Author: Alix Strauss
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312309183
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
A young widow who lusts, a daughter who aches, a shopaholic who hungers...The Joy of Funerals is a riveting collection that explores the lives of nine young women, each willing to take drastic measures to fill the voids created by longing and loneliness. The first eight face death differently, while the ninth woman Nina ties them all together by attending funerals in her search to connect with others. Written with raw wit, mordant humor and a uniquely penetrating voice, Strauss turns the spotlight on loss and grief. In the vein of Six Feet Under, this is a provocative look into the inner world of those left behind, and those still holding on. "The desire for human connection runs throughout Alix Strauss's dark and spirited novel, The Joy of Funerals." - Vanity Fair
The Joy of Funerals
Author: Alix Strauss
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312309183
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
A young widow who lusts, a daughter who aches, a shopaholic who hungers...The Joy of Funerals is a riveting collection that explores the lives of nine young women, each willing to take drastic measures to fill the voids created by longing and loneliness. The first eight face death differently, while the ninth woman Nina ties them all together by attending funerals in her search to connect with others. Written with raw wit, mordant humor and a uniquely penetrating voice, Strauss turns the spotlight on loss and grief. In the vein of Six Feet Under, this is a provocative look into the inner world of those left behind, and those still holding on. "The desire for human connection runs throughout Alix Strauss's dark and spirited novel, The Joy of Funerals." - Vanity Fair
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312309183
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
A young widow who lusts, a daughter who aches, a shopaholic who hungers...The Joy of Funerals is a riveting collection that explores the lives of nine young women, each willing to take drastic measures to fill the voids created by longing and loneliness. The first eight face death differently, while the ninth woman Nina ties them all together by attending funerals in her search to connect with others. Written with raw wit, mordant humor and a uniquely penetrating voice, Strauss turns the spotlight on loss and grief. In the vein of Six Feet Under, this is a provocative look into the inner world of those left behind, and those still holding on. "The desire for human connection runs throughout Alix Strauss's dark and spirited novel, The Joy of Funerals." - Vanity Fair
[Must Read Personalities] A life Story of Alexandra Feodorovna
Author: InRead Team
Publisher: by Mocktime Publication
ISBN:
Category : Study Aids
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
[Must Read Personalities] A life Story of Alexandra Feodorovna
Publisher: by Mocktime Publication
ISBN:
Category : Study Aids
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
[Must Read Personalities] A life Story of Alexandra Feodorovna
The Arena
The Little Blind God A-wheel
Author: Anna Chapin Ray
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cycling
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cycling
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Secrets and Stars
Author: Alix Klingenberg
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780578811109
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
For the wolven creatures and the feral den mothers. For the heartbroken dreamers reclaiming their voices, their time, their wholeness. For everyone who refuses to be tamed. For you, my gently rebellious seekers, my fiercely sensitive kin, I offer you a piece of my heart: "Secrets & Stars" is the debut poetry collection of poet, photographer, and spiritual director, Alix Klingenberg. Playing with archetype and myth, this book explores a return to wholeness, a rejection of fractured existence, and a claiming of the entire self as beloved, sacred, and divine. With roots in earth-centered spirituality, the elements of nature, wilderness, and cycles permeate this volume that manages to illuminate, in a truly intimate way, the struggles of a poet coming into her own voice.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780578811109
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
For the wolven creatures and the feral den mothers. For the heartbroken dreamers reclaiming their voices, their time, their wholeness. For everyone who refuses to be tamed. For you, my gently rebellious seekers, my fiercely sensitive kin, I offer you a piece of my heart: "Secrets & Stars" is the debut poetry collection of poet, photographer, and spiritual director, Alix Klingenberg. Playing with archetype and myth, this book explores a return to wholeness, a rejection of fractured existence, and a claiming of the entire self as beloved, sacred, and divine. With roots in earth-centered spirituality, the elements of nature, wilderness, and cycles permeate this volume that manages to illuminate, in a truly intimate way, the struggles of a poet coming into her own voice.
