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"Dark Heart(s)". Family Secrets and Hidden Selves in the Work of Charlotte Mendelson

Author : Elisa Valerie Thieme
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Release Date : 2015-02-18
ISBN : 3656899533
Pages : 80 pages
Rating : 4.6/5 (568 download)
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Download or read book "Dark Heart(s)". Family Secrets and Hidden Selves in the Work of Charlotte Mendelson written by Elisa Valerie Thieme and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2015-02-18 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Master's Thesis from the year 2015 in the subject English - Literature, Works, grade: 1,7, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (DEL), course: British Studies, language: English, abstract: An analysis of genesis of Mendelson's writing with particular focus on her British-Jewish background. So far, the British-Jewish novelist Charlotte Mendelson has published four books, namely "Love in Idleness" (2001), "Daughters of Jerusalem" (2003), "When We Were Bad" (2007), and "Almost English" (2013), which could all be typified as intercultural coming-of-age novels. The main source of inspiration appears to be Mendelson’s own multi-ethnic background. – She was born in London in 1972 and grew up in St John’s College, Oxford, where her father taught public international law. But even though she is English-born and has a Cockney grandfather, Mendelson identifies herself as not in the least English since her paternal grandmother stemmed from “’Latvia and Poland’” (qtd. in Westbrook) and her maternal grandparents were “’Hungarian-speaking-Czech, Ruthenian for about 10 minutes [and also somewhat] Carpathian mountainy’” (qtd. in Edemariam) and came to England with “the last train out of Prague” (Mendelson) fleeing from the Nazis as Jewish refugees (cf. Mendelson). Especially her maternal grandparents are a lasting inspiration for Mendelson. Her “’Hungarian side is the side [she] like[s] showing off the most’” (qtd. in Westbrook) and is repeatedly referred to in interviews. Her hybrid background “has enabled [Mendelson] to become an essentially diasporic writer” (Cheyette, Diaspora and Multiculturalism 54) When reading Mendelson’s novels in chronological order, it seems as if her writing has undergone some development. Recurring topics and tropes, such as living in a supposedly “cryptic” family microcosm and the difficulties of finding one’s identity in circumstances that resemble “exile”, are condensed, deepened, and shaped into more complex versions. Hence, her work seems to display a form of literary genesis with the latest publication, the Booker-nominated AE, the climax of Mendelson’s oeuvre so far. True to the notion that a Jewish writer is not necessarily one who charters the word ‘Jew’ in his writings, but the one for whom the word ‘Jew’ is contained in all the words of the dictionary” (Jabés qtd. in Brauner 185), Mendelson repeatedly uses themes which are very characteristic in Jewish writing, including problems in identity formation, feeling left out and suffering from unspoken truths about the experiences of ancestors (related to the Holocaust).

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Dark Secrets of Hidden Magic

Author : Ima Y
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Release Date : 2019-11-15
ISBN : 1728395712
Pages : 48 pages
Rating : 4.7/5 (283 download)
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Download or read book Dark Secrets of Hidden Magic written by Ima Y and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2019-11-15 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lily and Kaylie were both trapped in a boring and old world before they encountered a large cave swarming with beautiful multi-colored gemstones leading to a hidden world of fire and death. They investigate what had happened to the world as it had no sign of life, but this was a mystery with no clues or evidence until they find a great and mighty Excalibur simultaneously hearing an ear-splitting sound. Lily and Kaylie need to hide the powerful sword and unlock its potentials quickly or they might be trapped in the world and become prisoners forever as the king of the fire dragons imprison them. Are they going to escape and save the land or are they going to fail miserably and meet their end? Read on to see what happens in this small but interesting book as its packed full of adventures and close calls.

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Hidden Jewel

Author : V.C. Andrews
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2021-03-30
ISBN : 1982150564
Pages : 336 pages
Rating : 4.9/5 (821 download)
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Download or read book Hidden Jewel written by V.C. Andrews and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-03-30 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the spectacular successes of Ruby, Pearl in the Mist and All That Glitters, bestselling author V.C. Andrews delivers the eagerly awaited fourth novel in the thrilling Landry family series. As Pearl attempts to realize her dreams of becoming a doctor, she also works to discover the shocking truths of her heritage.

