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\"It all started as a holiday romance...When Cat Hayes impulsively married a handsome, penniless French waiter in St. Tropez, she didn't realize she'd be widowed in just a few weeks. Neither did she know that her late husband was actually Oliver Ducasee, heir to the Ducasse perfume empire. Invited by the Ducasse family to their glamorous French masion, Cat finds a family in chaos. What's more, she's regarded with suspicion and hostility, especially by Oliver's playboy cousin Xavier. Will she run for the hills as fast as her high heels can carry her? Or will she realize that she is exactly what this mixed-up family truly needs?\" -- Back cover.
The perfume collector : a novel
Newlywed Grace Monroe doesn't fit anyone's expectations of a successful 1950s London socialite, least of all her own. When she receives an unexpected inheritance from a complete stranger, Madame Eva d'Orsey, Grace is drawn to uncover the identity of her mysterious benefactor. Weaving through the decades, from 1920s New York to Monte Carlo, Paris, and London, the story Grace uncovers is that of an extraordinary women who inspired one of Paris's greatest perfumers. Immortalized in three evocative perfumes, Eva d'Orsey's history will transform Grace's life forever, forcing her to choose between the woman she is expected to be and the person she really is.
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Tapping into the Appeal of Cult Fiction
According to Thomas Reed Whissen, cult fiction appeals to readers who feel cut off, socially disenfranchised, deprived of their rightful place in the community of man. CULT FICTION SUGGESTIONS FORTEEN READERS * The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath * Crash by J. G. Ballard * The Dice Man by Luke Rhinehart * Dune by Erank Herbert * Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk * The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams * Geek Eove by Katherine Dunn * Magic for Beginners by Kelly Link * Neuromancer by William Gibson * One Day in the Eife of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander SoIzhenitsyn * One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey * Only Forward by Michael Marshall Smith * One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez * Perfume by Patrick Suskind * The Pigman by Paul Zindel * The Stranger by Albert Camus * Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh There is something about cult fiction titles that make them easily spotted.
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Catch your death
Code-cracking girl detective Ruby Redfort must cope not only with sighghtings of mysterious wild animals, rumors of an exclusive perfume formula, and wilderness survival training, but then some priceless jewelry turns up missing.
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Women's Cinema and Contemporary Allegories of Violence in Mexico
[...] many critics have identified Amores Perros as a \"Latino\" Pulp Fiction [dir. Quentin Tarantino, 1994]. [...] I want to urge public and academic critics not to disregard the relationship between formal and social structures of meaning.
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Free Flesh: The Matrix, the War on Iraq and the Torture of Democracy
Something is always lost to the sovereign, democratic, liberal or otherwise. This is the very function of law, but in contemporary times of (anti) terror, when obedience demands obeisance and protection from terror includes torture, it is becoming increasingly difficult in the United States, Australia and Britain to imagine a `fair and free contract' with the sovereign. What is to be done? Purchasing freedom as cars, perfume and fries performs one evasion of the violence of the sovereign decision. The collapse of signification into the product is an effective gesture to enable a liberal democratic subject to imagine it is obtaining or ingesting freedom in the cloth or, as a food group. Similarly, offering freedom as a gift to the Middle East enacts a denial or even foreclosure that speaks of freedom as if it can be administered militarily. This article discusses the mirroring of the imagery in the Wachowski brothers' Matrix Trilogy with contemporary political rhetoric in the West on the War on Iraq and on the use of torture. The momentous copulating of Trinity and Neo in Matrix Reloaded, I argue, offers both the characters and cinemagoers the promise of the birth of freedom from the white loins of the characters. This birth mirrors the promise of a birth of freedom qua capitalist democracy from the loins of the White House and further renders freedom a product or gift which can be quantified and possessed, obscuring the loss that the subject endures before the contemporary democratic sovereign. Law, Culture and the Humanities 2007; 3: 416—434
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