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Alva Irva
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Author : Edward Carey
language : en
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Release Date : 2011-05-13
Alva Irva written by Edward Carey and has been published by Pan Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-05-13 with Fiction categories.
The city of Entralla – along with Gondal, Brobdingnag and the Emerald City – is not somewhere you are likely to have visited. Only one guidebook to the place exists, despite its historic landmarks and the considerable civic pride of its inhabitants. Alva and Irva are identical twin sisters, and Entralla is their home. By nature, Alva is an explorer, and longs to travel the world. Irva is a recluse, for whom every step outside the house is an ordeal. But the twins belong together and cannot survive without each other. It is when Irva refuses to leave the house at all that the major work of their lives begins: Alva wanders the city streets, observing, taking notes, measuring, and reporting her findings to Irva, who painstakingly recreates a miniature Entralla. In Alva and Irva, Edward Carey takes the reader on an enchanting journey through a city of the imagination; the twins are mesmerizing heroines whose conflicting desires contain the seeds of both their destruction and their salvation.
Alva And Irva
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Author : Edward Carey
language : en
Publisher: Picador
Release Date : 2012-01-05
Alva And Irva written by Edward Carey and has been published by Picador this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-01-05 with categories.
The city of Entralla âe" along with Gondal, Brobdingnag and the Emerald City âe" is not somewhere you are likely to have visited. Only one guidebook to the place exists, despite its historic landmarks and the considerable civic pride of its inhabitants. Alva and Irva are identical twin sisters, and Entralla is their home. By nature, Alva is an explorer, and longs to travel the world. Irva is a recluse, for whom every step outside the house is an ordeal. But the twins belong together and cannot survive without each other. It is when Irva refuses to leave the house at all that the major work of their lives begins: Alva wanders the city streets, observing, taking notes, measuring, and reporting her findings to Irva, who painstakingly recreates a miniature Entralla. In Alva and Irva, Edward Carey takes the reader on an enchanting journey through a city of the imagination; the twins are mesmerizing heroines whose conflicting desires contain the seeds of both their destruction and their salvation.
Alva And Irva
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Author : Edward Carey
language : en
Publisher: Vintage Canada
Release Date : 2010-07-30
Alva And Irva written by Edward Carey and has been published by Vintage Canada this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-07-30 with Fiction categories.
A fairy tale for our times about the worlds we inhabit and the worlds we contain, from the astonishing new voice who introduced us to the strange and marvellous world of Observatory Mansions. Alva and Irva Dapps are identical twin sisters. They live in the city of Entralla, not a place you are likely to have visited. Alva is by nature an explorer; she longs to travel the world. Irva is a recluse, for whom a step outside the house is an ordeal. But the twins belong together -- they feel each other’s feelings, think each other’s thoughts, suffer together, love together and hate together -- they cannot survive without each other. Since childhood, the twins have built fantastical cities of Plasticine. But when Irva finally refuses to leave the house at all, the major work of their lives begins. Alva, attempting to return Irva to life, brings the city of Entralla into their home; she wanders its streets, observing, taking notes, measuring, and reports her findings to Irva, who painstakingly constructs a miniature Entralla of Plasticine. And the model city comes to serve Entralla in a way its creators could never have imagined. In Alva & Irva, Edward Carey takes the reader on an enchanting journey through a city of the imagination, with unforgettable heroines whose conflicting desires contain the seeds of both their destruction and their salvation.
Alva Et Irva
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Author : Edward Carey
language : fr
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003
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Pour la critique et les lecteurs des deux côtés de l'Atlantique, la découverte d'Edward Carey (L'Observatoire, Phébus, 2002) fut une révélation un peu magique. On pouvait encore écrire, par ces temps abonnés à tous les minimalismes, en laissant son imagination battre largement la campagne, en courant même le risque de paraître un brin dérangé - mais Lewis Carroll, Tolkien, Calvino, Mervyn Peake, Pérec (auxquels on a comparé tour à tour le jeune écrivain anglais) n'ont-ils pas ouvert le chemin ? Carey persiste donc, et signe ici un deuxième roman du même tonneau, sans consentir à mettre la moindre goutte d'eau dans son vin. Deux sœurs jumelles que rien ne distingue à l'œil et qui partagent tout - amours comprises - s'arrangent pour vivre à deux, dans une harmonie fusionnelle, les multiples contradictions du réel. Tandis qu'Irva se voue à une vie de recluse, Alva l'exploratrice parcourt fiévreusement les rues d'Entralla - une cité prise de folie qui n'est pas sans ressembler aux villes d'aujourd'hui - et rapporte à sa sueur la réalité extérieure à domicile. Ami des labyrinthes et des simulacres, Edward Carey, maître de l'ironie fantasmagorique, parvient une fois encore à donner vraisemblance à l'invraisemblable, vie aux reflets et mirages, beauté au désastre.
Alva Und Irva
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Author : Edward Carey
language : de
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003
Alva Und Irva written by Edward Carey and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with categories.
