Look for Cormac McCarthy's latest novels, The Passenger and Stella Maris. When Moss takes the money, he sets off a chain reaction of catastrophic violence that not even the law-in the person of aging, disillusioned Sheriff Bell-can contain.Īs Moss tries to evade his pursuers-in particular a mysterious mastermind who flips coins for human lives-McCarthy simultaneously strips down the American crime novel and broadens its concerns to encompass themes as ancient as the Bible and as bloodily contemporary as this morning’s headlines. A load of heroin and two million dollars in cash are still in the back. One day, a good old boy named Llewellyn Moss finds a pickup truck surrounded by a bodyguard of dead men. The time is our own, when rustlers have given way to drug-runners and small towns have become free-fire zones. From the bestselling, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Road comes a "profoundly disturbing and gorgeously rendered" novel ( The Washington Post) that returns to the Texas-Mexico border, setting of the famed Border Trilogy.
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IF NOT, WINTER gives us an extraordinary ancient poet brought alive by a brilliantly empathetic contemporary poet. In IF NOT, WINTER, Carson presents all the extant fragments of Sappho's verse, employing brackets and white space to denote missing text - allowing the reader to imagine the poems as they were written.Ĭarson says of her method of translation: 'I like to think that, the more I stand out of the way, the more Sappho shows through.' And certainly her translation illuminates Sappho's reflections on love and desire, her companions and rivals, the goddess Aphrodite, her own daughter, Kleis. From the critically acclaimed poet and classicist Anne Carson: a brilliant new translation of the work of Sappho, together with the original Greek.ĭuring her life on the island of Lesbos, Sappho is said to have composed nine books of lyrics. David took Amanda’s body pinned down with fever and loaded her in a boat. Amanda asked David to take her to the Green House to save Nina and her soul. It was David who was dragging Amanda in the woods. Throughout the film, Carole really got along with Nina and probably wanted a part of Nina’s soul for David’s body.įrom the beginning, David was trying to warn Amanda of her mother’s intention in Amanda’s fever dream. After David’s migration, his body lost a part of his soul, and Carole desired to fill the void with a soul of her likeness. Amanda, in her fever dream, told David that Carole wanted Nina for herself.Ĭarole probably had an ulterior motive in the whole setup. Without Amanda’s permission, Carole took Nina to the witch house for another migration to save Nina’s life. The nurse told her that the doctor was coming, but Carole knew that by the time the medicine man would arrive, both Amanda and Nina will be dead. Amanda was admitted to a facility that looked like a school infirmary. The village lacked proper medical facilities and didn’t even have an appropriate doctor for emergencies. Digitally restored, all six episodes are now available for the very first time. However, this complete recording of a 1940 production - made for Canadian radio and based on the original BBC radio scripts - was recently rediscovered in the national Library and Archives of Canada. But who is the Knave? And can he be stopped?Īll but one episode of the original 1938 BBC production of Send for Paul Temple are lost from the archives. They are the work of a shadowy criminal mastermind known only as The Knave of Diamonds. In Paul and Steve's very first adventure, starring Bernard Braden as Paul with Peggy Hassard as Steve, a spate of jewel robberies in the Midlands has left the police baffled. Theirs was an exciting world of violence and glamour - car bombs and cocktail parties. Bernard Braden stars in an original 1940 full-cast production of the very first Paul Temple adventureīetween 19 the exploits of amateur detective Paul Temple and his wife, Steve, enthralled generations of BBC radio listeners. Edgar has no option other than to call on Claude for help.Įdgar is awoken one night by the dogs barking. They are injured and the family vet is out of town. He pours an enormous pile of dog kibble into the middle of the barn but two of the dogs get into a fight. He is exhausted and falls asleep on the job, which means that the dogs are not fed on time. Run down Trudy contracts pneumonia, leaving the bulk of the work to Edgar. After his death, Edgar and his mother decide to keep the business running, even though there is really too much work for just the two of them. Claude leaves again after the two have a drunken altercation and a couple of weeks after that, Edgar finds his father dying in the barn. His own dog, Almondine, is always at his side.Ĭlaude returns to the farm but he and Gar do not get along. Edgar is good with the dogs and stays on at the farm when he grows up. They realize that he is mute but teach him sign language so that they can communicate. Gar marries Trudy and they have a child, Edgar. Gar loves the dog breeding business and joins his father in it, but Claude is less enamored and moves away. He rented out the land to another farmer, and with his wife, raised his two sons, Gar, Edgar's father, and Claude. We are thankful for their contributions and encourage you to make your own.Įdgar Sawtelle's grandfather, John, bought a farm many years ago, before Edgar was born, and began a dog breeding enterprise. These notes were contributed by members of the GradeSaver community. “Nestor pulls us below the surface into a world far beyond imagining and opens our eyes to these unseen places.” - Dallas Morning News “A journey well worth taking.” -David Epstein, New York Times Book Review Along the way, Nestor unlocks his own freediving skills as he communes with the pioneers who are expanding our definition of what is possible in the natural world, and in ourselves. Most illuminating of all, he learns that these abilities are reflected in our own remarkable, and often hidden, potential-including echolocation, directional sense, and the profound bodily changes humans undergo when underwater. He finds whales that communicate with other whales hundreds of miles away, sharks that swim in unerringly straight lines through pitch-black waters, and other strange phenomena. An Amazon Best Science Book of 2014 įascinated by the sport of freediving-in which competitors descend great depths on a single breath-James Nestor embeds with a gang of oceangoing extreme athletes and renegade researchers.New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice From the bestselling author of Breath, a “fascinating, informative, exhilarating” voyage from the ocean’s surface to its darkest trenches ( Wall Street Journal) A portrait emerges of Posy Simmonds as a chronicler and critic of contemporary British society and a storyteller in words and pictures of rare perception and humanity. In a series of interviews with Paul Gravett she offered insights into her creative process and provided unprecedented access to her `workroom' and archives containing sketchbooks and rare or never-before-seen artworks. This is the first book to explore Simmonds's life and work from her early childhood to the present day. 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