Download or read book The Quest for Inez written by Kitty Burns Florey and published by Genealogy House. This book was released on 2015-04-14 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A HIGHLY UNUSUAL APPROACH TO A GENEALOGICAL MYSTERY In April 1910, a young woman named Inez Willick gave birth to a baby girl, put her up for adoption, and disappeared. When Inez's granddaughter began the search for her mother's mother, she didn't have much more than a name. But, as happens so often in genealogical research, she stumbled into an overwhelming bounty of information. Among her discoveries were another secret child, a close tie to one of America's titans of industry, and a second cousin in California with a cache of family photos. What remained elusive was a definitive answer to the question that lay at the heart of the story: if Inez was her grandmother, who was her grandfather? There were a few clues, including a mysterious marriage (and annulment) and a scandalous rumor with no one left alive to verify it, but every road led to a dead end. Kitty Burns Florey, the author of nine novels, did what a fictionwriter does: she took the facts she unearthed and turned them into a plausible tale of not only a grandmother but a grandfather, a quiet turn-of-the-century Ohio town that is less serene than it appears, and an intriguing love story. This is family history with a new twist. Here are two stories: the verifiable facts - fascinating in themselves - and alongside them an alternative universe that takes the research and flies with it in an attempt to come close to the truth. And, in the process of writing her grandmother's story, Florey delves into her mother's life and her own and finds some surprising parallels - and some revelations she was not expecting.n
Download or read book American Women Writing Fiction written by Mickey Pearlman and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-03-17 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American literature is no longer the refuge of the solitary hero. Like the society it mirrors, it is now a far richer, many-faceted explication of a complicated and diverse society—racially, culturally, and ethnically interwoven and at the same time fractured and fractious. Ten women writing fiction in America today—Toni Cade Bambara, Joan Didion, Louise Erdrich, Gail Godwin, Mary Gordon, Alison Lurie, Joyce Carol Oates, Jayne Anne Phillips, Susan Fromberg Schaeffer, and Mary Lee Settle—represent that geographic, ethnic, and racial diversity that is distinctively American. Their differing perspectives on literature and the American experience have produced Erdrich's stolid North Dakota plainswomen; Didion's sun-baked dreamers and screamers; the urban ethnics—Irish, Jewish, and black—of Gordon, Schaeffer, and Bambara; Oates's small-town, often violent, neurotics; Lurie's intellectual sophisticates; and the southern survivors and victims, male and female, of Phillips, Settle, and Godwin. The ten original essays in this collection focus on the traditional themes of identity, memory, family, and enclosure that pervade the fiction of these writers. The fictional women who emerge here, as these critics show, are often caught in the interwoven strands of memory, perceive literal and emotional space as entrapping, find identity elusive and frustrating, and experience the interweaving of silence, solitude, and family in complex patterns. Each essay in this collection is followed by bibliographies of works by and about the writer in question that will be invaluable resources for scholars and general readers alike. Here is a readable critical discussion of ten important contemporary novelists who have broadened the pages of American literature to reflect more clearly the people we are.
Download or read book Land Quest written by Lisa Weight DeGroodt and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2008-04-27 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Quests continue When the Seer of the Land is kidnapped and forced into the tortured, wasted body of her Worlder Counterpart, Alicia Wrightstone, the Interdimensional Grid is thrust into dangerous turmoil. As the Protectors of the Land safeguard the Seer in the World Dimension, the stability of the Land is rapidly eroding due to her absence. Desperate to restore the Seer to her rightful dimension, one brave Lander will risk everything in an audacious Interdimensional rescue. Evil is constantly moving closer and the future of the entire Grid is at risk. Yet how can someone from the rural Land survive in the World Dimension, much less find one sick woman in Manhattan? The odds are stacked against the Land, with the health of the entire Grid on the line. The Protectors of the Land must combine their unique abilities like never before, culminating in a spectacular battle between Good vs. Evil among the skyscrapers of New York City.
Download or read book The Spanish Cavalier A Story of Seville written by A. L. O. E. and published by Litres. This book was released on 2022-01-29 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Quest for Form written by Thomas Richard Knipp and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book San Francisco s Queen of Vice written by Lisa Riggin and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2017-10-01 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Lisa Riggin tells the story of the rise and fall of 1940s San Francisco abortionist Inez Brown Burns, who made a fortune by providing her services to desperate women throughout California before the city's newly elected district attorney, Edmund G. "Pat" Brown, exposed the hidden, yet not so secret life of backroom deals, political payoffs and corrupt city cops"--
Download or read book The Southern Reporter written by and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 2114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Spanish Cavalier a Story of Seville written by Charlotte Maria Tucker and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 2020-09-28 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Quest for the Dark Tower written by Alissa Burger and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2021-03-22 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sprawling epic that encompasses many worlds, parallel and alternate timelines, and the echoes between these disconnects, Stephen King's Dark Tower series spans the entirety of King's career, from The Gunslinger (limited edition 1982; revised in 2003) to The Wind Through the Keyhole (2012). The series has two distinctive characteristics: its genre hybridity and its interconnection with the larger canon of King's work. The Dark Tower series engages with a number of distinct and at times dissonant genre traditions, including those of Arthurian legend, fairy tales, the fantasy epic, the Western, and horror. The Dark Tower series is also significant in its cross-references to King's other works, ranging from overt connections like characters or places to more subtle allusions, like the sigil of the Dark Tower's Crimson King appearing in the graffiti of other realities. This book examines these connections and genre influences to consider how King negotiates and transforms these elements, why they matter, and the impact they have on one another and on King's work as a whole.
Download or read book The Spanish cavalier by A L O E written by Charlotte Maria Tucker and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Meyerbeer s Opera L Africaine written by Giacomo Meyerbeer and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Spanish Cavalier written by A. L. O. E. and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Second Generation Romantic Poets Paradoxical Approach to Women written by Soner Kaya and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2024-07-15 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines certain literary works by Percy Bysshe Shelley, George Gordon Byron, and John Keats because, on the one hand, they represent patriarchal hegemony and, on the other, they present a challenge to it. The primary objective of the book is to demonstrate that despite their tendency towards liberty, individual rights, and imagination, these poets did not consistently choose one attitude towards women in their literary works. Suggesting that Byron, Shelley and Keats were caught between their liberal views on women and patriarchal norms of their age, the book discusses how their attitudes towards women lack consistency through an analysis of the specific roles assigned to women, both in accordance with and in defiance of traditional gender norms.
Download or read book Louisiana Reports written by Louisiana. Supreme Court and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Paradigms of Paranoia written by Samuel Chase Coale and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The New York Red Book written by and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 1162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book La Favorita written by Gaetano Donizetti and published by . This book was released on 1848 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
