The Millstone

The Millstone PDF Author: Margaret Drabble
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780156006194
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 196

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"Rosamund Stacey finds herself pregnant after her only sexual encounter. Despite her fierce independence and academic brilliance, Rosamund is naive and unworldly, and the choices before her are terrifying."--Back cover

The Millstone

The Millstone PDF Author: Margaret Drabble
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780156006194
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 196

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"Rosamund Stacey finds herself pregnant after her only sexual encounter. Despite her fierce independence and academic brilliance, Rosamund is naive and unworldly, and the choices before her are terrifying."--Back cover

The Radiant Way

The Radiant Way PDF Author: Margaret Drabble
Publisher: Allied Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 112

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This novel goes back through the lives of three women, a psychoanalyst, an art historian and a good woman who all met at Cambridge in the 1950s.

The Dark Flood Rises

The Dark Flood Rises PDF Author: Margaret Drabble
Publisher: Canongate Books
ISBN: 1782118322
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 338

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NEW YORK TIMES 100 NOTABLE BOOKS OF 2017: ‘masterly’ GUARDIAN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: 'An absolute tour de force' Fran may be old but she's not going without a fight. So she dyes her hair, enjoys every glass of red wine, drives around the country for her job with a housing charity and lives in an insalubrious tower block that her loved ones disapprove of. And as each of them - her pampered ex Claude, old friend Jo, flamboyant son Christopher and earnest daughter Poppet - seeks happiness in their own way, what will the last reckoning be? Will they be waving or drowning when the end comes? By turns joyous and profound, darkly sardonic and moving, The Dark Flood Rises questions what makes a good life, and a good death. This triumphant, bravura novel takes in love, death, sun-drenched islands, poetry, Maria Callas, tidal waves, surprise endings - and new beginnings.

Book of Roy

Book of Roy PDF Author: Lynne Tillman
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781912339501
Category : Photography of youth
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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"From 1998 to 2005 Neil Drabble photographed an American teenager, Roy, as he grew from adolescence to early manhood. On one level this extensive body of work can be viewed as a fascinating document of an always-compelling transition. Closer scrutiny reveals further nuances; a collaboration, a partnership, a personal portrait and at the same time a universal picture of adolescence. Drabble chose not to depict significant events that might appear in a family album nor definitive moments associated with documentary photography. Instead, these photographs concentrate on the listless, off-scene periods, the 'in between moments' of everyday life. This focus on the marginal passages of disregarded time situates the viewer at the heart of adolescence, defined as the period between childhood and adulthood, suspended between longing (for the deferred promise of adulthood) and regret (for the loss of childhood as refuge). By photographing the same person repeatedly and intimately over their formative years, a sense of mirroring began to emerge, reawakening something of the artist's own adolescent self, blurring the line between portrait and self-portrait"--Provided by publisher.

The Little, Brown Book of Anecdotes

The Little, Brown Book of Anecdotes PDF Author: Clifton Fadiman
Publisher: Hachette+ORM
ISBN: 0316084727
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 1322

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A book compiled of anecdotes from other collections, arranged under the name of the person they're about.

The Sea Lady

The Sea Lady PDF Author: Margaret Drabble
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780151012633
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 362

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Traveling separately to Ornemouth, England, a town by the North Sea where they had spent a summer together as children, Humphrey Clark and Ailsa Kelman reassess the course of their individual lives and decisions over the past thirty years of separation.

The SECOND TREE from the CORNER

The SECOND TREE from the CORNER PDF Author: E. B. WHITE
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 272

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The Pure Gold Baby

The Pure Gold Baby PDF Author: Margaret Drabble
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 1443425389
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 270

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The first new novel in five years from “one of the most versatile and accomplished writers of her generation” —Joyce Carol Oates, The New Yorker. Jessica Speight, a young anthropology student in 1960s London, is at the beginning of a promising academic career when an affair with her married professor turns her into a single mother. Anna is a pure gold baby with a delightful, sunny nature, but it soon becomes clear that she will not be a normal child. As readers are drawn deeper into Jessica’s world, they are confronted with questions of responsibility, potential, even age, all with Margaret Drabble’s characteristic intelligence, sympathy and wit. Drabble once wrote, “Family life itself, that safest, most traditional, most approved of female choices, is not a sanctuary; it is, perpetually, a dangerous place.” Told from the point of view of the group of mothers who surround Jess, The Pure Gold Baby is a brilliant, prismatic novel that takes us into that place with satiric verve, trenchant commentary and a movingly intimate story of the unexpected transformations at the heart of motherhood.

The Peppered Moth

The Peppered Moth PDF Author: Margaret Drabble
Publisher: HMH
ISBN: 0544002962
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 387

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The prize-winning author of The Dark Flood Rises offers an “absorbing” portrait of three generations of women—inspired by her own family (The New York Times Book Review). In the early 1900s, young Bessie Bawtry grows up in a mining town in South Yorkshire, England. Unusually gifted, she longs to escape a life burdened by unquestioned tradition. She studies patiently, dreaming of the day when she will take the entrance exam for Cambridge and leave her narrow world. A generation later, Bessie’s daughter Chrissie feels a similar impulse to expand her horizons, which she in turn passes on to her own daughter. Nearly a century after that, Bessie’s granddaughter finds herself listening to a lecture on genetics and biological determinism. She has returned to Breaseborough and wonders at the families who remained in the humble little town where Bessie grew up. Confronted with what would have been her life had her grandmother stayed, she finds herself faced with difficult questions. Is she really so different from the plain South Yorkshire locals? As she soon learns, the past has a way of reasserting itself—not unlike the peppered moth that was once thought to be nearing extinction but is now enjoying a sudden and unexplained resurgence. With The Peppered Moth, the acclaimed author of The Seven Sisters conjures a captivating work of semi-fiction, grappling with her memory of her own mother and the indelible mark of family and heredity.

World's Shortest Stories

World's Shortest Stories PDF Author: Steve Moss
Publisher: Turtleback
ISBN: 9780613237857
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages :

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A compilation of the best entries in the annual Fifty-Five Fiction writing contest held by New Times in San Luis Obispo, this volume offers more than 150 masterpieces of brevity in writing! Enjoy mysteries, love stories, and creepy ironies in less time than it takes to tie your shoe.