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Biography of X
Catherine Lacey
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R545
R426
Discovery Miles 4 260
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Biography of X
Catherine Lacey
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R269
Discovery Miles 2 690
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When X - an iconoclastic artist, writer and polarizing
shape-shifter - dies suddenly, her widow, wild with grief, hurls
herself into writing a biography of the woman she deified. Though X
was recognised as a crucial creative force of her era, she kept a
tight grip on her life story. Not even CM, her wife, knew where X
had been born, and in her quest to find out, she opens a Pandora's
box of secrets, betrayals and destruction. All the while she
immerses herself in the history of the Southern Territory, a
fascist theocracy that split from the rest of the country after
World War II, as it is finally, in the present day, forced into an
uneasy reunification. A masterfully constructed, counter-factual
literary adventure, complete with original images assembled by X's
widow, Biography of X follows a grieving wife seeking to understand
the woman who enthralled her. CM traces X's peripatetic trajectory
over decades, from Europe to the ruins of America's divided
territories, and through her collaborations and feuds with everyone
from David Bowie and Tom Waits to Susan Sontag and Kathy Acker. And
when she finally understands the scope of X's defining artistic
project, CM realises her wife's deceptions were far crueller than
she imagined. Pulsing with suspense and intellect, Biography of X
is a roaring epic that plumbs the depths of grief, art and love,
and that introduces an unforgettable character who shows us the
fallibility of the stories we craft for ourselves.
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Nobody Is Ever Missing
Catherine Lacey
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R474
R375
Discovery Miles 3 750
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The Answers (Paperback)
Catherine Lacey
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R473
R390
Discovery Miles 3 900
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Whisky Galore (DVD)
Basil Radford, Joan Greenwood, James Robertson Justice, Jean Cadell, Gordon Jackson, …
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R218
Discovery Miles 2 180
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Classic Ealing comedy. During the Second World War, the inhabitants
of a small Hebridean island are wilting under a chronic shortage of
whisky. When a ship is wrecked on the shore, it is discovered to
contain 50,000 cases of malt, which are promptly appropriated by
the menfolk of the island. All is well until an English Home Guard
commander - determined to see the whisky restored to its rightful
owners - calls in Her Majesty's Customs, and the islanders make
frantic attempts to hide their treasured alcoholic booty!
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Pew (Paperback)
Catherine Lacey
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R459
R340
Discovery Miles 3 400
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When X - an iconoclastic artist, writer and polarizing
shape-shifter - dies suddenly, her widow, wild with grief, hurls
herself into writing a biography of the woman she deified. Though X
was recognised as a crucial creative force of her era, she kept a
tight grip on her life story. Not even CM, her wife, knew where X
had been born, and in her quest to find out, she opens a Pandora's
box of secrets, betrayals and destruction. All the while she
immerses herself in the history of the Southern Territory, a
fascist theocracy that split from the rest of the country after
World War II, as it is finally, in the present day, forced into an
uneasy reunification. A masterfully constructed, counter-factual
literary adventure, complete with original images assembled by X's
widow, Biography of X follows a grieving wife seeking to understand
the woman who enthralled her. CM traces X's peripatetic trajectory
over decades, from Europe to the ruins of America's divided
territories, and through her collaborations and feuds with everyone
from David Bowie and Tom Waits to Susan Sontag and Kathy Acker. And
when she finally understands the scope of X's defining artistic
project, CM realises her wife's deceptions were far crueller than
she imagined. Pulsing with suspense and intellect, Biography of X
is a roaring epic that plumbs the depths of grief, art and love,
and that introduces an unforgettable character who shows us the
fallibility of the stories we craft for ourselves.
Hammer Horror film set in Egypt 1920. Sir Basil Walden, with his
assitants Claire, Harry and Paul, stumble on the sealed desert tomb
of the young Pharoah Kah-To-Bey. When the expedition fails to
return on time, Stanley Preston, father of Paul and financier of
the expedition is forced into joining the search for the missing
archaeologists. Against all local advice they excavate the tomb,
releasing the mummy's spirit and body.
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Whisky Galore (Blu-ray disc)
Basil Radford, Joan Greenwood, James Robertson Justice, Jean Cadell, Gordon Jackson, …
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R254
Discovery Miles 2 540
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Classic Ealing comedy. During the Second World War, the inhabitants
of a small Hebridean island are wilting under a chronic shortage of
whisky. When a ship is wrecked on the shore, it is discovered to
contain 50,000 cases of malt, which are promptly appropriated by
the menfolk of the island. All is well until an English Home Guard
commander - determined to see the whisky restored to its rightful
owners - calls in Her Majesty's Customs, and the islanders make
frantic attempts to hide their treasured alcoholic booty!
