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The nest
An anxious boy becomes convinced that angels will save his sick baby brother. But these are creatures of a very different kind, and their plan for the baby has a twist. Layer by layer, he unravels the truth about his new friends as the time remaining to save his brother ticks down.
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Diagnosing and Comparing Mental Disorders of Serial Killers in Fiction: An Interdisciplinary Study of Iain Banks’ \The Wasp Factory\ (1984) and Bret E. Ellis’ \American Psycho\ (1991)
In the present study, I analyze a genre of fiction that is relatively recent. One of the domineering themes occurring in transgressive fiction is mental illness as manifested through its protagonists. Using the fifth edition of “Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders” (DSM-V), the article attempts to diagnose and subsequently compare the mental disorders of two serial killers from two novels: Iain Banks’ “The Wasp Factory” (1984) and Bret Easton Ellis’ “American Psycho” (1991). While Banks’ Francis Cauldhame is a genuine example of a person with paranoid schizophrenia (PS) with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), Ellis’s character of Patrick Bateman is also mistakenly interpreted as schizophrenic; however, he manifests symptoms of three distinctive mental disorders compiled in the B cluster of personality disorders: antisocial personality disorder (ASPD), borderline personality disorder (BPD), and histrionic personality disorder (HPD).
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We shall not all sleep : a novel
\"1964. The Hillsingers and the Quicks have shared the small Maine island of Seven for generations. But though technically family--Jim Hillsinger and Billy Quick married Park Avenue sisters Lila and Hannah Blackwell--they do not mix. Now, on the anniversary of Hannah's death, Lila feels grief pulling her toward Billy. And Jim, a spy recently ousted from the CIA on suspicion of treason, decides to carry out the threat his wife has explicitly forbidden: to banish their youngest son, the twelve-year-old Catta, to the neighboring island of Baffin for twenty-four hours in an attempt to make a man out of him\"-- Publisher'ssummary.
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CROSSING THE BRIDGE
On April 3, 2013, Iain Banks posted a “Personal Statement” on the Iain M. Banks website: “I am officially Very Poorly.” He was typically matter-of-fact about his condition: “As a late stage gall bladder cancer patient, I’m expected to live for ‘several months’ and it’s extremely unlikely I’ll live beyond a year.”
“I’ve asked my partner Adele [Hartley] if she will do me the honour of becoming my widow,” he continued. They married on March 29, 2013. While the pair had a short honeymoon in Venice and Paris, a host of messages started to appear on social media and on
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Midshipman James Cooper
The young sailor home from the sea began the new year with a new title—midshipman—conferred on him via a printed warrant signed by President Thomas Jefferson. The document, with its grandiloquent phrases and formal script, marked the public realization of a private dream to which Cooper had remained staunchly committed, partly out of his love of the sea and partly because it defined his future on his own terms rather than his family’s.¹ He moved forward now, though, with the blessing and aid of his father. Familiar with how such things were managed, Judge Cooper asked one of
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ECHOES FROM SCI-FI'S GOLDEN AGE
When teaching science fiction, I always suggest that to fully understand a story, one must know the period in which it was written. A story written in the 1940s, for instance, may well come from a different mind-set and from wholly different conventions -- effectively from another world -- than our own. One has little trouble getting the story of \"Invasion of the Body Snatchers,\" or even understanding in large part the sources of its power: fear of being taken over, the threat of loss of self and identity, the primal fear of sleep and what it may steal from us. But how greatly is that understanding enhanced by the knowledge that, written and first filmed in the heyday of the Cold War, \"Body Snatchers\" is as much as anything about the great Communist takeover? Because much early sci-fi was poorly written, with shallow or stock characterization and little regard for language (\"still clunky after all these years,\" as one critic put it), it endures poorly into our own time. Yet some, from content, from the way it taps into grand themes and archetypes, simply will not go away. Notwithstanding my counsel to students, when I first read science fiction I did so all in a jumble, H.G. Wells smack up against the latest issue of If or Fantastic Universe, Robert Heinlein's \"The Puppet Masters\" and Olaf Stapledon's \"Odd John\" in a single day. Most of these novels and stories passed from memory. But a goodly number of them have traveled through the years with me. \"Wasp,\" by Eric Frank Russell, for instance, published in 1957 and now once again available from Gollancz in its Collectors' Edition series ($14.95).
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