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The Abyssby Marguerite YourcenarISBN 0297772082 (0-297-77208-2)
Hardcover, Weidenfeld and Nicolson
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Alice's Tulipsby Sandra DallasISBN 0312203594 (0-312-20359-4)
Hardcover, St. Martin's Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Alice's Tulips'Book summary:Alice Bullock is a young newlywed whose husband, Charlie, has just joined the Union Army, leaving her on his Iowa farm with only his formidable mother for company. Equally talented at sewing and gossip, and not overly fond of hard work, Alice writes lively letters to her sister filled with accounts of local quilting bees, the rigors of farm life, and the customs of small-town America. But no town is too small for intrigue and treachery, and when Alice finds herself accused of murder, she must rely on support from unlikely sources.[via]
Rich in details of quilting, Civil War-era America, and the realities of a woman's life in the nineteenth century, Alice's Tulips is Sandra Dallas at her best, a dramatic and heartwarming tale of friendship, adversity, and triumph.More editions of Alice's Tulips:
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Anecdotes of Destinyby Isak DinesenISBN 0226152952 (0-226-15295-2)
Hardcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Anecdotes of Destiny'Book summary:As a young woman early in this century, Karen Blixen -- whom we know as Isak Dinesen -- managed a 6,000-acre hill farm in Kenya where she was doctor, judge and friend to native Kikuyu and Masai who lived on her land.
In middle age, back in her native Denmark, Blixen turned to weaving what may be described as adventures of the mind. [via]
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Bedford Basics: A Workbook for Writersby Diana Hacker, Wanda Van GoorISBN 0312154577 (0-312-15457-7)
Softcover, Bedford/st Martins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bedford Basics: A Workbook for Writers'Book summary:In a workbook format, Bedford Basics incorporates a streamlined version of the text from the highly successful Bedford Handbook with lower-level exercises. Because Bedford Basics follows the handbook's organization, it can easily be used in conjunction with the handbook in a composition sequence or it can stand alone in any developmental writing class. For the new edition, the exercises have been carefully revised after much classroom testing. In addition, several new features have been added to make this book more useful for culturally diverse students, students working on a computer, and students using the book on their own. [via]
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Bee Seasonby Myla GoldbergISBN 0307276856 (0-307-27685-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bee Season'Book summary:In Myla Goldberg's outstanding first novel, a family is shaken apart by a small but unexpected shift in the prospects of one of its members. When 9-year-old Eliza Naumann, an otherwise indifferent student, takes first prize in her school spelling bee, it is as if rays of light have begun to emanate from her head. Teachers regard her with a new fondness; the studious girls begin to save a place for her at lunch. Even Eliza can sense herself changing. She had "often felt that her outsides were too dull for her insides, that deep within her there was something better than what everyone else could see."
Eliza's father, Saul, a scholar and cantor, had long since given up expecting sparks of brilliance on her part. While her brother, Aaron, had taken pride in reciting his Bar Mitzvah prayers from memory, she had typically preferred television reruns to homework or reading. This belated evidence of a miraculous talent encourages Saul to reassess his daughter. And after she wins the statewide bee, he begins tutoring her for the national competition, devoting to Eliza the hours he once spent with Aaron. His daughter flowers under his care, eventually coming to look at life "in alphabetical terms." "Consonants are the camels of language," she realizes, "proudly carrying their lingual loads."
Vowels, however, are a different species, the fish that flash and glisten in the watery depths. Vowels are elastic and inconstant, fickle and unfaithful.... Before the bee, Eliza had been a consonant, slow and unsurprising. With her bee success, she has entered vowelhood.
When Saul sees the state of transcendence that she effortlessly achieves in competition, he encourages his daughter to explore the mystical states that have eluded him--the influx of God-knowledge (shefa) described by the Kabbalist Abraham Abulafia. Although Saul has little idea what he has set in motion, "even the sound of Abulafia's name sets off music in her head. A-bu-la-fi-a. It's magic, the open sesame that unblocked the path to her father and then to language itself."Meanwhile, stunned by his father's defection, Aaron begins a troubling religious quest. Eliza's brainy, compulsive mother is also unmoored by her success. The spelling champion's newfound gift for concentration reminds Miriam of herself as a girl, and she feels a pang for not having seen her daughter more clearly before. But Eliza's clumsy response to Miriam's overtures convinces her mother that she has no real ties to her daughter. This final disappointment precipitates her departure into a stunning secret life. The reader is left wondering what would have happened if the Naumanns' spiritual thirsts had not been set in restless motion. A poignant and exceptionally well crafted tale, Bee Season has a slow beginning but a tour-de-force conclusion. --Regina Marler [via]
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The Beekeeper's Apprenticeby Laurie R. KingISBN 0312104235 (0-312-10423-5)
Hardcover, St. Martin's Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Beekeeper's Apprentice'Book summary:What would happen if Sherlock Homles, a perfect man of the Victorian age--pompous, smug, and misogynisitic--were to come face to face with a twentieth-century female? If she grew to be a partner worthy of his great talents?[via]
Laurie R. King, whose very different first novel,. A Grave Talent (SMP, 1993), drew rave reviews, read the Conan Doyle stories and wondered about such an imaginary encounter. And following through, she has written The Beekeeper's Apprentice.