You can run all the way to New Zealand, but eventually you'll
catch up with yourself
Without telling her family, Elyria takes a one-way flight to New
Zealand, abruptly leaving her stable but unfulfilling life in
Manhattan. As her husband scrambles to figure out what happened to
her, Elyria hurtles into the unknown, testing fate by hitchhiking,
tacitly being swept into the lives of strangers, and sleeping in
fields, forests, and public parks.
Her risky and often surreal encounters with the people and
wildlife of New Zealand propel Elyria deeper into her deteriorating
mind. Haunted by her sister's death and consumed by an inner
violence, her growing rage remains so expertly concealed that those
who meet her sense nothing unwell. This discord between her inner
and outer reality leads her to another obsession: If her truest
self is invisible and unknowable to others, is she even
alive?
The risks Elyria takes on her journey are paralleled by the risks
Catherine Lacey takes on the page. In urgent, spiraling prose she
whittles away at the rage within Elyria and exposes the very real,
very knowable anxiety of the human condition. And yet somehow Lacey
manages to poke fun at her unrelenting self-consciousness, her
high-stakes search for the dark heart of the self. In the spirit of
Haruki Murakami and Amelia Gray, "Nobody Is Ever Missing" is full
of mordant humor and uncanny insights, as Elyria waffles between
obsession and numbness in the face of love, loss, danger, and
self-knowledge.
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Pew (Paperback)
Catherine Lacey
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R245
Discovery Miles 2 450
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'I consumed it. It is the electric charge we need' Daisy Johnson,
author of Everything Under One Sunday morning, a mysterious silent
figure is found sleeping in a church in an unnamed American town.
The congregants call this amnesiac 'Pew' and seek to uncover who
they are: their age; their gender, their race, their intentions.
Are they an orphan, or something worse? What terrible trouble is
Pew running from? And why won't they speak? Unable to agree on how
to treat a person they cannot categorize - whether to adopt or
imprison, help or harm them - this small town is quickly undone by
Pew's terrifying silence. What remains is a foreboding,
provocative, and amorphous fable about the world today: our borders
and our boundaries, our fears and our woes.
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The Man in the Sky (DVD)
Jack Hawkins, Elizabeth Sellars, Jeremy Bodkin, Gerard Lohan, Walter Fitzgerald, …
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R117
Discovery Miles 1 170
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Charles Crichton directs this Ealing Studios thriller starring Jack
Hawkins. When one of the engines on the experimental
rocket-propulsion plane he is flying catches fire, test pilot John
Mitchell (Hawkins) refuses to obey orders to jettison the aircraft
into the Irish Sea.
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The Answers (Paperback)
Catherine Lacey
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R319
R226
Discovery Miles 2 260
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WELCOME TO THE GIRLFRIEND EXPERIMENT
Mary is out of options.
Estranged from her family and beset by phantom pain, she signs up
for 'The Girlfriend Experiment' - a mysterious project masterminded
by a famous Hollywood actor who hires a collection of women to
fulfil the different roles of a relationship. Mary is to play the
Emotional Girlfriend, alongside a Maternal Girlfriend, a Mundane
Girlfriend, an Angry Girlfriend and, of course, an Intimacy Team.
Each woman has her debts and her difficulties, her past loves and
her secrets.
As Mary and the actor are drawn ever closer together,
the nature of the experiment changes, and the Girlfriends find
themselves exposed to new perils, foremost among them love.
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Life Sciences (Paperback)
Joy Sorman; Translated by Lara Vergnaud; Introduction by Catherine Lacey
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R401
Discovery Miles 4 010
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Without telling her family, Elyria takes a one-way flight to New
Zealand, abruptly leaving her stable life in Manhattan, her home,
her career and her loving husband. As the people she has left
behind scramble to figure out what has happened to her, Elyria
embarks on a hitchhiker's odyssey, testing fate by travelling in
the cars of overly kind women and deeply strange men, tacitly being
swept into the lives of strangers, and sleeping in fields, forests,
and public parks. As she journeys from Wellington to Picton,
Takaka, Kaikoura and onwards she asks herself, what is it that I am
missing? How can a person be missing? Full of mordant humour and
uncanny insights, Nobody Is Ever Missing is a startling tale of
love, loss, and the dangers encountered in the search for
self-knowledge. It is a novel which goes far beyond the story of a
physical journey and asks what it means to be human, to be a woman,
and to be at the mercy of forces beyond one's own control.
Certain states are hard to shake, or so Catherine Lacey's
characters find in these twelve tales of love, loss and longing. A
grieving wife gives away the shirts her husband has left behind. A
flirtatious widow takes a honeymooning couple to see her husband's
grave. A businessman working for a shadowy organization known as
'The Company', checks-in to a room in a strange and remarkable
hotel.
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