by Marie Cardinal (1998)
Une femme seule, quelque part dans le midi. Elle rêve à l'Algérie son pays natal perdu il y a longtemps. Elle revoit le port, le quai, le bateau sur lequel elle a embarqué, un bébé dans les bras, sans savoir qu'elle ne reviendrait plus jamais au pays de son enfance. Au fur et à mesure que se déroule la vie quotidienne de la narratrice éclatent à la surface de sa conscience des bulles de souvenirs. Telle la scène, bouleversante, de la mort du père. Elle a quatorze ans et connaît peu cet homme avec qui elle ne vivait pas. Au pied du cercueil où il repose, d'étranges pensées l'assaillent : est-il nu dans sa boîte? Quel homme, désormais pourrait lui donner autant d'amour qu'un père? ... Mais les échappées oniriques de la narratrice ne se bornent pas à l'enfance. D'autres scènes, d'autres hommes viennent la visiter sous sa tonnelle. -- Back cover.
Skye Rogers
Highlighting the passage of women through their thirties, this book includes interviews with prominent women in their thirties and with "anonymous women" who are willing to articulate their experiences. They are drawn from a wide cross-section of the community.
Laura Walsh
When Laura Walsh walked into her four-month-old daughter's bedroom, she was confronted with a mother's worst nightmare. Her beautiful baby was dead in her cot. This tragedy marked the beginning of Laura's journey of self-destruction. She became addicted to painkillers and alcohol, her marriage failed and she lost her house and alienated her friends and family. Lying and stealing to acquire tablets and booze, Laura spent several desperate years in the wilderness, years in which her two remaining children had to watch their mum become a sordid shadow of the woman they loved. She was ashamed but unable to find the strength to fight back - until one Christmas when her addictions finally threatened to kill her--Back cover.
Holly Menino
In Forward Motion Menino traces the unique and lengthy history of the fellowship between humans and horses, using the Olympic equestrian sports as a narrative backdrop. She focuses on three leading American riders: Anne Kursinski, one of a handful of trainers who dominate the high-rolling, touch-and-go realm of show jumping (and who qualified for the Olympic team as this book was going to press); Keith Taylor, young and daring, hurdling financial obstacles in order to. Participate in combined training at the international level; and Lendon Gray, an iconoclastic perfectionist and enthusiastic performer who believes that dressage is the way to fulfillment for any person on any horse. Menino directs her penetrating eye at their horses with equal interest: the urbane show jumper Eros, who calculates the way people work and the way rails roll; Play Me Right, a catlike old campaigner whose definition of pleasure is speed; his young. Stablemate Faktor, who reluctantly gives up clowning for tests of endurance; and the feisty little Last Scene, who learns how to make the right moves with enough vehemence to score against bigger competitors. Forward Motion reopens our long-standing relation with horses, asking what it takes to succeed in this joint athletic venture, what makes horses tick, and what draws the trainers to a shared life with these enigmatic animals. It is both a fascinating account of. World-class riding and a moving investigation of the interaction between people and horses.
Carolyn Haines
Biography of the woman who defied fear and violence to serve as a witness for the prosecution at the retrial of Byron De La Beckwith for the murder of Medgar Evers.