Download or read book Suspicious River written by Laura Kasischke and published by HMH. This book was released on 2014-07-15 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Those who like Joyce Carol Oates will love this” dark novel of psychological suspense by the author of Mind of Winter and The Life Before Her Eyes (Kirkus Reviews). A married motel receptionist in a bleak Michigan town, Leila Murray has slipped into the habit of trading sex with strangers for money. When she meets a drifter who alternately sweet-talks and physically abuses her, it might be the wakeup call that dissuades her from a life of prostitution. Instead, she allows him to become her pimp. In this chilling, “beautifully written page-turner” (Booklist), we follow Leila’s life as she spirals out of control—and learn the darkness in her past that drives her—in “an exploration of the legacy of abuse and violence [and] an amazing first novel” (The Boston Globe). “[An] extremely powerful debut . . . Profoundly disturbing but also resonant with hope and rebirth.” —Los Angeles Times
Download or read book A Suspicious River written by Laura Kasischke and published by Christian Bourgois Editeur. This book was released on 1999 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " Le Swan Motel, de l'autre côté de la rue, était propre et frais - draps amidonnés, moquette beige, serviettes de toilette blanches et décentes que nous envoyions deux fois par semaine à Ottawa City, pour les faire laver, dans un camion plein de sacs-poubelles en plastique vert olive. Derrière le motel, la Suspicious River roulait ses flots noirs, mais l'eau semblait propre, et des cygnes se rassemblaient sur la pelouse du motel, comme un groupe de vieilles femmes riches et de vedettes de cinéma qui viendraient prendre le thé, et ils s'étiraient en couinant sur les rives boueuses du fleuve. " Et pourtant dans cette vie calme et tranquille du Michigan débutent ou resurgissent les histoires les plus angoissantes et les plus tragiques : l'auteur, poétesse connue, a, dans ce premier roman, imaginé un monde et un ton qui rappellent le grand Hopper et les meilleurs cinéastes américains actuels. Mais surtout elle fait du lecteur un voyeur fasciné, véritable héros de cette entreprise.
Download or read book A Suspicious River written by Laura Kasischke and published by Folio. This book was released on 2023-06-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Suspicious River written by Laura Kasischke and published by Ediciones AKAL. This book was released on 2002-05-06 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: La primera vez que tuve relaciones sexuales con un hombre por dinero, fue en septiembre. todavía hacía tiempo de verano, pero la calefacción estaba ya encendida en la habitación del motel y parecía llenar mi garganta de polvo. El hombre era muy soso, de ojos pequeños y no más alto que yo. Parecía asustado. Casi no me miraba. Cuando le pregunté qué quería que hiciese, me dijo: Es tu trabajo. Así empieza la fascinante e inolvidable primera novela de la poeta Laura Kasischke. La narradora y protagonista del relato es Leila Murray, una atractiva mujer de 24 años, casada, que trabaja como recepcionista del Swan Motel en Suspicious River, un pequeño y solitario pueblo de Michigan. All, siguiendo un impulso irresistible, se prostituye voluntaria y compulsivamente con los clientes por 60 dólares, el mismo precio que una habitación, en busca de algo que ella misma no sabe identificar, algo vago, blanco y brillante, que sólo será aclarado hacia el final de esta terrible, intensa y poderosa novela. Elocuente, llena de suspense, rica en imágenes... terrible. Kirkus Reviews Una profunda bajada a los infiernos. La mirada fría de Laura Kasischke le atrapó, al igual que la dureza de su universo poético. Jean-Luc Douin - Le Monde Al mismo tiempo aterrador y extremadamente expresivo, el libro es una exploración de carácter metafísico de la separación entre el cuerpo y el alma. New Yorker Realmente genial. Una obra maestra. Laurent Goumarre - Max Una novela cortada con navaja. Cromada, brillante, deslumbrante. Una lenta tortura. Duele, pero es sublime. È Valérie Broquisse - Le Figaro Madame Suspicious River es una novela despiadada. De ah nace toda la fuerza de este libro. Michel Polac - Charlie Hebdo Suspicious River atrapa con imágenes que nos sitúan en el estrecho límite que se abre entre pasión y destrucción. Un trabajo de belleza misteriosa, con imágenes inmediatas y vibrantes que obsesionarán al lector durante años. Seattle Times
Download or read book Suspicious River written by Lynne Stopkewich and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young married woman sells her body, not just for money, to guests at the motel where she works as a receptionist.
