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Queen for a Day

2019-06-11 Fiction
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Release : 2019-06-11
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 814/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Queen for a Day by : Maxine Rosaler

Download or read book Queen for a Day written by Maxine Rosaler. This book was released on 2019-06-11. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mimi Slavitt’s three-year-old son is autistic, but if we told her, she wouldn’t listen, because she doesn’t want to know—until at last his behavior becomes so strange that even she can’t ignore it. Mimi inhabits a world nearly as isolating as her son’s—one that she shares with mothers like her, chosen against their will for lives of sacrifice and martyrdom. Searching for miracles, fighting heartless bureaucracies while arranging every minute of every day for children who can never be left alone, they exist in a state of perpetual crisis, normal life always just out of reach. In chapters told from Mimi’s point of view and theirs, we meet these mothers, each a complex character totally unsuitable for sainthood and dreaming of the day she can just she walk away. Taking its title from the 1950s reality show that made suffering housewives compete against each other for deluxe refrigerators and life-saving operations, Queen for a Day portrays a group of imperfect women under enormous pressure. Rosaler tells their story in ironic, precise and vivid prose, with dark humor and insight born of first-hand experience.

Queen for a Day

2014-05-19 Social Science
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Release : 2014-05-19
Genre : Social Science
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Book Rating : 997/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Queen for a Day by : Marcia Ochoa

Download or read book Queen for a Day written by Marcia Ochoa. This book was released on 2014-05-19. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Queen for a Day connects the logic of Venezuelan modernity with the production of a national femininity. In this ethnography, Marcia Ochoa considers how femininities are produced, performed, and consumed in the mass-media spectacles of international beauty pageants, on the runways of the Miss Venezuela contest, on the well-traveled Caracas avenue where transgender women (transformistas) project themselves into the urban imaginary, and on the bodies of both transformistas and beauty pageant contestants (misses). Placing transformistas and misses in the same analytic frame enables Ochoa to delve deeply into complex questions of media and spectacle, gender and sexuality, race and class, and self-fashioning and identity in Venezuela. Beauty pageants play an outsized role in Venezuela. The country has won more international beauty contests than any other. The femininity performed by Venezuelan women in high-profile, widely viewed pageants defines a kind of national femininity. Ochoa argues that as transformistas and misses work to achieve the bodies, clothing and makeup styles, and postures and gestures of this national femininity, they come to embody Venezuelan modernity.

Queen for a Day

2001-04-02 Poetry
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Release : 2001-04-02
Genre : Poetry
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Book Rating : 865/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Queen for a Day by : Denise Duhamel

Download or read book Queen for a Day written by Denise Duhamel. This book was released on 2001-04-02. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There’s no predicting a Denise Duhamel poem, except that it might be about something you’ve never seen in a poem before: Mr. Donut, Rodney King, or nude beaches; Gertrude Stein, phone sex, or the Girl Scouts. Poems from The Woman with Two Vaginas, a book that was censored when it first appeared, are based on Inuit folklore. How the Sky Fell offers revisionist fairy tales, and the poems from Kinky are inspired by Barbie dolls. In her new work, Duhamel suffers postmodern angst when using the “therapeutic I.” Denise Duhamel has startled readers of American poetry with work that pirouettes on a tightrope above the personal and the political, the spoken word and the page, the irreverent and the sacred. Queen for a Day showcases poems from her five previous collections, along with new work.

King of Morning, Queen of Day

2019-04-05 Fiction
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Release : 2019-04-05
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 155/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis King of Morning, Queen of Day by : Ian McDonald

Download or read book King of Morning, Queen of Day written by Ian McDonald. This book was released on 2019-04-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Philip K Dick Award “Filled with wondrous language, marvelous events.” —Science Fiction Chronicle In Ireland, three generations of young women fight to control the powers coursing through their blood: the power to bring the mystical Otherworld into our world, and change it. Emily, Jessica and Enye must each face their dark side of human mythoconsciousness–and their own personal histories. But the forces of faerie are ever treacherous... Filled with vivid, passionate characters you will never forget, King of Morning, Queen of Day is a spellbinding fantasy of the real Ireland. “McDonald’s power as a storyteller lies in his stylistic versatility and intensity of language as well as in his capacity to create vivid and memorable characters. Highly recommended.” —Library Journal “A brilliant book.” —Charles de Lint

Queen for a Day

2020-01-24
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Release : 2020-01-24
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Book Synopsis Queen for a Day by : Lauren Goodkind

Download or read book Queen for a Day written by Lauren Goodkind. This book was released on 2020-01-24. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book takes readers through a complete chess game against Sophia, a girl who has just learned how to move the chess pieces. In the book's game, players are asked to choose among a master level move, a good-okay move, and a third that is just plain bad. The readers await Sophia's next move. With this book, readers will learn to make smart moves in their own real-life chess games, too!

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