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Arlington Park (novel)
''Arlington Park'' is author Rachel Cusk's seventh book. Plot Focussing on a single day in an affluent English suburb, the book chronicles the lives of five middle-class married women, all of them mothers of young children. Going about their routines of child-rearing, work, shopping and socialising, they dwell of their feelings of frustration and disappointment, memories good and bad, aspirations and sometimes flashes of inspiration and hope. The five meet in the evening at a dinner party hosted by one of them. Characters The five women are Juliet Randall, Amanda Clapp, Maisie Carrington, Stephanie Sykes, and Christine Lanham who hosts the dinner party. The Guardian noted a literary parallel, describing Christine as "a drolly jaundiced version of Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway". Review in the Guardian, 2006< ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rachel Cusk
Rachel Cusk (born 8 February 1967) is a British novelist and writer. Childhood and education Cusk was born in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Saskatoon to British people, British parents in 1967, the second of four children with an older sister and two younger brothers, and spent much of her early childhood in Los Angeles. She moved to her parents' native Britain in 1974, settling in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk. She comes from a wealthy Catholic family, and was educated at St Mary's School, Cambridge, St Mary's Convent in Cambridge. She studied English at New College, Oxford. Career Cusk has written eleven novels, four works of non-fiction, and adapted ''Medea (play), Medea'' for the London theatre Almeida Theatre, Almeida. She published her first novel, ''Saving Agnes'' in 1993 which received the 1993 Whitbread Awards, Whitbread First Novel Award. Its themes of femininity and social satire remained central to her work over the next decade. In responding to the formal problems of the no ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mrs Dalloway
''Mrs. Dalloway'' is a novel by Virginia Woolf, published on 14 May 1925, that details a day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway, a fictional upper-class woman in post-First World War England. It is one of Woolf's best-known novels. The working title of ''Mrs. Dalloway'' was ''The Hours''. The novel began as two short stories, "Mrs. Dalloway in Bond Street" and the unfinished "The Prime Minister". The book describes Clarissa's preparations for a party she will host in the evening, and the ensuing party. With an interior perspective, the story travels forwards and backwards in time, to construct an image of Clarissa's life and of the inter-war social structure. The novel addresses the nature of time in personal experience through multiple interwoven stories. In October 2005, ''Mrs. Dalloway'' was included on ''TIME Magazine''s list of the 100 best English-language novels written since its first issue in 1923. Plot Summary Clarissa Dalloway goes around London in the morning, get ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Orange Prize For Fiction
The Women's Prize for Fiction (previously with sponsor names Orange Prize for Fiction (1996–2006 and 2009–12), Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction (2007–08) and Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction (2014–2017)) is one of the United Kingdom's most prestigious literary prizes. It is awarded annually to a female author of any nationality for the best original full-length novel written in English and published in the United Kingdom in the preceding year. History The prize was established in 1996, to recognise the literary achievement of female writers. The inspiration for the prize was the Booker Prize of 1991, when none of the six shortlisted books was by a woman, despite some 60% of novels published that year being by female authors. A group of women and men working in the industry – authors, publishers, agents, booksellers, librarians, journalists – therefore met to discuss the issue. Research showed that women’s literary achievements were often not acknowledged by the ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2006 British Novels
6 (six) is the natural number following 5 and preceding 7. It is a composite number and the smallest perfect number. In mathematics Six is the smallest positive integer which is neither a square number nor a prime number; it is the second smallest composite number, behind 4; its proper divisors are , and . Since 6 equals the sum of its proper divisors, it is a perfect number; 6 is the smallest of the perfect numbers. It is also the smallest Granville number, or \mathcal-perfect number. As a perfect number: *6 is related to the Mersenne prime 3, since . (The next perfect number is 28.) *6 is the only even perfect number that is not the sum of successive odd cubes. *6 is the root of the 6-aliquot tree, and is itself the aliquot sum of only one other number; the square number, . Six is the only number that is both the sum and the product of three consecutive positive numbers. Unrelated to 6's being a perfect number, a Golomb ruler of length 6 is a "perfect ruler". Six is a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Books About Virginia Woolf
A book is a medium for recording information in the form of writing or images, typically composed of many pages (made of papyrus, parchment, vellum, or paper) bound together and protected by a cover. The technical term for this physical arrangement is ''codex'' (plural, ''codices''). In the history of hand-held physical supports for extended written compositions or records, the codex replaces its predecessor, the scroll. A single sheet in a codex is a leaf and each side of a leaf is a page. As an intellectual object, a book is prototypically a composition of such great length that it takes a considerable investment of time to compose and still considered as an investment of time to read. In a restricted sense, a book is a self-sufficient section or part of a longer composition, a usage reflecting that, in antiquity, long works had to be written on several scrolls and each scroll had to be identified by the book it contained. Each part of Aristotle's '' Physics'' i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Faber And Faber Books
Faber may refer to: People * Faber (surname) Companies * Faber and Faber (also known as "Faber and Gwyer"), publishing house in the United Kingdom * Faber-Castell, German manufacturer of writing instruments * Faber Music, British sheet music publisher * Eberhard Faber, German art supply manufacturer best known (in the United States) by their brand of pencil and eraser In fiction * Faber College, fictional school providing the setting for the movie ''National Lampoon's Animal House'' * Faber (Fahrenheit 451), character in Ray Bradbury's science fiction novel ''Fahrenheit 451'' Places * Faber, Virginia, a community in the United States * Mount Faber, second highest peak in Singapore Other uses * ''Faber'', pseudonym of the Italian singer-songwriter Fabrizio De André * ''Faber'' (EP), a 2006 EP by Faber Drive * Faber (grape), grape variety also known as ''Faberrebe'' * FABER test (Flexion Abduction External Rotation), a test for evidence of hip arthritis * Fabe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
