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Zom-B bride
B Smith considers making a sacrifice far greater and more surreal than any she has conceived before when she is reunited with the killer clown, Mr. Dowling, who desperately wants B as his partner in crime.
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Salman Rushdie
Salman Rushdie is one of the world’s most important writers of politicised fiction. He is a self-proclaimed controversialist, capable of exciting radically divergent viewpoints, a novelist of extraordinary imaginative range and power, and an erudite, and often fearless, commentator upon the state of global politics today. In this comprehensive and lucid critical study, Andrew Teverson examines the intellectual, biographical, literary and cultural contexts from which Rushdie’s fiction springs in order to help the reader make sense of the often complex debates that surround the life and work of this major contemporary figure. Teverson also offers detailed critical readings of all Rushdie’s novels, from Grimus through to Shalimar the Clown. This definitive guide will be of interest to those working in the fields of contemporary world writing in English, postcolonial studies, twentieth and twenty-first century British literatures, and studies in the novel.
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Infrastructure Beyond Control: Clowning the Nuclear Age
Clowns are, perhaps surprisingly, recurring figures in nuclear literature. Russell Hoban's 1980 post-nuclear-apocalyptic novel Riddley Walker includes a mutation of the English clown/puppet show Punch and Judy as a major motif, while in a more realist mode the Maori novelist James George's 2005 Ocean Roads features a character who has leukemia as a result of his father's work developing the atom bomb, and who spends much of the novel performing beautifully-described clown routines. Martin Cruz Smith' 1986 Stallion Gate, a historical novel about the construction of the first nuclear infrastructures at Los Alamos, opposes the Western scientism of the nuclear complex with the decolonial epistemologies of Pueblo clowns, and in activist circles anti-nuclear protestors have dressed as clowns for their protest actions across two decades. Here, Hurley expresses her contention that clowning, as an art form rooted in the tension between control and its loss, is uniquely able to help us to conceptualize infrastructure as a material object that simultaneously fulfills a fantasy of control and confronts us with the limits of that fantasy.
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The creeping clown : a tale of terror
Josh is terrified of clowns, and the news that someone dressed as a clown in a neighboring town has been kidnapping children does not help, especially after the kidnapper escapes custody; so when he encounters a threatening clown at the House of Horrors at the amusement park he panics--but will he be able to save himself, much less rescue a little girl who is lost in the hall of mirrors?
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The Animal Downdeep: Cordwainer Smith's Late Tales of the Underpeople
Cordwainer Smith's dual focus on animal welfare and human cruelty speaks to many concerns of animal studies today. He portrays, some 15,000 years after his own midtwentieth century, the final collapse of the animal/human dyad. The \"underpeople,\" workers derived from Earth animals, conspire to become recognized as part of the body politic, a concept connected in Smith with the idea of residence in a polis or city. \"The Dead Lady of Clown Town\" (1964) depicts condemned and freakish animal beings who openly show themselves in the human city; they are at once slaughtered and their leader, D'joan, is burned alive, but a dawning recognition of their own brutality begins to change Smith's \"true men.\" Over the next 500 years, homo sapiens learns a better way. Animals come into political agency in these stories. They also serve as therapists for the troubled true men, helping them to recognize that it is not all about one species: \"the other life\" is \"there too.\" Drawing on ideas from Aristotle, Rousseau, Freud, and Derrida, I suggest that Smith's stories reflect not only his academic specialty, political science, but also his years of Freudian therapy. Clearly he shares Freud's sense of \"the ineradicable animal nature\" of human beings. The chief texts discussed are Norstrilia (1975), the Quest of the Three Worlds trilogy (1963-65), and \"The Dead Lady of Clown Town\" (1964).
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The little engine that could helps out
The little blue engine encourages a clown, unable to ride his birthday bike, to keep trying.
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Fix her up : a novel
\"Georgette Castle's family runs the best home renovation business in town, but she picked balloons instead of blueprints and they haven't taken her seriously since. Frankly, she's over it. Georgie loves planning children's birthday parties and making people laugh, just not at her own expense. She's determined to fix herself up into a Woman of the World... whatever that means. Phase one: new framework for her business (a website from this decade, perhaps?) Phase two: a gut-reno on her wardrobe (fyi, leggings are pants.) Phase three: updates to her exterior (do people still wax?) Phase four: put herself on the market (and stop crushing on Travis Ford!) Living her best life means facing the truth: Georgie hasn't been on a date since, well, ever. Nobody's asking the town clown out for a night of hot sex, that's for sure. Maybe if people think she's having a steamy love affair, they'll acknowledge she's not just the little sister who paints faces for a living. And who better to help demolish that image than the resident sports star and tabloid favorite? Travis Ford was major league baseball's hottest rookie when an injury ended his career. Now he's flipping houses to keep busy and trying to forget his glory days. But he can't even cross the street without someone recapping his greatest hits. Or making a joke about his... bat. And then there's Georgie, his best friend's sister, who is not a kid anymore. When she proposes a wild scheme-that they pretend to date, to shock her family and help him land a new job-he agrees. What's the harm? It's not like it's real. But the girl Travis used to tease is now a funny, full-of-life woman and there's nothing fake about how much he wants her...\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Clowns
The circus, I thought, all kids love circuses, especially the Tallahassee Shriners Circus, all those clowns on race cars and miniature trucks. The elephants still paraded past, and the dust rose in that flesh-colored light, so I held that baby's nose closed for a minute so he wouldn't breathe up the dirt.
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