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Book The Jessica Brown Findlay Handbook   Everything You Need to Know about Jessica Brown Findlay

Download or read book The Jessica Brown Findlay Handbook Everything You Need to Know about Jessica Brown Findlay written by Emily Smith and published by Tebbo. This book was released on 2013-02-01 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jessica Brown Findlay (born 14 September 1989) is an English actress, best known for playing Lady Sybil Crawley in ITV's Downton Abbey and Emelia Conan-Doyle in the British comedy-drama Albatross. In 2013 Brown Findlay is due to star as Beverly Penn in the film adaptation of Mark Helprin's 1983 novel Winter's Tale. This book is your ultimate resource for Jessica Brown Findlay. Here you will find the most up-to-date information, photos, and much more. In easy to read chapters, with extensive references and links to get you to know all there is to know about Jessica Brown Findlay's Early life, Career and Personal life right away. A quick look inside: Contents, Jessica Brown Findlay, Black Mirror (TV series), Cookham, Downton Abbey, Furze Platt Senior School, Kate Mosse, Labyrinth (TV miniseries), Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series, Winter's Tale (film) 38 and more pages! Contains selected content from the highest rated entries, typeset, printed and shipped, combining the advantages of up-to-date and in-depth knowledge with the convenience of printed books. A portion of the proceeds of each book will be donated to the Wikimedia Foundation to support their mission.

Book Jessica Brown Findlay 33 Success Facts   Everything You Need to Know about Jessica Brown Findlay

Download or read book Jessica Brown Findlay 33 Success Facts Everything You Need to Know about Jessica Brown Findlay written by Joseph Pruitt and published by Emereo Publishing. This book was released on 2014-05-21 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Most-Advanced Jessica Brown Findlay Biography Available. This book is your ultimate resource for Jessica Brown Findlay. Here you will find the most up-to-date 33 Success Facts, Information, and much more. In easy to read chapters, with extensive references and links to get you to know all there is to know about Jessica Brown Findlay's Early life, Career and Personal life right away. A quick look inside: Glamour Magazine - 2012, Downton Abbey (season 2) - Downton Abbey: Behind the Drama, Albatross (film) - Cast, Labyrinth (TV miniseries) - Overview, Albatross (film) - Casting, Lullaby (2013 film), Furze Platt Senior School - Alumni, Akiva Goldsman - Life and career, Tring Park School for the Performing Arts - Actors/Presenters/Writers, Kate Mosse - Early Writing the Languedoc Trilogy, Jamaica Inn (BBC TV series) - Production, Albatross (film) - Awards, Winter's Tale (novel) - Film adaptation, List of characters in Downton Abbey - Lady Sybil Branson, Albatross (film) - Plot, Winter's Tale (film) - Cast, Labyrinth (TV miniseries) - Cast and characters, Winter's Tale (film) - Plot, List of Maggie Smith awards and nominations - Notes, Jamaica Inn (BBC TV series) - Cast, Jamaica Inn (BBC TV series) - Plot, Lullaby (2013 film) - Cast, Arts Educational School, Tring Park - Actors/Presenters/Writers, Jessica Brown-Findlay, Captain America: The Winter Soldier - Pre-production, List of British actors and actresses - F, Cookham - Notable residents, Winter's Tale (film) - Development, Jessica Brown Findlay, British Independent Film Awards 2011 - Most Promising Newcomer, and much more...

Book Behind the Scenes at Downton Abbey

Download or read book Behind the Scenes at Downton Abbey written by Emma Rowley and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2013-10-29 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A new companion edition to the Masterpiece presentation on PBS"--Jacket.

Book Outlander

    Book Details:
  • Author : Diana Gabaldon
  • Publisher : Dell
  • Release : 2004-10-26
  • ISBN : 0440335167
  • Pages : 560 pages