Download or read book The Suspicious River Incident written by H. L. Tan and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Gendered Screen written by Brenda Austin-Smith and published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. This book was released on 2010-05-20 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first major study of Canadian women filmmakers since the groundbreaking Gendering the Nation (1999). The Gendered Screen updates the subject with discussions of important filmmakers such as Deepa Mehta, Anne Wheeler, Mina Shum, Lynne Stopkewich, Léa Pool, and Patricia Rozema, whose careers have produced major bodies of work. It also introduces critical studies of newer filmmakers such as Andrea Dorfman and Sylvia Hamilton and new media video artists. Feminist scholars are re-examining the ways in which authorship, nationality, and gender interconnect. Contributors to this volume emphasize a diverse feminist study of film that is open, inclusive, and self-critical. Issues of hybridity and transnationality as well as race and sexual orientation challenge older forms of discourse on national cinema. Essays address the transnational filmmaker, the queer filmmaker, the feminist filmmaker, the documentarist, and the video artist—just some of the diverse identities of Canadian women filmmakers working in both commercial and art cinema today.
Download or read book Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea written by April Genevieve Tucholke and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Violet is in love with River, a mysterious 17-year-old stranger renting the guest house behind the rotting seaside mansion where Violet lives. But when eerie, grim events begin to happen, Violet recalls her grandmother's frequent warnings about the devil and wonders if River is evil.
Download or read book The Young the Restless and the Dead written by George Melnyk and published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. This book was released on 2009-10-22 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Young, the Restless, and the Dead captures the spirit of Canadian filmmakers through interviews with the most accomplished and dynamic of yesterday’s, today’s, and tomorrow’s film greats. Funny, provocative, and enlightening, the filmmakers reflect on their careers and explore with the interviewers the issues that challenge them. This book features an interview with a late director (Jean-Claude Lauzon) whose work is recognized in the canon as outstanding; interviews with filmmakers who are accomplished in their fields and have to their credit a sizeable body of work (Blake Corbet, Andrew Currie, Brent Carlson, Guy Maddin, Lynne Stopkewich, Anne Wheeler, Gary Burns, and Mina Shum); and an interview with a young director new to the field (Michael Dowse). Together these players in the Canadian film scene capture the energy, success, and tribulations of a fascinating cultural industry. The Young, the Restless, and the Dead is the first volume in a series of interviews with key cultural creators in the field of cinema. It seeks to bring to a wide audience the insights and emotions, the trials and achievements of significant figures in Canadian film. George Melnyk talks about The Young, the Restless, and the Dead with Eric Volmers of the Calgary Herald. Read the interview online.
Download or read book Dreaming in the Rain written by David Spaner and published by arsenal pulp press. This book was released on 2004-09-01 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vancouver is now North America’s third largest center for film and television production, recently witnessing the filming of Halle Berry’s Catwoman and Will Smith’s I, Robot, among others. But Vancouver has been hosting filmmakers for years, coming into its own in the early 1970s when Robert Altman, Warren Beatty and Julie Christie made McCabe and Mrs. Miller and Mike Nichols, Jack Nicholson and Candice Bergen filmed Carnal Knowlege. Dreaming in the Rain tells the story of how Vancouver became North by Northwest, from its early days as a Hollywood studio backlot to its becoming home to a vibrant indigenous scene that is among the most acclaimed, provocative, independent filmmaking communities anywhere. But with Hollywood’s growing concern over “runaway” productions, Vancouver’s growing filmmaking scene is wrought with controversy. The city’s American-based film industry is powerful enough to inspire loathing and threats from Hollywood. Along with tracing the art and commerce of Vancouver filmmaking, Vancouver Province movie critic David Spaner brings to life the flamboyant film personalities who left their marks. From visitors like Errol Flynn and Robert Altman, to local heroes such as The Matrix’s Carrie Anne Moss, who grew up in Vancouver, and Kissed star Molly Parker and director Lynne Stopkewich, vital players in the groundbreaking Vancouver indie scene. Includes more than 40 black and white photographs. “. . . [Spaner] has . . . scrupulous attention to detail and an obvious curiosity and passion for both Vancouver and its film industry.”—Entertainment Today David Spaner is a movie critic for the Vancouver Province.
