![]() ![]() In the small town of Castle Rock, the setting of many of King’s most iconic stories, Scott is engaged in a low grade - but escalating - battle with the lesbians next door whose dog regularly drops his business on Scott’s lawn. He mostly just wants someone else to know, and he trusts Doctor Bob Ellis. Scott doesn’t want to be poked and prodded. He weighs the same in his clothes and out of them, no matter how heavy they are. ![]() ![]() There are a couple of other odd things, too. The latest from legendary master storyteller Stephen King, a riveting, extraordinarily eerie, and moving story about a man whose mysterious affliction brings a small town together - a timely, upbeat tale about finding common ground despite deep-rooted differences.Īlthough Scott Carey doesn’t look any different, he’s been steadily losing weight. ![]() He crafts a polished aural experience with a keen sense of pacing and fun accents for his motley Maine characters.” ( AudioFile) He gives a strong portrayal of everyman Scott Carey, whose strange affliction sends him on a quest of self-discovery and neighborly kindness. “As the narrator, King enhances the story’s good-hearted appeal with this twangy, aw-shucks delivery. Stephen King reads his latest novel - plus a bonus story, “Laurie,” unavailable in book form! ![]()
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![]() A DNA test confirms that Maura's mysterious double is indeed her twin sister, and suddenly an already bizarre murder investigation becomes a disturbing excursion into a past full of dark and deadly secrets. Even more chilling is the discovery that they share the same birth date and blood type. The dead woman is her mirror image right down to the most intimate physical details. There can be no denying the evidence though. But never before has the body on the medical examiner's table been her own. Buy a discounted Paperback of Body Double online from Australias leading online bookstore. : ITS MY BODY THERE ON THE TABLE A rip-roaring plot with. As a pathologist in downtown Boston, she has seen more than her share of corpses. Booktopia has Body Double, Rizzoli & Isles by Tess Gerritsen. Body double Gerritsen Tess Random House - Penguin 9780553824506. ![]() Cover design by Claire Ward with photo courtesy of Elisa Laso/Arcangel Images. ![]() First printing of Bantam mass market edition, 2005 with reader survey card at front intact. ![]() Some reading and cover creases, some shelf wear with minor corner peel and tiny split to base rear edge of cocked spine, paper lightly edge toned. ![]() ![]() ![]() A quarter of a century later, a book was published solely dedicated to the series that weaves sexism, racism, class, and cultural identity into the 20 photographs and 14 text panels that comprise the collection. Kitchen Table Series seeks to reposition and reimagine the possibility of women and the possibility of people of color, and has to do with, in the artist's words, "unrequited love. In 1990, Carrie Mae Weems exhibited The Kitchen Table Series, which has proven to be her most famous work. Weems herself is the protagonist of the series, though the woman she depicts is an archetype. The kitchen, one of the primary spaces of domesticity and the traditional domain of women, frames her story, revealing to us her relationships-with lovers, children, friends-and her own sense of self, in her varying projections of strength, vulnerability, aloofness, tenderness and solitude.As Weems describes it, this work of art depicts "the battle around the family. MUCH kitchen-table of Carrie group Mae Weemss featured photographic here, conjures work. The 20 photographs and 14 text panels that make up Kitchen Table Series tell a story of one woman's life, as conducted in the intimate setting of her kitchen. Unlike the experience of meandering through a museum, stepping back to appreciate the images and nearing the text panels to skim them, the pace of exploration is now in a person's hands." -Hilary Moss, New York TimesThis publication is dedicated solely to the early and canonical body of work by American artist Carrie Mae Weems (born 1953). "In book form, Kitchen Table is more intimate. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In this, her first collection of stories, Christine Schutt gives exquisite and provocative form to feelings and memories. Told in brief scenes of spare beauty, Florida is a graceful and gripping tale of family, forgiveness, and creation of the self. She consoles herself with books and becomes a storyteller herself as she moves into adulthood, ever further from the desolation of her mother’s actions and closer to the meaning of her own experience. Alice is moved from place to place, remaining still while others try to mold her into someone different from her mother. ![]() Fatherless since she was seven, Alice is left in the care of her relatives at the age of ten, when her mother, whose ‘toenails winked in the foil bed we knew for Florida,’ is institutionalized. Set in the Midwest, where Florida represents a faraway paradise, this novel tells the story of Alice Fivey. In this elegiac and luminous novel, which John Ashbery called ‘an amazing achievement’ and Mary Gordon dubbed ‘a wholly original endeavor,’ Christine Schutt gives voice to the feast of memory, the mystery of the mad and missing, and the power of words. ![]() |