Dinner with Persephone - 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 Dinner with Persephone write by Patricia Storace. This book was released on 2011-10-19. Dinner with Persephone available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A New York Times Notable Book of the Year "Full of insights, marvelously entertaining . . . haunting and beautifully written." --The New York Review of Books "I lived in Athens, at the intersection of a prostitute and a saint." So begins Patricia Storace's astonishing memoir of her year in Greece. Mixing affection with detachment, rapture with clarity, this American poet perfectly evokes a country delicately balanced between East and West. Whether she is interpreting Hellenic dream books, pop songs, and soap operas, describing breathtakingly beautiful beaches and archaic villages, or braving the crush at a saint's tomb, Storace, winner of the Whiting Award, rewards the reader with informed and sensual insights into Greece's soul. She sees how the country's pride in its past coexists with profound doubts about its place in the modern world. She discovers a world in which past and present engage in a passionate dialogue. Stylish, funny, and erudite, Dinner with Persephone is travel writing elevated to a fine art--and the best book of its kind since Henry Miller's The Colossus of Maroussi. "Splendid. Storace's account of a year in Greece combines past and present, legend and fact, in an unusual and delightful whole. " --Atlantic Monthly
Dinner with Persephone
Dinner with Persephone - 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 Dinner with Persephone write by Patricia Storace. This book was released on 1997-09-02. Dinner with Persephone available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Memoir of the author's impressions of Greece, combining commentary on history, philosophy, and language with portraits of the countryside and its people, observations on social mores and religious customs, and discussion of how the Roman, Byzantine, and Ottoman worlds of the past continue to make their presence felt.
Dinners for Beginners
Dinners for Beginners - 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 Dinners for Beginners write by Rachel Ryan. This book was released on 2011. Dinners for Beginners available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Book of Heaven
The Book of Heaven - 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 Book of Heaven write by Patricia Storace. This book was released on 2014-11-04. The Book of Heaven available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From the author of the acclaimed Dinner with Persephone comes a radically original novel about four women who invite us to imagine the divine anew: what if “a woman’s point of view” were also God’s? Patricia Storace’s Eve begins by telling us her version of what happened in Eden, and by revealing that our familiar constellations conceal other heavens we have never allowed ourselves to see. Each of the four subsequent chapters is the story of one of these new zodiacs, featuring images central to women: a knife, a cauldron, a garden, a pair of embracing lovers. The four women whose stories they tell are Job’s daughter, the Queen of Sheba, a polytheistic cook, and a transformed Sarah, wife of Abraham. Storace brilliantly reimagines the worlds of these women, freeing them from the old tales in which they were trapped and putting them in the foreground of their stories and of the Old Testament itself.
Operation Heartbreak
Operation Heartbreak - 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 Operation Heartbreak write by Duff Cooper. This book was released on 2016-08-09. Operation Heartbreak available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. First published in 1950, Operation Heartbreak tells the fictional story of Wilie Marygton, a career soldier who was too young for WWI and too old for WWII. Born into a military family, Willie’s one goal in life is to take part in a battle, so he is exhilarated when he receives his commission, and is scheduled to leave for the Western Front on November 9, 1918. However, news of the Armistice changes his orders, and he instead spends the next 20 years in various posts in India and Africa, where his main occupation seems to be big game hunting and polo. With the rise of fascism, he is ready to resign his commission to fight in Spain, but is persuaded otherwise and spends WWII training recruits, lamenting his military status. But in an ironic twist of fate, he does end up playing an important part in the war effort....