1914, a young woman named Mary Russell meets a retired beekeeper on the Sussex Downs. His name is Sherlock Holmes. And although he may have all the Victorian "flaws" listed above, the Great Detective is no fool, and can spot a fellow intellect even in a fifteen-year-old woman.
So, at first informally, then consciously, he takes Mary Russell as his apprentice. They work on a few small local cases, then on a larger and more urgent investigation, which ends successfully. All the time, Mary is developing as a detective in her own right, with the benefit of the knowledge and experience of her mentor and, increasingly, friend.
And then the sky opens on them, and they find themselves the targets of a slippery, murderous, and apparently all-knowing adversary. Together they devise a plan to trap their enemy--a plan that may save their lives but may also kill off their relationship.
This is not a "Sherlock Holmes" story. It is the story of a modern young woman who comes to know and work with Holmes, the story of young woman coming to terms with herself and with this older man who embodies the age that is past.More editions of The Beekeeper's Apprentice:
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Betsey Brownby Ntozake ShangeISBN 0312134347 (0-312-13434-7)
Softcover, Picador USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Betsey Brown'Book summary:This is a unique and vividly told novel about a girl named Betsey Brown, an African American seventh-grader growing up in St. Louis, Missouri. While rendering a complete portrait of this girl, author Ntozake Shange also profiles her friends, her family, her home, her school, and her world. This world, though a work of fiction, is based closely and carefully on actual history, specifically on the nationwide school desegregation events of the Civil Rights movement in Americas recent past. As such, Betsey Brown is a historical novel that will speak to and broaden the perspectives of readers both familiar with and unaware of Americas domestic affairs of 1950s and 1960s.[via]
Shange has set her story in the autumn of 1959, the year St. Louis started to desegregate its schools. In May of 1954, in its ruling on Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka--a verdict now seen by many as the origin of the Civil Rights movement--the United States Supreme Court outlawed school segregation. The novel is firmly located in the wake of this landmark ruling; the plot of Shanges novel and the history of Americas quest for integration during the Civil Rights era are fundamentally entwined. Thus textual references abound to the watershed events at Little Rocks Central High School in the September of 1957, for example, and to "fire-bombings and burningcrosses" in the South as well as "'battalions of police and crowds of crackers'" at a demonstration in St. Louis.
Betsey is the oldest child in a large, remarkable, and slightly eccentric African American family. Her father is a doctor who wakes his children each morning with point-blank questions about African history and Black culture while beating on a conga drum; her mother is a beautiful, refined, confident, and strong-willed social worker who is overwhelmed by the vast size of her young family and who cares very little for all that nasty colored music.
Indeed, Betseys whole existence can be seen as a perceptive, adventuresome, and still-developing hybrid of her parents most distinctive qualities. Her feelings of internal conflict are often clearer or easier to identify when seen as the collision of her fathers dreams and her mothers manners, or her fathers music and her mothers cosmetics. There are several fascinating characters in this noveland encountering, describing, and trying to figure out these characters will appeal to students of all backgroundsbut the two characters who, after Betsey, most influence the directions, themes, and issues of this tale are Betseys mother and father, Jane and Greer. Their her parents' difficult marriage, like the difficult era of desegregation that has only begun in St. Louis and the rest of America, is the realistic, conflicted, yet ultimately hopeful backdrop before which Betseys lip-synching, poem-reciting, soul-searching, truth-seeking, tree-climbing, and fact-finding take place. In fact, her parents' stubborn disagreements, heartfelt reconciliations, past glories, and future worries are all, at various times in the book, anchored or else set adrift by the activities of theireldest daughter (and first teenager!). Betseys running away sends her parents into a vicious fight, while her subsequent return seems to bring them closer together (if only temporarily).
As a novel, Betsey Brown is panoramic yet personal. It tells us what being a Black student in the early days of American desegregation was like by showing us what being Betsey Brown is like. This is an episodic, character-driven saga of the Black experience in St. Louis at the end of the Fabulous Fifties, but it is also a story about the many and variousand basically familiargrowing pains of a precocious, passionate, spunky young protagonist. We see Betsey fall in love; make friends; say prayers; argue with, look after, inspire, and ignore her younger siblings; run away from home; return to those who love and value her above all else; and switch from a school she knows and enjoys to a school on the other side of town where she is a minority and an outcast. We see Betsey outside the very door of her womanhood, we are told all about the steps and path that have brought her to this door, and we are left to wonder at what she will find beyond it. 
