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Alice Walker

A Critical Companion

By: Gerri Bates

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Alice Walker, born in Eatonton, Georgia in 1944, overcame a disadvantaged sharecropping background, blindness in one eye, and the tense times of the Civil Rights Movement to become one of the world's most respected African American writers. While attending both Spelman and Sarah Lawrence Colleges, Walker began to draw on both her personal tragedies and those of her community to write poetry, essays, short stories, and novels that would tell the virtually untold stories of oppressed African and African American women, providing readers with hope and inspiring activisim. Perhaps best known for her novel The Color Purple (1982), which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1983 and became a controversial film three years later, Walker has introduced and developed womanist theory, criticism and practice, and continues to champion the causes of women of color by encouraging their strength and liberation in her life and her writings. Literary works analyzed in this volume: The Third Life of Grange Copeland, Meridian, The Color Purple, The Temple of My Familiar, Possessing the Secret of Joy, By the Light of My Father's Smile, The Way Forward Is With a Broken Heart, Now is the Time to Open Your Heart.

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237

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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0313069093

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9780313069093

Katherine Mansfield and the Art of the Short Story

By: Gerri Kimber

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Katherine Mansfield and the Art of the Short Story

By: Gerri Kimber

This volume offers an introductory overview to the short stories of Katherine Mansfield, discussing a wide range of her most famous stories from different viewpoints. The book elaborates on Mansfield's themes and techniques, thereby guiding the reader - via close textual analysis - to an understanding of the author's modernist techniques.

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114

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Springer

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1137483881

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9781137483881

Where to Wear London

By: Jill Fairchild,Gerri Gallagher

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Where to Wear London

By: Jill Fairchild,Gerri Gallagher

Any fashion follower knows that London is a style mecca and home to some of the most fresh and artistic designers in the world. The 2006 edition of Where to Wear shows visitors where to begin and Londoners where to go next. We describe over 600 different clothing and accessories stores, ranging from the global celebrity names of Bond Street and Sloane Street to out-of-the-way treasure house that only the locals know about. You'll find the best British designers, including Paul Smith, Nicole Farhi and Betty Jackson, along with a host of brilliant vintage stores, and coverage of funky neighbourhood markets. Cool Britannia.

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328

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Where to Wear International Ltd

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0976687747

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9780976687740

Katherine Mansfield and Continental Europe

Connections and Influences

By: Gerri Kimber,Janka Kascakova

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Katherine Mansfield and Continental Europe

Connections and Influences

By: Gerri Kimber,Janka Kascakova

This volume offers new interpretations of Katherine Mansfield's work by bringing together recent biographical and critical-theoretical approaches to her life and art in the context of Continental Europe. It features chapters on Mansfield's reception in several European countries together with her own translations of other European writers.

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248

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Springer

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1137429976

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9781137429971

Katherine Mansfield

The View from France

By: Gerri Kimber

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Katherine Mansfield

The View from France

By: Gerri Kimber

This book assesses the reason why Katherine Mansfield's reputation in France has always been greater than in England. It examines the ways in which the French reception of Mansfield has idealised her persona to the extent of crafting a hagiography. Mansfield is placed within the general literary context of her era, exploring French literary tendencies at the time and juxtaposing them with the main literary trends in England. The author determines the motives behind the French critics' desire to put Mansfield on a pedestal, discusses how the three years she spent on French soil influenced her writing and whether the translations of her work collude in the myth surrounding her personality. This book is the first sustained attempt to establish interconnections between her own French influences (literary and otherwise) and the myth-making of the French critics and translators. The book also follows the critical appraisal of Mansfield's life and work in France from her death up to the present day, by closely analysing the differing French critical responses. The author reveals how these various strands combine to create a legend which has little basis in fact, thereby demonstrating how reception and translation determine the importance of an author's reputation in the literary world.

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298

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Peter Lang

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3039113925

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9783039113927

No Strings

By: Gerri Hill

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No Strings

By: Gerri Hill

One mistake leads to a year of exile... Used to the busy playground of Winter Park, police chief Reese Daniels is shipped off to sleepy Lake City, Colorado. She takes the job of sheriff seriously, but makes it clear to one and all: this year is just a blip in her life. When it's done, she's gone. Forest Ranger M. Z. Morgan has lived in Lake City long enough to be considered a local. The pace, the quiet and the many friends make life there well worth the lack of dating material. A girlfriend would still be nice, and the new sheriff is easy on the eyes. It's entirely natural for Morgan and Reese to be friendly, but Reese's repeated reminders that she's not sticking around make it impossible for anything more between them. That is, until they strike a no strings bargain. Some guaranteed exchange of heat as the long winter sets in seems just what they need to pass the time. So what if it's the best sex they've ever had? It's still only temporary. They won't mistake sex for more, even if it only gets better—month after month. After month. No Strings—it seemed like a good idea at the time.

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265

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Bella Books

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1594937486

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9781594937484

Not Pretty Enough

The Unlikely Triumph of Helen Gurley Brown

By: Gerri Hirshey

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Not Pretty Enough

The Unlikely Triumph of Helen Gurley Brown

By: Gerri Hirshey

Brown's life story-- a classic American rags-to-riches tale-- is just as juicy as her controversial books. In this...biography, the writer and reporter Gerri Hirshey traces Brown's path from deep in the Arkansas Ozarks to her wild single years in Los Angeles, from the New York magazine world to her Hollywood adventures with her film producer husband. Along the way she became the highest-paid female ad copywriter on the West Coast, and transformed Hearst's failing literary magazine, Cosmopolitan, into the female-oriented global juggernaut it is today."--

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529

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Macmillan

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0374169179

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9780374169176

The Ultimate Credit Handbook

How to Double Your Credit, Cut Your Debt, and Have a Lifetime of Great Credit

By: Gerri Detweiler

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The Ultimate Credit Handbook

How to Double Your Credit, Cut Your Debt, and Have a Lifetime of Great Credit

By: Gerri Detweiler

Detweiler, a former director of Bankcard Holders of America, draws on her years of expertise in counseling consumers with credit problems to write the definitive handbook on how to have more credit, get out of debt, and live a lifetime of financial stability and prosperity.

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372

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Plume Books

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0452277124

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9780452277120

Katherine Mansfield and the Art of the Short Story

By: Gerri Kimber

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Katherine Mansfield and the Art of the Short Story

By: Gerri Kimber

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Springer

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