Jane Alison schrijft over thema's van identiteit en verbondenheid in het buitenland. Haar werken verkennen hoe individuen omgaan met constante verhuizingen en hun gevoel van thuis en connectie vormgeven. Alison kenmerkt zich door een scherp inzicht in de menselijke psyche en proza dat zowel delicaat als suggestief is. Haar romans zijn vaak poëtisch en introspectief, en nodigen lezers uit om diep na te denken over de complexiteit van menselijke relaties en de zoektocht naar iemands plaats in de wereld.
This publication offers a fresh perspective on Jean Cooke, exploring her artistic journey and deep ties to East Sussex. After more than a decade since the last release, it delves into her unique contributions to the art world and the influence of her surroundings on her work.
As Jane Alison writes in the introduction to her insightful and appealing book about the craft of writing: "For centuries there's been one path through fiction we're most likely to travel-- one we're actually told to follow--and that's the dramatic arc: a situation arises, grows tense, reaches a peak, subsides . . . But something that swells and tautens until climax, then collapses? Bit masculosexual, no? So many other patterns run through nature, tracing other deep motions in life. Why not draw on them, too?" W. G. Sebald's Emigrants was the first novel to show Alison how forward momentum can be created by way of pattern, rather than the traditional arc-- or, in nature, wave. Other writers of nonlinear prose considered in her "museum of specimens" include Nicholson Baker, Anne Carson, Marguerite Duras, Gabriel García Márquez, Jamaica Kincaid, Clarice Lispector, Susan Minot, David Mitchell, Caryl Phillips, and Mary Robison. Meander, Spiral, Explode is a singular and brilliant elucidation of literary strategies that also brings high spirits and wit to its original conclusions. It is a liberating manifesto that says, Let's leave the outdated modes behind and, in thinking of new modes, bring feeling back to experimentation. It will appeal to serious readers and writers alike. -- Provided by publisher
Der reich illustrierte Band zeigt 120 einzigartige Kleidungsstücke aus wichtigen öffentlichen und privaten Sammlungen. Die Auswahl reicht von historischen Kostümen über Haute-Couture bis hin zu Prêt-à-Porter, mit Exemplaren von wichtigen zeitgenössischen Modedesignern und Labels wie Chloé, Christian Dior, Pam Hogg, Charles James, Christian Lacroix, Lanvan, Moschino, Miucccia Prada, Elsa Schiaparelli, Philip Treacy, UNDERCOVER, Walter Van Beirendonck, Viktor & Rolf, Louis Vuitton und Vivienne Westwood.
Striking photographs and archive drawings trace the history and the famous design features of the flats and the multi-arts centre, the largest in Europe. The book includes commentaries by Tom Dixon, Mike Leigh, Jonathan Meades, Eric Parry and Vivienne Westwood. This book celebrates the Barbican Estate, one of London's most important Modernist landmarks.
"The Sisters Antipodes" is a unique window on the intimate devastations of family betrayal, in equal measure unsettling and engrossing. Two girls are thrown into a state of silent combat for the affections of their absent fathers--a contest that would prove tragic.
Ovid, the leading author of the Roman Empire, finds inspriation in the person of Xenia, a mysertious woman who is part healer and part witch