Between Men: English Literature and Male Homosocial Desireby Eve Kosofsky SedgwickISBN 0231082738 (0-231-08273-8)
Softcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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The Children of God: The Inside Storyby Bill Davis, Deborah DavisISBN 0310278406 (0-310-27840-6)
Hardcover, Zondervan
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Coletteby Julia Kristeva, Jane Marie ToddISBN 0231128975 (0-231-12897-5)
Softcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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Colette: A Taste for Lifeby Yvonne MitchellISBN 0297769847 (0-297-76984-7)
Hardcover, Weidenfeld and Nicolson
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Constitutionalby Helen SimpsonISBN 0224077945 (0-224-07794-5)
Hardcover, Jonathan Cape
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Crossing the Bridge: Comparative Essays on Medieval European and Heian Japanese Women Writersby Barbara Stevenson, Cynthia O. HoISBN 0312221673 (0-312-22167-3)
Hardcover, Palgrave Macmillan
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The Diary of Mattie Spenserby Sandra DallasISBN 0312187106 (0-312-18710-6)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Diary of Mattie Spenser'Book summary:No one is more surprised than Mattie Spenser herself when Luke Spenser, considered the great catch of their small Iowa town, asks her to marry him. Less than a month later, they are off in a covered wagon to build a home on the Colerado frontier. Mattie's only company is a slightly mysterious husband and her private journal, where she records the joys and frustrations not just of frontier life, but also of a new marriage to a handsome but distant stranger. As she and Luke make life together on the harsh and beautiful plains, Mattie learns some bitter truths about her husband and the girl he lieft behind and finds love where she least expects it. Dramatic and suspenseful, this is an unforgettable story of hardship, friendship and survival.[via]More editions of The Diary of Mattie Spenser:
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Djuna: The Formidable Miss Barnesby Andrew FieldISBN 0292715463 (0-292-71546-3)
Softcover, Univ of Texas Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Djuna: The Formidable Miss Barnes'Book summary:Literature Studies, Feminist Studies [via]
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Dorothy Wordsworthby Robert Gittings, Jo MantonISBN 0198185197 (0-19-818519-7)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dorothy Wordsworth'Book summary:Critics and biographers have too often regarded Dorothy Wordsworth as a mere adjunct to her brother William, or to their mutual friend Samuel Coleridge. The importance of her famous Journals and other writings, it is usually assumed, lies in what they tell us of those poets and their work. This thoughtful, compelling biography is the first book to treat Dorothy Wordsworth as a person in her own right.
Drawing on the Journals, her newly re-edited Letters, and later diary material not yet published, the authors give us a portait of a woman more strange yet touchingly human than any previous account has offered. Their interest in her does not stop at the "literary" but goes deeper to explore other facets of her character. They focus especially on her intense familial and domestic devotion, showing us how, from early childhood, she extended her warmth and selflessness to anyone who seemed to need her--a trait that tells us much about her particular intimate attachment to her brother. The book fully explores her relationship with William--their life in the Lake District, their travels together, her influence on how he came to view nature--and also examines the effects upon Dorothy of a changing social and political climate. It delves into her problems, weaknesses, and contradictions and illuminates the nature of her tragic nervous breakdown, which virtually incapacitated her for the last 25 years of her life.
As a revealing picture of a woman of the early nineteenth century, Dorothy Wordsworth has an appeal extending well beyond just those readers interested in the Romantic Period.
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Robert Gittings has written acclaimed biographies of Keats and Hardy. Jo Manton is the author of Elizabeth Barrett Anderson and Sister Dora. Husband and wife, they have previously collaborated on The Story of John Keats and The Second Mrs. Hardy. [via]More editions of Dorothy Wordsworth:
Elizabeth Bowenby Victoria GlendinningISBN 0307277402 (0-307-27740-2)
Softcover, Anchor Books
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Elizabeth Bowen: Portrait of a Writerby Victoria GlendinningISBN 0297773690 (0-297-77369-0)
Hardcover, Weidenfeld and Nicolson
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Elizabeth Bowen: Portrait of a Writer'Book summary:In this richly detailed biography Victoria Glendinning brings alive the great Anglo-Irish novelist ("The Death of the Heart", "The Heat of the Day") whose literary achievements were matched by her tremendous talent for living. Taking us from Elizabeth Bowen's ancestral home in Ireland to Oxford (where she met Yeats and Eliot), through her service as an air-raid warden in London during World War II, to her friendships with such luminaries as Virginia Woolf, Evelyn Waugh and Graham Greene, Glendinning lifts the veil between Bowen's imaginative world and the complex emotional life that fired her novels. "One of the best critical biographies to have come my way for some time...A beautifully composed portrait". ("Sunday Telegraph"). "It reads like a good novel". ("Irish Times"). [via]
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Elizabeth Bowen: The Enforced Returnby Neil CorcoranISBN 0198186908 (0-19-818690-8)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Elizabeth I: Collected Worksby Elizabeth, Janel M. Mueller, Mary Beth RoseISBN 0226504646 (0-226-50464-6)
Hardcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Elizabeth I: Collected Works'Book summary:This long-awaited and masterfully edited volume contains nearly all of the writings of Queen Elizabeth I: the clumsy letters of childhood, the early speeches of a fledgling queen, and the prayers and poetry of the monarch's later years. The first collection of its kind, Elizabeth I reveals brilliance on two counts: that of the Queen, a dazzling writer and a leading intellect of the English Renaissance, and that of the editors, whose copious annotations make the book not only essential to scholars but accessible to general readers as well.[via]
"This collection shines a light onto the character and experience of one of the most interesting of monarchs. . . . We are likely never to get a closer or clearer look at her. An intriguing and intense portrait of a woman who figures so importantly in the birth of our modern world."Publishers Weekly
"An admirable scholarly edition of the queen's literary output. . . . This anthology will excite scholars of Elizabethan history, but there is something here for all of us who revel in the English language."John Cooper, Washington Times
"Substantial, scholarly, but accessible. . . . An invaluable work of reference."Patrick Collinson, London Review of Books
"In a single extraordinary volume . . . Marcus and her coeditors have collected the Virgin Queen's letters, speeches, poems and prayers. . . . An impressive, heavily footnoted volume."Library Journal
