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The follow up book to 'Fighting for Life', Laura continues to write
about real experiences she faces. From a transplant that changes
everything she has known for the past 23 years, to relationships
and all the ups and downs that come with it, to sorting through
life's questions. Nothing is hidden as she intensely lays out for
you her thoughts and emotions.
Tim Burton's film version of the Stephen Sondheim musical starring
Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter. Based on a 'penny dreadful'
tale (which later became an urban myth) from the mid-19th Century,
this musical tells the tale of Benjamin Barker (Depp), a barber who
returns to London after spending years in exile for a crime he
didn't commit. He soon discovers from pie-maker Mrs Lovett (Bonham
Carter) that, in his absence, his wife has taken her own life and
his daughter is now in the care of the man who had him sent away -
the dastardly Judge Turpin (Alan Rickman). Seeking revenge and
filled with a murderous rage, Barker sets up a barber's shop above
Mrs Lovett's premises. Now calling himself Sweeney Todd, Barker
kills off all his customers with a razor to the throat and sends
their cadavers to the shop below to be used as a tasty new filling
for Mrs Lovett's meat pies. What was once the worst pie shop in
London quickly becomes one of the city's most popular eateries, but
Barker won't be satisfied until he can lure Judge Turpin into the
barber's chair...
A cultural phenomenon in his day-an award-winning film director and
actor who also wrote novels, plays, and movie scripts-Vasily
Shukshin (1929-1974) is renowned for his mastery of the short
story. Credited with revitalizing the short story as a genre in
Russian literature, he was posthumously honored with the Soviet
Union's highest literary prize following his untimely death at the
age of forty-five. Stories from a Siberian Village introduces
Shukshin to English readers with twenty-five stories that reflect
the Siberian origins of his artistic identity. These stories, most
of which have never before appeared in English, are set in a remote
Siberian village caught in transition between rural traditions and
modern Soviet life. There Shukshin's peasants-survivors of
revolution, collectivization, and war-seek their identity in a
"brave new world." Eccentrics and oddballs, Shukshin's protagonists
are restless freedom seekers whose dreams and foibles are as broad
and inexplicable as their native Siberian landscape. As touchy as
artists and as unpretentious as truck drivers, they struggle with
questions of life and death, faith and reason, custom and progress.
From their mutual misapprehensions and the gap between their dreams
and reality arises Shukshin's biting humor.
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