Set in Greenwich Village, Harlem, and France, among other locales, Another Country is a novel of passions--sexual, racial, political, artistic--that is stunning for its emotional intensity and haunting sensuality, depicting men and women, blacks and whites, stripped of their masks of gender and race by love and hatred at the most elemental and sublime. In a small set of friends, Baldwin imbues the best and worst intentions of liberal America in the early 1970s.
“I am alone in the dark, turning the world around in my head as I struggle through another bout of insomnia, another white night in the great American wilderness.” So begins Paul Auster’s brilliant, devastating tale about the many realities we inhabit as wars flame all around us. Seventy-two-year-old August Brill is recovering from a car accident in his daughter’s house in Vermont. When sleep refuses to come, he lies in bed and tells himself stories, struggling to push back thoughts about things he would prefer to forget – his wife’s recent death and the horrific murder of his granddaughter’s boyfriend, Titus
The Silence of the Lambs, by Thomas Harris, is even better than the successful movie. Like his earlier Red Dragon, the book takes us inside the world of professional criminal investigation. All the elements of a well-executed thriller are working here--driving suspense, compelling characters, inside information, publicity-hungry bureaucrats thwarting the search, and the clock ticking relentlessly down toward the death of another young woman.
What are Metaphors and Similes? Metaphors and similes are great tools to help the reader relate to a subject or object by comparing it to another object with a common feature. When an object is said to “be” another, this is a metaphor, and when an object is said to be “like” or “as” another, this is a simile.
Reverend Stephen Babbington attends a party, has a cocktail, and dies. With no trace of poison and no motive for murder, the death is ascribed to natural causes. At another party, with the same guests, another person dies in exactly the same manner. Hercule Poirot, present at the first gathering, takes on the baffling case. He stages his own party, gathering all the suspects together. Is he setting himself up to find the truth, or setting the stage for another murder?
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