The Cannibal Galaxy

The Cannibal Galaxy PDF Author: Cynthia Ozick
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780815603542
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 176

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This series will introduce new readers and reacquaint a past generation of readers to the imaginative literature of the modern Jewish experience.

The Cannibal Galaxy

The Cannibal Galaxy PDF Author: Cynthia Ozick
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780815603542
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 176

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Book Description
This series will introduce new readers and reacquaint a past generation of readers to the imaginative literature of the modern Jewish experience.

The Cannibal Galaxy

The Cannibal Galaxy PDF Author: Outlet
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780517491126
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

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Life and Times of Michael K

Life and Times of Michael K PDF Author: J. M. Coetzee
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1524705489
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 194

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From author of Waiting for the Barbarians and Nobel Prize winner J.M. Coetzee. J.M. Coetzee's latest novel, The Schooldays of Jesus, is now available from Viking. Late Essays: 2006-2016 will be available January 2018. In a South Africa turned by war, Michael K. sets out to take his ailing mother back to her rural home. On the way there she dies, leaving him alone in an anarchic world of brutal roving armies. Imprisoned, Michael is unable to bear confinement and escapes, determined to live with dignity. This life affirming novel goes to the center of human experience—the need for an interior, spiritual life; for some connections to the world in which we live; and for purity of vision.

Battle for Cannibal Island

Battle for Cannibal Island PDF Author: Marianne Hering
Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
ISBN: 1604826630
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 75

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Over 1 million sold in series! It’s 1852 and cousins Patrick and Beth sail to Fiji on the HMS Calliope under the command of Captain James E. Home. They arrive at the islands to find that the Christian Fijians are at war with the non-Christian Fijians. Missionary James Calvert is trying to make peace and suggests that the captain allow peace negotiations on board the British vessel. Patrick and Beth learn about sacrificial living when they observe Calvert’s determination to live on Fiji despite the dangers and impoverished conditions and that he is willing to risk his life to live as Jesus would.

The Puttermesser Papers

The Puttermesser Papers PDF Author: Cynthia Ozick
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0679777393
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 260

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With dashing originality and in prose that sings like an entire choir of sirens, Cynthia Ozick relates the life and times of her most compelling fictional creation. Ruth Puttermesser lives in New York City. Her learning is monumental. Her love life is minimal (she prefers pouring through Plato to romping with married Morris Rappoport). And her fantasies have a disconcerting tendency to come true - with disastrous consequences for what we laughably call "reality." Puttermesser yearns for a daughter and promptly creates one, unassisted, in the form of the first recorded female golem. Laboring in the dusty crevices of the civil service, she dreams of reforming the city - and manages to get herself elected mayor. Puttermesser contemplates the afterlife and is hurtled into it headlong, only to discover that a paradise found is also paradise lost. Overflowing with ideas, lambent with wit, The Puttermesser Papers is a tour de force by one of our most visionary novelists. "The finest achievement of Ozick's career... It has all the buoyant integrity of a Chagall painting." -San Francisco Chronicle "Fanciful, poignant... so intelligent, so finely expressed that, like its main character, it remains endearing, edifying, a spark of light in the gloom." -The New York Times "A crazy delight." -The New York Time Book Review

Horrid Henry's Cannibal Curse

Horrid Henry's Cannibal Curse PDF Author: Francesca Simon
Publisher: Orion Children's Books
ISBN: 1444012428
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 98

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The final collection of four brand new utterly horrid stories; Horrid Henry's Bake-Off sees Henry and Margaret go head-to-head in a hotly contested baking competition, Henry triumphantly reveals his top tips in Horrid Henry's Extra Horrid Guide to Perfect Parents, he reads an interesting book about Evil Evie, a really naughty girl not too dissimilar to himself in Horrid Henry's Bad Book, and conjures up an ancient cannibal's curse to deal with his enemies and small, annoying brother in Horrid Henry's Cannibal Curse. Horrid Henry is illustrated by Tony Ross, who also illustrates David Walliams' children's books, as well as his own picture books.

Understanding Cynthia Ozick

Understanding Cynthia Ozick PDF Author: Lawrence S. Friedman
Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN: 9780872497726
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 200

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Discussing Jewish themes in Ozick's writings, examines the literary evocation of the Holocaust in the novels "Trust" (1966), "The Messiah of Stockholm" (1987), and in the story "The Shawl" (1989).

Antiquities

Antiquities PDF Author: Cynthia Ozick
Publisher: Knopf
ISBN: 0593318838
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 193

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From one of our most preeminent writers, a tale that captures the shifting meanings of the past and how our experience colors those meanings In Antiquities, Lloyd Wilkinson Petrie, one of the seven elderly trustees of the now-defunct (for thirty-four years) Temple Academy for Boys, is preparing a memoir of his days at the school, intertwined with the troubling distractions of present events. As he navigates, with faltering recall, between the subtle anti-Semitism that pervaded the school's ethos and his fascination with his own family's heritage--in particular, his illustrious cousin, the renowned archaeologist Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie--he reconstructs the passions of a childhood encounter with the oddly named Ben-Zion Elefantin, a mystifying older pupil who claims descent from Egypt's Elephantine Island. From this seed emerges one of Cynthia Ozick's most wondrous tales, touched by unsettling irony and the elusive flavor of a Kafka parable, and weaving, in her own distinctive voice, myth and mania, history and illusion.

Bloodshed and Three Novellas

Bloodshed and Three Novellas PDF Author: Cynthia Ozick
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
ISBN: 9780815603528
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 188

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Foreign Bodies

Foreign Bodies PDF Author: Cynthia Ozick
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0547504551
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 261

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In her sixth novel, Cynthia Ozick retells the story of Henry James’s The Ambassadors as a photographic negative, retaining the plot but reversing the meaning. Foreign Bodies transforms Henry James’s prototype into a brilliant, utterly original, new American classic. At the core of the story is Bea Nightingale, a fiftyish divorced schoolteacher whose life has been on hold during the many years since her brief marriage. When her estranged, difficult brother asks her to leave New York for Paris to retrieve a nephew she barely knows, she becomes entangled in the lives of her brother’s family and even, after so long, her ex-husband. Every one of them is irrevocably changed by the events of just a few months in that fateful year. Traveling from New York to Paris to Hollywood, aiding and abetting her nephew and niece while waging a war of letters with her brother, facing her ex-husband and finally shaking off his lingering sneers from decades past, Bea Nightingale is a newly liberated divorcee who inadvertently wreaks havoc on the very people she tries to help.