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1000 tulosta hakusanalla A. L. Barker

Projet Faille: Bienvenue à l'Institut

Projet Faille: Bienvenue à l'Institut

Benoit Barker

Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2016
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Que feriez-vous si, du jour au lendemain, vous vous retrouviez dans une cole ressemblant plus une prison qu' un tablissement scolaire ? Une cole o l' chec signifie au mieux, la mort, au pire... non, mieux vaut ne pas parler du pire. Florian va le d couvrir. Entre les faux semblants et la surveillance constante, parviendra-t-il fuir cet endroit myst rieux avant qu'il ne soit trop tard ? Et surtout, supportera-t-il la terrible v rit cach e derri re les murs de l'Institut ? Thriller m langeant suspense, myst re, humour et horreur. Plongez au coeur de l'Institut, une dystopie aux inqui tants secrets o les meilleures des intentions entrainent les plus terribles des cons quences.
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Little Shirley Barker Wants To Be A Teacher

Little Shirley Barker Wants To Be A Teacher

Jureesa L. McBride

Independently Published
2019
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Little Shirley Barker Wants To Be A Teacher is children's book about a little girl who learns early in life her joy and curiosity in wanting to become a teacher. She starts preparing herself for a future in education. Shirley finds lots of reasons why she wants to be a teacher. This book will inspire other children to grow up to become amazing teachers just like her
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A Case Examined

A Case Examined

A. L. Barker

Faber Faber
2009
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In a parish of wealthy women, Rose Antrobus forms a committee to decide who should benefit from a small bequest left to charity. Secretly she hopes the money will go to the Peachey family - a mother cruelly abandoned and looking after her three young children on a pittance. But the situation isn't as simple as all that, and soon it causes unexpceted ructions and confrontations - and Rose finds herself turning back the clock to remember a childhood vacation spent at the Marigny chateau in France ... a vacation which, thirty years later, is to provide the solution to her dilemma. 'The dialogue is subtle and the atmosphere of the French visits economically and brilliantly conveyed.' A. S. Byatt
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Apology for a Hero

Apology for a Hero

A. L. Barker

Faber Faber
2009
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Charles Candy is cantankerous, old fashioned, set in his ways; settled with his wife in a beautiful house in Cornwall, he's also quite content. But all of this changes when his sister-in-law Perry comes to stay. She's a spiritual hobo - independent, erratic, rootless and romatic - and Charles finds himself inexplicably attracted to her, and having to face up to the truth about who he really is. Depicting their burgeoning relationship with both sharp humour and poignant sadness, Barker's first novel once more reveals her incredible grasp of human emotions, as already seen in her short fiction. It's an engaging, enjoyable, hugely skilled debut novel.
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A Source of Embarrassment

A Source of Embarrassment

A. L. Barker

Faber Faber
2009
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Edith Trembath's charming inability to cope with problems of everyday life is a constant source of embarrassment to her friends and family. Unwittingly, she provokes friends and enemies alike, and has a disconcerting habit of not finishing what she is saying. When Edith hints that she has an incurable illness and might soon be departing this world, the lives of her acquaintances become even more complicated. Edith's sixteen year old daughter Corinne falls hopelessly in love with her brother Robert; and Edith's husband becomes involved with another woman. It is left to Filmer, the mysterious gardener, to effect a cure for Edith's malady but his sinister methods are unorthodox to say the least. The delicacy of A. L. Barker's style harbours dark shadows of the macabre, the distressing and the bizarre. 'A quirky, bizarre, earthy book...Miss Barker transfixes ordinariness with her arrowed prose.' Sunday Times'She writes with witty undertone, stylish, oblique...like a 1970's Jane Austen.' The Observer
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A Heavy Feather

A Heavy Feather

A. L. Barker

Faber Faber
2009
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'You start alone, you finish alone,' she says: 'It's fine to be alone, it's a revelation, truth at last.'This is the story of Almayer Jenkin's progress through life, from a motherless childhood through adult love affairs and her own experience of motherhood. In this novel, vivid and spare, touching and comic, A. L. Barker draws a fine portrait of Almayer and the diverse people she meets and lives among.'I know nothing of A. L. Barker, except that she writes like an angel and I love her.' Auberon Waugh 'A novel that deserves to be cherished, as A. L. Barker so plainly cherishes her characters. She has a rare ability to illuminate the remarkable qualities of commonplace things, and a profound sympathy for us all, liable as we all are to being knocked over by very little at any time.' New York Magazine
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Atticus, 33 A.D.: Centurion of Rome

