![]() Also, I’d read a review of this book that claimed the reviewer had based his whole life on the philosophy contained in this book. Maybe I expected too much, after S in a S Land. Most of all though, I objected to the philosophy of the book. I just wasn’t interested in all of the details. I have to give the author some credit for having created such a richly detailed world. Then, there was so much boring detail about the revolution and its machinery that my eyes glazed over. Firstly, the languaging was difficult and choppy, making the reading of it unpleasant to my inner ear. I searched for books by the same author and came on this one. ![]() I was so moved by *Stranger in a Strange Land* that the inspiration stayed with me for weeks. A manifesto for radical libertarianism and casual capital punishment ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Often imitated, never replaced, Man-Made Language has become a cornerstone of modern feminist thought Synopsis: One of the great classics of the women's movement, Man-Made Language opened our eyes to the myriad ways in which the rules and uses of language promote a male, and so inherently partial, view of the world. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Days away from their years visit by a civil servant overseer - who ensures their number remains at seven - the women begin to fight over what to do with this strange girl and her talking Goose who, in disrupting their daily existence, intensify the ongoing power conflict between the two oldest brides.Īnd as the mainland of Maracoor sustains an assault by a foreign navy, the island’s overseer struggles to understand how an alien arriving on the shores of Maracoor could threaten the stability and wellbeing of an entire nation. ![]() Comatose from crashing into the sea, Rain washes ashore on an island of seven women - the brides of Maracoor Spot - who spend each morning drawing blood from their feet and twisting seaweed into nets to segment time into daily portions. ![]() Volume one, The Brides of Maracoor, finds Elphaba’s granddaughter, Rain, far from Oz. Ten years ago this season, Gregory Maguire wrapped up the series he began with Wicked by giving us the fourth and final volume of the Wicked Years, his elegiac Out of Oz.īut “out of Oz” isn’t “gone for good.” Maguire’s new series, Another Day, is here, twenty-five years after Wicked first flew into our lives. Multimillion-copy bestselling author Gregory Maguire unveils the first in a three-book series spun off the iconic Wicked Years, featuring Elphaba’s granddaughter, the green-skinned Rain. ![]() ![]() ![]() Determined to redeem his failures and eviscerate his enemies, Whittaker hatches a grand plan. Beginning in July, during the economic hardships of the Nixon era, we witness our hero hounded by tenants and creditors, harassed by a loathsome local arts group, and tormented by his ex wife. From his letters, diary entries, and fragments of fiction, to grocery lists and posted signs, this novel is a collection of everything Whittaker commits to paper over the course of four critical months. ![]() A negligent landlord, small time literary journal editor, and aspiring novelist, he is quite literally authoring his own downfall. Living on a diet of fried Spam, vodka, sardines, cupcakes, and Southern Comfort, Andrew Whittaker is slowly being sucked into the morass of middle age. Dust Falls on Eugene Schlumburger / Toddler on the Run ![]() |