Download or read book Greta and Valdin written by Rebecca Reilly and published by Victoria University Press. This book was released on 2021-10-01 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The modern world is too much for me. I feel like I'm George of the Jungle.' —Greta 'At the moment, for personal reasons, I don't like reading things about people being in love with each other.' —Valdin Valdin is still in love with his ex-boyfriend Xabi, who used to drive around Auckland in a ute but now drives around Buenos Aires in one. Greta is in love with her fellow English tutor Holly, who doesn't know how to pronounce Greta's surname, Vladisavljevic, properly. From their Auckland apartment, brother and sister must navigate the intricate paths of modern romance as well as weather the small storms of their eccentric Maori–Russian–Catalonian family. This beguiling and hilarious novel by Adam Foundation Prize winner Rebecca K Reilly owes as much to Shakespeare as it does to Tinder. Set in a world that is deeply familiar (but also a bit sexier and more stylish than the real one), Greta and Valdin will speak to anyone who has had their heart broken, or has decided that they don't want to be a physicist anymore, or has wondered about all of the things they don't know about their family.
Download or read book Greta Valdin written by Rebecca K Reilly and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2024-02-06 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For fans of Schitt’s Creek and Sally Rooney’s Normal People, an irresistible and bighearted international bestseller that follows a brother and sister as they navigate queerness, multiracial identity, and the dramas big and small of their entangled, unconventional family, all while flailing their way to love. It’s been a year since his ex-boyfriend dumped him and moved from Auckland to Buenos Aires, and Valdin is doing fine. He has a good flat with his sister Greta, a good career where his colleagues only occasionally remind him that he is the sole Maaori person in the office, and a good friend who he only sleeps with when he’s sad. But when work sends him to Argentina and he’s thrown back in his former lover’s orbit, Valdin is forced to confront the feelings he’s been trying to ignore—and the future he wants. Greta is not letting her painfully unrequited crush (or her possibly pointless master’s thesis, or her pathetic academic salary...) get her down. She would love to focus on the charming fellow grad student she meets at a party and her friendships with a circle of similarly floundering twenty-somethings, but her chaotic family life won’t stop intruding: her mother is keeping secrets, her nephew is having a gay crisis, and her brother has suddenly flown to South America without a word. Sharp, hilarious, and with an undeniable emotional momentum that builds to an exuberant conclusion, Greta & Valdin careens us through the siblings’ misadventures and the messy dramas of their sprawling, eccentric Maaori-Russian-Catalonian family. An acclaimed bestseller in New Zealand, Greta & Valdin is fresh, joyful, and alive with the possibility of love in its many mystifying forms.
Download or read book Greta Valdin written by Rebecca K. Reilly and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Valdin is still in love with his ex-boyfriend Xabi, who used to drive around Auckland in a ute but now drives around Buenos Aires in one. Greta is in love with her fellow English tutor Holly, who doesn't know how to pronounce Greta's surname, Vladislavljevic, properly. From their Auckland apartment, brother and sister must navigate the intricate paths of modern romance as well as weather the small storms of their eccentric Māori-Russian-Catalonian family"--Information from publisher.
Download or read book Greta and Valdin written by Rebecca K Reilly and published by Random House. This book was released on 2024-02-08 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER 'Delightfully confident . . . a total pleasure' TIMES 'Warm, witty and utterly idiosyncratic' ALICE SLATER 'Hilarious, touching and hotly sublime' JULIA ARMFIELD 'Lovable and joyful' NEW YORK TIMES A BROTHER. A SISTER. A LOT OF EMOTION IN ONE APARTMENT. This is the story of Greta and Valdin: twenty-something brother and sister with a near-unpronounceable surname, a sprawling Maori-Russian-Catalonian family and questionable taste in partners. While Valdin can’t seem to get over his ex-boyfriend who fled the country, Greta has an unrequited crush on fellow English tutor Holly, who uses her for admin support. But all hope is not lost for these lovelorn siblings. Through the misadventures and mess of modern adulthood, at least they still have each other — unless drama gets in the way. From bad dates to family feuds and embarrassing karaoke nights, this acclaimed bestseller from New Zealand is a fresh, heartwarming and hilarious story about the trials and tribulations of love in its many forms.
Download or read book She Didn t Even Die Right Away written by Greta Peterson and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2022-07-29 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She Didn’t Even Die Right Away By: Greta Peterson Greta didn’t die right away, but she did die. One day she fell over dead and no one noticed. Not even Greta. There’s seven suspect years begging the question, when did Greta die? When she turned left instead of right after dropping a friend off at soccer practice? Did she die when he kissed her goodnight? Was she killed or did she take her own life? When? Where? How? Why? Trauma left Greta with a lifetime of puzzle pieces that no longer fit together. It left her with the fatal question: when did I die?
