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Author | : Ben Okri |
Publisher | : Orion Media |
Total Pages | : 230 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Arkadia (Greece) |
ISBN | : 9780753817070 |
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A group of angry and ill-assorted people accept an invitation to make a journey. Inspired by a painting and financed by a mysterious benefactor, they set off to discover the real Arcadia. Or what remains of it. Their journey begins in ignorance and chaos at Waterloo station and takes them through superstition and myth to harmony. In the Louvre, in front of Poussin's masterpiece, they begin to understand. 'In Arcadia takes that staple Shakespearean theme of appearance versus reality and uses it to explore the notion of paradise' Scotsman
Author | : Lauren Groff |
Publisher | : Hachette Books |
Total Pages | : 278 |
Release | : 2012-03-13 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1401342787 |
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A staggering portrait of a crumbling utopia, this "timeless and vast" novel filled with the "raw beauty" beautifully depicts an idyllic commune in New York State -- and charts its eventual yet inevitable downfall (Janet Maslin, The New York Times). NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Timeless and vast... The raw beauty of Ms. Groff's prose is one of the best things about Arcadia. But it is by no means this book's only kind of splendor."---Janet Maslin, The New York Times "Even the most incidental details vibrate with life Arcadia wends a harrowing path back to a fragile, lovely place you can believe in."---Ron Charles, The Washington Post In the fields of western New York State in the 1970s, a few dozen idealists set out to live off the land, founding a commune centered on the grounds of a decaying mansion called Arcadia House. Arcadia follows this romantic utopian dream from its hopeful start through its heyday. Arcadia's inhabitants include Handy, the charismatic leader; his wife, Astrid, a midwife; Abe, a master carpenter; Hannah, a baker and historian; and Abe and Hannah's only child, Bit. While Arcadia rises and falls, Bit, too, ages and changes. He falls in love with Helle, Handy's lovely, troubled daughter. And eventually he must face the world beyond Arcadia. In Arcadia, Groff displays her literary gifts to stunning effect. "Fascinating."---People (****) "It's not possible to write any better without showing off."---Richard Russo, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Empire Falls "Dazzling."---Vogue
Author | : Iain Pears |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 528 |
Release | : 2016-02-09 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1101946830 |
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From the author of the international best seller An Instance of the Fingerpost, Arcadia is an astonishing work of imagination. In Cold War England, Professor Henry Lytten, having renounced a career in espionage, is writing a fantasy novel that dares to imagine a world less fraught than his own. He finds an unlikely confidante in Rosie, an inquisitive young neighbor who, while chasing after Lytten's cat one day, stumbles through a doorway in his cellar and into a stunning and unfamiliar bucolic landscape—remarkably like the fantasy world Lytten is writing about. There she meets a young boy named Jay who is about to embark on a journey that will change both their lives. Elsewhere, in a distopian society where progress is controlled by a corrupt ruling elite, the brilliant scientist Angela Meerson has discovered the potential of a powerful new machine. When the authorities come knocking, she will make an important decision—one that will reverberate through all these different lives and worlds.
Author | : Julian Jackson |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2009-12-15 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0226389286 |
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In Paris in 1954, a young man named André Baudry founded Arcadie, an organization for “homophiles” that would become the largest of its kind that has ever existed in France, lasting nearly thirty years. In addition to acting as the only public voice for French gays prior to the explosion of radicalism of 1968, Arcadie—with its club and review—was a social and intellectual hub, attracting support from individuals as diverse as Jean Cocteau and Michel Foucault and offering support and solidarity to thousands of isolated individuals. Yet despite its huge importance, Arcadie has largely disappeared from the historical record. The main cause of this neglect, Julian Jackson explains in Living in Arcadia, is that during the post-Stonewall era of queer activism, Baudry’s organization fell into disfavor, dismissed as conservative, conformist, and closeted. Through extensive archival research and numerous interviews with the reclusive Baudry, Jackson challenges this reductive view, uncovering Arcadie’s pioneering efforts to educate the European public about homosexuality in an era of renewed repression. In the course of relating this absorbing history, Jackson offers a startlingly original account of the history of homosexuality in modern France.
Author | : Tom Stoppard |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 115 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 0571169341 |
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This play takes readers back and forth between the 19th and 20th centuries. Set in a large country house in Derbyshire, a cast of characters from each century play out their respective dramas.
Author | : Bill Scott |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 32 |
Release | : 2013-10-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780988913929 |
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Author | : Paul Holberton |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2021 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781912168248 |
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Author | : Anthony Madrid |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : American poetry |
ISBN | : 9780996982757 |
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Poetry. Written under the spell of a medieval Welsh poetic form, the poems in Anthony Madrid's incantatory second book, TRY NEVER, each offer up their own strange world. They're full of erudition, humor, and rare magnificence. A single poem can contain "bottles and cans," Mount Everest, an upset stomach, Texas rain, a hawk, the evil queen, a "twice- mended lid," and Ralph; as if to say, anything's possible.
Author | : Eric Jason Martin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2021-03-02 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780578846125 |
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New Arcadia: Stage One is an epic journey back to the year 199X, an ancient era where you must use your fists, your wits, and your pager to survive.In real life, the year is 2023, and life is not great. John Chambers is a middle-aged man in a dead-end job, trapped in his home in the desert. But in the virtual world of New Arcadia, John becomes Blaze, a young urban fighter in a retro beat 'em up city. Blaze has incredible speed and strength, and absolutely zero lower back pain.John / Blaze must team up with Kevin (aka Iceman), to save Jessica (aka Jessica) from the Spankers, a violent street gang in their gritty new neighborhood of Satan's Pantry. But Jessica is not nearly as helpless as they believe.Together, these loners must learn to come together and stop the deadly Drug X from taking over the city. Meanwhile, in the real world, game creator Lucas Dekker must battle enemies of his own - including game-breaking bugs.If they succeed, they just may save New Arcadia?and the real world, too.Strap on your fanny pack, and get ready for the fight of your life.
Author | : JD Shaw |
Publisher | : Lulu.com |
Total Pages | : 198 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0646595016 |
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A dark but playful journey to post climate change fortress suburbia. An enclave of outrageous entitlement defended by a community hell-bent on protecting its insatiable affluence from an increasingly desperate outside world. A terrifying home invasion forces Tom and his young family to flee the crumbling, crime-ridden inner-city for a fresh start in Arcadia; an idyllic suburb nestled on the city fringe that offers security and a sparkling new civic morality. Arcadia's refreshing way of life quickly begins to tarnish when Tom stumbles upon some harsh and unpalatable realities that underpin the suburb's affluent lifestyle.