The Homecoming

Author: Anna Enquist
Publisher: AmazonCrossing
ISBN: 9781542025423
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 384

Book Description
An internationally bestselling, award-winning novel peering deep into the passions, losses, and reveries of the wife of eighteenth-century explorer Captain James Cook. After twelve years of marriage to English explorer James Cook, Elizabeth has yet to spend an entire year with her husband. In their house by the Thames, she moves to the rhythms of her life as a society wife, but there is so much more to her than meets the eye. She has the fortitude to manage the house and garden, raise their children, and face unbearable sorrow by herself--in fact, she is sometimes in thrall to her own independence. As she prepares for another homecoming, Elizabeth looks forward to James's triumphant return and the work she will undertake reading and editing his voluminous journals. But will the private life she's been leading in his absence distract her from her role in aid of her husband's grand ambitions? Can James find the compassion to support her as their family faces unimaginable loss, or must she endure life alone as he sails off toward another adventure? An intimate and sharply observed novel, The Homecoming is as revelatory as James Cook's exploration of distant frontiers and as richly rewarding as Elizabeth's love for her family. With courage and strength, through recollection and imagination, author Anna Enquist brilliantly narrates Elizabeth's compelling record of her life, painting a psychological portrait of an independent woman ahead of her time and closely acquainted with history.

The Homecoming

Author: Andrew Pyper
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1982108983
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 368

Book Description
Instant National Bestseller Bestselling author Andrew Pyper returns with a riveting psychological thriller about how the people you’ve known your whole life can suddenly become strangers. What if everything you knew about the people you loved was a lie? After the death of their absentee father, Aaron and Bridge Quinlan travel to a vast rainforest property in the Pacific Northwest to hear the reading of his will. There, they meet up with their mother and troubled sister, Franny, and are shocked to discover the will’s terms: in order to claim their inheritance they must all remain at the estate for thirty days without any contact with the outside world. Despite their concerns, they agree. The Quinlans soon come to learn their family has more secrets than they ever imagined—revelations that at first inspire curiosity, then fear. Why does Bridge have faint memories of the estate? Why did their father want them to be sequestered there together? And what is out there they feel pulling them into the dark heart of the woods? The Homecoming is at once a gripping mystery, a chilling exploration of how our memories can both define and betray us, and a riveting page-turner that will have you questioning your very existence.

Homecoming

Author: Karl Hannauer
Publisher: BookRix
ISBN: 3748714963
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 68

Book Description
A black man is coming home. He sits on a bus and he thinks over what he will tell his child. It's a journey back to Africa. All the problems he has to face but he will not give up.

The Homecoming

Author: Aastha
Publisher: Blue Rose Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 80

Book Description
This book serves as a transformative guide, encouraging readers to reprogram their lives and thoughts to align with harmony, happiness, joy, and abundance. It explores the depths of true love and life, elevating consciousness and urging individuals to become the best version of themselves. The book emphasizes healing the inner child and addressing past traumas, prompting readers to detach from the ego and connect with their inner consciousness. It reminds readers that the external world is illusory, and their existence is temporary. They are interconnected with everything and everyone as part of one divine consciousness, facilitating the journey towards freedom and enlightenment. The author highlights the inherent power within each individual and encourages them to see themselves as co-creators of the life they desire, explaining concepts such as the Law of the Universe, Vibration, and Attraction. Love is portrayed as the fundamental driving force, existing abundantly and unconditionally within the heart's core. By surrendering to God's unconditional love, readers can access divine magic and miracles, unlocking their own superpowers and becoming multidimensional. The book aims to awaken those who are still asleep, illuminating the energy of consciousness, and support those who are already on the path of awakening. It serves as a guide towards higher selves and purpose, offering insights and guidance for a transformative journey.

Pinter's Female Portraits

Author: Elizabeth Sakellaridou
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 9780389207474
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 260

Book Description
The book traces the development of Pinter's female characters both as dramatis personae and as theatrical functionaries. It explores a new exciting aspect of Pinter's work in the domain of character portrayal, and it supplies a kaleidoscopic view of Pinter criticism to date at home and abroad.

LIFE

Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 108

Book Description
LIFE Magazine is the treasured photographic magazine that chronicled the 20th Century. It now lives on at LIFE.com, the largest, most amazing collection of professional photography on the internet. Users can browse, search and view photos of today’s people and events. They have free access to share, print and post images for personal use.

Producers on Producing

Author: Irv Broughton
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 9780786412075
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 324

Book Description
Imre Horvath, producer of 60 Minutes, was asked how to get to talk to inaccessible people: "People that are busy...are scheduled tight...it's at 5:00 and 6:00 that they're back in their office to unwind...there's a kind of resonance or sympathy that springs up. "Oh, you're still in your office too?" Twenty-two interviews feature the producers or creators of Mister Rogers, Highway Patrol, Sea Hunt, The Cisco Kid, The Tonight Show, Rockford Files, Falcon Crest, Gunsmoke, Family Feud, and Roots, among others. These people offer opinions on the producer's role, the creation and packaging of different program genres, getting the best from the production team, tips for success, and of course personalities and personal moments. Honest and intelligent, these interviews give the reader a fascinating view of the industry.

Drama + Theory

Author: Peter Buse
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719057229
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 228

Book Description
Peter Buse illuminates the relationship between modern British drama and contemporary critical and cultural theory. He demonstrates how theory allows fresh insights into familiar drama, pairing well-known plays with classic theory texts. The theoretical text is more than applied to the dramatic text, instead Buse shows how they reflect on each other. Drama + Theory provides not only provides new interpretations of popular plays, but of the theoretical texts as well.

The Cambridge Companion to Harold Pinter

Author: Peter Raby
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521658423
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 296

Book Description
The Cambridge Companion to Harold Pinter provides an introduction to one of the world's leading and most controversial writers, whose output in many genres and roles continued to grow until the author's death in 2008. Harold Pinter, winner of the 2005 Nobel Prize for Literature, produced work for the theatre, radio, television and screen, in addition to being a highly successful director and actor. This volume examines the wide range of Pinter's work (including his recent play Celebration). The first section of essays places his writing within the critical and theatrical context of his time, and its reception worldwide. The Companion moves on to explore issues of performance, with essays by practitioners and writers. The third section addresses wider themes, including Pinter as celebrity, the playwright and his critics, and the political dimensions of his work. The volume offers photographs from key productions, a chronology, checklist of works and bibliography.

Harold Pinter and the Language of Cultural Power

Author: Marc Silverstein
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
ISBN: 9780838752364
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 196

Book Description
For all their attempts to "own" language, Pinter's characters discover that words constitute alienable property; that language forms, de-forms, and re-forms subjectivity; that, as a system preceding the individual, language carries embedded within it the values, desires, and imperatives of the Other - the dominant cultural order. By introducing questions of subject position and ideology into his discussion, author Marc Silverstein shows how the plays exhibit a political dimension largely ignored by the bulk of Pinter criticism, which attempts to classify his oeuvre as a form of absurdist drama. It is Silverstein's contention that Pinter does not concern himself with the fate of the individual lost in an incomprehensible and meaningless universe (the "absurdist" Pinter), but instead explores the vicissitudes of living within ideological, discursive, and social structures that always exceed the subject.