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Author: Barton Sutter Publisher: U of Minnesota Press ISBN: 9780816632602 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 236
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"As a nation of immigrants, many of us suffer from a vague but painful homesickness we do not understand", he writes. With a voice that is at once sorrowful, soul-searching, and hilarious, Sutter cures that ill by sharing his passion for and faith in his rugged locale. Like a lovers' quarrel with a peculiar place, Cold Comfort conveys deep insights about what makes the place where you live your true home."--pub. desc.
Author: Barton Sutter Publisher: U of Minnesota Press ISBN: 9780816632602 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 236
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"As a nation of immigrants, many of us suffer from a vague but painful homesickness we do not understand", he writes. With a voice that is at once sorrowful, soul-searching, and hilarious, Sutter cures that ill by sharing his passion for and faith in his rugged locale. Like a lovers' quarrel with a peculiar place, Cold Comfort conveys deep insights about what makes the place where you live your true home."--pub. desc.
Author: Clare West Publisher: ISBN: 9780194228374 Category : Readers Languages : en Pages : 123
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A school reader for secondary pupils, in the OXFORD BOOKWORMS. BLACK SERIES STAGE 6. This new series offers students at all levels the opportunity to extend their reading and appreciation of English.
Author: Stella Gibbons Publisher: Aegitas ISBN: 0369403045 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 209
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Cold Comfort Farm is a comic novel by English author Stella Gibbons, published in 1932. It parodies the romanticised, sometimes doom-laden accounts of rural life popular at the time, by writers such as Mary Webb. Following the death of her parents, the book and 's heroine, Flora Poste, finds she is possessed "of every art and grace save that of earning her own living". She decides to take advantage of the fact that "no limits are set, either by society or one and 's own conscience, to the amount one may impose on one and 's relatives", and settles on visiting her distant relatives at the isolated Cold Comfort Farm in the fictional village of Howling in Sussex. The inhabitants of the farm – Aunt Ada Doom, the Starkadders, and their extended family and workers – feel obliged to take her in to atone for an unspecified wrong once done to her father.
Author: Quentin Bates Publisher: Hachette UK ISBN: 1780332149 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 336
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'Superior crime fiction set in Iceland' The Times 'As chilling as an Icelandic winter' S. J. Bolton Following her promotion and working now from Reykjavik, Gunnhildur is given responsibility for two cases - the first in tracking down an escaped convict who's keen to settle old scores, and the other, the murder of a TV fitness presenter in her city centre apartment. With the police short staffed and underfunded following the financial crash, Gunnhildur and her team set about delving into the backgrounds of both, where they uncover some unwelcome secrets and some influential friends of both who have no wish to be in the public eye. Set in an Iceland that is coming to terms with the deepening recession, Gunnhildur has to take stock of the whirlwind changes that have taken place as she investigates criminals at opposite ends of the social scale as some uncomfortable links appear between the two cases. The second dark and atmospheric thriller in Quentin Bates's Icelandic crime series. A chilling page-turner perfect for fans of Jo Nesbo, Henning Mankell and Søren Sveistrup's The Chestnut Man. Praise for Quentin Bates: 'A great read - leaves you craving the next installment' Yrsa Sigurðardóttir 'A perfect book to curl up with in front of the fire' The Bookbag 'Well written and absorbing' Woman's Way 'Captures the chilly spirit of Nordic crime fiction . . . Fans of Arnaldur Indridason's Reykjavík mysteries will want to add Bates to their reading lists' Booklist '[A] crackling fiction debut ... palpable authenticity' Publishers Weekly 'A superb new series' Eurocrime
Author: Stella Gibbons Publisher: Random House ISBN: 1448113903 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 322
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Indulge in a feel-good collection of stories from the author of Cold Comfort Farm. WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH The title story tells of a typical Christmas at the farm before the coming of Flora Poste. It is a parody of the worst sort of family Christmas: Adam Lambsbreath dresses up as Father Christmas in two of Judith's red shawls. There are unsuitable presents, unpleasant insertions into the pudding and Aunt Ada Doom orders Amos to carve the turkey, adding: 'Ay, would it were a vulture, 'twere more fitting!' 'Stella Gibbons is the Jane Austen of the 20th century' Lynne Truss, author of the Constable Twitten series.
