Download or read book Sheer Abandon written by Penny Vincenzi and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2007-05-08 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A #1 bestseller from one of Britain’s most popular novelists. • An all-consuming story revolving around the consequences of a desperate act. • "Nobody writes page-turning women's fiction like Vincenzi." —USA Today Martha, Clio, and Jocasta meet by chance at Heathrow airport in 1985 as they are starting off on separate backpacking adventures, and they decide to spend the first few days of their trips together in Thailand. When they go their separate ways, they vow to get together in London the following year. But many years pass before the three cross paths again, and the once-capricious, carefree girls now all have thriving careers. One of them, however, harbors a terrible secret: On her return from her pre-college excursion, she abandoned her just-born daughter at Heathrow. Clio has fulfilled her ambition of becoming a doctor, only to find herself trapped in a marriage to an arrogant surgeon who belittles her and her professional achievements. Martha is a highly paid corporate lawyer, just embarking on a political career. Dedicated to her job, she has had little time for personal relationships and lives a busy, but lonely life. Jocasta, a tabloid newspaper reporter with an infallible instinct for the big story, is in love with a charming colleague who can’t make the permanent commitment she longs for. The infant abandoned at Heathrow has grown up under the loving care of her adoptive family. Now a beautiful teenager named Kate, she sets out to find her birth mother—a quest that unexpectedly brings the women together and exposes the secret buried so many years before. Impossible to put down, Sheer Abandon is top-notch women’s fiction.
Download or read book Sheer Fiction written by Paul West and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collections of essays and reviews, some previously published in the periodical press, of contemporary fiction.
Download or read book Sheer Pressure written by Greg Abbott and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2022-12-14 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A charming, adrenaline packed love story set in post-9/11 Manhattan, Sheer Pressure follows Alex Halaby and Emily Lukes, two thirty-year-olds emotionally encumbered by money and family, as they struggle through a social and business minefield to become fully realized adults. Alex, the stunted son of a pantyhose magnate, is struggling to break away and find himself, but is soon thrust into an arena way over his head where the stakes are all or nothing. Emily’s marriage to billionaire art collector Charles Lukes lacks passion and respect, and her overpowering attraction to Alex threatens to destroy the lives and dreams of many. While treachery abounds, two parallel universes threaten to collide with untold consequences. Sheer Pressure deftly captures the worlds of Upper East Side Manhattan and big business with unique flair, offering a bona fi de insider’s perspective. While lampooning upper-crust New York society—especially its expensive women and high-powered moguls—Sheer Pressure is a suspenseful romp that buzzes along with high humor, terrific hairpin turns, unpredictable twists, and a slam-bam surprise ending like The Graduate that leads the reader curiously and irresistibly into the book’s gripping, mind-blowing sequel.
Download or read book Sheerwater written by Leah Swann and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2020-04-01 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emotional, powerful, unforgettable. From a stunning new literary talent, you won't be able to put down this novel about a mother's love for her children - it will break your heart. Winner, 2021 Davitt Award, Best Debut Novel 'With visceral prose and a tense narrative arc that unfolds over just three days, speeding towards a dramatic conclusion .... Sheerwater is a propulsive read with an acute emotional core ... likely to hold appeal for readers of both literary and crime fiction, and fans of writers such as Emily Maguire, Emma Viskic and Sofie Laguna.' Bookseller + Publisher Ava and her two young sons, Max and Teddy, are driving to their new home in Sheerwater, hopeful of making a fresh start in a new town, although Ava can't help but keep looking over her shoulder. They're almost at their destination when they witness a shocking accident - a light plane crashing in the field next to the road. Ava stops to help, but when she gets back to the car, she realises that somehow, among the smoke, fire and confusion, her sons have gone missing ... From a substantial new Australian writing talent, Sheerwater is tense, emotional, unforgettable. Perfect for readers of Mark Brandi's Wimmera and Stephanie Bishop's The Other Side of the World, this is a beautifully written, propulsive, gut-wrenching and unputdownable novel - an aching, powerful story of the heroic acts we are capable of in the name of love. 'Sheerwater is that rare gift of a book that balances gorgeous, glittering language with breathless pace. Leah Swann writes with devastating honesty ... This is an extraordinary novel - I tore through it, captivated by the imagery and the setting, desperately hoping for a happy ending.' Rebecca Starford, author of Bad Behavior 'Heart-in-mouth story ... Swann's language is sinewy and pointed; the book is trim and every sentence is necessary...a complex and horribly believable story with tremendous flair.' The Age 'Sheerwater is a haunting story built on conflict. Freedom and control, tenderness and violence, hope and fear, love and hate. It shows the strength of a mother's love and the yearning for something more ... This novel is full of beautifully gripping prose and deeply powerful emotions told through sublime pacing. I found it triggered a peculiar mix of wanting to dwell in the darkly emotive prose while needing to urgently push through it to find resolution. It will be one of those books that lingers in your mind, the memory of which may even be mistaken for a story read in the news.' Booktopia 'Sheerwater is compelling reading ... There is an urgency in the writing that makes you read on because you must know what the conclusion is - no matter which way it goes ... This is an extraordinary literary debut; the writing is beautifully evocative and the intertwining narratives of the main characters seamless. It's tender, it's suspenseful and you'll be wanting to see so much more from Leah Swann - I ignored everything for a day to rip through the pages and loved every minute of it.' Better Reading
Download or read book Out of Sheer Rage written by Geoff Dyer and published by North Point Press. This book was released on 2014-06-24 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD "In the spirit of Julian Barnes's Flaubert's Parrot and Alain de Botton's How Proust Can Change Your Life, Mr. Dyer's Out of Sheer Rage keeps circling its subject in widening loops and then darting at it when you least expect it . . . a wild book."--Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, The New York Times Geoff Dyer was a talented young writer, full of energy and reverence for the craft, and determined to write a study of D. H. Lawrence. But he was also thinking about a novel, and about leaving Paris, and maybe moving in with his girlfriend in Rome, or perhaps traveling around for a while. Out of Sheer Rage is Dyer's account of his struggle to write the Lawrence book--a portrait of a man tormented, exhilarated, and exhausted. Dyer travels all over the world, grappling not only with his fascinating subject but with all the glorious distractions and needling anxieties that define the life of a writer.
