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The Electric Michelangelo

Author	: Sarah Hall
Publisher	: Faber & Faber
Release Date	: 2010-12-22
ISBN 10	: 9780571267644
Pages	: 352 pages
Rating	: 4.7/5 (676 users)

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Download or read book The Electric Michelangelo written by Sarah Hall and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2010-12-22 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the windswept front of Morecambe Bay, Cy Parks spends his childhood years first in a guest house for consumptives run by his mother and then as apprentice to alcoholic tattoo-artist Eliot Riley. Thirsty for new experiences, he departs for America and finds himself in the riotous world of the Coney Island boardwalk, where he sets up his own business as 'The Electric Michelangelo'. In this carnival environment of roller-coasters and freak-shows, Cy becomes enamoured with Grace, a mysterious immigrant and circus performer who commissions him to cover her entire body in tattooed eyes. Hugely atmospheric, exotic and familiar, The Electric Michelangelo is a love story and an exquisitely rendered portrait of seaside resorts on opposite sides of the Atlantic by one of the most uniquely talented novelists of her generation.

Mrs Fox

Author	: Sarah Hall
Publisher	: Faber & Faber
Release Date	: 2019-03-07
ISBN 10	: 9780571354719
Pages	: 48 pages
Rating	: 4.7/5 (547 users)

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Download or read book Mrs Fox written by Sarah Hall and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2019-03-07 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at work in a range of genres and styles. Walking ahead of him on the heath, his wife turns to look at him over her shoulder, 'Topaz eyes glinting. Scorched face. Vixen.' In language harvested from nature, Sarah Hall tells a story of metamorphosis, of wildness and fecundity, and of a man reaching for reason, who cannot let go of the creature he loves.

Contemporary British Novel Since 2000

Author	: James Acheson
Publisher	: Edinburgh University Press
Release Date	: 2017-01-17
ISBN 10	: 9781474403757
Pages	: 224 pages
Rating	: 4.7/5 (37 users)

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Download or read book Contemporary British Novel Since 2000 written by James Acheson and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2017-01-17 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focuses on the novels published since 2000 by twenty major British novelistsThe Contemporary British Novel Since 2000 is divided into five parts, with the first part examining the work of four particularly well-known and highly regarded twenty-first century writers: Ian McEwan, David Mitchell, Hilary Mantel and Zadie Smith. It is with reference to each of these novelists in turn that the terms arealist, apostmodernist, ahistorical and apostcolonialist fiction are introduced, while in the remaining four parts, other novelists are discussed and the meaning of the terms amplified. From the start it is emphasised that these terms and others often mean different things to different novelists, and that the complexity of their novels often obliges us to discuss their work with reference to more than one of the terms.Also discusses the works of: Maggie OFarrell, Sarah Hall, A.L. Kennedy, Alan Warner, Ali Smith, Kazuo Ishiguro, Kate Atkinson, Salman Rushdie, Adam Foulds, Sarah Waters, James Robertson, Mohsin Hamid, Andrea Levy, and Aminatta Forna.

The Wolf Border

Author	: Sarah Hall
Publisher	: Faber & Faber
Release Date	: 2015-03-24
ISBN 10	: 9780571279906
Pages	: 324 pages
Rating	: 4.7/5 (799 users)

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Download or read book The Wolf Border written by Sarah Hall and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2015-03-24 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For almost a decade Rachel Caine has turned her back on home, kept distant by family disputes and her work monitoring wolves on an Idaho reservation. But now, summoned by the eccentric Earl of Annerdale and his controversial scheme to reintroduce the Grey Wolf to the English countryside, she is back in the peat and wet light of the Lake District. The earl's project harks back to an ancient idyll of untamed British wilderness - though Rachel must contend with modern-day concessions to health and safety, public outrage and political gain - and the return of the Grey after hundreds of years coincides with her own regeneration: impending motherhood, and reconciliation with her estranged family. The Wolf Border investigates the fundamental nature of wilderness and wildness, both animal and human. It seeks to understand the most obsessive aspects of humanity: sex, love, and conflict; the desire to find answers to the question of our existence; those complex systems that govern the most superior creature on earth.

