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Author | : Marie Vieux-Chauvet |
Publisher | : Modern Library |
Total Pages | : 434 |
Release | : 2010-03-30 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0812976924 |
The only English translation of “a masterpiece” (The Nation)—a stunning trilogy of novellas about the soul-crushing cost of life under a violent Haitian dictatorship, featuring an introduction by Edwidge Danticat Originally published in 1968, Love, Anger, Madness virtually disappeared from circulation until its republication in France in 2005. Set in the barely fictionalized Haiti of “Papa Doc” Duvalier’s repressive rule, Marie Vieux-Chauvet’s writing was so powerful and so incendiary that she was forced to flee to the United States. Yet Love, Anger, Madness endures. Claire, the narrator of Love, is the eldest of three daughters who surrenders her dreams of marriage to run the household after her parents die. Insecure about her dark skin, she fantasizes about her middle sister’s French husband, while he has an affair with the youngest sister, setting in motion a complicated family dynamic that echoes the growing chaos outside their home. In Anger, the police terrorize a middle-class family by threatening to seize their land. The father insinuates that their only hope of salvation lies with an unspeakable act—his daughter Rose must prostitute herself—which leads to all-consuming guilt, shame, and rage. And finally, Madness paints a terrifying portrait of a Haitian village that has been ravaged by militants. René, a young poet, is trapped in his family’s house for days with no food and becomes obsessed with the souls of the dead that surround him.
Author | : Karen Truesdell Riehl |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2003-09 |
Genre | : Actors |
ISBN | : 9781590250198 |
Author | : Martin Levy |
Publisher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 2004-12-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0060559756 |
On a spring evening in 1779, as she emerged from London's Covent Garden Theatre, a beautiful young woman was shot in the head at point-blank range by a man in a black suit. The brutal murder was even more shocking because of the victim's identity -- she was Martha Ray, live-in mistress to the Earl of Sandwich and devotee of the arts. The man accused of her murder was none other than James Hackman, a respected Anglican minister and Ray's former lover. The aftermath of the crime created an uproar in London high society, as aristocrats debated Hackman's motives. Had he intended to commit suicide, as he later claimed, but, in a moment of weakness, turned his gun on Ray instead? This riveting tale of a crime of passion re-creates the slaying and the clergyman's trial, which was the unrivaled media sensation of its time.
Author | : John R. Haule |
Publisher | : Fisher King Press |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 2010-03 |
Genre | : Family & Relationships |
ISBN | : 1926715047 |
'Divine Madness: Archetypes of Romantic Love' examines the transforming experience of romantic love in literature, myth, religion, and everyday life. A series of psychological meditations on the nature of romantic love and human relationship, Divine Madness takes the perspective that human love is a species of divine love and that our experience of romantic love both conceals and reveals the ultimate Lover and Beloved. John Haule draws on depth psychology, the mystical traditions of the world, and literature from Virgil to Milan Kundera to lead the reader inside the mind and heart of the lover. Each chapter explores a characteristic aspect of relationship, such as seduction and love play, the rapture of union, the agony of separation, madness, woundedness, and transcendence. Focusing on the soulful and spiritual meaning of these experiences, Divine Madness sheds light on our elations, obsessions, and broken hearts, but it also reconnects us with the wisdom of time immemorial. As a practicing Jungian analyst and former professor of religious studies, John Haule masterfully guides his readers through the labyrinth of everyday experience, and the often hidden layers of archetypal realities, sketching a philosophy of romantic love through the stories of the world's literature and mythology.
Author | : Gabriella Murray |
Publisher | : Independent Books |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 0976585553 |
A patient jumps out of her psychoanalyst’s window, crashes to the ground and dies. Was it suicide? Or did the psychoanalyst, at her wit’s end, push the patient to her death? Tria is a beautiful, successful psychoanalyst in the upper east side of Manhattan, an expert in mother daughter relationships, who often evaluates cases before trial. Yet nothing ever prepared her for her latest patient: Andromeda, a schizophrenic, 400 pound woman accused of murdering her mother. Andromeda hates all women, and the moment she arrives at Tria's office for evaluation, the war is on. As Andromeda’s Hannibal-esque mind games proceed, Tria becomes lost deeper in a maze of lies, deception and confusion. As she grapples with Andromeda and her insane demands, Tria begins to lose her grip on reality. Finally, she decides she must take drastic action to save both of them. Beautifully crafted, taut, riveting, A CONSPIRACY OF FRIENDSHIP brings us deeply into the subculture of psychoanalysts and their patients, showing that all is not as well as it seems. It’s a page-turning psychological thriller, set behind the mirrored glass and doormen buildings of New York city.
Author | : John Brewer |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 358 |
Release | : 2005-06-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0374529779 |
"One April evening in 1779, Martha Ray, the pretty mistress of a famous aristocrat, was shot dead at point-blank range by a young clergyman who then attempted to take his own life. Instead he was arrested, tried and hanged. In this fascinating new book, John Brewer, a leading historian of eighteenth-century England, asks what this peculiar little story was all about... Brewer, in tracing Ray's fate through these protean changes in journalism, memoir, and melodrama, offers an unforgettable account of the relationships among the three protagonists and their different places in English society--and assesses the shifting balance between storytelling and fact, past and present that inheres in all history." -- Amazon.com viewed December 7, 2020.
Author | : Lita Judge |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 321 |
Release | : 2018-01-30 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1626725004 |
A free verse biography of Mary Shelley, the author of Frankenstein, featuring over 300 pages of black-and-white watercolor illustrations.
Author | : Thomas Froncek |
Publisher | : Sheridan House, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1574091794 |
Thomas Froncek has had a long career as a writer and editor, and now sails a Catalina 25 on Casco Bay and the Gulf of Maine.
Author | : Karen Cimms |
Publisher | : Lone Sparrow Press |
Total Pages | : 398 |
Release | : 2016-05-28 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780997486704 |
A love story between two damaged people -- a rock musician and an emotionally abused young woman -- trying to make their way in the world without destroying themselves or each other.
Author | : Laurence Leamer |
Publisher | : Hachette Books |
Total Pages | : 525 |
Release | : 2009-01-20 |
Genre | : True Crime |
ISBN | : 1401395554 |
The New York Times bestselling history of the glamour and debauchery of the ultra-wealthy Palm Beach community--from The Breakers to Trump's Mar-a-Lago. For more than a hundred years, Palm Beach has been an exclusive and exotic universe of wealth and privilege in America. And until Bernie Madoff's Ponzi scheme devastated its eternally sunny world, the reality of this affluent enclave has rarely been exposed to outsiders. Now, in Madness Under the Royal Palms, resident insider Laurence Leamer reveals the secrets and scandals of this South Florida island via a cast of characters that includes social climbers, trophy wives, sugar daddies, glamorous widows and their "escorts," sociopathic multimillionaires, and elegant society queens. Dive into the unbelievable true story of love, lust, money, and murder in a uniquely American paradise.