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Family Secrets the Series Volume 1

Author : Gary Mallett
Publisher : Lulu.com
Release Date : 2015-10-16
ISBN : 1329625803
Pages : 104 pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (296 download)
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Download or read book Family Secrets the Series Volume 1 written by Gary Mallett and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-10-16 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fictional story brings spiritual warfare to the surface of a very real war to a point where one begins to understand that angelic wars going on all around us on a daily basis.

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Dark Secrets 2

Author : Elizabeth Chandler
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2011-03-08
ISBN : 1442433671
Pages : 624 pages
Rating : 4.4/5 (424 download)
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Download or read book Dark Secrets 2 written by Elizabeth Chandler and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-03-08 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In No Time to Die, the drama is deadly. Jenny is going undercover for the summer at the theater camp where her sister, Liza, was murdered just a year earlier. Though Jenny is still grieving the loss of her sister and feels completely out of place on stage, she is determined to discover why Liza was murdered—and more importantly, who killed her. Soon she thinks she hears Liza speaking to her, and suspects someone may be following her. The drama is even more twisted than she thought…. In The Deep End of Fear, Kate thought she was done with daring adventures after her childhood friend Ashley tragically drowned in an icy pond. But when she returns to her childhood home, it all comes flooding back. To stop history from repeating itself, Kate must face the childhood fears that have haunted her for so long….

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Harlequin Historical May 2014 - Bundle 2 of 2

Author : Marguerite Kaye
Publisher : Harlequin
Release Date : 2014-05-01
ISBN : 1460335856
Pages : 288 pages
Rating : 4.4/5 (63 download)
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Download or read book Harlequin Historical May 2014 - Bundle 2 of 2 written by Marguerite Kaye and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2014-05-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harlequin® Historical brings you three new titles for one great price, available now! This Harlequin® Historical bundle includes Unwed and Unrepentant by Marguerite Kaye, Return of the Prodigal Gilvry by Ann Lethbridge and A Traitor’s Touch by Helen Dickson. Look for six compelling new stories every month from Harlequin® Historical!

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Bowen Theory's Secrets: Revealing the Hidden Life of Families

Author : Michael E. Kerr
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Release Date : 2019-02-05
ISBN : 0393713628
Pages : 446 pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (937 download)
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Download or read book Bowen Theory's Secrets: Revealing the Hidden Life of Families written by Michael E. Kerr and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2019-02-05 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A much-needed update to one of the most significant family therapy theories of the past century. Murray Bowen (1931–1990) was the first to study the family in a live-in setting and describe specific details about how families function as systems. Despite Bowen theory being based on research begun more than seventy years ago, the value of viewing human beings as profoundly emotionally-driven creatures and human families functioning as emotional units is more relevant than ever. This book, written by one of his closet collaborators, updates his still-radical theory with the latest approaches to understanding emotional development. Reduced to its most fundamental level, Bowen theory explains how people begin a relationship very close emotionally but become more distant over time. The ideas also help explain why good people do bad things, and bad people do good things, and how family life strengthens some members while weakening others. Gaining knowledge about previously unseen specifics of family interactions reveals a hidden life of families. The hidden life explains how the best of intentions can fail to produce the desired result, thus providing a blueprint for change. Part I of the book explains the core ideas in the theory. Part II describes the process of differentiation of self, which is the most important application of Bowen theory. People sometimes think of theories as "ivory tower" productions: interesting, but not necessarily practical. Differentiation of self is anything but; it has a well-tested real-world application. Part II includes four long case presentations of families in the public eye. They help illustrate how Bowen theory can help explain how families—three of which appear fairly normal and one which does not—unwittingly produce an offspring that chronically manifests some time of severely aberrant behavior. Finally, the book proposes a new "unidisease" concept—the idea that a wide range of diseases have a number of physiological processes in common. In an Epilogue, Kerr applies Bowen theory to his family to illustrate how changes in a family relationship system over time can better explain the clinical course of a chronic illness than the diagnosis itself. With close to four thousand hours of therapy conducted with about thirty-five hundred families over decades, Michael Kerr is an expert guide to the ins and outs of this most influential way of approaching clinical work with families.

