Author: Clare Boylan
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780316848077
Category : Domestic fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
Dick and Lily have been married for fifty years, and Lily finally believes that marriage is like an old tune you take for granted but find yourself whistling when you're happy. Until the night she wakes to find her husband's pyjama'd bottom poking out from under the bed. He claims there's an intruder and he's got him in his sights. When she turns on the light he backs out, holding a shotgun. 'Bugger got away when you created a diversion' he says. The comic incident marks the start of Dick's terrifying plunge into insanity. He enters a world of imaginary enemies, fantastic opportunities, sexual rivals. For an old-fashioned wife who accepted her partner for better or worse, there is nowhere left to turn except to her only daughter. Ruth, who has turned her back on emotional commitment in favour of good sex with good friends is now forced to penetrate the conspiratorial and chaotic web of her parents' marriage. Part love story, part thriller, BELOVED STRANGER is also, an analysis of marriage - a changeless institution in a vastly altered world, a private dictatorship where love and fear, tenderness or tyranny remain hidden at its heart.
Beloved Stranger
Author: Clare Boylan
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780316848077
Category : Domestic fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
Dick and Lily have been married for fifty years, and Lily finally believes that marriage is like an old tune you take for granted but find yourself whistling when you're happy. Until the night she wakes to find her husband's pyjama'd bottom poking out from under the bed. He claims there's an intruder and he's got him in his sights. When she turns on the light he backs out, holding a shotgun. 'Bugger got away when you created a diversion' he says. The comic incident marks the start of Dick's terrifying plunge into insanity. He enters a world of imaginary enemies, fantastic opportunities, sexual rivals. For an old-fashioned wife who accepted her partner for better or worse, there is nowhere left to turn except to her only daughter. Ruth, who has turned her back on emotional commitment in favour of good sex with good friends is now forced to penetrate the conspiratorial and chaotic web of her parents' marriage. Part love story, part thriller, BELOVED STRANGER is also, an analysis of marriage - a changeless institution in a vastly altered world, a private dictatorship where love and fear, tenderness or tyranny remain hidden at its heart.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780316848077
Category : Domestic fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
Dick and Lily have been married for fifty years, and Lily finally believes that marriage is like an old tune you take for granted but find yourself whistling when you're happy. Until the night she wakes to find her husband's pyjama'd bottom poking out from under the bed. He claims there's an intruder and he's got him in his sights. When she turns on the light he backs out, holding a shotgun. 'Bugger got away when you created a diversion' he says. The comic incident marks the start of Dick's terrifying plunge into insanity. He enters a world of imaginary enemies, fantastic opportunities, sexual rivals. For an old-fashioned wife who accepted her partner for better or worse, there is nowhere left to turn except to her only daughter. Ruth, who has turned her back on emotional commitment in favour of good sex with good friends is now forced to penetrate the conspiratorial and chaotic web of her parents' marriage. Part love story, part thriller, BELOVED STRANGER is also, an analysis of marriage - a changeless institution in a vastly altered world, a private dictatorship where love and fear, tenderness or tyranny remain hidden at its heart.
Beloved Stranger
Author: Sandra Matlock
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595259561
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595259561
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Stranger, Father, Beloved
Author: Taylor Larsen
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1501124757
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
"Debut novel about a wealthy man who has reached a crossroads after a lifetime of repression and denial, sending him--and his family--into a slow spiral towards a total breakdown"--
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1501124757
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
"Debut novel about a wealthy man who has reached a crossroads after a lifetime of repression and denial, sending him--and his family--into a slow spiral towards a total breakdown"--
The Beloved Stranger
Author: Grace Livingston Hill
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780842303033
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Only minutes before Sherrill is to marry Carter, the man of her dreams, she discovers him in the arms of another woman. When Sherill finds that the other woman is desperately in love with Carter, she decides the wedding must go on, with the other woman as the bride! Later, as Sherill arrives at the church to witness the wedding that should have been hers, she stumbles into a car--and falls into the arms of a passing stranger. As Sherrill looks up to apologize, she sees a tall, handsome man whose piercing eyes seem to see deep within her. Shaken and distressed, Sherrill lets the man help her into the church. He stays close beside her through the ceremony and is her encouragement and support through the rest of that painful day. Soon he is no longer a stranger...and more than a friend.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780842303033
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Only minutes before Sherrill is to marry Carter, the man of her dreams, she discovers him in the arms of another woman. When Sherill finds that the other woman is desperately in love with Carter, she decides the wedding must go on, with the other woman as the bride! Later, as Sherill arrives at the church to witness the wedding that should have been hers, she stumbles into a car--and falls into the arms of a passing stranger. As Sherrill looks up to apologize, she sees a tall, handsome man whose piercing eyes seem to see deep within her. Shaken and distressed, Sherrill lets the man help her into the church. He stays close beside her through the ceremony and is her encouragement and support through the rest of that painful day. Soon he is no longer a stranger...and more than a friend.
Beloved Strangers
Author: Maria Chaudhuri
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1620406225
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
A personal account of the author's upbringing in Dhaka describes the ephemeral family perspectives that made happiness elusive, her struggles to reconcile her inner self with her faith and the impact of friends on her education and beliefs. 15,000 first printing.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1620406225
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
A personal account of the author's upbringing in Dhaka describes the ephemeral family perspectives that made happiness elusive, her struggles to reconcile her inner self with her faith and the impact of friends on her education and beliefs. 15,000 first printing.
My Son, Beloved Stranger
Author: Carrol Grady
Publisher: Alamo Square Distributors
ISBN: 9781886360112
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
The wife of a conservative Christian minister learns to except her homosexual son and help other parents except their gay and lesbian children.
