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This includes using first- and third-party cookies, which store or access standard device information such as a unique identifier. ![]() ![]() ![]() If you agree, we’ll also use cookies to complement your shopping experience across the Amazon stores as described in our Cookie Notice. We also use these cookies to understand how customers use our services (for example, by measuring site visits) so we can make improvements. ![]() We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice. ![]() ![]() ![]() hitting a government building in Serbia, Iraq, or other nations. 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Tan’s rich oil paintings depict the bleak office environment in shades of grey. What happens then is simply extraordinary. Upon retirement he climbs Escher-like stairs to the roof of the building. ![]() For 17 years he slaves away, living onsite, bullied by co-workers and given no recognition. The eponymous Cicada is an office worker in a cubicle in a grey, featureless building. In Cicada, award-winning artist and author Shaun Tan has produced another stunning masterpiece of minimalist social commentary that will resonate with adults and children alike. ![]() ![]() ![]() But it was an expensive way to spend your time, even then, and the only reason Molly really started writing was to finance her obsessive hunting. The same limited group of upper-class people met each other all over Ireland at the same events every year, sitting on the backs of these animals. The importance of horses in this world cannot be overestimated. Despite being well over 80 she continued to write, and Loving and Giving and Time after Time, both published later in the decade, are among her best work. She became a celebrity both in Britain and in her home- country, Ireland. Then personal tragedy intervened, she stopped writing and it was many years until, in 1981, the novel Good Behaviour was published under her own name, caused a sensation and just missed the Booker Prize. Farrell" and few outside her close circle knew who she really was. But all the time she wrote under the pseudonym of "M.J. ![]() She was a leading playwright in the 1930s whose work was directed by John Gielgud and produced by Binkie Beaumont, and she was an interesting novelist. Molly Keane had an unusual place in contemporary literature, in writing very good plays and novels under two entirely separate identities at different times of her life. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She develops an almost love-hate relationship with Tiffany, resentful that he doesn’t give her credit for her creations, yet experiencing jealousy when he discusses art and design with other employees besides herself. She struggles with Tiffany’s business managers, who want her department to sacrifice art in order to cut expenses. Newly-widowed Clara asks for her old job back, and Tiffany puts her in charge of the women’s department. Tiffany employed women in his studio, though only unmarried ones, because he believed that they were more color-sensitive than men. Vreeland uses this discovery to create a fascinating portrait of the New York art world at the turn of the 20th century. This book was inspired by the recent revelation that employee Clara Driscoll was responsible for the design and creation of many of the spectacular windows and lamps once attributed to Louis Comfort Tiffany. ![]() ![]() With battles to fight at home and abroad, he's going to need all the help he can get. The brief alliance between British and Russian psychic spy organizations is shattered when Russian agents capture Alec Kyle, the head of Britain's E-Branch, and drain all his secrets and memories.ĭespite being stuck in an infant's body, Harry can still call on the world's dead. In Romania, the remains of Thibor Ferenczy-the undead Thing in the Ground-are destroyed at last. Yulian quickly decides that the best way to get rid of the Necroscope is to kill the baby. ![]() Still, when he died, he hadn't expected to wake up in the body of his infant son. Harry Keogh, the Necroscope, has always known that death is not the end. In a small English village, Yulian Bodescu, infected with vampirism before his birth, uses his supernatural powers to build an inhuman army, turning ordinary people into creatures of destructive, unstoppable, unending hunger. The fear level rises in book two of Brian Lumley's Necroscope series, which blends disturbing horror and thrilling spycraft into a gripping whirl of terror and suspense! ![]() ![]() ![]() He tells Lennie that if Lennie should ever get into any trouble at their new ranch, he should return to this very spot and hide in the brush until George comes for him. ![]() George feels burdened by Lennie, but knows he must keep the man with him if they’re both to survive. This habit has resulted in both George and Lennie (who have traveled everywhere together since their youth) being chased out of Weed, the town where their last job was, after Lennie grabbed the soft hem of a woman’s skirt in order to feel the fabric. Lennie is a hulking but simple-minded man who has short-term memory problems and a fascination with stroking soft objects. As they prepare dinner and form a plan for their arrival at the ranch, the dynamic between the men becomes clear: George is a sharp, wiry man with dreams of saving enough money to buy land for a farm and become the master of his own destiny. As they close in on a job just outside the town of Soledad, they stop for the night at a pool off the Salinas River to enjoy one last night of freedom. ![]() George Milton and Lennie Small, two itinerant workers from Auburn, California, make their way across the state’s harsh landscape on their way from one ranch job to another. ![]() |