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Flipped Out

Author : Jennie Bentley
Publisher : Penguin
Release Date : 2011-10-04
ISBN : 1101544716
Pages : 304 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (15 download)
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Download or read book Flipped Out written by Jennie Bentley and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-10-04 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this must-read for lovers of HGTV’s home renovation shows, a designer plumbs for clues to solve a highly-publicized murder. Avery and her hunky handyman boyfriend are renovating a house belonging to a local news anchor who's thrilled to be filmed as part of a home renovation show. But cable television fame proves fleeting when the man is murdered and Avery faces the task of nailing the killer. Fast.

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Dark Angel

Author : V.C. Andrews
Publisher : Pocket Books
Release Date : 2019-06-25
ISBN : 1982118024
Pages : 448 pages
Rating : 4.9/5 (821 download)
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Download or read book Dark Angel written by V.C. Andrews and published by Pocket Books. This book was released on 2019-06-25 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young woman struggles with her past and a future thrust upon her with threats coming from the past and now the present. Does she have the strength to withstand and grow? From #1 New York Times bestselling author and literary phenomenon V.C. Andrews (Flowers in the Attic, My Sweet Audrina). In her grandmother’s fine, labyrinthine Boston house, Heaven Leigh Casteel dreams of a wonderful new life of new friends, the best schools, beautiful clothes, and most important, love. She is determined to make the Casteel name respectable, find her long-lost brothers and sisters, and have a family again. But even in the world of the wealthy, there are strange forebodings, secrets best forgotten. And as Heaven reaches out for love, she is slowly ensnared in a sinister web of cruel deceits and hidden passions.

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Harlequin Desire August 2017 - Box Set 1 of 2

Author : Joss Wood
Publisher : Harlequin
Release Date : 2017-08-01
ISBN : 1488015872
Pages : 192 pages
Rating : 4.4/5 (88 download)
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Download or read book Harlequin Desire August 2017 - Box Set 1 of 2 written by Joss Wood and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2017-08-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you love stories with sexy, romantic heroes who have it all—wealth, status, and incredibly good looks? Harlequin® Desire brings you all this and more with these three new full-length titles in one collection! #2533 THE CEO'S NANNY AFFAIR Billionaires and Babies by Joss Wood When billionaire Linc Ballantyne's ex abandons not one, but two children, he strikes up a wary deal with her too-sexy sister. She'll be the nanny and they'll keep their hands to themselves. But their temporary truce soon becomes a temporary tryst! #2535 THE TEXAN'S BABY PROPOSAL Callahan's Clan by Sara Orwig Millionaire Texan Marc Medina must marry immediately to inherit his grandfather's ranch. When his newly single secretary tells him she's pregnant, he knows a brilliant deal when he sees one. He'll make her his wife…and have her in his bed! #2537 FROM TEMPTATION TO TWINS Whiskey Bay Brides by Barbara Dunlop When Juliet Parker goes home to reopen her grandfather's restaurant, she clashes with her childhood crush, tycoon Caleb Watford, who's building a rival restaurant. Then the stakes skyrocket after their one night leaves her expecting two little surprises! Look for Harlequin® Desire's August 2017 Box Set 2 of 2, filled with even more scandalous stories and powerful heroes!

