This Wild Darkness

Author : Harold Brodkey
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0007401744
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book This Wild Darkness: The Story of My Death written by Harold Brodkey and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2014-01-30 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A meditation on dying by a writer who has been compared to Proust, was much praised by Salman Rushdie and is perhaps most famous for producing very little.

Author : Lauren Dane
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0425262189
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wild Darkness written by Lauren Dane and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lauren Dane’s breathtaking series comes to a thrilling conclusion as the heat of all-out war fans the fires of an otherworldly romance… The bombing that almost killed Owen witch Molly Ryan has worsened the tensions between the humans and the Others. While the Others desperately campaign to prevent the passage of a law that would strip their people of all rights, the human separatists develop an agenda far worse than anyone imagined. With her position more precarious than ever, security head Helena Jaansen finds herself relying more and more heavily on her personal guard, Faine Leviathan, and, despite her better instincts, falling more deeply into the intimate connection that they share. As Helena and Faine’s explosive passion grows, a deadly separatist plot is discovered, one that could mean ultimate destruction for the Others, and war breaks out between the two opposing factions. With the Others forced into hiding, Helena must overcome her fear of repeating past failures to save her people—and her heart—before it’s too late…

Author : Lauren Dane
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 110159246X
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wild Darkness written by Lauren Dane and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lauren Dane’s breathtaking series comes to a thrilling conclusion as the heat of all-out war fans the fires of an otherworldly romance… The bombing that almost killed Owen witch Molly Ryan has worsened the tensions between the humans and the Others. While the Others desperately campaign to prevent the passage of a law that would strip their people of all rights, the human separatists develop an agenda far worse than anyone imagined. With her position more precarious than ever, security head Helena Jaansen finds herself relying more and more heavily on her personal guard, Faine Leviathan, and, despite her better instincts, falling more deeply into the intimate connection that they share. As Helena and Faine’s explosive passion grows, a deadly separatist plot is discovered, one that could mean ultimate destruction for the Others, and war breaks out between the two opposing factions. With the Others forced into hiding, Helena must overcome her fear of repeating past failures to save her people—and her heart—before it’s too late…

Author : Geoff Bottone
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0359694020
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Navarre and the Witchwood written by Geoff Bottone and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-06-05 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This setting guide describes the Witchwood, a mysterious and enchanted forest on the easternmost edge of Silverton County. Also described are the Township of Navarre, the unusual settlements it governs, and the ruins, places of power, and other dimensions that can be found within the Witchwood. It also details over fifty unique villagers, spirits, and otherworldly beings with which the players can interact. It includes Lunabella and the Unicorn, a complete adventure that takes place within the Witchwood.

Author : Kathlyn Conway
Publisher : UNM Press
ISBN 13 : 0826353258
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beyond Words written by Kathlyn Conway and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2013-05-15 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Kathlyn Conway opens primordial questions about the shattering events of illness through close readings of selected illness narratives, proposing that only writing of a daring kind can utter the knowledge of the self-telling body. Wielding her ferocious intellect and braving exposure to self and other, Conway makes original discoveries about writing and illness and, more stunningly, about writing and life. Not a book about illness, this is a book about writing and being. It is taut, brave, unequalled in our scholarship, and true. Conway joins our most powerful investigators of the human predicament of mortality, helping us to see, helping us to live.”—Rita Charon, Columbia University, Program in Narrative Medicine Published accounts of illness and disability often emphasize hope and positive thinking: the woman who still looked beautiful after losing her hair, the man who ran five miles a day during chemotherapy. This acclaimed examination of the genre of the illness narrative questions that upbeat approach. Author Kathlyn Conway, a three-time cancer survivor and herself the author of an illness memoir, believes that the triumphalist approach to writing about illness fails to do justice to the shattering experience of disease. By wrestling with the challenge of writing about the reality of serious illness and injury, she argues, writers can offer a truer picture of the complex relationship between body and mind.

Author : John Michael Corrigan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 1009377825
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Faulkner's Cartographies of Consciousness written by John Michael Corrigan and published by . This book was released on 2023-11 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Faulkner continues to be an author who is widely read, studied, and admired. This book provides a new and interdisciplinary account of Faulkner's legacy, arguing that his fiction is just as relevant today as it was during his own time. Indeed, Faulkner's far-reaching critique of his Southern heritage speaks directly to the anti-racism discourse of our own time and engages the dire threat to subjecthood in a technologically saturated civilization. Combining literary critique with network and complexity science, this study offers a new reading of William Faulkner as a novelist for the information age. Over the course of his career, we find an artist struggling to articulate the threat to human wellbeing in rapidly scaling social systems and gradually developing a hard-won humanism that affirms the individual and interpersonal life as a source of novelty and social change.