Atticus, 33 A.D.: Centurion of Rome

R. L. Barker

Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2017
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Set in 33 A.D. this story follows two men and the surrounding characters during one crucial week in history. Promoted to Centurion at the height of the Roman Empire, and charged by Pontius Pilate to oversee the crucifixion of an upstart Nazarite preacher, Atticus Cornelius Julianus, was destined for change.A feared insurrectionist, known only as Barabbas, is arrested and charged with murder. He also is destined for change.See how these two men walk through a week like no other as their paths cross and intersect not only with one another but with the Jewish Carpenter who changed the world.
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So This Is Cancer?: Words of Wisdom and Epic Tales from a 20-Something with Cancer

So This Is Cancer?: Words of Wisdom and Epic Tales from a 20-Something with Cancer

J. L. Barker

Pascoe Publishing
2017
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This book is about cancer. It's also about life. Two separate entities battling it out for our bodies and taking up residence in our world. You don't have to have cancer to read this book and you certainly don't have to know anyone who is currently fighting it. You simply have to be curious, keep an open mind, and be ready to have a bunch of my knowledge dropped on you. This book has been specifically designed from the perspective of a 20-something who ended up in the cancer club at 24 years old. A couple of years later, this book is finally completed and hopefully getting into the hands of people who need it. Aren't you tired of reading boring cancer books that just make you depressed? I know I was So I decided to write this book. I hope it will make you laugh until you cry and give you enough hope to get through another day. You're not alone and I'd love to share my adventures with you. Happy reading -J.L. Barker
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Novelette

Novelette

A. L. Barker

Faber Faber
2009
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A man who can evoke no feeling over his wife's desertion is finally moved to tears of grief over a dying fox; a young boy is uncannily drawn in a devastating depiction of the misdirection of love; and a soldier, recuprating from wounds and shock, finds himself drawn to the elderly woman who has taken him in, despite the looming presence of her rather fussy country draper husband. The characters in Barker's compelling stories are linked by the profound nature of their emotional ties; her depiction of love and of the complexity of human emotion is second to none. Another startling, assured short story collection from a compelling writer of incredible grace and assurance.
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Lost Upon the Roundabouts

Lost Upon the Roundabouts

A. L. Barker

Faber Faber
2009
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A. L. Barker's 1964 collection of short stories casts a glint of the most revealing light on the characters within - and makes them more real than the everyday people we meet. So it is with the decaying actress Delie Rivers, 'vulgar in an eighteen carat way'; Caffery, the farmer turned businessman, who thinks his son 'about as vibrant as raw pastry'; Mrs Eagle, 'her wonderful lassitude', and 'her pale, lumpy legs like porridge'; Mrs Airey who is 'about as deep as an egg-spoon'. Barker's imagination is acutely discerning as well as descriptive: the chief accountant who has retired after forty years of office routine; the wife who is not married to a dominating man, but who would like to be; the self-contained spinster career woman: what deceptions do they practise to conceal from themselves and others the fact that somehow they have been lost upon the roundabouts?
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The Middling

The Middling

A. L. Barker

Faber Faber
2009
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The Middling: Chapters in the Life of Ellie Toms by A. L. Barker was described by Rebecca West as 'The finest book written by a woman in our time.'As a child, Ellie compulsively lies her way into trouble. How else can she escape the reality of being a railway clerk's daughter in a Crystal Palace villa?She wants to love, but it never seems to work out right. She idealizes a beautiful school friend, only to uncover (with morbid fascination) a strange relationship between her friend and a middle-aged chemist. Her first affair is too good to last. It leads to a pregnancy and an uneasy menage a trois, which finally erupts into brutal vengeance. After fifteen years of struggling with a marriage to the wrong man, Ellie starts drinking. It seems as good an escape as any at first. But it's another mistake. . .
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Life Stories

Life Stories

A. L. Barker

Faber Faber
2009
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'She is formidable, and from a bare corner of human relations gathers a rich harvest.' Adam Mars-JonesFirst published in 1981, Life Stories includes some of A. L. Barker's earliest fiction (taken from her Somerset Maugham Prize-winning book, Innocents) alongside newer pieces. Conceived as an antidote to conventional autobiography, with what she described as 'all those pages peppered with "I"s', Life Stories consists of fictions based on and recalling the formative events of her writerly life. All are shaped and incorporated to form a wholly individual narrative in which 'some of the facts are here, and a lot of fiction, with truth in all of it.''Her glancing, allusive writing carries one along easily, darting from invention to invention . . . Underneath there is a firm, ordering imagination and the poise of perfect pitch.' New Statesman'It would be hard to find anyone who chooses words more exactly or constructs with more precision.' Penelope Fitzgerald 'A. L. Barker writes extraordinarily well, evoking a character or a situation with great economy in a few lines . . . one can only admire the quality of her writing, which makes one want to go on reading.' Auberon Waugh
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Femina Real

