Stir Fry

Literature & Fiction

Emma Donoghue

Contemporary

Penguin??Books

Hood

Penguin

Slammerkin: A loose gown; a loose woman. Born to rough cloth in Hogarth's London, but longing for silk, Mary Saunders's eye for a shiny red ribbon leads her to prostitution at a young age. A dangerous misstep sends her fleeing to Monmouth, and the position of household seamstress, the ordinary life of an ordinary girl with no expectations. But Mary has known freedom, and having never known love, it is freedom that motivates her. Mary asks herself if the prostitute who hires out her body is more or less free than the "honest woman" locked into marriage, or the servant who runs a household not her own? And is either as free as a man? Ultimately, Mary remains true only to the three rules she learned on the streets: Never give up your liberty. Clothes make the woman. Clothes are the greatest lie ever told.

Slammerkin: A Loose Dress, A Loose Woman

British & Irish

Harcourt,Inc.

Stir-fry

HarperCollins, Publishers

Signed by author on title page, some minor spotting to top edge, else a fine copy. 1st ed, 1st printing.

Hamish Hamilton

Thirteen tales are unspun from the deeply familiar, and woven anew into a collection of fairy tales that wind back through time. Acclaimed Irish author Emma Donoghue reveals heroines young and old in unexpected alliances--sometimes treacherous, sometimes erotic, but always courageous. Told with luminous voices that shimmer with sensuality and truth, these age-old characters shed their antiquated cloaks to travel a seductive new landscape, radiantly transformed.Cinderella forsakes the handsome prince and runs off with the fairy godmother; Beauty discovers the Beast behind the mask is not so very different from the face she sees in the mirror; Snow White is awakened from slumber by the bittersweet fruit of an unnamed desire. Acclaimed writer Emma Donoghue spins new tales out of old in a magical web of thirteen interconnected stories about power and transformation and choosing one's own path in the world. In these fairy tales, women young and old tell their own stories of love and hate, honor and revenge, passion and deception. Using the intricate patterns and oral rhythms of traditional fairy tales, Emma Donoghue wraps age-old characters in a dazzling new skin. 2000 List of Popular Paperbacks for YA

Kissing the Witch

Paperback. Pub Date :2010-8-1 Pages: 321 To five-year-old Jack. Room is the entire world It is where he was born and grew up; its where he lives with his Ma as they learn and read and. eat and sleep and play. At night. his Ma shuts him safely in the wardrobe. where he is meant to be asleep when Old Nick visits.Room is home to Jack. but to Ma. it is the prison where Old Nick has held her captive for seven years. Through determination. ingenuity. and fierce motherly love. Ma has created a life for Jack. But she knows its not enough ... not for her or for him. She devises a bold escape plan. one that relies on her young sons bravery and a lot of luck. What she does not realize is just how unprepared she is for the plan to actually work.Told entirely in the language of the energetic. pragmatic five-year-old Jack. ROOM is a celebration of resilience and the limitless bond between...

Room: A Novel

China Press

Astray

Little. Brown and Company

The Wonder

Literary

Little,Brown & Company

THE NEW #1 BESTSELLER FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE WONDER AND ROOM\nDublin, 1918: three days in a maternity ward at the height of the great flu. A small world of work, risk, death and unlooked-for love, by the bestselling author of The Wonder and Room.\nIn an Ireland doubly ravaged by war and disease, Nurse Julia Power works at an understaffed hospital in the city centre, where expectant mothers who have come down with the terrible new flu are quarantined together. Into Julia’s regimented world step two outsiders—Doctor Kathleen Lynn, on the run from the police, and a young volunteer helper, Bridie Sweeney.\nIn the darkness and intensity of this tiny ward, over three days, these women change each other’s lives in unexpected ways. They lose patients to this baffling pandemic, but they also shepherd new life into a fearful world. With tireless tenderness and humanity, caregivers and mothers alike somehow do their impossible work.\nIn The Pull of the Stars, Emma Donoghue once again finds the light in the darkness in this new classic of hope and survival against all odds.

The Pull of the Starts

Little,Brown & Co

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