. This is a smart, respectful and compelling book." —Jason DeParle, The New York Times Book Review When Donald Trump won the 2016 presidential election, a bewildered nation turned to Strangers in Their Own Land to understand what Trump ...
*Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Biography* *Winner of the 2020 National Book Critics Circle Award* *Winner of the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography* A “captivating” (The Washington Post) work of history that explores ...
... a stranger in her own city , a nocturnal flaneuse who paces the streets once the walls of her apartment become constraining . The solitary hero of the classic film noir becomes in this exquisite short the female loner , whose selfhood ...
And what exactly was his relationship with the dead woman? Debut author Deborah Burrows has brought her skills as a historian to the fore with this meticulously researched and thoroughly entertaining novel of love and intrigue.
In the next riveting thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Kelley Armstrong, the paranoia increases – along with the stakes – as the town of Rockton tries to solve the latest mystery at their door.
... stranger” was the very text of the narrative. In much the same way, the character of Delia in L'amore molesto, a stranger in her own city, is also an author-in-the-text. Like Katherine, she endlessly travels the city in a tour of the ...
... her own peculiar good in her own cities . It is to be observed that it is to cities , and not to one city only to which Israel's attention is called ; and that to these she is in- vited as to cities which are her own . She has been a ...
... stranger.1 Oedipus is a stranger in Colonus. The same is true of many other Greek tragedies: Orestes is a refu- gee, Electra is a stranger in her own city, Iphigenia is a stranger both in Aulis and Tauris, Prometheus is an outcast ...
... her parents removed to that state , where she has since resided , when she ... own literary taste and force gave her every possible encouragement to ... a stranger in her own city as abroad . Remarkably well informed and having ...
It's as much a novel of feelings as ideas, and this is what makes it a compelling read' Jake Arnott, Guardian The wonderful Linda Grant weaves a tale around ideas of home; how London can be a place of exile or expulsion, how home can be a ...