Femina Real

A. L. Barker

Faber Faber
2009
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This collection of nine short stories contains some of A. L. Barker's most powerful and disquieting fiction. 'Noon', about a middle-aged man's unacknowledged trysts with a young girl, memorably expresses the ambivalence and repression which haunts ordinary and respectable lives against the backdrop of a Mediterranean package-holiday hotel; in 'Glory, Glory Allelujah' an aging brother and sister attempt to exorcise the imprisoned hopelessness of their lives in a ritual bonfire in memory of their dead mother; and with stories such as 'Almost an International Incident' and 'Monstra Deliciosa' the author attunes her command of humour and finely wrought levity to display a writing sensibility that alternates between despair and sanguinity to unique, skilful and moving effect.'She is formidable, and from a bare corner of human relations gathers a rich harvest.' Adam Mars-Jones'Her glancing, allusive writing carries one along easily, darting from invention to invention . . . Underneath there is a firm, ordering imagination and the poise of perfect pitch.' New Statesman'It would be hard to find anyone who chooses words more exactly or constructs with more precision.' Penelope Fitzgerald
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No Word of Love

No Word of Love

A. L. Barker

Faber Faber
2009
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A L Barker's first selection of short stories, Innocents, won the Somerset Maugham award in 1947. Of her short stories, Robert Nye has written, 'stories as carefully composed as poems, quiet and delicate and reserved perhaps, but oddly lingering in the mind.' The eleven stories in her collection No Word of Love - one of her six volumes of short stories being reissued by Faber Finds - are imaginative, concise and intensely evocative.Here she writes about people who, for good or bad, need each other; people in love or in need of love; people growing up and growing old. A L Barker effortlessly draws us into her stories, and those moments when the quirks of the human heart reshape the lives of her characters are engraved on our memory.Praise for A L Barker:'The freshness of vision that she brings to the often humiliating circumstances in which her characters entrap themselves is matched by the freshness of her style. She is a writer to treasure.' Spectator'Humane, funny, and written so precisely that the skin tingles.' Cosmopolitan
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Element of Doubt

Element of Doubt

A. L. Barker

Faber Faber
2009
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An academic is haunted by his dead colleague's certainty; a tutor is confronted with an eight year old's mortal secret and Aunt Selena's dancing bear appears from beyond the grave. In this collection of ghost stories A. L. Barker brings her storytelling powers to cast more than an element of doubt on the differences dividing life and death, good and evil, animate and inanimate as the uncanny enters the everyday world.'There is no better living woman writer in the English language.' Martin Seymour-Smith, Financial Times'She writes with a precision and economy of words which had me gasping with admiration.' Auberon Waugh, Independent'A. L. Barker has a well-deserved reputation among the cognoscenti for beautifully made short stories.' Robert Nye
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Relative Successes

Relative Successes

A. L. Barker

Faber Faber
2009
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An awkward and solitary boy at school, James Jessel is surprised to find himself befriended by the impetuous, self-assured Waldo Klein, and bemused by Waldo's invitation to spend the holidays with him and his mother (a 'ravishing beauty', warns Waldo) in the south of France.On the Klein's ramshackle farm in the hills of Provence, Jessel experiences the single most important event - or sensation - of his life. The voluptuous and sensual Mrs Klein is a creature whose sexuality and presence leaves Jessel dumbfounded. He is entranced, and senses a magic he has never known before. When, many years later, Waldo disappears leaving no clue to his whereabouts, Jessel's ordered world is overturned once more. If he is ever to know magic again, he must find Waldo, and so he returns to France to confront his past - and, indeed, his future.
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The Gooseboy

The Gooseboy

A. L. Barker

Faber Faber
2010
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First published in 1987, The Gooseboy is a tale that is both elegant and grotesque, funny and appalling. Doug and Dulcie Bysshe are twins. Doug - or Bysshe - is now a successful film star living in the south of France and contemplating a new part as a saintly doctor in an African leper colony. Dulcie, busy and energetic, is fighting to retrieve her husband, the mournful and ineffective Pike, who has absconded to Nice with the adolescent Cherrimay Pugh. At the centre of events, is the Gooseboy, a creature with a double face, half faun, half deformed horror...The Gooseboy questions the relations between flesh and spirit, the ridiculous and the terrible. A. L. Barker watches shrewdly and judges from a distance, her pithy and particular prose shining through. 'She writes with a precision and an economy of words which had me gasping.' Auberon Waugh
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