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Tell The Wolves I'm Home is the debut novel of American writer Carol Rifka Brunt, [1] published by Random House in 2012. It follows the life of June Elbus, a 14-year-old girl, whose gay uncle died of AIDS in the 1980s, and the subsequent friendship she develops with his boyfriend.
Brunt shelved the idea until the character of June came to her along with the first chapter. [8] [9] "I knew there was so much more there, so I just kept adding." [8] The novel started as a piece of short fiction, most of which ended up in the first chapter of the book. [8] Brunt set the novel in 1980s New York, when and where the author grew up.
Rather than trying to convert others to Christianity, 2 Clement appears to be directed at an audience of Christians who had converted from Paganism. 2 Clement seems to reference a history of idolatry: "[Previously] we were maimed in our understanding – we were worshipping stones and pieces of wood, and gold and silver and copper – all of them made by humans".
The story of the Two Wolves is a memetic legend of unknown origin, commonly attributed to Cherokee or other indigenous American peoples in popular retelling. The legend is usually framed as a grandfather or elder passing wisdom to a young listener; the elder describes a battle between two wolves within one’s self, using the battle as a metaphor for inner conflict.
Initially, the novel's first chapter was a stand-alone short story composed for a writing workshop at the University of Southern California. [5] The short story was published in Southwest Review and won the 2013 McGinnis-Ritchie Award for fiction. [6] Fridlund decided to expand the short story and completed History of Wolves as her debut novel. [7]
Darkness at Noon (German: Sonnenfinsternis, lit. ' Solar eclipse ') is a novel by Austrian-Hungarian-born novelist Arthur Koestler, first published in 1940.His best known work, it is the tale of Rubashov, an Old Bolshevik who is arrested, imprisoned, and tried for treason against the government that he helped to create.
Publishers Weekly described the book as a "tightly plotted, swiftly paced tale", [1] while the School Library Journal called it "[b]eautifully written". In a starred review, Booklist said it was a "compelling, poignant story" and that "Bauer precisely and vividly conveys the wolves' wild world".
A hanged wolf in sheep's clothing. A 19th century illustration of the mediaeval fable attributed to Aesop. False prophets are frequently referred to in the New Testament, sheep were an important part of life in the Galilee of Jesus' era, and the metaphor of the pious as a flock of sheep is a common one in both the Old and New Testaments.