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![]() ![]() ![]() Nowadays, it was, perhaps, nevertheless true, that the sense of being "destined for happiness" that Rimbaud evokes in A Season in Hell seems to have determined his life, now that it is over. Philippe Sollers loved to recount how, when he met André Breton in 1960, the writer and poet gave him a copy of the Surrealist Manifesto with the following message: "To Philippe Sollers, loved by fairies." Sollers was often amused by those who, using a similar image and, as I do myself the day after his death, joked about how fairies had once leaned over his cradle. Subscribers only Philippe Sollers, in Paris, January 15, 2011. The French writer, who wrote 'A Strange Solitude,' founded two successful journals and was the heart of Paris' intellectual scene in the 1960s and 70s, died at the age of 86 on May 6.īy Philippe Forest (writer) Published on May 6, 2023, at 11:16 am (Paris), updated on May 6, 2023, at 11:28 am Philippe Sollers, novelist, critic and essayist, has died ![]() ![]() A cache of unsigned letters found in the attic points to a mysterious romance in her grandmother’s life, and may be what sparks a frightening, violent assault. legend and a small-town scandal in this 1 New York Times bestseller from Nora Roberts. Determined not to carry on the family tradition of ill-fated romances, Cilla steels herself against Ford’s quirky charm, though she can’t help indulging in a little fantasy.īut it’s reality that holds its share of dangers for Cilla. Plunging into the project with gusto, Cilla’s almost too busy and exhausted to notice her neighbor, graphic novelist Ford Sawyer. So she comes to Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley to save the dilapidated farmhouse of her grandmother-a legendary actress who died of an overdose there more than thirty years ago. ![]() ![]() A young woman gets caught up in the secrets and shadows of a big-screen legend and a small-town scandal in this #1 New York Times bestseller from Nora Roberts.Ĭilla McGowan, a former child star, has found a more satisfying life restoring homes. ![]() ![]() Roman history has long fascinated the world. Acclaim: ML Top 100 English Language Novels of the 20th Century #14 TIME 100 Best Novels Since 1923 List James Tait Black Memorial Prize. ![]() Even the mature historian’s privilege of setting forth conversations of which he knows only the gist is one that I have availed myself of hardly at all.”
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In the highly unlikely event that she continued to list the CD for sale, she could under German copyright law face a fine of up to £212,353 or six months in prison.Ĭlapton’s manager, Michael Eaton, told the Guardian: “Germany is a country where sales of bootleg and counterfeit CDs are rife, which damages the industry and customers with poor quality and misleading recordings. The court stipulated that she must pay the legal fees of both parties, which total £2,889. The judge said it was irrelevant that she did not buy the CD herself. The woman appealed, stating that her late husband bought the disc in 1987 at a popular German department store, but lost. ![]() In response to a standard letter from Clapton’s German legal team, the woman replied: “I object and ask you not to harass or contact me any further”, and told them “feel free to file a lawsuit if you insist on the demands”.Īn injunction was filed and the court found in Clapton’s favour. Lawyers for the 76-year-old rock star pursued the case, and sent a Düsseldorf regional court an affidavit stating that the recordings were illegal and made without Clapton’s consent. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I’ve read so many non-linear narratives recently it will take a while for me to get used to a linear narrative. The events follow in chronological order. STRUCTURE: King uses a standard, linear structure in The Drawing of the Three. The Drawing of The Three is one of my favourites from King’s Dark Tower series. The gunslinger came awake from a confused dream which seemed to consist of a single image that of the Sailor in the Tarot deck from which the man in black had dealt (or purported to deal) the gunslinger’s own moaning future. And confronts deadly serial killer Jack Mort.Īs the titanic forces gather, a savage struggle between underworld evil and otherworldly enemies conspire to bring an end to Roland’s quest for the Dark Tower. ![]() Roland of Gilead, the Last Gunslinger, encounters three doors which open to 1980’s America, where he joins forces with the defiant Eddie Dean and the courageous, volatile Odetta Holmes. ![]() TITLE: THE DARK TOWER II: THE DRAWING OF THE THREE ![]() ![]() The Mesoamerican Saga is composed of three series – seventeen full-length novels all in all – and is covering the turbulent history of the 14-15th century Mesoamerica, the central Mexican Valley in particular, where the people we came to know as the Aztecs were busy carving their place among other local powers and empires. Years later and after close to two decades of exhaustive research and creative writing, poring through the available primary sources and sometimes modern-day scholars’ interpretation of those, I’m pleased to offer series of historical novels that cover the lively history of the American continent, tracing pivotal events that brought about the greatness of pre-contact North and Mesoamerica. ![]() ![]() Pre-contact America and its people and cultures were my obsession since I could remember myself, long before I knew what I wished or could do about it. ![]() ![]() ![]() The feeling grows as he shares jokes with the resident ghost, manifests embarrassing footwear and notices the stars. But as Wallace drinks tea with Hugo and talks to his customers, he wonders if he was missing something. He’d had no time for frivolities like fun and friends. Yet even in death, he refuses to abandon his life – even though Wallace spent all of it working, correcting colleagues and hectoring employees. Then when Hugo, owner of a most peculiar tea shop, promises to help him cross over, Wallace reluctantly accepts the truth. But he begins to suspect she’s right, and he is in fact dead. When a reaper comes to collect Wallace from his own sparsely attended funeral, Wallace is outraged. The tea is hot, the scones are fresh and the dead are just passing through. TJ Klune brings us a warm hug of a story about a man who spent his life at the office – and his afterlife building a home.įrom the author of joyous the New York Times bestseller The House in the Cerulean Sea. Witty, haunting and kind, Under the Whispering Door is a gift for troubled times. ![]() ![]() ![]() the function of the Organs in Stalin’s regime.In this summary of The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956 by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn,In this book summary you’ll find out This book summary will take you through some of Solzhenitsyn’s thoughts and stories about the gulag system that brought misery to millions. This allows Solzhenitsyn to take an anthropological approach, describing to the reader what life was like on those strange and brutal islands. ![]() ![]() The central literary device Solzhenitsyn uses is the metaphor of Stalin’s gulag network as a chain of islands – otherwise known as an archipelago – separate and out of view from the rest of Russia. Therefore, Solzhenitsyn’s work is not your average non-fiction account of life in a prison camp – it’s also an attempt to capture the bleak absurdity and desperate humanity of it all. While rightfully regarded as a vitally important document of the horrible acts committed by the government under Stalin’s rule, it’s also a great work of literature, both unflinching and deeply poetic. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s The Gulag Archipelago holds an interesting place in literary history. ![]() ![]() ![]() Disproportionately represented in the movement, Jewish women’s liberationists helped to provide theories and models for radical action that were used throughout the United States and abroad. ![]() Delving into archival sources and conducting extensive interviews with these fierce pioneers, Joyce Antler has at last broken the silence about the confluence of feminism and Jewish identity.Īntler’s exhilarating new book features dozens of compelling biographical narratives that reveal the struggles and achievements of Jewish radical feminists in Chicago, New York and Boston, as well as those who participated in the later, self-consciously identified Jewish feminist movement that fought gender inequities in Jewish religious and secular life. This has left many vital questions unasked and unanswered-until now. Yet historians and participants themselves have overlooked their contributions as Jews. ![]() Jewish women were undeniably instrumental in shaping the women’s liberation movement of the 1960s, 70s, and 80s. Finalist, 2019 PROSE Award in Biography, given by the Association of American Publishersįifty years after the start of the women’s liberation movement, a book that at last illuminates the profound impact Jewishness and second-wave feminism had on each other ![]() |