Publisher: Alamo Square Distributors
ISBN: 9781886360112
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
The wife of a conservative Christian minister learns to except her homosexual son and help other parents except their gay and lesbian children.
Beloved Stranger
Author: Patricia Potter
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1440623880
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 327
Book Description
More information to be announced soon on this forthcoming title from Penguin USA
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1440623880
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 327
Book Description
More information to be announced soon on this forthcoming title from Penguin USA
Dear Beloved Stranger
Author: Dino Pai
Publisher: Top Shelf Productions
ISBN: 9781603092715
Category : Artists
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Clueless, naive, full of dreams... and unemployed. Fresh out of art school, our hero Dino is ready to start a new chapter in his life, but can't figure out how, and struggles to find his identity as an artist. With a little encouragement from a classmate, he sets out on a fantastic inner journey to wipe the dust off his teenage obsessions and reignite his passion. Blending fact and fiction, past and present, pencil and paint, debut author Dino Pai brings a wide range of voices and influences to bear on the most intimate story in his heart, in this Xeric Award-winning graphic novel.
Publisher: Top Shelf Productions
ISBN: 9781603092715
Category : Artists
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Clueless, naive, full of dreams... and unemployed. Fresh out of art school, our hero Dino is ready to start a new chapter in his life, but can't figure out how, and struggles to find his identity as an artist. With a little encouragement from a classmate, he sets out on a fantastic inner journey to wipe the dust off his teenage obsessions and reignite his passion. Blending fact and fiction, past and present, pencil and paint, debut author Dino Pai brings a wide range of voices and influences to bear on the most intimate story in his heart, in this Xeric Award-winning graphic novel.
Stranger Things: Lucas on the Line
Author: Suyi Davies
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 0593567897
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
Dive into this revealing portrait of Stranger Things fan favorite Lucas Sinclair and get to know Lucas like never before. The thrilling adventure of Stranger Things continues where season three left off, with fan favorite Lucas Sinclair finally telling his own story in his own words. Lucas has been in the fight against the evil forces in his town since the beginning, but he is tired of feeling like an outsider. When the start of high school presents Lucas with options beyond D&D and being bullied, he wonders if he can be more than invisible. After connecting with one of the few other Black students at school, Lucas starts to learn more about himself apart from his friend group. And he begins to understand himself as a Black teen in Hawkins, which feels unlike anything—in this world or any other—he’s ever experienced. From Suyi Davies, contributor to the New York Times bestselling Black Boy Joy, comes an exploration of love and identity within the beloved Stranger Things universe, through the eyes of Lucas Sinclair.
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 0593567897
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
Dive into this revealing portrait of Stranger Things fan favorite Lucas Sinclair and get to know Lucas like never before. The thrilling adventure of Stranger Things continues where season three left off, with fan favorite Lucas Sinclair finally telling his own story in his own words. Lucas has been in the fight against the evil forces in his town since the beginning, but he is tired of feeling like an outsider. When the start of high school presents Lucas with options beyond D&D and being bullied, he wonders if he can be more than invisible. After connecting with one of the few other Black students at school, Lucas starts to learn more about himself apart from his friend group. And he begins to understand himself as a Black teen in Hawkins, which feels unlike anything—in this world or any other—he’s ever experienced. From Suyi Davies, contributor to the New York Times bestselling Black Boy Joy, comes an exploration of love and identity within the beloved Stranger Things universe, through the eyes of Lucas Sinclair.
Beloved Impostor
Author: Patricia Potter
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1504001044
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
A Highland lass dares to fall in love with her clan’s most hated enemy in the first book of Patricia Potter’s spellbinding Scottish Highland Series, set in the sixteenth century Felicia Campbell has just received a death sentence from her uncle and the king. In a fortnight, she is to wed the Earl of Morneith. Vowing to escape her fate as the bride of the lecherous, decades-older nobleman, she devises a daring scheme. But the plan goes horribly awry when she is abducted. Now the only way to survive is to continue her deception and yield to Rory Maclean, her clan’s most hated enemy—and the handsomest man she has ever seen. After tragedy claimed his first two wives, Rory took to the sea. Ten years later he returns home, vowing never to marry or give his heart again. But then his clansmen steal a bride for him: a fearless, spirited beauty who can wield a sword as well as any man. As bitter strife continues to divide his homeland, Rory will move heaven and earth for the woman who has healed his soul—a woman who isn’t what she seems. Beloved Imposter is the 1st book in the Scottish Highland series, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1504001044
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
A Highland lass dares to fall in love with her clan’s most hated enemy in the first book of Patricia Potter’s spellbinding Scottish Highland Series, set in the sixteenth century Felicia Campbell has just received a death sentence from her uncle and the king. In a fortnight, she is to wed the Earl of Morneith. Vowing to escape her fate as the bride of the lecherous, decades-older nobleman, she devises a daring scheme. But the plan goes horribly awry when she is abducted. Now the only way to survive is to continue her deception and yield to Rory Maclean, her clan’s most hated enemy—and the handsomest man she has ever seen. After tragedy claimed his first two wives, Rory took to the sea. Ten years later he returns home, vowing never to marry or give his heart again. But then his clansmen steal a bride for him: a fearless, spirited beauty who can wield a sword as well as any man. As bitter strife continues to divide his homeland, Rory will move heaven and earth for the woman who has healed his soul—a woman who isn’t what she seems. Beloved Imposter is the 1st book in the Scottish Highland series, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.