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Ruchoma Shain (6 December 1914 – 16 March 2013) was an American-born rebbetzin, English teacher, and author.She is best known for her first book, All for the Boss (1984), [1] a biography of her father, Yaakov Yosef Herman, which she wrote in her late sixties.
Rose is a 1996 novel by American writer Martin Cruz Smith. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The story is set in 1872 Wigan , Lancashire, England, a district with extensive coal mines. Synopsis
Her elder sister was the philosopher Gillian Rose. Rose's book Albertine, a novel from 2001, is a feminist variation on Marcel Proust's À la recherche du temps perdu. [3] Rose is best known for her critical study on the life and work of American poet Sylvia Plath, The Haunting of Sylvia Plath, published in 1991. [4]
Rosewater is a 2016 science fiction novel by Nigerian British writer Tade Thompson.It was followed by two sequels: The Rosewater Insurrection and The Rosewater Redemption which were published in 2019 simultaneously.
once upon a time I had a mind to make a body of more or less connected legend, ranging from the large and cosmogonic, to the level of romantic fairy-story—the larger founded on the lesser in contact with the earth, the lesser drawing splendour from the vast backcloths—which I could dedicate simply to: to England; to my country.
The Desert Rose, for example, was written at a time when there was a shift in taste in Las Vegas, away from the big-bosomed showgirls. Small-breasted dancers came to be preferred, and Harmony, my showgirl, was out of a job, like the cowboys in my other fiction." [6] McMurtry later wrote a sequel to the book called The Late Child.
The book was on The New York Times Best Seller List. [ citation needed ] In a contemporary review, The New York Times gave the novel a positive review, saying “If you would understand what was best in the Old South, its attitude toward life, you will find them here, glowing with that same vitality which was theirs in life.” [ 2 ]
It wasn't until an article by Mark Rose in The New York Press in 1991, "Brooklyn Unbound," that the mainstream press began to discover a large creative community emerging in a third zone along the waterfront near the bridge. The Salon of the Mating Spiders at Test-Site. Community arts event for 600 artists formulated by Ebon Fisher.