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To gain the power he needs to save his friend from a cursed spirit,
Yuji Itadori swallows a piece of a demon, only to find himself
caught in the midst of a horrific war of the supernatural! In a
world where cursed spirits feed on unsuspecting humans, fragments
of the legendary and feared demon Ryomen Sukuna have been lost and
scattered about. Should any demon consume Sukuna's body parts, the
power they gain could destroy the world as we know it. Fortunately,
there exists a mysterious school of jujutsu sorcerers who exist to
protect the precarious existence of the living from the
supernatural! In a world where cursed spirits feed on unsuspecting
humans, fragments of the legendary and feared demon Ryomen Sukuna
were lost and scattered about. Should any demon consume Sukuna's
body parts, the power they gain could destroy the world as we know
it. Fortunately, there exists a mysterious school of jujutsu
sorcerers who exist to protect the precarious existence of the
living from the supernatural!
Let Me Be Frank brings Sarah Laing's popular autobiographical comic
series together for the first time. Sarah Laing began blogging her
comics in 2009 as a way to shed light on her fiction writing and to
record life before it evaporated. The comics soon had a large
audience, eager for the next instalment about Sarah's parenting
fails and successes, her writing, her obsession with Katherine
Mansfield, her family's history, her pet mice, sex, clothes and
more. Let Me Be Frank is a witty, whip-smart comic collection that
is always disarmingly frank.
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The Crux
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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Discovery Miles 7 410
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Ships in 18 - 22 working days
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When Ann Beattie began publishing short stories in "The New Yorker
"in the mid-seventies, she emerged with a voice so original, and so
uncannily precise and prescient in its assessment of her
characters' drift and narcissism, that she was instantly celebrated
as a voice of her generation. Her name became an adjective:
"Beattiesque." Subtle, wry, and unnerving, she is a master observer
of the unraveling of the American family, and also of the myriad
small occurrences and affinities that unite us. Her characters,
over nearly four decades, have moved from lives of fickle desire to
the burdens and inhibitions of adulthood and on to failed
aspirations, sloppy divorces, and sometimes enlightenment, even
grace.
Each Beattie story, says Margaret Atwood, is "like a fresh bulletin
from the front: we snatch it up, eager to know what's happening out
there on the edge of that shifting and dubious no-man's-land known
as interpersonal relations." With an unparalleled gift for dialogue
and laser wit, she delivers flash reports on the cultural landscape
of her time. "Ann Beattie: The New Yorker Stories "is the perfect
initiation for readers new to this iconic American writer and a
glorious return for those who have known and loved her work for
decades.
Under the feckless husbandry of Mr Jones, the Manor Farm has fallen
into disrepair. Pushed into hardship, the animals decide to stage a
revolt, and, led by two young pigs, Snowball and Napoleon, they
overthrow Mr Jones and drive him away from the farm. In the
subsequent struggle for power, it is Napoleon who emerges as a
victor: he renames the place "Animal Farm", gets rid of his enemies
and, by the way he behaves - expecting to be glorifi ed above the
others and turning the screw on his fellow beasts in order to keep
them subjugated - begins to resemble more and more the former
rulers of the farm, the hated humans. Written during the Second
World War and published in 1945, this allegorical novel is a
carefully constructed critique of the Russian Revolution and a
sharp satire on the abuse of power. It remains unsurpassed both as
a document of its time and as a testament to the versatility and
creative genius of George Orwell.
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