Author: Tracy Sierra
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0593654765
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 369
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“Nightmarish—you won’t be able to look away.” —Shari Lapena, New York Times bestselling author of The Couple Next Door A razor-sharp thriller about a mother forced to the breaking point when her life and the lives of her children are threatened by an intruder Home alone with her young children during a blizzard, a mother tucks her son back into bed in the middle of the night. She hears a noise—old houses are always making some kind of noise. But this sound is disturbingly familiar: it’s the tread of footsteps, unusually heavy and slow, coming up the stairs. She sees the figure of a man appear down the hallway, shrouded in the shadows. Terrified, she quietly wakes her children and hustles them into the oldest part of the house, a tiny, secret room concealed behind a wall. There they hide as the man searches for them, trying to tempt the children out with promises and scare the mother into surrender. In the suffocating darkness, the mother struggles to remain calm, to plan. Should she search for a weapon or attempt escape? But then she catches another glimpse of him. That face. That voice. And at once she knows her situation is even more dire than she’d feared, because she knows exactly who he is—and what he wants.
Author: Peter Greenaway
Publisher: Veenman Publishers
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 176
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In 2007, the internationally renowned filmmaker Peter Greenaway ("The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover; The Draughtsman's Contract") will release "Nightwatching," a feature-length study of the life and loves of the eighteenth-century Dutch painter, Rembrandt, via his controversial masterpiece, "The Night Watch," an ensemble painting which depicts the identification of a murderer. According to Greenaway, the painting is "Rembrandt's "J'accuse."" There is a conspiracy painted in Rembrandt's "The Night Watch." The sinister title of the painting alone suggests we should look for it . Is this a painting, or an act of theater, or a still from a film?" In this accompanying artist's book, Greenaway offers fans a glimpse into his own artistic process, with written analyses of each of the characters in the painting followed by a wealth of enlarged, close-up details in which brush marks practically jump from the page.
Author: Paul Melia
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719056246
Category : Art, British
Languages : en
Pages : 164
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Morality plays were the main form of theatre in England between about 1400 and 1600. They usually portrayed a representative Christian figure locked in spiritual conflict. They have recently been revived as early examples of living theatre.
Author: Peter Greenaway
Publisher: Dis Voir Editions
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 132
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Peter Greenaway: Nightwatching~ISBN 2-914563-23-X U.S. $24.95 / Paperback, 8.25 x 7 in. / 128 pgs / 32 color. ~Item / June / Film Greenaway is a cultural omnivore who eats with his mouth open. --Pauline Kael
Author: María DeGuzmán
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 025300179X
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 327
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Often treated like night itself—both visible and invisible, feared and romanticized—Latina/os make up the largest minority group in the US. In her newest work, María DeGuzmán explores representations of night in art and literature from the Caribbean, Colombia, Central and South America, and the US, calling into question night's effect on the formation of identity for Latina/os in and outside of the US. She takes as her subject novels, short stories, poetry, essays, non-fiction, photo-fictions, photography, and film, and examines these texts through the lenses of nationhood, sexuality, human rights, exoticism, among others.
Author: Wendy Corsi Staub
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0062070290
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 338
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With Nightwatcher, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Wendy Corsi Staub delivers a ripped-from-the-headlines masterwork of suspense. New York City, September 11, 2001. In the chaotic wake of America’s worst national nightmare, a serial killer plies his bloody trade following the terrorist attacks, operating unnoticed by everyone . . . except for one frightened woman who has seen his face. And now Allison Taylor has become a target for a merciless predator stalking the denizens of a city on the edge . . . Praise for Wendi Corsi Staub and the Nightwatcher novels “Solid gold suspense . . . this one is a wild ride.” —#1 New York Times bestselling author Lee Child “If you like Mary Higgins Clark, you’ll love Wendy Corsi Staub!” —#1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa Jackson “Staub is boss when it comes to relaying fictionalized accounts of revulsion . . . Suspenseful, powerful, tense and—as usual—wonderfully written with an ending that will leave you guessing . . . A great read!” —Suspense Magazine “The thrills are near constant and combined with the waking nightmare state of 9/11, result in a high-tension and deeply visceral tale that will leave readers in a crippling state of uncertainty. The fear, the paranoia, the desperation—it leaps right off the page and gets under your skin.” —Criminal Element Nightwatcher Nightwatcher Sleepwalker Shadowkiller
Author: Elliott Arnold
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Denmark
Languages : en
Pages : 456
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A novel based on two weeks during World War II, when the Danish Underground smuggled nearly all of the 8000 Jews in Denmark to safety in Sweden.
Author: Meira Cook
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 1443433888
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 162
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One hot, lonely summer in the Orange Free State of South Africa, feisty Ruthie Blackburn finds herself at odds with everyone around her. She squirms under the watchful eye of her nanny, Miriam, and bristles at the neighbour’s gardener’s boy, Sip, who follows her everywhere and is her only friend. But mostly she misses her distracted widower father who is more absent each day. Ruthie runs reckless through the bleary, dull days of summer until the monotony is interrupted by the arrival of two guests from the big city. The events of this one weekend will alter the course of Ruthie’s adolescence and lead to a devastating tragedy. Set against the shifting political tensions of the late 1970s and written in prose that is both poetic and evocative, Ruthie and Sip powerfully captures a young girl’s sudden end of innocence.
Author: Kenneth S. Calhoon
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1487526954
Category : Art and motion pictures
Languages : en
Pages : 283
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The Long Century's Long Shadow explores what is cinematic about the developments in literature, art, and aesthetic thinking that emerged in Germany at the beginning of the nineteenth century.
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Languages : en
Pages : 1124
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