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Heritage Speakers of Spanish and Study Abroad is an edited volume
that provides emerging research on heritage speakers of Spanish in
immersion contexts in theoretical, empirical, and programmatic
terms. This edited collection seeks to expand our understanding of
heritage speakers of Spanish by incorporating research on their
linguistic, sociolinguistic, and pragmatic development during and
after a sojourn abroad, by discussing the complexities of their
identity formation and negotiation during immersive stays, and by
highlighting programmatic innovations that could be leveraged to
better serve diverse learners in study abroad contexts. This volume
advances the fields of both heritage language education and
research on immersion study in a variety of ways, and will be of
interest to scholars of applied linguistics, sociolinguistics,
second language acquisition, and educational linguistics,
especially those interested in study abroad programming and Spanish
for heritage speakers.
Heritage Speakers of Spanish and Study Abroad is an edited volume
that provides emerging research on heritage speakers of Spanish in
immersion contexts in theoretical, empirical, and programmatic
terms. This edited collection seeks to expand our understanding of
heritage speakers of Spanish by incorporating research on their
linguistic, sociolinguistic, and pragmatic development during and
after a sojourn abroad, by discussing the complexities of their
identity formation and negotiation during immersive stays, and by
highlighting programmatic innovations that could be leveraged to
better serve diverse learners in study abroad contexts. This volume
advances the fields of both heritage language education and
research on immersion study in a variety of ways, and will be of
interest to scholars of applied linguistics, sociolinguistics,
second language acquisition, and educational linguistics,
especially those interested in study abroad programming and Spanish
for heritage speakers.
The witty, sexy sequel to Tracy Quan's bestselling 'Diary of a
Manhattan Call Girl'. Like everyone, Nancy finds that as life goes
on, she has to adapt. She's learning to hone her respectable image
as the wife of investment banker Matt, cooking fashionable meals
and taking his shirts to the cleaners, while turning a few tricks
on the side. Volume is down, but the sex is kinkier. And she finds
herself pulled into the discreet subculture of the married call
girl. Some women's husband's know what they do, some don't, and
some 'know, but don't know.' Nancy's is in the dark, although her
best friend Allison's increasing presence in the media spotlight
threatens to expose Nancy's secret. Meanwhile, Matt wants a baby,
but Nancy isn't so sure. Motherhood could end her career for good -
and what will it do to her body? Will Nancy have to give up her
career to save her marriage? What if she becomes the frumpy wife
her clients often come to her to escape? Fans of Quan's first Nancy
Chan novel, readers of Candace Bushnell's '4 Blondes', and anyone
who enjoys a walk on the wild side will love this revealing romp.
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Persona Non Grata (Hardcover)
Boogie; Introduction by Tracy Quan
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R1,281
R1,011
Discovery Miles 10 110
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Married call girl Nancy Chan has been asked to do something
outrageous – even by her standards. Most favoured customer Milt
has invited Nancy to his luxurious new villa in idyllic Provence.
That's a lot of euros, but … Can a (married) Manhattan call girl
really holiday with a client? Seeing him morning, noon and night,
coming up with new entertainments, and maintaining both a light tan
and a ‘professional' distance? Not to mention Milt's Viagra
habit. In a difficult economic climate a girl can't always meet her
quota, and Nancy's worried about losing her edge. Nancy jumps at
the chance to have a break from Manhattan (and from husband Matt)
for a few weeks. Desperate for an alibi, she invents a vacation
with her mom in southern France. In reality, Nancy is hard at work
with some new playmates – Tini (Malaysian, with something extra),
Isabel (a St-Tropez madam), and Serge (Isabel's hunky chauffeur)
– while Matt grows more inquisitive. As Nancy discovers, the
French countryside is ‘ten times trickier than Manhattan’ and
nothing in her temporary world is quite what it seems. When Milt's
enigmatic cook Duncan turns up unexpectedly in Nancy's erotic
fantasies, she begins questioning everything she knows. Can Nancy
keep getting away with this?
A fun, witty, sexy, page-turning novel written by a real-life,
high-priced Manhattan call girl. This is the diary of Nancy Chan,
busy career girl, in her thirties, newly engaged and trying to
balance job and romance. But Nancy is a high-class call girl, a
fact her banker fiance, Matt does not know (he thinks she's a copy
editor) and Nancy wants to keep it that way. With one foot in the
bedrooms of her rich and demanding clients and one in the world of
her fiance and his family, Nancy demonstrates, in her inimitable
fashion, that if you know the dance, you can keep those two worlds
from colliding. At least for a while. This wonderfully intelligent,
sexually frank, rollicking novel gives us fresh insight into the
machinations and politics of being an expensive call girl in the
modern world. Quan pulls no punches, gives no apologies, and has
written one of the best and most honest books yet on the topic.
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