"This excellent anthology of [Elizabeth's] speeches, poems, prayers and letters demonstrates her virtuosity and afford the reader a penetrating insight into her 'wiles and understandings.'"Anne Somerset, New Statesman
"Here then is the only trustworthy collection of the various genres of Elizabeth's writings. . . . A fine edition which will be indispensable to all those interested in Elizabeth I and her reign."Susan Doran, History
"In the torrent of words about her, the queen's own words have been hard to find. . . . [This] volume is a major scholarly achievement that makes Elizabeth's mind much more accessible than before. . . . A veritable feast of material in different genres."David Norbrook, The New RepublicMore editions of Elizabeth I: Collected Works:
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Elizabeth I: Collected Worksby Leah S. Marcus, Janel M. Mueller, Mary Beth RoseISBN 0226504654 (0-226-50465-4)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Elizabeth I: Collected Works'Book summary:This long-awaited and masterfully edited volume contains nearly all of the writings of Queen Elizabeth I: the clumsy letters of childhood, the early speeches of a fledgling queen, and the prayers and poetry of the monarch's later years. The first collection of its kind, Elizabeth I reveals brilliance on two counts: that of the Queen, a dazzling writer and a leading intellect of the English Renaissance, and that of the editors, whose copious annotations make the book not only essential to scholars but accessible to general readers as well.[via]More editions of Elizabeth I: Collected Works:
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Emily Dickinson: Selected Poemsby Emily DickinsonISBN 0312097522 (0-312-09752-2)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Emily Dickinson: Selected Poems'Book summary:Because I could not stop for Death-[via]
He kindly stopped for me-
The carriage held but just ourselves-
And Immortality.
Bloomsbury Poetry Classics are selections from the work of some of our greatest poets. The series is aimed at the general reader rather than the specialist and carries no critical or explanatory apparatus. This can be found elsewhere. In the series the poems introduce themselves, on an uncluttered page and in a format that is both attractive and convenient. The selections have been made by the distinguished poet, critic, and biographer Ian Hamilton.More editions of Emily Dickinson: Selected Poems:
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Exiles at Home: Australian Women Writers, 1925-1945by Drusilla ModjeskaISBN 0207146160 (0-207-14616-0)
Hardcover, Sirius Book
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Exiles at Home: Australian Women Writers, 1925-1945'Book summary:At the end of the 1920s, Christina Stead had left Australia and was poised to write "Seven Poor Men of Sydney". In London, Miles Franklin was producing her first "Brent of Bin Bin" book and would soon return to Australia. Katherine Susannah Pritchard was enlarging her view of black and white in outback Australia, and the team writing under the name M. Barnard. Eldershaw had published its first novel and won the Bulletin prize. Gathering these writers into a network by her support and criticism was the influential Nettie Palmer. In the mid-1930s, these women and other writers such as Eleanor Dark, Jean Devanny, Dymphna Cusack and Betty Roland, faced the impact of fascism and another war. The platform and the writing desk had different and often conflicting appeals; and the Depression underlined the already precarious existence of the woman writer. This text traces the lives of a generation of Australia's women writers through letters, diaries, notebooks, and the memories of their contemporaries. [via]
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The Extraordinary Tide: New Poetry by American Womenby Erin Belieu, Susan Aizenberg, Jeremy CountrymanISBN 0231119631 (0-231-11963-1)
Softcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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Fast-Talking Damesby Maria DibattistaISBN 0300099037 (0-300-09903-7)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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The Female Eunuchby Germaine GreerISBN 0261632086 (0-261-63208-6)
Hardcover, MacGibbon & Kee
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Female Eunuch'Book summary:Available alongside five other Modern Classics first published by Flamingo in the 1970s, this is a re-issue of Germaine's Greer's feminist classic. Translated into many languages, "The Female Eunuch" is a landmark in the history of the women's movement. Drawing liberally from history, literature and popular culture, past and present, Germaine Greer's searing examination of women's oppression is at once an important social commentary and a passionately argued piece of polemic. [via]
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Feminism and Science Fictionby Sarah LefanuISBN 0253231000 (0-253-23100-0)
Softcover, Indiana Univ Pr
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Fictions of Sappho, 1546-1937by Joan DejeanISBN 0226141365 (0-226-14136-5)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Forbidden Journeysby Nina Auerbach, U. C. KnoepflmacherISBN 0226032043 (0-226-03204-3)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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French Women and the Age of Enlightenmentby Samia I. SpencerISBN 0253207258 (0-253-20725-8)
Softcover, Indiana Univ Pr
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Good Behaviourby Molly KeaneISBN 023397332X (0-233-97332-X)
Hardcover, A. Deutsch
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The Heat of the Dayby Elizabeth BowenISBN 0224600559 (0-224-60055-9)
Hardcover, J. Cape
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The Heroine's Text: Readings in the French and English Novel, 1722-1782by Nancy K. MillerISBN 0231049102 (0-231-04910-2)
Hardcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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The Honest Courtesan: Veronica Franco, Citizen and Writer in Sixteenth-Century Veniceby Margaret F. RosenthalISBN 0226728129 (0-226-72812-9)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Honest Courtesan: Veronica Franco, Citizen and Writer in Sixteenth-Century Venice'Book summary:The Venetian courtesan has long captured the imagination as a female symbol of sexual license, elegance, beauty, and unruliness. What then to make of the cortigiana onestathe honest courtesan who recast virtue as intellectual integrity and offered wit and refinement in return for patronage and a place in public life? Veronica Franco (1546-1591) was such a woman, a writer and citizen of Venice, whose published poems and familiar letters offer rich testimony to the complexity of the honest courtesan's position.[via]
Margaret F. Rosenthal draws a compelling portrait of Veronica Franco in her cultural social, and economic world. Rosenthal reveals in Franco's writing a passionate support of defenseless women, strong convictions about inequality, and, in the eroticized language of her epistolary verses, the seductive political nature of all poetic contests. It is Veronica Franco's insight into the power conflicts between men and womenand her awareness of the threat she posed to her male contemporariesthat makes her literary works and her dealings with Venetian intellectuals so pertinent today.