Author: Sarah Manguso Publisher: Hogarth ISBN: 0593241231 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 209
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The masterly debut novel from “an exquisitely astute writer” (The Boston Globe), about growing up in—and out of—the suffocating constraints of small-town America. “Compact and beautiful . . . This novel bordering on a novella punches above its weight.”—The New York Times “Very Cold People reminded me of My Brilliant Friend.”—The New Yorker ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker, NPR, Los Angeles Times, The Guardian, Good Housekeeping “My parents didn’t belong in Waitsfield, but they moved there anyway.” For Ruthie, the frozen town of Waitsfield, Massachusetts, is all she has ever known. Once home to the country’s oldest and most illustrious families—the Cabots, the Lowells: the “first, best people”—by the tail end of the twentieth century, it is an unforgiving place awash with secrets. Forged in this frigid landscape Ruthie has been dogged by feelings of inadequacy her whole life. Hers is no picturesque New England childhood but one of swap meets and factory seconds and powdered milk. Shame blankets her like the thick snow that regularly buries nearly everything in Waitsfield. As she grows older, Ruthie slowly learns how the town’s prim facade conceals a deeper, darker history, and how silence often masks a legacy of harm—from the violence that runs down the family line to the horrors endured by her high school friends, each suffering a fate worse than the last. For Ruthie, Waitsfield is a place to be survived, and a girl like her would be lucky to get out alive. In her eagerly anticipated debut novel, Sarah Manguso has written, with characteristic precision, a masterwork on growing up in—and out of—the suffocating constraints of a very old, and very cold, small town. At once an ungilded portrait of girlhood at the crossroads of history and social class as well as a vital confrontation with an all-American whiteness where the ice of emotional restraint meets the embers of smoldering rage, Very Cold People is a haunted jewel of a novel from one of our most virtuosic literary writers.
Author: Graham Rowley Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP ISBN: 0773530053 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 373
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In 1936 Graham Rowley went to the still-unexplored west coast of Baffin Island as the archaeologist for a small British expedition - the last in the Canadian North that depended on traditional techniques.Cold Comfort, his acclaimed memoir of this period, captures the way of life in the North before World War II, including the experience of travelling by dogsled over unexplored land. This new edition includes the beginning of Rowley's planned sequel covering his post-war experiences in the Arctic. The additional three chapters describe Operation Musk-Ox, the first military exercise to show that it was feasible to manoeuvre in the Arctic even in winter, and Rowley's work for the Canadian Defense Research Board. An afterword by Susan Rowley and John Bennett expands on Rowley's ongoing involvement in the rapid change that took place from the Cold War to the establishment of Nunavut.
Author: John Becker, S.J. Publisher: AuthorHouse ISBN: 1463484631 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 244
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SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"What they have to say about Cold Comfort:Another masterpiece from Father Becker that explores the Catholic positions on abortion and homosexuality while presenting us with a thrilling search for the elusive murderer of Senator Gene Wainwright’s wife.It is solidly pro-life and a joy to read.Daniel Eisenbacher Husband and father The Mohr “twins” keep you coming back for more and more.Donna Jeanne McGahey Educator In this volume, Father Becker teaches me, as he has for more than two decades: I must never stop learning, and I move toward wisdom and grace in part by thinking, and caring, and conversing, about what matters...and by inviting everyone to do likewise.Dan Sophy Attorney and former student A second delicious bite (after Father, Forgive Them of life and politics in a Jesuit college preparatory served up by Fr. Luke Wolfe, an aging Jesuit priest dabbling serendipitously in murder detective work with the assistance of as lively a bunch of youngsters as the gaggle of thieves and pickpockets apprenticing themselves to Dickens’ villains in Oliver Twist.Becky Boudway Author of Treasure in the Dust Cold Comfort;keeps the readers on the edge of their seats;from the beginning when Fr. Luke makes a frightening discovery while on a forage for a midnight snack until the exciting, surprise ending. A real page turner, Cold Comfort''s intriguing mystery is made even more enjoyable;by unique characters, clever humor and Fr. Luke''s wisdom. Definitely a must read! Sue Widemark Author/independent medical researcher
Author: Barton Sutter
Author: Barton Sutter
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