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The American Society of Magazine EditorsCopyright © 2012 by Charles Graeber. All rights reserved. Reprinted by permission. “Portrait of a Lady,” by Daphne Merkin, originally published in Elle. Copyright © 2012 by Daphne Merkin. Reprinted by permission of Daphne Merkin . “Social ...
The Fame Lunches: On Wounded Icons, Money, Sex, the Brontës, ...
Daphne MerkinDaphne Merkin brings her signature combination of wit, candor, and penetrating intelligence to a wide array of subjects that touch on every aspect of contemporary culture, from the high calling of the literary life to the poignant underside ...
Contemporary Jewish-American Novelists: A Bio-critical ...
PreviewDAPHNE MERKIN (1954- ) Carolyn Ariella Sofia BIOGRAPHY "Perfect sex is like some Platonic essence," notes Daphne Merkin in "The Woman in the Balcony," her reading of the biblical Song of Songs, because it takes ' 'place only in our ...
The Fiction of Alice Munro: An Appreciation
Brad HooperDaphne Merkin, “Northern Exposure,” p. 60. 5. Daphne Merkin, “Northern Exposure,” p. 62. 6. Contemporary Literary Criticism, Farmington Hills, MI: Thompson/Gale, 2006, 22, p. 129. 7. Coral Ann Howells, Alice Munro, New York: St. Martin's ...
This Close to Happy: A Reckoning with Depression
Daphne MerkinRecounting this series of hospitalizations, as well as her visits to myriad therapists and psychopharmacologists, Merkin fearlessly offers what the child psychiatrist Harold Koplewicz calls “the inside view of navigating a chronic ...
Enchantment: A Novel
Daphne MerkinOm en jødisk piges opvækst i New York i 1960erne og 1970erne og om hendes problemer med at frigøre sig fra familien
Dreaming of Hitler: Passions & Provocations
Daphne MerkinPresents a collection of essays treating such subjects as the Holocaust, fun with spanking, and religious disillusionment
The Kingdom of the Occult
Walter Martin... and former Kabbalah Centre student Daphne Merkin investigated Philip Berg's Kabbalah Centre and summed it up as “hokum, a brilliantly shrewd commercial enterprise, playing on the existentially orphaned state . . . of many people today.
The Way We Wore
Daphne SelfeDaphne Selfe has been photographed by Mario Testino, Nick Knight and David Bailey.
Rule Britannia
Daphne Du MaurierIn this chilling novel of the future, Daphne du Maurier explores the implications of a political, economic and military alliance between Britain and the United States.
Gendered Spaces
Daphne Spain'A work of vaulting ambition and synthesis. Daphne Spain is asked about the relations among gender, power, and space, our dwellings and domains.
Daphne Du Maurier
Daphne Du MaurierThe story is as gripping as Rebecca, as full of surprises as My Cousin Rachel ... affectionate, honest, unsentimental and perceptive' Daily Mail 'Convincing throughout .
The Brother of Daphne
Dornford YatesDaphne is 'well-born, elegant, beautiful, and not especially bright'. In this, Yates' earliest collection of stories, we meet the Pleydell clan and encounter their high-spirited comic adventures.
The Brother Of Daphne
Dornford YatesDaphne is ‘well-born, elegant, beautiful, and not especially bright’. In this, Yates’ earliest collection of stories, we meet the Pleydell clan and encounter their high-spirited comic adventures.
The Immortal Throne
Bree DespainOnly Daphne's kiss can save him, but how can she escape Garrick and reach Haden in time? Surprises lurk around every corner in the final chapter of this epic romance story, as Haden and Daphne fight to fulfill their destinies.
Daphne du Maurier Omnibus 4: Rebecca; My Cousin Rachel
Daphne Du MaurierMy godfather, Nick Kendall, came over the following day, bringing Louise with him. As there were no close relatives to summon, and only bequests to Seecombe and the other servants, with the customary donations to the poor in the parish, the ...
Manderley Forever: A Biography of Daphne du Maurier
Tatiana de RosnayI’m sure my mother would have loved this book.” — Tessa Montgomery d’Alamein, daughter of Daphné du Maurier, as told to Pauline Sommelet in Point de Vue As a bilingual bestselling novelist with a mixed Franco-British bloodline and ...
Daphne du Maurier Omnibus 2: The House on the Strand; ...
Daphne Du MaurierThis omnibus also includes The Doll, a collection of some of du Maurier's most thrilling short stories.
Daphne Du Maurier, Haunted Heiress
Nina AuerbachNina Auerbach examines both the life of Daphne du Maurier as it is revealed in her writings and the sensibility of a vanished class and a time now gone that haunts the fringes of our own age.
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Tatiana De RosnayCon una prosa impeccabile, Tatiana de Rosnay ci restituisce il romanzo della vita di una delle più complesse e tormentate figure di donna del Novecento, la scrittrice inglese Daphne du Maurier, autrice di romanzi come Rebecca, la prima ...
Constructive Feminism: Women's Spaces and Women's Rights in ...
Daphne SpainIn Constructive Feminism, Daphne Spain examines the deliberate and unintended spatial consequences of feminism's second wave, a social movement dedicated to reconfiguring power relations between women and men.
Daphne du Maurier Omnibus 1: Frenchman's Creek; The Birds & ...
Daphne Du MaurierIncludes the novels Frenchman's Creek and Hungry Hill, and the story collection The Birds & Other Stories.
Poets Talk: Conversations with Robert Kroetsch, Daphne ...
Pauline ButlingConversations with Robert Kroetsch, Daphne Marlatt, Erin Mouré, Dionne Brand, Marie Annharte Baker, Jeff Derksen and Fred Wah Pauline Butling, Susan Rudy. CONTENTS Preface vii Acknowledgements ix Introduction xi one "Historicizing ...
Gone Grey: A Parody
Fanny MerkinIn this follow-up to the international bestseller Fifty Shames of Earl Grey, Earl Grey’s wife disappears on their fifth wedding anniversary.
who called from an unknown number?