The Blue Room

Author : Georges Simenon
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0698409221
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Blue Room written by Georges Simenon and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-02-16 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “One of the greatest writers of the twentieth century . . . Simenon was unequaled at making us look inside, though the ability was masked by his brilliance at absorbing us obsessively in his stories.” —The Guardian Master novelist Georges Simenon’s critically acclaimed tale of the destructive power of lust and guilt “He felt no resentment towards Andree for biting his lip. In the context of their lovemaking, it had its place.” For Tony and Andree, there are no rules when they meet in the blue room at the Hotel des Voyageurs. Their adulterous affair is intoxicating, passionate—and dangerous. It soon turns into a nightmare from which there can be no escape. Heart-pounding and high-stakes, The Blue Room is a stylish and sensual psychological thriller that weaves a story of cruelty, reckless lust, and relentless guilt.

Author : Hanne Ørstavik
Publisher : Peirene Press
ISBN 13 : 1908670185
Total Pages : 121 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Blue Room written by Hanne Ørstavik and published by Peirene Press. This book was released on 2014-06-15 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A novel about a mother-daughter relationship that will send a chill down your spine. Johanne is a young woman in her twenties who lives with her mother. When she falls in love with Ivar, she finally feels ready to leave home. The couple plan a trip to America. But the morning of her departure, Johanne wakes up to find the door locked. Can she overcome her fears? Will she shout for help? Will she climb out of her fourth floor window? Why Peirene chose to publish this book: 'Everyone who has read Fifty Shades of Grey should read this book. Why? The Blue Room holds up a mirror to a part of the female psyche that yearns for submission. The story shows how erotic fantasies are formed by the relationship with our parents. It then delves further to analyse the struggle of women to separate from their mothers - a struggle that is rarely addressed in either literature or society.' Meike Ziervogel 'A masterpiece of unreliable narration.' Nicholas Lezard, Guardian 'A highly unusual, coolly daring psychological thriller that explores emotional pain and indifference with an unsettling detachment.' Eileen Battersby, Irish Times 'A work of chilling, masterly control.' Laura Profumo, Times Literary Supplement 'Nothing is certain, no motive is clear and no person is above suspicion in Ørstavik's perfectly pitched, tightly stitched and captivating brain-teaser.' Pam Norfolk, Lancashire Evening Post 'Ørstavik treats the everyday and existential with intensity.' Max Liu, Independent 'Psychologically astute and deftly translated . . . A brilliant examination of a woman struggling to own her sexuality, to break free from the guilt and forge her own identity.' Lucy Popescu, Tablet GUARDIAN PAPERBACKS OF THE YEAR 2014

Author : Jim Averbeck
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780152059927
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.2X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In a Blue Room written by Jim Averbeck and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2008 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alice wants everything in her bedroom to be blue before she falls asleep.

Author : Michelle Richmond
Publisher : Bantam
ISBN 13 : 0553386549
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dream of the Blue Room written by Michelle Richmond and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2010-02-16 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jenny and Amanda Ruth were best friends in a small Alabama town until eighteen-years-old Amanda Ruth was murdered. Now, fourteen years later, Jenny has traveled with her husband to China to scatter Amanda Ruth’s ashes and finally fulfill her friend’s dream of visiting her Chinese father’s homeland. It’s also, Jenny hopes, an opportunity to repair her own troubled marriage. But as she journeys through a foreign landscape, the guilty secrets of Jenny’s past rise up and her life will be inexorably altered. From the New York Times bestselling author of The Year of Fog (“Highly recommended [for fans of] authors like Jodi Picoult and Jacquelyn Mitchard” —Library Journal, starred review) and No One You Know (“Luminous . . . will keep you thinking long after the last page has been turned”—Family Circle), Michelle Richmond’s stunning novel captivates with its depiction of the powerful intimacies of marriage, friendship, and family that shape our paths and the bonds of home that buoy us—wherever home may be.

Author : Eugene Richards
Publisher : Phaidon Press
ISBN 13 : 9780714848327
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Blue Room written by Eugene Richards and published by Phaidon Press. This book was released on 2008-11-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Colour works by one of America's greatest social documentary photographers.