Climate Change and the Contemporary Novel

Author	: Adeline Johns-Putra
Publisher	: Cambridge University Press
Release Date	: 2019-03-21
ISBN 10	: 9781108427371
Pages	: 199 pages
Rating	: 4.0/5 (273 users)

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Download or read book Climate Change and the Contemporary Novel written by Adeline Johns-Putra and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-03-21 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analysing how contemporary fiction explores climate change, Johns-Putra argues that literature can help us understand our obligations to the future.

Get Started In Creative Writing: Teach Yourself

Author	: Stephen May
Publisher	: Hachette UK
Release Date	: 2010-04-30
ISBN 10	: 9781444129311
Pages	: 288 pages
Rating	: 4.4/5 (293 users)

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Download or read book Get Started In Creative Writing: Teach Yourself written by Stephen May and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2010-04-30 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Get Started in Creative Writing is an indispensible guide to unlocking your creativity, finding your voice and choosing a genre of writing that suits you best, whether fiction or non-fiction, short stories or novels, children's books or travel writing. It features guidelines for do's and don'ts along with suggestions for crafting a distinctive style.With tips from some of the best-known writers of fiction and non-fiction, you will receive loads of helpful advice to enable you get your own work published. NOT GOT MUCH TIME? One, five and ten-minute introductions to key principles to get you started. AUTHOR INSIGHTS Lots of instant help with common problems and quick tips for success, based on the author's many years of experience. TEST YOURSELF Tests in the book and online to keep track of your progress. EXTEND YOUR KNOWLEDGE Extra online articles at www.teachyourself.com to give you a richer understanding of creative writing. FIVE THINGS TO REMEMBER Quick refreshers to help you remember the key facts. TRY THIS Innovative exercises illustrate what you've learnt and how to use it.

The Carhullan Army

Author	: Sarah Hall
Publisher	: Faber & Faber
Release Date	: 2010-11-25
ISBN 10	: 9780571267620
Pages	: 80 pages
Rating	: 4.7/5 (676 users)

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Download or read book The Carhullan Army written by Sarah Hall and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2010-11-25 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world has changed. War rages in South America and China, and Britain - now entirely dependent on the US for food and energy - is run by an omnipresent dictatorship known simply as The Authority. Assets and weapons have been seized, and women are compulsorily fitted with contraceptive devices. This is Sister's story of her attempt to escape the repressive regime. From the confines of her Lancaster prison cell she tells of her search for The Carhullan Army, a quasi-mythical commune of 'unofficial' women rumoured to be living in a remote part of Cumbria . . .

How to Paint a Dead Man

Author	: Sarah Hall
Publisher	: Faber & Faber
Release Date	: 2009-09-17
ISBN 10	: 9780571254538
Pages	: 304 pages
Rating	: 4.7/5 (545 users)

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Download or read book How to Paint a Dead Man written by Sarah Hall and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2009-09-17 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Italy in the early 1960s: a dying painter considers the sacrifices and losses that have made him an enigma, both to strangers and those closest to him. He begins his last life painting, using the same objects he has painted obsessively for his entire career - a small group of bottles. In Cumbria 30 years later, a landscape artist - and admirer of the Italian recluse - finds himself trapped in the extreme terrain that has made him famous. And in present-day London, his daughter, an art curator struggling with the sudden loss of her twin brother while trying to curate an exhibition about the lives of the twentieth-century European masters, is drawn into a world of darkness and sexual abandon. Covering half a century, this is a luminous and searching novel, and Hall's most accomplished work to date.

A History of the Booker Prize

Author	: Merritt Moseley
Publisher	: Routledge
Release Date	: 2021-08-31
ISBN 10	: 9781000433418
Pages	: 252 pages
Rating	: 4.0/5 (334 users)

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Download or read book A History of the Booker Prize written by Merritt Moseley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-08-31 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Merritt Moseley offers a brief history of the Booker Prize since 1992. With a short chapter covering each year, we follow the change in criteria, the highs and lows, short lists, winners, and controversies of the Booker Prize. The book also functions as an example of literary criticism for each of the books involved, analyzing the judging process and the winning books. Exploring themes such as literary vs. popular fiction, the role of Postcolonial work in what began as a very "British" prize, the role of marketing, publishing, and the Booker organization itself, the book offers a crucial view into literary prize culture. The book spends time looking at exclusions, as well as the overall role and function of the literary prize. What books aren’t included and why? Why has the Booker become so significant? This book will be of use to anyone with an interest in, or studying, contemporary literature, literary prizes, literary culture and British literature, as well as publishing studies.

