John Farnham is nothing less than an Aussie icon. In a career spanning almost five decades, the likeable, charismatic star has entertained countless Australians of every generation, selling millions of records along the way. But his extraordinary story is as much about tackling adversity as it is about topping the charts. In the mid-1980s, without a recording contract, more or less penniless, and seemingly destined to be remembered mainly as the chirpy teenager whose debut single ' Sadie (The Cleaning Lady)' swept to number one back in 1967, Farnham had hit rock bottom. But courageously - and assisted by his great friend and manager Glenn Wheatley who mortgaged his house to finance an album - John stormed into the public consciousness again in 1986 with the epic ' You're The Voice' single and stunning LP Whispering Jack. His spectacular comeback complete, the fair-haired superstar has simply gone from strength to strength in the decades since.
Photographed throughout 2018, Theo Wenner documents his seventy-year-old mother in her house in Amagansett, New York, where she has finally found solace following the most difficult years of her life. In this intimate study, Wenner paints an emotional portrait of his mother, her surroundings, her dogs, and the friends and family that come and go, as the seasons change and the house shifts from summer to winter.
L'histoire se passe en 1812. Un jeune lieutenant, Elim Melosor, second bord du bateau russe Le Vladimir l' poque des guerres napol oniennes, assiste au naufrage d'un navire au large de la Hollande, pays ennemi. Accompagn de cinq marins, il tente de sauver les sinistr s. Ils ne peuvent y arriver; leur chaloupe est d truite et les marins sont rejet s sur les c tes de Hollande. Ils se r fugient dans un moulin, juste au bon moment pour sauver les occupants, attaqu s par des bandits. Les Van Naarvaersen, cette famille de riches commer ants hollandais qui, reconnaissante, recueille les naufrag s, sont heureusement amis de la Russie. On d cide de cacher les marins et de pr senter le lieutenant comme un neveu venu d'Allemagne, jusqu' ce que l'on trouve un moyen de leur permettre de retourner bord de leur bateau. Les sympathiques parents ont une jeune fille de 16 ans, Jane. Le beau lieutenant en devient amoureux et les jours s' coulent rapidement, emplis de promesses ternelles...
Jane who's five years old is in a bad predicament, her parents are unfit. They leave Jane to take care of herself and baby brother more often then not. But when they move to Mason Mississippi to the rundown Mason Apartment Complex the kids soon encounter a very caring next door neighbor who secretly helps them. Until one afternoon the parents find out and then everything turns bad quickly.
"Fantastically dark, twisted, and experimental . . ."Rupert Dreyfus, author of The Rebel's Sketchbook."Messy, sticky, and wickedly fun . . ."Rebecca Gransden, author of anemogram.Sex, drugs, and gangster rap come together in this deliciously transgressive novel to show you a side of crazy you never knew you wanted to see.When twenty-five-year-old Jane moves back to her hometown in order to care for her schizophrenic aunt, miscarriage and an unfaithful fianc fresh in her mind, the seeds are ripe for her mother's cruel words to come true: "You're going to end up just like your aunt. You're going to end up in a mental hospital someday."
1812. Le lieutenant russe Elim Melosor, second a bord du Vladimir, assiste au naufrage d un navire au large de la Hollande, pays ennemi. Accompagne de cinq marins, il tente de sauver les sinistres. Mais leur chaloupe est detruite et les naufrages sont rejetes sur les cotes. Ils se refugient dans un moulin, a temps pour sauver les occupants attaques par des bandits.Des commercants cachent les naufrages et font passer le lieutenant pour un neveu venu d Allemagne, en attendant qu ils puissent reembarquer. Entretemps, le beau lieutenant est tombe amoureux de Jane, la fille de ses protecteurs Le jour prevu pour le depart secret des Russes, Melosor demande la main de Jane. Mais le pere de trouve l union trop dangereuse. L odieux capitaine Montane, douanier en chef, en profite pour tenter sa chance. Devant le nouveau refus du pere, il decide de se venger et de denoncer les marins caches Dans leur fuite precipitee, ceux-ci emmenent Jane, qui les a alertes Or seule les femmes mariees sont tolerees a bord du Vladimir Ecrit en marge des Trois Mousquetaires et paru en 1844 sous le titre LaRobe de noces, Cecile conte le destin d une famille d emigres francais, de 1792 a 1805."
Jane Eyre Meets the 21st Century When Jane St. John gets a plum summer job as the nanny for a family in St. Barths, she hopes her troubled past is far behind. But from the first ill-fated flight, to the prickly housekeeper, abrasive employer and a stalker who may or may not be trying to kill her, Jane's hopes for happy summer days are fading fast. When noises and ghostly visitations trouble her nights, she suspects more than just the past is haunting her. Could other more terrifying family secrets be hiding in the old house? This retelling of the classic Charlotte Bront Gothic novel, Jane Eyre, includes everything you loved about the original, respun for the 21st Century. Closely following the original's plot lines and character development, Jane starts with ten year old Jane St. John, this one living in a brownstone in Brooklyn, falling afoul of her stepmother and abusive cousins, and getting shipped off to Lowood, a school for troubled girls. More like a prison than a boarding school, Lowood is where the abandoned, abused, and poor girls of New York State are left in the care of an ambitious psychiatrist who pronounces them all mentally ill and pursues a course of institutional abuse as a self-styled cure. Despite humiliations and deprivations, Jane makes friends with another resident and the two of them provide emotional support through harrowing run-ins with the headmaster, lack of food and warm clothes, and a deadly outbreak of Legionnaire's disease. Though many girls do not survive Lowood, our Jane does and eight years on is a teacher at the same school, yearning to escape dreary upstate New York and start her "real life." She applies for-and gets-a summer job as nanny for a rich family in St. Barthes. Thinking she's finally earned some good luck, Jane arrives at the island paradise ready to take up her new duties in a Gothic mansion built by Corsaires for a notorious island family. Just like in Jane Eyre, there's a prickly housekeeper, an abrasive employer, and strange noises and visitations during the night that keep the story moving along at a clip. Madwoman in the attic? This one's on the roof. There's also a romance in there someplace, but not the Cinderella variety. Jane doubts her own emotional capacity to love or trust anyone and suspects her romantic partner of lies and betrayal. Suspicions that turn out to be true. Jane explores the inner turmoil of an independent woman who is often insecure and angry with the world and her place in it. Somehow, through it all, she learns to confront her demons, both those in the old house and those she's carried along from her past, and finds a way to live with herself and forgive others. More than a modern Gothic romance, Jane is the coming-of-age story of a 21st century feminist and an engrossing read for anyone that likes Gothic romances and feminist ideas.