Download or read book Outlander written by Diana Gabaldon and published by Dell. This book was released on 2004-10-26 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NOW A STARZ ORIGINAL SERIES Unrivaled storytelling. Unforgettable characters. Rich historical detail. These are the hallmarks of Diana Gabaldon’s work. Her New York Times bestselling Outlander novels have earned the praise of critics and captured the hearts of millions of fans. Here is the story that started it all, introducing two remarkable characters, Claire Beauchamp Randall and Jamie Fraser, in a spellbinding novel of passion and history that combines exhilarating adventure with a love story for the ages. One of the top ten best-loved novels in America, as seen on PBS’s The Great American Read! Scottish Highlands, 1945. Claire Randall, a former British combat nurse, is just back from the war and reunited with her husband on a second honeymoon when she walks through a standing stone in one of the ancient circles that dot the British Isles. Suddenly she is a Sassenach—an “outlander”—in a Scotland torn by war and raiding clans in the year of Our Lord . . . 1743. Claire is catapulted into the intrigues of a world that threatens her life, and may shatter her heart. Marooned amid danger, passion, and violence, Claire learns her only chance of safety lies in Jamie Fraser, a gallant young Scots warrior. What begins in compulsion becomes urgent need, and Claire finds herself torn between two very different men, in two irreconcilable lives. This eBook includes the full text of the novel plus the following additional content: • An excerpt from Diana Gabaldon’s Dragonfly in Amber, the second novel in the Outlander series • An interview with Diana Gabaldon • An Outlander reader’s guide Praise for Outlander “Marvelous and fantastic adventures, romance, sex . . . perfect escape reading.”—San Francisco Chronicle “History comes deliciously alive on the page.”—New York Daily News

Book The Katie Findlay Handbook   Everything You Need to Know about Katie Findlay

Download or read book The Katie Findlay Handbook Everything You Need to Know about Katie Findlay written by Emily Smith and published by Tebbo. This book was released on 2013-05 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Katie Findlay (born August 28, 1990) is a Canadian actress. She is best known for her role as Rosie Larsen on the American crime drama television series, The Killing. This book is your ultimate resource for Katie Findlay. Here you will find the most up-to-date information, photos, and much more. In easy to read chapters, with extensive references and links to get you to know all there is to know about Katie Findlay's Early life, Career and Personal life right away. A quick look inside: Katie Findlay, Continuum (TV series), The Carrie Diaries (TV series), The Killing (U.S. TV series) 14...and more pages Contains selected content from the highest rated entries, typeset, printed and shipped, combining the advantages of up-to-date and in-depth knowledge with the convenience of printed books. A portion of the proceeds of each book will be donated to the Wikimedia Foundation to support their mission.

Book The Jessica Alba Handbook   Everything You Need to Know about Jessica Alba

Download or read book The Jessica Alba Handbook Everything You Need to Know about Jessica Alba written by Emily Smith and published by Tebbo. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jessica Marie Alba (born April 28, 1981) is an American television and film actress. She began her television and movie appearances at age 13 in Camp Nowhere and The Secret World of Alex Mack (1994). Alba rose to prominence as the lead actress in the television series Dark Angel (2000-2002). Alba later appeared in various films including Honey (2003), Sin City (2005), Fantastic Four (2005), Into the Blue (2005), Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer and Good Luck Chuck both in 2007. This book is your ultimate resource for Jessica Alba. Here you will find the most up-to-date information, photos, and much more. In easy to read chapters, with extensive references and links to get you to know all there is to know about her Early life, Career and Personal life right away. A quick look inside: Jessica Alba, Camp Nowhere, Venus Rising, P.U.N.K.S., Never Been Kissed, Idle Hands, Paranoid (2000 thriller film), The Sleeping Dictionary, Honey (2003 film), Sin City (film), Fantastic Four (film), Into the Blue (2005 film), Knocked Up, Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer, The Ten, Good Luck Chuck, Awake (film), The Eye (2008 film), Meet Bill, The Love Guru, Valentine's Day (film), The Killer Inside Me (2010 film), Machete (film), An Invisible Sign, Little Fockers, Spy Kids: All the Time in the World, The Secret World of Alex Mack, Flipper (1995 TV series), The Love Boat: The Next Wave, Dark Angel (TV series), Entourage (TV series), Trippin'.

Book The Chronicles of Downton Abbey

Download or read book The Chronicles of Downton Abbey written by Jessica Fellowes and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2012-11-13 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A companion edition to the Masterpiece presentation on PBS" --Jacket.

Book How to Save the World for Free

    Book Details:
  • Author : Natalie Fee
  • Publisher : Laurence King
  • Release : 2021-02-24
  • ISBN : 9781786277664
  • Pages : 208 pages

Download or read book How to Save the World for Free written by Natalie Fee and published by Laurence King. This book was released on 2021-02-24 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is no greater aspiration than saving the world. Natalie Fee's upbeat and engaging book is a life-altering guide to making those changes that will contribute to helping our planet. Covering all key areas of our lives, from food and leisure to travel and sex, Natalie will galvanize you to think and live differently. You will feel better, live better and ultimately breathe better in the knowledge that every small change contributes towards saving our world.