Download or read book Great Canadian Film Directors written by George Melnyk and published by University of Alberta. This book was released on 2007-06-15 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Film directors articulate creative visions that provide insights into national cultures. 18 essays highlight Canada's prominent Anglophone and Francophone filmmakers.
Download or read book The Girl Who Reads on the M tro written by Christine Féret-Fleury and published by Flatiron Books. This book was released on 2019-10-08 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “With a cast of characters reminiscent of the French film Amélie, Féret-Fleury creates a world that is delightful and enchanting...Light and sweet as a bonbon, this little confection of a book is delicious.” —Kirkus Reviews For fans of Amélie and The Little Paris Bookshop, a modern fairytale about a French woman whose life is turned upside down when she meets a reclusive bookseller and his young daughter. Juliette leads a perfectly ordinary life in Paris, working a slow office job, dating a string of not-quite-right men, and fighting off melancholy. The only bright spots in her day are her métro rides across the city and the stories she dreams up about the strangers reading books across from her: the old lady, the math student, the amateur ornithologist, the woman in love, the girl who always tears up at page 247. One morning, avoiding the office for as long as she can, Juliette finds herself on a new block, in front of a rusty gate wedged open with a book. Unable to resist, Juliette walks through, into the bizarre and enchanting lives of Soliman and his young daughter, Zaide. Before she realizes entirely what is happening, Juliette agrees to become a passeur, Soliman’s name for the booksellers he hires to take stacks of used books out of his store and into the world, using their imagination and intuition to match books with readers. Suddenly, Juliette’s daydreaming becomes her reality, and when Soliman asks her to move in to their store to take care of Zaide while he goes away, she has to decide if she is ready to throw herself headfirst into this new life. Big-hearted, funny, and gloriously zany, The Girl Who Reads on the Métro is a delayed coming-of-age story about a young woman who dares to change her life, and a celebration of the power of books to unite us all.
Download or read book The Missing Queen written by Sally Watson and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2008-06 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: King Tutankhamon is dead. The possibly-divine ivory cat Nefru is still (perhaps) putting a paw into royal Egyptian affairs. Lord Ay wants a royal wife-Tut's widow, actually-to give him the blood-right to the throne. She flees marriage with him and finds long-lost relatives. Princesses Baketamon and Meri have both longed to be Queen of Egypt-but both find sand in that honey. General Horemheb (described as being like 'desert red, rectangles and a lion') has sent Ranofer to find a lady once known as Twitterwit. Four competitive Hunting Parties from Thebes are searching for some long-missing princesses. Chief of Police Mahu knows where they all are, but won't tell. His son Ranofer, who fears he'll never fit his father's sandals-and fears Horemheb even more-doesn't want to know. Besotted and delusional Ahmose knows, but his incoherence just further confuses all four Hunting Parties-who were already at cross-purposes. A garrulous washerman thinks he knows everything. The kitten Katti sometimes gives what might possibly be divine messages from Nefru (or Bastet?). The massive cat Ab-ram, still always getting tripped over in doorways, still innocently certain of his welcome, changes history for all of them.
Download or read book Enser s Filmed Books and Plays written by Ellen Baskin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-04-27 with total page 2398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title was first published in 2003. The sixth edition of this compendium of film and television adaptations of books and plays includes several thousand new listings that cover the period from 1992 to December 2001. There are 8000 main entries, covering 70 years of film history, including some foreign language material.
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Download or read book Canadian Cinema Since the 1980s written by David Lawrence Pike and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Making a significant advance in the study of the film industry of the period, Canadian Cinema since the 1980s is also an ideal text for students, researchers, and Canadian film enthusiasts.
Download or read book Public Documents written by and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 1434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
