![]() ![]() She had five candlesticks on the windowsill, and she was just holding the lighted match to one of the black wicks when she heard footsteps outside. “Fire devours books,” he always said, but she was twelve years old, she surely could be trusted to keep an eye on a couple of candle flames. Mo had forbidden her to light candles at night. She had a box of matches hidden in the drawer of her bedside table. Meggie thought this first whisper sounded a little different from one book to another, depending on whether or not she already knew the story it was going to tell her. Its pages rustled promisingly when she opened it. That night-when so much began and so many things changed forever-Meggie had one of her favorite books under her pillow, and since the rain wouldn’t let her sleep she sat up, rubbed the drowsiness from her eyes, and took it out. ![]() Meggie had never called her father anything else. “But it only works for children.” Which made Mo tweak her nose. “night.” “Sometimes, yes,” Meggie had said. ![]()
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Thus, in "The Kindness of Women," a fascinating sequel to "The Empire of the Sun," when the protagonist, Jim, comes home from Spain, where he has just buried Miriam, his young wife, and makes love with Dorothy, Miriam's sister, Men and women ought to show one another to characters in fiction - even autobiographical fiction - there is no such obligation, and we must respond esthetically, with higher and harsher standards. To people we encounter in biographies or autobiographies, we respond ethically, with at least a minimum of that tolerance and sympathy all ![]() Serious consequences, for the reader is required to bring a different set of standards to bear. To the claim that "this is fiction," there are further, more ![]() ![]() Such boldness, though, soon collapses, giving way to a curious coyness, because these intimate scenes may have been conflated, altered or utterly concocted. Utobiographical fiction is a paradoxical business in which a writer, boldly confessional, may offer readers accounts of disturbing or even shockingĪctions. ![]() ![]() Soon, Fish is running again-not toward Daisy this time, but as far away as possible. Both are hailed as heroes after the shooting, yet the tragedy starts to bring out the worst in them, tearing the circle apart. ![]() At the center are Fish and Daisy, two soul mates who always brought out the best in each other. Spanning fifteen years, The Man I Love explores how a single act of violence reverberates through a circle of friends. Everyone runs away from the stage but Fish, in a watershed moment, runs toward it. From the lighting booth, Fish sees his girlfriend, Marguerite "Daisy" Bianco, get caught in the line of fire. When he transitions from protected to protector."Įrik "Fish" Fiskare is only a college junior when a gunman walks into the campus theater, intent on stopping the show. ![]() "A watershed moment exists in every man's life, Fish-the moment he stops being his mother's son and starts being his lover's man. ![]() ![]() ![]() In 2002 she was Kress Fellow at the National Gallery of Art and worked on the preparation of the Cairo Museum exhibition Quest for Immortality: Treasures of Ancient Egypt. She was part of an archaeological team excavating at the artisans' village of Deir el Medina in Egypt, as well as Dahshur and various tombs at Thebes. She was awarded a PhD in 2002 by Johns Hopkins University for Near Eastern Studies. Raised in Houston, she obtained her Bachelor of Arts in German and Humanities from the University of Texas in Austin in 1994. She specialises in craft production, coffin studies, and economies in the ancient world. ![]() As well as for her scholarly work, she is known for hosting television shows on ancient Egypt on the Discovery Channel as well as for writing a popular-press book on the subject. (Kara) Cooney is an Egyptologist, archaeologist, professor of Egyptian Art and Architecture at UCLA and chair of the Department of Near Eastern Language and Cultures at UCLA. Egyptologist and Assistant Professor of Egyptian Art and Architecture at UCLA ![]() ![]() But what happens when the apples fall somewhere else-sometimes a couple of orchards away, sometimes on the other side of the world? The old adage says that the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree, meaning that children usually resemble their parents. ![]() ![]() From New York Times bestselling author Andrew Solomon comes a stunning, poignant, and affecting young adult edition of his award-winning masterpiece, Far from the Tree, which explores the impact of extreme differences between parents and children. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The hospital’s chief surgeon, Sergey Karenin, learns that wounded officer Count Vronsky is the same man who once had a doomed love affair with his mother, Anna Karenina. Set in the decades following the original events of Tolstoy’s novel, Vronsky’s Story hinges on a chance encounter at a Russian military hospital in 1904, during the Russo-Japanese War. ![]() On November 28, American University’s Carmel Institute of Russian Culture & History screened Shakhnazarov’s sweeping romantic epic to a full house of cinema enthusiasts at the Russian Embassy’s Tunlaw Theater. 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Despite critical acclaim at the end of her life, Rhys died in 1979 still doubting the merit of her work. Rhys's life was profoundly marked by a sense of exile, loss, and alienation-dominant themes in her novels and short stories. ![]() Jean Rhys (1890-1979) is best known for her novel, Wide Sargasso Sea, which was published in 1966 when she was 76. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Avalanches and steam surges become rare, and plants can survive from year to year. And yet, after the third or fourth year, there are occasional breaks in the storms. The "birth of the new world" is so violent that the metaphor is strained. In the first years, higher animals may poke their snouts from deepnesses, may try to gain advantage with an early taking of territory, but it is a deadl. Spore-borne life spreads quickly, torn apart in the storms to sprout again and again. Of Spiderkind's surface works, only stone buildings in protected valleys may survive. 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