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Mona
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Author : Pola Oloixarac
language : en
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Release Date : 2021-03-16
Mona written by Pola Oloixarac and has been published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-03-16 with Fiction categories.
"Both a wicked satire of the literary élite and an exploration of art and violence . . . Terrifying, brilliant, and dangerous." —The New Yorker Mona, a Peruvian writer based in California, presents a tough and sardonic exterior. She likes drugs and cigarettes, and when she learns that she is something of an anthropological curiosity—a woman writer of color treasured at her university for the flourish of rarefied diversity she brings—she pokes fun at American academic culture and its fixation on identity. When she is nominated for “the most important literary award in Europe,” Mona sees a chance to escape her downward spiral of sunlit substance abuse and erotic distraction, so she trades the temptations of California for a small, gray village in Sweden, close to the Arctic Circle. Now she is stuck in the company of all her jet-lagged—and mostly male—competitors, arriving from Japan, France, Armenia, Iran, and Colombia. Isolated as they are, the writers do what writers do: exchange compliments, nurse envy and private resentments, stab rivals in the back, and hop in bed together. All the while, Mona keeps stumbling across the mysterious traces of a violence she cannot explain. As her adventures in Scandinavia unfold, Mona finds that she has not so much escaped her demons as locked herself up with them in the middle of nowhere. In Mona, Pola Oloixarac paints a hypnotic, scabrous, and ultimately jaw-dropping portrait of a woman facing down a hipster elite to which she does and does not belong. A survivor of both patronization and bizarre sexual encounters, Mona is a new kind of feminist. But her past won’t stay past, and strange forces are working to deliver her the test of a lifetime.
Mona
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Author : Pola Oloixarac
language : en
Publisher: Serpent's Tail
Release Date : 2022-02-03
Mona written by Pola Oloixarac and has been published by Serpent's Tail this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-02-03 with Fiction categories.
'Devil-may-care daring and biting humour . . . Think Rachel Cusk's autofiction on skunk and OxyContin and you're in the right ballpark' The Times 'Enjoyably mischievous and daring' Financial Times 'Ruthless, very funny' New York Times Mona is a Peruvian writer based on a Californian campus, open-eyed and sardonic, a connoisseur of marijuana and prescription pills. In the humanities she has discovered she is something of an anthropological curiosity - a female writer of colour treasured for the flourish of rarefied diversity that reflects so well upon her department. When she is nominated for 'the most important literary award in Europe', Mona sees a chance to escape her sunlit substance abuse and erotic distraction, and leaves for a small village in Sweden. Now she is stuck in the company of her competitors, who arrive from Japan, France, Armenia, Iran and Colombia. The writers do what writers do: exchange flattery, nurse envy and private resentments, stab rivals in the back and go to bed together. But all the while, Mona keeps stumbling across traces of violence on her body, the origins of which she can't - or won't - remember.
I Love You Mona
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Author : Bo Family Love Gifts
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020-01-04
I Love You Mona written by Bo Family Love Gifts and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-01-04 with categories.
I Love You Mona Blank lined Diary journal - 120 Pages - Large (6x9 inches) Everyone loves hearing original words from the people they love and care about. It is our hope to help bless your relationship with your Mona through this journal, We know that taking the time to sit down and journal about those we love has become a lost art in the hustle and bustle of the 21st century. But we want to encourage you to give it a go. Order Now & Celebrate your unique and perfectly imperfect love with the one and only who has your heart.
Mona Lisa
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Author : Dianne Hales
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2014-08-05
Mona Lisa written by Dianne Hales and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-08-05 with History categories.
