Author: John Ruskin
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
The Lamp of Memory
Author: John Ruskin
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
The Butterfly Lampshade
Author: Aimee Bender
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 0385534884
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
The first novel in ten years from the author of the beloved New York Times bestseller The Particular Sadness Of Lemon Cake, a luminous, poignant tale of a mother, a daughter, mental illness, and the fluctuating barrier between the mind and the world On the night her single mother is taken to a mental hospital after a psychotic episode, eight year-old Francie is staying with her babysitter, waiting to take the train to Los Angeles to go live with her aunt and uncle. There is a lovely lamp next to the couch on which she's sleeping, the shade adorned with butterflies. When she wakes, Francie spies a dead butterfly, exactly matching the ones on the lamp, floating in a glass of water. She drinks it before the babysitter can see. Twenty years later, Francie is compelled to make sense of that moment, and two other incidents -- her discovery of a desiccated beetle from a school paper, and a bouquet of dried roses from some curtains. Her recall is exact -- she is sure these things happened. But despite her certainty, she wrestles with the hold these memories maintain over her, and what they say about her own place in the world. As Francie conjures her past and reduces her engagement with the world to a bare minimum, she begins to question her relationship to reality. The scenes set in Francie's past glow with the intensity of childhood perception, how physical objects can take on an otherworldly power. The question for Francie is, What do these events signify? And does this power survive childhood? Told in the lush, lilting prose that led the San Francisco Chronicle to say Aimee Bender is "a writer who makes you grateful for the very existence of language," The Butterfly Lampshade is a heartfelt and heartbreaking examination of the sometimes overwhelming power of the material world, and a broken love between mother and child.
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 0385534884
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
The first novel in ten years from the author of the beloved New York Times bestseller The Particular Sadness Of Lemon Cake, a luminous, poignant tale of a mother, a daughter, mental illness, and the fluctuating barrier between the mind and the world On the night her single mother is taken to a mental hospital after a psychotic episode, eight year-old Francie is staying with her babysitter, waiting to take the train to Los Angeles to go live with her aunt and uncle. There is a lovely lamp next to the couch on which she's sleeping, the shade adorned with butterflies. When she wakes, Francie spies a dead butterfly, exactly matching the ones on the lamp, floating in a glass of water. She drinks it before the babysitter can see. Twenty years later, Francie is compelled to make sense of that moment, and two other incidents -- her discovery of a desiccated beetle from a school paper, and a bouquet of dried roses from some curtains. Her recall is exact -- she is sure these things happened. But despite her certainty, she wrestles with the hold these memories maintain over her, and what they say about her own place in the world. As Francie conjures her past and reduces her engagement with the world to a bare minimum, she begins to question her relationship to reality. The scenes set in Francie's past glow with the intensity of childhood perception, how physical objects can take on an otherworldly power. The question for Francie is, What do these events signify? And does this power survive childhood? Told in the lush, lilting prose that led the San Francisco Chronicle to say Aimee Bender is "a writer who makes you grateful for the very existence of language," The Butterfly Lampshade is a heartfelt and heartbreaking examination of the sometimes overwhelming power of the material world, and a broken love between mother and child.
The Lamp of Memory
Author: Michael Wheeler
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719037108
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719037108
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
Lamp
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 650
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 650
Book Description
Quench The Lamp
Author: Alice Taylor
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312105280
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
If ever a voice has captured the colors, the rhythms, the rich, bittersweet emotions of a time gone by, it is Alice Taylor's. Her tales of childhood in rural Ireland hark back to a timeless past, to a world now lost, but ever and fondly remembered. The colorful characters and joyous moments she offers have made her stories an Irish phenomenon, and have made Alice herself the most beloved author in all of the Emerald Isle.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312105280
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
If ever a voice has captured the colors, the rhythms, the rich, bittersweet emotions of a time gone by, it is Alice Taylor's. Her tales of childhood in rural Ireland hark back to a timeless past, to a world now lost, but ever and fondly remembered. The colorful characters and joyous moments she offers have made her stories an Irish phenomenon, and have made Alice herself the most beloved author in all of the Emerald Isle.
Author:
Publisher: Delene Kvasnicka
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
Publisher: Delene Kvasnicka
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
Midnight Lamp
Author: Gwyneth Jones
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 1473230217
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Recovering from the events of CASTLES MADE OF SAND, the leaders of the Rock-n-Roll Reich travel across the Atlantic. The USA has not suffered from the technological losses which transformed the UK, so the Triumvirate find themselves in a glossy Hollywood where actors are virtual, cars are intelligent, and they aren't worshipped as they are back home. Ax, Sage and Fi are trying to cope with their recent losses, and reflect on where their relationship now stands. Meanwhile, there are groups of magic users trying to gain power through human sacrifice, threatening the stability of society. When Fiorinda goes missing, the worst is feared... This is book three in Gwyneth Jones' critically-acclaimed BOLD AS LOVE series.
