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Fruit of the Dead
Rachel Lyon
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R334
Discovery Miles 3 340
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Fruit of the Dead
Rachel Lyon
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R698
R538
Discovery Miles 5 380
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An electric contemporary reimagining of the myth of Persephone and
Demeter set over the course of one summer on a lush private island,
about addiction and sex, family and independence, and who holds the
power in a modern underworld. Camp counselor Cory Ansel, eighteen
and aimless, afraid to face her high-strung single mother in New
York, is no longer sure where home is when the father of one of her
campers offers an alternative. The CEO of a Fortune 500
pharmaceutical company, Rolo Picazo is middle-aged, divorced,
magnetic. He is also intoxicated by Cory. When Rolo proffers a
childcare job (and an NDA), Cory quiets an internal warning and
allows herself to be ferried to his private island. Plied with
luxury and opiates manufactured by his company, she continues to
tell herself she's in charge. Her mother, Emer, head of a teetering
agricultural NGO, senses otherwise. With her daughter seemingly
vanished, Emer crosses land and sea to heed a cry for help she
alone is convinced she hears. Alternating between the two women's
perspectives, Rachel Lyon's Fruit of the Dead incorporates its
mythic inspiration with a light touch and devastating precision.
The result is a tale that explores love, control, obliteration, and
America's own late capitalist mythos. Lyon's reinvention of
Persephone and Demeter's story makes for a haunting and ecstatic
novel that vibrates with lush abandon. Readers will not soon forget
it.
When Mucky decides it would be better if he was a unicorn, Owl tries to help but wouldn't a true friend like him just the way he is?
Mucky is fed up with being a "drab old brown" horse who smells so bad that none of the other horses want to share his field.Instead, he wants to be a unicorn with a gleaming white coat and a long horn that the other horses admire.So Owl comes up with a plan to make Mucky s wish come true, and enlists the help of the other animals. They use a shell from the beach for a horn and milk from the cows to paint him. He wakes up thinking he s turned into a unicorn, but it soons rains and everything gets washed away. Mucky then realizes he doesn t need to be unicorn to have great friends who will notice him.
An electric contemporary reimagining of the myth of Persephone and Demeter set over the course of one summer on a lush private island, exploring who holds the power in a modern underworld.
Camp counsellor Cory Ansel, eighteen and aimless, afraid to face her high-strung single mother in New York, is no longer sure where home is when the father of one of her campers offers an alternative.
The CEO of a Fortune 500 pharmaceutical company, Rolo Picazo is middle-aged, divorced, magnetic. He is also intoxicated by Cory. When Rolo proffers a childcare job (and an NDA), Cory quiets an internal warning and allows herself to be ferried to his private island off the coast of Maine. Plied with luxury and opiates manufactured by his company, she continues to tell herself she’s in charge. Her mother, Emer, head of a teetering agricultural NGO, senses otherwise. When her daughter seemingly disappears, Emer crosses land and sea to heed a cry for help she alone is convinced she hears.
Alternating between the two women’s perspectives, Fruit of the Dead incorporates its mythic inspiration with a light touch and devastating precision. The result is a lush and haunting story that explores love, attraction, control, obliteration and America’s own late capitalist mythos.
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Face Your Giant (Paperback)
Janet Baird; Illustrated by Nan McCartney; Edited by Rachel Lyon
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R347
Discovery Miles 3 470
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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The Conium Review - Vol. 6 (Paperback)
Matthew Kirkpatrick, Rachel Lyon; Edited by (ghost editors) Stephen Graham Jones
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R294
R246
Discovery Miles 2 460
Save R48 (16%)
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