Affections

Author : Rodrigo Hasbún
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1501154818
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Affections written by Rodrigo Hasbún and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-09-12 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The award-winning and haunting novel from Rodrigo Hasbún, the literary star Jonathan Safran Foer calls, “a great writer,” about an unusual family’s breakdown—set in South America during the time of Che Guevara and inspired by the life of Third Reich cinematographer Hans Ertl. Inspired by real events, Affections is the story of the eccentric, fascinating Ertl clan, headed by the egocentric and extraordinary Hans, once the cameraman for the Nazi propagandist Leni Riefenstahl. Shortly after the end of World War II, Hans and his family flee to Bolivia to start over. There, the ever-restless Hans decides to embark on an expedition in search of the fabled lost Inca city of Paitití, enlisting two of his daughters to join him on his outlandish quest into the depths of the Amazon, with disastrous consequences. “A one-sitting tale of fragmented relationships with a broad scope, delivered with grace and power” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review), Affections traces the Ertls’s slow and inevitable breakdown through the various erratic trajectories of each family member: Hans’s undertakings of colossal, foolhardy projects and his subsequent spectacular failures; his daughter Monika, heir to his adventurous spirit, who joins the Bolivian Marxist guerrillas and becomes known as “Che Guevara’s avenger”; and his wife and two younger sisters left to pick up the pieces in their wake. “Hasbún writes with patience and precision, revealing the family’s most intimate thoughts and interactions: first smokes, blind love, and familial devotion. This is a novel to savor for its richness and grace and its historical and political scope” (Booklist, starred review)—a masterfully layered tale of how a family’s voyage of discovery ends up eroding the affections that once held it together.

Author : David Leavitt
Publisher : Grove Press
ISBN 13 : 9780802135315
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Equal Affections written by David Leavitt and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sketches an intimate portrait of a family and its emotional struggle to come to terms with the death of matriarch Louise Cooper.

Author : Lara S. Ormiston
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1628735597
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Unequal Affections written by Lara S. Ormiston and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-01-07 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Elizabeth Bennet first knew Mr. Darcy, she despised him and was sure he felt the same. Angered by his pride and reserve, influenced by the lies of the charming Mr. Wickham, she never troubled herself to believe he was anything other than the worst of men—until, one day, he unexpectedly proposed. Mr. Darcy’s passionate avowal of love causes Elizabeth to reevaluate everything she thought she knew about him. What she knows is that he is rich, handsome, clever, and very much in love with her. She, on the other hand, is poor, and can expect a future of increasing poverty if she does not marry. The incentives for her to accept him are strong, but she is honest enough to tell him that she does not return his affections. He says he can accept that—but will either of them ever be truly happy in a relationship of unequal affection? Diverging from Jane Austen’s classic novel Pride and Prejudice at the proposal in the Hunsford parsonage, this story explores the kind of man Darcy is, even before his “proper humbling,” and how such a man, so full of pride, so much in love, might have behaved had Elizabeth chosen to accept his original proposal.

Author : Maria Bryan Harford Connell
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780820317274
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tokens of Affection written by Maria Bryan Harford Connell and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A refined and remarkably well-educated woman, Maria Bryan began corresponding with her sister when she was sixteen years old. As Carol Bleser points out in her introduction, Bryan travels, reads the popular books of the day, entertains visitors, and makes social calls. At the same time, however, notes Bleser, Bryan's letters belie popular notions about the privileged lives of "typical" planters' daughters in the antebellum South, for she also works at housekeeping, tends the sick at home and in the neighborhood, makes clothes for the family's slaves, and tutors younger siblings.

Author : Jonathan Edwards
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300158416
Total Pages : 535 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Religious Affections written by Jonathan Edwards and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 535 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains Edwards' most mature and persistent attempt to judge the validity of the religious development in eighteenth-century America known as the Great Awakening. In developing criteria for such judgment he attacked at the same time one of the fundamental questions facing all religion: how to distinguish genuine from spurious piety? The Awakening created much bitter controversy; on the one side stood the emotionalists and enthusiasts, and on the other the rationalists, for whom religion was essentially a matter of morality or good conduct and the acceptance of properly formulated doctrine. Edwards, with great analytical skill and enormous biblical learning, showed that both sides were in the wrong. He attacked both a ?lifeless morality” as too pale as to be the essence of religion, and he rejected the excesses of a purely emotional religion more concerned for sensational effects than for the inner transformation of the self, which was, for him, the center of genuine Christianity.

Author : David Nickle
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780981297835
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Monstrous Affections written by David Nickle and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collects thirteen horror stories of rural settings, reticent characters, and reality-defying twists.

Author : Louise Joy
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030460088
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Eighteenth-Century Literary Affections written by Louise Joy and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-07-29 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book assesses the mediating role played by 'affections' in eighteenth-century contestations about reason and passion, questioning their availability and desirability outside textual form. It examines the formulation and idealization of this affective category in works by Isaac Watts, Lord Shaftesbury, Mary Hays, William Godwin, Helen Maria Williams, and William Wordsworth. Part I outlines how affections are invested with utopian potential in theology, moral philosophy, and criticism, re-imagining what it might mean to know emotion. Part II considers attempts of writers at the end of the period to draw affections into literature as a means of negotiating a middle way between realism and idealism, expressivism and didacticism, particularity and abstraction, subjectivity and objectivity, femininity and masculinity, radicalism and conservatism, and the foreign and the domestic.

Author : Jonathan Edwards
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections written by Jonathan Edwards and published by . This book was released on 1845 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jonathan Edwards
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A treatise concerning religious affections. ... Abridged by W. Gordon written by Jonathan Edwards and published by . This book was released on 1762 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Richard Dawson
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3375121156
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Few Observations on Nervous Affections written by Richard Dawson and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2022-09-19 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1859.