Author: Gerard Collins
Publisher: Killick Press
ISBN: 9781897174906
Category : Alienation (Social psychology)
Languages : en
Pages : 333
Book Description
In this gothic, adult fairytale, Finton Moon is a child who feels like an alien within his own family and community. Growing up in the rough town of Darwin, Finton lives with his strict Catholic mother and grandmother, his lawless, faithless father and his two older brothers. While his grandmother has him "right ready for the seminary," Finton's interest lies in books, nature and solitude. Finton's parents quickly discover that he is extraordinary--for he has been born with the ability to heal with his hands. While Finton Moon wants nothing more than to belong, he lives in a world that sees him as other, and his greatest fear is that he will be trapped forever with these people who both misunderstand and abuse him.--Cover, p. [4].
Finton Moon
Author: Gerard Collins
Publisher: Killick Press
ISBN: 9781897174906
Category : Alienation (Social psychology)
Languages : en
Pages : 333
Book Description
In this gothic, adult fairytale, Finton Moon is a child who feels like an alien within his own family and community. Growing up in the rough town of Darwin, Finton lives with his strict Catholic mother and grandmother, his lawless, faithless father and his two older brothers. While his grandmother has him "right ready for the seminary," Finton's interest lies in books, nature and solitude. Finton's parents quickly discover that he is extraordinary--for he has been born with the ability to heal with his hands. While Finton Moon wants nothing more than to belong, he lives in a world that sees him as other, and his greatest fear is that he will be trapped forever with these people who both misunderstand and abuse him.--Cover, p. [4].
Publisher: Killick Press
ISBN: 9781897174906
Category : Alienation (Social psychology)
Languages : en
Pages : 333
Book Description
In this gothic, adult fairytale, Finton Moon is a child who feels like an alien within his own family and community. Growing up in the rough town of Darwin, Finton lives with his strict Catholic mother and grandmother, his lawless, faithless father and his two older brothers. While his grandmother has him "right ready for the seminary," Finton's interest lies in books, nature and solitude. Finton's parents quickly discover that he is extraordinary--for he has been born with the ability to heal with his hands. While Finton Moon wants nothing more than to belong, he lives in a world that sees him as other, and his greatest fear is that he will be trapped forever with these people who both misunderstand and abuse him.--Cover, p. [4].
The Devil Himself
Author: Stacy Gillis
Publisher: Praeger
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
A study of the villain in detective fiction and film. It examines such questions as what the villains reflect about the heroes, what they reflect about society, and what defines villainous activity. The texts range from Charles Brockden Brown's "Weiland" (1798) to the film "Seven" (1995).
Publisher: Praeger
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
A study of the villain in detective fiction and film. It examines such questions as what the villains reflect about the heroes, what they reflect about society, and what defines villainous activity. The texts range from Charles Brockden Brown's "Weiland" (1798) to the film "Seven" (1995).
The Man who Fell in Love with the Moon
Author: Tom Spanbauer
Publisher: Grove Press
ISBN: 9780802136633
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
In this title, the plot twists around the questions of humanity in a comic contemporary novel that portrays the trials of Shed, a half-breed, bisexual boy who works at a Victorian whorehouse in the old West.
Publisher: Grove Press
ISBN: 9780802136633
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
In this title, the plot twists around the questions of humanity in a comic contemporary novel that portrays the trials of Shed, a half-breed, bisexual boy who works at a Victorian whorehouse in the old West.
Moonlight Sketches
Author: Gerard Collins
Publisher: Breakwater Books
ISBN: 9781897174708
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
Welcome to Darwin, Newfoundland, a small town with big secrets. On the surface, nothing ever changes and everyone is content. But the truth is as restless, cold, and mutable as the ocean in these sixteen linked short stories. In Darwin, people's secrets are hidden and their fears are buried. But night after night, the moon bears quiet witness to their brightest moments and darkest days. A Catholic girl finds herself pregnant and feels hopelessly trapped. An elderly couple fears the end of their happy, quiet life when their money sock goes missing. Two lesbians walk into the wrong bar on a Saturday night. A young teacher must rescue a student from her wicked father. A wild youth seeks to rectify his life, but first takes his bookish friend on one last heist. In Moonlight Sketches, Gerard Collins portrays a land of shadows, beyond the overpass, where cruelty and hope gnaw at your peace of mind as the brine patiently devours a wharf. With his trademark dark humour and a nod to the unknown, the author shines a light on the difficulty of being human and yet somehow surviving with grace, dignity, and a modicum of happiness. Winner of the Ches Crosbie Barrister Newfoundland Book Award for Fiction
Publisher: Breakwater Books
ISBN: 9781897174708
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
Welcome to Darwin, Newfoundland, a small town with big secrets. On the surface, nothing ever changes and everyone is content. But the truth is as restless, cold, and mutable as the ocean in these sixteen linked short stories. In Darwin, people's secrets are hidden and their fears are buried. But night after night, the moon bears quiet witness to their brightest moments and darkest days. A Catholic girl finds herself pregnant and feels hopelessly trapped. An elderly couple fears the end of their happy, quiet life when their money sock goes missing. Two lesbians walk into the wrong bar on a Saturday night. A young teacher must rescue a student from her wicked father. A wild youth seeks to rectify his life, but first takes his bookish friend on one last heist. In Moonlight Sketches, Gerard Collins portrays a land of shadows, beyond the overpass, where cruelty and hope gnaw at your peace of mind as the brine patiently devours a wharf. With his trademark dark humour and a nod to the unknown, the author shines a light on the difficulty of being human and yet somehow surviving with grace, dignity, and a modicum of happiness. Winner of the Ches Crosbie Barrister Newfoundland Book Award for Fiction
Fenton, Engleman, Campbell, and Moon Family Notebook
Author: Eloise Joyce McBroom
Publisher:
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Category : England
Languages : en
Pages :
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Languages : en
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Of A Fire On The Moon
Author: Norman Mailer
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Languages : en
Pages : 418
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Languages : en
Pages : 418
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The New Moon
Author: Elizabeth Robins
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Languages : en
Pages : 194
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Languages : en
Pages : 194
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A fire on the moon
Author: Norman Mailer
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Languages : en
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Report
Author: Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 920
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Pages : 920
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The Blue Moon
Author: Laurence Housman
Publisher: 1st World Publishing
ISBN: 1421805669
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 118
Book Description
Nillywill and Hands-pansy were the most unimportant and happy pair of lovers the world has ever gained or lost. With them it had been a case of love at first blindness since the day when they had tumbled into each other's arms in the same cradle. And Hands-pansy, when he first saw her, did not discover that Nillywill was a real princess hiding her birthright in the home of a poor peasant; nor did Nillywill, when she first saw Hands, see in him the baby-beginnings of the most honest and good heart that ever sprang out of poverty and humble parentage. So from her end of their little crib she kicked him with her royal rosy toes, and he from his kicked back and laughed: and thus, as you hear, at first blindness they fell head over ears in love with one another.
Publisher: 1st World Publishing
ISBN: 1421805669
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 118
Book Description
Nillywill and Hands-pansy were the most unimportant and happy pair of lovers the world has ever gained or lost. With them it had been a case of love at first blindness since the day when they had tumbled into each other's arms in the same cradle. And Hands-pansy, when he first saw her, did not discover that Nillywill was a real princess hiding her birthright in the home of a poor peasant; nor did Nillywill, when she first saw Hands, see in him the baby-beginnings of the most honest and good heart that ever sprang out of poverty and humble parentage. So from her end of their little crib she kicked him with her royal rosy toes, and he from his kicked back and laughed: and thus, as you hear, at first blindness they fell head over ears in love with one another.