Everybody knows her smile, but no one knows her story: Meet the flesh-and-blood woman who became one of the most famous artistic subjects of all time—Mona Lisa. A genius immortalized her. A French king paid a fortune for her. An emperor coveted her. Every year more than nine million visitors trek to view her portrait in the Louvre. Yet while everyone recognizes her smile, hardly anyone knows her story. “Combining history, whimsical biography, personal travelogue, and love letter to Italy...Mona Lisa is an entertaining” (Publishers Weekly) book of discovery about the world’s most recognized face. Who was she? Why did the most renowned painter of her time choose her as his model? What became of her? And why does her smile enchant us still? Dianne Hales, author of La Bella Lingua, became obsessed with finding the real Mona Lisa on repeated trips to Florence. In Mona Lisa: A Life Discovered, she takes readers with her to meet Lisa’s descendants; uncover her family’s long and colorful history; and explore the neighborhoods where she lived as a girl, a wife, and a mother. In the process, we can participate in Lisa’s daily rituals; understand her personal relationships; and see, hear, smell, and taste “her” Florence. Hales brings to life a time poised between the medieval and the modern, a vibrant city bursting into fullest bloom, and a culture that redefined the possibilities of man—and of woman. Mona Lisa is “a readable and affectionate my-search-for-story for art lovers and anyone interested in glorious and gory Florence in the fifteenth to sixteenth centuries, and in the divine Leonardo in particular…Hales’s assiduous research has made it possible for us to know Mona Lisa just a bit, enough to wonder if this otherwise ordinary Florentine housewife could ever have imagined her portrait enchanting millions for centuries” (USATODAY.com).
Mona Miscellany
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Author : William Harrison
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1869
Mona Miscellany written by William Harrison and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1869 with Ballads, Manx categories.
Mona S Choice
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Author : Mrs. Alexander
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1888
Mona S Choice written by Mrs. Alexander and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1888 with English fiction categories.
Mona To Oquirrh Transmission Corridor Project Pony Express Resource Management Plan Amendment
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2010
Mona To Oquirrh Transmission Corridor Project Pony Express Resource Management Plan Amendment written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with categories.
Mona Lisa
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Author : Martin Kemp
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2017-05-26
Mona Lisa written by Martin Kemp and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-05-26 with History categories.
Read this book and the world's most famous image will never look the same again. For the world's greatest cultural icon still has secrets to reveal - not the silly secrets that the 'Leonardo loonies' continue to advance, but previously unknown facts about the lives of Leonardo, his father, Lisa Gherardini, the subject of the portrait, and her husband Francesco del Giocondo. From this factual beginning we see how the painting metamorphosed into a 'universal picture' that became the prime vehicle for Leonardo's prodigious knowledge of the human and natural worlds. We learn about the new money of the ambitious merchant who married into the old gentry of Lisa's family. We discover Lisa's life as a wife and mother, her association with sexual scandals, and her later life in a convent. We meet, for the first time, previously undiscovered members of Leonardo's immediate family and discover new information about his early life. The tiny hill town of Vinci is placed before us, with its widespread poverty. We find out about the career and possessions of his father, a notable lawyer in Florence. The meaning of the portrait that resulted from these human circumstances is vividly illuminated though Renaissance love poetry and verses specifically dedicated to Leonardo. We come to understand how Leonardo's sciences of optics, psychology, anatomy and geology are embraced in his poetic science of art. Recent scientific examinations of the painting disclose how it evolved to assume its present appearance in Leonardo's experimental hands. Above all, we cut through the suppositions and the myths to show that the portrait is a product of real people in a real place at a real time. This is the book that brings back a sense of reality into the creation of the portrait of Lisa del Giocondo. And the actual Mona Lisa, it turns out, is even more astonishing and transcendent than the Mona Lisa of legend.
Mona S Choice
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Author : Annie French Hector
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1887
Mona S Choice written by Annie French Hector and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1887 with categories.
The Annotated Mona Lisa
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Author : Carol Strickland
language : en
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
Release Date : 2007-10
The Annotated Mona Lisa written by Carol Strickland and has been published by Andrews McMeel Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-10 with Art categories.
Like music, art is a universal language. Although looking at works of art is a pleasurable enough experience, to appreciate them fully requires certain skills and knowledge." --Carol Strickland, from the introduction to The Annotated Mona Lisa: A Crash Course in Art History from Prehistoric to Post-Modern * This heavily illustrated crash course in art history is revised and updated. This second edition of Carol Strickland's The Annotated Mona Lisa: A Crash Course in Art History from Prehistoric to Post-Modern offers an illustrated tutorial of prehistoric to post-modern art from cave paintings to video art installations to digital and Internet media. * Featuring succinct page-length essays, instructive sidebars, and more than 300 photographs, The Annotated Mona Lisa: A Crash Course in Art History from Prehistoric to Post-Modern takes art history out of the realm of dreary textbooks, demystifies jargon and theory, and makes art accessible-even at a cursory reading. * From Stonehenge to the Guggenheim and from Holbein to Warhol, more than 25,000 years of art is distilled into five sections covering a little more than 200 pages.