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The Whole Staggering Mystery

A Story of Fathers Lost and Found

By: Sylvia Brownrigg

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The Whole Staggering Mystery

A Story of Fathers Lost and Found

By: Sylvia Brownrigg

Sylvia Brownrigg's “wise, intimate, and deliciously entertaining memoir" (Carol Edgarian) reconstructs a poignant story of fathers lost and found When Sylvia Brownrigg received a package addressed to her father that had been lost for over fifty years, she wanted to deliver it to him before it was too late. She did not expect that her father, Nick, would choose not to open it. A few years later, she and her brother finally did. Nick, an absent father, was a would-be writer and back-to-the-lander who lived off the grid in Northern California. Nick’s own father, Gawen—also absent—had been a wellborn Englishman who wrote a Bloomsbury-like novel about lesbian lovers, before moving to Kenya and ultimately dying a mysterious death at age twenty-seven. Brownrigg was told Gawen had likely died by suicide. Reconstructing Gawen’s short, colorful life from revelations in the package takes her through glamorous 1930s London and staid Pasadena, toward the last gasp of the British Empire in Kenya, and from there, deep into the California redwoods, where Nick later carved out a rugged path in the wilderness, keeping his English past at bay. Vividly weaving together the lives of her father and grandfather, through memory and imagination, Brownrigg explores issues of sexuality and silences, and childhoods fractured by divorce. In her uncovering of this lost family, she writes movingly of daughterhood and of parenthood, gradually making her own story whole.

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Catapult

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1640096566

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9781640096561

Pages for Her

By: Sylvia Brownrigg

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By: Sylvia Brownrigg

A complex portrait of two women's sexuality . . . an absolute pleasure' Alice SeboldFlannery, a writer with one well-known rather racy book to her name, is, by her own admission, in a situation she never thought she'd be: married to a man who overshadows her and defined by her primary relationships as wife and mother. When Flannery is invited to a writers' conference she sees a chance to return to a world she knew well. And then she recognizes the name of the chair of the event: Anne Arden. Suddenly Flannery is thrown back twenty years to her eighteen-year-old self and the most intense love affair of her entire life. On the other side of the world Anne is travelling for work. Recently out of a decades-long partnership, she feels adrift, unsettled. When a friend asks her to chair an event at a writers' conference she says yes and a couple of months later, on the same campus where they met and fell in love, Anne and Flannery are reunited. Though their lives have taken them in different and unexpected directions, the pull between them proves irresistible. Elegant, clever, witty and sensual, Sylvia Brownrigg's Pages for Her is a novel about love, memory and what it is to be a woman, a wife, and a mother.

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304

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Picador

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1509831088

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9781509831081

Morality Tale

By: Sylvia Brownrigg

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By: Sylvia Brownrigg

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274

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ReadHowYouWant.com

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1458771962

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9781458771964

The Delivery Room

A Novel

By: Sylvia Brownrigg

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The Delivery Room

A Novel

By: Sylvia Brownrigg

It is 1998. In the safe haven of her London office—a room her husband jokingly calls "The Delivery Room"—therapist Mira Braverman listens to the stories of her troubled patients, including an aristocratic woman going through an intense infertility drama, an American journalist who is eager to have a baby, and an irritable divorcé who likes to taunt Mira about her Serbian nationality. As the novel unfolds, Mira discovers she is not as distant from her patients' pain as she might once have been: her husband Peter struggles with illness, NATO's threats against her country grow more serious, and submerged truths from her own past seem likely to erupt. Compelling, complex, and always deeply human, The Delivery Room is an engaging examination of the incomplete understandings that course between therapist and patient, and a set of variations on the theme of motherhood—as well as a timely meditation on the meanings of wars fought from a distance, when ordinary citizens have to measure their personal griefs against the outrages experienced by those under attack.

