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Author : Sally Cooper
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 50,43 MB
Release : 2002-06-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1554885655

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It’s no secret that Sylvia is a little crazy. People have thought so ever since she first came to town when she was a teenager. But outside her own family, no one knows the depth of her mental illness. For her daughter, Mercy, Sylvia’s illness is at once a source of agony and fascination. Mercy’s mother is absent from her life on several occasions. First, she is taken away to a mental hospital for treatment. Later, on a summer night in the early 1980s, Sylvia disappears entirely, never to be seen again. Her absence is pivotal in Mercy’s life. Populated by an array of compelling characters the mad mother, the lovelorn father, the crossdressing younger brother, the quirky grandmother Love Object is a gripping account of the coming-of-age of a teenage girl in rural Ontario in the 1980s.

Author : Edna O'Brien
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 26,11 MB
Release : 2015-05-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0316378275

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Collected here for the first time are stories spanning five decades of writing by the "short story master" (Harold Bloom). As John Banville writes in his introduction to The Love Object, Edna O'Brien "is, simply, one of the finest writers of our time." The thirty-one stories collected in this volume provide, among other things, a cumulative portrait of Ireland, seen from within and without. Coming of age, the impact of class, and familial and romantic love are the prevalent motifs, along with the instinct toward escape and subsequent nostalgia for home. Some of the stories are linked and some carry O'Brien's distinct sense of the comical. In "A Rose in the Heart of New York," the single-mindedness of love dramatically derails the relationship between a girl and her mother, while in "Sister Imelda" and "The Creature" the strong ties between teacher and student and mother and son are ultimately broken. "The Love Object" recounts a passionate affair between the narrator and her older lover. The magnificent, mid-career title story from Lantern Slides portrays a Dublin dinner party that takes on the lives and loves of all the guests. More recent stories include "Shovel Kings" -- "a masterpiece of compression, distilling the pain of a lost, exiled generation" (Sunday Times) -- and "Old Wounds," which follows the revival and demise of the friendship between two elderly cousins. In 2011, Edna O'Brien's gifts were acknowledged with the most prestigious international award for the story, the Frank O'Connor Short Story Award. The Love Object illustrates a career's worth of shimmering, potent prose from a writer of great courage, vision, and heart. "The most striking aspect of Edna O'Brien's short stories, aside from the consistent mastery with which they are executed, is their diversity."-John Banville

Author : Mary McCoy
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 18,90 MB
Release : 2021-06-15
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1534485058

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In the city of Memphis, eighteen-year-old Lee and her boyfriend Vincent make a popular podcast on artists in love, but Lee learns that stories of happily-ever-after love do not always mirror real life.

Author : Renata Salecl
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 44,61 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780822318132

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Book examines relationship between love, gaze and the sexes

Author : Joshua Fields Millburn
Publisher : Celadon Books
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 24,23 MB
Release : 2021-07-13
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 1250236495

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**THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER** "The Minimalists show you how to disconnect from our conditioned material state and reconnect to our true essence: love people and use things. This is not a book about how to live with less, but about how to live more deeply and more fully." —Jay Shetty, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Think Like a Monk AS SEEN ON THE NETFLIX DOCUMENTARIES MINIMALISM & LESS IS NOW How might your life be better with less? Imagine a life with less: less stuff, less clutter, less stress and debt and discontent—a life with fewer distractions. Now, imagine a life with more: more time, more meaningful relationships, more growth and contribution and contentment—a life of passion, unencumbered by the trappings of the chaotic world around you. What you’re imagining is an intentional life. And to get there, you’ll have to let go of some clutter that’s in the way. In Love People, Use Things, Joshua Fields Millburn and Ryan Nicodemus move past simple decluttering to show how minimalism makes room to reevaluate and heal the seven essential relationships in our lives: stuff, truth, self, money, values, creativity, and people. They use their own experiences—and those of the people they have met along the minimalist journey—to provide a template for how to live a fuller, more meaningful life. Because once you have less, you can make room for the right kind of more.

Author : Emily Maguire
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 25,28 MB
Release : 2021-03-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1761061399

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A stunning novel of great compassion and insight, from the author of the Stella Prize-shortlisted An Isolated Incident. 'Bold, furious, unapologetic and deeply insightful.' Sofie Laguna, author of Infinite Splendours 'A stunning, immersive novel that will change the conversation about class and about what possessions mean. It's important and funny and sad and beautiful and I absolutely adored it.' Kathryn Heyman, author of Storm and Grace and Fury 'One of the most big-hearted novels I've ever read. Each person fully formed, each scene and new catastrophe rooted in truth.' Bri Lee, author of Eggshell Skull Nic is a forty-three-year-old trivia buff, amateur nail artist and fairy godmother to the neighbourhood's stray cats. She's also the owner of a decade's worth of daily newspapers, enough clothes and shoes to fill Big W three times over and a pen collection which, if laid end-to-end, would probably circle her house twice. The person she's closest to in the world is her beloved niece Lena, who she meets for lunch every Sunday. One day Nic fails to show up. When Lena travels to her aunt's house to see if Nic's all right, she gets the shock of her life, and sets in train a series of events that will prove cataclysmic for them both. By the acclaimed author of An Isolated Incident, Love Objects is a clear-eyed, heart-wrenching and deeply compassionate novel about love and family, betrayal and forgiveness, and the things we do to fill our empty spaces.

Author : Anna Moran
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 49,63 MB
Release : 2014-10-23
Category : Design
ISBN : 1472517199

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Love Objects is the first anthology on the concept of 'love' to interrogate across a range of contexts its design and other material manifestations.

Author : Richard Rabinowitz
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 11,57 MB
Release : 2022-09-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0674268598

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Acclaimed historian and museum curator Richard Rabinowitz tells the story of his immigrant Jewish family through the everyday objects in their lives, from chairs and bottle openers to bottles of perfume. Vivid, absorbing, and powerfully honest, this is a story of one family and one community but also of emotional touchstones that anchor us all.

Author : Tom Love
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 20,80 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780134724324

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Written for technical managers, project leaders, and applications programmers facing decisions about design and management of large-scale commercial object-oriented software.

Author : Serge P. Shohov
Publisher : Nova Publishers
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 30,54 MB
Release : 2003-02
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781590336519

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Advances in Psychology Research presents original research results on the leading edge of psychology. Each chapter has been carefully selected in an attempt to present substantial advances across a broad spectrum. Contents: Preface; Developing Autobiographical Memory in the Cultural Contexts of Parent-Child Reminiscing; Thought Suppression in Phobia: Success and Strategies; Reversal Learning in Concurrent Discriminations in Rats; Teachers' Responses and Expectations Regarding Students with and without LD; The Role of Maternal Input in Facilitating the Development of Children's Personal Narratives; Cross Cultural Variations in the Importance Attributed to Romantic Acts in a Relationship; Attentional Effects on Limb Selection for Reaching in Children: Implications for Defining Handedness; It's Terrible That She's Traumatised, But She Shouldn't Have Led Him On: Ambivalent Attitudes Toward Rape Victims; Index.