The Arena
Author: Benjamin Orange Flower
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American essays
Languages : en
Pages : 1086
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American essays
Languages : en
Pages : 1086
Book Description
Memoirs of an Ex-Prom Queen
Author: Alix Kates Shulman
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0374530793
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
A sardonic portrayal of one white, middle-class Midwestern girl's coming-of-age, this novel takes a wry and prescient look at a range of experiences treated at the time as taboo or trivial.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0374530793
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
A sardonic portrayal of one white, middle-class Midwestern girl's coming-of-age, this novel takes a wry and prescient look at a range of experiences treated at the time as taboo or trivial.
The Vicious Virtuoso
Author: Louis Lombard
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Families
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Families
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
When A Baby Dies
Author: Alix Henley
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134527349
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
Every year in the UK over 10,000 babies die before birth or shortly afterwards. For the parents, the grief is hard to bear. In this book, parents who have lost a baby tell their stories. They speak about what happened, how they felt, how they have been helped by others and how they helped themselves. Using letters from and interviews with many bereaved parents, Nancy Kohner and Alix Henley have written a book which offers understanding of what it means to lose a baby and the grief that follows. When a Baby Dies also contains valuable information about why a baby dies, hospital practices, the process of grieving, sources of support, and the care parents need in future pregnancies.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134527349
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
Every year in the UK over 10,000 babies die before birth or shortly afterwards. For the parents, the grief is hard to bear. In this book, parents who have lost a baby tell their stories. They speak about what happened, how they felt, how they have been helped by others and how they helped themselves. Using letters from and interviews with many bereaved parents, Nancy Kohner and Alix Henley have written a book which offers understanding of what it means to lose a baby and the grief that follows. When a Baby Dies also contains valuable information about why a baby dies, hospital practices, the process of grieving, sources of support, and the care parents need in future pregnancies.
The Empire Must Die
Author: Mikhail Zygar
Publisher: PublicAffairs
ISBN: 1610398327
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 711
Book Description
From Tolstoy to Lenin, from Diaghilev to Stalin, The Empire Must Die is a tragedy of operatic proportions with a cast of characters that ranges from the exotic to utterly villainous, the glamorous to the depraved. In 1912, Russia experienced a flowering of liberalism and tolerance that placed it at the forefront of the modern world: women were fighting for the right to vote in the elections for the newly empowered parliament, Russian art and culture was the envy of Europe and America, there was a vibrant free press and intellectual life. But a fatal flaw was left uncorrected: Russia's exuberant experimental moment took place atop a rotten foundation. The old imperial order, in place for three hundred years, still held the nation in thrall. Its princes, archdukes, and generals bled the country dry during the First World War and by 1917 the only consensus was that the Empire must die. Mikhail Zygar's dazzling, in-the-moment retelling of the two decades that prefigured the death of the Tsar, his family, and the entire imperial edifice is a captivating drama of what might have been versus what was subsequently seen as inevitable. A monumental piece of political theater that only Russia was capable of enacting, the fall of the Russian Empire changed the course of the twentieth century and eerily anticipated the mood of the twenty-first.
Publisher: PublicAffairs
ISBN: 1610398327
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 711
Book Description
From Tolstoy to Lenin, from Diaghilev to Stalin, The Empire Must Die is a tragedy of operatic proportions with a cast of characters that ranges from the exotic to utterly villainous, the glamorous to the depraved. In 1912, Russia experienced a flowering of liberalism and tolerance that placed it at the forefront of the modern world: women were fighting for the right to vote in the elections for the newly empowered parliament, Russian art and culture was the envy of Europe and America, there was a vibrant free press and intellectual life. But a fatal flaw was left uncorrected: Russia's exuberant experimental moment took place atop a rotten foundation. The old imperial order, in place for three hundred years, still held the nation in thrall. Its princes, archdukes, and generals bled the country dry during the First World War and by 1917 the only consensus was that the Empire must die. Mikhail Zygar's dazzling, in-the-moment retelling of the two decades that prefigured the death of the Tsar, his family, and the entire imperial edifice is a captivating drama of what might have been versus what was subsequently seen as inevitable. A monumental piece of political theater that only Russia was capable of enacting, the fall of the Russian Empire changed the course of the twentieth century and eerily anticipated the mood of the twenty-first.