Translated from Russian, this reprinted collection of poetry presents tales of love and personal discovery amidst the period of the October Revolution. Reprint.
Author: Boris Leonidovich Pasternak
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 0810119099
Category: Poetry
Page: 116
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Translated from Russian, this reprinted collection of poetry presents tales of love and personal discovery amidst the period of the October Revolution. Reprint.The Story of My Sister's Disappearance Maria Flook. S ACCLAIM FOR MARIA FLOOK'S MY ISTER LIFE “Searing.... Harrowing.... Flook narrates painful events with remarkable poise ... a voice that is lyrical ... authoritative.
Author: Maria Flook
Publisher: Crown
ISBN: 9780307795007
Category: Biography & Autobiography
Page: 368
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When Maria Flook's fourteen-year-old sister Karen disappeared from their suburban home, the author was changed forever. My Sister Life maps the story of two castaways from American suburbia who, while apart from each other, live mysteriously parallel lives. With unrelenting realism and beguiling wit, Flook gives us an intimate account of her sister's life as a child prostitute, and of their coming of age in the 1960s--that surreal and wrenching moment of baby-boomer disenfranchisement, when the sexual revolution collided with the domestic fallout from the Vietnam War. From the ocean liners and Paris vacations of their refined upbringing to the gritty peepshows and adult theaters where they find jobs, the girls flee from a beautiful and tormented matriarch with secrets of her own. Her missing sister becomes Flook's secret heroine--the sole example to follow in her journey into womanhood. The sisters live in trailer parks. They are faced with sexual assault, car thefts, and petty crimes with unpredictable men. Escaping from an abusive Vietnam vet, Karen takes her toddler to join her sister, who is herself raising a baby on her own; it is the first time they are under the same roof since their childhood. Their unorthodox reunion allows the sisters to forge a life-saving bond. My Sister Life moves beyond biography or memoir to give us an astonishing vision of an American family--an authentic testimony to the defiant, undaunted faith between two sisters who connect after years apart.Boris Leonidovich Pasternak, Bohdan Boĭchuk. BORIS PASTERNAK cos S MY SISTERLIFE TRANSLATED BY MARK RUDMAN WITH BOHDAN BOYCHUK ----- MY SISTER LIFE This one ACOD - TEW -. Front Cover.
Author: Boris Leonidovich Pasternak
Publisher: Exile Editions, Ltd.
ISBN: 0920428932
Category: English poetry
Page: 106
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"Boris Pasternak, the Nobel laureate and author of Doctor Zhivago, composed one of the world's great love poems in My Sister--Life. Written in the summer of 1917, the cycle of poems focuses on personal journeys and loves but is permeated by the tension and promise of the impending October Revolution"--Publisher.I ran my finger over the scrawled script on the paper that had landed on my lap, then handed it to Justin. He glanced at it. “Okay, good choice. ... When he'd finished, Justin sat up and gathered the papers Pieces of My Sister's Life 73.
Author: Elizabeth Arnold
Publisher: Bantam
ISBN: 9780553903881
Category: Fiction
Page: 480
View: 142
Two sisters who shared everything. One unforgivable moment. And a second chance…There’s something to talk about in every chapter of Elizabeth Joy Arnold’s poignant, insightful debut novel—the perfect summer read for all those who loved Elisabeth Robinson’s The True and Outstanding Adventures of the Hunt Sisters, Judy Blume’s Summer Sisters, and Jodi Picoult’s My Sister’s Keeper. Once, Kerry and Eve Barnard did everything together: sailing the Block Island harbor with their father, listening to their neighbor Justin’s magical fairy tales, and all the while longing for their absent mother. They were twin girls arm in arm, secrets entwined between two hearts. Until the summer of their seventeenth birthday, when their extraordinary bond was shattered. And thirteen years later, it will take all the courage they can summon to put the pieces back together—at a time when it matters most.…The two collections offered here in translation make for an informative and fascinating juxtaposition: the first, My Sister Life, emerged early in Pasternak's poetic journey, when, by his late twenties, he had found his voice; ...
Author: Boris Pasternak
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 9780810127975
Category: Literary Criticism
Page: 164
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Collects the author's early poems written in his twenties and his later poems from his famous epic, Dr. Zhivago, written towards the end of his life.It was my sister's life on the line.He merely said amyl nitrate wasused 'in cases of heart disease to cause dilation of the veins and also in therelief of asthma'. Nobody questioned at the trial if Blakely suffered from these problems.
