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Author |
: Charles Baxter |
Publisher |
: Vintage |
Total Pages |
: 321 |
Release |
: 2009-05-14 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780307565693 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0307565696 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (93 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Feast of Love by : Charles Baxter
National Book Award Finalist • A superb novel that delicately unearths the myriad manifestations of extraordinary love between ordinary people, from "one of our most gifted writers" (Chicago Tribune) and the winner of the PEN/Malamud Award "A near perfect book, as deep as it is broad in its humaneness, comedy and wisdom." —The Washington Post The Feast of Love is just that—a sumptuous work of fiction about the thing that most distracts and delights us. In a re-imagined Midsummer Night's Dream, men and women speak of and desire their ideal mates; parents seek out their lost children; adult children try to come to terms with their own parents and, in some cases, find new ones. In vignettes both comic and sexy, the owner of a coffee shop recalls the day his first wife seemed to achieve a moment of simple perfection, while she remembers the women's softball game during which she was stricken by the beauty of the shortstop. A young couple spends hours at the coffee shop fueling the idea of their fierce love. A professor of philosophy, stopping by for a cup of coffee, makes a valiant attempt to explain what he knows to be the inexplicable workings of the human heart Their voices resonate with each other—disparate people joined by the meanderings of love—and come together in a tapestry that depicts the most irresistible arena of life. Crafted with subtlety, grace, and power, The Feast of Love is a masterful novel.
Author |
: Margaret Kennedy |
Publisher |
: Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages |
: 336 |
Release |
: 2023-06-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781946022516 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1946022519 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (16 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Feast by : Margaret Kennedy
"Kennedy is not only a romantic but an anarchist." —Anita Brookner Summer, 1947. A bizarre catastrophe rocks a seaside village in Cornwall when a cliff tumbles down on the Pendizack Manor Hotel. The hotel is obliterated, and seven guests are killed in the disaster. Everyone else makes a narrow escape. As the survivors tell their stories, the events of the previous week are revealed, and a parade of sins exposed. Gluttony, Lecherousness, Sloth, Pride, Covetousness, Envy and Wrath: all are in residence at Pendizack Manor, and as the day of the disaster creeps closer, it becomes clear that who’s spared and who’s lost might not be as arbitrary as first assumed. A modern upstairs-downstairs comedy with an old-fashioned morality play tucked away inside, The Feast is sly, kaleidoscopic, and utterly ingenious, a novel that only Margaret Kennedy could have written.
Author |
: Paul Fike Stutzman |
Publisher |
: Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Total Pages |
: 286 |
Release |
: 2011-01-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781498273176 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1498273173 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (76 Downloads) |
Synopsis Recovering the Love Feast by : Paul Fike Stutzman
What is a Love Feast? How did the early church celebrate the Love Feast? How might Christians today celebrate the Love Feast? In Recovering the Love Feast, Paul Stutzman addresses these questions, offering a unique blend of liturgical history and practical theology. Part I outlines the history of the Love Feast, noting its prevalence in early church worship, its gradual decline, and its reemergence in the practices of several Pietist groups (e.g., the Moravians, Methodists, and Brethren). Particular focus is given to five elements of the celebration, that is: eucharistic preparation, feetwashing, the fellowship meal, the holy kiss, and the Eucharist proper. In Part II, Stutzman argues that the Love Feast is a valuable Christian practice and a celebration worth recovering in those traditions that may have forgotten the feast. Rather than prescribing a specific method for celebrating the Love Feast, Stutzman proposes that there are five key disciplines that today's Love Feasts should embody: submission, love, confession, reconciliation, and thanksgiving. This book encourages Christians from a range of traditions to experiment with reclaiming the Love Feast, with the hope that each celebration serves as an act of worship to God and an authentic expression of Christian discipleship.
Author |
: Anne Rice |
Publisher |
: Random House |
Total Pages |
: 644 |
Release |
: 1997 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780099269472 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0099269473 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (72 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Feast of All Saints by : Anne Rice
Set in New Orleans before the American Civil War, this is the story of the Free People of Color, descended from slaves, and their French and Spanish owners. Among their number is Marcel, an artist in the making, also his gentle sister Marie and Anna Bella, a beautiful young courtesan.
Author |
: Harry Crews |
Publisher |
: Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages |
: 195 |
Release |
: 1998-01-07 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780684842486 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0684842483 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (86 Downloads) |
Synopsis A Feast of Snakes by : Harry Crews
From the acclaimed author of such novels as "Blood and Grits" and "Childhood" comes a wildly weird and breathtakingly original visit to the rural South that reveals the exotic subculture that erupts in all its glory at the Rattlesnake Roundup in Mystic, Georgia. "No number of adjectives in the thesaurus can do full justice to the dazzlingly bizarre nature of Crews' creations".--"Washington Post Book World".
Author |
: Dr Alejandro Jadad |
Publisher |
: Beati Incorporated |
Total Pages |
: |
Release |
: 2016-09-20 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9584674722 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9789584674722 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (22 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Feast of Our Life by : Dr Alejandro Jadad
Do you hear me? Only you can listen to me. I am your "inner voice." As you read these words, I am inviting you to be part of a very intimate conversation. I am taking you on a journey to discover, recover and uncover your capacity to flourish and live a full life, no matter what happens. I am provoking you to acknowledge me, and to let me re-connect you with your self. Then, we will never be, or feel, lonely again. Come along with me. Feel free to unleash your imagination. There is no reason to worry. After all, nobody else will ever be able to hear us.
