Author: Carola Saavedra
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0593086864
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
“Ravishing… as if Saavedra were a modern-day Borges.” —Luis Alberto Urrea, O, The Oprah Magazine A novel of dark obsession, missed connections, and violent love. Marcos has just been through a divorce and moved into a new apartment. He feels alienated from his ex-wife, from his daughter, from society; everything feels flat and fake to him. He begins to receive letters at his new address from an anonymous troubled woman who signs off as A. and who clearly believes she is writing to the former tenant, her ex-lover, in the aftermath of a violent heartbreak. Marcos falls under the spell of the manic, hypnotic missives and for the first time in years, something moves him. Blue Flowers alternates between the letters detailing the dissolution of A.'s relationship, and Marcos' growing fixation with this damaged person. The letters become a kind of exorcism as both A.'s epistolary affair and Marcos' personal life reach a crisis point. Possessed by A., he is driven to discover her true identity. Blue Flowers is a dark portrait of desire, undermining accepted truths about love and sex, violence and fear, men and women.
Blue Flowers
Author: Carola Saavedra
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0593086864
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
“Ravishing… as if Saavedra were a modern-day Borges.” —Luis Alberto Urrea, O, The Oprah Magazine A novel of dark obsession, missed connections, and violent love. Marcos has just been through a divorce and moved into a new apartment. He feels alienated from his ex-wife, from his daughter, from society; everything feels flat and fake to him. He begins to receive letters at his new address from an anonymous troubled woman who signs off as A. and who clearly believes she is writing to the former tenant, her ex-lover, in the aftermath of a violent heartbreak. Marcos falls under the spell of the manic, hypnotic missives and for the first time in years, something moves him. Blue Flowers alternates between the letters detailing the dissolution of A.'s relationship, and Marcos' growing fixation with this damaged person. The letters become a kind of exorcism as both A.'s epistolary affair and Marcos' personal life reach a crisis point. Possessed by A., he is driven to discover her true identity. Blue Flowers is a dark portrait of desire, undermining accepted truths about love and sex, violence and fear, men and women.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0593086864
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
“Ravishing… as if Saavedra were a modern-day Borges.” —Luis Alberto Urrea, O, The Oprah Magazine A novel of dark obsession, missed connections, and violent love. Marcos has just been through a divorce and moved into a new apartment. He feels alienated from his ex-wife, from his daughter, from society; everything feels flat and fake to him. He begins to receive letters at his new address from an anonymous troubled woman who signs off as A. and who clearly believes she is writing to the former tenant, her ex-lover, in the aftermath of a violent heartbreak. Marcos falls under the spell of the manic, hypnotic missives and for the first time in years, something moves him. Blue Flowers alternates between the letters detailing the dissolution of A.'s relationship, and Marcos' growing fixation with this damaged person. The letters become a kind of exorcism as both A.'s epistolary affair and Marcos' personal life reach a crisis point. Possessed by A., he is driven to discover her true identity. Blue Flowers is a dark portrait of desire, undermining accepted truths about love and sex, violence and fear, men and women.
The Blue Flowers
Author: Raymond Queneau
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 0811220850
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Only a pataphysician nurtured lovingly on surrealist excess could have come up with The Blue Flowers, Queneau's 1964 novel. At his death in 1976, Raymond Queneau was one of France's most eminent men of letters––novelist, poet, essayist, editor, scientist, mathematician, and, more to the point, pataphysician. And only a pataphysician nurtured lovingly on surrealist excess could have come up with The Blue Flowers, Queneau's 1964 novel, now reissued as a New Directions Paperbook. To a pataphysician all things are equal, there is no improvement or progress in the human condition, and a "message" is an invention of the benighted reader, certainly not the author or his perplexing creations––the sweet, fennel-drinking Cidrolin and the rampaging Duke d'Auge. History is mostly what the duke rampages through––700 years of it at 175-year clips. He refuses to crusade, clobbers his king with the "in" toy of 1439––the cannon––dabbles in alchemy, and decides that those musty caves down at Altamira need a bit of sprucing up. Meanwhile, Cidrolin in the 1960s lolls on his barge moored along the Seine, sips essence of fennel, and ineffectually tries to catch the graffitist who nightly defiles his fence. But mostly he naps. Is it just a coincidence that the duke appears only when Cidrolin is dozing? And vice versa? In the tradition of Villon and Céline, Queneau attempted to bring the language of the French streets into common literary usage, and his mad word-plays, bad puns, bawdy jokes, and anachronistic wackiness have been kept amazingly and glitteringly intact by the incomparable translator Barbara Wright.
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 0811220850
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Only a pataphysician nurtured lovingly on surrealist excess could have come up with The Blue Flowers, Queneau's 1964 novel. At his death in 1976, Raymond Queneau was one of France's most eminent men of letters––novelist, poet, essayist, editor, scientist, mathematician, and, more to the point, pataphysician. And only a pataphysician nurtured lovingly on surrealist excess could have come up with The Blue Flowers, Queneau's 1964 novel, now reissued as a New Directions Paperbook. To a pataphysician all things are equal, there is no improvement or progress in the human condition, and a "message" is an invention of the benighted reader, certainly not the author or his perplexing creations––the sweet, fennel-drinking Cidrolin and the rampaging Duke d'Auge. History is mostly what the duke rampages through––700 years of it at 175-year clips. He refuses to crusade, clobbers his king with the "in" toy of 1439––the cannon––dabbles in alchemy, and decides that those musty caves down at Altamira need a bit of sprucing up. Meanwhile, Cidrolin in the 1960s lolls on his barge moored along the Seine, sips essence of fennel, and ineffectually tries to catch the graffitist who nightly defiles his fence. But mostly he naps. Is it just a coincidence that the duke appears only when Cidrolin is dozing? And vice versa? In the tradition of Villon and Céline, Queneau attempted to bring the language of the French streets into common literary usage, and his mad word-plays, bad puns, bawdy jokes, and anachronistic wackiness have been kept amazingly and glitteringly intact by the incomparable translator Barbara Wright.
The Gardener's Book of Charts, Tables and Lists
Author: Nancy Ballek MacKinnon
Publisher: Capital Books
ISBN: 9781892123633
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
A comprehensive book that organizes plants and flowers by their growing attributes and answers thousands of gardening questions.
Publisher: Capital Books
ISBN: 9781892123633
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
A comprehensive book that organizes plants and flowers by their growing attributes and answers thousands of gardening questions.
Bulb Book
Author: John Weathers
Publisher: Applewood Books
ISBN: 142901377X
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 502
Book Description
John Weathers's 1911 work is detailed discussion of bulbous plants from all over the world.
Publisher: Applewood Books
ISBN: 142901377X
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 502
Book Description
John Weathers's 1911 work is detailed discussion of bulbous plants from all over the world.
Gray's School and Field Book of Botany
Author: Asa Gray
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385221226
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 642
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385221226
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 642
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.
A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles
Author: James Augustus Henry Murray
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 1304
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 1304
Book Description
Bulletin of the Garden Club of America
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
Bulletin
Author: Garden Club of America
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 652
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 652
Book Description
Story Hour Readers — Book Three
Author: Ida Coe
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 90
Book Description
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Story Hour Readers — Book Three" by Ida Coe, Alice Christie Dillon. 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.
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 90
Book Description
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Story Hour Readers — Book Three" by Ida Coe, Alice Christie Dillon. 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.
Gray's School and Field Book of Botany. Consisting of "Lessons in Botany" and "Field, Forest, and Garden Botany"
Author: Asa Gray
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385436060
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 645
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385436060
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 645
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.