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A successful writer, Madeleine, creates a character, Edward, and begins to imagine his life. As Madeline engages more with Edward, he begins to engage back. A crisis comes when Madeleine chooses the killer in Edward's story and her husband begins to question her immersion in her novel.
89) Michael Ondaatje
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Series
Twayne's world authors volume TWAS 835
Publisher
Twayne Publishers
Pub. Date
[1993]
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xiv, 247 pages : portraits ; 23 cm.
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English
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The University of North Carolina Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
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281 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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English
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"Jack London (1876 -1916) found fame with his wolf-dog tales and sagas of the frozen North, but Cecelia Tichi challenges the longstanding view of London as merely a mass-market producer of potboilers. A onetime child laborer, London led a life of poverty in the Gilded Age before rising to worldwide acclaim for stories, novels, and essays designed to hasten the social, economic, and political advance of America. In this major reinterpretation of London's...
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Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Following a literary itinerary from London to Venice, Tehran and points beyond, and via authors from Woolf and Dante to Nobel Prize-winners Orhan Pamuk, Wole Soyinka, Mo Yan, and Olga Tokarczuk, he explores how these works have shaped our idea of the world, and the ways in which the world bleeds into literature. To chart the expansive landscape of world literature today, Damrosch explores how writers live in two very different worlds: the world of...
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Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
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xx, 298 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"From Hollywood films to novels by Louis L'Amour and television series like Gunsmoke and Deadwood, the Wild West has exerted a powerful hold on the cultural imagination of the United States. Beginning with Theodore Roosevelt's founding of the Boone and Crockett Club in 1887, Christine Bold traces the origins and evolution of the western genre, revealing how a group of prominent eastern aristocrats-a cadre she terms "the frontier club" -created and...
98) Myth
Author
Series
Critical idiom volume 31
Publisher
Methuen
Pub. Date
1976.
Physical Desc
8 unnumbered pages, 104 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
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