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Midnight
All Jack's life, the nightmares had haunted him, dragging him back to a place where it was always midnight. Molly and Jack are deeply in love but their relationship is being torn apart by Jack's nightmares. Trapped in a place where he is taunted by eyes in the gloom, it is becoming harder for Molly to pull him free, and when daylight comes the haunting visions remain. He can make no sense of them, though when he is deep in the dreams, he knows exactly what's demanded of him. Realising that Jack is being driven close to the edge, Molly urges him to seek help, and with their relationship faltering, Jack decides to hunt for answers. His search takes him back to the place where he grew up, and it soon becomes clear that he must trace people from his past, particularly the one person he could turn to through his troubled childhood. But Jack could never have imagined the true horrors of what he is about to uncover.
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Conjugations
Bollywood movies have been long known for their colorful song-and-dance numbers and knack for combining drama, comedy, action-adventure, and music. But when India entered the global marketplace in the early 1990s, its film industry transformed radically. Production and distribution of films became regulated, advertising and marketing created a largely middle-class audience, and films began to fit into genres like science fiction and horror. In this bold study of what she names New Bollywood, Sangita Gopal contends that the key to understanding these changes is to analyze films' evolving treatment of romantic relationships.
Gopalargues that the form of the conjugal duo in movies reflects other social forces in India's new consumerist and global society. She takes a daring look at recent Hindi films and movie trends—the decline of song-and-dance sequences, the upgraded status of the horror genre, and the rise of the multiplex and multi-plot—to demonstrate how these relationships exemplify different formulas of contemporary living. A provocative account of how cultural artifacts can embody globalization's effects on intimate life, Conjugations will shake up the study of Hindi film.
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The reminders : a novel
\"What happens when a girl who can't forget befriends a man who's desperate to remember?\"--Jacket.
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This Taste for Silence
The balance of power in a marriage shifts, with shocking consequences.An elderly woman recounts a chilling childhood memory on the family farm.A taxi driver with a missing wife reveals unexpected skills.An inherited painting brings an eerily troubling legacy.
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The engagements : a novel
\"The story of four couples linked over several decades by one diamond ring, and the woman who launched the most famous diamond campaign in the world\"-- Provided by publisher.
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The Tumble Inn
Tired of their high school teaching jobs and discouraged by their failed attempts at conceiving a child, Mark and Fran Finley decide they need a change in their lives. Abruptly, they leave their friends and family in suburban New Jersey to begin anew as innkeepers on a secluded lake in the Adirondack Mountains. There they muddle through their first season at the inn, serving barely edible dinners to guests, stranding themselves in chest-deep snowdrifts, and somehow, miraculously, amid swarms of ravenous black flies, conceiving a child, a girl they name Nat. Years later, when Mark and Fran are nearing middle age and Nat is a troubled teenager, Mark's life is ripped apart, forever changed, and he must choose between returning to his old home in New Jersey or trying to rebuild what is left of his life and family in the place of his greatest joy and deepest sorrow.The Tumble Innis a moving drama about home and about the fragility and resilience of love.
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Next year, for sure : a novel
\"After nine years together, Kathryn and Chris have the sort of relationship most would envy. They speak in the shorthand they have invented, complete one another's sentences, and help each other through every daily and existential dilemma. When Chris tells Kathryn about his feelings for Emily, a vivacious young woman he sees often at the Laundromat, Kathryn encourages her boyfriend to pursue this other woman--certain that her bond with Chris is strong enough to weather a little side dalliance. As Kathryn and Chris stumble into polyamory, [this book] tracks the tumultuous, revelatory, and often very funny year that follows\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Watch that Ends the Night
George and Catherine Stewart share not only the burden of Catherine's heart disease, which could cause her death at any time, but the memory of Jerome Martell, her first husband and George's closest friend. Martel, a brilliant doctor passionately concerned with social justice, is presumed to have died in a Nazi prison camp. His sudden return to Montreal precipitates the central crisis of the novel. Hugh MacLennan takes the reader into the lives of his three characters and back into the world of Montreal in the thirties, when politics could send an idealist across the world to Spain, France, Auschwitz, Russia, and China before his return home.
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The adults : a novel
\"Meet The Adults. Claire and Matt are no longer together but decide what's best for their daughter Scarlett is to have a \"normal\" family Christmas. They can't agree on whose idea it was to go to the Happy Forest Holiday park, or who said they should bring their new partners. But someone did--and it's too late to pull the plug. Claire brings her new boyfriend Patrick (never Pat), a seemingly sensible, eligible from a distance, Iron-Man-in-Waiting. Matt brings the new love of his life Alex, funny, smart, and extremely patient. Scarlett, who is seven, brings her imaginary friend Posey. He's a rabbit. Together the five (or six?) of them grit their teeth over Forced Fun activities, drinking a little too much after bed-time, oversharing classified secrets about their pasts and before you know it their holiday is a powder keg that ends--where this story starts--with a tearful, frightened, call to the police ... But what happened? They said they'd all be adults about this ... -- Provided by publisher.
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The Transnational Formation of the English Novel: The Case of Madame de Villedieu’s The Annals of Love (1672)
In the late 1660s and 1670s, Madame de Villedieu (née Desjardins) made a substantial contribution to the evolution of prose fiction, moving the genre from the heroic romance to the nouvelle in France, and thus in England. Her Annales Galantes (1670), translated as The Annals of Love (1672), is a landmark work within the development of the genre. The twenty-one “amorous adventures” that make up this collection contain an impressive array of characters and psychological portraits of individuals enmeshed in a multiplicity of romantic relationships and situations. Drawing from chronicles and historical records and set in Europe and Asia in periods ranging from the early Middle Ages to the modern era, the author presents these stories as factual accounts through her use of sources and reinforces her narrative authority with calculated digressions and metanarrative commentary. This article examines Villedieu’s innovative experiment in history and narrative technique in the literary context of the transition to the nouvelle (and the novel) in England. It studies the ways in which narration in The Annals abandons the unreliable voices and human-like points of view that characterised the English heroic romances, making use of authorial privilege, literary techniques and discourses associated with truth-telling, such as omniscience, biography and history, while constantly reminding readers of her imaginative reconstruction of the stories. Madame de Villedieu (nacida Desjardins) contribuyó sustancialmente al género de ficción en su evolución desde el romance heroico a la nouvelle en Francia —y por ende en Inglaterra— a finales de los 1660s y principios de los 1670s. Su Annales Galantes (1670), traducido como The Annals of Love (1672), marcó ese proceso. Comprende veintiuna “aventuras amorosas” que despliegan una impresionante galería de personajes y retratos psicológicos, envueltos en todo tipo de relaciones y situaciones amorosas basadas en crónicas y registros históricos, tanto en Europa como en el ámbito Oriental, del siglo X a la Edad Moderna. Villedieu intentó infundir veracidad en sus relatos incluyendo una lista de fuentes históricas, y reforzó su autoridad narrativa con digresiones calculadas y comentarios metanarrativos. Este artículo estudia el innovador experimento de Villedieu con la historia y la técnica narrativa en el contexto literario de la transición del romance heroico a la nouvelle (y la novela) en Inglaterra. Se analiza cómo la narración de The Annals abandona voces no-fidedignas y focalizadores humanos propios de los romances heroicos ingleses, y utiliza técnicas y discursos autoriales asociados con la verdad, tales como la omnisciencia, la biografía y la historia, al tiempo que no deja de recordar al lector la esencia imaginaria de sus reconstrucciones.
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