Combining the resources of biography, history, literary theory, and cultural criticism, this sophisticated interdisciplinary work presents an eloquent and often moving account of one woman's life as an act of self-creation and as a complex response to social forces and cultural conditions.
"A book . . . pleasurably redolent of Venice in the 16th-century. Rosenthal gives a vivid sense of a world of salons and coteries, of intricate networks of family and patronage, and of literary exchanges both intellectual and erotic."Helen Hackett, Times Higher Education Supplement
The Honest Courtesan is the basis for the film Dangerous Beauty (1998) directed by Marshall Herskovitz. (The film was re-titled The Honest Courtesan for release in the UK and Europe in 1999.)More editions of The Honest Courtesan: Veronica Franco, Citizen and Writer in Sixteenth-Century Venice:
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The Hoursby Michael CunninghamISBN 0312243022 (0-312-24302-2)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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Human Croquetby Kate AtkinsonISBN 0312186886 (0-312-18688-6)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Human Croquet'Book summary:Human Croquet is a game in which some people act as hoops while others propel a blindfolded "ball" around the course. Though the game is never actually played in Kate Atkinson's remarkable novel, Human Croquet, the parallels between plot and pastime are undeniable. Atkinson, winner of the 1995 Whitbread Award in Britain, tells the story of Isobel Fairfax and her older brother, Charles. The children's parents vanished when they were young, leaving them to the care of their grandmother, now dead, and their Aunt Vinny. Recently their father has returned with "the Debbie-wife" in tow, and they all live in Arden, the family's ancestral home built on the foundations of the original manor house that burned to the ground in 1605. According to family legend, the first Fairfax took a wife who mysteriously disappeared one day, leaving in her wake a curse on the Fairfax name. More than 300 years later, Fairfax descendants are still struggling with this painful legacy.
Atkinson's novel is obviously not rooted in dull reality. Narrator Isobel has an uncanny knowledge of past and future events; Charles is obsessed with the concept of parallel universes and time travel; and a faery curse hangs over everybody. Fortunately, Kate Atkinson is a masterful writer who manages to keep her world of wonders in check. Human Croquet is no ordinary novel, and readers who venture into the Fairfax universe are in for a magical ride. [via]
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I Capture the Castleby Dodie SmithISBN 0312201656 (0-312-20165-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'I Capture the Castle'Book summary:Seventeen-year-old Cassandra Mortmain wants to become a writer. Trouble is, she's the daughter of a once-famous author with a severe case of writer's block. Her family--beautiful sister Rose, brooding father James, ethereal stepmother Topaz--is barely scraping by in a crumbling English castle they leased when times were good. Now there's very little furniture, hardly any food, and just a few pages of notebook paper left to write on. Bravely making the best of things, Cassandra gets hold of a journal and begins her literary apprenticeship by refusing to face the facts. She writes, "I have just remarked to Rose that our situation is really rather romantic, two girls in this strange and lonely house. She replied that she saw nothing romantic about being shut up in a crumbling ruin surrounded by a sea of mud."
