Author: Patrick Mcgrath
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1501125389
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 192
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Dark, unnerving, and wickedly funny, Patrick McGrath’s acclaimed short stories deal in the bizarre, the erotic, and the unexpected. A failed writer meets an ageing gin-queen who claims he was once visited by an angel; a little girl finds a delirious, dying explorer from the Congo at the bottom of her back garden; a nightclub is terrorized by a strange libidinous hand; and a young Victorian lady sails to India to find her fiancé Cecil horribly transformed...
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Category : Fantasy fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 478
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A comprehensive bibliography of books and short fiction published in the English language.
Author: Rolf Boldrewood
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Languages : en
Pages : 382
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Author: Roger Matuz
Publisher: Gale / Cengage Learning
ISBN: 9780810344297
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 448
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Covers authors who are currently active or who died after December 31, 1959. Profiles novelists, poets, playwrights and other creative and nonfiction writers by providing criticism taken from books, magazines, literary reviews, newspapers and scholarly journals.
Author: Guy de Maupassant
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Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 266
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Author: Rahel Wasserfall
Publisher: Brandeis University Press
ISBN: 1611688701
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 292
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The term Niddah means separation. During her menstrual flow and for several days thereafter, a Jewish woman is considered Niddah -- separate from her husband and unable to practice the sacred rituals of Judaism. Purification in a miqveh (a ritual bath) following her period restores full status as a wife and member of the Jewish community. In the contemporary world, debates about Niddah focus less on the literal exclusion of menstruating women from the synagogue, instead emphasizing relations between husband and wife and the general role of Jewish women in Judaism. Although this has been the law since ancient times, the meaning and practice of Niddah has been widely contested. Women and Water explores how these purity rituals have affected Jewish women across time and place, and shows how their own interpretation of Niddah often conflicted with rabbinic views. These essays also speak to contemporary feminist issues such as shaping women's identity, power relations between women and men, and the role of women in the sacred.
Author: Patrick McGrath
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 200
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Severed hands, dead monkeys, swarming insects, pickled body parts and menacing pygmies proliferate in this collection of short stories. They also feature ancient Southern plantations, isolated manor houses, places where ghosts like to lurk and places where spiritual and physical decay presides.
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Category : Short stories
Languages : en
Pages : 1080
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Category : Fiction genres
Languages : en
Pages : 744
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Author: Erwin Cabucos
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 228
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"New book on Philippine-Australian short stories. Topics on Australian identity and migration experiences have perhaps bored many of us in our classroom and dinner discussion, but when they are told in honest and lively ways, with characters from different voices and ages, and with genuine human emotion, reading can become engaging and enjoyable."--Provided by publisher.
