Dirty Love

• Author : Andre Dubus III
• Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
• Release : 07 October 2013

In this heartbreakingly beautiful book of disillusioned intimacy and persistent yearning, beloved and celebrated author Andre Dubus III explores the bottomless needs and stubborn weaknesses of people seeking gratification in food and sex, work and love. In these linked novellas in which characters walk out the back door of one story and into the next, love is "dirty"—tangled up with need, power, boredom, ego, fear, and fantasy. On the Massachusetts coast north of Boston, a controlling manager, Mark, discovers

• Author : Tim Whitmarsh
• Publisher : Oxford University Press
• Release : 02 April 2018

Some of the world's earliest large-form fictional narratives--what would today be called novels-are found in ancient Greece. Dating back to the first century CE, these narratives contain many of the elements common to the novelistic genre, for instance, the joining, separation, and reunion of two lovers. These ancient works have often been heralded as the ancestors of the modern novel; but what can we say of the origins of the Greek novel itself? This book argues that whereas much of

• Author : Andre Dubus
• Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
• Release : 07 October 2013

A collection of short stories examines the lives of suburbanites seeking solace and gratification in food, sex, work, and love.

• Author : Anonim
• Publisher : BRILL
• Release : 06 December 2018

A Haitian woman whose talent and intellect led to worldwide fame, Marie Vieux Chauvet, like many free-minded Caribbean women of the African diaspora, was banned from the public sphere. Theatre, Performance, and Global South Studies are the book’s focus.

• Author : Gabrielle Zevin
• Publisher : Knopf
• Release : 05 July 2022

In this exhilarating novel by the best-selling author of The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry two friends—often in love, but never lovers—come together as creative partners in the world of video game design, where success brings them fame, joy, tragedy, duplicity, and, ultimately, a kind of immortality. "Utterly brilliant. In this sweeping, gorgeously written novel, Gabrielle Zevin charts the beauty, tenacity, and fragility of human love and creativity. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow is one of the

• Author : Christopher Yopp
• Publisher : Tate Publishing
• Release : 01 February 2011

Whoever coined the phrase, 'Life's a journey, not a destination,' was right, especially when it comes to our faith journey. Perhaps this is ever so clear in that sacred place to the Hebrew people known as Gilgal. Gilgal: A Journey through Lent combines stories of humor and real life with biblical lessons for Lent. This book is centered around Gilgal, a significant place in the life of the Hebrew people. While standing at the threshold of the Promised Land,

• Author : Kelly Fisher Lowe
• Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
• Release : 01 October 2007

A deep look at the work of one of the most insightful and incisive critics of late 20th-century American culture.

• Author : Julia Bishop,Steve Roud
• Publisher : Penguin UK
• Release : 07 June 2012

One of the Spectator's Books of the Year 2012 'Farewell and adieu to you fair Spanish ladies Farewell and adieu to you ladies of Spain For we've received orders for to sail for old England But we hope in a short while to see you again' One of the great English popular art forms, the folk song can be painful, satirical, erotic, dramatic, rueful or funny. They have thrived when sung on a whim to a handful of friends in a

• Author : Roger Ebert
• Publisher : Andrews McMeel Publishing
• Release : 05 February 2013

The most-trusted film critic in America." --USA Today Roger Ebert actually likes movies. It's a refreshing trait in a critic, and not as prevalent as you'd expect." --Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle America's favorite movie critic assesses the year's films from Brokeback Mountain to Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit. Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2007 is perfect for film aficionados the world over. Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2007 includes every review by Ebert written in the 30 months from January 2004 through

• Author : Ba PiPiDePi
• Publisher : Funstory
• Release : 03 June 2020

The shopping mall was like a battlefield. A quiet undercurrent flowed through the streets. One wrong move, and he would have died without a complete corpse...

• Author : Roger Ebert
• Publisher : Andrews McMeel Publishing
• Release : 01 March 2007

Roger Ebert's I Hated Hated Hated This Movie, which gathered some of his most scathing reviews, was a best-seller. This new collection continues the tradition, reviewing not only movies that were at the bottom of the barrel, but also movies that he found underneath the barrel. From Roger's review of Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo (0 stars): "The movie created a spot of controversy in February 2005. According to a story by Larry Carroll of MTV News, Rob Schneider took offense when Patrick

• Author : R.L. Kenderson
• Publisher : R.L. Kenderson
• Release : 08 January 2020

Knox Randall is a damn good police detective with a damn big secret. He’s a werewolf. Only he and his partner, Blake, know the truth. And, even though he’s attracted to his partner’s sister, he’s been avoiding her for her own good. But, after Knox steps in front of Blake to keep him from getting shot, Blake knows he can’t take Knox to the hospital. Bleeding out isn’t an option either, so he turns

• Author : Monica Hanna,Jennifer Harford Vargas,José David Saldívar
• Publisher : Duke University Press
• Release : 18 December 2015

The first sustained critical examination of the work of Dominican-American writer Junot Díaz, this interdisciplinary collection considers how Díaz's writing illuminates the world of Latino cultural expression and trans-American and diasporic literary history. Interested in conceptualizing Díaz's decolonial imagination and his radically re-envisioned world, the contributors show how his aesthetic and activist practice reflect a significant shift in American letters toward a hemispheric and planetary culture. They examine the intersections of race, Afro-Latinidad, gender, sexuality, disability, poverty,

• Author : Andy Mascola
• Publisher : Andy Mascola
• Release : 06 July 2022

The summer between fifth and sixth grade is an eventful one for Cassandra Tate. After the finalization of her parents' divorce, Cassandra watches her mother engage in increasingly un-mom-like behavior. Car racing, skydiving, ax throwing ... if there's an element of danger involved, Cassandra's mother wants to try it. Toss in a search for her mom's high school crush, and some mischief-making between Cassandra and her best friend, Emma, and you have the recipe for a funny and heartwarming tale about

• Author : Lisa A. Lewis
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release : 11 September 2002

With stories of hysterical teenagers and obsessive fans killing for their heroes, fans and fandom get a bad press. The Adoring Audience looks deeper into fan culture, particularly as it relates to identity, sexuality and textual production.