Download or read book The Tender Void written by Greta Medlin and published by . This book was released on 2012-07-01 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's hard not to love human-interest columnist Cooper Barnet. Readers are drawn to his prize-winning prose, good looks, guileless charm, and compassion for those on the fringe. Barnet also has a seductive vulnerability that makes him irresistible. People have the sense that he needs protecting, and they instinctively try to take care of him. Like his girlfriend Percy Sims, an unflappable dancing teacher with enough "off" in her beat to cope with Cooper's peculiar superstitions and enigmatic ways. And his octogenarian sidekick Margaret Motte Burns, the wealthy Charleston aristocrat who invents creative games to school Cooper in the art of self-preservation. Duke Chang, a playfully irreverent restaurant owner, pulls his share of the load by lending a partially-willing ear while he keeps Cooper fed, and Sam Reaves, an investigative reporter as soft-hearted as he is hard-nosed, unsuccessfully attempts to keep his errant pal in check in the newsroom. But the friend Cooper most depends on is the only person familiar with his stolen childhood--Malachi Patterson, an unfulfilled alcoholic pianist also suffering from a troubled past. Yet not even Patterson can help on a hot spring day in 1988, when disgraceful evidence of Barnet's suffocating malaise is thrust into the public spotlight. The media exposure ignites a crisis, forcing the reeling columnist to search for one lost secret as he continues to run from another--the accident that began his hopeless private stuggle to fill The Tender Void. In this enchanting novel, Greta Medlin weaves a story of tragedy and serendipity, comedy and community, and a wounded man's fight to negotiate a life force advancing with the certainty of a Greyhound bus speeding to the South Carolina Midlands.
Download or read book The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells written by Andrew Sean Greer and published by Ecco. This book was released on 2014-04-15 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Pulitzer Prize-winning and New York Times bestselling author Andrew Sean Greer comes The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells, a rapturously romantic story of a woman who finds herself transported to the “other lives” she might have lived. After the death of her beloved twin brother and the abandonment of her long-time lover, Greta Wells undergoes electroshock therapy. Over the course of the treatment, Greta finds herself repeatedly sent to 1918, 1941, and back to the present. Whisked from the gas-lit streets and horse-drawn carriages of the West Village to a martini-fueled lunch at the Oak Room, in these other worlds, Greta finds her brother alive and well—though fearfully masking his true personality. And her former lover is now her devoted husband…but will he be unfaithful to her in this life as well? Greta Wells is fascinated by her alter egos: in 1941, she is a devoted mother; in 1918, she is a bohemian adulteress. In this spellbinding novel by Andrew Sean Greer, each reality has its own losses, its own rewards; each extracts a different price. Which life will she choose as she wrestles with the unpredictability of love and the consequences of even her most carefully considered choices?
Download or read book Trashing Stu written by Greta Eichel and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2013-11-07 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Trashing Stu" is a love story about two people who have stayed married and in love since 1956. Author Greta Eichel has not only tolerated, but encouraged her husband ever since they were both art students at Pratt Institute. When people ask Stu how he feels about his wife writing a book called "Trashing Stu," he replies: "Greta doesn't tell me what to paint and I don't tell her what to write." Aside from the fact that they love each other, that feeling has helped their quirky marriage survive for almost sixty years.
Download or read book An Entangled Life written by Greta Archbold and published by Xlibris Au. This book was released on 2022-08-23 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eva decides that she can no longer bear her husband's repeated attempts on her life and sets out on her own. As a woman from a conservative family, she finds it difficult to abandon her 26-year marriage. She begins by taking a sabbatical to the United Kingdom and Europe, where she meets Spiro, Zac, and John, three men who will play significant roles in her life. When she returns, she starts her first job as a business development consultant for her friend George. George is head over heels in love with her, but their relationship is tumultuous. Eva is still looking for love and happiness, and, over the years, she has relationships with a number of men, while George and her UK friends remain interested in her. She is in a car accident, and two more attempts are made on her life. Finally, after sixteen years of searching, a miracle occurs on a vacation to Israel, where she meets her true love.
Download or read book Conversations with Greta Garbo written by Sven Broman and published by Macmillan Reference USA. This book was released on 1992 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Greta Garbo written by Raymond Durgnat and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Split Open written by Greta Lind and published by Beaver's Pond Press. This book was released on 2021-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Split Open follows the lives of two women as their worlds begin seeping surreally into each other, and dares to ask: What is sacred? Where does a woman's loyalty belong? Who am I? Kate faces the unthinkable when her son's school bus loses control on a hilly California road. Thrust into an unflinching journey of personal discovery, she questions her every life choice. Apart from wife? Apart from mother? She questions her own grip on reality when she suddenly becomes aware of Jennifer, a respectable young wife and mother consumed in a powerful love affair. Kate can't explain who Jennifer is . . . or why Kate knows what she knows. How can a person feel closer to and more disconnected from herself at the same time? Honestly, hypnotically, and with relentless sensitivity, the latent power of female creativity is forever Split Open in Greta Lind's triumphant debut to the world of women's fiction. Fans of The Need will love the déjà-vu stranger who splits open the familiar spell of marriage and motherhood.
Download or read book The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells written by Andrew Sean Greer and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Greta Garbo written by Mark A. Vieira and published by Harry N. Abrams. This book was released on 2005-08-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing extensively on interviews, letters, and newly accessible M-G-M production files, the author chronicles Garbo's career from her American debut in 1926 to her self-imposed retirement in 1941 at the height of her popularity, and includes many previously unpublished production photos, movie stills, and portraits. 15,000 first printing.
Download or read book Greta Garbo written by Richard Corliss and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Encyclopedia of Fantastic Film written by R. G. Young and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2000 with total page 1028 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirty-five years in the making, and destined to be the last word in fanta-film references! This incredible 1,017-page resource provides vital credits on over 9,000 films (1896-1999) of horror, fantasy, mystery, science fiction, heavy melodrama, and film noir. Comprehensive cast lists include: directors, writers, cinematographers, and composers. Also includes plot synopses, critiques, re-title/translation information, running times, photographs, and several cross-referenced indexes (by artist, year, song, etc.). Paperback.
