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Hg-Based High Tc Superconductors (Studies of High Temperature Superconductors)
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With the discovery of high Tc ceramic compounds, superconductivity has evolved into a rich and highly competitive field of research of not just condensed matter physics and chemistry but also of diverse engineering disciplines like ceramics, metallurgy and microelectronics. Clearly, significant advances in research and applications of HTSCs are expected only through consolidated efforts requiring among others, the best possible awareness on the part of researchers in these widely differing disciplines. The "Studies of High Temperature Superconductors" looks at the frontal problems and challenges through detailed reviews and extended articles covering fundamental properties, characterization and applications of the new high Tc superconductors. The series is aimed at the professional scientist and engineer, as well as at graduate students in physics, chemistry, materials science, solid state electronics and engineering. This, the 24th volume of "Studies" is the continuation of Vol. 23 and forms the part-II of the advances in research and applications of Hg-based superconductors. The volume carries 7 chapters written by some of the pioneers in this field, from 8 different countries, keeping up with the international character of the book series.
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- Sex, Death, Beauty, Time, Awareness
- Will this lover graduate?
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- "Love the questions themselves that lie inside you."
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The Apprentice Lover: A Novel
Jay Parini
Manufacturer: HarperCollins Publishers
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ASIN: 0066210712
Release Date: 2002-03-05 |
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Jay Parini's The Apprentice Lover is a smart and sexy coming-of-age novel marked with the sense and sensibility of the '70s and the Vietnam War. After Alex Massolini's brother dies in Vietnam in 1970, Alex drops out of Columbia University and travels to Italy to work as a secretary for Rupert Grant, a famous Scottish writer living on the isle of Capri. Villa Clio, where the irascible Grant lives with his wife, is the center of singular and sybaritic scenes involving Grant's two young research assistants, the unstable Marisa and the aloof Holly. Dinner brings cruel psychological parlor games and such literary luminaries as W.H. Auden, Graham Greene, and Gore Vidal. Brilliantly brittle dinner dialogue is contrasted with the raw, emotional letters to Alex from his brother Nicky in Vietnam. During his months on Capri, Alex learns much about the craft of writing from the riveting yet monstrous Rupert Grant, who comes to resemble the lustful and dictatorial Roman emperor Tiberius, exiled to Capri. In the wake of a tragic death, a romantic off-island interlude, and a thrown dagger, Alex decides to flee Capri, only to come back 30 years later for a final reckoning. In The Apprentice Lover, Parini has created an unforgettable portrait of a literary titan and his youthful apprentice. --Susan Biskeborn
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A poet and biographer, Jay Parini is also a novelist whose fiction has been acclaimed as "dazzli/ng," (Los Angeles Times) "achingly beautiful," (Washington Post) and "a subtle masterpiece" (John Bayley in the Times Literary Supplement). In his new novel, The Apprentice Lover, Parini evokes the gorgeous Mediterranean island of Capri during the summer of 1970 as the setting for a sensuous, deeply affecting story of a young American's coming into his own and reconciling himself with his past. When Alex Massolini's brother is killed in Vietnam, he drops out of Columbia University and leaves his conservative family behind for Capri to become secretary to Rupert Grant, a famous British novelist and poet, who dominates the island like a latter-day Prospero. Alex soon finds himself ensnared in a web of love affairs, friendships, and rivalries within the eccentric community that inhabits the idyllic beauty of the isolated Italian island. Among that group are the selfish, cunning, and brilliant Rupert Grant; his wife Vera, a charming and sophisticated social manipulator; the elusive Holly and the mysterious Marisa, who act as Grant's research assistants; the young philosophy student from the Sorbonne, Patrice LaRue; and Father Aurelio, who is desperate for parishioners. The Apprentice Lover traces a young American's enchantment and disenchantment-with his American past, with his new European mentor, and with the various characters on an island famous for its characters. As Alex stumbles upon intrigues and secrets, he tries to balance what others demand of him with his own nascent desires. His apprenticeship in love, literature, and life unfolds with a combination of Mediterranean clarity, wry humor, wit, and emotional power that only a master of fiction could orchestrate.