Rose longs for suitors and new tea dresses while Cassandra scorns romance: "I know all about the facts of life. And I don't think much of them." But romantic isolation comes to an end both for the family and for Cassandra's heart when the wealthy, adventurous Cotton family takes over the nearby estate. Cassandra is a witty, pensive, observant heroine, just the right voice for chronicling the perilous cusp of adulthood. Some people have compared I Capture the Castle to the novels of Jane Austen, and it's just as well-plotted and witty. But the Mortmains are more bohemian--as much like the Addams Family as like any of Austen's characters. Dodie Smith, author of 101 Dalmations, wrote this novel in 1948. And though the story is set in the 1930s, it still feels fresh, and well deserves its reputation as a modern classic. --Maria Dolan [via]
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The Ice Ageby Margaret DrabbleISBN 0297773682 (0-297-77368-2)
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The Ice Cave: A Woman's Adventures from the Mojave to the Antarcticby Lucy Jane BledsoeISBN 0299218449 (0-299-21844-9)
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The Illustrated Story of Oby Doris Kloster, Pauline Reage, Jean-Jacques PauvertISBN 0312266057 (0-312-26605-7)
Hardcover, St. Martin's Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Illustrated Story of O'Book summary:"...I was convinced that Story of O was going to revolutionize the book trade, that I would sell hundreds of thousands of copies across the world, and that moral attitudes would change overnight. The audacity of this novel seemed to me to be liberating rather than provocative. I perceived the promise of a new freedom. And I expected to cause a shock."--Jean-Jacques Pauvert, from the Introduction[via]
When Story of O was first published in 1954 in Paris by Jean-Jacques Pauvert, it narrowly escaped censorship by the Department of the Interior and eventually became the most widely translated French novel in the world.
It describes in cool, elegant language the experiences of a young woman as she willingly enters a dark maze of perverse sexual practices within a clandestine amoral society. Revelling in pure fantasy, its theme is total submission through love to excesses of sadism and masochism, and the bond of "ownership."
Now Doris Kloster, a photographer specializing in issues of women's sexuality and power, has realized a long-standing dream. She has created a photographic representation of one of the most famous and controversial erotic novels ever published.
The result is another sensation. The Illustrated Story of O presents over 50 superb images which mirror perfectly the intense eroticism of the novel. Shooting entirely in Paris and its environs, Doris Kloster has succeeded in matching characters, locations, costumes and props to the original descriptions. And each magnificent color photograph is accompanied by a short extract from the novel. In addition, there is a Preface from Doris Kloster herself and an Introduction from Jean-Jacques Pauvert, the original publisher of the novel.
The Illustrated Story of O presents a rich visual feast that will delight fans of Doris Kloster's work, and appeal strongly to connoisseurs of the darker excesses of sexuality. It is destined to become a classic collector's edition.More editions of The Illustrated Story of O:
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Last Talesby Isak DinesenISBN 0226152979 (0-226-15297-9)
Hardcover, University of Chicago Press
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Letters from Africa 1914-1931by Isak Dinesen, Frans Lasson, Anne BornISBN 0226153118 (0-226-15311-8)
Softcover, University of Chicago Press
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Letty Foxby Christina SteadISBN 0207130868 (0-207-13086-8)
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Lolitaby Vladimir Nabokov, Appel, Alfred, Jr.ISBN 0297819100 (0-297-81910-0)
Hardcover, Orion Publishing Group, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lolita'Book summary:Despite its lascivious reputation, the pleasures of Lolita are as much intellectual as erogenous. It is a love story with the power to raise both chuckles and eyebrows. Humbert Humbert is a European intellectual adrift in America, haunted by memories of a lost adolescent love. When he meets his ideal nymphet in the shape of 12-year-old Dolores Haze, he constructs an elaborate plot to seduce her, but first he must get rid of her mother. In spite of his diabolical wit, reality proves to be more slippery than Humbert's feverish fantasies, and Lolita refuses to conform to his image of the perfect lover.
Playfully perverse in form as well as content, riddled with puns and literary allusions, Nabokov's 1955 novel is a hymn to the Russian-born author's delight in his adopted language. Indeed, readers who want to probe all of its allusive nooks and crannies will need to consult the annotated edition. Lolita is undoubtedly, brazenly erotic, but the eroticism springs less from the "frail honey-hued shoulders ... the silky supple bare back" of little Lo than it does from the wantonly gorgeous prose that Humbert uses to recount his forbidden passion:
She was musical and apple-sweet ... Lola the bobby-soxer, devouring her immemorial fruit, singing through its juice ... and every movement she made, every shuffle and ripple, helped me to conceal and to improve the secret system of tactile correspondence between beast and beauty--between my gagged, bursting beast and the beauty of her dimpled body in its innocent cotton frock.
