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Book Leda and the Swan

    Book Details:
  • Author : Anna Caritj
  • Publisher : Penguin
  • Release : 2022-05-03
  • ISBN : 0525540156
  • Pages : 353 pages

Download or read book Leda and the Swan written by Anna Caritj and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2022-05-03 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Affecting narrative about consent, power and loneliness.”—Time “Intoxicatingly ominous.”—Kirkus Reviews In a hothouse of collegiate sex and ambition, one young woman mysteriously disappears after a wild campus party, and another becomes obsessed with finding her. It’s Halloween night on a pastoral East Coast college campus. Scantily costumed students ride the fine line between adolescence and adulthood as they prepare for a night of drinking and debauchery. Expectations are high as Leda flirts with her thrilling new crush, Ian, and he flirts back. But by the end of the night, things will have taken a turn. A mysterious young woman in a swan costume speaks with Leda outside a party—and then vanishes. When Leda later wakes up in Ian’s room the next morning, she is unsure exactly what happened between them. Meanwhile, as the campus rouses itself to respond to the young woman’s disappearance, rumors swirl, suspicious facts pile up, and Leda’s obsession with her missing classmate grows. Is it just a coincidence that Ian used to date Charlotte, the missing woman? Is Leda herself in danger? As Leda becomes more and more dangerously consumed with the mystery of Charlotte and questions about Ian, her motivations begin to blur. Is Leda looking for Charlotte, or trying to find herself? In Leda and the Swan, Anna Caritj’s riveting storytelling brings together a suspenseful plot; an intimate, confessional voice; and invaluable insights into sex, power, and contemporary culture.

Book Music Through the Floor

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  • Author : Eric Puchner
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2007-07-24
  • ISBN : 1416559760
  • Pages : 470 pages

Download or read book Music Through the Floor written by Eric Puchner and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-07-24 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With Music Through the Floor, Pushcart Prize winner and former Wallace Stegner Fellow Eric Puchner makes an extraordinary debut: a collection of nine unforgettable stories -- strikingly original, fiercely funny, and quietly heartbreaking -- portraying a group of cultural misfits attempting to navigate mainstream America. Lost, teetering on the edge of normalcy, Puchner's characters seek to define themselves in a frequently absurd and hostile world -- a world that threatens to make outcasts of us all. Caught up in loneliness or solitude, they can't quite hear the music of their own lives. In "Children of God," a young loner becomes the caretaker and companion for two mentally retarded men, seeking solace in their outsider status. "Essay #3: Leda and the Swan" is told in the forlorn, be-nighted, and tragically funny voice of a high school girl who longs more than anything to be loved. In "Mission," an idealistic ESL teacher is faced with the inscrutable wrath of one of his immigrant students. And in the unsettling "Child's Play," Puchner explores the price of nonconformity by following a pack of boys wreaking havoc on Halloween. Writing from an impressive range of perspectives -- men and women, children and adults, immigrants and tourists -- Puchner deftly exposes the dark, ten-der undersides of his characters with arresting beauty and precision. Here are people fumbling for identity in a depersonalized world, captured in moments that are hilarious, shocking, and transcendent -- sometimes all at once. Unfailingly true, surprisingly moving, and impossible to forget, these nine stories mark the arrival of a brilliant young writer and one of our most promising literary voices.

Book The Swan Thieves

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  • Author : Elizabeth Kostova
  • Publisher : Hachette UK
  • Release : 2010-04-01
  • ISBN : 0316071641
  • Pages : 576 pages

Download or read book The Swan Thieves written by Elizabeth Kostova and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2010-04-01 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Psychiatrist Andrew Marlow, devoted to his profession and the painting hobby he loves, has a solitary but ordered life. When renowned painter Robert Oliver attacks a canvas in the National Gallery of Art and becomes his patient, Marlow finds that order destroyed. Desperate to understand the secret that torments the genius, he embarks on a journey that leads him into the lives of the women closest to Oliver and a tragedy at the heart of French Impressionism. Kostova's masterful new novel travels from American cities to the coast of Normandy, from the late 19th century to the late 20th, from young love to last love. The Swan Theives is a story of obsession, history's losses, and the power of art to preserve human hope.

