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Sentimental Exorcisms is a collection of tragicomic satire, latter-day Victorian collisions of Nabokov and Proust. The men in these long short stories have grand designs and petty fears, or modest designs and grand fears. Desires, scapegoats, idylls and obtrusive egos: Life starts to unravel for Penelope when her husband, Rupert, drags their family to the remote Seychelles islands for an exotic diplomatic job in While Penelope pines for London, Rupert and their two daughters fall in love with this tropical paradise.
The children run barefoot on the beach and become enraptured by the ancient magic, or grigri, that pervades this lush colonial outpost. Oh Pure and Radiant Heart plucks the three scientists who were integral to the invention of the atom bomb: Robert Oppenheimer, Leo Szilard, and Enrico Fermi as they watch history's first mushroom cloud rise over the desert on July 16th, In Greek myth, Alcestis is known as the ideal good wife; she loved her husband so much that she died to save his life and was sent to the underworld in his place.
In this poetic and vividly-imagined debut, Katharine Beutner gives voice to the woman behind the ideal, bringing to life the world of Mycenaean Greece, a world peopled by capricious gods, where royal women are confined to the palace grounds and passed as possessions from father to husband. Showing results by publisher "Iambik Audio Inc. All Categories 70 results. Anita Roy Dobbs Length: Anita Roy Dobbs Series: Elemental Logic , Book 2 Length: Add to Cart failed.
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Free with day trial. Migration Songs Written by: Anna Quon Narrated by: Elemental Logic , Book 1 Length: Andrew Kaufman Narrated by: Every House Is Haunted Written by: Ian Rogers Narrated by: David Lewis Richardson Length: Light Lifting Written by: Alexander MacLeod Narrated by: The Railway Children Written by: Nina Munteanu Narrated by: The Splintered Universe , Book 1 Length: Paul Almond Narrated by: Alford Saga , Book 5 Length: Las Vegas Noir Written by: Saving Angelfish Written by: Teenage musician Kit is no longer Andy Nebula, interstellar rock star.
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