Another Life
This near-definitive study sets a new standard for the kind of meticulous scholarship that Nobel laureate Derek Walcott's poetry deserves, at the same time that it enhances the accessibility of Walcott's history and poetry for the general ...
Kicked out of yet another boarding school, Archie couldn't be happier to find himself back in London with old friends and an exciting social life.
Parts of this book that have appeared in The New Yorker over the years have brought Korda great acclaim--the chapter about Jacqueline Susann has been made into a major motion picture.
It examines the work he did for the 1929 Schneider Trophy Race, the development of the new RAF 200 seaplane tender, and the development of its armour plated offspring, the Armoured Target Boat.
When Pryce, a government-connected shadow-man, offers Burke up-to-date medical services for "the Prof" and a pardon in exchange for a dangerous mission, Burke takes on the job to rescue the kidnapped son of a Saudi prince.
At seventy-seven, struggling with the weight of writer’s block, Theodor Kallifatides makes the difficult decision to sell the Stockholm studio where he diligently worked for decades and retire.
Encompassing questions of identity, religion, race, and family, Another Life is an absorbing and thought-provoking debut about the line we all walk between desire and responsibility.
Nick and Anna work the same summer job at their local cinema, but Anna is from a very different world to Nick.
For the past year, not a day had gone by when Evan hadn't thought about this exact moment, the moment he and Ben would be reunited.
The 301 poems in this book, composed between 1967 and 2018, comprise six past collections in their entirety: "North Wind," "Undulating Street," "The Works," "Arrival," "The Last Frenchman On Hughitt Street," and "Jeff Cowell Poems.
Both meditative and cinematic, engaging both playfully and ardently with the Odyssey and Alice Oswald's Memorial, this book chronicles a constellation of relatives pushed into the light by the centripetal force of death.
" Chad Walsh in Book World said: "I am convinced one of the half-dozen most imporant poets now writing in English. He may prove to be the best." Another Life helps to fulfill this prophecy.
The stories he tells - in pictures and words - are unforgettable and have created a unique document, one that reveals the uncomfortable truths of a globalised planet. It is full of hope, sadness, pain, anger and beauty.
If he lives — and he probably will not — he will be used all his life by grinning perverts. ... "And each time they torture him. he will be told that his mother sold him into slavery to buy herself another diamond necklace.
I had once seen my girlfriend in Athens smile at another man, and I had fainted with the pain. That was all over. ... It is one of life's great mysteries that you can like the same face for forty-six years. At the same time.
Will Nick find the courage to ask her to stay, or lose her forever? Another Life is a dazzling, devastating coming-of-age novel that gets to the heart of what it means to truly love another."--Publisher.
"Another Life" is the story of Olga, a woman suddenly widowed and attempting to grasp the memory of her brilliant, erratic husband and to understand their life together.
When Pryce, a government-connected shadow-man, offers Burke up-to-date medical services for "the Prof" and a pardon in exchange for a dangerous mission, Burke takes on the job to rescue the kidnapped son of a Saudi prince, only to discover ...
Encompassing questions of identity, religion, race, and family, Another Life is an absorbing and thought-provoking debut about the line we all walk between desire and responsibility."--Provided by publisher.