Download or read book Sheer Necessity written by Sharon Mitchell and published by Signet Book. This book was released on 2000 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A single mother, college student, and owner of an up-and-coming hair salon, twenty-nine-year-old Toni Carleton is trying to do it all. But when her loved ones need a little tender loving care, Toni discovers what happens when life cuts straight to the heart - and why family comes first. A new novel from the author of Nothing But the Rent whose work has been compared to Bebe Moore Campbell and Terry McMillan.
Download or read book Sheer Madness written by Andrew McKenna and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2014-11-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A successful man's maniacal descent into emotional hell. Following repeated losses in family court, estrangement from his young sons, and the resulting depression, he checks himself into the psychiatric ward. Five months later he is indicted by a Federal Grand Jury for crimes that could put him in prison for 20 years. Sheer Madness is a story fo love, anguish, the fog of human experience, and the promise of resilience.--Back cover.
Download or read book Fiction and the Figures of Life written by William H. Gass and published by David R. Godine Publisher. This book was released on 1971 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays by William H. Gass.
Download or read book Sheer Misery written by Mary Louise Roberts and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2021-04-20 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The senses -- The dirty body -- The foot -- The wound -- The corpse.
Download or read book Sheer Filth written by David Flint and published by . This book was released on 2014-04-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published between 1987 and 1990, Sheer Filth offered a heady mix of shocking film and book reviews, wild music coverage, weird cartoons, incisive features and fascinating interviews with icons of cult cinema and adult entertainment. Mixing serious analysis with wild enthusiasm, Sheer Filth covered everything from XXX-rated cinema to true crime novels, from sleazy rock 'n' roll to experimental movies and from pulp fiction to cutting-edge art. This edition gathers all original content from the issues and also includes unseen material.
Download or read book Sheer Will written by David H. Falloure and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2014-04-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the mud and surrounded by snakes and alligators, the city of Houston was born. The umbilical cord that would feed its economic prosperity for the future started along the swamps and would navigate a slow meandering river with an uncertain future. Sheer Will by definition not only describes the change in direction of ships, as ships did to open Texas to global trade. Sheer Will describes those that came before us to bring vision and clarity to an uncertain future. Through efforts of people like George Graham, Nicholas Clopper, Charles Morgan, Thomas Ball, Baldwin Rice, and Jesse Jones, the region and the state have become an irreplaceable economic engine for our nation as the energy capital of the world. David Falloure gives the reader a taste of our rich history of those leaders with clear vision and true grit for big ideas. Our history has been filled, and always will be filled, with the "big" challenges that need big ideas and bold leaders. Those that have preceded us have risen to the challenges that run the gamut from wars to storms with the never ending drone of naysayers, but our history is also filled with people of vision and determination to take on history-bending challenges that left us the busiest port in the United States and the economic legacy we enjoy today. Now as then, the challenges to commerce, create jobs and protect where we live have not changed from those that were faced over one hundred years ago. But Sheer Will provides a glimpse of the grit needed to repeat the success we enjoy today. --Leonard Waterworth. -- Back cover.
