Author: Shobhaa De
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 8184751044
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 313
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Nisha falls in love with God in the college canteen when she is an impressionable teenager and he a ragged, streetwise student. God’s driving ambition leads him into journalism while Nisha lands a job in advertising. Sycophants, whores, fixers, pretty boys and party girls drift in and out of their lives as their careers take off with dizzying speed and then, as abruptly, everything goes terribly wrong . . .
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Category : New York (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 524
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Author: K. V. Surendran
Publisher: Sarup & Sons
ISBN: 9788176252553
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 166
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This Book Will Be Of Use To The Scholars Who Take Up Indian English Fiction For Their Researchand Also To All Those Who Are Interested In Familiarising Themselves With The Recent Trends In This Area.
Author: Tess Nottebohm
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1465319034
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 263
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For those of us who never quite grasped the tragic depth of Hurricane Katrinas 2005 inundation of New Orleans, Tess Nottebohms new novel, Sultry Days of Blood and Angels, is a prose poem reminding us how fragile, beautiful, tragic, erotic and utterly sui generis was and is the Crescent City. Sultry Days is confected from the bitter-sweet urban archeology of a place that for three-hundred years has lived a few frightening meters of water away from extinction and lived, therefore, that much closer to the edge. It is that rich boundary teeming with life, sex, voodoo and death and the inescapable tie to Creole customs and cuisine that is an irreducible part of the richness of 19th Century New Orleans so convincingly captured and elegantly served up in Tess Nottebohms Sultry Days of Blood and Angels. ~ Richard Rapaport, author, journalist, and visiting Scholar University of California Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies Sultry Days of Blood and Angels is a lush journey into history, identity, and passion. The threadbare pages of an old man's antique journal burst with a Pandora's Box of deep-bayou intriguespurring a modern young adventuress to seek her own destiny through the journal's account of three wildly compelling female characters. Author Tess Nottebohm brings to vibrant life the mansions and back roads of old New Orleans with exhilaration and gutsy sensuality. Each bodice-ripping, mind-bending escapade is injected with a raw, unconventional twist on relationships, self-awareness, and the elusive nature of time itself. Nottebohm's satisfied readers will end up scouring flea markets everywhere for lace cravats, muslin bloomers, and dusty Cajun talismans! ~ Stephanie JT Russell, author, One Flash of Lightning: A Samurai Path for Living the Moment Disillusioned with the lack of passion, enchantment, and beauty in the modern world, Annette Emery stumbles onto the ornate city of New Orleans. Under its powerful seduction, and through a chance encounter with a book merchant, she follows clues that lead her to an abandoned cabin in the bayou, where she finds the journal of a fabled recluse, Wellsworth Worthington. Written in 1903, and dating back to events as early as 1822, the complex story that unfolds ultimately brings Annette to her own surprising connection to its notorious characters. Through Wellsworths bewitched account of the past, we meet two free-spirited young women: Divinity, daughter of slave and master, and Priscilla, of the tormented Lefeuvre family. Healers and scholars, or witches and whores, according to what rumors are believed, their antics are spied upon by Wellsworth, who makes himself the ladies devoted houseman after finding Divinity naked and unconscious in the bayou. He resides at their mansion, Chez Mystiphi, until its temptations become his undoing. Part mystery, part adult fairy tale, Sultry Days of Blood and Angels is an intricately woven, offbeat tale of obsession, betrayal, and murder, that touches on Vampire lore, Voodoo and Slavery; raising questions about what it means to be truly free. The reader may well be seduced by this books sultry, subversive heart, and swept away by its poetic eroticism, into an exploration of what we have unwittingly lost, and what we might choose to reclaim, from our past. But most of all, it is a dream of the future.
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Category : New York (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 1506
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Author: Binod Mishra
Publisher: Sarup & Sons
ISBN: 9788176256766
Category : Feminism in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 274
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Author: New York (N.Y.). City Inspector
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Category : Death
Languages : en
Pages : 516
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Category : Medical geography
Languages : en
Pages : 158
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Author: Natural philosophy
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Languages : en
Pages : 96
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Author: Becky Burckmyer
Publisher: Red Wheel/Weiser
ISBN: 1601639007
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 166
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If your skill with words isn't up to scratch, you may find yourself sidelined or ignored at work and elsewhere. You create an impression with what you write, and a weak or incorrect vocabulary is a serious liability. Awesome Vocabulary offers a painless way to build an exceptional vocabulary. Readers will discover comprehensive, useful lists of words and exercises focused on improving word choices. They'll also learn: Tricks to reveal the meaning of new words Memory devices to help distinguish between similar words The difference between using words to impress and using words that make their meanings clear Examples of writing—correct and incorrect, attractive and unlovely, persuasive and off-putting—that clearly show the right stuff and how to amend the wrong stuff The secret to "balanced prose": the Rule of Three Avoiding repetition and redundancy The proper vocabulary for the proper occasion: business letters, e-mails, and casual conversation
