The Garden Of Monsters

Author : Lorenza Pieri
Publisher : Europa Editions UK
ISBN 13 : 1787702383
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Garden of Monsters written by Lorenza Pieri and published by Europa Editions UK. This book was released on 2020-06-18 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in the Maremma region of Southern Tuscany, this novel tells the story of two families against the backdrop of a rapidly transforming country. The Biagini are local ranchers, while the wealthy Sanfilippi belong to Rome's upper middle-class. When Sauro, an ambitious rancher, and Filippo, a hedonistic politician, become business partners, the stories of their families become irrevocably intertwined. As an influx of new money pours into the town, political allegiances, family loyalties, moral codes, and sexual identities all begin to shift. Sauro and Filippo, their wives Miriam and Giulia, and their sons, are the prototypes of the new Italy, ostensibly emancipated from traditional mores, but at the same time, insecure and blinkered. Fifteen-year-old Annamaria, fragile and anxious, struggles to find her place among them. Luckily, a parallel world is taking shape nearby: the Tarot Garden, the monumental sculpture garden created by the French-American artist Niki de Saint Phalle. It is in this magical place, through her conversations with the artist, that Annamaria will slowly find a sense of identity and belonging.

Author : Luke Morgan
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812247558
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Monster in the Garden written by Luke Morgan and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Monster in the Garden, Luke Morgan develops a new conceptual model of Renaissance landscape design, arguing that the monster was a key figure in Renaissance culture and that the incorporation of the monstrous into gardens was not incidental but an essential feature.

Author : Vivien Alcock
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780618003372
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Monster Garden written by Vivien Alcock and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2000 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using a tissue sample she believes is from one of her father's experiments in genetic engineering, Frankie accidentally creates a baby monster, which begins to grow at an alarming rate.

Author : Paul Deslandes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781912678464
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Garden Monster written by Paul Deslandes and published by . This book was released on 2022-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We went into our garden, to see if we could see, A monster that I'd heard about, MUCH BIGGER than me. But where do we start in finding this beast? Maybe he's sleeping or enjoying a feast. A delightful adventure story about two brothers trying to look for a monster in their garden and meeting a whole host of garden creatures along the way.

Author : David Larsen
Publisher : Victoria University Press
ISBN 13 : 177656376X
Total Pages : 567 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Monsters in the Garden written by David Larsen and published by Victoria University Press. This book was released on 2021-02-23 with total page 567 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Too stuffy inside? All those familiar social realist furnishings, all those comfortable literary tropes. Perhaps a stroll out under the trees, where things are breezier, stranger, more liable to break the rules. You may meet monsters out there, true. But that's the point. Casting its net widely, this anthology of Aotearoa-New Zealand science fiction and fantasy ranges from the satirical novels of the 19th-century utopians &– one of which includes the first description of atmospheric aerobreaking in world literature &– to the bleeding edge of now. Spaceships and worried sheep. Dragons and AI. The shopping mall that swallowed the Earth. The deviant, the fishy and the rum, all bioengineered for your reading pleasure.Featuring stories by some of the country's best known writers as well as work from exciting new talent, Monsters in the Garden invites you for a walk on the wild side. We promise you'll get back safely. Unchanged? Well, that's another question.

Author : Loren Coleman
Publisher : Stackpole Books
ISBN 13 : 0811735966
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Monsters of New Jersey written by Loren Coleman and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2010 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents stories of the best known of the Garden State's cryptid population.

Author : Patrick Ness
Publisher : Candlewick Press
ISBN 13 : 0763669091
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Monster Calls written by Patrick Ness and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2013-08-27 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NOW A #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! An unflinching, darkly funny, and deeply moving story of a boy, his seriously ill mother, and an unexpected monstrous visitor. At seven minutes past midnight, thirteen-year-old Conor wakes to find a monster outside his bedroom window. But it isn’t the monster Conor’s been expecting-- he’s been expecting the one from his nightmare, the nightmare he’s had nearly every night since his mother started her treatments. The monster in his backyard is different. It’s ancient. And wild. And it wants something from Conor. Something terrible and dangerous. It wants the truth. From the final idea of award-winning author Siobhan Dowd-- whose premature death from cancer prevented her from writing it herself-- Patrick Ness has spun a haunting and darkly funny novel of mischief, loss, and monsters both real and imagined.

Author : Lorenza Pieri
Publisher : Europa Editions
ISBN 13 : 1609455983
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Garden of Monsters written by Lorenza Pieri and published by Europa Editions. This book was released on 2020-06-09 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Southern Tuscany, two families are at war while a young woman discovers her path in the acclaimed Italian author’s English-language debut. The Biagini are local ranchers, while the wealthy Sanfilippi belong to Rome’s upper middle-class. When Sauro, an ambitious rancher, and Filippo, a hedonistic politician, become friends and business partners, the stories of their families become irrevocably intertwined. As the town experiences an influx of new money, political allegiances, family loyalties, moral codes, and sexual identities all begin to shift. Sauro and Filippo and their families are the prototypes of the new Italy, ostensibly emancipated from traditional mores, but at the same time, insecure and blinkered. Fifteen-year-old Annamaria, fragile and anxious, feels overshadowed by the beautiful and confident Lisa. Luckily, a parallel world is taking shape nearby: the Tarot Garden, the monumental sculpture garden created by the French-American artist Niki de Saint Phalle. It is in this magical place, through her conversations with the artist, that Annamaria will slowly find a sense of identity and belonging.

Author : Diane Samuels
Publisher : Heinemann Educational Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780435232849
Total Pages : 101 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Play of The Monster Garden written by Diane Samuels and published by Heinemann Educational Publishers. This book was released on 1992 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Heinemann Plays series offers contemporary drama and classic plays in durable classroom editions. Many have large casts and an equal mix of boy and girl parts. Based on the novel by Vivien Alcock, this play tells the story of Frankie Stein and her jelly cultivation experiments.

Author : Luke Morgan
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812291875
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Monster in the Garden written by Luke Morgan and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2015-10-16 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Monsters, grotesque creatures, and giants were frequently depicted in Italian Renaissance landscape design, yet they have rarely been studied. Their ubiquity indicates that gardens of the period conveyed darker, more disturbing themes than has been acknowledged. In The Monster in the Garden, Luke Morgan argues that the monster is a key figure in Renaissance culture. Monsters were ciphers for contemporary anxieties about normative social life and identity. Drawing on sixteenth-century medical, legal, and scientific texts, as well as recent scholarship on monstrosity, abnormality, and difference in early modern Europe, he considers the garden within a broader framework of inquiry. Developing a new conceptual model of Renaissance landscape design, Morgan argues that the presence of monsters was not incidental but an essential feature of the experience of gardens.