Life Before Man
Title | Life Before Man PDF eBook |
Author | Margaret Atwood |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 354 |
Release | 2012-03-27 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1451686870 |
From the author of the New York Times bestselling novels The Handmaid’s Tale—now an Emmy Award-winning Hulu original series—and Alias Grace, now a Netflix original series. Imprisoned by walls of their own construction, here are three people, each in midlife, in midcrisis, forced to make choices--after the rules have changed. Elizabeth, with her controlled sensuality, her suppressed rage, is married to the wrong man. She has just lost her latest lover to suicide. Nate, her gentle, indecisive husband, is planning to leave her for Lesje, a perennial innocent who prefers dinosaurs to men. Hanging over them all is the ghost of Elizabeth's dead lover...and the dizzying threat of three lives careening inevitably toward the same climax.
Life Before Man
Title | Life Before Man PDF eBook |
Author | Zdeněk V. Špinar |
Publisher | Thames & Hudson |
Pages | 256 |
Release | 1995 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN | 9780500277966 |
This book provides a detailed reconstruction of the conditions on earth from its earliest beginnings more than 3,000 million years ago to the arrival of man and the introduction of settled farming
Bodily Harm
Title | Bodily Harm PDF eBook |
Author | Margaret Atwood |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 278 |
Release | 2012-03-27 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1451686854 |
From the author of the New York Times bestselling novels The Handmaid’s Tale—now an Emmy Award-winning Hulu original series—and Alias Grace, now a Netflix original series. A powerfully and brilliantly crafted novel, Bodily Harm is the story of Rennie Wilford, a young journalist whose life has begun to shatter around the edges. Rennie flies to the Caribbean to recuperate, and on the tiny island of St. Antoine she is confronted by a world where her rules for survival no longer apply. By turns comic, satiric, relentless, and terrifying, Margaret Atwood's Bodily Harm is ultimately an exploration of the lust for power, both sexual and political, and the need for compassion that goes beyond what we ordinarily mean by love.
Up in the Tree
Title | Up in the Tree PDF eBook |
Author | Margaret Atwood |
Publisher | Groundwood Books Ltd |
Pages | 34 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 0888997299 |
Two children who live in a tree don't know what to do when beavers take their ladder, and after rescue comes at the hands of a friend, they find a way to return without worry.
A Little Life
Title | A Little Life PDF eBook |
Author | Hanya Yanagihara |
Publisher | Vintage |
Pages | 833 |
Release | 2016-01-26 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0804172706 |
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A stunning “portrait of the enduring grace of friendship” (NPR) about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves. A masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century. NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • MAN BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST • WINNER OF THE KIRKUS PRIZE A Little Life follows four college classmates—broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition—as they move to New York in search of fame and fortune. While their relationships, which are tinged by addiction, success, and pride, deepen over the decades, the men are held together by their devotion to the brilliant, enigmatic Jude, a man scarred by an unspeakable childhood trauma. A hymn to brotherly bonds and a masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century, Hanya Yanagihara’s stunning novel is about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves. Look for Hanya Yanagihara’s latest bestselling novel, To Paradise.
Young Man from the Provinces
Title | Young Man from the Provinces PDF eBook |
Author | Alan Helms |
Publisher | |
Pages | 210 |
Release | 2003-04 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780816642687 |
Returning to print, this insiderÆs view of pre-Stonewall high class homosexual lifestyles retraces the authorÆs journey from his backwards Midwestern town to Manhattan in the 1950s. Reprint.
The Handmaid's Tale
Title | The Handmaid's Tale PDF eBook |
Author | Margaret Atwood |
Publisher | McClelland & Stewart |
Pages | 370 |
Release | 2011-09-06 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0771008791 |
An instant classic and eerily prescient cultural phenomenon, from “the patron saint of feminist dystopian fiction” (New York Times). Now an award-winning Hulu series starring Elizabeth Moss. In this multi-award-winning, bestselling novel, Margaret Atwood has created a stunning Orwellian vision of the near future. This is the story of Offred, one of the unfortunate “Handmaids” under the new social order who have only one purpose: to breed. In Gilead, where women are prohibited from holding jobs, reading, and forming friendships, Offred’s persistent memories of life in the “time before” and her will to survive are acts of rebellion. Provocative, startling, prophetic, and with Margaret Atwood’s devastating irony, wit, and acute perceptive powers in full force, The Handmaid’s Tale is at once a mordant satire and a dire warning.