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Life in Violet is the story of Violet McKay, a psychotherapist who
lives alone in a little house overlooking the ocean. She names her
house "Between the Devil and the Deep Blue" unwittingly revealing
her sense of life. Despite an intense and often overwhelming inner
life, Violet believes she has been "therapized and sanitized" out
of her early experiences of betrayal and loss. It takes an injury
and a sexual obsession with a psychiatrist to break open her past
and reveal her own deep need for healing. In the course of her
relationships with her clients and three men, a priest, an actor
and a widower, Violet finds herself, forgiveness, and new life.
Mieres Reborn reveals how patient observation and an analysis of
one small community have much to tell us about human progress more
generally. Not long ago Mieres, a village in the eastern foothills
of the Pyrenees, seemed destined to die. As in countless thousands
of rural communities around the world, young people in Mieres over
the years have moved to the towns and cities, leaving behind
abandoned fields and meadows, derelict houses, and their aging and
disconsolate parents and grandparents. Close observation of this
social microcosm over two decades reveals the capacity of ordinary
people in a locality to reinvent themselves, reconstruct
relationships with the wider world, and confront new threats to
their collective survival. A. F. Robertson describes how the
determination that Mieres should survive is most evident in a
vigorous round of fiestas, fairs, and other public events in which
natives, exiles, and newcomers work to create a lively sense of
belonging. Since the 1980s, Mieres has been enlivened by a reverse
flow of migrants from the cities, new settlers who have brought an
infusion of youth to the community, devised new livelihoods,
revitalized the village school, energized the native
”Mierencs,” and provided the impetus for a rediscovery of
historical roots and political identity. The regeneration of life
in the countryside, in part a reaction to urban expansion and
decay, is a global phenomenon of increasing political, economic,
and social significance.
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Try! (Paperback)
F. Robertson; F. Robertson
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R262
Discovery Miles 2 620
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Forgive! (Paperback)
F. Robertson; F. Robertson
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R262
Discovery Miles 2 620
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