Book Mara  Marietta

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  • Author : Richard Jonathan
  • Publisher : Richard Jonathan
  • Release : 2017-04-24
  • ISBN : 2955975109
  • Pages : 660 pages

Download or read book Mara Marietta written by Richard Jonathan and published by Richard Jonathan. This book was released on 2017-04-24 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Swan

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  • Author : Peter Young
  • Publisher : Reaktion Books
  • Release : 2008-03-15
  • ISBN : 9781861893499
  • Pages : 204 pages

Download or read book Swan written by Peter Young and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2008-03-15 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Swan Peter Young explores this animal's surprisingly complex natural history, as well as giving equal treatment to the long and rich role of the swan in human culture, from the Greek myth of Leda and the Swan to the bird’s portrayal in sculpture, furniture, and brand name logos.

Book A Routledge Literary Sourcebook on the Poems of W B  Yeats

Download or read book A Routledge Literary Sourcebook on the Poems of W B Yeats written by Michael O'Neill and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Table of contents

Book Black Swan

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  • Author : Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon
  • Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
  • Release : 2002-11-15
  • ISBN : 0822979675
  • Pages : 86 pages

Download or read book Black Swan written by Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2002-11-15 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2001 Cave Canem PrizeSelected by Marilyn NelsonFinalist, 2003 Paterson Poetry Prize"Imagine Leda black—" begins Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon's exciting new collection of poems. Mixing vernacular language with classical mythology, modern struggles with Biblical trials, she gives voice to silenced women past and present.In Van Clief-Stefanon's powerful voice, last night's angry words "puffed / into the dark room like steam / punching through the thick surface / of cooking grits." She remembers a child's innocence "lost / in the house where I learned the red rug / against my chest, my knees / my tongue, . . . ." Black Swan is filled with pain, loss, hope, and the promise of salvation.

Book Leda  and Other Poems    Special Edition

Download or read book Leda and Other Poems Special Edition written by Aldous Huxley and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Great Works

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  • Author : Tom Lubbock
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2013-03-01
  • ISBN : 9780711233904
  • Pages : 216 pages

Download or read book Great Works written by Tom Lubbock and published by . This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The best of Tom Lubbock, one of Britain's most intelligent, outspoken and revelatory art critics, is collected here. Ranging with passionate perspicacity over 800 years of Western art, Tom Lubbock writes with immediacy and authority about the 50 works which most gripped his imagination.

Book The Eagle and the Swan

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  • Author : Carol Strickland
  • Publisher : Echo Point Books & Media
  • Release : 2018-11-09
  • ISBN : 9781635617719
  • Pages : 586 pages

Download or read book The Eagle and the Swan written by Carol Strickland and published by Echo Point Books & Media. This book was released on 2018-11-09 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Famed for her stirring "Leda and the Swan" performance in the Imperial Palaces, a beautiful dancer changes the course of history. The soldier and the swan dancer join on a treacherous path to power that leads all the way to the throne. The events that ensue, amid the struggles and politics of a society in flux, leave a city in ruins.

Book The Swan

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  • Author : Elizabeth Egloff
  • Publisher : Dramatists Play Service Inc
  • Release : 1994
  • ISBN : 9780822213833
  • Pages : 64 pages

Download or read book The Swan written by Elizabeth Egloff and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 1994 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: Dora Hand lives by herself in a suburb on the Nebraska prairie. She's gone through three husbands and now seems destined to play the lonely mistress to her married milkman, Kevin--until a swan crashes into her living room window setting D

