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Fictions of Affliction

2010-02-09 Social Science
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Release : 2010-02-09
Genre : Social Science
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Book Synopsis Fictions of Affliction by : Martha Stoddard Holmes

Download or read book Fictions of Affliction written by Martha Stoddard Holmes. This book was released on 2010-02-09. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tiny Tim, Clym Yeobright, Long John Silver---what underlies nineteenth-century British literature's fixation with disability? Melodramatic representations of disability pervaded not only novels by Dickens, but also doctors' treatises on blindness, educators' arguments for "special" education, and even the writing of disabled people themselves. Drawing on extensive primary research, Martha Stoddard Holmes introduces readers to popular literary and dramatic works that explored culturally risky questions like "can disabled men work?" and "should disabled women have babies?" and makes connections between literary plots and medical, social, and educational debates of the day. The first book of its kind, Fictions of Affliction contributes a new emphasis to Victorian literary and cultural studies and offers new readings of works by canonic and becoming-canonic writers like Dickens, Wilkie Collins, and others.

Affliction

1998-09-29 Fiction
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Release : 1998-09-29
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 958/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Affliction by : Russell Banks

Download or read book Affliction written by Russell Banks. This book was released on 1998-09-29. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wade Whitehouse, divorced, estranged from his young daughter, spends his days as a well-driller, snow-plow operator, and policeman, his nights in a wind-swept trailer park. But when a union boss is killed in an apparent hunting accident near Wade's home, and he is convinced that it is murder, he seizes the event as a chance to right many wrongs—unaware that as he unravels the mystery he himself will become unravelled. Soon his hunger for justice and self-respect become inseparable from a desperate violence.

The Affliction

2018-03-13 Fiction
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Release : 2018-03-13
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 160/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis The Affliction by : C. Dale Young

Download or read book The Affliction written by C. Dale Young. This book was released on 2018-03-13. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A novel told in short stories, The Affliction is an astounding fiction debut by an award-winning poet full of memorable characters across America and the Caribbean. Young beautifully weaves together the elaborate stories of many while holding together a clear focus: people are not always as they seem.

Affliction

2021-07-13 Biography & Autobiography
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Release : 2021-07-13
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 25X/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Affliction by : Laura Hall

Download or read book Affliction written by Laura Hall. This book was released on 2021-07-13. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1937, at the age of nineteen, Ralph Hall, suicidal, revealed his sexual orientation to his grandmother, knowing she would comfort him. He was out for three years afterwards, until an indiscretion sent him back into the closet. At twenty-four, while in the army, he met and married Irene. The couple made their home on the San Francisco Peninsula and had four children. Ralph was an attentive husband and father—albeit with an intense interest in interior design, flower arranging, and fine objects—and a diligent worker who rose to payroll accountant at Standard Oil. It wasn't until 1975 that Ralph came out to his middle daughter, Laura, telling her that he had once considered his sexuality an aberration, an affliction. She was shocked, as the possibility her father might be gay had never crossed her mind. Irene had known Ralph’s secret for eighteen years, but the two remained married until she died. It was only then that this charismatic man and devoted father, by now in his eighties, could freely express his authentic, gay self. Here, Laura paints a vivid and honest portrait of her beloved father and the effect his secret had on her own life.

The Afflictions

2020-09 Fiction
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Release : 2020-09
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 354/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis The Afflictions by : Vikram Paralkar

Download or read book The Afflictions written by Vikram Paralkar. This book was released on 2020-09. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The legendary Encyclopedia of Medicine is a dizzying collection of maladies: an amnesia that causes everyone you've ever met to forget you exist, while you remain perfectly, painfully aware of your history. A wound that grows with each dark thought or evil deed you commit but shrinks with every act of kindness. A disease that causes your body to imitate death, stopping your heart, cooling your blood. Will the fit pass before they bury you--or after? The Afflictions is a magical compendium of pseudo-diseases, an encyclopedia of archaic medicine written by a contemporary physician and scientist. Little by little, these bizarre and mystical afflictions frame an eternal struggle: between human desire and the limits of bodily existence. First published in English in the United States, The Afflictions has since been published in Argentina, Italy, and India. This second U.S. edition features the original illustrations created by Pia Valentinis for the Italian language edition.

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