Forty years after its original publication, James Agee's last novel
seems, more than ever, an American classic. For in his lyrical,
sorrowful account of a man's death and its impact on his family, Agee
painstakingly created a small world of domestic happiness and then
showed how quickly and casually it could be destroyed.
On a sultry summer night in 1915, Jay Follet leaves his house in
Knoxville, Tennessee, to tend to his father, whom he believes is dying.
The summons turns out to be a false alarm, but on his way back to his
family, Jay has a car accident and is killed instantly. Dancing back
and forth in time and braiding the viewpoints of Jay's wife, brother,
and young son, Rufus, Agee creates an overwhelmingly powerful novel of
innocence, tenderness, and loss that should be read aloud for the sheer
music of its prose.
Shelley Marn is a Californian student on holiday in Europe. She meets a young English couple, Clare and Nick Harman. The Harmans ask Shelley to have lunch with them. Shelley agrees, but strangely, she never arrives. Why? What has happened?
George is the manager of the Happy Holiday Hotel. He’s very excited because a famous TV star is going to stay in his hotel. But poor George makes a terrible mistake…
Book Description Novels such as Middlemarch and The Mill on the Floss refect Eliot's complex and sometimes contradictory ideas about society, the artist, the role of women, and the interplay of science and religion. Tim Dolin examines Eliot's life and work and the social and intellectual contexts in which they developed. He also explores the ways in which 'George Eliot' has been recontextualized for modern readers and television viewers.
Menace in the Walls: A Summer Project Turns Treacherous
Added by: Maria | Karma: 3098.81 | Kids, Fiction literature | 16 May 2008
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As Menace in the Walls begins, Joshua working in a research
laboratory in Cleveland General Hospital during the summer break,
stumbles on a menace that has claimed the life of his beloved horse,
Mandy. He is determined to solve the mystery. During the course of the
book, Joshua uncovers his sister Kelley’s inadvertent link to a
sinister plot involving the mysterious deaths of infants. Readers are
faced with the question of whether Joshua can solve the case without
putting his life and Kelley’s in danger.
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