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Janet Frame
Claire BAZIN. Northcote House, paperback, 140pp, 9780746310113, $29.95
This study examines the whole of Janet Frame's output starting with the fiction (novels, short-stories and poems) before focusing on the two autobiographical novels, Owls Do Cry and Faces in the Water, to end with the autobiographical trilogy, a sort of restorative prism inviting us to (re) read all her preceding works. It is the autobiography and its film version, An Angel at My Table, that won her international fame. Frame's life is extraordinary, not only because she was spared a lobotomy by winning a prize for her collection of short stories, but also because writing from the 'rim of the farthest circle', she provides food for thought for anyone interested in postcolonial and gender studies.
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Lucius APULEIUS. Adapted from the Latin by M. D. Usher. Illustrated by T. Motley.
David R. Godine 11/2011, hardback, 112pp, 9781567924183, $19.95
The Golden Ass has been a favourite of the private presses and illustrators since the invention of printing. Apuleius' comic masterpiece, originally composed in Latin in the second century A.D. traces the hilarious misadventures of a young man a tad too curious about magic for his own good. Hoping to change himself into an owl, he turns himself into a donkey instead, and in this guise is sold, stolen, or otherwise shunted from one master to the next. Along the way, he sees the underbelly of the sprawling Roman Empire, with its saints and villains, its venal merchants and greedy priests, until he's transformed back to human form via divine intervention. Not only a story of comic redemption, it is also a self-conscious, early example of storytelling that left an indelible mark on subsequent literature - from Chaucer's Canterbury Tales to Boccaccio's Decameron, from Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream to Pinocchio.
M.D. Usher's creative adaptation brings the tale alive 'for young readers of all ages'. Classical scholars will admire its faithfulness and its clever innovations, while new readers - young and old - will enjoy its freshness and accessibility. Motley's lively, thoroughly contemporary drawings capture the boisterous, see-sawing plot, while wittily quoting any number of graphic predecessors. Here is illustration at its best, at once illuminating and expanding a text while bringing it squarely into a new century.
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Lyn PYKETT. Northcote House 11/2012, paperbackback, 170pp, 9780746312124, $29.95
First published in 1994, Lyn Pykett's The Sensation Novel from 'The Woman in White' to 'The Moonstone' charted the re-emergence into critical view of a 19th-century fictional genre which had, in its own day, enjoyed immense popular success and given rise to heated critical and moral debates. Since the mid-1990s the sensation novel has continued to attract the attention of both general readers and critics and scholars. In the last 15 years the sensation novel has been brought to fresh audiences in numerous new editions and in new television and radio adaptations of Lady Audley's Secret, The Woman in White and The Moonstone, an Andrew Lloyd Webber musical based on The Woman in White and a film of Basil. Among the recent studies of the genre, several have sought to shift critical attention from an exclusive focus on Braddon, Collins and Wood and relatively narrow range of texts published in the 1860s to include texts from later decades of the century.
This revised and expanded version, retitled The Nineteenth-Century Sensation Novel, responds to these developments, taking account of recent studies of the genre, and expanding both the range of authors covered and its discussion of the authors originally included.
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Douglas FIELD. Northcote House, paperback, 128pp, 9780746312070, $29.95
This study provides an engaging overview and clear analysis of the fiction, non-fiction and drama of African-American writer James Baldwin (1924-1987). Whilst giving close attention to Baldwin's popular works such as Go Tell it on the Mountain and Another Country it also explores other important but less well-known themes and texts including the use of the blues, masculinity, race and sexuality.
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Denise DeCaires NARAIN. Northcote House, paperback, 164pp, 9780746310991, $29.95
The Jamaican writer, Olive Senior, has been writing and publishing since the 1980s. Her oeuvre includes poetry and short stories as well as journalism, a sociological study of Caribbean women and a comprehensive encyclopaedia of Jamaican culture. Although Senior now lives in Toronto, her work remains intensely focused on loving portraits of 'ordinary' Jamaicans whether they are struggling to make a living off the land in harsh rural contexts or to negotiate the complex postcolonial realities of life in the city. Senior scrutinises the way power operates at global and local levels and the reader is always made aware of the bigger historical narratives which position (but don't quite 'fix') the individuals that she writes about. Senior's work is always attentive to detail and to the texture of literary language and she has established a tone of voice which is distinctly understated and wry, insinuating rather than declaiming its truths.
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Judy SIMONS. Northcote House, paperback, 120pp, 9780746309797, $29.95
Rosamond Lehmann's first book, Dusty Answer (1927), with its scandalous subject matter, made her a literary celebrity at the age of 27. Seen as the voice of a new generation, she became the centre of an artistic circle that included W.H. Auden, Stephen Spender and Elizabeth Bowen. Lehmann's novels deal with the urgency of romance and the vicissitudes of young women in love, and depict the emotional rollercoaster of romance and the tortuous process of growing up more directly than any writer before her. This book locates Lehmann's fictional achievement in the context of her times and in particular describes its positioning within the turbulent period between two world wars and the changing aesthetic of modernity. It includes a penetrating critical analysis of each of the major works, drawing on previously unpublished private papers, including letters to family and friends. In this it provides fresh and original insights into one of the most celebrated English novelists of her age.
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Rene GOSCINNY. Illustrated by 'Morris'. Cinebook 12/2011, paperback, 48pp, 9781849181044, $12.95
The Lonesome Cowboy takes charge of construction of the First Transcontinental Railroad! The First Transcontinental Railroad is stopped dead near its starting point, both in the East and in the West. Repeated injunctions from the president of the 'Transcontinental Railroad' are having no effect: His workers are constantly prevented from working by agents of a mysterious traitor.But Lucky Luke witnesses one of the acts of sabotage and stops it. Soon, he is in charge of security for the entire westward push - and he will have his work cut out for him!
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Jean VAN HAMME. Illustrated by Grzegorz Rosinski. Cinebook 12/2011, paperback, 48pp, 9781849181044, $12.95
To be a normal man at last, Thorgal will have to storm no less than the Invisible Fortress. Still travelling with Kris of Valnor, Thorgal runs afoul of a local tribe. When a mysterious old woman offers him a chance to escape the hostile villagers, he accepts. But there's more to the bargain: She says that if he can make his way into the Invisible Fortress, he'll be able to erase his name from the Stone of the Gods, cancelling his destiny - and finally have a chance at a normal life ...
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Rebetika: Music from the Old Greek Underworld [with CD]
Giannis CHORBAJOGLOU. Black Rose Books 11/2011, paperback, 188pp, 9781551643380, $24.95
During the 1920s, over a million and a half Greeks were forced to leave their lands and towns. Many became refugees, even in Greece, and some became known as rebetes. They were very much discriminated against. Rebetika traces their struggle through the evolution of their music - enriched by new challenges and a sense of tragedy for which the Greeks are famous. Rebetika has been compared to the American blues, the Portuguese fado, and the Spanish flamenco.
Rebetika is a fascinating history of the anguish of an uprooted people from their ancestral homes. From Greek-inhabited Asia Minor, particularly along the Ionian Sea coast, thousands were expelled to live elsewhere in what they call the Catastrophe of 1922. This bitter experience of uprooting a people who lived there for thousands of years was the result of nationalism and war ...
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~Quotes: scene individable, or poem unlimited~
'Heart! I will drag thee hence home by the hair,Cry thee a strumpet through the streets, rip up
Thy mouth unto thine ears, and slit they nose,
Like a raw rochet!
Ben Jonson
Act 111, scene vii
Volpone
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