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![]() Schweblin delivers a skin-prickling masterclass in dread and suspense. “This small debut novel packs a mighty, and lingering, punch. Schweblin, though, is an artist of remarkable restraint… Schweblin renders psychological trauma with such alacrity that the conceit of a poisoned environment feels almost beside the point.” -Washington Post “A spare, hypnotic literary page-turner.” - O, the Oprah Magazine ![]() “Never have I ever been so afraid to read a book right before bed” - Marie Claire "Subtle, dreamy and indelibly creepy." - The Economist (Best Books of 2017) "A nauseous, eerie read, sickeningly good." -Emma Cline, The Girls he genius of Fever Dream is less in what it says than in how Schweblin says it, with a design at once so enigmatic and so disciplined that the book feels as if it belongs to a new literary genre altogether.” -Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker By the time I finished the book, I couldn’t bring myself to look out the windows…. I was checking the locks in my apartment by page thirty. “I picked up Fever Dream in the wee hours, and a low, sick thrill took hold of me as I read it. "Samanta Schweblin’s electric story reads like a Fever Dream.” - Vanity Fair “To call Schweblin’s novella eerie and hallucinatory is only to gesture at its compact power the fantastical here simply dilates a reality we begin to accept as terrifying and true. Schweblin’s book is suffused with haunting images and big questions.” - New York Times Book Review ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The analysis focuses on the ways in which certain texts strive to manage the cultural anxiety produced by female rule and facilitate the diminution of the uneasy cultural reality it represents, while others dramatize the exercise of political virtue by women, explode the myth of gender-differentiated sexual ethics, and suggest alternative constructions of gender relations to those upheld by the normative discourses of sexual difference. In this second volume, Configuring the Female Prince in Seventeenth-Century French Drama, Conroy analyzes over 30 plays published between 16, examining the range of constructions of queenship that are thrown into relief. Ruling Women is a two-volume study devoted to an analysis of the conflicting discourses concerning government by women in seventeenth-century France. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Who, or what, is behind it? What's their endgame? And why does this mother seem to be harboring dark secrets about her family's past?Īs these three barely-employed amateurs dig for the truth under layers of high-tech occult manipulation and subterfuge, another crucial question lingers: Is there seriously no one else who can handle this? Around the world, other owners of the toy are reporting the same. In possibly related news, Dave, John and Amy hear from a panicked mother that a popular toy and its connected smartphone app are demanding flesh from her daughter. An entity armed with such techniques would ensnare millions before anyone caught on. The takeover of your soul would be soothing, satisfying, maybe even kind of fun. The ideal possession would be more subtle to you, it would feel like it was your choice. ![]() I want you to stop what you're doing and ask yourself an important question: If some dark, powerful entity was attempting to ensnare your mind and dominate your will, would you even notice?Ī competent devil would know that if he revealed his true nature, you'd resist, or seek help. ![]() ![]() The boy's name, in case you were (wrongfully) asking yourself, is Lemony Snicket, and the book contains his account on the finding and losing - then finding and losing yet again - of a seemingly unimportant statue of virtually no price at all. This is a book about a boy in his apprenticeship being sent to an empty town surrounded by a waterless sea and a treeless forest, which are all in turn surrounded by mystifying mysteries extending as far as the non-astigmatic eye can see. I should've asked myself why I ever thought it would be any different than Lemony Snicket's other wonderful books, or why I even supposed it wouldn't be in the first place, but instead I asked myself all the wrong questions and thus I write this review, relaying to you my findings whilst reading Lemony Snicket's brand new book, Who Could That Be At This Hour? I was reading said book, I was hit by a twist in it - which here means I was surprised by the writing inside it, not that it somehow managed to bend my body unnaturally - and when I was done with the book, I was annoyed. There was a book, and there was a twist and there was annoyance. ![]() ![]() Urn:lcp:wonderfullifebur0000goul:epub:557dec0d-e555-4e71-89ea-06d7a4f017f3 Foldoutcount 0 Grant_report Arcadia #4281 Identifier wonderfullifebur0000goul Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t6m13dj6j Invoice 2089 Isbn 0091754224ĩ780091742713 