Pamela Hansford Johnson: Her Life, Work and Times
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This first biography of Pamela Hansford Johnson (1912-1981) has been written with the full...
Freshwater
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An extraordinary debut novel, Freshwater explores the surreal experience of having a fractured self....
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J.M. Coetzee: Two Screenplays: Waiting for the Barbarians and in the Heart of the Country
J.M. Coetzee and Hermann Wittenberg
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J.M. Coetzee's screenplay versions of In the Heart of the Country and Waiting for the Barbarians are...
Substance of Shadow: A Darkening Trope in Poetic History
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John Hollander, poet and scholar, was a master whose work joined luminous learning and imaginative...
Becoming John Updike: Critical Reception, 1958-2010
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When John Updike died in 2009, tributes from the literary establishment were immediate and fulsome....
The Dante Chamber
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The year is 1870. Five years after a series of Dante-inspired killings disrupted Boston, a man is...
Swear on This Life
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From USA TODAY bestselling author Renée Carlino (Before We Were Strangers), a warm and witty novel...
Salvage Work: U.S. and Caribbean Literatures Amid the Debris of Legal Personhood
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Salvage Work examines contemporary literary responses to the law's construction of personhood in the...
HyruleBalverine (16 KP) rated The Gargoyle in Books
Nov 27, 2017 (Updated Nov 27, 2017)
As you read through the story someone getting to know the characters and events unfold including the tails that Marianne tells of the past, you start to question whether this woman is telling the truth or she is actually crazy. The book never blatantly tells you one way or the other, but leaves it up to you to decide based on what you read and take from the book. I definitely has a clear opinion as to what was really going on but I won't spoil it for you by telling you what I think or why.
I will tell you after having read this book, I made it a point to recommend it to other friends I have that read because I thought it was that amazing especially given that it is not the type of story I typically read.
The Ice House
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From a writer who’s been praised for her “intelligence, heart, wit” (Richard Russo, Pulitzer...
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