![]() ![]() Michael Ende's works have been translated into more than 40 languages and sold more than 20 million copies, and have been adapted into motion pictures, stage plays, operas and audio books. ![]() Other books include Momo and Jim Knopf und Lukas der Lokomotivführer (Jim Button and Luke the Engine Driver). He was interested in and influenced by anthroposophy.ĭie unendliche Geschichte (The Neverending Story) is Ende's best known work. The reader is often invited to take a more interactive role in the story, and the worlds in his books often mirror our reality, using fantasy to bring light to the problems of an increasingly technological modern society.Įnde was also known as a proponent of economic reform, and claimed to have had the concept of aging money in mind when writing Momo. Ende’s writing could be described as a surreal mixture of reality and fantasy. ![]() Ende claimed, "It is for this child in me, and in all of us, that I tell my stories," and that " for any child between 80 and 8 years" (qtd. However, Ende was not strictly a children’s author, as he also wrote books for adults. He was the son of the surrealist painter Edgar Ende.Įnde was one of the most popular and famous German authors of the 20th century, mostly due to the enormous success of his children's books. Momo: Michael Endes Fantasy Novel Getting Big-Canvas English-Language. Michael Andreas Helmuth Ende was a German writer of fantasy and children's literature. Jeff Bezos Amazon reportedly interested in acquiring NBA media rights All. ![]()
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![]() An earlier arrival would have done much to strengthen this uneven novel. There is much fun to the tale once the smiling, sadistic elves actually appear, befuddling the townfolk with their beauty and illusion. Only in the last third of the novel does he strike a successful balance among action, imagination and comedy. It's a tempting premise, but underdeveloped by Pratchett, who relies too heavily on his trademark humor, veering into the silly and sophomoric, to fuel the early portions of this fantasy. They've forgotten that elves are nasty creatures who live only to torture their prey-humans especially. ![]() The fairies are back and this time they don’t just want your teeth. And even in a world of wizards, trolls, dwarves, Morris dancers and the odd orangutan they’re spectacularly nasty creatures. Trouble is, almost everyone else in the kingdom of Lancre is eager to welcome the ``lords and ladies'' back. The witches Granny Weatherwax, Nanny Ogg and Magrat Garlick return home to discover that elves have invaded Lancre. Only the three wacky witches, formidable Granny Weatherwax, crusty Nanny Ogg and scatterbrained Magrat Garlick, can ensure that the worst does not happen: the return of the elves. Worlds are weaving closer to one another, with unpredictable results. It's circle time on the Discworld portentous round depressions are showing up everywhere, even in bowls of porridge. This latest installment, however, is unlikely to widen his readership. ![]() Pratchett (Small Gods) has won an ardent following with his tales of Discworld and his particular brand of comedic fantasy. ![]() ![]() ![]() Maybe six of one and half dozen of the other. In fact you would not so much want to be friends with Joyce and Harvey, they are just so awkward and difficult about everything, either that or life conspires to make everything messy and frustrating for them. This book is co-written by Harvey and his wife Joyce Brabner and it’s a pekaresque mingling of her stuff (student peace activism) and his stuff (cancer) and their stuff (moving house), all of which adds to the drama-trauma because none of it goes smoothly. So, the doctors cure Harvey but then they give him medicine which makes him really ill. It’s going to be really awful.Ĭancer plays a cruel game on Harvey – he ignores a lump in his groin for three years, finally gets it checked out, it’s malignant lymphoma, they remove it, he’s now clear! Great! But they have to now give him three to six months of heavy chemo followed by radiotherapy to make sure it doesn’t come back, and it’s this chemo that causes all Harvey’s frequent near death experiences, outbursts of horrifying shingles and constant refrains of lemme die, lemme die now, I can’t take it. ![]() So this graphic novel is not going to be Jonathan Livingston Pekar. ![]() A grumpy, cantankerous stick-in-the-mud hypochondriac who then gets cancer – well, why not. Even when he didn’t have non-Hodgkins lymphoma Harvey Pekar wasn’t Mr Positive and he had practically no use for raindrops on roses or whiskers on kittens. ![]() ![]() ![]() Pablo Neruda (1904-1973), one of the most renowned poets of the twentieth century, was born in Parral, Chile. The memoirs conclude shortly after the coup in 1972 that overthrew his close friend Salvador Allende, Chile’s first democratically elected president, as Neruda himself battled cancer. After a year in hiding, he escaped on horseback over the Andes, then to Europe and Asia. Neruda, a communist, was driven from his senate seat in 1948, and a warrant was issued for his arrest. From there, his memoir follows his travels as a globetrotting Chilean consul-including a stint in Spain during its civil war, and in Mexico, where he attracted attention for aiding a man suspected of conspiring to assassinate Leon Trotsky-and his short-lived service as a Chilean senator. A motherless, pensive child in the wild, he began writing poems long before quitting the countryside for Santiago, where he spent his bohemian student years. ![]() Southern Chile was an open frontier when the beloved poet Pablo Neruda was born there in 1904. Now expanded to include newly discovered material, The Complete Memoirs is the definitive edition of Neruda’s classic memoir-a moving, revealing record of his life as a poet, a patriot, and one of the twentieth century’s true men of conscience. ![]() The Complete Memoirs: