Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 566
Book Description
The Edinburgh Review
Author: Edinburgh
Author: Alexander CheePublisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0544671872
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 243
Book Description
From the best-selling author of How To Write an Autobiographical Novel, Alexander Chee's award-winning debut is "One of the great queer novels . . . of our time."—Brandon Taylor, GQ Twelve-year-old Fee is a shy Korean-American boy growing up in Maine whose powerful soprano voice wins him a place as section leader of the first sopranos in his local boys choir. But when, on a retreat, Fee discovers how the director treats the boys he makes section leader, he is so ashamed, he says nothing of the abuse, not even when Peter, Fee’s best friend, is in line to be next. The director is eventually arrested, and Fee tries to forgive himself for his silence. But when Peter takes his own life, Fee blames only himself. Years later, after he has carefully pieced a new life together, Fee takes a job at a private school near his hometown. There he meets a young student, Arden, who, to his shock, is the picture of Peter—and the son of his old choir director. Told with “the force of a dream and the heft of a life” (Annie Dillard), this is a haunting, lyrically written debut novel that marked Chee “as a major talent whose career will bear watching” (Publisher’s Weekly).
The Edinburgh Review
Author: Essays from the Edinburgh and Quarterly Reviews with Addresses and Other Pieces
Author: John F.W. HerschelPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3375158831
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 758
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1857.
Total Immediate Collective Imminent Terrestrial Salvation
Author: Tim CrouchPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1786828154
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 157
Book Description
Jesus didn't die so we could be reborn, lady, the stars did. The writer leads his followers towards the end of this world and the start of a new one. The book he's written predicts it all – the equations, the black hole, all the words we'll speak till then. On this last day, at this last hour, a defector finds her voice and returns.
The Edinburgh Review, Or Critical Journal: ... To Be Continued Quarterly
Author: The Edinburgh Review
Author: Critical and Historical Essays
Author: Thomas Babington MacaulayPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
The Edinburgh Review
Author: Edinburgh Companion to the Critical Medical Humanities
Author: Anne WhiteheadPublisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 1474400051
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 700
Book Description
In this landmark Companion, expert contributors from around the world map out the field of the critical medical humanities. This is the first volume to introduce comprehensively the ways in which interdisciplinary thinking across the humanities and social sciences might contribute to, critique and develop medical understanding of the human individually and collectively. The thirty-six newly commissioned chapters range widely within and across disciplinary fields, always alert to the intersections between medicine, as broadly defined, and critical thinking. Each chapter offers suggestions for further reading on the issues raised, and each section concludes with an Afterword, written by a leading critic, outlining future possibilities for cutting-edge work in this area. Topics covered in this volume include: the affective body, biomedicine, blindness, breath, disability, early modern medical practice, fatness, the genome, language, madness, narrative, race, systems biology, performance, the postcolonial, public health, touch, twins, voice and wonder. Together the chapters generate a body of new knowledge and make a decisive intervention into how health, medicine and clinical care might address questions of individual, subjective and embodied experience.