The Moon And The Bonfire

Author : Cesare Pavese
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0241370558
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Moon and the Bonfires written by Cesare Pavese and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2021-01-28 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Insinuating, haunting and lyrically pervasive' The New York Times Book Review A new translation by Tim Parks Twenty years after making his fortune in America, Eel is drawn back to the closest thing he has to a home: the Piedmontese countryside where he grew up poor and illegitimate. Wandering the valleys and vineyards with his childhood friend Nuto, Eel remembers the farm where he worked, his employer's beautiful daughters, the rituals of rural life. Yet as he discovers more about what happened there during the war, he realizes that these timeless landscapes hide terrible, savage secrets. By turns fond and evocative, seductive and troubling, The Moon and the Bonfires is a lyrical masterpiece of memory and betrayal. Translated with an Introduction by Tim Parks

Author : Cesare Pavese
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 9781590170212
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Moon and the Bonfires written by Cesare Pavese and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2002-10-31 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2003 PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize A NEW YORK REVIEW BOOKS ORIGINAL The nameless narrator of The Moon and the Bonfires, Cesare Pavese's last and greatest novel, returns to Italy from California after the Second World War. He has done well in America, but success hasn't taken the edge off his memories of childhood, when he was an orphan living at the mercy of a bitterly poor farmer. He wants to learn what happened in his native village over the long, terrible years of Fascism; perhaps, he even thinks, he will settle down. And yet as he uncovers a secret and savage history from the war—a tale of betrayal and reprisal, sex and death—he finds that the past still haunts the present. The Moon and the Bonfires is a novel of intense lyricism and tragic import, a masterpiece of twentieth-century literature that has been unavailable to American readers for close to fifty years. Here it appears in a vigorous new English version by R. W. Flint, whose earlier translations of Pavese's fiction were acclaimed by Leslie Fiedler as "absolutely lucid and completely incantatory."

Author : Cesare Pavese
Publisher : Peter Owen Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Moon and the Bonfire written by Cesare Pavese and published by Peter Owen Publishers. This book was released on 2002 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Pavese's last and greatest novel, Nuto, an orphan saved from death by a rural family, returns to Italy from America soon after World War II. He is now rich, and much has improved at home, but peace and prosperity cannot long mask the enduring realities of love and death.

Author : Richard Bradley
Publisher : Society Antiquaries Scotland
ISBN 13 : 0903903334
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Moon and the Bonfire written by Richard Bradley and published by Society Antiquaries Scotland. This book was released on 2005 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whilst a report on excavations at three stone circles and two fieldwalking projects in north-east Scotland may not seem very appealing this book does much to heighten public awareness and interest in such sites and re-connects us with the mysterious monuments of the past. This study of the sites of Tomnaverie (Deeside), Cothiemuir Wood (Donside) and Aikey Brae (Buchan) is written in an engaging and approachable style with plenty of illustrative material. Whilst the project was geared towards investigating the character, chronology, structural development and wider context of the stone circles, its results go much further in revealing how people used and perceived such sites and the landscape around them. Here, contextual information, discussion of methodology and objectives are combined with factual data and interpretation as the project members examine various aspects of the sites such as the characterisation (shape, colour and texture) of the stones used, construction techniques, evidence of burning, the presence of human remains and possible solar and lunar alignments. The proffering of new insights into the use and symbolism of the monuments is highly valuable, for example, the suggestion that we should perhaps consider the use of these stone circles during the hours of darkness rather than daylight, an idea first proposed by Aubrey Burl, requires us to re-think our preconceptions about monuments in the past. The rewards of painstaking excavation and trudging through muddy fields are evident in a publication such as this.

Author : Adrienne Celt
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1408895161
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Invitation to a Bonfire written by Adrienne Celt and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-07-12 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'At once a gripping psychological thriller and a finely crafted work of literature ... An exhibition of stylistic virtuosity, a pyrotechnic display of fine writing' Financial Times 'Part psychological thriller and part literary puzzle' Grazia Zoya Andropova, a young Russian refugee, finds herself in an elite New Jersey boarding school. Having lost her family, her home and her sense of purpose, Zoya struggles to belong, a task made more difficult by her new country's paranoia about Soviet spies. When she meets charismatic fellow Russian émigré Leo Orlov – whose books Zoya has obsessed over for years – everything seems to change. But she soon discovers that Leo is bound by the sinister orchestrations of his brilliant wife, Vera, and that their relationship is far more complex than Zoya could ever have imagined.