Download or read book The Complete Novels written by Charlotte Brontë and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-11-29 with total page 3112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 'The Complete Novels' of Charlotte, Anne, and Emily Brontë, readers are presented with a seminal collection that not only showcases the varied literary styles of the three sisters but also serves as a pivotal exploration of themes such as gender roles, morality, and the human struggle against societal constraints. Spanning Gothic romances to probing social commentaries, the anthology charts a significant trajectory in 19th-century literature, offering standouts such as the tempestuous landscapes of Wuthering Heights and the introspective journey of Jane Eyre. Each novel, rich in psychological depth and complexity, reflects the Brontë sisters' innovative approaches to narrative and character development, marking a departure from the convention of their time. The Brontë sisters emerged from a context of constrained female authorship to significantly impact English literature. Despite their relatively isolated upbringing on the Yorkshire moors, their works transcend their circumstances, aligning with and propelling forward the literary movements of their time, including Romanticism and Victorian realism. Collectively, their novels embody a defiant critique of the societal expectations and strictures placed upon women, while individually, each sister carves a distinct literary path that reflects her unique worldview and artistic sensibility. 'The Complete Novels' is an indispensable volume for those who seek to immerse themselves in the rich tapestry of Brontë literature. It not only offers a comprehensive exploration of the sisters' collective contribution to English literature but also provides a platform for readers to engage in a profound dialogue with the texts, uncovering layers of social commentary, moral inquiry, and emotional depth. This collection is a testament to the enduring power of the Brontë sisters' work, inviting readers to ponder the complexities of the human condition through the lens of three of the most influential female voices in literary history.
Download or read book Book Notes written by and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Why I Write written by George Orwell and published by Renard Press Ltd. This book was released on 2021-01-01 with total page 15 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Orwell set out ‘to make political writing into an art’, and to a wide extent this aim shaped the future of English literature – his descriptions of authoritarian regimes helped to form a new vocabulary that is fundamental to understanding totalitarianism. While 1984 and Animal Farm are amongst the most popular classic novels in the English language, this new series of Orwell’s essays seeks to bring a wider selection of his writing on politics and literature to a new readership. In Why I Write, the first in the Orwell’s Essays series, Orwell describes his journey to becoming a writer, and his movement from writing poems to short stories to the essays, fiction and non-fiction we remember him for. He also discusses what he sees as the ‘four great motives for writing’ – ‘sheer egoism’, ‘aesthetic enthusiasm’, ‘historical impulse’ and ‘political purpose’ – and considers the importance of keeping these in balance. Why I Write is a unique opportunity to look into Orwell’s mind, and it grants the reader an entirely different vantage point from which to consider the rest of the great writer’s oeuvre. 'A writer who can – and must – be rediscovered with every age.' — Irish Times
Download or read book Sheer Blue Bliss written by Lesley Glaister and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-12-30 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A London artist becomes the victim of a stalker in this “creepy” novel “with satisfying fits of the shivers” from the award-winning author of Easy Peasy (The Sunday Times). In London’s prestigious National Portrait Gallery, an exhibition of Connie Benson’s art is set to open. It’s quite an event considering that the reclusive portraitist hasn’t left her home on the North Norfolk coast for the past thirty years—not since her lover Patrick Mount disappeared. Mount, an eccentric guru who claimed to have discovered an elixir of bliss, is just as famous—perhaps even more so after his presumed death. Tonight, Connie’s masterful portrait of him, completed on the night he vanished, will finally be unveiled. But it’s arousing more than a love of art in Mount’s most secretive and devoted disciple. Tony, a violent ex-con, never met Mount, but he’s committed the famous man’s autobiography to memory. He’s collected every known photograph of him, and every word ever written by, or about, him. Except for one prized possession that has been forever out of reach: Mount’s key to bliss. He’s prepared to trap Connie in his secret world to find it. But Tony is soon to discover the consequences of obsession—because he isn’t the only one with things to hide. The recipient of the Somerset Maugham Award, Lesley Glaister is “an author for whom writing and storytelling is an unstoppable passion, as strong as a rush of blood to the head” (The Independent). “Crime writing of the highest order.” —The Sunday Times “Before Gillian Flynn, there was Lesley Glaister.” —Harper’s Bazaar
Download or read book Sheer Fiction written by Paul West and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Immediacy written by Anna Kornbluh and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2024-01-30 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why speed, flow, and direct expression now dominate cultural style Contemporary cultural style boosts transparency and instantaneity. These are values absorbed from our current economic conditions of "disintermediation": cutting out the middleman. Like Uber, but for art. Immediacy names this style to make sense of what we lose when the contradictions of twenty-first-century capitalism demand that aesthetics negate mediation. Surging realness as an aesthetic program synchs with the economic imperative to intensify circulation when production stagnates. "Flow" is the ultimate twenty-first-century buzzword, but speedy circulation grinds art down to the nub. And the bad news is that political turmoil and social challenges require more mediation. Collective will, inspiring ideas, and deliberate construction are the only way out, but our dominant style forgoes them. Considering original streaming TV, popular literature, artworld trends, and academic theories, Immediacy explains the recent obsession with immersion and today’s intolerance of representation, and points to alternative forms in photography, TV, novels, and constructive theory that prioritize distance, impersonality, and big ideas instead.
