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Alex's best friend, Laurie, is a beautiful martial arts master. After meeting her, Solomon constantly teases Alex by calling Laurie his wife throughout the book. Solomon's comments about Laurie make Alex realize his feelings for her. One day, Alex practices his guitar while waiting for Solomon and learns that the man used to be a Jazz guitar ...
The Paying Guests is a 2014 novel by Welsh author Sarah Waters.It was shortlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction [1] and named "Fiction Book of the Year" by The Sunday Times who said that "this novel magnificently confirms Sarah Waters' status as an unsurpassed fictional recorder of vanished eras and hidden lives."
Gissing was commissioned to write The Paying Guest by Cassell, as part of their Pocket Library series. [2] Gissing wrote the manuscript in the first half of July 1895. [3] It was one of three one-volume works by Gissing published in 1895, the other two being Eve's Ransom and Sleeping Fires; the latter of these was published in Unwin's Autonym Library series.
The Moviegoer tells the story of Jack "Binx" Bolling, a young stock-broker in postwar New Orleans. The decline of tradition in the Southern United States, the problems of his family and his traumatic experiences in the Korean War have left him alienated from his own life. He day-dreams constantly, has trouble engaging in lasting relationships ...
The Catcher in the Rye is a novel by American author J. D. Salinger that was partially published in serial form in 1945–46 before being novelized in 1951. Originally intended for adults, it is often read by adolescents for its themes of angst and alienation, and as a critique of superficiality in society.
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The story begins on a tiny island called Morrowland (original German: Lummerland, a play on Nimmerland [], the German translation of Neverland), which has just enough space for a small palace, a train station and rails all around the island, a grocery store, a small house, a king, two subjects, a locomotive named Emma, and a locomotive engineer by the name of Luke (Lukas) (who, as railway ...
Minnie Driver has some practical dating advice for her younger self — and it left the TODAY team in stitches. The actor appeared on the 3rd Hour of TODAY on June 12 to discuss her role as Queen ...