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The Inflatable Woman

2015-10-22 Comics & Graphic Novels
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Release : 2015-10-22
Genre : Comics & Graphic Novels
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Book Rating : 088/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis The Inflatable Woman by : Rachael Ball

Download or read book The Inflatable Woman written by Rachael Ball. This book was released on 2015-10-22. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Guardian Best Graphic Book of 2015 Iris (or balletgirl-42 as she's known on the internet dating circuit) is a zookeeper looking for love when she is diagnosed with breast cancer. Overnight, her life becomes populated with a carnival of daunting hospital characters. Despite the attempts of her friends – Maud, Granma Suggs, Larry the Monkey and a group of singing penguins – to comfort her, Iris's fears begin to encircle her until all she has to cling to is the attention of a lighthouse keeper called sailor_buoy_39. The Inflatable Woman combines magic realism with the grit of everyday life to create a poignant and surreal journey inside the human psyche.

Everything is Now

2009 Fiction
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Release : 2009
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 936/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Everything is Now by : Michelle Cliff

Download or read book Everything is Now written by Michelle Cliff. This book was released on 2009. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Everything is Now' brings together in one volume all of the short fiction of Jamaican born author Michelle Cliff. The stories examine the dualities of the modern world - black and white; America and the third world; past and present; femininity and masculinity and colonialism and revolution.

Mates, Dates and Inflatable Bras

2014-11-06 Juvenile Nonfiction
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Release : 2014-11-06
Genre : Juvenile Nonfiction
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Book Rating : 761/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Mates, Dates and Inflatable Bras by : Cathy Hopkins

Download or read book Mates, Dates and Inflatable Bras written by Cathy Hopkins. This book was released on 2014-11-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lucy feels like everything is changing around her, and suddenly she is required to make all sorts of decisions. Everyone else knows who they are and what they want to be except for her. Worse still, her best friend has hooked up with the glamorous Nesta. Can three girls be best friends? But then the day Lucy sees the most wonderful boy crossing the street, things do start to change - in all areas of her life... The first book in the highly successful MATES, DATES series that's sold over 3 million copies worldwide.

Visual Metaphor and Embodiment in Graphic Illness Narratives

2018-12-11 Language Arts & Disciplines
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Release : 2018-12-11
Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
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Book Rating : 186/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Visual Metaphor and Embodiment in Graphic Illness Narratives by : Elisabeth El Refaie

Download or read book Visual Metaphor and Embodiment in Graphic Illness Narratives written by Elisabeth El Refaie. This book was released on 2018-12-11. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Metaphors help us understand abstract concepts, emotions, and social relations through the concrete experience of our own bodies. Conceptual Metaphor Theory (CMT), which dominates the field of contemporary metaphor studies, is centered on this claim. According to this theory, correlations in the way the world is perceived in early childhood (e.g., happy/good is up, understanding is seeing) persist in our conceptual system, influencing our thoughts throughout life at a mostly unconscious level. What happens, though, when ordinary embodied experience is disrupted by illness? In this book, Elisabeth El Refaie explores how metaphors change according to our body's alteration due to disease. She analyzes visual metaphor in thirty-five graphic illness narratives (book-length stories about disease in the comics medium), re-examining embodiment in traditional CMT and proposing the notion of "dynamic embodiment." Building on recent strands of research within CMT and engaging relevant concepts from phenomenology, psychology, semiotics, and media studies, El Refaie demonstrates how the experience of our own bodies is constantly adjusting to changes in our individual states of health, socio-cultural practices, and the modes and media by which we communicate. This fundamentally interdisciplinary work also proposes a novel classification system of visual metaphor, based on a three-way distinction between pictorial, spatial, and stylistic metaphors. This approach will enable readers to advance knowledge and understanding of phenomena involved in shaping our everyday thoughts, interactions, and behavior.

The Comedy Man

2015-07-28 Fiction
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Release : 2015-07-28
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 258/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis The Comedy Man by : D. J. Taylor

Download or read book The Comedy Man written by D. J. Taylor. This book was released on 2015-07-28. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An entertainer looks back on his life in this novel based on the rise and fall of a famous British comedy team From the vantage point of late middle age, Edward “Ted” King—one half of the dynamic duo Upward & King—discovers that nostalgia isn’t what it used to be. Ted met Arthur Upward in Britain’s National Service. They started out doing gigs at Soho cabarets, and in the mid-sixties, they took their act on the road. By the late seventies, they were the most beloved comedians on British television, watched by ten million viewers per week. This inventive novel, narrated by Ted on the eve of the release of a documentary about their famous partnership, begins with his boyhood in the farm fields of post-war Yarmouth. The son of a shopkeeper with few aspirations, Ted soon realizes he wants to tell jokes for a living. Then, one day in a hall at the sergeants’ mess, he sees Arthur perform the “Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy.” He instantly senses the titanic influence the other man will have on his life. Ted plays the straight man to Arthur’s pratfalling comic, and they go on to captivate a nation. Until it all goes wrong. Crosscutting between the past and present, The Comedy Man is a poignant, funny “memoir” that reminds us how comedy is often derived from the most serious situations—and from the inexpressible longings of the human heart.

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