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From the award-winning author of "The Mistress of Nothing" comes a
highly imaginative story of colliding worlds and extraordinary
connections.
Spring 2010. A volcano unexpectedly erupts in Iceland and airspace
is shut down over Europe. Harriet works in local radio in London,
and with most of her colleagues abroad, she seizes a unique career
opportunity. Her husband, Michael, stuck in New York on business,
travels to visit an old flame, and their teenage son, Jack, feeling
liberated from normal life, takes an unexpected risk only to find
himself in trouble. Meanwhile Emily, a young TV researcher, loses
her adoptive father to a heart attack, and half a world away, a
Pakistani migrant worker named Yacub is stranded in a Dubai labor
camp.
Two years later, Yacub, attempting to stow away, falls out of the
landing gear of an airplane onto Harriet's car in a London
supermarket parking lot--and survives--while Emily accidentally
captures it all on film. Yacub's sudden arrival in the lives of
Harriet, Jack, Michael, and Emily catapults these characters into a
series of life-changing events, ultimately revealing the tenuous,
often unexpected ties that bind us together.
Inspired by real-life accounts of airplane stowaways, "Landing
Gear" is about the complex texture of modern life, and how we fight
the loneliness of the nuclear family to hold on to one another.
This book considers how a combination of place-based writing and
location responsive technologies produce new kinds of literary
experiences. Building on the work done in the Ambient Literature
Project (2016-2018), this books argues that these encounters
constitute new literary forms, in which the authored text lies at
the heart of an embodied and mediated experience. The visual,
sonic, social and historic resources of place become the elements
of a live and emergent mise-en-scene. Specific techniques of
narration, including hallucination, memory, history, place based
writing, and drama, as well as reworking of traditional
storytelling forms combine with the work of app and user experience
design, interaction, software authoring, and GIS (geographical
information systems) to produce ambient experiences where the user
reads a textual and sonic literary space. These experiences are
temporary, ambiguous, and unpredictable in their meaning but unlike
the theatre, the gallery, or the cinema they take place in the
everyday shared world. The book explores the potentiality of a new
literary form produced by the exchange between location-aware
cultural objects, writers and readers. This book, and the work it
explores, lays the ground for a new poetics of situated writing and
reading practices.
This book considers how a combination of place-based writing and
location responsive technologies produce new kinds of literary
experiences. Building on the work done in the Ambient Literature
Project (2016-2018), this books argues that these encounters
constitute new literary forms, in which the authored text lies at
the heart of an embodied and mediated experience. The visual,
sonic, social and historic resources of place become the elements
of a live and emergent mise-en-scene. Specific techniques of
narration, including hallucination, memory, history, place based
writing, and drama, as well as reworking of traditional
storytelling forms combine with the work of app and user experience
design, interaction, software authoring, and GIS (geographical
information systems) to produce ambient experiences where the user
reads a textual and sonic literary space. These experiences are
temporary, ambiguous, and unpredictable in their meaning but unlike
the theatre, the gallery, or the cinema they take place in the
everyday shared world. The book explores the potentiality of a new
literary form produced by the exchange between location-aware
cultural objects, writers and readers. This book, and the work it
explores, lays the ground for a new poetics of situated writing and
reading practices.
The American debut of an award-winning novel about a lady's maid's
awakening as she journeys from the confines of Victorian England to
the uncharted far reaches of Egypt's Nile Valley
When Lady Duff Gordon, paragon of London society, departs for the
hot, dry climate of Egypt to seek relief from her debilitating
tuberculosis, her lady's maid, Sally, doesn't hesitate to leave the
only world she has known in order to remain at her mistress's side.
As Sally gets farther and farther from home, she experiences
freedoms she has never known--forgoing corsets and wearing native
dress, learning Arabic, and having her first taste of romance.
But freedom is a luxury that a lady's maid can ill afford, and when
Sally's newfound passion for life causes her to forget what she is
entitled to, she is brutally reminded she is mistress of nothing.
Ultimately she must choose her master and a way back home--or a way
to an unknown future.
Based on the real lives of Lady Duff Gordon and her maid, "The
Mistress of Nothing "is a lush, erotic, and compelling story about
the power of race, class, and love
Fran has been married to Nick for more than 12 years, since they
were eighteen. They are happy together until a 'little stranger'
arrives, in the form of baby Louis, and their lives are irrevocably
changed. The boy has good health and a sweet nature, but Fran feels
stifled, her old life merely a memory. So, one day, she simply
walks away.
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