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A Tumultuous Life

Author : Andrea Sherman
Publisher : Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
Release Date : 2021-08-04
ISBN : 1098091604
Pages : 322 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (98 download)
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Download or read book A Tumultuous Life written by Andrea Sherman and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2021-08-04 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Tumultuous Life: A Story of a Little Girl Who Rose Above Adversity is an unforgettable account of a girl named Andrea who struggled with one traumatic event after another. In this story, you will read the riveting events of sexual abuse by the hands of her own brother and how her emotionally distant mother neglected her mental health, which sent Andrea into a whirlwind of isolation, depression, suicide attempts, an eating disorder, and self-harming behavior. Just when she thought there was no way out, a family took her in as one of their own when she was seventeen. She was finally getting away from her cold distant mother who she felt chose her brother over her. Andrea soon found out that no matter how hard she tried, she could never run away from her past. She struggled with finding a new sense of normal and, out of pure desperation, kept finding herself in more trouble. The demons that haunted her since she was a little girl affected every facet of her life from her relationships to every decision into adulthood. Throughout her life, Andrea struggled with finding herself and her will to live after facing so many trials and tribulations. Andrea, who was like a wounded bird-vulnerable and easy prey, desperate to escape this tangled web of crafty deception-found herself dating the embodiment of her past, a real monster who abused her verbally and sexually. As she struggled to escape the grips of the Devil himself, she faced a near death experience where God showed her what real hell really looked like if she went through with killing herself. She soon realized that she would be escaping one hell for a more permanent one. With the help from friends, she managed to escape yet again. Find out how Andrea managed to finally put the past behind her by relying on her faith in the only one who could save her-Jesus Christ-and how He brought her through the thickest of storms in this gut-wrenching story that will leave you reaching for a box of tissues.

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Hidden

Author : Karen Wiesner
Publisher : Writers Exchange E-Publishing
Release Date : 2021-06-11
ISBN : 192254812X
Pages : 276 pages
Rating : 4.9/5 (225 download)
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Download or read book Hidden written by Karen Wiesner and published by Writers Exchange E-Publishing. This book was released on 2021-06-11 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sometimes what you don't know can hurt you... Following a troubled childhood, Sybilla Nygard marries her much older entrepreneur partner, Tobias Ocampo. They've been inseparable since they started Offbeat Enterprises together. Their publishing house produces a book series focused on unusual homes. After suffering memory loss about his past, Tobias inherits an elaborate, isolated estate at the top of Bloodmoon Mountain in Bloodmoon Cove. The reports and rumors swirling about the house, suggesting death and secrets hide within, make it all the more appealing to Syl as their next Offbeat Homes project. But her biggest motivation is discovering more about Tobias's beginnings. Although Syl and Tobias don't relish spending winter trapped in isolation, they bring along their closest family and friends to keep them company while they search out the mysteries of Howling Halls. The nightmare Syl has been having as long as she can remember returns. The voice of a ghost urges, Find me, leading her to hidden spaces and the skeletons of a family desperate to escape its demons...all while monstrous things are waking up hungry.

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The Hidden Secrets Saga: Complete Collection

