Simon Camish, an embittered, diffident lawyer in a loveless marriage, would not have particularly noticed Rose Vassiliou had he not been asked to drive her home one night after a dinner party.
@Simon Camish, an embittered, diffident lawyer in a loveless marriage, would not have particularly noticed Rose Vassiliou had he not been asked to drive her home one night after a dinner party.
Margaret Drabble. she and some of her friends locked the Union officials into the Union office, and continued to demand their refund with menaces. I always knew she shouldn't have gone to that place, one could tell there'd be trouble, ...
In this book, Marla R. Miller illuminates the significance of women's work in the clothing trades of the early Republic.
The Boston Marathon bombers, Francis and Clare of Assisi, legendary nymphs, and urban nomads occupy this sequence of essays, poems, and tales, their stories and chronologies shifting and overlapping."--Back cover.
The Needle's Eye
Meeting Rose, a woman whose notorious reputation caused her to appear in the news regularly, Simon Camish learns about her separation from her Greek husband, wonders at her refusal to leave her slum neighborhood, and admires her courage ...
Among the enduring stereotypes of early American history has been the colonial Goodwife, perpetually spinning, sewing, darning, and quilting, answering all of her family's textile needs. But the Goodwife of...
The Needle's Eye
The book contains filmic images that subvert the usual narrative chronology; it is focused on the theme of youth, doomed or saved.