” Each volume of the Art & Architecture series is opulently illustrated. The highly readable texts provide concentrated information on accessing well-known & less-known sites in the world of art. An image of every piece of art that is described is included, allowing readers to easily recognize the original in situ. Insets on cultural & historical topics & illustrated glossaries, summaries & timelines supplement the body text
- leaving a deeper, more lasting impression of the works discussed.”
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Love is Angela Carter`s fifth novel & was first published in 1971. With surgical precision it charts the destructive emotional war between a young woman, her husband & his disruptive brother as they move through a labyrinth of betrayal, alienation & lost connections. This revised edition has lost none of Angela Carter`s haunting power to evoke the ebb of the 1960s, &

Includes:: an afterword which describes the progress of the survivors into the anguish of middle age.

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People go to Italy for love & gelato.. .but sometimes they discover much more. The dying wish of 16-year-old Lina`s mother was for her daughter to live in Tuscany & get to know her father, whom Lina has never met. ” Howard is the best man I`ve ever known, ” her mother says, ”he`ll keep you safe.” Why did her mother wait so long to tell her about him? Lina has a happy life in Seattle & doesn`t want to leave. Shortly after she arrives at Howard`s home, Lina meets Sonya, who gives Lina a diary that belonged to Lina`s mother, the one she had kept while she was a photography student in Florence. While Lina is living her life & exploring Tuscany with her handsome neighbour, Ren, she follows in the footsteps of her mother & gets to know her as never before. She also finds out the truth about her father. Mostly she finds out about herself. ...

The fascinating memoir of Margarita Papandreou, First Lady of Greece in the 1980s, Love & Power tells the story of the private woman behind the public face. The book documents Margarita`s rise from waitress Margaret in America to the formidable Margarita, feminist campaigner & woman of style, power & influence. Papandreou`s wit & passion leaps from the pages even as she provides insider insight into the international politics of the time. An engaging behind-the-scenes look at the life & achievements of an exceptional woman. A dynamic political activist determined to fight for a world free from prejudice & war. Margarita Papandreou gave equal attention to her role as the mother of four children & the wife of a prime minister. Love & Power is her first book & explores her conflict between feminist & woman, love & power. ...

Hate skews reality even more than love. In the story of a Pakistani woman who has begun a new life in Paris, an essay about the writing of Kureishi`s acclaimed film Le Week-End, & an account of Kafka`s relationship with his father, readers will find Kureishi also exploring the topics that he continues to make new, & make his own: growing up & growing old; betrayal & loyalty; imagination & repression; marriage & fatherhood. The collection ends with a bravura piece of very personal reportage about the conman who stole Kureishi`s life savings
- a man who provoked both admiration & disgust, obsession & revulsion, love & hate.
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From pre-First World War Warsaw to the New York of the 1930s, Nobel Prize-winner Isaac Bashevis Singer traces the early years of his life in this autobiographical trilogy. In A Little Boy in Search of God, he remembers his bookish boyhood as the son of an Orthodox rabbi, equally absorbed in science, philosophy & cabbala. Later, the pursuit of women came to obsess him almost as much as the pursuit of knowledge, & in A Young Man in Search of Love he chronicles the intricacies of his first love affairs. When he emigrated to the United States from Poland on the eve of the Second World War loneliness & depression overwhelmed him, & he relives those dark years in Lost in America. From beginning to end, Love & Exile sheds new light on Singer`s own life & the fictional lives mirrored in it. ...

The narrator of Love & Garbage has temporarily abandoned his work-in-progress
- an essay on Kafka
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It is summer & a stranger has come to quiet Rathmoye. He is noticed by Ellie, the young convent girl, who is married to Dillahan, a farmer still mourning his first wife. Over the long & warm days, Ellie & the stranger form an illicit attachment. & those in the town can only watch, holding their tongues, as passion, love & fate take their inevitable course. ...

Hailed as Newby`s `masterpiece`, Love & War in the Apennines is the gripping real-life story of Newby`s imprisonment & escape from an Italian prison camp during World War II. After the Italian Armistice of 1943, Eric Newby escaped from the prison camp in which he`d been held for a year. He evaded the German army by hiding in the caves & forests of Fontanellato, in Italy`s Po Valley. Against this picturesque backdrop, he was sheltered for three months by an informal network of Italian peasants, who fed, supported & nursed him, before his eventual recapture. Love & War in the Apennines is Newby`s tribute to the selfless & courageous people who were to be his saviours & companions during this troubled time & of their bleak & unchanging way of life. Of the cast of idiosyncratic characters, most notable was the beautiful local girl on a bike who would teach him the language, & eventually help him escape; two years later they were married & would spend the rest of their lives as co-adventurers. Part travelogue, part escape story & part romance, this is a mesmerising account of wisdom, courage, humour & adventure, & tells the story of the early life of a man who would become one of Britain`s best-loved literary adventurers. ...

Over the fifteen years Rosemary has been living in the region, the more she realised she didn`t know about the war; about the French during the Occupation, the real role of the Resistance, the level of collaboration, the concentration camps in the Pyrenees & the treatment of Jews & other refugees. It is still very much a veiled history & most of the archives remain firmly closed. Love & War in the Pyrenees is a portrait of human tragedy, heroism & cruelty that will create a picture of the period from a contemporary angle, the history linked to sights that can still be visited, & brought to life by letters, interviews & encounters with people today, including the historians currently trying to investigate what really happened. ...