Author: Muriel Jakubait
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 9781472106940
Category: Fiction
Page: 160
View: 112
The secret double-life of Ruth Ellis and the Establishment cover-up that led to her unjust hanging Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be hanged in Britain, was convicted fifty years ago for shooting her lover David Blakely. The case became a notorious part of British criminal history and was turned into the film, Dance with a Stranger. The story that has been perpetuated ever since is that of a peroxide tart who killed in a fit of passion. Yet, crucial questions were left unasked in the original trial. Ruth Ellis's sister, Muriel Jakubait, knew her longest of all. She has never given up her search for justice. Now after fifty years she has decided to reveal the hard facts about their shared upbringing, and seek to piece together the full true story of her sister. As she is at pains to point out, the jealous killer tag has never been substantiated. This is a story of power, espionage, lies, loyalty, poverty, sex and betrayal. It suggests a third man may have pulled the trigger for the fatal shots. And that he belonged to a web of espionage into which Ruth Ellis fell long before the shooting. Above all, it indicates that Ruth was being run by Stephen Ward, at least a decade before his name became public in the Profumo Scandal. Muriel's motive is about more than proving her sister Ruth's innocence. It's about reclaiming the right to tell the story of her own family, stripped bare of the many tabloid myths that have accrued over the decades. She shows that Ruth was somebody damaged at a very early age - who strove to make something of herself, only to be caught up in something much bigger and end up paying with her life.And yet here I am, standing up here to tell you about my incredible sister. Life is unfair that way. But Janie would love this.” Another murmur of laughter falls over the gathered mourners. “Yeah, she would have,” someone shouts.
Author: Cassandra Dee
Publisher: Cassandra Dee Romance
ISBN:
Category: Fiction
Page: 150
View: 722
I caught Marcus looking at me during my sister’s funeral. But is it wrong if he’s my sister’s husband? We were all devastated after Jane died in a car accident. After all, she was perfect: blonde, willowy, and a genuinely kind and caring person too. But during the funeral, things went crazy. I caught my brother in law staring at me. More than staring. He was absolutely ravenous. Oh god. The family’s supposed to be in mourning but my ex brother-in-law and I started something forbidden that very day. And it kept going. At the wake. At the reception. Hot and strong all throughout the grieving period. Now I’m pregnant with my brother in law’s baby. But how do I tell the world that I’m expecting my sister’s husband’s child? Hey Readers – This story hits practically every taboo you’ve ever craved. Our heroine engages in a relationship with a man who’s totally off limits, and she loves every second of it! Be sure to pack a fire extinguisher because you’ll need it! Xoxo, CassieYet, if we strive to understand what one sister is, her plight, and what she is trying to master in life, we can learn a lot about life, just from her. Finding out, particulary what she means and what she does to herself and for herself ...
Author: Dr. Pamela Renee Applewhite PhD
Publisher: Archway Publishing
ISBN: 9781665703215
Category: Family & Relationships
Page: 300
View: 996
What is a sister? What should a sister be? How do you relate to your sister—in childhood, adult hood, and throughout life? What are the characteristics and traits of sisters? What are the personalities of sisters? Are there particular types of sister groups? In My Sister, My Enemy, author Dr. Pamela Renee Applewhite journeys through sisterhood using various sister examples, traits, personalities, interactions, relationships, thoughts, whims, notions, and more. A total reflection of sisterhood, she shares various examples of sisters to demonstrate how we have been, how we have not been, and what we need to do to get it right. Filled with an array of touching and real-life sister stories, My Sister, My Enemy addresses a host of situations sisters face. Applewhite seeks to encourage sisters to find healing or triumphant victories. Geared for sisters old, young, and in between, she not only chronicles her personal story, but that of others who have experienced the joys, pains, happiness, trials, tribulations, sadness, loneliness, death of a sister, and revivals of sisterhood. It’s about getting back to love, to closeness, and to sharing.ally spent their entire lives together. If Anna donates a kidney that saves her sister's life, it's a tremendous gift—and not just to Kate. Because Anna herself will continue to be part of the intact family by which she defines herself, ...
Author: Jodi Picoult
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 9781439157381
Category: Fiction
Page: 448
View: 178
Conceived to provide a bone marrow match for her leukemia-stricken sister, teenage Kate begins to question her moral obligations in light of countless medical procedures and decides to fight for the right to make decisions about her own body.She took care of all her grandchildren, but I always felt I had a very special place in her heart. For the first ten years of my life and the first seven years of my middle sister's life we lived in the house with my grandma.
Author: Carolyne S. Green
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1468553666
Category: Biography & Autobiography
Page: 96
View: 407
After experiencing this mystifying illness fi rst hand, the author hopes that there will be something in this book that will inspire other caregivers to not falter or loose hope when the situation looks bleak and they feel as though there is nowhere to go or no one to whom they can rely on for help; but to never give up because there is always help somewhere. Her fi rst book entitled Ten Years of Finding Peace was published in 1997.