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Family Album
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Author : Penelope Lively
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2009-08-06
Family Album written by Penelope Lively and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-08-06 with Fiction categories.
Family Album is the sixteenth novel from Booker Prize winner Penelope Lively Allersmead is a big shabby Victorian suburban house. The perfect place to grow up for elegant Sandra, difficult Gina, destructive Paul, considerate Katie, clever Roger and flighty Clare. But was it? As adults, the children return to Allersmead one by one. To their home-making mother and aloof writer father, and a house that for years has played silent witness to a family's secrets. And one devastating secret of which no one speaks . . . 'One of those ridiculously simple, ridiculously readable novels whose artistry only becomes apparent when you put it down with a sign of regret, having devoured it in one sitting . . . Lively still displays an economy and an elegance that put younger writers to shame' Sunday Telegraph 'A pleasure to read, hugely enjoyable, consistently absorbing, hilarious' Independent Penelope Lively is the author of many prize-winning novels and short-story collections for both adults and children. She has twice been shortlisted for the Booker Prize: once in 1977 for her first novel, The Road to Lichfield, and again in 1984 for According to Mark. She later won the 1987 Booker Prize for her highly acclaimed novel Moon Tiger. Her other books include Going Back; Judgement Day; Next to Nature, Art; Perfect Happiness; Passing On; City of the Mind; Cleopatra's Sister; Heat Wave; Beyond the Blue Mountains, a collection of short stories; Oleander, Jacaranda, a memoir of her childhood days in Egypt; Spiderweb; her autobiographical work, A House Unlocked; The Photograph; Making It Up; Consequences; Family Album, which was shortlisted for the 2009 Costa Novel Award, and How It All Began. She is a popular writer for children and has won both the Carnegie Medal and the Whitbread Award. She was appointed CBE in the 2001 New Year's Honours List, and DBE in 2012. Penelope Lively lives in London.
Family Album
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Author : Danielle Steel
language : en
Publisher: Dell
Release Date : 2009-02-25
Family Album written by Danielle Steel and has been published by Dell this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-02-25 with Fiction categories.
Through forty years—from Hollywood's golden days in World War II to the present—Faye Price would create first a career as a legendary actress, then a family, and finally she would realize her dream of becoming one of Hollywood's first woman directors. But nothing was more precious to Faye than her five children. In a changing world, a milieu where family values are constantly challenged from without and within, the Thayers would face the greatest challenges and harshest test a family can endure, to emerge stronger, bound forever by loyalty and love. It is only when Faye is gone that they can each assess how far they have come, and how important their family album is.
The Family Album
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Author : Arthur DeMoss
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1972
The Family Album written by Arthur DeMoss and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1972 with Literature categories.
The Family Album
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Author : Yeon-Soo Kim
language : en
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
Release Date : 2005
The Family Album written by Yeon-Soo Kim and has been published by Bucknell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Art categories.
This book is an examination of the use of the family album in contemporary Spanish culture. Through the analysis of films, narratives, painting, and a photographic exhibition produced from the end of Franco's dictatorship to the present, Kim interrogates how the family album serves as a critical instrument to reflect on the treatment of the past in contemporary Spain, the recuperation of repressed identities, nostalgia for collective memory symptomatic of the cultural discontent with the erosion of a national boundary due to globalization and the increasing claim of diversity, and ethical concerns for immigration. This study explores a broad range of works by canonical as well as less studied writers and artists, including Juan Goytisolo, Carlos Saura, and Marta Balletbo-Coll. Yeon-Soo Kim is Assistant Professor of Spanish at Rutgers University.
Secrets Of A Family Album
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Author : Isla Dewar
language : en
Publisher: Macmillan
Release Date : 2006-12-26
Secrets Of A Family Album written by Isla Dewar and has been published by Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-12-26 with Fiction categories.
