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Lantern Slides is a short story collection by Irish author Edna O'Brien and won the 1990 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction. [1] It contains twelve stories, published in 1990 by Weidenfeld & Nicolson in the UK and by Farrar, Straus & Giroux in the US.
Obviously when you're writing a plot summary, you probably won't go into as much careful detail in thinking about every decision—for the most part, some aspects, such as picking what is important and what's not is intuitive, and doesn't require a lot of analysis. However, this example gives a sense of the logic that underlies a good summary.
The magazine's critical summary reads: "Despite some complaints of theatrical plot twists, unwieldy exposition, and weak characters, most critics enjoyed Mitchell’s latest novel, a fairly conventional page-turner that represents quite a detour from his earlier adventures in style and form". [10]
The book has since been published under the name given to the film in the English version and in some other versions. His other works available in English translation are Rice , My Life as Emperor , Petulia's Rouge Tin ( Hongfen in Chinese), Binu and the Great Wall (tr. Howard Goldblatt ), Madwoman on the Bridge and Other Stories , Tattoo ...
The book switches perspective often. Sometimes characters are tracked closely using more traditional omniscient narrative techniques. On other occasions (especially later in the book), the lives of Malone and Sutherland are seen from the perspective of bystanders in the New York gay scene — the main narrative is told by other dancers at the ...
Rudolf Laban presenting his notation system, circa 1929 Dance workshop based on Laban's notation system, circa 1929. Labanotation (grammatically correct form "Labannotation" or "Laban notation" is uncommon) is a system for analyzing and recording human movement (notation system), invented by Austro-Hungarian choreographer and dancer Rudolf von Laban (1879–1958, a central figure in European ...
Dance of the Happy Shades is a book of short stories by Alice Munro, published by Ryerson Press in 1968. [1] It was her first collection of stories and won the 1968 Governor General's Award for English Fiction. The title of the main story is the English translation provided for the ballet in Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice when it was first presented ...
Syntactic Structures is an important work in linguistics by American linguist Noam Chomsky, originally published in 1957.A short monograph of about a hundred pages, it is recognized as one of the most significant and influential linguistic studies of the 20th century.