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He further states, in the context of the same self-referential paradox, that "The Pale King is a kind of vocational memoir" and that "the very last thing this book is is some kind of clever metafictional titty-pincher." Other primary characters include Lane Dean Jr., Claude Sylvanshine, David Cusk, and Leonard Stecyk, men drawn for vastly ...
1 Plot summary. 2 Reception. 3 Book awards. ... (1995) is Beverly Cleary's second memoir after A Girl from Yamhill (1988). [1] It is a New ... Publishers Weekly Best ...
"The Two Kings and the Two Labyrinths" (original Spanish title: "Historia de los dos reyes y los dos laberintos") is a short story by Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges, first published in February 1936. [1] It was later included in El Aleph under the title "Los dos reyes y los dos laberintos".
The text concerns two kings, King Offa of the Angles, a fourth or fifth-century ancestor figure of the Mercians, and King Offa of Mercia (r. 757-796), through whose lives the text recounts the foundation of St Alban's Abbey: Offa of Angel made the vow to found a monastery, while several centuries later, his namesake Offa of Mercia executed this plan on discovering the relics of the British ...
Domingo Martinez is an American author best known for his memoirs The Boy Kings of Texas (published 2012) and My Heart Is a Drunken Compass (published 2014). [1] The Boy Kings of Texas was a non-fiction finalist for the 2012 National Book Award and a New York Times Best Seller.
Retired Supreme Court Justice Anthony M. Kennedy has a two-volume memoir coming out this fall, tracking his life from growing up in California to his 30 years on the court, when he cast key votes ...
Death of Kings, published in 2011, is the sixth novel of Bernard Cornwell's Saxon Tales series. It continues the story of Saxon warlord Uhtred of Bebbanburg who resists a new Danish invasion of Wessex and Mercia .
Catawba Two Kings Casino in Kings Mountian under federal investigation after family of two SC lawmakers were linked to a company that profited from it