Objects of Affection

Author: Ewa Hryniewicz-Yarbrough
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780998966755
Category : Polish Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Literary Nonfiction. Ewa Hryniewicz-Yarbrough arrived in the United States from Poland in 1984, bringing memories of life under a totalitarian regime, where the personal was always political. In essay after essay in OBJECTS OF AFFECTION, her remarkable debut, Hryniewicz-Yarbrough shows the immigrant's double perspective, exploring a "bi-polar" world of displacement and rootlessness, geography and memory, individual and family history, always with an acute awareness of losses and gains that accompany adaptation to a new language and culture and the creation of a new identity.

Objects of affection

Author: Myra Seaman
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 1526143836
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 261

Book Description
Objects of affection recovers the emotional attraction of the medieval book through an engagement with a fifteenth-century literary collection known as Oxford, Bodleian Library Manuscript Ashmole 61. Exploring how the inhabitants of the book’s pages – human and nonhuman, tangible and intangible – collaborate with its readers then and now, this book addresses the manuscript’s material appeal in the ways it binds itself to different cultural, historical and material environments. In doing so it traces the affective literacy training that the manuscript provided its late-medieval English household, whose diverse inhabitants are incorporated into the ecology of the book itself as it fashions spiritually generous and socially mindful household members.

Objects of My Affection

Author: Jill Smolinski
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1451660782
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 338

Book Description
In the humorous, heartfelt new novel by the author of The Next Thing on My List, a personal organizer must somehow convince a reclusive artist to give up her hoarding ways and let go of the stuff she’s hung on to for decades. Lucy Bloom is broke, freshly dumped by her boyfriend, and forced to sell her house to send her nineteen-year-old son to drug rehab. Although she’s lost it all, she’s determined to start over. So when she’s offered a high-paying gig helping clear the clutter from the home of reclusive and eccentric painter Marva Meier Rios, Lucy grabs it. Armed with the organizing expertise she gained while writing her book, Things Are Not People, and fueled by a burning desire to get her life back on track, Lucy rolls up her sleeves to take on the mess that fills every room of Marva’s huge home. Lucy soon learns that the real challenge may be taking on Marva, who seems to love the objects in her home too much to let go of any of them. While trying to stay on course toward a strict deadline—and with an ex-boyfriend back in the picture, a new romance on the scene, and her son’s rehab not going as planned—Lucy discovers that Marva isn’t just hoarding, she is also hiding a big secret. The two form an unlikely bond, as each learns from the other that there are those things in life we keep, those we need to let go—but it’s not always easy to know the difference.

Object of My Affection

Author: Stephen McCauley
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439122091
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 326

Book Description
George and Nina seem like the perfect couple. They share a cozy, cluttered Brooklyn apartment, a taste for impromptu tuna casserole dinners, and a devotion to ballroom dancing lessons at Arthur Murray. They love each other. There's only one hitch: George is gay. And when Nina announces she's pregnant, things get especially complicated. Howard -- Nina's overbearing boyfriend and the baby's father -- wants marriage. Nina wants independence. George will do anything for a little unqualified affection, but is he ready to become an unwed surrogate dad? A touching and hilarious novel about love, friendship, and the many ways of making a family.

Objects of His Affection

Author: Scotty Smith
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439122741
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 264

Book Description
To see our sins, wounds, idols, and failures apart from God's is simply too much. We will either minimize our condition, thus marginalizing our need of grace, or we will run away in hopeless despair to the arms of a lesser love or to the worship of lesser gods. But . . . God pursues us in our restlessness. receives us in our sinfulness. holds us in our brokenness, and frees us from our lovelessness. -- Scotty Smith excerpt from Objects of His Affection

The Objects of Affection

Author: A. Berger
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN: 9780230103733
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
In this book, pre-eminent semiotician Arthur Asa Berger decodes the meanings of common objects of consumption and their perceived 'sacredness' in consumerist cultures. Using semiotic theory, consumer culture is dissected in new and fascinating ways.

The Objects of My Affection

Author: Sarah Lugg
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
ISBN: 9780740712487
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 72

Book Description
Shaping everyday, ordinary objects such as dried flowers, shells, and buttons into fascinating collages, English artist Sarah Lugg creates what she likes to call "visual diaries." In her first major gift book, The Objects of My Affection, Sarah's "visual diaries" take a turn toward the romantic. Sarah marries her collections of feathers, stamps, stones, and flowers with the romantic poetry of classic writers such as Burns, Shakespeare, Keats, Shelley, and Longfellow to give readers and collectors a message of love and romance. This beautiful gift collection of Sarah's artwork features love, hearts, and romantic creations that are sure to capture readers' emotions.

Love Objects

Author: Anna Moran
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1472517199
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 185

Book Description
Love Objects is the first anthology on the concept of 'love' to interrogate across a range of contexts its design and other material manifestations.

Objects of Affection

Author: Krishna Udayasankar
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789810760700
Category : Indic poetry (English)
Languages : en
Pages : 134

Book Description

The Objects of Her Affection

Author: Sonya Cobb
Publisher: Sourcebooks Landmark
ISBN: 9781402294242
Category : Art thefts
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Art thief Sophie steals paintings from the Philadelphia Museum of Art in order to keep her house out of foreclosure, but when the FBI begin sniffing around, Sophis is close to destroying the very life she's worked so hard to build.