Un jeune lieutenant, Elim Melosor, second bord du bateau russe Le Vladimir l' poque des guerres napol oniennes, assiste au naufrage d'un navire au large de la Hollande, pays ennemi. Accompagn de cinq marins, il tente de sauver les sinistr s. Ils ne peuvent y arriver; leur chaloupe est d truite et les marins sont rejet s sur les c tes de Hollande. Ils se r fugient dans un moulin, juste au bon moment pour sauver les occupants, attaqu s par des bandits. Les Van Naarvaersen, cette famille de riches commer ants hollandais qui, reconnaissante, recueille les naufrag s, sont heureusement amis de la Russie. On d cide de cacher les marins et de pr senter le lieutenant comme un neveu venu d'Allemagne, jusqu' ce que l'on trouve un moyen de leur permettre de retourner bord de leur bateau. Les sympathiques parents ont une jeune fille de 16 ans, Jane. Le beau lieutenant en devient amoureux et les jours s' coulent rapidement, emplis de promesses ternelles. Vient le jour pr vu pour le d part secret des Russes. Devant la s paration qui s'approche, le lieutenant demande au p re de l'accepter comme fianc de sa fille. Celui-ci ne rejette pas l'amoureux mais n'acc de pas la demande, craignant la mort du fianc , et ne souhaitant pas se s parer de sa fille. Le m me jour, le vilain douanier en chef, le capitaine Montane, vient lui aussi demander Jane en mariage; le p re refuse... et le capitaine d cide de se venger. Il apprend que des ennemis se cachent l et les d noncent. Les Russes doivent se d p cher de fuir, mais la barque qui devait les emmener n'est pas au rendez-vous. Ils d couvrent alors une embarcation pleine de douaniers endormis: ils les attaquent et peuvent ainsi fuir dans leur chaloupe. Entre-temps, Jane a su que les douaniers poursuivaient son bien-aim . Elle court pour tenter de les avertir; l'entendant crier, les marins reviennent la chercher et l'emm nent. Dans la temp te, ils parviennent jusqu' la flotte russe et sont recueillis bord de leur navire. Le capitaine annonce Elim que la pr sence des femmes est interdite bord sauf... si elles sont mari es. Elim et Jane, forc s mais bien consentants, sont unis par le capitaine. Lorsque le navire fait escale Tchata, le jeune couple retrouve le p re de Jane, qui a galement fui la Hollande. Tout heureux de les retrouver, il pardonne leur mariage.
Jane tells the spectral story of the life and death of Maggie Nelson s aunt Jane, who was murdered in 1969 while a first-year law student at the University of Michigan. Though officially unsolved, Jane s murder was apparently the third in a series of seven brutal rape-murders in the area between 1967 and 1969. Nelson was born a few years after Jane s death, and the narrative is suffused with the long shadow her murder cast over both the family and her psyche. Jane explores the nature of this haunting incident via a collage of poetry, prose, dream-accounts, and documentary sources, including local and national newspapers, related true crime books such as The Michigan Murders and Killer Among Us, and fragments from Jane s own diaries written when she was 13 and 21. Its eight sections cover Jane s childhood and early adulthood, her murder and its investigation, the direct and diffuse effect of her death on Nelson s girlhood and sisterhood, and a trip to Michigan Nelson took with her mother (Jane s sister) to retrace the path of Jane s final hours. Each piece in Jane has its own form, and the movement from each piece to the nextalong with the white space that surrounds each fragmentserve as important fissures, disrupting the tabloid, page-turner quality of the story, and eventually returning the reader to deeper questions about girlhood, empathy, identification, and the essentially unknowable aspects of another s life and death. Part elegy, part memoir, detective story, part meditation on violence (and serial, sexual violence in particular), and part conversation between the living and the dead, Jane s powerful and disturbing subject matter, combined with its innovations in genre, expands the notion of what poetry can dowhat kind of stories it can tell, and how it can tell them."
Jane Chapman loves working in the kitchen of one of Boston's fanciest hotels. Though most of her friends have married and moved to Montana as mail-order brides, she is in no hurry to marry. She enjoys her busy city life. But when she unexpectedly loses her job and is unable to find a new position, panic begins to set in. Reluctantly, she agrees to go to Montana to be a wealthy man's wife. He is seeking someone young and attractive and good in the kitchen. She's nervous, but so many of her friends live in Bozeman now and have all found love, so she is hopeful too. Until she meets her intended and knows that she could never find love with John Angell. Though he's a handsome man, his eyes are as dark as his hair and so cold that she's chilled to her core. Charlie Donovan steps up to help her escape by telling John the white lie that they're already engaged. He then insists that for her safety, they should marry, because he doesn't trust John Angell otherwise.
