Paul sees Julian as his sole intellectual equal-an ally against the conventional world he finds so suffocating. When he meets the worldly Julian in his freshman ethics class, Paul is immediately drawn to his classmate’s effortless charm. Sensitive, insecure, and incomprehensible to his grieving family, Paul feels isolated and alone. When Paul enters university in early 1970s Pittsburgh, it’s with the hope of moving past the recent death of his father. The Secret History meets Lie with Me in Micah Nemerever's compulsively readable debut novel-a feverishly taut Hitchcockian story about two college students, each with his own troubled past, whose escalating obsession with one another leads to an act of unspeakable violence.
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To learn why she hasn’t moved on to the afterlife, she has to relive her memories of a life she’s forgotten in death. Review Summary: This was a beautiful, thoughtful book with a creative, new to me mythology and a vibrant setting.ĭespite being a ghost, Leiyin has a lot to accomplish. FebruDoingDewey Fantasy, Fiction, Historical Fiction 10 ‘It’s raining.’ And she thought, How melodramatically appropriate. And can’t.ĭoris Whitney stared out the window. What’s it doing there?’ĭear God, we’re talking about the weather, Doris Whitney thought, when there’s so much I want to tell her. Charles and I were going out for dinner, but the weather’s too nasty. ‘Tracy … I just felt like hearing the sound of your voice, darling.’ She listened to the echo of the distant ringing. She placed it next to the telephone and dialled her daughter’s number in Philadelphia. It was shiny black, and terrifyingly cold. She opened the drawer of the bedside table and carefully removed the gun. Doris Whitney looked around the bedroom for the last time to make certain that the pleasant room, grown dear over the past thirty years, was neat and tidy. She undressed slowly, dreamily, and when she was naked, she selected a bright red negligee to wear so that the blood would not show. Monarchy and republicanism are two possibilities their advantages and disadvantages may be evaluated differently in different countries, and preferences may change over time” (33). Thomas Corns points out that, in his Defense of the People of England (1651), Milton “persistently attempts…to establish the notion of the plurality of alternative governmental structures available to contemporary European civilization. See also Victoria Kahn, Wayward Contracts: The Crisis of Political Obligation in England, 1640–1674 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004). 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Retired after 32+ years as an elementary librarian, I really miss the joy of bringing together the right book with the right reader at the right time. Through ethnographic fieldwork and dexterous theorization, she richly illuminates numerous (sometimes contradictory) dimensions of the experience of being Irish-American and the ideological norms and social practices of one ethnic group's 'race-based tradition.' This book is a significant addition to the literature on Irishness in America., The basis of Nugent Duffy's book is that she divided the Irish into 'Good Paddies' and 'Bad Paddies'. Through ethnographic fieldwork and dexterous theorization, she richly illuminates numerous (sometimes contradictory) dimensions of the experience of being Irish-American and the ideological norms and social practices of one ethnic group's 'race-based tradition.' This book is a significant addition to the literature on Irishness in America." -Diane Negra,University College Dublin, Artfully knitting together the local and the national,Duffy's book is a clear-sighted account of the racial protocols of Irishness. "Artfully knitting together the local and the national, Duffy's book is a clear-sighted account of the racial protocols of Irishness. |