The global appetite for stories about the goings-on and misdeeds of the British elite appears to be limitless. Case in point: The Pursuit of Love, a semi-autobiographical novel by Nancy Mitford, has been made into three separate series over the years, including the just-released BBC/Amazon series adapted and directed by Emily Mortimer and starring Lily James and Dominic West. Today, nearly a century later, Mitford biographies hit bestseller lists the sisters’ lives are endlessly parsed in articles and documentaries stories based on them are regularly dramatized. “There we were, larger than life,” Jessica said, “Mitfords renamed Radletts.”ĭuring the 1930s and '40s, the brood-six sisters and a lone brother, Tom- provided relentless headlines and commanded both admiration and virulent hatred. With the novel, Nancy had pulled off a seemingly impossible feat: she’d fictionalized her complicated, calamitous family-with all its Fascist fervor and Nazi ties-and turned them into charmingly eccentric toffs. “How I shrieked,” Jessica Mitford once said of reading her older sister Nancy’s now-classic book The Pursuit of Love.
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First published in 1967, on the eve of the second wave of feminism, Ice has never been regarded as a significant work of proto-feminist literature, although scholars occasionally include it on lists of sf by women written before the major works of feminist sf burst onto the scene in the 1970s. Wed - Filed under: Free Stuff to Read, ReviewsĪnna Kavan’s Ice is a novel of relentless, evanescent beauty that depicts a world in which two explicitly linked forms of violence dominate and inexorably and insanely destroy it. What’s the Story: Reading Anna Kavan’s Ice by L. OL1889661W Page_number_confidence 90.85 Pages 286 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.19 Ppi 360 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20220915185931 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 293 Scandate 20220827211903 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9780312216955 Tts_version 5. Urn:lcp:germanrevolution0000siem:epub:b284fdf8-6951-4b8e-9e59-fe530943afb6 Foldoutcount 0 Identifier germanrevolution0000siem Identifier-ark ark:/13960/s2fnjm1bvmb Invoice 1652 Isbn 0312216947Ġ312216955 Lccn 98021100 Ocr tesseract 5.2.0-1-gc42a Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_detected_script_conf 0.9756 Ocr_module_version 0.0.18 Ocr_parameters -l eng Old_pallet IA-WL-0000404 Openlibrary_edition But in this landmark biography, the first to make use of state and family papers, Wolfram Siemann paints a fundamentally new image of the man, revealing him to be more forward-looking and nimble than we have ever recognized. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 17:02:14 Autocrop_version 0.0.14_books-20220331-0.2 Bookplateleaf 0002 Boxid IA40678201 Camera Sony Alpha-A6300 (Control) Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier They embrace the language and the sadness and the drama. The Write Act Repertory actors are really very good. There’s no action to distract from central themes, simple wardrobe, no staging, and what is left is the core of the story – the people, the sounds the emotion and the tale well written and well told. Photo by Anne Mesa courtesy of Write Act Repertory. Gale Madyun, Dean Ghaffari and Hettie Lynne Hurtes. I find onstage radio style plays to be a very intimate way of telling a story. Write Act Repertory’s “A Journal of the Plague Year” is told as a radio play, with the cast playing many roles and sitting onstage while the story unfolds. This stirring and obviously very relevant story of pandemic sickness is told through the account of a business man, H.F., living in London in 1664, when the black death hit the world hard and killed half the population of London. Keough, produced by John Lant and Anne Mesa, running through December 19 at The Brickhouse Theatre in the NoHo Arts District. A theatre review of Write Act Repertory’s “A Journal of The Plague Year,” written by Willard Manus, adapted from Daniel Defoe’s book, directed by Daniel E. She became the first woman ever granted full custody of her children in a contested suit involving the FLDS, and in 2006, her reports to the Utah attorney general on church abuses formed a crucial part of the case that led to the arrest of its notorious leader, Warren Jeffs. Against this background, Carolyn Jessop’s flight takes on an extraordinary, inspiring power. Escape exposes a world tantamount to a prison camp, created by religious fanatics. But in 2003, Carolyn chose freedom over fear and fled her home with her eight children. Over the next fifteen years, Carolyn had eight children and withstood her husband’s psychological abuse and the watchful eyes of his other wives, who were locked in a constant battle for supremacy.Ĭarolyn was miserable for years and wanted out, but she knew that if she tried to leave and got caught, her children would be taken away from her. But arranged plural marriages were an integral part of Carolyn’s heritage: She was born into and raised in the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS), the radical offshoot of the Mormon Church. