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1000 tulosta hakusanalla Elaine Jamyson
Land in Her Own Name
H. Elaine Lindgren; Elizabeth Jameson
University of Oklahoma Press
1996
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Land is often known by the names of past owners. ""Emma's Land,"" ""Gina's quarter,"" and ""the Ingeborg Land"" are reminders of the many women who homesteaded across North Dakota in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Land in Her Own Name records these homesteaders' experiences as revealed in interviews with surviving homesteaders and their families and friends, land records, letters, and diaries.These women's fascinating accounts tell of locating a claim, erecting a shelter, and living on the prairie. Their ethnic backgrounds include Yankee, Scandinavian, German, and German-Russian, as well as African American, Jewish, and Lebanese. Some were barely twenty-one, while others had reached their sixties. A few lived on their land for life and ""never borrowed a cent against it""; others sold or rented the land to start a small business or to provide money for education.For this paperback edition, Elizabeth Jameson's foreword situates the homesteading experience for women within the larger context of western history.
The Booker-shortlisted author of Umbrella writes his most American novel yet--a brilliant portrait of a 1950s housewife, based on the life of the author's mother, and an exploration of sexual freedom and sublimated desire, set between the dining halls of Cornell University and the raucous parties of midcentury New York CityWill Self is one of the most inimitable contemporary writers in the English language, dubbed "the most daring and delightful novelist of his generation" by The Guardian. In this brilliantly conceived new novel Self turns his forensic eye and technicolor imagination to the troubled life of his mother, Elaine. Standing by the mailbox outside 1100 Hemlock Street in Ithaca, New York, Elaine thinks of her husband and child inside her house and wonders: is this . . . it? As she begins to push back against the strictures of her life in 1950s America, she undertakes a disastrous affair that put her first marriage to an Ivy League academic and former Communist Party member in peril. Based on the intimate diaries Self's mother kept for over forty years, Elaine is a writer's attempt to reach the almost unimaginable realm: a parent's interior life prior to his own existence. Perhaps the first work of auto-oedipal fiction, Elaine shows Will Self working in an exciting new dimension, utilizing his stylistic talents to tremendous effect.
The Booker-shortlisted author of Umbrella writes his most American novel yet--a brilliant portrait of a 1950s housewife, based on the life of the author's mother, and an exploration of sexual freedom and sublimated desireWill Self is one of the most inimitable contemporary writers in the English language, dubbed "the most daring and delightful novelist of his generation" by The Guardian. In this brilliantly conceived new novel Self turns his forensic eye and technicolor imagination to the troubled life of his mother, Elaine. Standing by the mailbox outside 1100 Hemlock Street in Ithaca, New York, Elaine thinks of her husband and child inside her house and wonders: is this . . . it? As she begins to push back against the strictures of her life in 1950s America, she undertakes a disastrous affair that places her marriage to an Ivy League academic and former Communist Party member in peril. Based on the intimate diaries Self's mother kept for over forty years, Elaine is a writer's attempt to reach the almost unimaginable realm: a parent's interior life prior to his own existence. Perhaps the first work of auto-oedipal fiction, Elaine shows Will Self working in an exciting new dimension, employing his stylistic talents to tremendous effect.
At 23 Elaine has achieved much more than a woman of her age in 1939 might have expected - or predicted. She is single minded, ambitious and highly intelligent and can handle the heavy responsibility that has fallen on her as war threatens. It seems that anything is possible. She is wooed by a neighbour, one of 'nature's gentleman', modest, unselfish, but limited. Frank desperately wants to marry her. Then she meets Robert Leonard, owner of the largest department store in Brighton, the most eligible man in the town and falls deeply in love with a man who seems to correspond to all her instincts and ambitions. The story takes Elaine and her family through the war and into the fifties and as she watches her bright daughter grow up she is determined that she shall not fall into the trap that ensnared Elaine. This is Part One of The Brighton Trilogy.
... Comment la blanche laine tait-elle en possession de ce bel cu de Lancelot, elle qui ne savait m me pas le nom du chevalier? Il le lui avait laiss en allant jouter pour le grand diamant dans les tournois qu'Arthur avait organis s sous ce nom, parce qu'un diamant en tait le prix...
'Elaine is not just a serious work of art, but an unexpected act of filial generosity' GuardianStanding by the mailbox in Ithaca, New York, Elaine thinks of her child and husband, an Ivy League academic, inside her house and wonders...is this it? As she begins to push back against the strictures of her life in 1950s America, she undertakes a disastrous affair that ends her marriage and upends her life.Based on the intimate diaries Will Self's mother kept for over forty years, Elaine is a writer's attempt to reach the almost unimaginable realm of a parent's interior life prior to his own existence. Perhaps the first work of auto-oedipal fiction, Elaine shows Self working in an exciting new dimension, utilizing his stylistic talents to tremendous effect.
'Elaine is not just a serious work of art, but an unexpected act of filial generosity' GuardianStanding by the mailbox in Ithaca, New York, Elaine thinks of her child and husband, an Ivy League academic, inside her house and wonders...is this it? As she begins to push back against the strictures of her life in 1950s America, she undertakes a disastrous affair that ends her marriage and upends her life.Based on the intimate diaries Will Self's mother kept for over forty years, Elaine is a writer's attempt to reach the almost unimaginable realm of a parent's interior life prior to his own existence. Perhaps the first work of auto-oedipal fiction, Elaine shows Self working in an exciting new dimension, utilizing his stylistic talents to tremendous effect.
Eine finstere Ruine, eine tragische Legende, und ein Mann, der behauptet, ein Windbruder zu sein. Die 18-j hrige Marla ist weder so sch n wie ihre ltere Schwester, noch so klug und witzig wie die j ngere. Sie findet sich ziemlich unscheinbar. Das ndert sich, als sie im Wald den geheimnisvollen Arvid kennenlernt. Er gibt ihr das Gef hl, etwas ganz Besonderes zu sein. Sie allerdings h lt ihn f r einen Sonderling. Dennoch f hlt sie sich auf unerkl rliche Weise von ihm angezogen. Zudem ist ihre Neugier, von der sie reichlich besitzt, geweckt. Als sie ihn dr ngt, von sich zu erz hlen, r ckt er nach und nach mit seiner Geschichte heraus. Es dauert nicht lange und sie erkennt darin die Legende, die sich um den Klageh gel rankt - einer finsteren Ruine mitten im Wald. Dort soll sich vor vielen Jahren eine schreckliche Trag die ereignet haben. Fasziniert taucht Marla in das Leben der jungen Elaine ein. Bald kann sie an nichts anderes mehr denken. Als Arvid eines Tages von dem au ergew hnlichen Geschenk erz hlt, das er Elaine gemacht hat, besteht Marla darauf, es zu sehen. Von nun an nimmt das Schicksal seinen Lauf und sie hat M he zu unterscheiden, was real ist und was nicht.
Elaine
Random House Children's Books
2026
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Elaine
Random House Children's Books
2026
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