Michelangelo's Creation Frescoes

Author	: Paul Tasch
Publisher	:
Release Date	: 1958
ISBN 10	: UCR:31210024890079
Pages	: 26 pages
Rating	: 4.1/5 (2 users)

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Download or read book Michelangelo's Creation Frescoes written by Paul Tasch and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Riverside Art Series Michelangelo

Author	: Estelle M. Hurll
Publisher	: BoD – Books on Demand
Release Date	: 2020-07-17
ISBN 10	: 9783752310115
Pages	: 78 pages
Rating	: 4.5/5 (11 users)

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Download or read book The Riverside Art Series Michelangelo written by Estelle M. Hurll and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-07-17 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: The Riverside Art Series Michelangelo by Estelle M. Hurll

Tattooing the World

Author	: Juniper Ellis
Publisher	: Columbia University Press
Release Date	: 2008-03-03
ISBN 10	: 9780231513104
Pages	: 304 pages
Rating	: 4.3/5 (131 users)

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Download or read book Tattooing the World written by Juniper Ellis and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2008-03-03 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1830s an Irishman named James F. O'Connell acquired a full-body tattoo while living as a castaway in the Pacific. The tattoo featured traditional patterns that, to native Pohnpeians, defined O'Connell's life; they made him wholly human. Yet upon traveling to New York, these markings singled him out as a freak. His tattoos frightened women and children, and ministers warned their congregations that viewing O'Connell's markings would cause the ink to transfer to the skin of their unborn children. In many ways, O'Connell's story exemplifies the unique history of the modern tattoo, which began in the Pacific and then spread throughout the world. No matter what form it has taken, the tattoo has always embodied social standing, aesthetics, ethics, culture, gender, and sexuality. Tattoos are personal and corporate, private and public. They mark the profane and the sacred, the extravagant and the essential, the playful and the political. From the Pacific islands to the world at large, tattoos are a symbolic and often provocative form of expression and communication. Tattooing the World is the first book on tattoo literature and culture. Juniper Ellis traces the origins and significance of modern tattoo in the works of nineteenth- and twentieth-century artists, travelers, missionaries, scientists, and such writers as Herman Melville, Margaret Mead, Albert Wendt, and Sia Figiel. Traditional Pacific tattoo patterns are formed using an array of well-defined motifs. They place the individual in a particular community and often convey genealogy and ideas of the sacred. However, outside of the Pacific, those who wear and view tattoos determine their meaning and interpret their design differently. Reading indigenous historiography alongside Western travelogue and other writings, Ellis paints a surprising portrait of how culture has been etched both on the human form and on a body of literature.

A Coney Island Reader

Author	: Louis J. Parascandola
Publisher	: Columbia University Press
Release Date	: 2014-12-09
ISBN 10	: 9780231538190
Pages	: 360 pages
Rating	: 4.3/5 (381 users)

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Download or read book A Coney Island Reader written by Louis J. Parascandola and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2014-12-09 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This literary anthology celebrates the history and romance of Coney Island with works by some of the 19th and 20th centuries’ greatest authors and poets. Featuring a stunning gallery of portraits by the world's finest poets, essayists, and fiction writers--including Walt Whitman, Stephen Crane, José Martí, Maxim Gorky, Federico García Lorca, Isaac Bashevis Singer, E. E. Cummings, Djuna Barnes, Colson Whitehead, Robert Olen Butler, and Katie Roiphe—this anthology illuminates the unique history and transporting experience of New York City’s quintessential beach destination. Moody, mystical, and enchanting, Coney Island has thrilled newcomers and soothed native New Yorkers for decades. Its fantasy entertainments, renowned beach foods, world-class boardwalk, and expansive beach offer a kaleidoscopic panorama of people, places, and events that have inspired writers of all types and nationalities. It becomes, as Lawrence Ferlinghetti once wrote, "a Coney Island of the mind."