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The dramatic true story of one woman’s life inside the ultra-fundamentalist American religious sect featured in Keep Sweet: Pray and Obeyand her courageous flight to freedom with her eight children. When she was eighteen years old, Carolyn Jessop was coerced into an arranged marriage with a total stranger: a man thirty-two years her senior. Two young teenagers named Fiona Patterson and Zeke Prisco are caught up in the crossfire between a newly revived Bad God army as well as the weakened remnant of the Good Gods. The two groups can, somewhat, be divided into "Good Gods" and "Bad Gods" but the good aren't really all that good while the evil are completely monstrous. They're instead immortal human-like entities with superhuman abilities but still very killable. The premise is humanity lives in the shadow of the conflict between two groups of "gods." I use quotes around the word gods because they're not actually deities. There's a bit of American Gods, a bit of the Illiad, and even a bit of the Transformers. It's an action story with each of the the conflicts between being big, epic, and mythic affairs (for good reason too). It's a book which is genuinely imaginative and fascinating in its world building as well as the implications of such ideas. Every once in a while you come across a book which is truly special and I will volunteer that Paternus: The Rise of the Gods is one of those books. From an early age, Simon has been polite, clean, and plagued by romantic fits of epilepsy. The recuperation of Catholicism is staged most overtly through Eileen’s romantic interest - fair-haired heartthrob Simon, a childhood crush that has turned fitfully into an adult one, and a regular churchgoer with a prehistory that reads more like hagiography. In Rooney’s attempt to imagine the world radically otherwise, she returns to two venerable national devotions: Irish Catholicism and James Joyce. In their email exchanges, Alice and Eileen parse the slow violence of their contemporary moment - imminent environmental catastrophe, xenophobic conservative politics, and, by the novel’s end, an ongoing global pandemic. Her friend Alice shares a partial biography with Rooney: she’s a well-spoken novelist grappling with raging success and exasperating celebrity before the age of 30. Eileen is a smart and woefully underpaid editorial assistant in Dublin. THE EPISTOLARY NOVEL hits inboxes in Sally Rooney’s latest novel, Beautiful World, Where Are You. A scandal involving the duke’s spiteful ex-lover could destroy Cora’s happiness. Her actions upset her husband but amuse her haughty mother-in-law. She stumbles through the demanding English protocol, making numerous mistakes. Is he only after her money? Cora tries to fit in with her new family, who disdain her as an upstart American. Cora falls in love and believes her new husband loves her as well. Cora is drawn to the brooding Duke of Wareham, and soon he asks her to marry him. She meets a handsome young duke after a fall from her horse and is taken to his crumbling estate to recuperate. After he turns her down, Cora accompanies her mother to London, where rich American girls are marrying into the impoverished aristocracy. To escape her overbearing, social-climbing mother, Cora begs her childhood sweetheart to marry her before her mother sweeps her off to England in search of a titled match. Cora Cash is a beautiful and fabulously wealthy young woman in the 1890s – the decadent Gilded Age. Still Alice was adapted into an Oscar-winning film starring Julianne Moore, Alec Baldwin, and Kristen Stewart. Reminiscent of A Beautiful Mind, Ordinary People, and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, Still Alice packs a powerful emotional punch and marks the arrival of a strong new voice in fiction.Īcclaimed as the Oliver Sacks of fiction and the Michael Crichton of brain science, Lisa Genova is the New York Times bestselling author of Still Alice, Left Neglected, Love Anthony, Inside the O’Briens, and Remember. In turns heartbreaking, inspiring, and terrifying, Still Alice captures in remarkable detail what it’s like to literally lose your mind. Fiercely independent, Alice struggles to maintain her lifestyle and live in the moment, even as her sense of self is being stripped away. As confusion starts to cloud her thinking and her memory begins to fail her, she receives a devastating diagnosis: early onset Alzheimer’s disease. Now a major motion picture starring Julianne Moore, Alec Baldwin, Kate Bosworth, and Kristen Stewart!Īlice Howland, happily married with three grown children and a house on the Cape, is a celebrated Harvard professor at the height of her career when she notices a forgetfulness creeping into her life. In Lisa Genova’s extraordinary New York Times bestselling novel, an accomplished woman slowly loses her thoughts and memories to Alzheimer’s disease-only to discover that each day brings a new way of living and loving. Mariana is a young widow who is grieving her late husband Sebastian, who drowned a year ago. In Part I, the book flashes back to a few days prior. She is determined to find a way to prove it. The Prologue introduces Mariana, who is certain that a man named Edward Fosca has murdered two people. However, Mariana manages to fight Zoe off, and Zoe ends up arrested and taken to a psychiatric facility. The plan was to involve Mariana in an investigation into a series of murders (all committed by Zoe), frame Fosca and finally kill Mariana. After his accident, Zoe decided to continue with his plan of murdering Mariana (to get her fortune). Zoe had been lovers with Sebastian, who married Mariana for money. In the end, it's revealed that Zoe is the killer. Tara had been one of the Maidens and soon two more of the women are found dead. Mariana gets drawn into investigating Fosca as well as the Maidens, a cult-like group of women who idolize Fosca. Zoe suspects Edward Fosca, a handsome and popular professor who Tara had been sleeping with. She goes to visit her niece Zoe at Cambridge after Zoe's friend Tara is found murdered. The one-paragraph version: Mariana is a young widow whose husband Sebastian died in a swimming accident last year. |