Anna Burns
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Language
English
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Description
Set in an un-named city but with an astonishing, breath-shorteningly palpable sense of time and place Milkman is a tale of gossip and hearsay, silence and deliberate deafness. The story of inaction with enormous consequences and decisions that are never made, but for which people are judged and punished. Middle sister is our protagonist. She is busy attempting to keep her mother from discovering her nearly-boyfriend and to keep everyone in the dark...
2) Mostly Hero
Author
Language
English
Description
Mostly HeroFemme is under a magic spell to kill her lover, Hero. Hero is on a mission to discover if Femme's Great Aunt - the old lady who lives alone in a skyscraper - is his own disreputable grandmother. Master villain Great Aunt needs to know whether or not her favourite niece, Femme, is in love with her arch-enemy, Hero. Meantime, Freddie, Femme's lovelorn cousin, must seek out and destroy Great Aunt otherwise his sweet-natured fiancée, Monique...
Author
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"In the small town of Tiptoe Floorboard, the Doe clan, a close-knit family of criminals and victims, has the run of the place. Yet there are signs that patriarch John Doe's reign may be coming to an end. When Jetty Doe breaks into a gun store and makes off with a Kalashnikov, the stage is set for a violent confrontation. But while Jetty is making her way across town in a taxi, an elusive, chatty narrator takes us on a wild journey, zooming in and...
Author
Series
General technical report SRS volume 154
Publisher
United States Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Southern Research Station
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English