Author: Elizabeth SmartPublisher: Vintage Books USA
ISBN: 9780679738039
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The Assumption of Rogues and Rascals
Author: Elizabeth SmartPublisher: Vintage Books USA
ISBN: 9780679738039
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The Assumption of the Rogues and Rascals
Author: Elizabeth SmartPublisher: Fourth Estate
ISBN: 9780008155742
Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
First published in 1978, and widely considered to be the sequel to her masterpiece 'By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept', this remarkable book further established Smart's reputation as a brave and inspirational writer. A still beautiful woman, 31 years old with four children by a faithless lover, cannot break the habit of expectation. She must learn to submit to the cold, bare, unglamorous tenets of reality - the untenable position of love. She must learn to deflect Grand Passion into an acceptance of the rogues and rascals with their radiant faces, who buy her a bitter with borrowed cash. Out of a passionate youth, through pain and harsh revelation, she has attained a maturity - a certain knowledge that the cost of rapture is high and that there is no looking back. Hers is a voice that distils a woman's determination for survival - a voice that rises up from everyday life, from the bus queue, the Underground, the pub - and in Elizabeth Smart's hand is wrought into something magnificent.
The Assumption of the Rogues and Rascals
Author: Elizabeth SmartThe Assumption of the Rogues & Rascals
Author: Elizabeth SmartPublisher: London ; Toronto : Paladin Grafton Books
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
United States. Thus began one of the most extraordinary, intense and ultimately tragic love affairs of our time. They never married but Elizabeth bore George Barker four children and their relationship provided the impassioned inspiration for one of the most moving and immediate chronicles of a love affair ever written - By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept. Originally published in 1945, this remarkable book is now widely recognized as a classic work of poetic.
By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept and the Assumption of the Rogues & Rascals
Author: Elizabeth SmartThe Canadian Book of Snobs
Author: Victoria BrandenPublisher: Dundurn
ISBN: 1459727150
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Victoria Branden has traced the history of Snobbery from its pre-human roots to our own era, in our own country, and has enunciated the definitive Theory of Snobbery.
Defending the Undefendable
Author: Walter BlockPublisher: Ludwig von Mises Institute
ISBN: 1610165195
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
When Rogues Fall Out
Author: R. Austin FreemanPublisher: House of Stratus
ISBN: 0755103823
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 267
Book Description
From stealing bejewelled necklaces to antique clocks, Toke cons a host of gullible individuals out of priceless heirlooms. But then he meets Hughes and the scam spirals out of control. Then there's the case of the murdered Inspector Badger. Will Dr Thorndyke solve the conundrums which hoodwink and hinder the cleverest of crime readers?
Between the Sheets
Author: Lesley McDowellPublisher: ABRAMS
ISBN: 1468301411
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
The literary critic examines the love lives and career ambitions of some of the twentieth century’s greatest female authors—from Sylvia Plath to Anaïs Nin. Why did a gifted writer like Sylvia Plath stumble into a marriage that drove her to suicide? Why did Hilda Doolittle (H.D.) want to marry Ezra Pound when she was far more attracted to women? Why did Simone de Beauvoir pimp for Jean-Paul Sartre? In Between the Sheets, author and feminist scholar Lesley McDowell examines nine famously troubled literary romances to arrive at a provocative insight into the motivations of these and other great female writers. The list of the damages done in each of these sexual relationships is long, but each provokes the same question: would these women have become the writers they became without these relationships? Delving into their diaries, letters, and journals, McDowell examines the extent to which each woman was prepared to put artistic ambition before personal happiness, and how dependent on their male writing partners they felt themselves to be. “McDowell . . . has culled incredibly juicy details. With so many affairs and broken hearts, the most surprising thing may be that anything got written in the last 100 years.” —The New York Times Book Review
The Arms of the Infinite
Author: Christopher BarkerPublisher: Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
ISBN: 1554582709
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
"A moving account of a man returning to his child self, trying to understand his absconding father, and of an adult searching to forgive."--Rosemary Sullivan, author of By Heart: Elizabeth Smart, a Life.