Author: Julia Martin
Publisher: Jonathan Ball Publishers
ISBN: 1868429652
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 285
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A quest is never what you expect it to be. Elizabeth Madeline Martin spends her days in a retirement home in Cape Town, watching the pigeons and squirrels on the branch of a tree outside her window. Bedridden, her memory fading, she can recall her early childhood spent in a small wood-and-iron house in Blackridge on the outskirts of Pietermaritzburg. Though she remembers the place in detail – dogs, a mango tree, a stream – she has no idea of where exactly it is. 'My memory is full of blotches,' she tells her daughter Julia, 'like ink left about and knocked over.' Julia resolves to find the Blackridge house: with her mother lonely and confused, would this, perhaps, bring some measure of closure? A journey begins that traverses family history, forgotten documents, old photographs, and the maps that stake out a country's troubled past – maps whose boundaries nature remains determined to resist. Kind strangers, willing to assist in the search, lead to unexpected discoveries of ancestors and wars and lullabies. Folded into this quest are the tender conversations between a daughter and a mother who does not have long to live. Taken as one, The Blackridge House is a meditation on belonging, of the stories we tell of home and family, of the precarious footprint of life.
Author: Paul Theroux
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Languages : en
Pages : 246
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Author: Patricia Highsmith
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393326314
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 272
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With Norton's publication of The Black House, Patricia Highsmith's entire body of work is now back in print. First published in 1981, this volume is one of Highsmith's most nuanced and psychologically suspenseful works. The stories in The Black House mine classic Highsmith terrain as they sketch the lives of suburban dwellers that appear quite normal at first but unravel to reveal their proximity to the macabre. This collection is a perfect example of Highsmith's view of human nature and a fitting capstone to the reintroduction of one of the twentieth century's greatest writers.
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Category : Coal trade
Languages : en
Pages : 726
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Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004408878
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 399
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Green Matters offers a fascinating insight into the regenerative function of literature with regard to environmental concerns. The contributions to this volume explore individual works or literary genres with a view to highlighting their eco-cultural potential.
Author: Henrietta Euphemia Tindal
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Languages : en
Pages : 320
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Author: Diana Butler
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Languages : en
Pages : 320
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Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 644
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Category : Scotland
Languages : en
Pages : 1026
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Languages : en
Pages : 838
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