Author: Alan Cumyn
Publisher: Fredericton, N.B. : Goose Lane Editions
ISBN: 9780864924483
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
In this much anticipated follow-up to The Sojourn, Alan Cumyn continues the story of Ramsay Crome, an artist who never quite came home from the First World War. The horrors of his years in a German prisoner of war camp continue to haunt him, as does the idealized memory of his long-lost sweetheart, his beautiful Margaret. It is those memories that literally save his life and keep him from a cold grave in a foreign land. Upon his return home to Montreal, Crome seeks the nourishment of body and soul, sometimes impulsively, after years of torture and deprivation. He meets Lillian, a farm girl from the Eastern Townships and is drawn to her youthful vigour, her innocence, and yes, her beauty. These prove to be a potent elixir and they marry quickly. By the time she is pregnant with their son, she wants nothing more than to escape the dreary poverty of their Depression-era existence and flee back to the farm with her husband and child. She wants him to love only her, to open up about his war experiences, explain the paintings she found of a nude Margaret. To her they are obscenities and provoke the bitter taste of jealousy. The Famished Lover is Alan Cumyn's most mature and accomplished novel to date. It explores one man's hunger for love and meaning in a harsh, unforgiving world and the beautiful, yet corrosive, nature of longing.
The Famished Lover
Author: Alan Cumyn
Publisher: Fredericton, N.B. : Goose Lane Editions
ISBN: 9780864924483
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
In this much anticipated follow-up to The Sojourn, Alan Cumyn continues the story of Ramsay Crome, an artist who never quite came home from the First World War. The horrors of his years in a German prisoner of war camp continue to haunt him, as does the idealized memory of his long-lost sweetheart, his beautiful Margaret. It is those memories that literally save his life and keep him from a cold grave in a foreign land. Upon his return home to Montreal, Crome seeks the nourishment of body and soul, sometimes impulsively, after years of torture and deprivation. He meets Lillian, a farm girl from the Eastern Townships and is drawn to her youthful vigour, her innocence, and yes, her beauty. These prove to be a potent elixir and they marry quickly. By the time she is pregnant with their son, she wants nothing more than to escape the dreary poverty of their Depression-era existence and flee back to the farm with her husband and child. She wants him to love only her, to open up about his war experiences, explain the paintings she found of a nude Margaret. To her they are obscenities and provoke the bitter taste of jealousy. The Famished Lover is Alan Cumyn's most mature and accomplished novel to date. It explores one man's hunger for love and meaning in a harsh, unforgiving world and the beautiful, yet corrosive, nature of longing.
Publisher: Fredericton, N.B. : Goose Lane Editions
ISBN: 9780864924483
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
In this much anticipated follow-up to The Sojourn, Alan Cumyn continues the story of Ramsay Crome, an artist who never quite came home from the First World War. The horrors of his years in a German prisoner of war camp continue to haunt him, as does the idealized memory of his long-lost sweetheart, his beautiful Margaret. It is those memories that literally save his life and keep him from a cold grave in a foreign land. Upon his return home to Montreal, Crome seeks the nourishment of body and soul, sometimes impulsively, after years of torture and deprivation. He meets Lillian, a farm girl from the Eastern Townships and is drawn to her youthful vigour, her innocence, and yes, her beauty. These prove to be a potent elixir and they marry quickly. By the time she is pregnant with their son, she wants nothing more than to escape the dreary poverty of their Depression-era existence and flee back to the farm with her husband and child. She wants him to love only her, to open up about his war experiences, explain the paintings she found of a nude Margaret. To her they are obscenities and provoke the bitter taste of jealousy. The Famished Lover is Alan Cumyn's most mature and accomplished novel to date. It explores one man's hunger for love and meaning in a harsh, unforgiving world and the beautiful, yet corrosive, nature of longing.
The Lover Fugitives
Author: John Finnemore
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Languages : en
Pages : 368
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Languages : en
Pages : 368
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Dramatic works
Author: John Dryden
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Languages : en
Pages : 668
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Languages : en
Pages : 668
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The Volcano Lover
Author: Susan Sontag
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312420079
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
Set in 18th century Naples, based on the lives of Sir William Hamilton, his celebrated wife Emma, and Lord Nelson, and peopled with many of the great figures of the day, this unconventional, bestselling historical romance from the National Book Award-winning author of In America touches on themes of sex and revolution, the fate of nature, art and the collector's obsessions, and, above all, love.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312420079
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
Set in 18th century Naples, based on the lives of Sir William Hamilton, his celebrated wife Emma, and Lord Nelson, and peopled with many of the great figures of the day, this unconventional, bestselling historical romance from the National Book Award-winning author of In America touches on themes of sex and revolution, the fate of nature, art and the collector's obsessions, and, above all, love.
Loving and Loth. A Novel
Author: Bertha De Jongh
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Languages : en
Pages : 312
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Languages : en
Pages : 312
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The House of Love
Author: Lucien V. Rule
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Category : Indiana
Languages : en
Pages : 76
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Category : Indiana
Languages : en
Pages : 76
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The Works of John Dryden
Author: John Dryden
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Languages : en
Pages : 664
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Pages : 664
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Royal Lovers and Mistresses
Author: Angelo S. Rappoport
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Category : Favorites, Royal
Languages : en
Pages : 386
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Category : Favorites, Royal
Languages : en
Pages : 386
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Helping Children Who Yearn for Someone They Love
Author: Margot Sunderland
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1351693476
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
This is a guidebook to help children who: "are missing someone too much or suffer from separation anxiety"; are obsessed with their absent parent "yearn for a parent who: has died; seems unreachable, although she is right there; or is loving one minute and indifferent, cold or abusive the next". They yearn because they have been taken into care, fostered or adopted.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1351693476
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
This is a guidebook to help children who: "are missing someone too much or suffer from separation anxiety"; are obsessed with their absent parent "yearn for a parent who: has died; seems unreachable, although she is right there; or is loving one minute and indifferent, cold or abusive the next". They yearn because they have been taken into care, fostered or adopted.
Careful and Strict Examination of the External Covenant, and of the principles by which it is supported. A reply to ... Moses Mather's piece, entituled, The Visible Church in covenant with God, further illustrated, &c. A vindication of the plan on which the churches in New-England were originally formed, etc
Author: Joseph BELLAMY
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Languages : en
Pages : 196
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Languages : en
Pages : 196
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