Contemporary Authors

Author	: Julie Keppen
Publisher	: Contemporary Authors
Release Date	: 2004-10
ISBN 10	: 0787667064
Pages	: 468 pages
Rating	: 4.6/5 (64 users)

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Download or read book Contemporary Authors written by Julie Keppen and published by Contemporary Authors. This book was released on 2004-10 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biographical and bibliographical guide to current writers in all fields including poetry, fiction and nonfiction, journalism, drama, television and movies. Information is provided by the authors themselves or drawn from published interviews, feature stories, book reviews and other materials provided by the authors/publishers.

Culture Wars in British Literature

Author	: Tracy J. Prince
Publisher	: McFarland
Release Date	: 2012-09-07
ISBN 10	: 9780786462940
Pages	: 233 pages
Rating	: 4.8/5 (629 users)

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Download or read book Culture Wars in British Literature written by Tracy J. Prince and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2012-09-07 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The past century's culture wars that Britain has been consumed by, but that few North Americans seem aware of, have resulted in revised notions of Britishness and British literature. Yet literary anthologies remain anchored to an archaic Anglo-English interpretation of British literature. Conflicts have been played out over specific national vs. British identity (some residents prefer to describe themselves as being from Scotland, England, Wales, or Northern Ireland instead of Britain), in debates over immigration, race, ethnicity, class, and gender, and in arguments over British literature. These debates are strikingly detailed in such chapters as: "The Difficulty Defining 'Black British'," "British Jewish Writers" and "Xenophobia and the Booker Prize." Connections are also drawn between civil rights movements in the U.S. and UK. This generalist cultural study is a lively read and a fascinating glimpse into Britain's changing identity as reflected in 20th and 21st century British literature.

As You Law It - Negotiating Shakespeare

Author	: Daniela Carpi
Publisher	: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date	: 2018-10-22
ISBN 10	: 9783110590890
Pages	: 282 pages
Rating	: 4.1/5 (98 users)

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Download or read book As You Law It - Negotiating Shakespeare written by Daniela Carpi and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2018-10-22 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shakespeare was fascinated by law, which permeated Elizabethan everyday life. The general impression one derives from the analysis of many plays by Shakespeare is that of a legal situation in transformation and of a dynamically changing relation between law and society, law and the jurisdiction of Renaissance times. Shakespeare provides the kind of literary supplement that can better illustrate the legal texts of the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. There was a strong popular participation in the system of justice, and late sixteenth-century playwrights often made use of forensic models of narrative. Uncertainty about legal issues represented a rich potential for causing strong reactions in the public, especially feelings concerning the resistance to tyranny. The volume aims at highlighting some of the many legal perspectives and debates emplotted in Shakespearean plays, also taking into consideration the many texts that have been produced during the latest years on law and literature in the Renaissance.

100 Must-read Prize-Winning Novels

Author	: Nick Rennison
Publisher	: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date	: 2010-09-25
ISBN 10	: 9781408135990
Pages	: 192 pages
Rating	: 4.0/5 (359 users)

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Download or read book 100 Must-read Prize-Winning Novels written by Nick Rennison and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2010-09-25 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A large number of people each year make their reading decisions on the basis of prizes like the Booker and Orange Guide to Fiction. This new title in the successful Must-Read series provides an overview of prize-winning fiction over the decades. With 100 titles fully featured and over 500 read-on recommendations, this unique survey of literature incorporates some of the finest contemporary fiction ever produced including Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children (Booker), Jonathan Coe's What a Carve Up (John Llewellyn Rhys), Andrea Levy's Small Island (Orange), Louis de Bernieres's Captain Corelli's Mandolin (Commonwealth Writers' Prize), Zadie Smith's White Teeth (Guardian First Book Award), Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things (Booker). As well as Booker and Pullitzer prize-winners the book also finds room for those that have triumphed in less familiar prizes, such as the Betty Trask and the John Lewellyn Rhys. It looks at prize winners in certain genres such as crime and science fiction, as well as prize winners from other countries: the French Prix de Goncourt and the Australian Miles Franklin award. Because of the sheer range of prizes across countries and genres - this is a diverse and rich list that no book worm would want to be without.