The Stone Women
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Author |
: A S Byatt |
Publisher |
: Random House |
Total Pages |
: 27 |
Release |
: 2011-11-17 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781448128327 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1448128323 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (27 Downloads) |
Synopsis A Stone Woman (Storycuts) by : A S Byatt
Following the death of her mother, an elderly woman begins to undergo a transfiguration. Her body grows flinty, toughens and crystallises. An Icelandic stonemason she meets in a graveyard becomes her sole confidant. As her inexorable metamorphosis continues, the stories he has to tell of his homeland and its legends begin to resonate. Part of the Storycuts series, this short story was originally published in the collection Little Black Book of Stories.
Author |
: Tariq Ali |
Publisher |
: Verso |
Total Pages |
: 292 |
Release |
: 2001 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1859843646 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781859843642 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (46 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Stone Woman by : Tariq Ali
'Ali spins a web of tales that is as inventive and fantastical as the Arabian nights.'âe"The Times.
Author |
: Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa |
Publisher |
: Macmillan |
Total Pages |
: 336 |
Release |
: 2009-09-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781429918527 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1429918527 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (27 Downloads) |
Synopsis Daughters of the Stone by : Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa
Finalist for the PEN/Robert Bingham Fellowship for Writers It is the mid-1800s. Fela, taken from Africa, is working at her second sugar plantation in colonial Puerto Rico, where her mistress is only too happy to benefit from her impressive embroidery skills. But Fela has a secret. Before she and her husband were separated and sold into slavery, they performed a tribal ceremony in which they poured the essence of their unborn child into a very special stone. Fela keeps the stone with her, waiting for the chance to finish what she started. When the plantation owner approaches her, Fela sees a better opportunity for her child, and allows the man to act out his desire. Such is the beginning of a line of daughters connected by their intense love for one another, and the stories of a lost land. Mati, a powerful healer and noted craftswoman, is grounded in a life that is disappearing in a quickly changing world. Concha, unsure of her place, doesn't realize the price she will pay for rejecting her past. Elena, modern and educated, tries to navigate between two cultures, moving to the United States, where she will struggle to keep her family together. Carisa turns to the past for wisdom and strength when her life in New York falls apart. The stone becomes meaningful to each of the women, pulling them through times of crisis and ultimately connecting them to one another. Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa shows great skill and warmth in the telling of this heartbreaking, inspirational story about mothers and daughters, and the ways in which they hurt and save one another.
Author |
: Anna M. Lewis |
Publisher |
: Chicago Review Press |
Total Pages |
: 274 |
Release |
: 2014-01-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781613745113 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1613745117 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (13 Downloads) |
Synopsis Women of Steel and Stone by : Anna M. Lewis
An inspiration for young people who love to design, build, and work with their hands, Women of Steel and Stone tells the stories of 22 female architects, engineers, and landscape designers from the 1800s to today. Engaging profiles based on historical research and firsthand interviews stress how childhood passions, perseverance, and creativity led these women to overcome challenges and break barriers to achieve great success in their professions. Subjects include Marion Mahony Griffin, who worked alongside Frank Lloyd Wright to establish his distinct architectural-drawing style; Emily Warren Roebling, who, after her husband fell ill, took over the duties of chief engineer on the Brooklyn Bridge project; Marian Cruger Coffin, a landscape architect who designed estates of Gilded Age mansions; Beverly L. Greene, the first African American woman in the country to get her architecture license; Zaha Hadid, one of today's best-known architects and the first woman to receive the prestigious Pritzker Architecture Prize; and many others. Practical information such as lists of top schools in each field; descriptions of specific areas of study and required degrees; and lists of programs for kids and teens, places to visit, and professional organizations, make this an invaluable resource for students, parents, and teachers alike.
Author |
: Merlin Stone |
Publisher |
: Doubleday |
Total Pages |
: 379 |
Release |
: 2012-05-09 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780307816856 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0307816850 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (56 Downloads) |
Synopsis When God Was A Woman by : Merlin Stone
Here, archaeologically documented,is the story of the religion of the Goddess. Under her, women’s roles were far more prominent than in patriarchal Judeo-Christian cultures. Stone describes this ancient system and, with its disintegration, the decline in women’s status.
Author |
: Judith V. Jordan |
Publisher |
: Guilford Press |
Total Pages |
: 356 |
Release |
: 1997-03-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1572302062 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781572302068 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (62 Downloads) |
Synopsis Women's Growth in Diversity by : Judith V. Jordan
Essays discussing women's psychological development examine the experiences of women from diverse backgrounds
Author |
: Barbara O'Dair |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 616 |
Release |
: 1997 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015040565981 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (81 Downloads) |
Synopsis Trouble Girls by : Barbara O'Dair
Essays by leading music critics look at the most important female rock musicians, singers, and groups, with profiles of Bonnie Raitt, Carol King, Tina Turner, Janis Joplin, Madonna, and many others.
