Trapped in a suffocating life of convention and party chatter, Alice Pinkerton has turned to the liberating worlds she finds in literature. Like a character from one of her favorite novels, Alice holds a biting, eccentric, but expansive view of life; she wears only white, has a stutter, and knows her peers call her a madwoman in the attic. Various period cures-hydrotherapy, hypnotherapy, electrotherapy, a sanitarium-fail to turn this thirty-two-year-old, highly imaginative, caustically funny woman into one of the silly damsels of 1903's New York Society. Hauntingly, beneath all this lies a dark family secret. Pinkerton's Sister is a novel for readers, who will thrill to recognize a kindred in Alice's references to our most beloved literary characters: Jo March, Jane Eyre, Leo Bloom, and Hester Prynne, among many others, grace these pages. This intertextual, playful work certainly qualifies as "the ultimate book-geek's guilty pleasure" (Creative Loafing Atlanta).

Pinkerton's Sister

Literature & Fiction

Rushforth, Peter

Genre Fiction

Mariner Books

As they prepare to celebrate Christmas, three young boys struggle to come to terms with their mother's death at the hands of radical terrorists and learn from their grandmother the full account of who they really are

Kindergarten

Contemporary

Avon/Books

Though her neighbors in turn-of-the-century New York consider her a madwoman in the attic, Alice Pinkerton’s mind is razor-sharp, honed by a restless imagination, years of reading, and a profound contempt for her surroundings. Like her namesake in Through the Looking-Glass, Alice has a mirror through which to enter a different world, only for her the mirror is literature. Heartbreakingly funny and fiercely intelligent, Pinkerton’s Sister is an extraordinary work of imagination about imagination, a celebration of the power of fiction and its ultimate redeeming quality.

World Literature

Anchor Canada

From the acclaimed author of Pinkerton’s Sister, a moving retelling of the Hansel and Gretel story.A woman is murdered during a terrorist attack, leaving her three sons in the care of their grandmother, Lilli. As the four prepare to celebrate Christmas without her, Lilli is drawn into a lonely world of memories, forced to confront the horrors of the Nazi persecution she managed to survive. After losing her entire family in the Holocaust, Lilli finds that it is this final death–that of her daughter–that allows her to reach out to the next generation and, with them, forge a unique path toward peace and reconciliation.

Kindergarten: A Novel

As they prepare to celebrate Christmas, three young boys struggle to come to terms with their mother's death at the hands of radical terrorists and learn from their grandmother the full account of who they really are.

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Thrillers & Suspense

Alfred.A. Knopf

Shakespeare, Oscar Wilde, Michelangelo, Whitman, Poe, they are her inspiration: Jane Eyre, Catherine Moreland, Desdemona, they are her companions. As as she moves about the witless world around her, observing their prejudices, their shallow culture, their snobbery, their vanity, it is they who prompt her observations, as she views them all through the prisms of the art that has sustained and nourished her lonely life.

Scribner

Simon Schuster(uk)

Benjamin Franklin Pinkerton - the faithless young naval lieutenant who abandons Madam Butterfly - was glimpsed fleetingly in Peter Rushforth's previous novel, "Pinkerton's Sister". Now Ben steps out of the shadows and into the centre of the stage, a young man haunted by the desolation of his boyhood years, unable to show or respond to love. He's about to sail for Japan. But his imminent departure conjures up the life he and his sister have led, and the monstrous act for which he is most remembered: the rejection and destruction of a pure and loving heart. What happened to him then will mark his whole life. He is his own man, but he is also his sister's brother. Once again, in his mastery of language, his extraordinary imagination, his superb sense of time and place, Peter Rushforth has given the world a second masterpiece, ranking alongside, or surpassing, his earlier triumph.

A Dead Language

As they prepare to celebrate Christmas, three young boys struggle to come to terms with their mother's death at the hands of radical terrorists and learn from their grandmother the full account of who they really are.

Kindergarten (Nonpareil Book, 49)

Literary

David R. Godine, Publisher

Construction is a complex industry, operating with ever changing legislative needs, new materials and technologies, and constant demands on resources.Professionals are now expected to deliver a broad spectrum of skills and competencies, and this new textbook will help them achieve this. Whilst other textbooks concentrate on individual topics, this brings together the key principles and operating practices of surveying and building engineering. It will enable the practitioner of the future to appreciate the interface between both technical and procedural requirements, identifying barriers and conflicts. The textbook is ideal for final year undergraduates in building surveying, construction management and quantity surveying, and will provide a core resource for the BSc(Hons) degree in building engineering developed in conjunction with the Association of Building Engineers. It will also provide a handy quick reference for practitioners, drawing as it does on a wealth of experience, both academic and professional, from the author team.

Surveying and Engineering: Principles and Practice

Smith, Stuart

Gibson, David

WATSON, PAUL

Walsh, Catherine

Workman, Gary

Hanney, Neil

Business & Money

Wiley/Blackwell

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Pinkerton's Sister

Kindergarten

Pinkerton's Sister

Kindergarten: A Novel

Kindergarten

Pinkerton's Sister

Pinkerton's Sister

A Dead Language

Kindergarten (Nonpareil Book, 49)

Surveying and Engineering: Principles and Practice