ParadiseKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 24 lip 2007 - 320 The acclaimed Nobel Prize winner challenges our most fiercely held beliefs as she weaves folklore and history, memory and myth into an unforgettable meditation on race, religion, gender, and a far-off past that is ever present—in prose that soars with the rhythms, grandeur, and tragic arc of an epic poem. |
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... already recognizable landscape : great trees for shade and fruit , lawns , palaces , precious metals , animal husbandry , and jewelry . Other than outwitting evil , waging war against the unworthy , there seems to be nothing for the ...
... already built . But he and the others , veterans all , had a different idea . Loving what Haven had been - the idea of it and its reach - they carried that devotion , gentling and nursing it from Bataan to Guam , from Iwo Jima to ...
... already gone when the fifteen families arrived . That was twenty - five years ago , when all their dreams outstretched the men who had them . A road straight as a die had been cleared through the center of town and lined on one side by ...
... already being built . The headline of a feature in the Herald , “ Come Prepared or Not at All , " could not mean them , could it ? Smart , strong , and eager to work their own land , they believed they were more 13 Ruby.
... already under the sheet , and Mavis woke with a start of terror , which dissolved quickly into familiar fright . " I'm okay . " She searched the darkness for a sign , trying to feel , smell his mood in advance . But he was a blank ...