Die Zwillinge Alva und Irva sind vorherbestimmt für eine große Karriere im Postwesen. Ihr Großvater ist Postmeister, der früh verstorbene Vater war Briefträger, und ihre Mutter tut Dienst am Schalter des Hauptpostamtes. Die unzertrennlichen, aber in ihrem Wesen sehr verschiedenen Schwestern haben jedoch anderes im Sinn. Die extrovertierte Alva träumt davon, die Welt zu entdecken, die schüchterne Irva hingegen geht nur ungern aus dem Haus. Aus der Sehnsucht heraus, sich eine eigene Welt zu schaffen, beschließen die beiden, ihre Heimatstadt aus Plastilin nachzubauen. Mit Maßband und Notizblock bewaffnet, streift Alva durch die Straßen und vermißt Häuser, während Irva auf dem heimischen Speicher an dem ständig wachsenden Modell baut ... Mit viel Einfühlungsvermögen hat Edward Carey eine urkomische und zugleich berührende Geschichte geschrieben, die von bewohnten und erträumten Welten erzählt, von Nähe und Distanz, und davon, daß letztendlich alles nur eine Frage der Perspektive ist.
Alva E Irva Le Gemelle Che Salvarono Una Citt
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Author : Edward Carey
language : it
Publisher:
Release Date : 2004
Alva E Irva Le Gemelle Che Salvarono Una Citt written by Edward Carey and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Fiction categories.
Spatial Cultures
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Author : Sam Griffiths
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-06-10
Spatial Cultures written by Sam Griffiths and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-06-10 with Architecture categories.
What is the relationship between how cities work and what cities mean? Spatial Cultures: Towards a New Social Morphology of Cities Past and Present announces an innovative research agenda for urban studies in which themes and methods from urban history, social theory and built environment research are brought into dialogue across disciplinary and chronological boundaries. The collection confronts the recurrent epistemological impasse that arises between research focussing on the description of material built environments and that which is concerned primarily with the people who inhabit, govern and write about cities past and present. A reluctance to engage substantively with this issue has been detrimental to scholarly efforts to understand the urban built environment as a meaningful agent of human social experience. Drawing on a wide range of historical and contemporary urban case studies, as well as a selection of theoretical and methodological reflections, the contributions to this volume seek to historically, geographically and architecturally contextualize diverse spatial practices including movement, encounter, play, procession and neighbourhood. The aim is to challenge their tacit treatment as universal categories in much writing on cities and to propose alternative research possibilities with implications as much for urban design thinking as for history and the social sciences.
A Menagerie
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Author : Bradford Morrow
language : en
Publisher: Open Road Media
Release Date : 2014-01-21
A Menagerie written by Bradford Morrow and has been published by Open Road Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-01-21 with Fiction categories.
Russell Banks, Temple Grandin, and other renowned writers contemplate animals—and the way our own species interacts with them. Conjunctions: 61, A Menagerie gathers essays, fiction, and poetry that imagine the world of our fellow beings, animals. Cultural mythologies and pantheons are populated with snakes, monkeys, cats, jackals, whales: a cast of characters whose stories reveal how complex and wildly contradictory our species’ relationship with other animals is. They’re friends, enemies, tools, food. Descartes deliberated about whether animals have souls, deciding they didn’t. Linnaeus cataloged them. Darwin connected us to them. Wild or tame, sinless or soulless, the animal is a chimera of shifting identities, both mundane and mysterious. Featuring interviews with William S. Burroughs and Temple Grandin, essays by animal experimenters Vint Virga and Dale Peterson, fiction by Russell Banks and Joyce Carol Oates, and work by many others, this collection of imaginative new writing offers uncaged access to the lives of the nonhuman creatures that surround us.
Miracle Enough
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Author : William Gray
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2014-09-18
Miracle Enough written by William Gray and has been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-18 with categories.
To mark the centenary of Mervyn Peake's birth, the Sussex Centre for Folklore, Fairy Tales and Fantasy (University of Chichester) organized an international conference in July 2011 entitled ""Mervyn Peake and the Fantasy Tradition."" Papers were presented by scholars, artists, and writers from all over the world, and here we have a selection of them. No other comparable collection of essays on Peake has ever been published. The contributors take a wide variety of approaches to Peake's work - ...
Being Bodies
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Author : Bradford Morrow
language : en
Publisher: Open Road Media
Release Date : 2018-04-10
Being Bodies written by Bradford Morrow and has been published by Open Road Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-04-10 with Fiction categories.
The human body is admired, displayed, and dissected in this eclectic collection of stories, poems, and essays from Rick Moody, Edward Carey, and more. Being Bodies is an exploration of the complex circumstances of our flesh-and-blood existence. Our bodies dance; they’re inked; they contain prosthetics and implants. Our bodies are gendered, though not always correlative with how we perceive ourselves. Some use bodies for violence; some sacrifice their bodies for others. Our bodies are mortal, their days numbered. We do with them what we can and what we will. Through innovative poetry, fiction, and narrative nonfiction, thirty writers consider bodies as subjects; bodies as objects; bodies as loci of politics, illness, nature, artifice, performance, power, abuse, reward, disgust, and desire. Conjunctions:69, Being Bodies includes contributions from Rick Moody, Edward Carey, Carole Maso, Bin Ramke, Dina Nayeri, Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Sallie Tisdale, Stephen O’Connor, Sejal Shah, Maud Casey, Samantha Stiers, Forrest Gander, Kristin Posehn, Nomi Eve, Rosamond Purcell, Alan Rossi, Aurelie Sheehan, Peter Orner, Gregory Norman Bossert, Mary Caponegro and Fern Seiden, Anne Waldman, Jorge Ángel Pérez, Jena Osman, Michael M. Weinstein, Emily Geminder, Elizabeth Gaffney, Jessica Reed, Michael Ives, and Kyoko Mori.