Author : W.J. May
Publisher : Dark Shadow Publishing
Release Date : 2016-11-30
ISBN :
Pages : 725 pages
Rating : 4./5 ( download)
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Download or read book The Hidden Secrets Saga: Complete Collection written by W.J. May and published by Dark Shadow Publishing. This book was released on 2016-11-30 with total page 725 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Complete Hidden Secrets Saga in one collection! Seventh Mark - Part 1 & Part 2 Beautiful, quiet Rouge is trying to figure out who she is and what she wants to be. With little knowledge about her past, she has questions but has never tried to find the answers. Everything changes when she befriends a strangely intoxicating family. Siblings Grace and Michael, appear to have secrets which seem connected to Rouge. Her hunch is confirmed when a horrible incident occurs at party. Rouge may be the only one who can find the answer. An ancient journal, a Siorghra necklace and a special mark force life-altering decisions for a girl who grew up unprepared to fight for her life or others .All secrets have a cost and Rouge's determination to find the truth can only lead to trouble...or something even more sinister. Marked by Destiny Sometimes the past isn't what you expect it to be. Rouge has survived the last months of school and is starting a new chapter after graduation. She wants answers to the questions about her past and is still hiding secrets from those she loves. Her hope is to find what she needs in Niagara Falls so she can move forward in her relationship with Michael and have a chance to convince his family that she is worthy of him. The ancient Grollic Book reveals another of its secrets, only to Rouge. She desperately wants to find the truth about her past. Nothing could have prepared her for what she's about to learn. Compelled The secrets of her past have been revealed, but Rouge’s life is still shrouded in mystery. The Grollics want her dead, she’s forbidden to be with the boy she loves, and her brother–who is the enemy–may be the only one she can trust. The deeper she digs into the past, the more trouble awaits. Can she find answers in the ancient journal she carries, or is she opening Pandora’s box? Fate's Intervention How do choose between power of passion or the power of peace? After finally coming face to face with her greatest foe, Bentos, Rogue has a decision to make. Joshua, the new grolics alpha has been labeled as her true mate, but her heart belongs to Michael. Rouge joins Joshua with her brother to discover more about who she is and where to gain access to the true power of three.. What she finds growing within her will change everything. Power is queen, but love and new life is King. Chosen Three How do you choose between life, love and the future? You can't. Rob’s missing. Rouge’s passed out. Caleb just told her that Rob’s been taken away to be put down. Oh yeah, and Rouge’s pregnant. Wait, what?! Rouge’s the Seventh Mark, Michael’s a guardian who’s already dead. How can he get her pregnant? The high and mighty Caleb is even more determined now to stop Rouge and the abomination growing in her belly. On the run from Caleb and the Higher Council, on a mission to save Rob, and at the same time trying to stop the dark angel Rouge summoned – the team must figure out what the Power of Three is before Bentos kills them all. However, there’s a catch: if they go after the dark angel and kill it, anyone with angel blood in them will die. If they kill Bentos, there is rumor that all his offspring will die except the next Seventh Mark. When everything looks lost, will there be any chance of hope for the future? Find out in the final installment of the Hidden Secrets Saga, CHOSEN THREE. Search Terms: magic, shifters, werewolves and shifters, romance paranormal werewolves and shifters, vampire series, vampires and witches, alpha, Alpha Bad Boy, bad boy obsession, urban fantasy, suspense, romance, Young Adult, paranormal, mystery, series, w.j. may, paranormal romance, paranormal fantasy, new adult, witches, horror, horror romance, werewolves, werewolf series, werewolf romance, superpowers, supernatural, superhero fantasy ebooks, complete series, sagas, anthologies, collections.

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Democracy Lives in Darkness

Author : Emily Van Duyn
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2021
ISBN : 0197557015
Pages : 289 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (975 download)
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Download or read book Democracy Lives in Darkness written by Emily Van Duyn and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Republicans and Democrats increasingly distrust, avoid, and wish harm upon those from the other party. To make matters worse, they also increasingly reside among like-minded others and are part of social groups that share their political beliefs. All of this can make expressing a dissenting political opinion hard. Yet digital and social media have given people new spaces for political discourse and community, and more control over who knows their political beliefs and who does not. With Democracy Lives in Darkness, Van Duyn looks at what these changes in the political and media landscape mean for democracy. She uncovers and follows a secret political organization in rural Texas over the entire Trump presidency. The group, which organized out of fear of their conservative community in 2016, has a confidentiality agreement, an email listserv and secret Facebook group, and meets in secret every month. By building relationships with members, she explores how and why they hide their beliefs and what this does for their own political behavior and for their community. Drawing on research from communication, political science, and sociology along with survey data on secret political expression, she finds that polarization has led even average partisans to hide their political beliefs from others. And although intensifying polarization will likely make political secrecy more common, she argues that this secrecy is not just evidence that democracy is hurting, but that it is still alive; that people persist in the face of opposition and that this matters if democracy is to survive"--

