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By Allnutt, Gillian, 1949- Bell, Laura, 1954- Butalia, Urvashi Byatt, A. S. (Antonia Susan), 1936- Cusk, Rachel, 1967- Danticat, Edwidge, 1969- Davis, Lydia, 1947- Erdrich, Louise Galloway, Janice Gregerson, Linda Hill, Selima, 1945- Kuzmanovic, Tomislav Moorehead, Caroline Obreht, Téa Otsuka, Julie, 1962- Prose, Francine, 1947- Simpson, Helen, 1957- Welty, Eudora2011., Granta Call No: 818.54 G763f Edition: Issue 115: spring 2011. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Women in the twenty-first century from Kent to Accra still live in a world in which the balance of power remains tipped towards men. This bold, political issue of Granta will explore this dynamic from a wide variety of literary genres and perspectives. In "You Speak to Save Your Life," A. L. Kennedy investigates the surprising ways in which the human voice can be trapped and unlocked. Sara Wheeler retraces the American travels of Fanny Trollope, who uprooted to Ohio from England at the age of forty-eight and began an improbable second life. Julie Otsuka contributes a powerful piece of fiction about mail-order brides from Japan arriving in the US, and with "The Sex Lives of African Girls," the issue will introduce an astonishing new voice, Taiye Selasi, who spins a haunting story about the way adult sexuality can be imposed upon the young. With award-winning reportage, memoir and fiction, over the years Granta has illuminated the most complex issues of modern life through the refractory light of literature. The Dirty Word will continue this tradition by addressing a theme many readers know has never lost its urgency.
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c2015., Adult, The Hogarth Shakespeare/Knopf Canada Call No: Fic Win Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: The Winter's Tale is one of Shakespeare's 'late plays'. It tells the story of Leontes, King of Sicily, whose insane jealousy results in the banishment of his baby daughter, Perdita, from the kingdom and then the death of his beautiful wife, Hermione. Perdita is brought up by a shepherd on the Bohemian coast, but through a series of miraculous events, father and daughter, and eventually mother too, are reunited. In Jeanette Winterson's retelling we move from London, a city reeling after the 2008 financial crash, to a storm-ravaged city in the US called New Bohemia. Her story is one of childhood friendship, money, status, video games and the elliptical nature of time. It tells in a hyper-modern way, full of energy and beauty, of the consuming power of jealousy on the one hand, and love, redemption and a lost child on the other.
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2019., Adult, Canongate Call No: SC 941.24 S548l Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: In this masterpiece of nature writing, Nan Shepherd describes her journeys into the Cairngorm mountains of Scotland. There she encounters a world that can be breathtakingly beautiful at times and shockingly harsh at others. Her intense, poetic prose explores and records the rocks, rivers, creatures and hidden aspects of this remarkable landscape. Shepherd spent a lifetime in search of the 'essential nature' of the Cairngorms; her quest led her to write this classic meditation on the magnificence of mountains, and on our imaginative relationship with the wild world around us. Composed during the Second World War, the manuscript of "The Living Mountain" lay untouched for more than thirty years before it was finally published. .
