![]() ![]() ![]() There were so many wonderful things in the novel that spoke to my heart as a. I’ve long held The Bottoms by Lansdale to be the best novel I’ve ever read. Urn:lcp:edgeofdarkwater00lans:epub:86862065-c7af-4324-8bfe-c1c19cb50e57 Extramarc University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (PZ) Foldoutcount 0 Identifier edgeofdarkwater00lans Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t7wm4xb5k Invoice 1213 Isbn 9780316188432Ġ316188433 Lccn 2011030557 Ocr ABBYY FineReader 11.0 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.6 Ocr_module_version 0.0.13 Openlibrary OL25273464M Openlibrary_edition Publication date 2012 Topics Female friendship, Loss (Psychology), Death, Quakers, Fiction Publisher Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Co. Joe Lansdale has said he thinks Edge of Dark Water is probably his best novel to date. Now she's dead, her body dredged up from the Sabine River. May Lynn was once a pretty girl who dreamed of becoming a Hollywood star. Urn:lcp:edgeofdarkwater00lans:lcpdf:e102fd1c-d9c2-4b70-bd2c-bd627903ec36 Mark Twain meets classic Stephen King - a bold new direction for widely acclaimed Edgar Award winner Joe R. ![]() Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 16:33:18 Bookplateleaf 0004 Boxid IA1131602 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New York Donorīostonpubliclibrary Edition 1st ed. EDGE OF DARK WATER describes a trip downriver that is one-half Huck Finn, one-half Deliverance, and entirely Joe Lansdale. ![]()
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![]() ![]() The sections jump between time and genre as the author explores the lives of some of these characters. ![]() These sections are further split into subchapters from the perspectives of their respective characters. On the surface, Cloud Cuckoo Land is split into three sections: one set during the siege, one set in modern-day Idaho, and one set on a spaceship in the next century. Cloud Cuckoo Land isn’t just vastly different from his previous work, the bestselling, Pulitzer-winning All the Light We Cannot See: the new novel is a multi-genre epic that scales time and space – from the siege of Constantinople to cosmic space travellers. The reaction was equally as mixed for the future Nobel winner.Īnthony Doerr is clearly made of sterner stuff. ![]() Or perhaps Doris Lessing who, after winning acclaim as a great chronicler of postcolonialist Africa, embarked on Canopus in Argos: Archives, a five-novel science-fiction sequence, in the 1980s. One thinks of Ian McEwan's recent foray into dystopian fiction with Machines Like Me, which received mixed reviews (these very pages dismissed it) and hostility from genre writers who felt he was treading on their lawns. ![]() Traversing genre is a dangerous act few writers can shape-shift successfully. ![]() ![]() ![]() Either due to inability to get them or the series having different focus, most interviews about him are accounts from people auxiliary to Mike and auxiliary to boxing. This is very clear with who they have in the interviews. But not much of this is about his actual bouts. And while it shows the negative sides to him it does generally portray him sympathetically, which I get even though I think he was mostly a pretty bad person in the 90s. ![]() It feels like an account of Mike from the perspective of a fan or people who grew up when Mike was one of the most famous people in the world. Mike being such an interesting person who seemed half unstoppable killing machine and half hurt child it does paint a pretty in depth and entertaining story. As a portrait of the big events that shaped the public persona of Mike Tyson, this is probably the best we've gotten so far. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() These plays also deal with larger sociopolitical issues: racism, war, immigration, unemployment and same-sex marriage. The remaining four plays-Guillermo Reyes’s Deporting the Divas, Stephen Karam’s Sons of the Prophet, Neal Bell’s Spatter Pattern and Jose Rivera’s Pablo and Andrew at the Altar of Words-offer depictions of the ways in which gay men have and have not assimilated in the twenty-first century. ![]() The first three works in the collection-Robert O’ Hara’s Antebellum, Joseph and David Zellnik’s Yank!, and Jon Marans’s The Temperamentals-demonstrate gay playwrights’ impulse to share the history of oppression and liberation gay men have faced. All of these plays have been successfully produced by major American theaters and all have received critical acclaim. This is a collection of seven contemporary American plays (six of them by gay playwrights) that depict the lives of gay men in the years before gay liberation and in our own time. ![]() ![]() Irresistible for history buffs of any age.' - Good Reading Magazine, five stars ' is one of few masters who can embed historic characters in rattling good tales, and her meticulous research is seamlessly inserted so that you live the detail rather than learn it. Honour Book - CBCA 2012 (Younger Reader's Book of the Year) No less incredible is the enduring love between the gentleman surgeon and the convict girl who was saved from the death penalty and became a great lady in her own right. This true story follows the brothers as they make their way in the world - one as a sailor, serving in the Royal Navy, the other a hero of the Battle of Waterloo. ![]() And yet he is haunted by the memories of the Cadigal warriors who will one day come to claim him as one of their own. Nanberry is clever and uses his unique gifts as an interpreter to bridge the two worlds he lives in.With his white brother, Andrew, he witnesses the struggles of the colonists to keep their precarious grip on a hostile wilderness. It's 1789, and as the new colony in Sydney Cove is established, Surgeon John White defies convention and adopts Nanberry, an Aboriginal boy, to raise as his son. ![]() ![]() ![]() The amazing story of Australia's first surgeon and the boy he adopted. ![]() |