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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... hard not to notice how much more attention is given to hell rather than heaven . Dante's Inferno beats out Paradisio every time . Milton's brilliantly rendered pre - paradise world , known as Chaos , is far more fully realized than his ...
... hard to persuade other home boys to repeat what the Old Fathers had done in 1890. Ten generations had known what lay Out There : space , once beckoning and free , became unmonitored and seething ; became a void where random and ...
... hard as she could to hang on . She had managed to see him ride the winning horse , but beyond that she had no strength . Not even enough to get interested in the debates about what to call this place she had traveled to with her ...
... hard . Mavis knew instantly that her daughter wasn't nervous before the camera and all , because the pinch grew long , pointed . Sal's fingernails were diving for blood . " This must be terrible for you . " Her name , she said , was ...
... hard to see that happening in five minutes . ” It could be sweat , but it hurt enough to be blood . She didn't dare swat Sal's hand away or acknowledge the pain even slightly . Instead she scratched the corner of her mouth and said ...