Book The Jessica Biel Handbook   Everything You Need to Know about Jessica Biel

Download or read book The Jessica Biel Handbook Everything You Need to Know about Jessica Biel written by Emily Smith and published by Tebbo. This book was released on 2012 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jessica Claire Biel (born March 3, 1982) is an American actress, model, and singer. Biel is known for her television role as Mary Camden in the long-running family-drama series 7th Heaven. She has also appeared in several Hollywood films, including Summer Catch, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Stealth, The Illusionist, I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry, and The A-Team, and the British movie Easy Virtue. This book is your ultimate resource for Jessica Biel. Here you will find the most up-to-date information, photos, and much more. In easy to read chapters, with extensive references and links to get you to know all there is to know about her Early life, Career and Personal life right away. A quick look inside: 7th Heaven, Ulee's Gold, I'll Be Home for Christmas (1998 film), Summer Catch, The Rules of Attraction (film), The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003 film), Cellular (film), Blade: Trinity, Stealth (film), Elizabethtown (film), London (2006 film), Brian the Bachelor, The Illusionist (2006 film), Home of the Brave (2006 film), Next (2007 film), I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry, Easy Virtue (2008 film), Total Recall (2012 film), Planet 51, Powder Blue (film), Valentine's Day (film), The A-Team (film), The Tall Man (2011 film), New Year's Eve (film), Playing the Field (film).

Book The Jessica Walter Handbook   Everything You Need to Know about Jessica Walter

Download or read book The Jessica Walter Handbook Everything You Need to Know about Jessica Walter written by Emily Smith and published by Tebbo. This book was released on 2013-05-01 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jessica Walter (born January 31, 1941) is an American actress, known for the films Play Misty for Me, Grand Prix, and for her role as Lucille Bluth on the sitcom Arrested Development. She was a series regular for the first half of season one of 90210 as Tabitha Wilson, provided the voice of the character Fran Sinclair in the TV series Dinosaurs, and starred as the title character of the television series Amy Prentiss for which she won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or TV Movie. Currently she is the voice actor for Malory Archer in the FX animated series Archer and stars as Elaine Robbins in Retired at 35. This book is your ultimate resource for Jessica Walter. Here you will find the most up-to-date information, photos, and much more. In easy to read chapters, with extensive references and links to get you to know all there is to know about Jessica Walter's Early life, Career and Personal life right away. A quick look inside: Jessica Walter, 90210 (TV series), Amy Prentiss, Anything Goes, Archer (TV series), Arrested Development (TV series), Bare Essence, Bending the Rules, Bye Bye Braverman, Clint Eastwood, Dinosaurs (TV series), Dr. Strange (1978 film), Dummy (film), Going Ape , Grand Prix (1966 film), High School of Performing Arts, Ironside (TV series), Jessica Walter (skier), Lilith (film), Morgan le Fay (Marvel Comics), NBC Mystery Movie, Number One (1969 film), PCU (film), Play Misty for Me, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie, Retired at 35, Richard Walter (writer), Ron Leibman, Rumors, Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series, Slums of Beverly Hills, Spring Fever (1982 film), Tapeheads, The Flamingo Kid...and more pages Contains selected content from the highest rated entries, typeset, printed and shipped, combining the advantages of up-to-date and in-depth knowledge with the convenience of printed books. A portion of the proceeds of each book will be donated to the Wikimedia Foundation to support their mission.

Book Spider Woman

Download or read book Spider Woman written by Karla Pacheco and published by Marvel Entertainment. This book was released on 2020-12-16 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collects Spider-Woman (2020) #1-5. Spider-Woman is back, and she’s pulling no punches! Jessica Drew hasn’t been feeling like herself lately. When the angry, irritable and unwell Spider-Woman takes a simple security gig to help her get back on her feet, she finds herself besieged by unknown forces out to destroy everything around her. But what does Jessica’s illness have to do with the daughter of her old nemesis, Otto Vermis? And how does a shipment of black-market spiders fit in? Jessica Drew is fighting for her life while someone is pulling the strings of her web. She soon finds herself forced back to where it all began — Wundagore Mountain, the nightmarish place that gave her powers — but who is making her relive her traumas? The answers are about to get personal! This is the Spider-Woman book you’ve been waiting for!