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 1473230217
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Recovering from the events of CASTLES MADE OF SAND, the leaders of the Rock-n-Roll Reich travel across the Atlantic. The USA has not suffered from the technological losses which transformed the UK, so the Triumvirate find themselves in a glossy Hollywood where actors are virtual, cars are intelligent, and they aren't worshipped as they are back home. Ax, Sage and Fi are trying to cope with their recent losses, and reflect on where their relationship now stands. Meanwhile, there are groups of magic users trying to gain power through human sacrifice, threatening the stability of society. When Fiorinda goes missing, the worst is feared... This is book three in Gwyneth Jones' critically-acclaimed BOLD AS LOVE series.
Prophet
Author: Helen Macdonald
Publisher: Grove Press
ISBN: 0802162037
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 543
Book Description
NOSTALGIA HAS NEVER BEEN MORE DEADLY “Fabulous . . . Present-day science fiction that feels like the best sort of spy novel." —Neil Gaiman From the extraordinary minds of award-winning and New York Times–bestselling author of H Is for Hawk Helen Macdonald and first time author Sin Blaché, Prophet is their electric debut, a tantalizing adventure fusing noir, sci-fi and a slow burn queer romance—set in a universe just one perilous step from our own. Adam Rubenstein and Sunil Rao have been reluctant partners since their Uzbekistan days. Adam is a seemingly unflappable American Intelligence officer and Rao is an ex-MI6 agent, an addict and rudderless pleasure hound, with the uncanny ability to discern the truth of things—about everyone and everything other than Adam. When an American diner turns up in a foggy field in the UK after a mysterious death, Adam and Rao are called in to investigate, setting into motion the most dangerous and otherworldly mission of their lives. In a surreal, action-packed quest that takes Adam and Rao from secret laboratories in Colorado, to a luxury lodge in Aspen, to the remote Nevada desert, the pair begins to uncover how and why people’s fondest memories are being weaponized against them by a spooky, ever-shifting substance called Prophet. As the unlikely twosome battles this strange new reality, Prophet’s victims’ memories are materializing in increasingly bizarre forms: favorite games, beloved pets, fairground rides, each more malevolent than the next. Prophet is like no enemy Adam and Rao - or the world - have ever come up against. A tension-shot odd-couple romance, an unflinching send-up of corporate corruption, and a genre-bending tour de force, Prophet is a triumph of storytelling by a new writing duo with a thrilling future.
Publisher: Grove Press
ISBN: 0802162037
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 543
Book Description
NOSTALGIA HAS NEVER BEEN MORE DEADLY “Fabulous . . . Present-day science fiction that feels like the best sort of spy novel." —Neil Gaiman From the extraordinary minds of award-winning and New York Times–bestselling author of H Is for Hawk Helen Macdonald and first time author Sin Blaché, Prophet is their electric debut, a tantalizing adventure fusing noir, sci-fi and a slow burn queer romance—set in a universe just one perilous step from our own. Adam Rubenstein and Sunil Rao have been reluctant partners since their Uzbekistan days. Adam is a seemingly unflappable American Intelligence officer and Rao is an ex-MI6 agent, an addict and rudderless pleasure hound, with the uncanny ability to discern the truth of things—about everyone and everything other than Adam. When an American diner turns up in a foggy field in the UK after a mysterious death, Adam and Rao are called in to investigate, setting into motion the most dangerous and otherworldly mission of their lives. In a surreal, action-packed quest that takes Adam and Rao from secret laboratories in Colorado, to a luxury lodge in Aspen, to the remote Nevada desert, the pair begins to uncover how and why people’s fondest memories are being weaponized against them by a spooky, ever-shifting substance called Prophet. As the unlikely twosome battles this strange new reality, Prophet’s victims’ memories are materializing in increasingly bizarre forms: favorite games, beloved pets, fairground rides, each more malevolent than the next. Prophet is like no enemy Adam and Rao - or the world - have ever come up against. A tension-shot odd-couple romance, an unflinching send-up of corporate corruption, and a genre-bending tour de force, Prophet is a triumph of storytelling by a new writing duo with a thrilling future.
Under the Evening Lamp
Author: Richard Henry Stoddard
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poets, English
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poets, English
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
A Christmas Story Leg Lamp Kit
Author: Running Press
Publisher: RP Minis
ISBN: 9780762437696
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This miniature light-up leg lamp prop replica from A Christmas Story is the perfect "stocking stuffer"! Kit includes: 3.5" tall replica of the movie's iconic Leg Lamp prop, complete with an actual light-up feature and packaging material to protect the "fragile" ornamental piece Book of stickers
Publisher: RP Minis
ISBN: 9780762437696
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This miniature light-up leg lamp prop replica from A Christmas Story is the perfect "stocking stuffer"! Kit includes: 3.5" tall replica of the movie's iconic Leg Lamp prop, complete with an actual light-up feature and packaging material to protect the "fragile" ornamental piece Book of stickers