Author : Cody Blake Wilson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 41 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wild Darkness written by Cody Blake Wilson and published by . This book was released on 2020-05-10 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the soon-to-be nurse to the first English child born in the New World, Mary Catherine Taylor craves the freedom and adventure that founding a colony will bring. As the new settlement on Roanoke Island begins to come to life, it seems that Mary's dream has come true. But as Mary comes face-to-face with the freedom she so desperately craved, she also discovers something dark and wild within herself... and its Whispers grow stronger each and every day.Inspired the lost colony of Roanoke and the first short story/historical fantasy within The Awakened Universe, Wild Darkness challenges what we think we know about freedom, pain, death, and darkness.

Author : Sorrel Kerbel
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135456070
Total Pages : 1394 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Encyclopedia of Jewish Writers of the Twentieth Century written by Sorrel Kerbel and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-11-23 with total page 1394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now available in paperback for the first time, Jewish Writers of the Twentieth Century is both a comprehensive reference resource and a springboard for further study. This volume: examines canonical Jewish writers, less well-known authors of Yiddish and Hebrew, and emerging Israeli writers includes entries on figures as diverse as Marcel Proust, Franz Kafka, Tristan Tzara, Eugene Ionesco, Harold Pinter, Tom Stoppard, Arthur Miller, Saul Bellow, Nadine Gordimer, and Woody Allen contains introductory essays on Jewish-American writing, Holocaust literature and memoirs, Yiddish writing, and Anglo-Jewish literature provides a chronology of twentieth-century Jewish writers. Compiled by expert contributors, this book contains over 330 entries on individual authors, each consisting of a biography, a list of selected publications, a scholarly essay on their work and suggestions for further reading.

Author : Einat Avrahami
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813926650
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Invading Body written by Einat Avrahami and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Widely debated in feminist, poststructuralist, and literary theory is the relationship between subjectivity and the body. Yet autobiographical criticism--an obvious place for testing this conceptual relationship--has lagged behind contemporary queries about the embodied self. In The Invading Body, Einat Avrahami corrects this deficiency by analyzing the genre of terminal illness autobiographies. These personal narratives challenge the world of self-writing in their power to question the assumption that autobiography--and the body--are products of cultural constructs and discursive practices. Their self-disclosures of symptoms, disabilities, and the physical and psychological pains of treatment, especially when combined with thoughts of further deterioration and imminent death, defy the theoretical formulations of identity and alter the definition of autobiography itself. Avrahami investigates an array of autobiographical testimonies of terminal illness ranging from Harold Brodkey's poignant account of his struggle with AIDS to Hannah Wilke's and Jo Spence's gripping self-portraits of cancer. By challenging the artificial and contrived skepticism that critics and theorists bring to their concepts of the self, the author argues, these illness narratives constitute an "invasion of the real," confronting the notions of self-representation and self-invention on which current autobiographical studies are based. The author's examinations of these moving memoirs and photographs will engage not only the growing field of disability studies, but also a more general readership interested in the transition that occurs when one's body suddenly falls out of step with one's mind.

Author : Jeff Sharlet
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 1324003219
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book This Brilliant Darkness: A Book of Strangers written by Jeff Sharlet and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2020-02-11 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A luminous, moving and visual record of fleeting moments of connection.” —New York Times Book Review, Editors’ Choice A visionary work of radical empathy. Known for immersion journalism that is more immersed than most people are willing to go, and for a prose style that is somehow both fierce and soulful, Jeff Sharlet dives deep into the darkness around us and awaiting us. This work began when his father had a heart attack; two years later, Jeff, still in his forties, had a heart attack of his own. In the grip of writerly self-doubt, Jeff turned to images, taking snapshots and posting them on Instagram, writing short, true stories that bloomed into documentary. During those two years, he spent a lot of time on the road: meeting strangers working night shifts as he drove through the mountains to see his father; exploring the life and death of Charley Keunang, a once-aspiring actor shot by the police on LA’s Skid Row; documenting gay pride amidst the violent homophobia of Putin’s Russia; passing time with homeless teen addicts in Dublin; and accompanying a lonely woman, whose only friend was a houseplant, on shopping trips. Early readers have called this book “incantatory,” the voice “prophetic,” in “James Agee’s tradition of looking at the reality of American lives.” Defined by insomnia and late-night driving and the companionship of other darkness-dwellers—night bakers and last-call drinkers, frightened people and frightening people, the homeless, the lost (or merely disoriented), and other people on the margins—This Brilliant Darkness erases the boundaries between author, subject, and reader to ask: how do people live with suffering?