![]() Many plot elements in the novel are based on actual historical details. Len Deighton's novel City of Gold is also laid against much of the same background. ![]() ![]() This true story was also later to form the basis behind Michael Ondaatje's Booker Prize-winning 1992 novel The English Patient and the 1996 Academy Award-winning film of the same name starring Ralph Fiennes. This was to form the basis of Follett's The Key to Rebecca, Eppler being the inspiration behind the character Alex Wolff, and he spent a year writing it, more than the time he took to write his previous novels Eye of the Needle and Triple. Eppler or John Eppler) and his involvement in Operation Salaam, a non-fiction account of which was published in 1959. While undertaking research for his best-selling novel Eye of the Needle, Follett had discovered the true story of the Nazi spy Johannes Eppler (also known as John W. ![]() The code mentioned in the title is an intended throwback from Follett to Daphne du Maurier's famed suspense novel Rebecca. Published in 1980 by Pan Books ( ISBN 0792715381), it was a best-seller that achieved popularity in the United Kingdom and worldwide. The Key to Rebecca is a novel by the British author Ken Follett. ![]()
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![]() Nonostante l’unica cosa che lui vuole sia portarla al sicuro nel Regno d’Inverno e le abbia concesso solo una deviazione per cercare Clotty nelle miniere, nella città di Cranthum entrambi vengono coinvolti nelle attività dei ribelli che tentano di liberare quanti più schiavi possibili. “Sei troppo preziosa, e non voglio che tu ti faccia del male di nuovo.”īeth continua a trascinare Gareth in avventure pericolose. Non voglio che tu debba combattere, quando posso farlo io al tuo posto.” Mi deposita un bacio sulla testa. “La tua vita è stata così dura, piena di terrore e ingiustizie. “Non potevi saperlo.” Poggia una mano sopra la mia. ![]() Non c’ero per mettere al tappeto Granthos e portarti in salvo.” Non più.” Fa scorrere le dita lungo la mia gola e passa il pollice su una delle mie cicatrici. “Non posso permettere che qualcuno ti faccia del male. ![]() ![]() Sono racconti così brevi e intrecciati tra loro che è davvero impossibile fermarsi tra uno e l’altro, quindi sono qui a recensirli tutti insieme. Rimane la sensazione di racconti leggeri, che avrebbero potuto trovare molti approfondimenti, in particolare nelle caratterizzazioni e negli sviluppi emotivi, e continuo a trovarla quindi una serie molto piacevole da leggere senza però aspettarsi grandi complessità a impegnare il nostro intelletto. Ho terminato la seconda tetralogia di racconti L’Ossessione del Fae, che hanno confermato il delizioso mix già assaporato nei precedenti: azione, passione, divertimento, suspense e imprevedibilità. ![]() ![]() In 1936 on the way to a vacation in Europe, listening to the rhythm of the ship's engines, he came up with And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street, which was then promptly rejected by the first 43 publishers he showed it to. This association lasted 17 years, gained him national exposure, and coined the catchphrase "Quick, Henry, the Flit!" These references gained notice, and led to a contract to draw comic ads for Flit. ![]() In some of his works, he'd made reference to an insecticide called Flit. Additionally, he was submitting cartoons to Life, Vanity Fair and Liberty. He returned from Europe in 1927, and began working for a magazine called Judge, the leading humor magazine in America at the time, submitting both cartoons and humorous articles for them. At Oxford he met Helen Palmer, who he wed in 1927. He graduated Dartmouth College in 1925, and proceeded on to Oxford University with the intent of acquiring a doctorate in literature. Theodor Seuss Geisel was born 2 March 1904 in Springfield, Massachusetts. ![]() ![]() ![]() Lorde’s writing has rarely been more influential - or more misunderstood.Įven more than scandal or a shoddy biographer, a writer’s sheer quotability can guarantee an uneasy afterlife. ![]() “The Selected Works of Audre Lorde,” edited and introduced by Roxane Gay, arrives at an especially interesting moment, however. “There is, for me, no difference between writing a good poem and moving into sunlight against the body of a woman I love,” she once wrote.Īny opportunity to contemplate Lorde would be a cause for celebration. She left riches: poems, essays and two genre-defining memoirs, “Zami” and “The Cancer Journals.” Her work is an estuary, a point of confluence for all identities, all aspects kept so strenuously segregated: poetry and politics, feeling and analysis, analysis and action, sexuality and the intellect. She wanted, as Angela Davis said, to “demystify the assumption that these terms cannot inhabit the same space: Black and lesbian, lesbian and mother, mother and warrior, warrior and poet.” But there was always that garland of identifiers - and not just because she couldn’t be defined by one word. ![]() “I am a Black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet doing my work, coming to ask you if you’re doing yours,” she’d sometimes say. In her public appearances, Audre Lorde famously introduced herself the same way: “I am a Black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet.” There were occasional variations. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Zachary learns of those who have sacrificed much to protect this realm, relinquishing their sight and their tongues to preserve this archive, and also those who are intent on its destruction. What Zachary finds in this curious place is more than just a buried home for books and their guardians - it is a place of lost cities and seas, lovers who pass notes under doors and across time, and of stories whispered by the dead. ![]() Bewildered by this inexplicable book and desperate to make sense of how his own life came to be recorded, Zachary uncovers a series of clues - a bee, a key, and a sword - that lead him to a masquerade party in New York, to a secret club, and through a doorway to an ancient library, hidden far below the surface of the earth. As he turns the pages, entranced by tales of lovelorn prisoners, key collectors, and nameless acolytes, he reads something strange: a story from his own childhood. Zachary Ezra Rawlins is a graduate student in Vermont when he discovers a mysterious book hidden in the stacks. Genres: Fantasy & Magic, Fiction, FantasyĪmazon | Book Depository | Publisher | Angus & Robertson | Booktopiaįrom the New York Times bestselling author of The Night Circus, a timeless love story set in a secret underground world-a place of pirates, painters, lovers, liars, and ships that sail upon a starless sea. Published by Harvill Secker, Penguin Australia on November 5, 2019 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It’s a bold argument and perhaps just the beginning of the debate.” – Sunday Herald “What Eagleman seems to be calling for is a new Enlightenment, where our better understanding of the brain allows us to treat criminality differently. “Eagleman has a talent for testing the untestable, for taking seemingly sophomoric notions and using them to nail down the slippery stuff of consciousness.” – The New Yorker “Incognito is popular science at its best…. Eagleman, by imagining the future so vividly, puts into relief just how challenging neuroscience is, and will be.” – Boston Globe A book that will leave you looking at yourself–and the world–differently.”- Kirkus Reviews (Starred review) Eagleman has a wealth of such observations, backed up with case studies, bits of pop culture, literary references and historic examples. “The book is full of startling examples…. ![]() ![]() You've lived in the Midwest, and now you're in New York City. His conversation with Chapter 16 has been edited for length and clarity. Taylor is an editor-at-large at The Sewanee Review, and he writes critical essays on his Substack, a blogging platform, called "sweater weather." He lives in New York City. His forthcoming novel, "The Late Americans," will be published in 2023. His best-selling book of short stories, "Filthy Animals," won the 2021-22 Story Prize and has just been released in paperback. The Midwest - particularly Iowa and Wisconsin - has served as the primary milieu for his characters. "When you're too close, you can't really see it." ![]() ![]() "I didn't feel like I could write about the South because I was too close to it," he says. "FILTHY ANIMALS" by Brandon Taylor (Riverhead Books, 288 pages, $16).īrandon Taylor, the Alabama-born writer whose 2020 debut novel, "Real Life," was a finalist for the Booker Prize, tries to avoid setting his stories in the South. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This Fierce Blood is an absolutely beautiful book. Rich in historical and cultural detail, This Fierce Blood combines magical realism with themes of maternal ancestral inheritance, and also explores the ways Hispano/Indigenous traditions both conflicted and wove together, shaping the distinctive character of the American Southwest. Readers of Téa Obreht and Ruth Ozeki will find much to admire in this debut novel.Ī rich and enchanting story of the turbulent and beautiful ways we come together As Magda struggles with both personal and professional responsibilities, the boundary between science and myth begins to blur. When Magdalena, an ecologist, inherits her great-grandmother Wilhelmina’s Vermont property, she and her astrophysicist husband decide to turn the old farm into a summer science camp for teens. Fighting for her family’s reputation and way of life, Sepa finds strength in worldly and otherworldly sources. In 1927 in southern Colorado, Josepa, is accused of witchcraft by a local priest for using the healing practices passed down from her Native mother. When she forms an inexplicable connection with a mountain lion and her cubs living near their farm, Mina grapples with divided loyalties and the mysterious bond she shares with the animals. In rural late-nineteenth-century New England, Wilhelmina Sylte is a settler starting a family with her Norwegian immigrant husband. ![]() A multicultural saga, This Fierce Blood follows three generations of women in the Sylte family. ![]() ![]() ![]() Equipped with penetrating intelligence and a sense of humor, Turkle surveys the front lines of the social-digital transformation." -Lev Grossman, Time Magazine "Savvy and insightful." -New York Times " summarizes her new view of things with typical eloquence. ![]() ![]() PRAISE FOR THE PREVIOUS EDITION: "his incisive, challenging pop-psychology look at the behavioral effects of social networking on human relationships made a bona-fide pundit out of M.I.T.'s Turkle." "Highly recommended." -Management Issues PRAISE FOR THE HARDCOVER: "Nobody has ever articulated so passionately and intelligently what we're doing to ourselves by substituting technologically mediated social interaction. ![]() ![]() ![]() On earth, Leaf has to cope with the aftermath of a nuclear strike. Saturday's elite force is pressing on into the Incomparable Gardens, while her massed sorcerers fight a desperate rear-guard action against the Piper and his Newnith army. Meanwhile, Arthur's friend Suzy Blue plots an escape from her prison in Saturday's tower, as battle rages above and below. Alone in enemy territory, as his mind and body are further transformed by the power of the Keys, Arthur must struggle with himself as much as with his many enemies. Arthur has wrested the Sixth Key from Superior Saturday, but has fallen from the Incomparable Gardens fallen not to the Upper House but to somewhere completely unexpected. In this seventh and last book of THE KEYS TO THE KINGDOM, the mysteries of the House, the Architect, the Trustees, the Keys and the Will are revealed, and the fate of Arthur, our Earth, and the entire Universe is finally decided. ![]() |