![]() ![]() Determined to protect her children and husband at all costs, Sumaiyarefuses to alert her family to her diagnosis. Soon, a boat crosses bringing Sumaiya, a fiercely resolute Syrian matriarch with terminal liver cancer. ![]() But with a week off work and apart from her wife of thirty years, Mina hopes to accomplish something meaningful, among the abundance of Western volunteers who pose for selfies with beached dinghies and the camp's children. Alienated from her family except for her beloved brother, Mina has avoided being so close to her homeland for decades. Mina Simpson, a Lebanese doctor, arrives at the infamous Moria refugee camp on Lesbos, Greece, after being urgently summoned for help by her friend who runs an NGO there. By National Book Award finalist and Dos Passos Prize winner, Rabih Alameddine, comes a transporting new novel about an Arab American trans woman's personal journey among Syrian refugees on Lesbos island. ![]()
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5/31/2023 0 Comments Pearl of China by Anchee Min![]() ![]() As the twentieth century unfolds in all its turmoil, through right-wing military coups and Mao's Red Revolution, through bad marriages and broken dreams, the two girls cling to their lifelong friendship across the sea. From the start the two are thick as thieves, but when the Boxer Rebellion rocks the nation, Pearl's family is forced to leave China to flee religious persecution. ![]() Pearl is head-strong, independent and fiercely intelligent, and will grow up to be Pearl S Buck, the Pulitzer- and Nobel Prize-winning writer and humanitarian activist, but for now all Willow knows is that she has never met anyone like her in all her life. Until the day she meets Pearl, the eldest daughter of a zealous American missionary. It is the end of the nineteenth century and China is riding on the crest of great change, but for nine-year-old Willow, the only child of a destitute family in the small southern town of Chin-kiang, nothing ever seems to change. ![]() A fine, unread copy in a fine dust jacket. Buck First American edition (first printing). ![]() 5/31/2023 0 Comments Everyday Genius by Gary Alan Fine![]() They did that at least but for long periods, Chelsea still looked a bunch of scared strangers. ‘We are staying up!’ was the delighted response from the Chelsea fans, ironically delivered but factually true: they are now pretty much safe from relegation, a huge goal difference swing aside, so that’s one milestone that Boehly can tick off in this mother of all meltdown seasons. That said, it’s amazing what a couple of goals and your first win since March 11th can do. As such, the darkening ambiance among the travelling support fitted the occasion. There was nervousness on the ball, they were disorganised when repelling counter attacks and there was little to suggest a run of six successive defeats was coming to an end. Safe to say, all was not well for Chelsea here until the 82nd minute. And when Raheem Sterling and Hakim Ziyech came on they were roundly booed from the Chelsea end. There was support proffered for Roman Abramovich, an oligarch sanctioned for enabling Vladimir Putin’s illegal war in Ukraine. ![]() Todd Boehly’s name was invoked from the Chelsea end with a choice Chaucerian insult added. ![]() 5/31/2023 0 Comments Goya by Janis A. Tomlinson![]() ![]() ![]() Tomlinson challenges the popular image of the artist as an isolated figure obsessed with darkness and death, showing how Goya's likeability and ambition contributed to his success at court, and offering new perspectives on his youth, rich family life, extensive travels, and lifelong friendships. In this revelatory biography, Janis Tomlinson draws on a wide range of documents-including letters, court papers, and a sketchbook used by Goya in the early years of his career-to provide a nuanced portrait of a complex and multifaceted painter and printmaker, whose art is synonymous with compelling images of the people, events, and social revolution that defined his life and era. ![]() The first major English-language biography of Francisco Goya y Lucientes, who ushered in the modern eraThe life of Francisco Goya (1746-1828) coincided with an age of transformation in Spanish history that brought upheavals in the country's politics and at the court which Goya served, changes in society, the devastation of the Iberian Peninsula in the war against Napoleon, and an ensuing period of political instability. ![]() 5/31/2023 0 Comments Tab Hunter Confidential by Hunter![]() I'm very proud of That Kind of Woman with Sophia Loren, directed by Sidney Lumet, and I loved doing Gunman's Walk because I finally got to play a bad guy. I was the only one who wasn't in the Broadway production, and my character was very guileless. He plants the seeds and then lets you go.įor film fans who may not be familiar with your work, which three films are you especially proud of that they should view first? Damn Yankees, because it was my first musical. He really knows what he wants because he's created a great blueprint. Without the drag, he looked like a beached whale, but once the camera was on, she was on! And John Waters is one of the most creative directors I've ever worked with. It was Natalie Wood, Lana Turner, Rita Hayworth and Divine. She was one of my favorite leading ladies. Tell us about starring opposite Divine in John Waters's Polyester and in Lust in the Dust. ![]() But somewhere under all the crap there is a pony. Being gay, it's going to be difficult to be a leading man or woman. What advice would you give to young gay actors who are beginning their careers today? I'd say be truthful and honest to yourself, and do what you think is right. ![]() |