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1582439990

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The Whole Staggering Mystery

A Story of Fathers Lost and Found

By: Sylvia Brownrigg

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A Story of Fathers Lost and Found

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1640096574

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9781640096578

The Delivery Room

A Novel

By: Sylvia Brownrigg

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The Metaphysical Touch

A Novel

By: Sylvia Brownrigg

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The Metaphysical Touch

A Novel

By: Sylvia Brownrigg

A Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year In 1991 Emily Piper is a graduate student finishing her dissertation on metaphysics, when her home and work are destroyed in the Berkeley-Oakland fires. With her life's work in cinders, she retreats in shock to the small coastal town of Mendocino. It is here that Emily becomes hesitantly involved in the early days of Net chat rooms. Soon, Emily, dubbed Pi, wanders into the quixotic thoughts of JD, a mysterious figure living on America's opposite coast. What develops is a tentative, stimulating and perilous relationship. Who is JD, and furthermore, who, now, is Pi? This is the highly original, multilayered story of two lost souls whose charged connection gives new meaning to the "mind/body problem.

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400

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Picador

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0312263570

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9780312263577

The Classicist Writings of Thomas Walsingham

'worldly Cares' at St Albans Abbey in the Fourteenth Century

By: Sylvia Federico

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The Classicist Writings of Thomas Walsingham

'worldly Cares' at St Albans Abbey in the Fourteenth Century

By: Sylvia Federico

A comparative reading of the "literary" works of Thomas Walsingham, highlighting his reaction to contemporary historical events.

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218

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Boydell & Brewer

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1903153638

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9781903153635

Ten Women who Shook the World

By: Sylvia Brownrigg

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Ten Women who Shook the World

By: Sylvia Brownrigg

A collection of short stories features women who build pyramids, direct an all-bird production of Hamlet, make conceptual art, and who just might have been, once upon a time, the girl next door.

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125

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Farrar Straus & Giroux

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0374272891

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9780374272890

Morality Tale

A Novel

By: Sylvia Brownrigg

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A Novel

By: Sylvia Brownrigg

When this novel's unnamed narrator meets the elusive but exciting Richard (an envelope salesman with a nice layman's line in Zen philosophies), he offers her a friendly escape from her dreary domestic life. Burdened by her husband's ongoing negotiations with his angry ex–wife, the strains of looking after two stepchildren, and the lingering ghost of her own past betrayals, she finds that the life of a "second marryer" leaves much to be desired. As their friendship develops, so grows the shadow cast over her marriage, and when they make a late, illicit bay crossing on a ferryboat, the story gathers momentum under California's Mount Tamalpais. There, in the fabled Golden State, Sylvia Brownrigg shows how even a layman's Zen can lead to some important revelations about the need to look forward, not back. Bristling with honesty and wit, Morality Tale explores the triangular complications that can befall a modern marriage and the tragicomic forces that surround them.

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241

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Catapult

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1582434816

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9781582434810

Morality Tale

A Novel

By: Sylvia Brownrigg

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A Novel

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1582434816

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Picador Shots: The Then Wives

By: Sylvia Brownrigg

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Picador Shots: The Then Wives

By: Sylvia Brownrigg

8 new intoxicating short stories from Picador's most exciting writers. The Then Wives: A husband remembers a party many years - and at least one wife - ago. A Dictionary of Betrayal: Entries on the theme of love, loss, party etiquette and sleeping with other people's partners.

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1743286457

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The Whole Staggering Mystery

The Whole Staggering Mystery

Pages for Her

Pages for Her

Morality Tale

Morality Tale

The Delivery Room

The Delivery Room

The Whole Staggering Mystery

The Whole Staggering Mystery

The Delivery Room

The Delivery Room

The Metaphysical Touch

The Metaphysical Touch

The Classicist Writings of Thomas Walsingham

The Classicist Writings of Thomas Walsingham

Ten Women who Shook the World

Ten Women who Shook the World

Morality Tale

Morality Tale

Morality Tale

Morality Tale

Picador Shots: The Then Wives

Picador Shots: The Then Wives

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