Book The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

Download or read book The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society written by Mary Ann Shaffer and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2009-05-10 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The beloved, life-affirming international bestseller which has sold over 5 million copies worldwide - now a major film starring Lily James, Matthew Goode, Jessica Brown Findlay, Tom Courtenay and Penelope Wilton To give them hope she must tell their story It's 1946. The war is over, and Juliet Ashton has writer's block. But when she receives a letter from Dawsey Adams of Guernsey – a total stranger living halfway across the Channel, who has come across her name written in a second hand book – she enters into a correspondence with him, and in time with all the members of the extraordinary Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. Through their letters, the society tell Juliet about life on the island, their love of books – and the long shadow cast by their time living under German occupation. Drawn into their irresistible world, Juliet sets sail for the island, changing her life forever.

Book Severance

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ling Ma
  • Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
  • Release : 2018-08-14
  • ISBN : 0374717117
  • Pages : 305 pages

Download or read book Severance written by Ling Ma and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2018-08-14 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maybe it’s the end of the world, but not for Candace Chen, a millennial, first-generation American and office drone meandering her way into adulthood in Ling Ma’s offbeat, wryly funny, apocalyptic satire, Severance. "A stunning, audacious book with a fresh take on both office politics and what the apocalypse might bring." —Michael Schaub, NPR.org “A satirical spin on the end times-- kind of like The Office meets The Leftovers.” --Estelle Tang, Elle NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY: NPR * The New Yorker ("Books We Loved") * Elle * Marie Claire * Amazon Editors * The Paris Review (Staff Favorites) * Refinery29 * Bustle * Buzzfeed * BookPage * Bookish * Mental Floss * Chicago Review of Books * HuffPost * Electric Literature * A.V. Club * Jezebel * Vulture * Literary Hub * Flavorwire Winner of the NYPL Young Lions Fiction Award * Winner of the Kirkus Prize for Fiction * Winner of the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award * Finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel * A New York Times Notable Book of 2018 * An Indie Next Selection Candace Chen, a millennial drone self-sequestered in a Manhattan office tower, is devoted to routine. With the recent passing of her Chinese immigrant parents, she’s had her fill of uncertainty. She’s content just to carry on: She goes to work, troubleshoots the teen-targeted Gemstone Bible, watches movies in a Greenpoint basement with her boyfriend. So Candace barely notices when a plague of biblical proportions sweeps New York. Then Shen Fever spreads. Families flee. Companies cease operations. The subways screech to a halt. Her bosses enlist her as part of a dwindling skeleton crew with a big end-date payoff. Soon entirely alone, still unfevered, she photographs the eerie, abandoned city as the anonymous blogger NY Ghost. Candace won’t be able to make it on her own forever, though. Enter a group of survivors, led by the power-hungry IT tech Bob. They’re traveling to a place called the Facility, where, Bob promises, they will have everything they need to start society anew. But Candace is carrying a secret she knows Bob will exploit. Should she escape from her rescuers? A send-up and takedown of the rituals, routines, and missed opportunities of contemporary life, Ling Ma’s Severance is a moving family story, a quirky coming-of-adulthood tale, and a hilarious, deadpan satire. Most important, it’s a heartfelt tribute to the connections that drive us to do more than survive.

Book The Jessica Chastain Handbook   Everything You Need to Know about Jessica Chastain

Download or read book The Jessica Chastain Handbook Everything You Need to Know about Jessica Chastain written by Emily Smith and published by Tebbo. This book was released on 2013-02-01 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jessica Chastain (born March 24, 1977) is an American theater, film and television actress. She played guest roles in several television shows before making her feature film debut with the 2008 independent film Jolene. In 2011, Chastain gained wide public recognition for her starring roles in seven film releases; for her performance in The Help she received Best Supporting Actress nominations at the Academy Award, Golden Globe, BAFTA, and Screen Actors Guild Award ceremonies. In 2012, Time magazine featured her as one of the "100 Most Influential People in the World". This book is your ultimate resource for Jessica Chastain. Here you will find the most up-to-date information, photos, and much more. In easy to read chapters, with extensive references and links to get you to know all there is to know about Jessica Chastain's Early life, Career and Personal life right away. A quick look inside: Jessica Chastain, AACTA International Award for Best Actress, Academy Award for Best Actress, Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, Anne Hathaway, Austin Film Critics Association Awards 2011, BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role, BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role, Blackbeard (2006 film), Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress, Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actress, Carolyn Stoddard, Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress, Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actress, Coriolanus (film), Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress, Dark Shadows (2004), Denver Film Critics Society, Detroit Film Critics Society, Florida Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress, Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Female, Indiana Film Critics Association, Iron Man 3, Kansas City Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actress, Lawless (film), Les Misérables (2012 film), London Film Critics Circle Awards 2011, Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actress, Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted, Mama (2013 film), National Board of Review Award for Best Actress, National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actress, New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actress, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau and more pages! Contains selected content from the highest rated entries, typeset, printed and shipped, combining the advantages of up-to-date and in-depth knowledge with the convenience of printed books. A portion of the proceeds of each book will be donated to the Wikimedia Foundation to support their mission.

