obedient sons
The Average Human
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Toby-Potter, Ellen / Potter, Ellen, PUBLISHER: MacAdam/Cage Publishing, Every small town in America has one: the family whose daughters are perpetually pregnant and whose sons go directly from the eleventh grade to the county lock-up. In the town of Loomis, in rural New York, that family is the Mayborns. Long haunted by accusations of incest and infanticide, the Mayborns have become a tribal clan of pariahs, with a roster of monstrosities attached to their name. June Mayborn, a fourteen-year-old with a preternatural sense of smell and a dubious code of morals, has an affair with a married candy-store owner. When the affair sours, June sets a deadly fire, accidentally killing an elderly man who had, over a decade before, established a cult-like commune in the foothills of Loomis. The subsequent funeral draws the beautiful and capricious Iris Utter, whose two-year-old son went missing from Loomis eight years earlier. Both Iris and her somber sixteen-year-old daughter, Lee, embark upon a dangerous and disturbing relationship with the Mayborns, which will both ravage and redeem their lives. When I was a child, my family rented a cabin in rural upstate New York, and down the road lived a family of local pariahs. Tales of their alleged misdeeds ranged from petit larceny to incest to murder, turning them into a band of provincial monsters. And, as if to cinch the case against them, all the daughters in the family had fingernails that were black and twisted, as though corruption sprouted directly from their fingertips. They kept to themselves, the girls bearing a disturbing shell-shocked look in their pale eyes, until they all simply picked up and left one day without a word, providing the town with yet more fodder for gossip. Only later, when I wrote about thefictional Mayborns, a much fiercer version of this real-life family, did I wonder about their aura of impending doom. Had they simply become trapped within the town's collective fiction of them, or were they truly a monstrous second cousin to the average human? For me, my first novel, The Average Human, will always be associated with schlepping bowls of pad thai, since I wrote the bulk of it while I waitressed in a Thai restaurant. Another waitress at the restaurant was also writing a novel, and together we made a pact to exchange at least two pages of writing every day. We kept the storylines and the characters alive by speculating about them endlessly, in between hauling plates of curried chicken or while we were polishing silverware. I'm sure we annoyed the hell out of the rest of the wait staff, but we finished our novels within months of each other. And we were each other's constant reminder that we were writers, not waitresses, despite the peanut sauce stains on our shirtsleeves. The Average Human is vivid, flawlessly written, and perfectly constructed. It's easy to remember whole passages at a time, because they instantly take root in your imagination. Ellen is the type of writer that readers will clamor for more of as soon as they finish this book.--P.W.
Lotto di n. 61 libri fotografici e/o illustrati di arte (e
Lotto di circa n. 61 libri fotografici illustrati di arte (e, in misura minore, turismo). Per lo più si tratta di volumi cartonati e di grande formato. Condizioni di conservazione variabili; per lo più molto buone. Occasionali annotazioni e/o sottolineature. Cedo esclusivamente in blocco. A richiesta invio le fotografie per posta elettronica. Elenco a seguire in ordine casuale nel formato: Autore, Titolo, Editore, anno di pubblicazione Arte - Brivio, Il Duomo di Milano - museo d'arte sacra, Banca Popolare di Milano, - AAVV, I Longobardi e la Lombardia - Milano Palazzo Reale autunno - Griffo / von Matt, Gela - destino di una città greca di Sicilia, Stringa, - Belli D'Elia, Alle sorgenti del Romanico - Puglia XI secolo, Amministrazione Provinciale di Bari, - Zannier / Insolera, Il quartiere barocco di Roma, LEA, - Servoise, Guide du Palais Farnese, Fratelli Palombi, - Sommella Beda, Roma: le fortificazioni del Trastevere, Centro Internazionale per lo studio delle Cerchia Urbane, - Massam, Roma Eterna, Italia Universale Editrice d'Arte, - Insolera, Roma - immagini e realtà dal X al XX secolo, Laterza, I ed. - Harden, Vetri dei Cesari, Olivetti, - Righetti Tosti-Croce, Bonifacio VIII e il suo tempo - anno il primo giubileo, Electa, - AAVV, Sikanie - Storia e civiltà della Sicilia greca, IVAG, - Fontana, San Marino e il gioco delle apparenze, Cassa di Risparmio della Repubblica di San Marino, - AAVV, Perù precolombiano, Istituto Italo-Latino Americano, ? - Calò Mariani et al., Federico II - immagine e potere, Marsilio, - ?, Corot - dipinti e disegni di collezioni francesi, De Luca, - ?, I Macchiaioli nella cultura toscana dell'Ottocento, Centro Di, - AAVV, La pittura a Napoli da Caravaggio a Luca Giordano, Electa, - Beltrame Quattrocchi, Disegni toscani e umbri del primo rinascimento, De Luca, - Argentieri, Pittori spagnoli, Mondadori, - Argentieri, Pittori inglesi, Mondadori, - De Micheli, Arte e mondo contadino, Vangelista, - Gian Ferrari et al., Il colore del lavoro, Electa, - Leymarie, Corot, Skira-Fabbri, - Du Ry, L'arte dell'Islam, Rizzoli, anni d'arte iranica, Ente Manifestazioni Milanesi, - ?, Giordania, Plurigraf, - Yadin, Masada, De Donato, - Mathieu, Musée d'Orsay - guida, Spadem, - Carpenter, The glory of Westminster Abbey, Jarrold & sons, ? - Bastié, Abbaye Saint-Pierre den Montmajour, Les Amis du Vieil Arles, - Macku, Vienna, Thames and Hudson, - AAVV, Arte e scienza per il disegno del mondo, Electa, - [?, Soldati di ogni tempo, De Agostini, ] - ?, Exhibitions Today , IPI Milano, ? - Bianchi Bandinelli et al., Etruschi e Italici prima del dominio di Roma, Rizzoli, - Talbot Rice, Art of the Byzantyne era, Thames & Hudson, , (non presente nella fotografia) - American school of classical studies at Athens, The Athenian Agora - a guide, Aspioti-Elka, 2nd ed. , (non presente nella fotografia) - Ions, Indian mythology, Newnes, , (non presente nella fotografia) - Gr?sa, Franz Kafka of Prague, Secker & Wartburg, , (non presente nella fotografia) - Hubert et al., L'Europa delle invasioni barbariche, Rizzoli, , (non presente in fotografia) - ?, Mostra di Girolamo Romanino - Brescia , Industrie Grafiche Bresciane, , (non presente in fotografia) - Frasso / Cappelini, Itinerari con Francesco Petrarca, Antenore, , (non presente in fotografia) - ?, Museo della civiltà romana - catalogo, C. Colombo, , (non in fotografia) - De Blasi et al., Italiani nel mondo, Sansoni, , (non in fotografia), Turismo - AAVV, Coste d'Italia - dal Tevere a Ventimiglia, Ricordi, - AAVV, Coste d'Italia - dal Gargano al Tevere, Ricordi, - AAVV, Coste d'Italia - da Trieste al Gargano, Ricordi, - AAVV, Monti d'Italia - l'Appennino centrale, Mondadori, - Gras / Tonini, Le valli di Susa - Il bacino della Dora Riparia, Zanichelli, - Paterson / Dunnett, The Scottish Highlands, Mainstream Publishing, - Kennelly, Ireland - past and present, Multimedia Publications, - Kalchthaler, Friburgo di Brisgovia, von König, - ?, Heidelberg - guida illustrata, von König, - Nyssen, L'Algérie, Arthaud, - AAVV, Atlante geografico tascabile, De Agostini, - Duncan, Walking London, New Holland, , (non presente nella fotografia) - Padovese + Granell, Guida alla Turchia, Paoline, (non presente nella fotografia), - Malagoli Vecchi, Il mediterraneo illustrato, (anastatica per Il Banco di Sicilia), (non presente nella fotografia)
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