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Sex, Death, Beauty, Time, Awareness.......2005-03-08
The Apprentice Lover is a very good read. Following the death of his brother, in 1970, in Vietnam, Columbia senior Alex Massolini drops out of school and, attempting "to cut loose from the overfilled barge of [his] youth," decamps Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, and the family construction company that awaits him there, for the Isle of Capri. He lands a job as secretary, mentee, and surrogate son to Rupert Grant, a Scottish literary giant forty years his senior.
Besides Alex, Grant is attended to by his wife Vera and, more curiously, two young live-in female "research assistants" with whom Grant regularly naps. In Victorian style, one of the assistants is dark, Italian, and physical, and the other is fair, English, and cerebral. Re-reading his dead brother's letters and the poetry of Rilke, Alex seeks to come to terms with the world he has abandoned, tries to make sense of the social relationships he encounters on Capri, and -- spurred on by literary example -- endeavors to make contact, both physical and emotional, with his true beloved.
Henry James is the most recent American author that the fictional Grant appreciates. Interestingly, The Apprentice Lover has a Jamesian feel (though mercifully none of the Master's phraseology). Like a character in James, Alex struggles to adapt to very different sensibilities in a setting laden with a rich and perhaps parallel history (the first-century emperor Tiberius, who may or may not have been a pederast, made Capri his home away from Rome), to understand the highly obscure motives and indirect words of his hosts, and to make the fitful passage to adulthood. Many of the great themes of literature -- sex, death, art, truth, human connection -- swirl in this mix. To add to the enjoyment and perhaps to leaven the mystery, Graham Greene, Gore Vidal, W.H. Auden, and a Mario Puzo knock-off even come to dinner. Only a plot-driven reader could fail to appreciate this novel written in the form of a memoir.
Parini, whose output as a novelist, poet, biographer, and critic is as broad as his range, is a very good writer. His characterizations, dialogue, descriptions, and inner voice are equally satisfying. By the end of the novel I cared enough about every character in it that, applying Greene's own standard of quality, I would love to be able to invite them all -- Greene included -- to lunch. Robert E. Olsen
Will this lover graduate?.......2003-09-27
The apprentice of the title is Alex Massolini who tells his story in this book. He just left his native Pennsylvania and moved to Capri as secretary to the famous Scottish writer Rupert Grant. He becomes a member of the Grant household that includes the writer's wife Vera and his two research assistants Holly and Marisa - both of them young, beautiful and not too concerned about research.
Alex is approached by Vera, but rebuffs her. His heart is set on Holly who ignores him. Marisa goes after him, but that is not what Alex had in mind. Life at Villa Clio is rather complicated, especially as Grant's preferences are not entirely clear. In time, Marisa will break apart while Holly simply leaves and Vera stays behind to take care of aging Grant.
There must be a reason to this book, but I was unable to pin it down. The one really developed character is Alex's brother Nicky, who writes long (and touching) letters from Vietnam, where he is later killed. A major part of the book is name dropping, starting with emperor Tiberius and continuing to Curcius Malaparte ("La pelle"), Axel Munthe ("The story of San Michele") and every contemporary Brit writer you can think of. There is a wonderful supper dialog between Gore Vidal and Graham Greene. Later on, W. H. Auden is dragged into the story. All of these characters are presented with cutting remarks about the other writers. One gets the feeling that the author simply wanted to show of.
Alex gets his Inspiration from reading and quoting Rainer Maria Rilke. Now there is a poet who must be interpreted by the reader and cannot be understood by reading him off the page. He would fit more with Young Werther than with a hick from Pennsylvania.
Did our lover graduate? I think not.
Alas Too Literary For Me: You Might Like It.......2002-12-25
Alex Massolini, heir to the Massolini Construction Company, enmeshed in family conflict and shaken by the death of his brother in Viet Nam, drops out of college and flees to the fabled island of Capri, trying to find himself. He will be working, in some nebulous sense, for the famous writer Rupert Grant. In actuality he will become an acolyte to a troubled, self-absorbed, aging man and his entourage. He will struggle to make sense of the complex, unconventional, and ever-shifting relationships in that strange household. And he will make some terrible, regrettable mistakes.