Book Nemesis and the Swan

Download or read book Nemesis and the Swan written by Lindsay K. Bandy and published by Blackstone Publishing. This book was released on 2020-10-27 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From her prison cell in revolutionary Paris, nineteen-year-old aristocrat Hélène d’Aubign recalls the events that led her to choose between following in her parents’ unforgivable footsteps or abandoning the man she loves. Despite her world of privilege, Hélène is inspired early on by the radical ideas of her progressive governess. Though her family tries to intervene, the seeds of revolution have already been planted in Hélène’s heart, as are the seeds of love from an unlikely friendship with a young jeweler’s apprentice. Hélène’s determination to find true love is as revolutionary as her attempt to unravel the truth behind a concealed murder that tore her family apart. As violence erupts in Paris, Hélène is forced into hiding with her estranged family, where the tangled secrets of their past become entwined with her own. When she finally returns to the blood-stained streets of Paris, she finds everything—and everyone—very much changed. In a city where alliances shift overnight, no one knows whom to trust. Faced with looming war, the mystery of her family’s past, and the man she loves near death, Hélène will soon find out if doing one wrong thing will make everything right, or if it will simply push her closer to the guillotine.

Book The Swan Book

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  • Author : Alexis Wright
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2016-06-28
  • ISBN : 1501124781
  • Pages : 320 pages

Download or read book The Swan Book written by Alexis Wright and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-06-28 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published: Australia: Giramondo, 2013.

Book Strange Heart Beating

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  • Author : Eli Goldstone
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2018-04
  • ISBN : 9781783783502
  • Pages : 194 pages

Download or read book Strange Heart Beating written by Eli Goldstone and published by . This book was released on 2018-04 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Break  Blow  Burn

Download or read book Break Blow Burn written by Camille Paglia and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2006-01-24 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America’s most provocative intellectual brings her blazing powers of analysis to the most famous poems of the Western tradition—and unearths some previously obscure verses worthy of a place in our canon. Combining close reading with a panoramic breadth of learning, Camille Paglia sharpens our understanding of poems we thought we knew, from Shakespeare to Dickinson to Plath, and makes a case for including in the canon works by Paul Blackburn, Wanda Coleman, Chuck Wachtel, Rochelle Kraut—and even Joni Mitchell. Daring, riveting, and beautifully written, Break, Blow, Burn is a modern classic that excites even seasoned poetry lovers—and continues to create generations of new ones.

Book Pale Colors in a Tall Field

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  • Author : Carl Phillips
  • Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
  • Release : 2020-03-03
  • ISBN : 0374721424
  • Pages : 57 pages

Download or read book Pale Colors in a Tall Field written by Carl Phillips and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2020-03-03 with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A powerful, inventive collection from one of America’s most critically acclaimed poets. Carl Phillips’s new poetry collection, Pale Colors in a Tall Field, is a meditation on the intimacies of thought and body as forms of resistance. The poems are both timeless and timely, asking how we can ever truly know ourselves in the face of our own remembering and inevitable forgetting. Here, the poems metaphorically argue that memory is made up of various colors, with those most prominent moments in a life seeming more vivid, though the paler colors are never truly forgotten. The poems in Pale Colors in a Tall Field approach their points of view kaleidoscopically, enacting the self’s multiplicity and the difficult shifts required as our lives, in turn, shift. This is one of Phillips’s most tender, dynamic, and startling books yet.

Book Nights at the Circus

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  • Author : Angela Carter
  • Publisher : Random House
  • Release : 2012-10-31
  • ISBN : 1409015335
  • Pages : 370 pages

Download or read book Nights at the Circus written by Angela Carter and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-10-31 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Raunchy, raucous...a rich, turn of the 19th century world, which reeks of human and animal variety' The Times Is Sophie Fevvers, toast of Europe's capitals, part swan...or all fake? Courted by the Prince of Wales and painted by Toulouse-Lautrec, she is an aerialiste extraordinaire and star of Colonel Kearney's circus. She is also part woman, part swan. Jack Walser, an American journalist, is on a quest to discover the truth behind her identity. Dazzled by his love for her, and desperate for the scoop of a lifetime, Walser has no choice but to join the circus on its magical tour through turn-of-the-nineteenth-century London, St Petersburg and Siberia. **One of the BBC’s 100 Novels That Shaped Our World**