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The Virgins
Author | : Pamela Erens |
Publisher | : Tin House Books |
Total Pages | : 287 |
Release | : 2013-08-06 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1935639625 |
It’s 1979, and Aviva Rossner and Seung Jung are notorious at Auburn Academy. They’re an unlikely pair at an elite East Coast boarding school (she’s Jewish; he’s Korean American) and hardly shy when it comes to their sexuality. Aviva is a formerly bookish girl looking for liberation from an unhappy childhood; Seung is an enthusiastic dabbler in drugs and a covert rebel against his demanding immigrant parents. In the minds of their titillated classmates—particularly that of Bruce Bennett-Jones—the couple lives in a realm of pure, indulgent pleasure. But, as is often the case, their fabled relationship is more complicated than it seems: despite their lust and urgency, their virginity remains intact, and as they struggle to understand each other, the relationship spirals into disaster. The Virgins is the story of Aviva and Seung’s descent into confusion and shame, as re-imagined in richly detailed episodes by their classmate Bruce, a once-embittered voyeur turned repentant narrator. With unflinching honesty and breathtaking prose, Pamela Erens brings a fresh voice to the tradition of the great boarding school novel.
No Truth Without Beauty
Author | : Leena El-Ali |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 314 |
Release | : 2021-12-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 3030835820 |
In this comprehensive open access book, written for readers from any or no religious background, Leena El-Ali does something remarkable. Never before has anyone taken on every last claim relating to Islam and women and countered it not just with Qur’anic evidence to the contrary, but with easy-to-use tools available to all. How can a woman’s testimony be worth half of a man’s? How can men divorce their wives unilaterally by uttering three words? And what’s with the obsession with virgins in Paradise? Find the chapter on any of the seventeen topics in this book, and you will quickly learn a) where the myth came from and b) how to bust it. The methodology pursued is simple. First, the Qur’an is given priority over all other literary or “scriptural” sources. Second, the meaning of its verses in the original Arabic is highlighted, in contrast to English translations and/or widespread misunderstanding or misinterpretation.
72 Virgins
Author | : Avi Perry |
Publisher | : Gradient Pub |
Total Pages | : 385 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780615280516 |
A suspense-thriller about a nightmare scenario-a countdown to a Mumbai-style attack on U.S. soil, where the FBI, the Israeli Mossad, the US-based Iranian clandestine terror network, and the Islamic Jihad fraternity, all engaged in a timeless conflict, which plays out to a crescendo that comes to a head before the dramatic conclusion. The story offers an ample dose of realism, a cast of intense characters who engage in love, lust, and violence. It portrays the Jihad culture with its rationale and the volcano that breeds an irrational obsession with death. Moreover, it builds on the Jihadists' motivation for targeting so many innocents and exploiting the victims' massacre as a stepping-stone to their dream of eternal paradise next to Allah's throne. The real question is not whether Jihad terrorists' plots will ever cease to emerge-there is no chance of that. The question the book seeks to answer is, will the next one be stopped before it's too late?
Virgin
Author | : Hanne Blank |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 2008-03-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1596910119 |
A provocative social history examines the history of virginity and of noted virgins in Western culture, describing the unique fascination civilization has had for virginity from a social, political, economic, philosophical, medical, and legal standpoint. Reprint.
Eloquent Virgins
Author | : M. McInerney |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 261 |
Release | : 2003-10-24 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 113706451X |
The tales of the virgin martyrs inevitably emphasize the torture and mutilation of beautiful young women. To the modern reader, these popular texts seem like exercises in sadism, but while they could be made to function as vehicles for active misogyny, they also provided Medieval women such as Hildegard of Bingen and Joan of Arc with role models who helped them to shape their own extraordinary destinies. This book explores the ability of the virgin body to generate contradictory meanings, both repressive and liberating, depending on who told the tale and how it was told.
Virgins
Author | : Caryl Rivers |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1986-11-02 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780671640767 |
Seniors at Immaculate Heart High, Peggy Morrison and Constance Marie Wepplener set out to defy the conventions and strictures of "Nice Catholic Ladyhood," in a bittersweet story of the coming of age
Virgins Reluctant, Dubious & Avowed
Author | : Muriel Segal |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 184 |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : Virginity |
ISBN | : 9780709167426 |