Author: Joanna Russ
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1504050932
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
Four alternate selves from radically different realities come together in this “dazzling” and “trailblazing work” (The Washington Post). Widely acknowledged as Joanna Russ’s masterpiece, The Female Man is the suspenseful, surprising, darkly witty, and boldly subversive chronicle of what happens when Jeannine, Janet, Joanna, and Jael—all living in parallel worlds—meet. Librarian Jeannine is waiting for marriage in a past where the Depression never ended, Janet lives on a utopian Earth with an all-female population, Joanna is a feminist in the 1970s, and Jael is a warrior with claws and teeth on an Earth where male and female societies are at war with each other. When the four women begin traveling to one another’s worlds, their preconceptions on gender and identity are forever challenged. With “palpable anger . . . leavened by wit and humor” (The New York Times), Russ both employs and upends genre conventions to deliver a wickedly satiric and exhilarating version of when worlds collide and women get woke. This ebook includes the Nebula Award–winning bonus short story “When It Changed,” set in the world of The Female Man.
The Female Man
Author: Joanna Russ
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1504050932
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
Four alternate selves from radically different realities come together in this “dazzling” and “trailblazing work” (The Washington Post). Widely acknowledged as Joanna Russ’s masterpiece, The Female Man is the suspenseful, surprising, darkly witty, and boldly subversive chronicle of what happens when Jeannine, Janet, Joanna, and Jael—all living in parallel worlds—meet. Librarian Jeannine is waiting for marriage in a past where the Depression never ended, Janet lives on a utopian Earth with an all-female population, Joanna is a feminist in the 1970s, and Jael is a warrior with claws and teeth on an Earth where male and female societies are at war with each other. When the four women begin traveling to one another’s worlds, their preconceptions on gender and identity are forever challenged. With “palpable anger . . . leavened by wit and humor” (The New York Times), Russ both employs and upends genre conventions to deliver a wickedly satiric and exhilarating version of when worlds collide and women get woke. This ebook includes the Nebula Award–winning bonus short story “When It Changed,” set in the world of The Female Man.
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1504050932
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
Four alternate selves from radically different realities come together in this “dazzling” and “trailblazing work” (The Washington Post). Widely acknowledged as Joanna Russ’s masterpiece, The Female Man is the suspenseful, surprising, darkly witty, and boldly subversive chronicle of what happens when Jeannine, Janet, Joanna, and Jael—all living in parallel worlds—meet. Librarian Jeannine is waiting for marriage in a past where the Depression never ended, Janet lives on a utopian Earth with an all-female population, Joanna is a feminist in the 1970s, and Jael is a warrior with claws and teeth on an Earth where male and female societies are at war with each other. When the four women begin traveling to one another’s worlds, their preconceptions on gender and identity are forever challenged. With “palpable anger . . . leavened by wit and humor” (The New York Times), Russ both employs and upends genre conventions to deliver a wickedly satiric and exhilarating version of when worlds collide and women get woke. This ebook includes the Nebula Award–winning bonus short story “When It Changed,” set in the world of The Female Man.
Novel 11, Book 18
Author: Dag Solstad
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 0811228290
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 143
Book Description
A brilliant novel by the Norwegian master Dag Solstad Bjorn Hansen, a respectable town treasurer, has just turned fifty and is horrified by the thought that chance has ruled his life. Eighteen years ago he left his wife and their two-year-old son for his mistress, who persuaded him to start afresh in a small, provincial town and to devote himself to an amateur theater.In time that relationship also faded, and after four years of living alone Bjorn contemplates an extraordinary course of action that will change his life forever. He finds a fellow conspirator in Dr. Schiotz, who has a secret of his own and offers to help Bjorn carry his preposterous plan through to its logical conclusion. But the sudden reappearance of his son both fills Bjorn with new hope and complicates matters. The desire to gamble with his comfortable existence proves irresistible, however, taking him to Vilnius in Lithuania, where very soon he cannot tell whether he’s tangled up in a game or reality. Dag Solstad won the Norwegian Critics Prize for Literature for Novel 11, Book 18, a concentrated uncompromising existential novel that puts on full display the author’s remarkable gifts and wit.
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 0811228290
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 143
Book Description
A brilliant novel by the Norwegian master Dag Solstad Bjorn Hansen, a respectable town treasurer, has just turned fifty and is horrified by the thought that chance has ruled his life. Eighteen years ago he left his wife and their two-year-old son for his mistress, who persuaded him to start afresh in a small, provincial town and to devote himself to an amateur theater.In time that relationship also faded, and after four years of living alone Bjorn contemplates an extraordinary course of action that will change his life forever. He finds a fellow conspirator in Dr. Schiotz, who has a secret of his own and offers to help Bjorn carry his preposterous plan through to its logical conclusion. But the sudden reappearance of his son both fills Bjorn with new hope and complicates matters. The desire to gamble with his comfortable existence proves irresistible, however, taking him to Vilnius in Lithuania, where very soon he cannot tell whether he’s tangled up in a game or reality. Dag Solstad won the Norwegian Critics Prize for Literature for Novel 11, Book 18, a concentrated uncompromising existential novel that puts on full display the author’s remarkable gifts and wit.
Permanent Temperance Documents of the American Temperance Society. V. 1
Author: American Temperance Society
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Temperance
Languages : en
Pages : 542
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Temperance
Languages : en
Pages : 542
Book Description
Annual Report of the Executive Committee of the American Society for the Promotion of Temperance
Author: American Temperance Society
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Temperance
Languages : en
Pages : 742
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Temperance
Languages : en
Pages : 742
Book Description
Permanent Temperance Documents of the American Temperance Society
Author: American Temperance Society
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Temperance
Languages : en
Pages : 542
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Temperance
Languages : en
Pages : 542
Book Description
Other Men's Minds, Or, Seven Thousand Choice Extracts on History, Science, Philosophy, Religion, Etc
Author: Edwin Davies
Publisher:
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Category : Quotations, English
Languages : en
Pages : 690
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Quotations, English
Languages : en
Pages : 690
Book Description
The People; Translated from the French
Author: Jules Michelet
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country
Author: James Anthony Froude
Publisher:
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Category : Authors
Languages : en
Pages : 780
Book Description
Contains the first printing of Sartor resartus, as well as other works by Thomas Carlyle.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors
Languages : en
Pages : 780
Book Description
Contains the first printing of Sartor resartus, as well as other works by Thomas Carlyle.
Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 780
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 780
Book Description
The Snobs of England
Author: William Makepeace Thackeray
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472115273
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
A critical edition of two sharply satirical works
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472115273
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
A critical edition of two sharply satirical works