Among the daily struggles to get by and get ahead, single motherhood, Utrata finds, is seldom considered a tragedy. While most Russians, including single mothers, believe that two-parent families are preferable, many also contend that single motherhood is an inevitable by-product of two intractable problems: "weak men" (reflected, they argue, in the country’s widespread, chronic male alcoholism) and a "weak state" (considered so because of Russia’s unequal economy and poor social services). Drawing on extensive ethnographic and interview data, Jennifer Utrata focuses on the puzzle of how single motherhood―frequently seen as a social problem in other contexts―became taken for granted in the New Russia. Women without Men illuminates Russia’s "quiet revolution" in family life through the lens of single motherhood.
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I remember that he noticed me examining the monthly night-sky chart pinned to the classroom door, and thereafter would print off an extra copy specially and wordlessly hand it to me if he saw me in the corridor (never in class, not wishing to embarrass me*) Our first lessons tried to tell us what the subject was all about, and a poetic but confusing article telling me that it was about, among other things, not being able to push a blade of grass into the trunk of an oak tree demonstrated clearly that some things are better learned by seeing and doing than by reading. Fortunately, my elderly teacher had an infectious affection for his subject. When I started secondary school I was mildly apprehensive about 'physics', an unfamiliar word that elicited an actual shudder from my mother. See our Remarkables Archive list for what is no longer in print, but which we are happy to track down. Due to limited print runs and rare editions, many remarkables are no longer readily available.
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A listing of individual items that make up a package is provided on the package item's product detail page along with real-time item availability of those items. A "package" is made up of two or more items sold as a set, often for a reduced price. Miss Valentine moves out of the boarding house. Adam develops a crush on one of the boarders and his obvious feelings make Hattie uncomfortable.Ĭlimax: Adam hangs himself after discovering his love for Miss Valentine is unrequited.įalling Action: Hattie speaks at Adam’s funeral and shows her allegiance to a man who was her friend and confidante. She befriends a girl whose family owns the carnival that’s come to town and the two of them conspire to allow Adam a little freedom from her oppressive grandparents. Rising Action: Adam’s peculiarities cause Hattie to question how she fits in with friends and family. She is propped up in bed, a great perfumy mountain.Įxposition: Amost 12-year-old Hattie discovers she has an uncle who will soon come to live in Millerton, the small town where her family owns and runs a boarding house much to the chagrin of her wealthy grandparents.Ĭonflict:Uncle Adam’s struggle with mental illness doesn’t quite fit the vision of the perfect life and family that Nana and Papa have held for years, and come to think of it, Hattie doesn’t feel like she fits in either. I am just about the only person who is allowed to see Miss Hagerty early in the morning before she has put her face on. Martin’s use of figurative language colors the story, too. Sometimes he calls out, “Happiness! Happiness!” which makes me smile. Reminiscent of the movie Rain Man, Uncle Adam’s dialog in A Corner of the Universe is rapid fire, non-sequitorial, stream-of- consciousness. But Chéri was on display at the library, and of course I’d been meaning to read Colette for decades! As far as I can tell from Moore’s book, Chéri is not one that was banned, and it’s not the title listed for Colette in 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die (2012): that one is Claudine’s House, also translated as My Mother’s House. Today these titles seem tame and I doubt if many parents censor them these days, but still, Colette’s Chéri was a serendipitous library find for Banned Books Week because – as Nicole Moore tells us in The Censor’s Library – Colette was one of many respected authors banned in Australia during the 1930s (even though she was nominated for the Nobel Prize). Naturally this provoked my interest, but not enough to make me track them down – there were too many other interesting books for me to read, and besides, the pleasure of reading books was partly talking about them afterwards with my father, something I would not have been able to do if I read clandestine titles… The nearest there was to censorship of my reading when I was a girl, was when my mother, murmuring something about saving it for when I was older, discreetly removed the Folio edition of Zola’s Nana from the bookshelves as I worked my way along them, and also when my sister came home from university enthusing about the French author Colette but refused to let me set eyes on whichever one it was that she was reading. Thursday's job includes spotting forgeries of Shakespeare's lost plays, mending holes in narrative plot lines, and rescuing characters who have been kidnapped from literary masterpieces. Set in 1985 in a world that is similar to our own, but with a few crucial - and bizarre - differences (Wales is a socialist republic, the Crimean War is still ongoing and the most popular pets are home-cloned dodos), The Eyre Affair introduces literary detective named 'Thursday Next'. Secretly harbouring a desire to tell his own stories rather than help other people tell their's, Jasper started writing in 1988, and spent eleven years secretly writing novel after novel as he strove to find a style of his own that was a no-mans-land somewhere between the warring factions of Literary and Absurd.Īfter receiving 76 rejection letters from publishers, Jasper's first novel The Eyre Affair was taken on by Hodder & Stoughton and published in July 2001. Fforde began his career in the film industry, and for nineteen years held a variety of posts on such movies as Goldeneye, The Mask of Zorro and Entrapment. There's no question at all that Delirium is beautifully written and that Lena is a fantastic main character who develops really well as she falls in love for the first time and finds her world changed completely. But with the date of the cure so close, can she possibly do anything about her new feelings? And then she meets a boy, and her views on love are turnedĬompletely upside down. She knows things will change - she's seen the effect it has on those who go through it and the way it makes them all calmer - but she's ready to welcome it. After her mother's suicide for love Lena is desperate to reach that age and receive the cure. The cure has been found for amor deliria nervosa, and is given to all children when they reach the age of 18. Lena's world has nearly reached that stage. Where romance was dead, parents felt no affection for their children, and Romeo and Juliet was studied as a cautionary tale. The Intuitive Eating Workbook offers a new way of looking at food and mealtime by showing you how to recognize your body's natural hunger signals. Based on the authors' best-selling book, Intuitive Eating, this workbook can show you how. You can enjoy food again-you just need to pay attention to your body's natural hunger cues. If you are ready to throw in your hat and give up on dieting for good, take heart. Have you tried fad diet after fad diet, only to gain weight back? Maybe you've tried the protein diet only to move on to vegetables only? Raw almonds and coconut water every forty-five minutes instead of big meals? Or perhaps you've tried counting calories, but the numbers on the scale still don't add up. Do you use food to comfort yourself during stressful times? 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Just the past three years have produced a line of beauty that stretches from Marilynne Robinson’s “ Home” to Roxana Robinson’s “ Cost” to Lily King’s “ Father of the Rain.” These are some of the finest recent American novels on any subject, but all of them portray the horror of watching a loved one drink or snort or inject himself to death.Įach of these writers managed to say something fresh about drug addiction, which tends, in its cruel way, to reduce a great variety of people to the same predictable plot: denying the problem, promising to quit, hitting rock bottom, falling into relapse and finally climbing up (or falling down) those 12 steps. The classics already there should inspire shakes and palpitations, enough anxiety of influence to make all but the most desperate writer drop the idea cold turkey. A new novel about drug addiction swaggers into a tough room. |