Her Kind of Want - 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 Her Kind of Want write by Jennifer S. Davis. This book was released on 2002-08-21. Her Kind of Want available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Set mainly in a small town in Alabama, the stories here ache with the relentless longing of the poor, struggling, discarded Southern women who tell about their lives with men whose only presence is their absence.
The Last of Her Kind
The Last of Her Kind - 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 Last of Her Kind write by Sigrid Nunez. This book was released on 2006-12-12. The Last of Her Kind available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The paths of two women from different walks of life intersect amid counterculture of the 1960s in this haunting and provocative novel from the National Book Award-winning author of The Friend Named a Best Book of the Year by the San Francisco Chronicle and the Christian Science Monitor Sigrid Nunez's The Last of Her Kind introduces two women who meet as freshmen on the Columbia campus in 1968. Georgette George does not know what to make of her brilliant, idealistic roommate, Ann Drayton, and her obsessive disdain for the ruling class into which she was born. She is mortified by Ann's romanticization of the underprivileged class, which Georgette herself is hoping college will enable her to escape. After the violent fight that ends their friendship, Georgette wants only to forget Ann and to turn her attention to the troubled runaway kid sister who has reappeared after years on the road. Then, in 1976, Ann is convicted of murder. At first, Ann's fate appears to be the inevitable outcome of her belief in the moral imperative to "make justice" in a world where "there are no innocent white people." But, searching for answers to the riddle of this friend of her youth, Georgette finds more complicated and mysterious forces at work. The novel's narrator Georgette illuminates the terrifying life of this difficult, doomed woman, and in the process discovers how much their early encounter has determined her own path, and why, decades later, as she tells us, "I have never stopped thinking about her."
The Worst Kind of Want
The Worst Kind of Want - 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 Worst Kind of Want write by Liska Jacobs. This book was released on 2019-11-05. The Worst Kind of Want available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “Dark, seductive . . . Noirish and sexy, this provocative novel explores what it’s like to be a woman on the edge.” —Adrienne Westenfeld, Esquire “[A] crispy biscotti of a novel . . . You’ll feel indecent reading it in public.” —Molly Young, Vulture A trip to Italy reignites a woman’s desires to disastrous effect in this dark ode to womanhood, death, and sex To cool-headed, fastidious Pricilla Messing, Italy will be an escape, a brief glimpse of freedom from a life that's starting to feel like one long decline. Rescued from the bedside of her difficult mother, forty-something Cilla finds herself called away to Rome to keep an eye on her wayward teenage niece, Hannah. But after years of caregiving, babysitting is the last thing Cilla wants to do. Instead she throws herself into Hannah's youthful, heedless world—drinking, dancing, smoking—relishing the heady atmosphere of the Italian summer. After years of feeling used up and overlooked, Cilla feels like she's coming back to life. But being so close to Hannah brings up complicated memories, making Cilla restless and increasingly reckless, and a dangerous flirtation with a teenage boy soon threatens to send her into a tailspin. With the sharp-edged insight of Ottessa Moshfegh and the taut seduction of Patricia Highsmith, The Worst Kind of Want is a dark exploration of the inherent dangers of being a woman. In her unsettling follow-up to Catalina, Liska Jacobs again delivers hypnotic literary noir about a woman whose unruly desires and troubled past push her to the brink of disaster.
Her Kind
Her Kind - 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 Her Kind write by Jane Cahill. This book was released on 1995-11-29. Her Kind available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Medea betrayed her father and left her homeland for the love of Jason. Then when he abandoned her, she murdered her children. But did she? And what of Clytemnestra, the conniving adulteress? For ten years she plotted the murder of her husband Agamemnon, King of Mycenae and Conqueror of Troy. How would she have told her story? The Greek myths as we know them were told for men by men. Yet they were the culmination of a long oral tradition in which both men and women shared. Using extant ancient literary sources as her guide, including the works of Homer, Aeschylus, Euripides and Apollodorus, Jane Cahill reconstructs the stories as they might have been told to women by women. These are stories of wronged women, inspired women, determined women, tender women. Medusa tells how it is to know that one look at her face will turn a man to stone, to be hated and feared all the time. Jocasta, Queen of Thebes, confesses her love for the young man who came to save her city from the Sphinx—her son, Oedipus. Each story is accompanied by extensive notes which discuss the ancient sources, explain relevant Greek concepts and customs, and serve as a guide to further reading.
Be Kind
Be Kind - 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 Be Kind write by Pat Zietlow Miller. This book was released on 2018-02-06. Be Kind available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A thoughtful picture book illustrating the power of small acts of kindness, from the award-winning author of Sophie's Squash.