Much has been made of Lolita as metaphor, perhaps because the love affair at its heart is so troubling. Humbert represents the formal, educated Old World of Europe, while Lolita is America: ripening, beautiful, but not too bright and a little vulgar. Nabokov delights in exploring the intercourse between these cultures, and the passages where Humbert describes the suburbs and strip malls and motels of postwar America are filled with both attraction and repulsion, "those restaurants where the holy spirit of Huncan Dines had descended upon the cute paper napkins and cottage-cheese-crested salads." Yet however tempting the novel's symbolism may be, its chief delight--and power--lies in the character of Humbert Humbert. He, at least as he tells it, is no seedy skulker, no twisted destroyer of innocence. Instead, Nabokov's celebrated mouthpiece is erudite and witty, even at his most depraved. Humbert can't help it--linguistic jouissance is as important to him as the satisfaction of his arrested libido. --Simon Leake [via]More editions of Lolita:
Mad in Pursuitby Violette LeducISBN 0246640472 (0-246-64047-2)
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Matricide at St. Martha'sby Ruth Dudley EdwardsISBN 0312131224 (0-312-13122-4)
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Maverick Autobiographies: Women Writers and the American West, 1900-1936by Cathryn Halverson, William L. AndrewsISBN 0299197204 (0-299-19720-4)
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Nineteenth-Century Women Poets: An Oxford Anthologyby Joseph Bristow, Isobel Armstrong, Cath SharrockISBN 0198184832 (0-19-818483-2)
Softcover, Clarendon Pr
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On Gold Mountainby Lisa SeeISBN 0312119976 (0-312-11997-6)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'On Gold Mountain'Book summary:Lisa See, daughter of novelist Carolyn See, brings a novelist's skill to this sprawling ancestral history. Books tracing the roots of overseas Chinese writers are not uncommon these days, but See uncovered in her family tree a capsule history of the Sino-American diaspora: her great-grandfather, Fong See, founded a California business, married a Caucasian woman and fathered many offspring, and returned periodically to China to redistribute some of his wealth and launch another family. See, a Publishers Weekly writer, has conducted extensive interviews and drawn on family lore for an enthralling saga of ambition, prejudice, love, loyalty, and sorrow--social history at its best. [via]
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On the Side of the Angels: The Second Volume of the Journals of Elizabeth Smartby Elizabeth Smart, Alice Van WartISBN 0246136545 (0-246-13654-5)
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Optimist's Daughterby Eudora WeltyISBN 0233964312 (0-233-96431-2)
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Oroonokoby Aphra Behn, Catherine Gallagher, Simon SternISBN 0312108133 (0-312-10813-3)
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Performing Women And Modern Literary Culture in Latin America: Intervening Actsby Vicky UnruhISBN 0292709455 (0-292-70945-5)
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The Persian Pickle Clubby Sandra DallasISBN 0312147015 (0-312-14701-5)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagonby Sei Shonagon, Ivan I. MorrisISBN 0231073372 (0-231-07337-2)
Softcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon'Book summary:The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon is an immensely detailed account of court life in eleventh-century Japan. Written at the height of Heian culture, it is a classic text of great literary beauty, full of lively anecdotes, humorous observations, and subtle impressions. Sei Shonagon was a contemporary and erstwhile rival of Lady Murasaki, whose novel, The Tale of Genji, fictionalized the court life that Lady Shonagon captures so vividly in her diary. The Pillow Book contains her reflections on royal and religious ceremonies, nature, pilgrimage, conversation, and poetry. Lady Shonagon shares character sketches and the things she both loves and loathes. Her style is so eloquent, her wit so sharp, even the briefest fragments enchant us. There is no better introduction to the daily preoccupations of the Heian upper class, and Ivan Morris's notes and contextualization enrich the material for scholars and general readers.
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The Politics of Tradition: Placing Women in French Literatureby Nancy K. Miller, Joan DejeanISBN 0300043236 (0-300-04323-6)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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The Professorby Margaret Smith, Charlotte Bronte, Herbert RosengartenISBN 0198126948 (0-19-812694-8)
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The Radiant Wayby Margaret DrabbleISBN 0297790951 (0-297-79095-1)
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The Samurai's Gardenby Gail TsukiyamaISBN 0312144075 (0-312-14407-5)
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The Sappho Companionby Margaret Reynolds, SapphoISBN 0312239246 (0-312-23924-6)
Hardcover, Palgrave Macmillan
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Sappho Companion'Book summary:The ways in which this sparkling, unexpected anthology will be classified in libraries and bookstores--lesbian studies; classical studies--will strike anyone who reads it as absurd. A sweeping look at the persistence of the Greek poet Sappho in the artistic and popular imagination, The Sappho Companion draws on everything from the Roman myths of Sappho to the eighteenth century rediscovery of Herculaneum, with its intriguing papyrus fragments, to Pat Califia's 1980 lesbian S/M book, Sapphistry: The Book of Lesbian Sexuality (out of print). The only book that compares to The Sappho Companion in its breadth and imaginative vigor is Charles Sprawson's lyrical book on swimming, Haunts of the Black Masseur: The Swimmer as Hero, in which the swan-diving Sappho makes an appearance. You don't need to know a thing about Sappho to relish this book, but for true enthusiasts, it makes a good companion volume for Yopie Prins's Victorian Sappho, Paige DuBois's Sappho is Burning, and Anne Carson's brilliant meditation, Eros: The Bittersweet. --Regina Marler [via]
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The Sea Around Usby Rachel L. CarsonISBN 0307167453 (0-307-16745-3)
Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books
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Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinsonby Camille PagliaISBN 0300091273 (0-300-09127-3)
Softcover, Yale University Press
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Sexual Politicsby Kate MillettISBN 0252068890 (0-252-06889-0)
