In 1920 Willa Cather collected eight of the stories she had written over the past twenty years into "Youth and the Bright Medusa", stories of the perilous pursuit of the bright... more...medusa of art in a hostile, materialistic world.
Advantages: The landscape descriptions; insight into the time and place Disadvantages: Slow and dull in terms of character and story; got nothing from reading it
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TITLE: Death Comes For the Archbishop
RATING: **
AUTHOR: WillaCather
PUBLISHER: Virago Press Ltd. (2006)
LENGTH: 320 pp.
AVAILABILITY: 6 GBP from Amazon
BOOK ISBN: #1844083725
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INTRODUCTION
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As many of you have been reading my previous reviews know, I have been taking my final college courses required to get my Bachelor?s Degree, which I should be getting in December. I?m taking six online courses this summer, one of them being ?The Novel in America Since 1914? which is an upper level English class at the University of Maryland. I?ll be honest with you all in that I very much prefer British literature ...
Advantages: A classic Brit Horror Disadvantages: A little short on extras
There was, for a brief period a time, horror movies that touched upon more than just the visceral terrors of gore that infect so many modern genre films. This period gave us a number of what were to become classic horrors, The Omen, The Exorcist and in my humble opinion The Medusa Touch.
While not as well known or written about as the former, The Medusa Touch sits comfortably in their company, as it deals with more than just the terror of the central story, a man who can will destruction, but in part also addresses issues of guilt and responsibility and the existence of God in a seemingly Godless world. But despite all its nods to worthiness, The Medusa Touch succeeds in being a damn good romp.
Starring Richard Burton (in a tour de force performance) and Lee Remick, the story centres around the attempted murder of John Morlar a writer ...
Advantages: Realistic, enjoyable, bittersweet. Disadvantages: Too short, some undeveloped characters, culture differences.
Written by Xiaolu Guo.
204 pages in paperback.
Written in first person.
Young Adult +
Can be bought new and used for £3+ on ebay.co.uk and new for £4.99 at amazon.co.uk.
After finding a copy of A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers in a nearby bookshop and being told it was a good read by others I decided to buy it, and then I discovered I'd left my wallet in my other coat.
A few months later after forgetting to come back to that bookshop and buying that book I discovered 20 Fragments of a Ravenous Youth in my local library, naturally I picked it up so I could finally see how good of an author Xiaolu Guo was and see whether or not I should go look for the other books she has written.
I can tell you now that I am planning on looking for a copy of her other works, she's brilliant.
Fenfang has left the slow and boring ...
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EAN
9780803217546
Type
Non-Fiction
Genre
Arts & Music
Subgenre
Literary Criticism & Theory
Title
Youth and the Bright Medusa
Author
Willa Cather
Edition
Hardback
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
ISBN
0803217544
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In 1920 Willa Cather collected eight of the stories she had written over the past twenty years into "Youth and the Bright Medusa", stories of the perilous pursuit of the bright medusa of art in a hostile, materialistic world.
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