Ocr tesseract 4.1.1 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.4 Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_detected_script_conf 1.0000 Ocr_module_version 0.0.12 Ocr_parameters -l eng Old_pallet IA19225 Openlibrary_edition ![]() ![]() Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 13:05:46 Boxid IA1933119 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier ![]() ![]() ![]() Let's start with one of the most significant interviews she conducted, her 2008 interview with Sarah Palin. She now has her own production company, Katie Couric Media. In 2006, she became the first woman to solo anchor a network evening newscast when she accepted the position of anchor and managing editor of the "CBS Evening News." She left CBS in 2011. She writes about the sexual harassment and assault allegations against Lauer, but she left the "Today" show and NBC years before that story broke. As she puts it, the book is about summoning the grit to make her way in the male-run media business, adjusting to the thrilling, chilling world of sudden fame, learning on the job, experiencing institutional sexism at the highest levels and hanging in long enough to see things start to change.Ĭouric was the co-anchor of NBC's the "Today" show for 15 years, first with Bryant Gumbel and then Matt Lauer. My guest, Katie Couric, has written a new memoir called "Going There" about her 40 years in journalism and her personal life. ![]() ![]() He published both light verse and scholarly articles. ![]() In 1950 Kendall was awarded a Marburgh Prize from Johns Hopkins University for a three-act play, The Ant Village. ![]() ![]() He was granted tenure in 1947, and was appointed Distinguished Professor of English in 1959, one of the first three academics at Ohio University to receive this honor. Kendall's teaching was primarily concerned with Renaissance writing and Shakespeare. Carol Kendall was an author in her own right. In 1939 Kendall married Carol Seeger, one of his former students. from the University of Virginia in 1939, and continued as professor at Ohio University, and was one of the first academics named as Distinguished Professor at Ohio University in 1959. In 1937, while studying for a Ph.D, he became an instructor in English at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio. He studied at the University of Virginia, receiving a bachelor's degree in 1932, and master's in 1933. He graduated from Frankford High School in 1928. Kendall was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. ![]() Paul Murray Kendall (Ma– November 21, 1973) was an American academic and historian, who taught for over 30 years at Ohio University and then, after his retirement, at the University of Kansas. ![]() ![]() ![]() It becomes clear that, to their 'people', Julian is a constant, ancient and immovable force, and York is a new saviour, come with a promise of liberation and freedom. Julian has an odd reputation and people mutter about all the slaves who go onto his estate but never leave. ![]() Meanwhile, in New Orleans a man named Sour Billy Tipton recruits slaves for his employer, a mysterious recluse named Damon Julian, who lives in an old, crumbling estate on a bayou south of the city. York, who takes his meals at midnight and sleeps through the day, and who takes a strange interest in the reports of unexplained deaths along the river banks. The ship begins its maiden voyage to New Orleans, but as the ship travels south, rumours begin to circulate about the unusual Mr. Marsh's career and company is saved, and he is soon the captain of the Fevre Dream, the greatest side-wheeler to ever run the river. In some financial difficulties, he encounters an unexpected saviour when a European, Joshua York, offers to bail him out and fund the construction of a grand new steamboat. But, during a particularly harsh winter, he loses all but one of his ships. Abner Marsh is the owner of the Fevre River Packet Company, running several steamboats up and down the upper Mississippi and its tributaries. ![]() ![]() Shunned by her classmates and teachers for her limited English, Qian takes refuge in the library and masters the language through books, coming to think of The Berenstain Bears as her first American friends. Instead of laughing at her jokes, they fight constantly, taking out the stress of their new life on one another. In Chinatown, Qian’s parents labor in sweatshops. In China, Qian’s parents were professors in America, her family is “illegal” and it will require all the determination and small joys they can muster to survive. In Chinese, the word for America, Mei Guo, translates directly to “beautiful country.” Yet when seven-year-old Qian arrives in New York City in 1994 full of curiosity, she is overwhelmed by crushing fear and scarcity. ![]() ![]() ![]() The moving story of an undocumented child living in poverty in the richest country in the world-an incandescent debut from an astonishing new talent. ![]() |