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Keeping Family Secrets

Author : Margaret K. Nelson
Publisher : NYU Press
Release Date : 2022-11-08
ISBN : 1479815624
Pages : 256 pages
Rating : 4.4/5 (798 download)
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Download or read book Keeping Family Secrets written by Margaret K. Nelson and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2022-11-08 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Drawing on 160 published memoirs, this book explores the costs and benefits in the post-WWII period in the United States both for individuals and for families of keeping secrets about homosexuality, institutionalization of children with disabilities, unwed pregnancy, involvement in left-wing political activities, adoption, and Jewish ancestry"--

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Vermeer's Family Secrets

Author : Benjamin Binstock
Publisher : Routledge
Release Date : 2013-03-07
ISBN : 1136087060
Pages : 428 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (36 download)
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Download or read book Vermeer's Family Secrets written by Benjamin Binstock and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-03-07 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Johannes Vermeer, one of the greatest Dutch painters and for some the single greatest painter of all, produced a remarkably small corpus of work. In Vermeer's Family Secrets, Benjamin Binstock revolutionizes how we think about Vermeer's work and life. Vermeer, The Sphinx of Delft, is famously a mystery in art: despite the common claim that little is known of his biography, there is actually an abundance of fascinating information about Vermeer’s life that Binstock brings to bear on Vermeer’s art for the first time; he also offers new interpretations of several key documents pertaining to Vermeer that have been misunderstood. Lavishly illustrated with more than 180 black and white images and more than sixty color plates, the book also includes a remarkable color two-page spread that presents the entirety of Vermeer's oeuvre arranged in chronological order in 1/20 scale, demonstrating his gradual formal and conceptual development. No book on Vermeer has ever done this kind of visual comparison of his complete output. Like Poe's purloined letter, Vermeer's secrets are sometimes out in the open where everyone can see them. Benjamin Binstock shows us where to look. Piecing together evidence, the tools of art history, and his own intuitive skills, he gives us for the first time a history of Vermeer's work in light of Vermeer's life. On almost every page of Vermeer's Family Secrets, there is a perception or an adjustment that rethinks what we know about Vermeer, his oeuvre, Dutch painting, and Western Art. Perhaps the most arresting revelation of Vermeer's Family Secrets is the final one: in response to inconsistencies in technique, materials, and artistic level, Binstock posits that several of the paintings accepted as canonical works by Vermeer, are in fact not by Vermeer at all but by his eldest daughter, Maria. How he argues this is one of the book's many pleasures.

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The Hidden Letters of Velta B.

Author : Gina Ochsner
Publisher : HMH
Release Date : 2016-07-26
ISBN : 0544253124
Pages : 288 pages
Rating : 4.5/5 (442 download)
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Download or read book The Hidden Letters of Velta B. written by Gina Ochsner and published by HMH. This book was released on 2016-07-26 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A beautifully spun tale” set in a tiny town in Latvia—“an astonishing alchemy of history, romance, and fable” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review). Maris was born knowing things: His very large, very special ears enable him to hear the secrets of the dead, as well as the memories that haunt his Latvian hometown. As a boy, he finds himself heir to an odd assortment of hidden letters, from which he would weave a story that could finally expose—and maybe even patch—the holes in the fabric of his family and their town. With humor, heart, and her characteristic “luminous writing [and] affection for her characters,” Gina Ochsner creates an intimate, hopeful portrait of a fascinating town in all its complications and charm. From the onset of World War II through the cold shock of independence, we see how, despite years of distrust, a community can come through love and loss to the joy of understanding (The New York Times). A finalist for the Oregon Book Awards Ken Kesey Award for Fiction, The Hidden Letters of Velta B. is “a captivating novel of secrets, love, and memory . . . This terrific novel knocked me out” (Janet Fitch, author of Paint It Black). “Intimate, vibrant, and richly colored.” —Portland Monthly “A gift on par with Joanne Harris’s Chocolat . . . Quirky, ethereal, hilarious, and sorrowful.” —Shelf Awareness “[An] extraordinary feat of storytelling . . . A spellbinding novel as tough as it is beautiful.” —Helen Simonson, author of The Summer Before the War

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