While the other reviewers have praised this book, I found it somewhat disappointing, a pretentious "literary" novel about pretentious literary people. The story is told by Alex in stream-of-consciousness fashion, with interminable commentary on the meaning of everything that is said and done. Underlying the literary pretension of the book is an ever-present layer of amateurish freudianalysis, of the kind that was once popular among educated people. Everything, of course, means something else. The language is lush and colorful, with vivid descriptions of the island and people, but alas, too many names dropped, too many literary allusions, too many unexplained Italian phrases.
In refreshing contrast are the letters of the late brother, Nicky, read and re-read by Alex, written in vulgar, down-to-earth, gritty language. These letters, and in a sense, Nicky himself, become an anchor to reality for the troubled Alex.
Will Alex find himself? Will he come to understand what is real and what is pretentious nonsense? Will he ever form a responsible adult relationship with anyone else? I won't spoil it for you. I will only say that a lot of pain and disappointment lie behind the frothy literary discussions. A good book but not for everyone and not always easy reading. I thought it could have been better done.
"Love the questions themselves that lie inside you.".......2002-08-26
Do not be misled by the "moony" cover art, the title, or the fact that this is sometimes described as a coming-of-age novel--it is not romantic, whimsical, or lightweight. Instead, it is a meticulously crafted, mature novel which illuminates the major themes and issues which thoughtful men and women confront throughout their lives. Elegantly written and emotionally involving, it is one of the best--and most unsettling--novels I've read in a long time.
Alex Massolini, aged 22, is a budding poet and student of classics in 1970, when he drops out of Columbia because he no longer "cared a feather about the fate of Rome or its [Gallic wars]...My only brother, Nicky, had been killed in Vietnam." Taking a job as a secretary to Rupert Grant, a well-known Scottish writer living on Capri, Alex faces his own, more subtle wars as he tries to discover who he is and what he believes, while living in Grant's turbulent household and observing his decadent lifestyle. Grant is manipulative, vindictive, and ego-driven, often abusive to his wife and two young female assistants. As his resentment of Grant grows, Alex finds himself in a quandary, since he admires Grant's writing, loves meeting his friends--W.H.Auden, Graham Greene, and Gore Vidal, among others--and hopes Grant will become a mentor for him in his own writing.
Themes of love and loss, good and evil, free will and obligation, and war and its aftermath pervade the novel as Alex tries to understand himself, the creative life, and the sacrifices artists make for it. Issues of sexuality, religion, politics, philosophy, and even economics come into play for Alex, and Parini widens the perspective and gives universality to these themes and issues by juxtaposing, throughout, the letters which Alex's estranged brother Nicky has sent him from Vietnam. This is a beautifully realized, patiently designed, and maturely confident novel, by an author who himself illustrates a quotation by Rilke in the book: "Being an artist means, not reckoning and counting, but ripening like the tree that does not force its sap but stands confident in the storms of spring without fear that after them may come no summer." For this author, summer has arrived. Mary Whipple
Eloquent and Exotic.......2002-07-22
This book is a must read for anyone who ever considered writing the great novel. The characters in this story are multi-dimentional people who will inhabit your thoughts whether the book is in hand or not.
Reminding me slightly of books that tackle the idea of eutopian societies, this takes place on the exotic Isle of Capri. It is, in short, the story of a budding writer who leaves behind his unfinished ivy league education for a Summer working as one of the great Rupert Grant's apprentices. An eccentric and impetuous being, Grant has quite an influence on all who are under his wing. His pompous behavior and eccentric manner make it obvious that his writing is his greatest attribute.
Primarily I interpreted this as a coming of age story. For me, it was the story of Alex Mussolini, a young man utterly at odds with his upbringing, harbouring mixed emotions about the untimely death of his brother during Vietnam, and the insatiable desire to become a writer. Alex faces many challenges while on the Isle of Capri, all of which will captivate the reader as would the greatest mystery. But this book is a mystery of the soul. For who is anyone, aside from how others see them?
For me, at the crux of this novel is the question of identity. But there is so much more. I will undoubtedly read this story again -- I hope, while visiting Capri someday. There is so much to this book, I cannot recommend it highly enough. And I will seek more by Jay Parini as his writing is truly incredible.
