Port Mungo

Author : Patrick McGrath
Publisher : Anchor Canada
ISBN 13 : 0385673728
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Port Mungo written by Patrick McGrath and published by Anchor Canada. This book was released on 2011-01-21 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During their privileged, eccentric English childhood, Jack Rathbone enjoyed the unstinting adoration of his sister, Gin. So when both are art students in London, it is wrenching for her to watch him fall under the spell of Vera Savage, a flamboyant and reckless painter from Glasgow. Jack and Vera run off to New York City within weeks of meeting, and from a bruised, bereft distance Gin follows their progress south through Miami and pre-revolutionary Havana to Port Mungo, a seedy town in the mangrove swamps of Honduras. There, in an old banana warehouse, Jack obsessively devotes himself to his canvases while Vera succumbs to a chronic restlessness that not even the birth of two daughters can subdue. Passion, narcissism, and the relentless demands of creativity hold these riveting characters in thrall, and McGrath skilfully evokes a feverish world of tropical impulses and artistic ambition that leads ultimately to dark secrets and to death.

Author : Patrick McGrath
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783833303814
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Port Mungo written by Patrick McGrath and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Patrick McGrath
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788846208293
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Port Mungo written by Patrick McGrath and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : University of Sydney
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 820 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Calendar written by University of Sydney and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 820 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : University of Sydney
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 820 pages
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Download or read book Calendar of the University of Sydney written by University of Sydney and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 820 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jocelyn Dupont
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443845558
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Patrick McGrath written by Jocelyn Dupont and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2013-01-15 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first collected volume to be entirely dedicated to the work of contemporary Anglo-American writer Patrick McGrath. It follows the international conference that was held in his presence at Perpignan University, France, in May 2011. It comprises nine chapters (as well as an introduction and an index) written by scholars specializing in Gothic and American literature, each dealing with specific aspects of McGrath’s work. The volume seeks to encompass the author’s whole literary production to date, spanning a 25-year writing career. It also features an exclusive afterword written by the author himself, who attended all the papers given during the conference with great attention and often intensely enthusiastic reactivity. The editor’s intention is twofold. The idea was first to provide a comprehensive survey of Patrick McGrath’s writing, returning to the aspects that are usually associated with the author’s work, such as his artful narrative control, his inclination for stories of “transgression and decay”, as well as his long-lasting reflexive relationship with the Gothic and the Grotesque. Yet the aim of this volume is also to open new directions for the study of McGrath’s texts, taking into account the noticeable evolution of the writer’s literary production, its growing Americanization and gradual distanciation with modes of excess. It seems that it is no longer possible to tag McGrath’s work as neo- or ‘postmodern’ Gothic. His books’ growing complexity and change of horizons call for fresh investigations. This book will be of interest to students of McGrath’s work, scholars of the Gothic and its contemporary manifestations, as well as to all academics specializing in contemporary American fiction.

Author : Nick Rennison
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134604696
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Contemporary British Novelists written by Nick Rennison and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-12-31 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring a broad range of contemporary British novelists from Iain Banks to Jeanette Winterson, Louis de Bernieres to Irvine Welsh and Salman Rushdie, this book offers an excellent introductory guide to the contemporary literary scene. Each entry includes concise biographical information on each of the key novelists and analysis of their major works and themes. Fully cross-referenced and containing extensive guides to further reading, Fifty Contemporary British Novelists is the ideal guide to modern British fiction for both the student and the contemporary fiction buff alike.

Author : Sue Zlosnik
Publisher : University of Wales Press
ISBN 13 : 1783164476
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Patrick McGrath written by Sue Zlosnik and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2011-04-15 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Patrick McGrath is one of Britain’s foremost contemporary novelists but very little has been written about his work to date. This new book offers readings of McGrath’s fiction informed by recent scholarship and evaluates his creative contribution to the continuation of the Gothic tradition into the twenty-first century.

Author : Richard Bradford
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119652642
Total Pages : 912 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Contemporary British and Irish Literature written by Richard Bradford and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2020-09-03 with total page 912 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE WILEY BLACKWELL COMPANION TO CONTEMPORARY BRITISH AND IRISH LITERATURE An insightful guide to the exploration of modern British and Irish literature The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Contemporary British and Irish Literature is a must-have guide for anyone hoping to navigate the world of new British and Irish writing. Including modern authors and poets from the 1960s through to the 21st century, the Companion provides a thorough overview of contemporary poetry, fiction, and drama by some of the most prominent and noteworthy writers. Seventy-three comprehensive chapters focus on individual authors as well as such topics as Englishness and identity, contemporary Science Fiction, Black writing in Britain, crime fiction, and the influence of globalization on British and Irish Literature. Written in four parts, The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Contemporary British and Irish Literature includes comprehensive examinations of individual authors, as well as a variety of themes that have come to define the contemporary period: ethnicity, gender, nationality, and more. A thorough guide to the main figures and concepts in contemporary literature from Britain and Ireland, this two-volume set: Includes studies of notable figures such as Seamus Heaney and Angela Carter, as well as more recently influential writers such as Zadie Smith and Sarah Waters. Covers topics such as LGBT fiction, androgyny in contemporary British Literature, and post-Troubles Northern Irish Fiction Features a broad range of writers and topics covered by distinguished academics Includes an analysis of the interplay between individual authors and the major themes of the day, and whether an examination of the latter enables us to appreciate the former. The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Contemporary British and Irish Literature provides essential reading for students as well as academics seeking to learn more about the history and future direction of contemporary British and Irish Literature.

Author : Wilbur Smith
Publisher : Bonnier Zaffre Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1785767968
Total Pages : 407 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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