![]() ![]() The opening chapter concerns Tommy Guptill, who had once owned a dairy farm that burned to the ground, possibly as a result of arson. It is a novel told in a series of interconnected stories, each featuring a tale of small-town life that illuminates a more profound truth. Set in and around Barton’s home town of Amgash, Illinois, this is a shimmering masterpiece of a book. Strout shows compassion for her characters, but never sentimentalityĪnything Is Possible is not exactly a sequel, but it does feature Lucy Barton as one of the characters. My Name Is Lucy Barton was rightly longlisted for the 2016 Man Booker prize. Strout is the opposite of a literary show-off: her writing has no ego and the sentences she creates are to serve the characters, rather than the author. It was a devastating story, quietly told by a writer with a casually worn mastery of structure. Much of the novel consisted of oblique conversations between Lucy and her estranged mother, interspersed with fragments of memory that were eventually stitched together to give a fuller impression of an upbringing punctuated by abuse and impoverishment. It was set over five days, within four walls, and came in at 200 pages. ![]() My Name Is Lucy Barton told the story of a hospitalised novelist coming to terms with her deprived childhood. ![]()
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![]() This was read almost entirely on a train journey from Cornwall to London, while sitting opposite the husband who was ensconced in another excellent Persephone Book – The Home-Maker by Dorothy Canfield Fisher. I think I was only just up to the challenge, however, for it is a strange narrative and demands a great deal of careful attention and work from the reader … Ultimately it is of course a brilliant, unusual and memorable book – well worth persevering with, but perhaps it wasn’t the right pick for a holiday read. ![]() ![]() A bookshop colleague’s favourite book, therefore a must-read. Mine was a feast of reading delights, which included: I hope you had a good book-filled August. September is here and Emilybooks is back! And the sunshine means that life doesn’t feel too horribly back-to-schooly, though I have only just managed to resist the annual urge to go out and buy a pencil case and other snazzy new stationery. ![]() ![]() ![]() How to Get Rid of a President showcases the political dark arts in action: a stew of election dramas, national tragedies, and presidential departures mixed with party intrigue, personal betrayal, and backroom shenanigans. The American presidency has seen it all, from rejecting a sitting president's renomination bid and undermining their authority in office to the more drastic methods of impeachment, and, most brutal of all, assassination. ![]() Even so, Americans have often resorted to more dramatic paths to disempower the chief executive. To limit executive power, the founding fathers created fixed presidential terms of four years, giving voters regular opportunities to remove their leaders. ![]() A vivid political history of the schemes, plots, maneuvers, and conspiracies that have attempted - successfully and not - to remove unwanted presidents. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Leonard cohen master poems collection of poetry readings by leonard cohen 1957 1993. Leonard Cohen Master Poems Collection Of Poetry Readings By Leonard Cohen 1957 1993 Webwhen his poems 1956 – 1968 first appeared, kenneth rexroth, the mentor of the beat movement, wrote: ‘leonard cohen’s poetry and song constitute a big breakthrough…this is certainly the future of poetry…it is the voice of a new 6 in william ruhlmann’s ‘the stranger music of leonard cohen’ (abbr. Webalthough some of leonard's best poetry (and lyrics) were published after the release of this book and this omnibus itself has been rendered largely unnecessary due to the release of leonard's career spanning collection, stranger music (although this does contain several works that that doesn't) it is still a good collection, and an accurate. ![]() Webselected poems: 1956 1968: year published 1968: publisher mcclelland and stewart ltd., toronto: pages 245: notes i2212 3 summary a good selection from the early books, with only very slight revisions, and a small section of …. Leonard Cohen Poems 1956 1968 By Cohen Leonard 0224617761 The Fast ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It has violence and a harem relationship.This is the Omnibus edition of the 1st Fostering Faust Trilogy. The main character is written as a real person in a tough situation, and will not make choices that line up with societal and cultural norms.It contains adult themes and moral ambiguities.As with my previous work, explicit scenes are found within. From things as simple as a meal, to their very lives.How much would you give of yourself to live on in the world is an easy question.The better question, is how much would you take from others?If Alex wants to keep living, to keep his soul from being sent to the darkest corner of hell, he'll have to ask himself that : This novel explores dark subjects, and what people will give up of themselves, and each other, to get what they want. That they could never speak of what they'd done.Deals for anything, and everything. It's not even a similar period in time, but from something long past in history.The dark ages.And part of the deal to live again, is to make pacts with others. ![]() ![]() Please read all the way through.))Alex is dead.Dead, and apparently with a one way ticket to a place that only the worst of the worst go.All for a simple choice he made about a product his company owned.Damned for all time.Luckily for him, he's about to be given a chance.Another choice to make.He can instead, return to the land of the living, though his soul would belong to another.Except the world he's being sent to, isn't the same one he came from. ((Minor Spoiler and Warning at the bottom of the blurb. ![]() |