Chekov's great tragicomic eulogy for a passing way of life is superbly adapted to make a powerful and beautifully playable drama. Plays for Performance Series.

Chekov's great tragicomic eulogy for a passing way of life is superbly adapted to make a powerful and beautifully playable drama. Plays for Performance Series.

Evoking modern physics and antique metaphysics, Winterson's ambitiously eccentric narrative challenges her readers to rupture the boundaries of conventional perceptions and linear experience of time. Her narrative voices, alternating between a Rabelaisian giantess and her foundling son, collapse at times into one another and the characters plunge vertiginously through time and ...(展开全部)

' A book of innocence and bawdiness, fury and joy... needs to be read and re-read' —— The Times ' Read it and marvel. Jeanette Winterson's voice is startlingly original, and her imaginative feats are utterly dazzling' —— Cosmopolitan The Hopi, an Indian tribe, have a language as sophisticated as ours, but no tense for past, present and future. The division does not exist. What ...(展开全部)

In a fantastic world that is not 17th-century England, a baby is found floating in the Thames. Rescued by the Dog Woman, a murderous gentle giant, the baby soon grows up to discover that the strangest wonders are the ones spun out of his own head. "Fuses history, fairy tale, and metafiction into a fruit . . . of a memorably startling flavor".--"New York Times Book Review".

In a fantastic world that is not 17th-century England, a baby is found floating in the Thames. Rescued by the Dog Woman, a murderous gentle giant, the baby soon grows up to discover that the strangest wonders are the ones spun out of his own head. "Fuses history, fairy tale, and metafiction into a fruit . . . of a memorably startling flavor".--"New York Times Book Review".

Evoking modern physics and antique metaphysics, Winterson's ambitiously eccentric narrative challenges her readers to rupture the boundaries of conventional perceptions and linear experience of time. Her narrative voices, alternating between a Rabelaisian giantess and her foundling son, collapse at times into one another and the characters plunge vertiginously through time and ...(展开全部)

' A book of innocence and bawdiness, fury and joy... needs to be read and re-read' —— The Times ' Read it and marvel. Jeanette Winterson's voice is startlingly original, and her imaginative feats are utterly dazzling' —— Cosmopolitan The Hopi, an Indian tribe, have a language as sophisticated as ours, but no tense for past, present and future. The division does not exist. What ...(展开全部)

ヒートにもヒートにも屈しないΩの咲真と、眉目秀麗な生徒会長でαの廉次。 二人は小さい頃から一緒にいる幼馴染みで腐れ縁。 Ωとαという性の違いもあり、今は一定の距離を取っていた。 そんなある日、ヒートになった咲真はついうっかり廉次の制服についた残り香でお尻を弄ってしまう。 しかも一番知られたくなかった廉次に見つかってしまい…! ? 超変態ドSαと、ただでは揺らがない屈強なΩの予想できない幼馴染み二人のラブバトル! 外面はいいけど実はドSな嗜好持ちα×ヒートにも屈しない超強気Ω equal初の大ヒットオメガバースがついに登場!!

The Witch is dead. And the discovery of her corpse - by a group of children playing near the irrigation canals - propels the whole village into an investigation of how and why this murder occurred. Rumours and suspicions spread. As the novel unfolds in a dazzling linguistic torrent, with each unreliable narrator lingering on new details, new acts of depravity or brutality, Fern...(展开全部)