Clara Mondschein's Melancholia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Clara Mondschein's Melancholia write by Anne Raeff. This book was released on 2010-05-22. Clara Mondschein's Melancholia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. When I was younger, I wished I had been born in a concentration camp like my mother, instead of in boring Englewood Hospital. I used to imagine all the prisoners crying mutely with joy while my grandmother lay swallowing her screams so the guards wouldn’t hear. So writes Deborah Gelb, the teenage daughter of the title character, in her opening chapter. Deborah’s voice is complemented by that of Ruth Mondschein – Clara’s mother, who recounts her life story to Tommy, a patient at the AIDS hospice where she volunteers. In alternating chapters, Deborah and Mrs Mondschein depict the lives of three generations of women as both daughter and mother attempt to make sense of Clara’s 'melancholia' and the historical events that profoundly affected them all. While the novel is set in mid-1990s New York and suburban New Jersey, Deborah and Mrs Mondschein’s stories move through much of the twentieth century, from Vienna and Czechoslovakia, to Spain and Morocco. At the heart of this ambitious novel is the question of why some people are strengthened by adversity – even something as horrific as genocide – and others are defeated by it. Clara Mondschein’s Melancholia examines with bravado and sensitivity how the lingering effects of one of history’s darkest hours – including guilt, anger, loyalty and hope – live on in a single family.
The Slow Release
The Slow Release - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Slow Release write by Ethan Laughman. This book was released on 2019-03-01. The Slow Release available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Death, that ending of all endings, is the shared concern of these stories, which have been chosen from among the hundreds that have appeared in the prestigious Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction series. More than seventy volumes, which include approximately eight hundred stories, have won the Flannery O'Connor Award. This stunning trove of always engaging, often groundbreaking short fiction is the common source for this anthology on death-and for planned anthologies on such topics as work, family, animals, children, and more. Most of the expected ways by which we take our leave are covered here: accident, murder, suicide, illness, old age. Perhaps less expected is how, in these stories, a matter we'd rather not think about becomes the stuff of fiction so compelling that we can't stop thinking about it. How can something so final and certain spread so much ambiguity in its wake? What did we think of the departed, and what did they think of us? How long will they be around--in our hearts and heads-even after they're gone? How will we forgive those who may have caused the death of a loved one? These fifteen stories give us many new ways of looking not only at death but at the lives that must go on in its aftermath.
Pillars of the Profession
Pillars of the Profession - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Pillars of the Profession write by Jonathan Daly. This book was released on 2018-09-24. Pillars of the Profession available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Richard Pipes and Marc Raeff’s letters from 1948–2007 with introductory and concluding essays, detailed annotations, abundant illustrations, a chronology of major events, and four maps.
Re-examining the Holocaust through Literature
Re-examining the Holocaust through Literature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Re-examining the Holocaust through Literature write by Aukje Kluge. This book was released on 2009-03-26. Re-examining the Holocaust through Literature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the late 1980s, Holocaust literature emerged as a provocative, but poorly defined, scholarly field. The essays in this volume reflect the increasingly international and pluridisciplinary nature of this scholarship and the widening of the definition of Holocaust literature to include comic books, fiction, film, and poetry, as well as the more traditional diaries, memoirs, and journals. Ten contributors from four countries engage issues of authenticity, evangelicalism, morality, representation, personal experience, and wish-fulfillment in Holocaust literature, which have been the subject of controversies in the US, Europe, and the Middle East. Of interest to students and instructors of antisemitism, national and comparative literatures, theater, film, history, literary criticism, religion, and Holocaust studies, this book also contains an extensive bibliography with references in over twenty languages which seeks to inspire further research in an international context.
Down on the Sidewalk
Down on the Sidewalk - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Down on the Sidewalk write by Ethan Laughman. This book was released on 2020-03-01. Down on the Sidewalk available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Front porches, family cars, playgrounds, swimming pools: from such familiar haunts of childhood, these stories look out on the world through young eyes and hearts. Wise beyond their years—or soon to be—Ruthie, Omar, J.J., and the other kids in these stories veer in and out of touching distance to hard lessons about trust, love, and mortality. However engaged or aloof, grownups are always nearby. Far-from-perfect emissaries to the realm of adulthood, they pose questions for children even as they offer answers.
