This is a personal memoir of a woman faced with the impending fatal illness of her husband. Dianne Thompson and her late husband Allen were blessed with a long marriage, but faced an incredible trial when he was diagnosed with aggressive, stage-4 cancer. This is a story of a marriage and a family, as well as of a courageous woman who helped her husband fight and accept his cancer, and ultimately his death. Confronting this change of life-plan presented many challenges to the entire Thompson family. Dianne describes the journey she and her husband shared as they adapted to the changes and challenges Allen's cancer brought to their lives. She tells her story chronologically, and uses e-mails she sent to friends and family to bring in her feelings of the moment, as well as shares her perspective. Dianne concludes that ultimately, care giving is a shared journey between patient and family. She describes the difficulties they faced with honesty, humor, and wisdom.
Travel, and the exhilarating experiences it offers us, is the shared concern of these stories, which have been chosen from among the hundreds that have appeared in the prestigious Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction series. More than seventy volumes, which include approximately eight hundred stories, have won the Flannery O'Connor Award. This stunning trove of always engaging, often groundbreaking short fiction is the common source for this anthology on childhood—and for planned anthologies on such topics as family, gender and sexuality, animals, and more. Travel can whisk us away to craggy mountainsides and sunny coastlines or bustling cities and mysterious jungles. Travel can excite and rejuvenate or intimidate and overwhelm. These sixteen stories reflect upon our immense, intriguing world and our explorations of it, whether you choose to follow the beaten path or abandon it.
Born into a wealthy household in England in 1942, Christopher could've expected a life of privilege. This was not to be. At six year old, Christopher entered boarding school. Undiagnosed and debilitating dyslexia led to an aversion of schoolwork; and violent sexual abuse by a fellow boarder became the impetus for refusing to return to school at fourteen year old. Extremely shy, inept socially and emotionally, and devoid of the most basic literacy and numeric skills, Christopher embarked on a life of hard manual labour in rural England. In 1962, continual frustrations led to the escalation of outbursts of anger culminating in a stint of involuntary commitment. In 1964 at the age of twenty one year old he left England for Australia as a '10 Pound Pom'. From 1964 to 1973 Christopher roamed Australia - its cities, country towns and outback. His real, varied and unique experiences and the people he met along the way are captured by black and white photos and audio tapes, tirelessly recorded on his trusty reel-to-reel audio tape recorder, that on many occasions was pawned to buy food when down and out. But a rolling stone gathers no moss. Christopher, the Adventurer, had insidiously become a hardworking, hard-drinking and hard playing Drifter. Compelling, 'warts and all' stories are shared with the Reader. These stories reflect the highs and lows of Chris as a child, young man and ultimately a Drifter during the 1960s and 1970s - a period of great social and cultural change in Australia, are shared with the reader.
In Honoré de Balzac's novels, nineteenth-century Paris is more than simply a setting. It is alive and beckons provincials who hope that their lives will consequently change for the better. Balzac's literary representations of Paris vary. He shows that Paris is appealing, but also reveals its decadent side. Balzac contrasts provincial and city life, including why Paris draws young provincials to it, what they discover there, and how it transforms them. In Le Père Goriot and Illusions Perdues, by Balzac, young provincial men immigrate to Paris with high career and social ambitions. Paris provides the provincials a chance to succeed, but by altering their moral fiber, it causes the downfall of one, and the victory of the other. This literary analysis concludes that the symbolic reality of Paris does not overlap with its material reality.
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