Author : David Hare
Publisher : Baker's Plays
ISBN 13 : 9780573627057
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Blue Room written by David Hare and published by Baker's Plays. This book was released on 1999 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sensation in London and on Broadway, The Blue Room depicts a daisy chain of ten sexual encounters between five women and five men all played by one actor and actress portraying the hypocrisy, the folly and the loneliness of this roundelay. Freely adapting the original play, Hare has moved the action from turn-of-the-century Vienna to modern London and infused the sketches with witty and provocative modern nuances. -- Publisher's website.

Author : Elliott Roosevelt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780380712373
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Murder in the Blue Room written by Elliott Roosevelt and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's another case for Eleanor Roosevelt when she discovers the battered corpse of a woman in the Blue Room while Washington's at war.

Author : Yoko Tawada
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0811229297
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Scattered All Over the Earth written by Yoko Tawada and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2022-03-01 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A mind-expanding, cheerfully dystopian new novel by Yoko Tawada, winner of the 2022 National Book Award Welcome to the not-too-distant future: Japan, having vanished from the face of the earth, is now remembered as “the land of sushi.” Hiruko, its former citizen and a climate refugee herself, has a job teaching immigrant children in Denmark with her invented language Panska (Pan-Scandinavian): “homemade language. no country to stay in. three countries I experienced. insufficient space in brain. so made new language. homemade language.” As she searches for anyone who can still speak her mother tongue, Hiruko soon makes new friends. Her troupe travels to France, encountering an umami cooking competition; a dead whale; an ultra-nationalist named Breivik; unrequited love; Kakuzo robots; red herrings; uranium; an Andalusian matador. Episodic and mesmerizing scenes flash vividly along, and soon they’re all next off to Stockholm. With its intrepid band of companions, Scattered All Over the Earth (the first novel of a trilogy) may bring to mind Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland or a surreal Wind in the Willows, but really is just another sui generis Yoko Tawada masterwork.

Author : Jan Whitaker
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1250089816
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tea at the Blue Lantern Inn written by Jan Whitaker and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2015-06-30 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Gypsy Tea Kettle. Polly's Cheerio Tea Room. The Mad Hatter. The Blue Lantern Inn. These are just a few of the many tea rooms - most owned and operated by women -- that popped up across America at the turn of the last century, and exploded into a full-blown craze by the 1920s. Colorful, cozy, festive, and inviting, these new-fangled eateries offered women a way to celebrate their independence and creativity. Sparked by the Suffragist movement, Prohibition, and the rise of the automobile, tea rooms forever changed the way America eats out, and laid the groundwork for the modern small restaurant and coffee bar. In this lively, well-researched book, Jan Whitaker brings us back to the exciting days when countless American women dreamed of opening their own tea room - and many did. From the Bohemian streets of New York's Greenwich Village to the high-society tea rooms of Chicago's poshest hotels, from the Colonial roadside tea houses of New England to the welcoming bungalows of California, the book traces the social, artistic, and culinary changes the tea room helped bring about. Anyone interested in women's history, the early days of the automobile, the Bohemian lives of artists in Greenwich Village, and the history of food and drink will revel in this spirited, stylish, and intimate slice of America's past.

Author : Nafisa Rizvi
Publisher : Sama Editorial and Publishing Services
ISBN 13 : 9789698784638
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Blue Room written by Nafisa Rizvi and published by Sama Editorial and Publishing Services. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Growing up in a large, extended family cloistered in a haveli, Zaibunnissa is an unusual, insightful little girl who acquires the most extraordinary set of friends by chance. Events take a nasty turn when she decides to expose the evil machinations of a fictitious moulvi, and is hurriedly married off to an older man she has never seen. While Zaibunnissa must contend with fending off hostile in-laws and protecting loved ones, she is faced with a decision that will change her life and the lives of many people who depend on her. The question is, will she be able to choose wisely? "The Blue Room" is set against the backdrop of a feudal tradition, replete with the grandeur of its havelis and the myths that live within them.