Author : W. Lyon Martin
Publisher : Magical Child Books
ISBN 13 : 0979683440
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Aidan's First Full Moon Circle written by W. Lyon Martin and published by Magical Child Books. This book was released on 2008 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aidan and his parents attend the local coven's Full Moon celebration.

Author : Diana Henry
Publisher : Mitchell Beazley
ISBN 13 : 1784725145
Total Pages : 470 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How to eat a peach written by Diana Henry and published by Mitchell Beazley. This book was released on 2018-05-01 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Diana Henry was sixteen she started a menu notebook (an exercise book carefully covered in wrapping paper). Planning a menu is still her favorite part of cooking. Menus can create very different moods; they can take you places, from an afternoon at the seaside in Brittany to a sultry evening eating mezze in Istanbul. They also have to work as a meal that flows and as a group of dishes that the cook can manage without becoming totally stressed. The 24 menus and 100 recipes in this book reflect places Diana loves, and dishes that are real favorites. The menus are introduced with personal essays in Diana's now well-known voice- about places or journeys or particular times and explain the choice of dishes. Each menu is a story in itself, but the recipes can also stand alone. The title of the book refers to how Italians end a meal in the summer, when it's too hot to cook. The host or hostess just puts a bowl of peaches on the table and offers glasses of chilled moscato (or even Marsala). Guests then slice their peach into the glass, before eating the slices and drinking the wine. That says something very important about eating - simplicity and generosity and sometimes not cooking are what it's about.

Author : Heather S. Buchanan
Publisher : Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book George and Matilda Mouse and the Moon Rocket written by Heather S. Buchanan and published by Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers. This book was released on 1992 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the smoke from fireworks blots out the moon, George and Matilda Mouse, thinking the moon is lost, set out by rocket to search for it.

Author : Julia Fine
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062975846
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Upstairs House written by Julia Fine and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2021-02-23 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Chicago Review of Books Fiction Award A Good Morning America Book of the Month Selection • A Popsugar Must-Read Book of the Month • A Buzzfeed Most Anticipated Book of the Year • A The Millions Most Anticipated Book of the Year “Provocative…. [An] assured, beautifully written book.” —Sarah Lyall, New York Times In this provocative meditation on new motherhood—Shirley Jackson meets The Awakening—a postpartum woman’s psychological unraveling becomes intertwined with the ghostly appearance of children’s book writer Margaret Wise Brown. There’s a madwoman upstairs, and only Megan Weiler can see her. Ravaged and sore from giving birth to her first child, Megan is mostly raising her newborn alone while her husband travels for work. Physically exhausted and mentally drained, she’s also wracked with guilt over her unfinished dissertation—a thesis on mid-century children’s literature. Enter a new upstairs neighbor: the ghost of quixotic children’s book writer Margaret Wise Brown—author of the beloved classic Goodnight Moon—whose existence no one else will acknowledge. It seems Margaret has unfinished business with her former lover, the once-famous socialite and actress Michael Strange, and is determined to draw Megan into the fray. As Michael joins the haunting, Megan finds herself caught in the wake of a supernatural power struggle—and until she can find a way to quiet these spirits, she and her newborn daughter are in terrible danger. Using Megan’s postpartum haunting as a powerful metaphor for a woman’s fraught relationship with her body and mind, Julia Fine once again delivers an imaginative and “barely restrained, careful musing on female desire, loneliness, and hereditary inheritances” (Washington Post).

Author : Amos Tutuola
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571311555
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book My Life in the Bush of Ghosts written by Amos Tutuola and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My Life in the Bush of Ghosts, Amos Tutuola's second novel, was first published in 1954. It tells the tale of a small boy who wanders into the heart of a fantastical African forest, the dwelling place of innumerable wild, grotesque and terrifying beings. He is captured by ghosts, buried alive and wrapped up in spider webs, but after several years he marries and accepts his new existence. With the appearance of the television-handed ghostess, however, comes a possible route of escape.'Tutuola ... has the immediate intuition of a creative artist working by spell and incantation.' V. S. Pritchett, New Statesman