Author |
: Daniel Paterna |
Publisher |
: powerHouse Books |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2019-11-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1576879151 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781576879153 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (51 Downloads) |
Synopsis Feast of the Seven Fishes by : Daniel Paterna
Daniel Paterna's Feast of the Seven Fishes: A Brooklyn-Italian's Recipes Celebrating Food and Family is a timely reminder that a shared memory of food draws upon and enriches our souls. In Feast of the Seven Fishes: A Brooklyn Italian's Recipes Celebrating Food and Family, Daniel Paterna takes you on magical journey into a hidden world. Through recipes handed down in his family, stunning photos taken by the author himself, and three-generations of memories, Paterna reveals the soulful, humorous, and always delicious history of Italian-Americans in Brooklyn. Paterna is the real deal, a second-generation Italian-American, whose family has preserved their culture from the shores of Naples to the streets of Bensonhurst. He'll show you how to make long-forgotten recipes like stuffed calamari and he'll take you to the stores, restaurants, and bakeries where artisans are still doing things the old way. This is an intensely personal book that powerfully illustrates the essence of the American experience: the ways food, family, and memory are preserved and changed by the immigrants who brought them to our shores, and the children of those immigrants who keepthe flame alive.
Author |
: Hazel Hayes |
Publisher |
: Penguin |
Total Pages |
: 417 |
Release |
: 2021-09-28 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780593184530 |
ISBN-13 |
: 059318453X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (30 Downloads) |
Synopsis Out of Love by : Hazel Hayes
One of E! News' 13 Books to Read This September | One of Bookish's Debuts to Read in the Second Half of 2021 | One of Medium's Best Releases Out Today “Hazel Hayes writes with such honesty and casual confidence and flowing dialogue, you feel you are overhearing it rather than reading it. The writing sparkles with wit and a poignant emotional reality. I love it.”—Matt Haig, bestselling author of The Midnight Library “A smart, touching, time-bending romance. Funny and affecting.”—David Nicholls, bestselling author of One Day and Sweet Sorrow For anyone who has loved and lost, and lived to tell the tale, this gorgeously written debut is a love story told in reverse, a modern novel with the heart of a classic: truthful, tragic, and ultimately full of hope. Out of Love begins at the end. A couple call it quits after nearly five years, and while holding a box of her ex-boyfriend’s belongings, the young woman wonders: How could they have spent so long together? When did they fall out of love? Were there good times before the bad? These are the questions we obsess over when a relationship ends, even when obsessing can do no good. But instead of moving forward through the emotional fallout of a break-up, Out of Love moves backward in time, weaving together an already unraveled tapestry, from tragic ending to magical first kiss. Each chapter jumps further into the past, mining their history for the days and details that might help us understand love; how it happens and why it sometimes falls apart. Readers of Normal People; Goodbye, Vitamin; and One Day will adore this bittersweet romance, a sparkling debut that you won’t want to miss.
Author |
: Sierra Simone |
Publisher |
: Sierra Simone |
Total Pages |
: 428 |
Release |
: 2019-08-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781949364026 |
ISBN-13 |
: 194936402X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (26 Downloads) |
Synopsis Feast of Sparks by : Sierra Simone
I’m an outcast and a loner, named for death itself. Fate wasn’t supposed to have plans for me. But then she came back—the girl I once kissed in a thorn-covered chapel in the woods. She came back, and I could no more resist her than I could pry out my own heart. And by some trick of fate, she wants me as much as I want her. The only problem? She also wants the man who owns Thornchapel, Auden Guest. And so do I. Eight years ago, I did something to Auden, something terrible. He hurt me back the only way he knew how, and so here we are: our hatred seasoned with pain and my loneliness seasoned with longing. The only thing we can agree on is Proserpina Markham, and she wants us to find a way to be together—all three of us. If Auden wants to earn her as his submissive, then he has to earn me as well. But with the discovery of bones behind the altar and the carnal revel of Beltane fast approaching, it’s becoming clear that Thornchapel’s secrets are much deeper and older than any of us could have ever guessed. And no matter how bright and merry a feast of sparks may be, it’s always followed by ashes. And darkness. Feast of Sparks is Book Two in the Thornchapel quartet. Content warnings can be found at thesierrasimone.com/contentnotes
Author |
: Mario Vargas Llosa |
Publisher |
: Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Total Pages |
: 420 |
Release |
: 2011-03-04 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781429921787 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1429921781 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (87 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Feast of the Goat by : Mario Vargas Llosa
WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE In The Feast of the Goat, this 'masterpiece of Latin American and world literature, and one of the finest political novels ever written' (Bookforum), Mario Vargas Llosa recounts the end of a regime and the birth of a terrible democracy, giving voice to the historical Trujillo and the victims, both innocent and complicit, drawn into his deadly orbit. Haunted all her life by feelings of terror and emptiness, forty-nine-year-old Urania Cabral returns to her native Dominican Republic - and finds herself reliving the events of l961, when the capital was still called Trujillo City and one old man terrorized a nation of three million. Rafael Trujillo, the depraved ailing dictator whom Dominicans call the Goat, controls his inner circle with a combination of violence and blackmail. In Trujillo's gaudy palace, treachery and cowardice have become a way of life. But Trujillo's grasp is slipping. There is a conspiracy against him, and a Machiavellian revolution already underway that will have bloody consequences of its own. "A fierce, edgy and enthralling book ... Mr. Vargas Llosa has pushed the boundaries of the traditional historical novel, and in doing so has written a book of harrowing power and lasting resonance."--The New York Times