Oliveira worked in nursing until the birth of her children, when she left work to stay home with them, but when her youngest son entered kindergarten, she decided to try to write a book instead of returning. After finding this wasn't a viable career path, she studied nursing, earning a living as registered nurse specializing in critical care and bone marrow transplant, in Seattle. She earned a Bachelor of Arts in Russian from the University of Montana in 1976, and continued her study at the Pushkin House Institute of Russian Literature in Moscow. Robin Frazier Oliveira was born in Albany, New York in 1954, and grew up in nearby Loudonville, New York, graduating Shaker High School. Her second novel, I Always Loved You, was published by Penguin on February 4, 2014. Robin Oliveira (born 1954) is an American author, former literary editor, and nurse, who is most known for her debut novel, My Name is Mary Sutter, published in 2010.
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If after a re-examination of the texts he feels he has a different story to tell, he must tell it for himself. Anyone who, possessed of some previous acquaintance with the Aristotelian corpus, reads their work is inevitably stimulated to return to Aristotle with his mind full of fresh ideas. “I have ruined your life,” he said to his brother’s widow, Louise. The novelist bore the guilt of this gift, and of introducing his youngest brother to flying, for the rest of his life. Her father, Dean, a dashing air-show pilot, died in a plane crash before she was born, piloting a craft given to him by his brother William. Wells’s own story reads like that of one of Faulkner’s heroines. But to Dean Faulkner Wells, he was and will always be “Pappy,” the patriarch at the center of a quintessential extended Southern family whose history is no less compelling and instructive than the many tales Faulkner weaved from its common threads. In 1950, when he received the Nobel Prize for Literature, William Faulkner secured his legend with an unforgettable address in which he proclaimed the writer’s duty and privilege “to help man endure by lifting his heart, by reminding him of the courage and honor and hope and pride and compassion and pity and sacrifice which have been the glory of his past.” Since that moment, Faulkner has been a bronzed icon, his “postage stamp of native soil,” Yoknapatawpha County, an allegorical staging ground for all the grand and small tragedies and triumphs of modernity. In the first book in Medicus Investigation series, the author Ruth Downie makes use of tension that exist between the Roman army and the British local to create an engaging historical setting and a charming page-turning mystery. Ruth Downie began Medicus Investigation series in 2006 when Medicus the first book in the series was published. Medicus Investigation series features a main character named Gaius Petreius Ruso, a military medical officer who transfers to the 20th Legion in the rural Britannia Port of Deva now known as Chester to get his life back on track after his father’s death and a divorce ruin his marriage. Medicus Investigation is a series of historical fiction books written by bestselling author of historical fiction, mystery and thriller novels Ruth Downie. Directed by Neil Jordan, it was the 10th highest grossing movie of 1994, earning Warner Bros. The film adaptation of the same story was essentially produced due to overwhelming public demand. The immortal bloodsuckers of her Vampire Chronicles book series were provocative, dangerous, and boundary-shattering from the moment Interview with the Vampire was first published in 1976. The late Anne Rice reinvented vampires for a new generation on the page with her extensive series of novels. It earned its cinematic notoriety because it ignored its natural and unnatural resources. But 20 years on, the movie is most remembered as a famously flawed fright flick follow-up to one of the best vampire movies ever made–a rush job which doomed a promising franchise. The rising singer tragically died at age 22 during post-production, with the movie offering only a glimpse of her greater talent. The film is notable for the breakthrough performance of Aaliyah as the title character Queen Akasha. Michael Rymer’s Queen of the Damned (2002) celebrates its 20th anniversary next week. She has entered, she realizes, a parallel existence, which she calls 1Q84 -“Q is for ‘question mark.’ A world that bears a question.” Meanwhile, an aspiring writer named Tengo takes on a suspect ghostwriting project. Please see Disclosures for more information.Ī young woman named Aomame follows a taxi driver’s enigmatic suggestion and begins to notice puzzling discrepancies in the world around her. That means if you click and make a purchase, I may earn a small commission. Initially, though, Anam had a different kind of book in mind. And when she decided to write a novel about Bangladesh, Anam says, she couldn't imagine writing about anything else except the war.Īnam's first novel, A Golden Age, revolves around a family headed by a widow named Rehana - a character inspired by Anam's grandmother and the small but remarkable role she played in that war. But all her life, she heard about that country's war for independence - which took place before she was born - from her Bengali parents and their friends. The child of a diplomat, Tahmima Anam grew up far away from her native Bangladesh. But she wove family stories of her native land and its independence war into the fabric of her novel A Golden Age. Born in Bangladesh, Tahmima Anam grew up mostly in the West. In addition (and probably in origin), however, the Latin also has connotations of infertility. Infelix, for example, is broadly equivalent to the English ‘unlucky’, describing either the victim or the bringer of bad luck. Some of this is a result of Virgil’s genius for exploiting complexities in the meanings of Latin words. Many of the poem’s themes, concerns, delights and conundrums are as readily accessible in an English version as in the Latin other aspects are harder to retain in translation. It represents a reaction to – and, perhaps, an attempt to shape – the newly emergent political structures of rule by emperor, when the skeletons of the old republican system persisted as much in deference to nostalgia as out of any spirit of compromise and reconciliation. Said to have been commissioned by the emperor Augustus (although it’s debatable quite what that ‘commission’ entailed), the poem was written in the aftermath of a series of devastating civil wars. P ublished after Virgil’s death in 19 BCE, the Aeneid is a poem of paradox: a foundation epic which never directly describes the foundation of Rome a divinely inspired song in the mould of the Iliad and Odyssey that is self-consciously, densely literate a paean to empire and a lament for empire’s victims. Yet against all odds, they become best friends as they find a sanctuary in the pigeon dovecote that James has built for his prize racing birds. Growing up in a housing estate in Glasgow, Mungo and James are born under different stars-Mungo a Protestant and James a Catholic-and they should be sworn enemies if they're to be seen as men at all. Both a page-turner and literary tour de force, it is a vivid portrayal of working-class life and a deeply moving and highly suspenseful story of the dangerous first love of two young men. Now Stuart returns with Young Mungo, his extraordinary second novel. Published or forthcoming in forty territories, it has sold more than one million copies worldwide. Douglas Stuart's first novel Shuggie Bain, winner of the 2020 Booker Prize, is one of the most successful literary debuts of the century so far. |