It is two years since the wife of best-selling author Max Reilly died in a car crash along with her lover. Max is still recovering from her death and deception, but when he meets Emma — who is awaiting divorce from her violent husband — he quickly becomes attracted to her. Emma is cautious and keen to hold back. Max is determined but needs to keep his secrets from her. This becomes increasingly difficult for Max when he finds himself facing his past and one secret in particular involving violence, murder and betrayal.
It was a time when everything seemed to be changing—and it was, but not always quite as expected. Past Imperfect is Julian Fellowes at his best--a novel of secrets, status, and a world in upheaval.
Damian Baxter is hugely wealthy and dying. He lives alone in a big house in Surrey, looked after by a chauffeur, butler, cook and housemaid. He has but one concern...
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-James Miller , The Washington Post " Past Imperfect is a forthright and uncommonly damning study of those intellectually volatile years [ 1944-1956 ) . Mr. Judt ... does more than simply describe the ideological acrobatics of his ...
Essays that consider how classic movies have reflected history include the writings of such noted historians as Paul Fussell, Antonia Fraser, and Gore Vidal
In a devastating study, Judt, a professor of European studies at New York University, argues that the belief system of postwar intellectuals, propped up by faith in communism, reflected fatal weaknesses in French culture such as the ...
Past Imperfect: An Autobiography
This text attempts to answer these and other questions, examining the relationship between film and the historical record, comprising essays on films as diverse as Gandhi, Malcolm X, Dr. Strangelove, Jurassic Park, Houdini, Bonnie and Clyde ...
This is their story, set against the wider narrative of the writing of America's history. It may be, as Flaubert put it, that "Our ignorance of history makes us libel our own times.
These are poems of great intensity, driven by intelligence, tracing the barely knowable contours of a soul-in-progress.