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The novel nicely lends itself to a Freudian analysis. Melody leaves when Jeff is 7 years old in second grade. To Freud, this is just after completion of the phallic stage and the development of the Oedipus complex. The Oedipus complex is traditionally resolved when the son identifies with the father and develops a healthy libidinal relationship ...
The Charioteer is a romantic war novel by Mary Renault (pseudonym for Eileen Mary Challans) first published in London in 1953. Renault's US publisher (Morrow) refused to publish it until 1959, after a revision of the text, due to its generally positive portrayal of homosexuality.
4 3 2 1 is a 2017 novel by Paul Auster published by Henry Holt and Co. It describes four alternate versions of the life of Archie Ferguson in the 1950s and 1960s, and explores how an individual's life and personality is shaped by chance and circumstance.
Neither fortunes nor girls are won as easily as he Imagines. But be has enterprise, and his novel has Interest." [7] The book became a best seller. [8] By 1935 it was estimated to have sold 55,000 copies in Australia and 25,000 in England. [9] Thwaites wrote a sequel, The Melody Lingers (1935). By 1968 it had been reprinted 54 times and was ...
Dragonsong is a science fantasy novel by the American-Irish author Anne McCaffrey.Released by Atheneum Books in March 1976, it was the third to appear set on the world Pern of the Dragonriders of Pern. [1]
Maslin wrote that Picoult wrote the novel on "authorial autopilot", as it has the "subtlety of a jackhammer" and was made needlessly long by scenes such as Maggie chatting with her pet rabbit. Maslin asserts that June Nealon is "a wet hankie of a character, full of grief and anger, but otherwise lacking any distinguishing characteristics."
Red Dog (2002) is a short novel by Louis de Bernières charting the life of a popular dog, a "Red Cloud Kelpie" nicknamed Red Dog, in Dampier, Western Australia. [3] A movie based on the novel was filmed in Australia in 2011. [4]
Just One Look is a 2004 novel by Harlan Coben. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It is considered his sixth stand-alone novel, but does contain at least one reference to his Myron Bolitar series . The plot centers on a woman whose whole life changes one day upon her taking home a set of pictures, and finding one that does not belong.