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Shakespeare's Hamlet-written 2,000 years after the classical Greek period-follows a narrative pattern similar to that of the Greek Electra myth, and it isn't the only story to do so. We see signs of Electra's influence again in the 20th-century works of Oscar Wilde, Eugene O'Neill and T.S. Eliot, among others. This revised and updated edition looks more closely at the influence of Electra on popular culture throughout history and the questions it...
4) Adam & Yves
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My current novel, Adam and Yves, is the story of two young professional men, an architect and a cellist, who meet over an abandoned piano in Greenwich Village and fall in love. When Adam introduces Yves, who grew up poor in French Canada, to his Park Avenue parents, his stock-broker dad makes an unconvincing show of accepting Yves; his mom, an editor at a trendy fashion magazine, refuses to show her hand. But the real family challenge for Adam is...
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The trap-door takes Kevin Galt from his everyday world of logic and reason into an underworld of fantasy and imagination. Until one day the trap-door ceases to be a metaphor and becomes all too real.What lurks in the deepest recesses of our minds? What are we all capable of? Are there limits or rules of any kind?Kevin Galt would be forced to find out.
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The author uses amusement park attractions (themed for Disney World) to gently introduce new paradigms to a wide audience. His sources include experts in nutrition, economics, technology, and psychology.BACK COVER - "The world of tomorrow exists today, but only for those who can spot the true experts." ... And never before in human history has it been so crucial to spot these experts sooner rather than later. You see, "progress" is accelerating---our...
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much of songs was created from recordings taken in the city ov melbourne, australia during 1985. it was intended to make clearer the relationship between th structures ov our society and our intimate relationships and th effect they have on each other. it is far from satisfactory. music for an adapted version ov this work was composed by mary ann faulks, rodney berry and michael sheridan (tinney) and performed by them and th author...
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The lives of Katherine, Jayce, Bryan and Faith converge toward a tragic event as each struggles to decipher the intricacies of love lost and love found. Each discovers in their own way that love is the living core of human existence and that how we love defines who we are. Unique fusion of a print novel with an optional online companion featuring text, images and professional audio recordings.
13) Martin's Pond
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For years Martin has biked into the coastal hills to bask in solitude beside a remote pond. When a strange woman begins to visit 'his' refuge, Martin tries to scare her away ... but takes matters a step too far. "Martin's Pond" was first published in the literary magazine Five Fingers Review, issue #20, in Spring 2003.
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Subtlety ought to be on an endangered literary species list, but Brent Robison brilliantly makes the case for its essentiality in this exquisite collection of webbed stories. These stories argue that everything is a facet of the same jewel and we touch each other's lives in unfathomable ways. To read them is to heighten one's bond with strangers.-Djelloul Marbrook, award-winning poet/novelist, Far from Algiers, The Light Piercing Water TrilogyRich,...
15) Peeko Pacifiko
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A quintessential novel of modern Los Angeles, Peeko Pacifiko is at once an outrageous romp, a survival story, a sardonic political history, and a keen literary walkabout. At once squalid and glamorous, literary and low-brow, philosophical and wanton, wickedly funny and empathetic, it is as honest as it is innovative, its own unique, hydra-headed genre. As the Nineties dwindle down, the waning days of one era and the dawn of a new one are seen through...
16) Falls the Shadow
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Falls the Shadow consists of twin short stories, Falls the Shadow and La Feria, which, although they have defined identities, share a common heritage and are in many ways inseparable.Falls the Shadow, the first of the two, is set on the North Atlantic coast, whereas La Feria is set in Southern Spain, in Andalusia. It is a journey which takes us from the harsh, pessimistic climes of the north to the gentler, more optimistic region of the south. Though...
17) The Pale Thane
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A pale young man, looking twice his age, manages a vast complex of apartments. The residents despise him for his apparent weakness. What they don't know might lead them to see him differently if it were not for the legacy of his father.
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El pan de lo irremediable habla de todo aquello, fatal, con lo que hay que "alimentarse", de lo que hay que llevarse a la boca para no perecer; hablade un destino oscuro, presente en los primeros escarceos amorosos, en los numerosos desencuentros, en la muerte de los seres amados. La ausencia es el eje rector de estos poemas que exploran, desde la femineidad, el cuerpo, el erotismo, el amor y la muerte.
La primera parte de este poemario reúne los...
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Dragón de sangre, obra ganadora del Premio Nacional de Dramaturgia Emilio Carballido, 2022, retoma uno de los hechos más crueles y vergonzosos de nuestra historia: la matanza de ciudadanos chinos en Torreón, en el año de 1911, a manos de las fuerzas revolucionarias maderistas. Pero su autor, curtido no sólo en la experiencia dramatúrgica sino también en el trabajo de la investigación histórica, va mucho más allá del hecho en...
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Angelica es una narrativa de la vida real, contada al autor por la misma protagonista. No es una historia de moraleja, sino de reflexión y ejemplo de cómo una mujer va pavimentando su camino con decisiones a veces buenas, y muchas veces equivocadas. Pero nadie puede decir de alguien que "Tomó una mala decisión" porque las decisiones son siempre buenas en el momento de tomarlas, y son las consecuencias las que pueden ser afortunadas o funestas....
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