Author: Liz Suburbia Publisher: Fantagraphics Books ISBN: 1606998412 Category : Comics & Graphic Novels Languages : en Pages : 314
Book Description
The children of U.S. small-town Alexandria are just trying to live like normal teens until their parents’ promised return from a mysterious, four-year religious pilgrimage, and Ben Schiller is no exception. She’s just trying to take care of her sister, keep faith that her parents will come back, and get through her teen years as painlessly as possible. But her relationship with her best friend is changing, her younger sister is hiding a dark secret, and a terrible tragedy is coming for them all.
Author: Wole Soyinka Publisher: London ; New York : Oxford University Press ISBN: 9780192811646 Category : Drama Languages : en Pages : 292
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`The Lion and the Jewel alone is enough to establish Nigeria as the most fertile new source of English-speaking drama since Synge's discovery of the Western Isles.' The Times The ironic development and consequences of `progress' may be traced through both the themes and the tone of the works included in this second volume of Wole Soyinka's plays. The Lion and the Jewel shows an ineffectual assault on past tradition soundly defeated. In Kongi's Harvest, however, the pretensions of Kongi's regime are also fatal. The denouement points the way forward. The two Brother Jero plays pursue that way, the comic `propheteering' of the earlier play giving way to the sardonic reality of Jero's Metamorphosis. Madmen and Specialists, Soyinka's most pessimistic play, concerns the physical, mental, and moral destruction of modern civil war.
Author: Jewel Thomas Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 285
Book Description
Working on a broad dramatic canvas, Jewel Thomas's new novel, ABANDONED IN THE LIONS' DEN, takes the reader on a heady rollercoaster ride through the most influential events of the twentieth century African-American experience--the Great Migration, the Depression, World War II, and the cultural revolution of the 1960s--a crucible that can't help but challenge even the stoutest hearts. For the Davis family, living in the largely integrated community of Herminie, Pennsylvania, south of Pittsburgh, a strong religious faith is their defense against poverty, racism, and the changing morals of the developing century. This is particularly true of the youngest son Daniel who, guided by the example of his mother's prayerful devotion, looks to the biblical story of his namesake to guide him through the "lions' den" of life's trials and tribulations. Often funny, always tender, ABANDONED IN THE LIONS' DEN will remind everyone of the joyful consolations of family and faith. Fiction.
Author: Sylvia Plath Publisher: ISBN: 9780571310128 Category : American poetry Languages : en Pages : 0
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Ariel (1965) contains many of Sylvia Plath's best-known poems written in an extraordinary burst of creativity just before her death in 1963, including 'Lady Lazarus', 'Edge', 'Daddy' and 'Paralytic'. The first of four collections to be published by Faber & Faber, Ariel is the volume on which Sylvia Plath's reputation as one of the most original, daring and gifted poets of the twentieth century rests. This beautiful hardback reproduces the classic design of the first edition of a volume now recognised to be one of the most shocking and iconic collections of poetry of the twentieth century. 'If the poems are despairing, vengeful and destructive, they are at the same time tender, open to things, and also unusually clever, sardonic, hardminded . . . They are works of great artistic purity and, despite all the nihilism, great generosity . . . the book is a major literary event.' A. Alvarez in the Observer
Author: Wole Soyinka Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers ISBN: 9780914478492 Category : Nigeria Languages : en Pages : 288
Book Description
Distinguished scholars analyze the plays, poetry, and prose of Wole Smoyinka, winner of the Nobel Prize for literature in 1986. Essays trace his career and place his work in the general context of African literature.
Author: James Gibbs Publisher: Africa World Press ISBN: 9780865432192 Category : Authors Languages : en Pages : 386
Book Description
A broad introduction to the works of the Nobel Prize-winning Nigerian writer and the varieties of criticism they have elicited. There are many different critical methodologies represented, ranging from those concerned with verbal texture (linguistic, structural, and textual approaches) to those focusing on cultural context (historical, mythological, and comparative studies). Most of the articles were originally published in Research in African Literatures. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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