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Outstanding resource!.......2006-11-28
I'm in the travel industry and am oftentimes disappointed by the out-of-date information found in other cruise guides. I consider The Complete Guide to Caribbean Cruises, however, to be one of the absolute best resources to use when planning a cruise vacation. The guide has a great layout, is highly accurate, and provides the kind of information useful to both novice and "expert" cruisers.
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Part of the second trilogy of life on Bennett's Island.
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Years ago, I was drawn to the main character, Vanessa..........1999-07-14
When I was a young woman, I was drawn to Vanessa's character, a woman unhappy in marriage and her seeming lack of possibilities. Her story stayed with me, over the years, and I am pleased to learn this book is available for me to re-read and reacquaint myself with her from a more mature perspective. It is a story of forbidden passion, a woman who finds herself in the eyes of a married man, a woman who has to learn to deal with the unCinderella like ending.
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Seductive but standoffish, oysters ask that you get to know them a little before you can really enjoy them. How do you choose from among the dozens of varieties? How do you handle, shuck, and store them? Are they better cooked or raw? And are they really an aphrodisiac? Full of alluring recipes from topflight chefs, plus tasting notes and wine- and beer-pairing tips, the authoritative and accessible HOG ISLAND OYSTER LOVER'S COOKBOOK demystifies these enigmatic bivalves and provides the insider's scoop on serving them at home as well as ordering them in an oyster bar.
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Excellent Cookbook.......2007-08-23
Ms. Pomo has hit the nail on the head. I've tried several recipes, they all were winners! What a suprize!
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Bennett's Island Forever.......2000-10-25
It amazes me that Elisabeth Ogilvie's books are not more popular from coast to coast. Surely I'm not the only person in this particular region of Florida who enjoys a good read which takes place in Maine. Strawberries in the Sea takes us into Jamie Sorensen's adult life as Rosa Fleming moves onto Bennett's Island after taking off with her ex-husband's lobster boat to set up traps of her own. For those of you who know Joanna Bennett Sorensen, you recognize a woman who Joanna would find admirable and brave. As Rosa runs away from the demons of her first marriage, she faces them at the same time, dealing with issues of her weight, her tendency to love too much, and her success at lobstering. I love Bennett's Island and re-visit it often by reading these books again and again even when I have a new release by a current author sitting prettily on my bookcase. Elisabeth Ogilvie brings us into the world of her characters and lets us know them as well as she does. If you've never heard of the Bennetts and the Sorensens; if you've missed the early years of their lives and never imagined meeting Owen and Mark and Stevie Bennett or having a mug-up with one of them on a stormy afternoon, then it's time to change all that.
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This is the first novel in the second trilogy about Bennett's Island, brings the saga of the three lonely women who come to the island seeking happiness and self-discovery.
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A lovely Bennett's Island tale........2000-10-27
This is a lovely story of World War II widow Phillipa who travels to Bennett's Island to work as a teacher. Leaving behind her own young son, she focuses on reaching the students living on an isolated island off the coast of Maine. There, Phillipa confronts prejudice against a handicapped child, as well as learning things about herself.
Along with Ogilvie's usual wonderful descriptions of life on an island in the years following the war, the reader also gets a warm and simple love story of two lonely, independent people. As usual with Ogilvie's writings, there is a twist at the end and the seeming tranquility of island living really hides intense passions. A wonderful book I have read several times.
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What's really included in your cruise fare? What cabins are the best—and the worst? What cruise line has the largest standard cabins, even at the lowest price levels? Which cruise line's ships have rock-climbing walls?—Fodor's The Complete Guide to Caribbean Cruises, 2nd Edition answers all these questions and many more! Linda Coffman, our resident Cruise Diva, has been dishing out cruise-travel advice for more than a decade and has the answers to all your cruise questions. An avid cruiser, she spends most of her time cruising in the Caribbean and knows all the inside info on all the ships and even the best things to do while ashore!
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ISLAND LOVER (Loveswept, No. 526)
Pat Bucheister
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The island-lovers
Ruth Lyons
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