Author: Karen McKinnon
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312312183
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Becky, Hugh, Dahlia, and Max. Friends who have formed a dysfunctional but necessary surrogate family. Callie, the crisis-prone, vivid, manipulative chameleon whose friendship has damaged them all individually but who still haunts their waking and sleeping dreams. Becky, orphan, survivor, caffeine addict, on the verge of 30 and hoping to become famous with her first solo show of dismemberment collages in New York's East Village. Hugh, now a CPA in California, once the most sophisticated undergrad and object of Becky's frustrated desire and rivalry with Callie. Max, all leather, brooding and disguise, the actor who Callie left Hugh for, and who also had an affair with big-hearted, victimized dancer, Dahlia. For as long as they have known each other their common language has been Callie—past tense. When Dahlia plots a revenge drama to be staged at Becky's gallery opening, she unwittingly revives their nostalgia for the outcast Callie's seductive charm and sets in motion a plan that forces Becky and Callie to play out their lethal emotional rivalry to the end. Told from the point of view of Becky, Narcissus Ascending is an unputdownable debut. Karen McKinnon's dissection of friendship, and the manipulative rivalry of two strong women is provocative and disturbing.
Narcissus Ascending
Author: Karen McKinnon
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312312183
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Becky, Hugh, Dahlia, and Max. Friends who have formed a dysfunctional but necessary surrogate family. Callie, the crisis-prone, vivid, manipulative chameleon whose friendship has damaged them all individually but who still haunts their waking and sleeping dreams. Becky, orphan, survivor, caffeine addict, on the verge of 30 and hoping to become famous with her first solo show of dismemberment collages in New York's East Village. Hugh, now a CPA in California, once the most sophisticated undergrad and object of Becky's frustrated desire and rivalry with Callie. Max, all leather, brooding and disguise, the actor who Callie left Hugh for, and who also had an affair with big-hearted, victimized dancer, Dahlia. For as long as they have known each other their common language has been Callie—past tense. When Dahlia plots a revenge drama to be staged at Becky's gallery opening, she unwittingly revives their nostalgia for the outcast Callie's seductive charm and sets in motion a plan that forces Becky and Callie to play out their lethal emotional rivalry to the end. Told from the point of view of Becky, Narcissus Ascending is an unputdownable debut. Karen McKinnon's dissection of friendship, and the manipulative rivalry of two strong women is provocative and disturbing.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312312183
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Becky, Hugh, Dahlia, and Max. Friends who have formed a dysfunctional but necessary surrogate family. Callie, the crisis-prone, vivid, manipulative chameleon whose friendship has damaged them all individually but who still haunts their waking and sleeping dreams. Becky, orphan, survivor, caffeine addict, on the verge of 30 and hoping to become famous with her first solo show of dismemberment collages in New York's East Village. Hugh, now a CPA in California, once the most sophisticated undergrad and object of Becky's frustrated desire and rivalry with Callie. Max, all leather, brooding and disguise, the actor who Callie left Hugh for, and who also had an affair with big-hearted, victimized dancer, Dahlia. For as long as they have known each other their common language has been Callie—past tense. When Dahlia plots a revenge drama to be staged at Becky's gallery opening, she unwittingly revives their nostalgia for the outcast Callie's seductive charm and sets in motion a plan that forces Becky and Callie to play out their lethal emotional rivalry to the end. Told from the point of view of Becky, Narcissus Ascending is an unputdownable debut. Karen McKinnon's dissection of friendship, and the manipulative rivalry of two strong women is provocative and disturbing.
N-Q
Author: Liberty Hyde Bailey
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description
American Maritime Cases
Author:
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Category : Maritime law
Languages : en
Pages : 1236
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Maritime law
Languages : en
Pages : 1236
Book Description
Advocate
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : College student newspapers and periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : College student newspapers and periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: N-Q
Author: Liberty Hyde Bailey
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 502
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 502
Book Description
The Harvard Advocate
Author:
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ISBN:
Category : College students' writings, American
Languages : en
Pages : 444
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Category : College students' writings, American
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
Spring Flora of Minn
Author: Morley
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 1452911711
Category : Plants
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 1452911711
Category : Plants
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
“The” Illustrated Dictionary of Gardening
Author: George Nicholson
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 574
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Languages : en
Pages : 574
Book Description
Narcissus
Author: John W. Blanchard
Publisher:
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Category : Daffodils
Languages : en
Pages : 212
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Category : Daffodils
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Vascular Flora of Illinois
Author: Robert H. Mohlenbrock
Publisher: SIU Press
ISBN: 0809332094
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 555
Book Description
This latest edition of Vascular Flora of Illinois includes over thirty-four hundred species of flora from Illinois, adding more than 250 newly-recognized plants to this definitive collection. Because cataloguing our heritage is foremost in importance among naturalists, this book compiles essential information about plants in Illinois. Mohlenbrock includes all known taxa native to Illinois either at present or in the past and all non-native vascular plants that grow spontaneously and appear able to maintain themselves year after year without cultivation. The sequence of groups in the guide is ferns, conifers, and flowering plants, with cotyledons given before monocotyledons. Within each group, the families are arranged alphabetically, as are the genera within each family and the species within each genus. For each taxon recognized in this book, Mohlenbrock gives us a common name if one is generally used in Illinois. He follows this with an indication of flowering time for flowering plants, and of spore-production time in the case of ferns and their relatives. He also provides a habitat statement and a general comment on distribution in Illinois for each taxon. Containing information on Illinois flora not available anywhere else, this fourth edition of Vascular Flora of Illinois is essential for ecologists, environmentalists, and land developers. Those interested in wildflower identification will also find this guide helpful.
Publisher: SIU Press
ISBN: 0809332094
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 555
Book Description
This latest edition of Vascular Flora of Illinois includes over thirty-four hundred species of flora from Illinois, adding more than 250 newly-recognized plants to this definitive collection. Because cataloguing our heritage is foremost in importance among naturalists, this book compiles essential information about plants in Illinois. Mohlenbrock includes all known taxa native to Illinois either at present or in the past and all non-native vascular plants that grow spontaneously and appear able to maintain themselves year after year without cultivation. The sequence of groups in the guide is ferns, conifers, and flowering plants, with cotyledons given before monocotyledons. Within each group, the families are arranged alphabetically, as are the genera within each family and the species within each genus. For each taxon recognized in this book, Mohlenbrock gives us a common name if one is generally used in Illinois. He follows this with an indication of flowering time for flowering plants, and of spore-production time in the case of ferns and their relatives. He also provides a habitat statement and a general comment on distribution in Illinois for each taxon. Containing information on Illinois flora not available anywhere else, this fourth edition of Vascular Flora of Illinois is essential for ecologists, environmentalists, and land developers. Those interested in wildflower identification will also find this guide helpful.