Included in this omnibus are specials featuring the origins of Arseface, the dastardly adventures of Jody and T.C. Jesse is joined by his gun-toting girlfriend, Tulip, and the hard-drinking Irish vampire, Cassidy, on the rowdy adventures that culminate in the High Noon to end all High Noons. He loses faith in both humanity and God as he witnesses atrocities and improbable calamities during his travels. Now possessing the power of the Word, an ability to make people obey whatever he utters, Custer sets off on a dark journey. Merging with a bizarre spiritual force called Genesis, Jesse becomes completely disillusioned with the beliefs that he had dedicated his entire life to. But Starr and the Saint of Killers have other plans for Jesse s future. Beginning with the War in the Sun story, Texan preacher Jesse Custer goes to Monument Valley, where he plans his showdown with God.
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Her husband, Henry, cannotįace the thought of another English winter. To reconnect with the woman she was before children, and to find the time and energy to paint. Written, profound and deeply moving' Hannah Beckerman, Express Books of the Year Marriage and motherhood, THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WORLD was the most outstanding novel of the year for me. her attention to detail makes each scene visceral' New York Times It has gone on to garner international literary acclaim. WORLD by Stephanie Bishop was an Australian bestseller, and winner of the ABIA Award for Literary Fiction Book of the YearĪnd the 2015 Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction. A tender and gorgeously written novel of a marriage in crisis in the tradition of Revolutionary Road, THE OTHER SIDE OF THE Real Life is a campus novel, set over one weekend towards the end of summer, it recounts the experiences of Wallace a 4th year Biochemistry student. But, over the course of one blustery end-of-summer weekend, the destruction of his work and a series of intense confrontations force Wallace to grapple with both the trauma of the past, and the question of the future.ĭeftly zooming in and out of focus, Real Life is a deeply affecting story about the emotional cost of reckoning with desire, and overcoming pain. For reasons of self-preservation, he has become used to keeping a wary distance even from those closest to him. His father died a few weeks ago, but Wallace didn t go back for the funeral, and he hasn t told his friends Miller, Yngve, Cole and Emma. He is four years into a biochemistry degree at a lakeside Midwestern university, a life that s a world away from his childhood in Alabama. Wallace has spent his summer in the lab breeding a strain of microscopic worms. Buy this book from .uk to support The Reading Agency and local bookshops at no additional cost to you. Thankfully Kadrey has kept at it and there are several more volumes if this one doesn’t leave you steaming in a very warm place. This is a fast-paced fun read from start to finish. Kadrey has filled his stage with impressive props, magical weapons, potions, tools and pathways. If you thought that having one’s head cut off would be a conversation killer, think again. There is a nice cast of supporting characters here, including a centuries old French alchemist, a spider-like person who survives by liquefying humans and drinking them, angels, anti-angels, magicians and at least one video store clerk who aspires to a bit more from life. Kadrey maintains our interest by adding bigger-picture detail to Stark’s personal mission. I suppose it might be argued that Sandman Slim is derivative, but the weaving of magical and the real has become a staple and what counts more is how the tale is told. I love Kadrey’s dark sense of humor, which reminds me very much of the Hell Boy series and Christopher Moore’s vampire books. Richard Kadrey has created a world not unlike Kim Harrison’s Inderland, a blended world in which the magical and non-magical co-exist. Los Angeles comes in for some laugh-out-loud funny noir treatment. He has a fondness for stealing cars and making mayhem. Having recently exited Hell, Stark is rather peeved at those who had sent him there for eleven years, and is eager for revenge. A couple of fledgling bird enthusiasts evolve into ambitious eco-terrorists, and we’re forced to ask: Why do people espouse agendas? Why do they get radicalized?” “Hints at a few common trappings of a melodrama, but the plot quickly thickens to become something much bigger and more threatening. It was Quentin who taught me first and best that ‘academic’ work could be so profoundly moving and meaningful.” “Once you make it through Benjy’s bewildering, impressionistic narrative, his brother Quentin’s hits like a thunderclap: intensely intimate, lyrical, layered, haunted. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner Melanie Benson Taylor, Native American Studies We owe it to ourselves, as a nation, to look in the mirror and swallow hard as we confront the realities that Coates reveals.” Breathtaking in its poetic, efficient style that won’t let the reader rest, even for a sentence. “Breathtaking in its raw portrayal of what it means-to the psyche, to the body-to be a black man in America today. Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates The protagonists of both films not-so-secretly long for death, their grief manifesting in – and masked by – hyper-masculine behaviours. As with Don’t Let Go, unresolved regret manifests in time loops and repetition.Īnd like The Grey’s protagonist, he finds it hard to tell reality from hallucination. Like Graham Hess in Signs, he loses his faith in God, living and the afterlife. Room 1408 is his wake-up call – and the source of its scares is his own grief and guilt.Īfter daughter Katie dies of cancer, Enslin’s life is a meaningless nightmare. In Håfström’s adaptation of Stephen King short story 1408, embittered author Mike Enslin (John Cusack) checks into a cursed hotel room.Įnslin writes guide books about haunted locations yet, somewhat disingenuously, doesn’t believe in ghosts. Many horror films are about grief, loss and regret – but is that so surprising? Grief is an obvious response to death, but so is fear and speculation about the afterlife – i.e., the basis of the horror genre. This page explains Mikael Håfström’s film adaptation of short story 1408 (director’s cut) – with spoilers. He intends to debunk its reputation for terror and tragedy but finds himself haunted by his own grief and regret. Paranormal writer Mike Enslin (John Cusack) checks into room 1408 of New York’s Dolphin Hotel. The film adaptation of Stephen King short story 1408 revisits common horror tropes of death, grief … and bad room service. So ‘the Yada Yada Prayer Group’ decided to keep praying for each other via e-mail. “But something happened that weekend to make us realize we had to hang together. There was Flo, an outspoken ex-drug addict Ruth, a Messianic Jew who could smother-mother you to death and Yo-Yo, an ex-con who wasn’t even a Christian! Not to mention women from Jamaica, Honduras, South Africa-practically a mini-United nations. “When Avis and I were assigned to a prayer group of twelve women at the conference, I wasn’t sure what to think. “I almost didn’t even go to the Chicago Women’s Conference-after all, being thrown together with five hundred strangers wasn’t exactly my ‘comfort zone.’ But I would be rooming with my boss, Avis, and I hoped that maybe I might make a friend or two. Who would have imagined that God would make a group as mismatched as that the closest of friends? What do an ex-con, a former drug addict, a real estate broker, a college student, and a married mother of two have in common? The award-winning Yada Yada Prayer Group novels have sold over 800,000. The Yada Yada Prayer Group Book #1 in the Yada Yada Prayer Group series Nicely layered, the story shimmers with past secrets and hidden motivations. Far away in Brooklyn, Isaac's nonreligious son, Parviz, struggles without his family's money and falls for the pious daughter of his Hasidic landlord. His wife, Farnaz, struggles to keep from slipping into despair, while his young daughter, Shirin, steals files from the home of a playmate whose father is in charge of the prison that holds her father. In anguish over what might be happening to his family, Isaac watches the brutal mutilation and executions of prisoners around him. Being rich and having had slender ties to the Shah's regime magnify his peril. On a September day in 1981, gem trader Isaac Amin is accosted by Revolutionary Guards at his Tehran office and imprisoned for no other crime than being Jewish in a country where Muslim fanaticism is growing daily. Sofer's family escaped from Iran in 1982 when she was 10, an experience that may explain the intense detail of this unnerving debut. 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