Doomed Bourgeois in Love
Title | Doomed Bourgeois in Love PDF eBook |
Author | Mark C. Henrie |
Publisher | Intercollegiate Studies Institute |
Pages | 204 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
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Critics have praised the films of writer-director Whit Stillman for their exceptionally intelligent portrayal of the lives and loves of the urban haute bourgeoisie. His three comedies of manners -- Metropolitan, Barcelona, and The Last Days of Disco -- sparkle with urbane and ironic wit. In Doomed Bourgeois in Love, the cultural critic Mark C. Henrie brings together a collection of political theorists, literary critics, and classicists to explore the meaning of Stillman's films.
Doomed Bourgeois in Love
Title | Doomed Bourgeois in Love PDF eBook |
Author | Mark C. Henrie |
Publisher | Intercollegiate Studies Institute |
Pages | 190 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 9781882926701 |
Critics have praised the films of writer-director Whit Stillman for their exceptionally intelligent portrayal of the lives and loves of the urban haute bourgeoisie. His three comedies of manners -- Metropolitan, Barcelona, and The Last Days of Disco -- sparkle with urbane and ironic wit. In Doomed Bourgeois in Love, the cultural critic Mark C. Henrie brings together a collection of political theorists, literary critics, and classicists to explore the meaning of Stillman's films.
The Last Days of Disco
Title | The Last Days of Disco PDF eBook |
Author | Whit Stillman |
Publisher | Farrar Straus & Giroux |
Pages | 339 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780374183394 |
During the last days of the disco era, in the early 1980s, a popular dance club becomes the center of nightlife for a group of not-quite innocent young people new to Manhattan.
The Love Book
Title | The Love Book PDF eBook |
Author | Nina Solomon |
Publisher | Akashic Books |
Pages | 322 |
Release | 2015-01-06 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1617753173 |
An anti-romantic comedy about the misadventures of four women who meet on a singles' bike trip.
White Ivy
Title | White Ivy PDF eBook |
Author | Susie Yang |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 384 |
Release | 2020-11-03 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1982100613 |
“A truly addictive read” (Glamour) about how a young woman’s crush on a privileged former classmate becomes a story of love, lies, and dark obsession, offering stark insights into the immigrant experience, as it hurtles to its electrifying ending in this “twisty, unputdownable, psychological thriller” (People). Ivy Lin is a thief and a liar—but you’d never know it by looking at her. Raised outside of Boston, Ivy’s immigrant grandmother relies on Ivy’s mild appearance for cover as she teaches her granddaughter how to pilfer items from yard sales and second-hand shops. Thieving allows Ivy to accumulate the trappings of a suburban teen—and, most importantly, to attract the attention of Gideon Speyer, the golden boy of a wealthy political family. But when Ivy’s mother discovers her trespasses, punishment is swift and Ivy is sent to China, and her dream instantly evaporates. Years later, Ivy has grown into a poised yet restless young woman, haunted by her conflicting feelings about her upbringing and her family. Back in Boston, when Ivy bumps into Sylvia Speyer, Gideon’s sister, a reconnection with Gideon seems not only inevitable—it feels like fate. Slowly, Ivy sinks her claws into Gideon and the entire Speyer clan by attending fancy dinners, and weekend getaways to the cape. But just as Ivy is about to have everything she’s ever wanted, a ghost from her past resurfaces, threatening the nearly perfect life she’s worked so hard to build. Filled with surprising twists and a nuanced exploration of class and race, White Ivy is a “highly entertaining,” (The Washington Post) “propulsive debut” (San Francisco Chronicle) that offers a glimpse into the dark side of a woman who yearns for success at any cost.
A Lover of Unreason
Title | A Lover of Unreason PDF eBook |
Author | Yehuda Koren |
Publisher | Robson |
Pages | 365 |
Release | 2014-06-04 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1909396834 |
'Assia was my true wife, and the best friend I ever had', wrote Ted Hughes, after his lover surrendered her life and that of their young daughter in 1969, six years after Sylvia Plath had suffered a similiar fate. Diva, she-devil, enchantress, muse, Lillith, Jezebel - Assia inspired many epithets during her life. The tragic story of Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes has always been related from one of two points of view: hers or his. Missing for over four decades had been a third: that of Hughes's mistress. This first biography of Assia Wevill views afresh the Plath-Hughes relationship and at the same time, recounts the journey that shaped her life. Wevill's is a complex story, formed as it is by the pull of often contrary forces.
Rainbow Milk
Title | Rainbow Milk PDF eBook |
Author | Paul Mendez |
Publisher | Anchor |
Pages | 336 |
Release | 2021-06-08 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0385547099 |
Nominated for a 34th annual Lambda Literary Award • An essential and revelatory coming-of-age narrative from a thrilling new voice, Rainbow Milk follows nineteen-year-old Jesse McCarthy as he grapples with his racial and sexual identities against the backdrop of his Jehovah's Witness upbringing. "The kind of novel you never knew you were waiting for." —Marlon James In the 1950s, ex-boxer Norman Alonso is a determined and humble Jamaican who has immigrated to Britain with his wife and children to secure a brighter future. Blighted with unexpected illness and racism, Norman and his family are resilient, but are all too aware that their family will need more than just hope to survive in their new country. At the turn of the millennium, Jesse seeks a fresh start in London, escaping a broken immediate family, a repressive religious community and his depressed hometown in the industrial Black Country. But once he arrives he finds himself at a loss for a new center of gravity, and turns to sex work, music and art to create his own notions of love, masculinity and spirituality. A wholly original novel as tender as it is visceral, Rainbow Milk is a bold reckoning with race, class, sexuality, freedom and religion across generations, time and cultures.