Expanded Edition by Pablo Neruda ![]() ![]() Desmond Cole raises a wide range of stories and experiences including microaggressions in employment, anti-Black racism in education, the oppression of Indigenous Peoples, and violent police brutality. The Skin We’re In actively contests Canada’s national narrative by following a year in Black encounters with and resistance to white supremacy. The axiomatic belief in Canada’s multicultural values and historical innocence is often used to dismiss the experiences of racialized Canadians and camouflage the white supremacy inherent in Canada’s systems and institutions. ![]() witnessed more than in conversations about race and racism. ![]() Nowhere is our purported difference to the U.S. ![]() Canada’s national narrative, in contrast to that of our American neighbours, tells a story of global peacekeepers, apologetic citizens, and liberal multiculturalism. ![]() ![]() ![]() He is happiest playing with his daemon, Asta, in their canoe, La Belle Sauvage. Malcolm Polstead's Oxford life has been one of routine, ordinary even. Philip Pullman's magnificent bestseller is now in paperback, with new additional illustrations. Aircraft & Spacecraft: General InterestĪ coming of age story like no other.Ships, Boats & Waterways: General Interest.Road & Motor Vehicles: General Interest. ![]()
![]() And as Americans began thinking about their nation in a new way-as one more nation among nations, no more providential than any other-the pundits declared that from now on successful politicians would be the ones who honored this chastened new national mood. The collapse of the South Vietnamese government rendered moot the sacrifice of some 58,000 American lives. The next president declared upon Nixon's resignation "our long national nightmare is over"-but then congressional investigators exposed the CIA for assassinating foreign leaders. ![]() In January of 1973 Richard Nixon announced the end of the Vietnam War and prepared for a triumphant second term-until televised Watergate hearings revealed his White House as little better than a mafia den. Description The New York Times bestselling dazzling portrait of America on the verge of a nervous breakdown in the tumultuous political and economic times of the 1970s. ![]() ![]() He shows how a movement based on tenets of compassion and humaneness transformed itself, of necessity, into a community that values bravery and military prowess as well as spirituality. ![]() Now, Patwant Singh gives us the compelling story of the Sikhs - their origins, traditions and beliefs, and more recent history. In retaliation, Sikh bodyguards assassinated Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. The conflict has raged into our own time: in 1984 the Golden Temple of Amritsar - the holy shrine of the Sikhs-was destroyed by the Indian Army. In the centuries that followed, three of Nanak's nine successors met violent ends, and his people continued to battle hostile regimes. The Sikhs defied the caste system rejected the authority of Hindu priests forbade magic and idolatry and promoted the equality of men and women - beliefs that incurred the wrath of both Hindus and Muslims. ![]() ![]() Five hundred years ago, Guru Nanak founded the Sikh faith in India. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This is so that he will eventually see a secret message that is visible only with the glasses. ( The Case of the Transparent Nude, 1958)īecause of a clause in a will, a character has to wear a pair of hideous blue glasses constantly for a whole year. Only her head and toes, sticking out of the steam cabinet, remain. Someone killed an antique dealer just so he could steal the face - only the face - from a surrealist painting of "The Man from Saturn." ( The Face of the Man from Saturn, 1933)Ī woman's body disappears while taking a steam bath. Police suspect the "Flying Strangler-Baby," a killer midget who disguises himself as a baby and stalks victims by helicopter. ![]() Take some typical Keeler situations:Ī man is found strangled to death in the middle of a lawn, yet there are no footprints other than his own. Actually, no genre, nor "camp," can much suggest what Keeler is all about. Today, if you've heard of him at all, it's as the Ed Wood of mystery novelists, a writer reputed to be so bad he's good. In his time, he was pegged as a mystery novelist who also wrote some science fiction. «Harry Stephen Keeler (1890-1967) is one of the strangest writers who ever lived. " Keeler takes the implicit absurdity of the mystery genre and makes it explicit." Harry Stephen Keeler, The Riddle of the Traveling Skull (McSweeney's, 2005) ![]() ![]() ![]() She also reveals that she has been reading a book called The Way of a Pilgrim. It is the Yale game, so his school is of the Ivy League variety.ĭuring lunch with Lane at a restaurant, Franny expresses her disenchantment with phony college intellectuals and the egotism that abounds in her school’s Theatre department, which caused her to quit her involvement. ![]() She is attending a football weekend at her boyfriend Lane Coutell’s school. The youngest of the Glass family, she’s a student at an unnamed Eastern college. The family history is revealed for the reader, and all the family members enumerated – the parents: Les and Bessie and the seven children: Seymour, Buddy, Boo Boo, the twins Walt and Waker, Zooey and Franny.įranny Glass is presented almost entirely in dialogue. Now, the mythic Glass clan is fleshed out. Salinger had already introduced some of the family members in stories such as “A Perfect Day for Bananafish” and “Down at the Dinghy”. It appeared ten years after the publication of his best-seller The Catcher in the Rye.įranny and Zooey is the first book-length treatment of the Glass family. Salinger published a slim volume containing a short story and a short novel that had both appeared previously in The New Yorker. ![]() Fifty years ago this September, in 1961, J.D. ![]() |