Obsessively neat Lily, a writer who writes about writers, is asked to interview the enigmatic Rita Boothe, journalist, photographer, self-styled culinary expert and wit. Sitting in Rita's living room, leafing through a book of photographs from the early seventies, Lily comes across a picture of an incandescently sexy young woman sitting in the back of a limousine swigging Jack Daniels. It is her mother, Mattie. Lily isn't shocked. She's envious. She wants to be like that--beautiful, exuberant. Mattie, though, is no longer the meltingly gorgeous creature she was. She and her husband scrape by and bicker. Upstairs in their neglected house, Grandpa flirts on the Internet. Marie, Lily's sister, is facing a custody suit. Rory, the brother, hates coming home--those endless catch-up conversations. Usually it is Lily, the dutiful daughter, who sorts out the family. She knows she's flawed, but boringly so. Now she wants to be flawed in an interesting way, to be a woman of wicked mystery and intrigue. Like the one in the photograph. SECRETS OF A FAMILY ALBUM is a beautifully written novel that explores the struggles and triumphs of one extraordinary family.
The Lincoln Family Album
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Author : Mark E. Neely
language : en
Publisher: SIU Press
Release Date : 2006
The Lincoln Family Album written by Mark E. Neely and has been published by SIU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with History categories.
This intimate collection of family photographs provides a rare glimpse into the personal life of one of the greatest figures in American history, Abraham Lincoln. This expanded edition provides both new pictures and new introductory materials by renowned Lincoln scholars Mark E. Neely Jr. and Harold Holzer.
My First Family Photo Album
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Author : Ron Berry
language : en
Publisher: Ideals Publications
Release Date : 2008-01-23
My First Family Photo Album written by Ron Berry and has been published by Ideals Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-01-23 with categories.
Board book with light and sound chips. My First Family Photo Album is the first in a series of seasonal keepsake photo albums for you and your child to read and share together. You simply place your favorite family photos in the pocket frames and let the memories begin. An added bonus is a flashing light that goes off when the pretend camera button is pushed down-giving your young "photographer" the feeling that he or she is taking a photo to put into the album. This book is great for the curious child who enjoys taking pictures just like mommy and daddy!
The Family Album
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Author : Kerry Kelly
language : en
Publisher: Dundurn
Release Date : 2012-06-09
The Family Album written by Kerry Kelly and has been published by Dundurn this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-06-09 with Fiction categories.
As Cynthia ruminates on her changing circumstances, life forces her to take a look at those she calls family. A former literary notable, Cynthia Wilkes is looking down the barrel of an empty nest, an empty desk, and an endless supply of empty pages when an unlikely protégé comes calling, setting in motion a chain of events that will force Cynthia, and those closest to her, to redefine the idea of family and of self. This novel is a humorous look at the creation and reconstruction of family and the lingering hold of the people we keep close and those we try to let go ... the siblings and step-siblings, parents and step-parents, spouses and exes, the friends, the colleagues, and the others we call family.
From The Family Album
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1995
From The Family Album written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Families categories.
The Family Album
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Author : Spike Milligan
language : en
Publisher: Virgin Books Limited
Release Date : 1999
The Family Album written by Spike Milligan and has been published by Virgin Books Limited this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Comedians categories.
For years Spike Milligan has lovingly collected and collated over a dozen volumes of family photographs and memorabilia, stretching from army life in India in 1869, through his birth in 1918 and his childhood, to his career as an entertainer and the arrival of his own family. Spike has carefully selected scores of these delightful photographs to illustrate the story of his life. Notes in diary form are expanded into anecdotes and reminiscences in Spike's inevitably irreverent style, making light of the major emotional hurdle Spike had to overcome in writing this deeply intimate book. At times touching and sincerly personal, The Family Album includes details of how Spike was plagued by manic depression stemming from his war time experiences, his traumatic mental breakdown and the collapse of his first marriage, all of which let him to believe that he could never write an autobiography such as this. Also included, of course, are some of his adventures in showbusiness, from the early days with The Goons and his innovative work on television to his stage appearences and film work. Along the way there are famous friendships with famous friends as diverse as Barry Humphries and the Prince of Wales.