Reading 'Desperate Housewives': Beyond the White Picket Fence (Reading Contemporary Television)
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Reading 'Desperate Housewives': Beyond the White Picket Fence (Reading Contemporary Television)
The darkly comic series about the secret lives of Bree, Gabrielle, Lynette, Susan and the other ladies living on Wisteria Lane became an instant breakthrough hit when it premiered in the fall of 2004. Reading Desperate Housewives offers a wide-ranging critical assessment of one of the most talked about shows on American television, dissecting its appeal and tapping into early responses to the show and the controversy surrounding it.
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It’s August 1944 and as the Allied forces gain momentum in Europe, a group of loyal German expatriates trapped in Brazil hatch a desperate plan to return to the Motherland. Twenty-seven of them crowd aboard a 19th century, three mast schooner, the Deutschland, in a desperate journey to return home. They must cross five thousand miles of rough sea, and slip past both the American and British navies.
New York Times bestselling author Joy Fielding tells an unforgettable story of a newly divorced woman attempting to heal her heartache, only to find herself on a desperate search for her daughter.
The six tales now translated for the English reader were written by Turgenev at various dates between 1847 and 1881. These stories demonstrate Turgenev’s matchless skill for portraying elemental aspects of Russian life: the melancholic, the nostalgic, and the darkly comic.
