and had dreams of seeing the world. At twenty‑two, she emigrated to Canada, but much of her family remained in Damascus. Life as a single mother and immigrant in a new country wasn’t always easy, and Tima recounts with heart‑wrenching honesty the anguish of being torn between a new home and the world she’d left behind. As Tima struggled to adapt to life in a new land, war overtook her homeland. Caught in the crosshairs of civil war, her family risked everything and fled their homes. Tima worked tirelessly to help them find safety, but their journey was far from easy. Although thwarted by politics, hounded by violence, and separated by vast distances, the Kurdis encountered setbacks at every turn, they never gave up hope. And when tragedy struck, Tima suddenly found herself thrust onto the world stage as an advocate for refugees everywhere, a role for which she had never prepared but that allowed her to give voice to those who didn’t have an opportunity to speak for themselves. From the jasmine‑scented neighbourhoods of Damascus before the war to the streets of Aleppo during it, to the refugee camps of Europe and the leafy suburbs of Vancouver, The Boy on the Beach is one family’s story of love, loss, and the persistent search for safe harbour in a devastating time of war.

Sylvia Beach And The Lost Generation

Riley Noel Fitch

Author : Riley Noel Fitch
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0393302318

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Sylvia Beach And The Lost Generation by Riley Noel Fitch Pdf

Noel Riley Fitch has written a perfect book, full to the brim with literary history, correct and whole-hearted both in statement and in implication. She makes me feel and remember a good many things that happened before and after my time. I'm glad to have lived long enough to read it. --Glenway Wescott

The Literary Beach

Beach Read by Emily Henry Pdf

The Literary Beach by Carsten Meiner,Katrine Helene Andersen Pdf

On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan Pdf

The Beach in Anglophone Literatures and Cultures by Ursula Kluwick,Virginia Richter Pdf

Monkey Beach by Eden Robinson Pdf

The Beach by Alex Garland Pdf

Mrs. Everything by Jennifer Weiner Pdf

Cherry Beach by Laura McPhee-Browne Pdf

Two Gentlemen on the Beach by Michael Köhlmeier Pdf

Bring on the Books for Everybody by Jim Collins Pdf

Beowulf on the Beach by Jack Murnighan Pdf

The Letters of Sylvia Beach by Sylvia Beach Pdf

The Literary Beach Bum by Valerie M. Sebestyen Pdf

The Boy on the Beach by Tima Kurdi Pdf

Sylvia Beach And The Lost Generation by Riley Noel Fitch Pdf

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