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The Islanders. Vol. 3, Claire gets caught ; and, What Zoey saw
Claire tries to catch the eye of her crush, Jake, while on a snowy weekend ski trip in New Hampshire, even though Jake and Claire's friend Zoey seem to be getting closer together.
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Hum
A new collection of stories by bestselling author Michelle
Richmond,
Hum presents a cautionary political fable, a celebration
of the complexities of marriage, and a meditation on modern-day
alienation. Thirteen years after the publication of her first
story collection,
The Girl in the Fall-Away Dress ,
New York Times bestselling author Michelle Richmond
returns with Hum, a collection of ten stories that examine love,
lust, and loyalty from surprising angles. In “Hum,” a
young couple that is paid to live in a house filled with
surveillance equipment becomes “quietly lost to each
other,” as the wife’s infatuation with the subject of
their surveillance turns to obsession. In “Medicine,”
a woman grieving over the death of her sister finds her calling
as a manual medical caregiver. In “Boulevard,” a
couple who has been trying to have a child for seven years finds
themselves in an unnamed country at the height of a revolution,
summoned there by the enigmatic H. “Scales,” the
story of a woman who falls in love with a man whose body is
covered with scales, parses the intersection of pain and
pleasure. The narrator of “Lake” must choose whether
to walk in the footsteps of her famous grandfather, The Great
Amphibian, who disappeared while performing a feat of daring in
Lake Michigan. What does it mean to be heroic? How much should
one sacrifice in the name of love? These questions and more are
explored with tenderness, wit, and unerring precision in
Hum .
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The Islanders. Vol. 4, Lucas gets hurt ; and, Aisha goes wild
Lucas is miserable when his girlfriend, Zoey, goes back to her ex Jake when her family falls apart, while Aisha becomes torn between her new flame, Christopher, and her first love, Jeff.
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The Islanders. Vol. 1, Zoey fools around ; and, Jake finds out
A story of passion and heartbreak is told with the alternating perspectives of Jake, whose brother died in an accident three years before, and Zoey, who falls for the boy responsible for the accident.
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The courtship novel, 1740-1820 : a feminized genre
The period from her first London assembly to her wedding day was the narrow span of autonomy for a middle-class Englishwoman in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.For many women, as Katherine Sobba Green shows, the new ideal of companionate marriage involved such thoroughgoing revisions in self-perception that a new literary form was.
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I'm not your manic pixie dream girl
\"After her boyfriend breaks up with her for another girl, Bea reinvents herself as a manic pixie dream girl to win him back\"-- Provided by publisher.
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The Flirt's Tragedy
In the flirtation plots of novels by Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, and W. M. Thackeray, heroines learn sociability through competition with naughty coquette-doubles. In the writing of George Eliot and Thomas Hardy, flirting harbors potentially tragic consequences, a perilous game then adapted by male flirts in the novels of Oscar Wilde and Henry James. In revising Gustave Flaubert'sSentimental Education in The Age of Innocence,Edith Wharton critiques the nineteenth-century European novel as morbidly obsessed with deferred desires. Finally, in works by D. H. Lawrence and E. M. Forster, flirtation comes to reshape the modernist representation of homoerotic relations.
InThe Flirt's Tragedy: Desire without End in Victorian and Edwardian Fiction, Richard Kaye makes a case for flirtation as a unique, neglected species of eros that finds its deepest, most elaborately sustained fulfillment in the nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century novel. The author examines flirtation in major British, French, and American texts to demonstrate how the changing aesthetic of such fiction fastened on flirtatious desire as a paramount subject for distinctly novelistic inquiry. The novel, he argues, accentuated questions of ambiguity and ambivalence on which an erotics of deliberate imprecision thrived. But the impact of flirtation was not only formal. Kaye views coquetry as an arena of freedom built on a dialectic of simultaneous consent and refusal, as well as an expression of \"managed desire,\" a risky display of female power, and a cagey avenue for the expression of dissident sexualities. Through coquetry, novelists offered their response to important scientific and social changes and to the rise of the metropolis as a realm of increasingly transient amorous relations.
Challenging current trends in gender, post-gender, and queer-theory criticism, and considering texts as diverse as Darwin'sThe Descent of Manand Gilbert and Sullivan'sThe Mikado, Kaye insists that critical appraisals of Victorian and Edwardian fiction must move beyond existing paradigms defining considerations of flirtation in the novel.The Flirt's Tragedyoffers a lively, revisionary, often startling assessment of nineteenth-century fiction that will alter our understanding of the history of the novel.
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The Islanders. Vol. 2, Nina won't tell and Ben's in love
A love story between Nina and her sister's former boyfriend Ben is told with the alternating perspectives of Nina and Ben.
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