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The Quickening Maze

2010-06-29 Fiction
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Release : 2010-06-29
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 204/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis The Quickening Maze by : Adam Foulds

Download or read book The Quickening Maze written by Adam Foulds. This book was released on 2010-06-29. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “It has been a while since I have read a book as richly sown with beauty . . . A remarkable work, remarkable for the precision and vitality of its perceptions and for the successful intricacy of its prose.” —James Wood, The New Yorker A visionary novel by "one of the most talented writers of his generation"—The Times Literary Supplement Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize Based on real events, The Quickening Maze won over UK critics and readers alike with its rapturous prose and vivid exploration of poetry and madness. Historically accurate yet brilliantly imagined, this is the debut publication of this elegant and riveting novel in the United States. In 1837, after years of struggling with alcoholism and depression, the great nature poet John Clare finds himself in High Beach—a mental institution located in Epping Forest on the outskirts of London. It is not long before another famed writer, the young Alfred Tennyson, moves nearby and grows entwined in the catastrophic schemes of the hospital's owner, the peculiar Dr. Matthew Allen, his lonely adolescent daughter, and a coterie of mysterious local characters. With lyrical grace, the cloistered world of High Beach and its residents are brought richly to life in this enchanting book.

In the Wolf's Mouth

2014-02-06 Fiction
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Release : 2014-02-06
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 615/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis In the Wolf's Mouth by : Adam Foulds

Download or read book In the Wolf's Mouth written by Adam Foulds. This book was released on 2014-02-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of the Man Booker shortlisted The Quickening Maze In the Wolf’s Mouth follows the lives of four very different men, all of them navigating the chaos and horror brought about by the Second World War. Fighting for the Allies are Will Walker, an ambitious English Field Security Officer and Ray Marfione, a wide-eyed Italian-American infantryman who dreams of home and the movies. Meanwhile in Sicily, Angilù, a young shepherd caught up in corruption and Cirò Albanese, a sinister Mafioso, are fighting their own battles with devastating consequences.

Dream Sequence

2019-06-11 Fiction
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Release : 2019-06-11
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 768/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Dream Sequence by : Adam Foulds

Download or read book Dream Sequence written by Adam Foulds. This book was released on 2019-06-11. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adam Foulds, the award-winning author of The Quickening Maze, pens a stunning and terrifying vision of the damage done between a fan and a celebrity in Dream Sequence—where the borders between inner and outer life have been made porous in a world full of flickering screens large and small. Henry became famous starring in The Grange, a television drama beloved by mothers and wives, and whose fans speak about the characters as though they were real people . . . yet Henry dreams of escaping the small screen. An audition for a movie directed by a highly respected Spanish auteur holds the promise of a way forward. Whether holed up in his apartment eating monkish meals of rice and steamed vegetables or snorting cocaine at desert parties in Doha, Henry’s awareness of his own image, of his relative place in the world, is acute and constant. But Henry has also—unwittingly—become an important part of the life of recently divorced Kristin. He appears repeatedly on the television in her beautiful, empty Philadelphia house, and her social media feeds bring news of his London home, his family. What Kristin wants is simply to get as close to him in real life as she has in her fandom.

The Broken Word

2011-03-29 Poetry
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Release : 2011-03-29
Genre : Poetry
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Book Rating : 489/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis The Broken Word by : Adam Foulds

Download or read book The Broken Word written by Adam Foulds. This book was released on 2011-03-29. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The stunning debut from "one of the best British writers to emerge in the past decade." (Julian Barnes) With a voice that is at once fierce and lyrical, Adam Foulds tells the story of the Mau Mau uprising against British colonial rule in 1950s Kenya. Tom, a young man who has returned to his family's farm, rapidly becomes caught up in the intensifying events of violence and brutality in a conflict Foulds illustrates as both utterly contemporary and yet deeply burdened by the history of race and empire in this region. The Broken Word was the recipient of the Costa (Whitbread) Poetry Award, and Foulds's The Quickening Maze was a finalist for the Man Booker Prize.

The Freedom Maze

2014-01-07 Juvenile Fiction
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Release : 2014-01-07
Genre : Juvenile Fiction
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Book Rating : 806/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis The Freedom Maze by : Delia Sherman

Download or read book The Freedom Maze written by Delia Sherman. This book was released on 2014-01-07. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Multilayered, compassionate, and thought-provoking." — Kirkus Reviews (starred review) Thirteen-year-old Sophie isn’t happy about spending the summer of 1960 at her grandmother’s old house in the bayou. Bored and lonely, she can’t resist exploring the house’s maze, or making an impulsive wish for a fantasy-book adventure with herself as the heroine. What she gets instead is a real adventure: a trip back in time to 1860 and the race-haunted world of her family’s Louisiana sugar plantation. Here, President Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation is still two years in the future and passage of the Thirteenth Amendment is almost four years away. And here, Sophie is mistaken, by her own ancestors, for a slave.

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