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Hunters

Claire Messud
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      "A Simple Tale" is the moving account of Maria Poniatowski, an aging Ukrainian woman who was taken by the Germans for slave labor and eventually relocated to Canada as a displaced person. She struggles to provide her son Radek with every opportunity, but his eventual success increases the gulf between him and his mother. What of the past is she to preserve, and how to avoid letting the weight of that past burden the present? Maria's story is about the moments of connection and isolation that are common to us all."The Hunters," the second novella, is narrated by an American academic spending a summer in London who grows obsessed by the neighbors downstairs. Ridley Wandor, a plump and insipid caretaker of the elderly, lives with her ever-unseen mother and a horde of pet rabbits she calls "the hunters." While the narrator researches a book about death, all of Ridley Wandor's patients are dying. Loneliness breeds an active imagination. Is having such an imagination always destructive? Or can it be strong enough to create a new reality?Far-flung settings and universal themes give a sweeping appeal to Claire Messud's work.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Claire Messud EAN: 9780156007313 COUNTRY: United States PAGES: WEIGHT: 245 g HEIGHT: 203 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Cengage Learning, Inc DATE PUBLISHED: 2002-08-26 CITY: GENRE: FICTION / Literary WIDTH: 134 cm SPINE:

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      Fiction: general and literary, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary

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      Claire Messud was born in the United States in 1966. She was educated at Yale and Cambridge. Her novels include When the World Was Steady, a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award in 1996, and The Last Life, which was widely praised and has been translated into several languages.
      "A Simple Tale" is the moving account of Maria Poniatowski, an aging Ukrainian woman who was taken by the Germans for slave labor and eventually relocated to Canada as a displaced person. She struggles to provide her son Radek with every opportunity, but his eventual success increases the gulf between him and his mother. What of the past is she to preserve, and how to avoid letting the weight of that past burden the present? Maria's story is about the moments of connection and isolation that are common to us all."The Hunters," the second novella, is narrated by an American academic spending a summer in London who grows obsessed by the neighbors downstairs. Ridley Wandor, a plump and insipid caretaker of the elderly, lives with her ever-unseen mother and a horde of pet rabbits she calls "the hunters." While the narrator researches a book about death, all of Ridley Wandor's patients are dying. Loneliness breeds an active imagination. Is having such an imagination always destructive? Or can it be strong enough to create a new reality?Far-flung settings and universal themes give a sweeping appeal to Claire Messud's work.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Claire Messud EAN: 9780156007313 COUNTRY: United States PAGES: WEIGHT: 245 g HEIGHT: 203 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Cengage Learning, Inc DATE PUBLISHED: 2002-08-26 CITY: GENRE: FICTION / Literary WIDTH: 134 cm SPINE:

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      Fiction: general and literary, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary

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      Claire Messud was born in the United States in 1966. She was educated at Yale and Cambridge. Her novels include When the World Was Steady, a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award in 1996, and The Last Life, which was widely praised and has been translated into several languages.

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