Author |
: Tariq Ali |
Publisher |
: Open Road Media |
Total Pages |
: 1701 |
Release |
: 2014-01-14 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781480448582 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1480448583 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (82 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Islam Quintet by : Tariq Ali
Five nuanced and powerful historical novels depicting the clashes among Muslims, Christians, and Jews from the Crusades to twenty-first-century London. Celebrated British-Pakistani journalist and author Tariq Ali takes a mind-expanding journey through the ages with these five acclaimed works of fiction, available now in one collection. Shadows of the Pomegranate Tree: “Ali captures the humanity and splendor of Muslim Spain” in “an enthralling story, unraveled with thrift and verve” (The Independent). For the doomed Moors, the fall of Granada and the approaching forces of Christendom bring not peace but the sword. The Book of Saladin: After Saladin reclaims the holy city of Jerusalem from the Crusaders, he turns to a Jewish scribe to record his story, which Edward Said calls “a narrative for our time, haunted by distant events and characters who are closer to us than we had dreamed.” The Stone Woman: “Ali paints a vivid picture of a fading world,” proclaims the New York Times Book Review, as a distant descendant of an exiled Ottoman courtier suffers a stroke in Istanbul, and his family rushes to his side to hear his last stories. A Sultan in Palermo: In “a marvelously paced and boisterously told novel of intrigue, love, insurrection and manipulation,” cartographer Muhammad al-Idrisi is caught between his friendship with King Roger of Sicily and the resentments of his fellow Muslims (The Guardian). Night of the Golden Butterfly: A Lahore-born writer living in London is called back to his homeland by an old friend who, at seventy-five, has finally fallen in love. “If Pakistan is a land of untold stories,” writes the New Statesman, Ali is “the country’s finest historian and critic.”
Author |
: Shashi Deshpande |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 108 |
Release |
: 2000 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015054418408 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (08 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Stone Women by : Shashi Deshpande
Author |
: Margaret Laurence |
Publisher |
: University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages |
: 319 |
Release |
: 2015-07-22 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780226923871 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0226923878 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (71 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Stone Angel by : Margaret Laurence
The Stone Angel, The Diviners, and A Bird in the House are three of the five books in Margaret Laurence's renowned "Manawaka series," named for the small Canadian prairie town in which they take place. Each of these books is narrated by a strong woman growing up in the town and struggling with physical and emotional isolation. In The Stone Angel, Hagar Shipley, age ninety, tells the story of her life, and in doing so tries to come to terms with how the very qualities which sustained her have deprived her of joy. Mingling past and present, she maintains pride in the face of senility, while recalling the life she led as a rebellious young bride, and later as a grieving mother. Laurence gives us in Hagar a woman who is funny, infuriating, and heartbreakingly poignant. "This is a revelation, not impersonation. The effect of such skilled use of language is to lead the reader towards the self-recognition that Hagar misses."—Robertson Davies, New York Times "It is [Laurence's] admirable achievement to strike, with an equally sure touch, the peculiar note and the universal; she gives us a portrait of a remarkable character and at the same time the picture of old age itself, with the pain, the weariness, the terror, the impotent angers and physical mishaps, the realization that others are waiting and wishing for an end."—Honor Tracy, The New Republic "Miss Laurence is the best fiction writer in the Dominion and one of the best in the hemisphere."—Atlantic "[Laurence] demonstrates in The Stone Angel that she has a true novelist's gift for catching a character in mid-passion and life at full flood. . . . As [Hagar Shipley] daydreams and chatters and lurches through the novel, she traces one of the most convincing—and the most touching—portraits of an unregenerate sinner declining into senility since Sara Monday went to her reward in Joyce Cary's The Horse's Mouth."—Time "Laurence's triumph is in her evocation of Hagar at ninety. . . . We sympathize with her in her resistance to being moved to a nursing home, in her preposterous flight, in her impatience in the hospital. Battered, depleted, suffering, she rages with her last breath against the dying of the light. The Stone Angel is a fine novel, admirably written and sustained by unfailing insight."—Granville Hicks, Saturday Review "The Stone Angel is a good book because Mrs. Laurence avoids sentimentality and condescension; Hagar Shipley is still passionately involved in the puzzle of her own nature. . . . Laurence's imaginative tact is strikingly at work, for surely this is what it feels like to be old."—Paul Pickrel, Harper's