Softcover, Univ of Illinois Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sexual Politics'Book summary:"Praised and denounced when it was first published in 1970, "Sexual Politics" not only explored history but also became part of it. Kate Millett's groundbreaking book fueled feminism's second wave, giving voice to the anger of a generation while documenting the inequities - neatly packaged in revered works of literature and art - of a complacent and unrepentant society. "Sexual Politics" laid the foundation for subsequent feminist scholarship by showing how cultural discourse reflects a systematized subjugation and exploitation of women. Identifying patriarchy as a socially conditioned belief system masquerading as nature, Millett demonstrates in detail how its attitudes and systems penetrate literature, philosophy, psychology, and politics. Her incendiary work rocked the foundations of the literary canon by castigating time-honored classics - from D. H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's "Lover" to Norman Mailer's "The Naked and the Dead" - for their use of sex to degrade and undermine women. A new introduction to this edition draws attention to some of the forms patriarchy has taken recently in consolidating its oppressive and dangerous control." [via]
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The Shooting Partyby Isabel ColegateISBN 0241104734 (0-241-10473-4)
Hardcover, H. Hamilton
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Some Tame Gazelleby Barbara PymISBN 0224016490 (0-224-01649-0)
Hardcover, J. Cape
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Subject to Change: Reading Feminist Writingby Nancy K. MillerISBN 0231066619 (0-231-06661-9)
Softcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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Ten Lords A-Leapingby Ruth Dudley EdwardsISBN 031214430X (0-312-14430-X)
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Things Of The Spirit: Women Writers Constructing Spiritualityby Kristina K. GrooverISBN 0268029628 (0-268-02962-8)
Softcover, Univ of Notre Dame Pr
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Unbecoming Women: British Women Writers and the Novel of Developmentby Susan FraimanISBN 0231080018 (0-231-08001-8)
Softcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Unbecoming Women: British Women Writers and the Novel of Development'Book summary:Unbecoming Women unpacks the ideological baggage of the Bildungsroman and turns to conduct books and novels of development by women for a new poetics of growing up. In subtle readings of works by Frances Burney, Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, and George Eliot, Fraiman argues that a heroine's progress toward masterful selfhood is by no means assured. Focusing on counternarratives in which girls do not enter the world so much as flounder on its doorstep, Fraiman suggests that becoming a woman involves de-formation, disorientation, and the loss of authority. Written with grace and theoretical mastery, Unbecoming Women emphasises the dialectical as well as subversive aspects of a genre long considered homogeneous. The result is a compelling contribution to feminist genre criticism that, charting female destiny in Georgian and Victorian texts, also postmodernizes the novel of development. [via]
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Vita: The Life of V. Sackville-Westby Victoria GlendinningISBN 0297783068 (0-297-78306-8)
Hardcover, Weidenfeld and Nicolson
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White Teeth: Reader's Companionby Zadie SmithISBN 024113997X (0-241-13997-X)
Softcover, Hamish Hamilton
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› Find signed collectible books: 'White Teeth: Reader's Companion'Book summary:Epic in scale and intimate in approach, White Teeth is a formidably ambitious debut. First novelist Zadie Smith takes on race, sex, class, history, and the minefield of gender politics, and such is her wit and inventiveness that these weighty subjects seem effortlessly light. She also has an impressive geographical range, guiding the reader from Jamaica to Turkey to Bangladesh and back again.
Still, the book's home base is a scrubby North London borough, where we encounter Smith's unlikely heroes: prevaricating Archie Jones and intemperate Samad Iqbal, who served together in the so-called Buggered Battalion during World War II. In the ensuing decades, both have gone forth and multiplied: Archie marries beautiful, bucktoothed Clara--who's on the run from her Jehovah's Witness mother--and fathers a daughter. Samad marries stroppy Alsana, who gives birth to twin sons. Here is multiculturalism in its most elemental form: "Children with first and last names on a direct collision course. Names that secrete within them mass exodus, cramped boats and planes, cold arrivals, medical checks."
Big questions demand boldly drawn characters. Zadie Smith's aren't heroic, just real: warm, funny, misguided, and entirely familiar. Reading their conversations is like eavesdropping. Even a simple exchange between Alsana and Clara about their pregnancies has a comical ring of truth: "A woman has to have the private things--a husband needn't be involved in body business, in a lady's... parts." And the men, of course, have their own involvement in bodily functions:
The deal was this: on January 1, 1980, like a New Year dieter who gives up cheese on the condition that he can have chocolate, Samad gave up masturbation so that he might drink. It was a deal, a business proposition, that he had made with God: Samad being the party of the first part, God being the sleeping partner. And since that day Samad had enjoyed relative spiritual peace and many a frothy Guinness with Archibald Jones; he had even developed the habit of taking his last gulp looking up at the sky like a Christian, thinking: I'm basically a good man.
Not all of White Teeth is so amusingly carnal. The mixed blessings of assimilation, for example, are an ongoing torture for Samad as he watches his sons grow up. "They have both lost their way," he grumbles. "Strayed so far from what I had intended for them. No doubt they will both marry white women called Sheila and put me in an early grave." These classic immigrant fears--of dilution and disappearance--are no laughing matter. But in the end, they're exactly what gives White Teeth its lasting power and undeniable bite. --Eithne Farry [via]More editions of White Teeth: Reader's Companion:
Women of Visionby Denise Du PontISBN 0312023219 (0-312-02321-9)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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A Writer's Referenceby Diana HackerISBN 031202455X (0-312-02455-X)
Softcover, Bedford/st Martins
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A Writer's Reference: With Mla's and Apa's 1999 Guidelinesby HackerISBN 0312260377 (0-312-26037-7)
Softcover, Bedford/st Martins
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Writers Reference: Version 4.0 Updated With Mla's and Apa's 1999 Guidelinesby Diana HackerISBN 0312256957 (0-312-25695-7)
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