Author: Susan Gillman Publisher: University of Chicago Press ISBN: 0226293874 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 228
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Gillman (English, University of Cal., Santa Cruz) challenges the widely held assumption that Twain's concern with identity is purely biographical and argues that what has been regarded as a problem of individual psychology must be located instead within American society around the turn of the century. Paper edition available at $12.95. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author: Gerbrand Bakker Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com ISBN: 1459608275 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 362
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When his twin brother dies in a car accident, Helmer is obliged to return to the small family farm. He resigns himself to taking over his brother's role and spending the rest of his days 'with his head under a cow'. After his old, worn-out father has been transferred upstairs, Helmer sets about furnishing the rest of the house according to his own minimal preferences. 'A double bed and a duvet', advises Ada, who lives next door, with a sly look. Then Riet appears, the woman once engaged to marry his twin. Could Riet and her son live with him for a while, on the farm?'The Twin' is an ode to the platteland, the flat and bleak Dutch countryside with its ditches and its cows and its endless grey skies. Ostensibly a novel about the countryside, as seen through the eyes of a farmer, 'the Twin' is, in the end, about the possibility or impossibility of taking life into one's own hands. It chronicles a way of life which has resisted modernity, is culturally apart, and yet riven with a kind of romantic longing. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Author: Scott Dokey Publisher: ISBN: 9780985703608 Category : Languages : en Pages : 202
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Love: the most powerful force in the universe, able to move mountains, destroy entire armies, and create whole new worlds. It can transcend the bonds of death and reunite lost love on the other side. But can it survive the ultimate test-a transformation into the savage world of the Night? When Angel finds herself a vampire after her Mother kills both her and her twin sister, Jordyn, in an attempt to repair their torn family, she still carries that bond of love in her heart. But she has become a monster, and she knows that her true love could never love a monster.
Author: Marion Campbell Publisher: ISBN: 9781899863525 Category : Celts Languages : en Pages : 253
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The narrator, Drost, tells the story of his life in Bronze Age Scotland from his childhood as the chosen companion and help-mate of his future king up to his own approaching death. The author has described how the action in the story and the feelings of the characters came to her through a series of waking dreams.
Author: Stephen King Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1501144197 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 528
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“A chiller” (The New York Times Book Review) and #1 New York Times bestseller about a writer’s horrific and haunting pseudonym that destroys everyone on the path leading to the man who created him. After thirteen years of international bestseller stardom with his works of violent crime fiction, author George Stark is officially declared dead—revealed by a national magazine to have been killed at the hands of the man who created him: the once well-regarded but now obscure writer Thad Beaumont. Thad’s even gone so far as to stage a mock burial of his wildly successful pseudonym, complete with tombstone and the epitaph “Not a Very Nice Guy.” Although on the surface, it seems that Thad can finally concentrate on his own novels, there’s a certain unease at the prospect of leaving George Stark behind. But that’s nothing compared to the horror about to descend upon Thad’s new life. There are the vicious, out-of-control nightmares, for starters. And how is he able to explain the fact that everyone connected to George Stark’s untimely demise is now meeting a brutal end of their own in a pattern of homicidal savagery…and why each blood-soaked crime scene has Thad’s fingerprints all over it? Thad Beaumont may have once believed that George Stark was running out of things to say, but he’s going to find out just how wrong he is…
Author: Scott Dokey Publisher: ISBN: 9780985703622 Category : Languages : en Pages : 196
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An unimaginable evil, with an unquenchable thirst for destruction, threatens to invade our world. The Dark Twins, along with a number of other vampires from around the world, are drawn into a battle against a foe even more deadly than themselves. At stake is the very world in which we live, for if they fail, all will be lost.
Author: Alejandro Jodorowsky Publisher: Humanoids Inc ISBN: 1594657130 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 48
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The first YA book ever written by Jodorowsky!! A magical quest that explores the senses and sensibility of teamwork, duty and honor, by best-selling creators, Jodorowsky & Bess.
Author: Lisa Brown Publisher: First Second ISBN: 1250780543 Category : Young Adult Fiction Languages : en Pages : 205
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A young woman is haunted by the ghost of her conjoined twin, in Lisa Brown's The Phantom Twin, a sweetly spooky graphic novel set in a turn-of-the-century sideshow. Isabel and Jane are the Extraordinary Peabody Sisters, conjoined twins in a traveling carnival freak show—until an ambitious surgeon tries to separate them and fails, causing Jane's death. Isabel has lost an arm and a leg but gained a ghostly companion: Her dead twin is now her phantom limb. Haunted, altered, and alone for the first time, can Isabel build a new life that's truly her own?
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