Book Growing Up Disabled in Australia

Download or read book Growing Up Disabled in Australia written by Carly Findlay and published by Black Inc.. This book was released on 2021-02-03 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rich collection of writing from those negotiating disability in their lives - a group whose voices are not heard often enough My body and its place in the world seemed normal to me. Why wouldn’t it? I didn’t grow up disabled; I grew up with a problem. A problem that those around me wanted to fix. We have all felt that uncanny sensation that someone is watching us. The diagnosis helped but it didn’t fix everything. Don’t fear the labels. That identity, which I feared for so long, is now one of my greatest qualities. I had become disabled – not just by my disease, but by the way the world treated me. When I found that out, everything changed. One in five Australians has a disability. And disability presents itself in many ways. Yet disabled people are still underrepresented in the media and in literature. In Growing Up Disabled in Australia – compiled by writer and appearance activist Carly Findlay OAM – more than forty writers with a disability or chronic illness share their stories, in their own words. The result is illuminating. Contributors include senator Jordon Steele-John, paralympian Isis Holt, Dion Beasley, Sam Drummond, Astrid Edwards, Sarah Firth, El Gibbs, Eliza Hull, Gayle Kennedy, Carly-Jay Metcalfe, Fiona Murphy, Jessica Walton and many more.

Book Letters to the Lost

    Book Details:
  • Author : Iona Grey
  • Publisher : Macmillan
  • Release : 2015-05-26
  • ISBN : 1466874686
  • Pages : 385 pages

Download or read book Letters to the Lost written by Iona Grey and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2015-05-26 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An accomplished novel from a talented writer, Letters to the Lost is a stunning, emotional love story. Iona Grey's prose is warm, evocative, and immediately engaging; her characters become so real you can't bear to let them go. I promised to love you forever, in a time when I didn't know if I'd live to see the start of another week. Now it looks like forever is finally running out. I never stopped loving you. I tried, for the sake of my own sanity, but I never even got close, and I never stopped hoping either. Late on a frozen February evening, a young woman is running through the streets of London. Having fled from her abusive boyfriend and with nowhere to go, Jess stumbles onto a forgotten lane where a small, clearly unlived in old house offers her best chance of shelter for the night. The next morning, a mysterious letter arrives and when she can't help but open it, she finds herself drawn inexorably into the story of two lovers from another time. In London 1942, Stella meets Dan, a US airman, quite by accident, but there is no denying the impossible, unstoppable attraction that draws them together. Dan is a B-17 pilot flying his bomber into Europe from a British airbase; his odds of survival are one in five. In the midst of such uncertainty, the one thing they hold onto is the letters they write to each other. Fate is unkind and they are separated by decades and continents. In the present, Jess becomes determined to find out what happened to them. Her hope—inspired by a love so powerful it spans a lifetime—will lead her to find a startling redemption in her own life in this powerfully moving novel.

Book Freddy and Fredericka

    Book Details:
  • Author : Mark Helprin
  • Publisher : Penguin
  • Release : 2005-07-07
  • ISBN : 1101201177
  • Pages : 584 pages

Download or read book Freddy and Fredericka written by Mark Helprin and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2005-07-07 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times bestseller by Mark Helprin, author of Winter's Tale, which is now a major motion picture starring Colin Farrell, Jessica Brown Findlay, Russell Crowe, William Hurt, and Jennifer Connelly “Freddy and Fredericka is a vast, sprawling book of Homeric proportions and design in which Helprin exploits to the fullest his powers of invention as well as a lesser known talent for comedy.” —Bookreporter.com Mark Helprin’s legions of devoted readers cherish his timeless novels and short stories, which are uplifting in their conviction of the goodness and resilience of the human spirit. Freddy and Fredericka—a brilliantly refashioned fairy tale and a magnificently funny farce—only seems like a radical departure of form, for behind the laughter, Helprin speaks of leaps of faith and second chances, courage and the primacy of love. Helprin’s latest work, an extraordinarily funny allegory about a most peculiar British royal family, is immensely mocking of contemporary monarchy and yet deeply sympathetic to the individuals caught in its lonely absurdities.