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The Bookshop, The Gate of Angels, The Blue Flower (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
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ASIN: 1400041260
Release Date: 2003-09-23 |
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Penelope Fitzgerald, who died in 2000, emerged late in life as one of the most remarkable English writers of the last century. She began her writing career in 1975 at the age of fifty-nine, and over the next two decades she published three biographies, nine novels, and a collection of short stories. Now three of her acclaimed novels are gathered here in one volume.
The Bookshop is a postwar tragicomedy of manners, set in an isolated seaside town where an enterprising woman opens a bookstore only to find it beset by poltergeists, weather, and hostile townsfolk. The Gate of Angels is an Edwardian romance within a novel of ideas: a young doctor devoted to science and to his all-male Cambridge college finds his life and views disrupted by a nurse named Daisy. The Blue Flower, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award, revitalizes historical drama through the story of Novalis, an eighteenth-century German romantic poet and visionary genius, and his unlikely love affair with a simple child-woman.
These three novels all display Fitzgerald’s characteristic wit, intellectual breadth, and narrative brilliance, applied to an array of traditional forms into which she breathed new life.
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A charming entertainment that captures the romance of books and bookshops.
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A bit dated, but a must read for any booklover.......2007-08-07
Interesting for any book (or bookshop) lover. A fun read, but a mediocre mystery. Loaded with stereotypes, but forgivable for the time period.
The story of a used bookshop in Brooklyn at the very end of WWI, and strange incidents that befall a young ad salesman who befriends the shop owners.
Calling all Bibliophiles!.......2006-08-15
Part romance, part thriller, part comedy, the Haunted Bookshop is an offering at the altar of the book. Morley's obvious love of literature and the written word shines through in an old-fashioned, sweet, innocent tale.
Quaint and Delightful - Perfect Gift for Book Lovers.......2004-10-30
The Haunted Bookshop is quaint, delightful fiction that is simultaneously entertaining and thought provoking. Like its predecessor, Parnassus on Wheels, it is first and foremost a book for book lovers. The exuberant Roger Mifflin, the owner of a dusty, out-of-the way, used bookstore in Brooklyn, thrives on helping people discover new books and authors. His bookshop motto reads: "We have what you want, though you may not know you want it." Making money is secondary to him and his favorite pastime is talking and arguing, especially about books.
Written in 1919, the action centers upon a then contemporary event, the planned voyage of Woodrow Wilson to the Peace Conference in Europe. Roger's leather bound copy of Carlyle's Oliver Cromwell disappears from its shelf, only to reappear the following night. A clever story of espionage follows.
Roger is a man of his times and is deeply concerned that the mistakes leading to the Great War not be repeated. His hopes for future world peace are poignant, especially as we modern readers realize that in just two decades the Great War would be renamed, and numbered.
Christopher Morley's characters - the irrepressible Roger Mifflin, his pragmatic and loveable wife Helen McGill Mifflin, the youthful, diligent Titania Chapman that works in their shop, and her idealistic suitor Aubrey Gilbert - are all eminently likeable characters. The villains are indeed villainous, but thankfully, miscommunications within their ranks causes their plans to go awry. Aubrey, acting as an amateur sleuth, misinterprets the situation, but ultimately all works out for the best.
I suppose it is best to read Parnassus on Wheels and its sequel, The Haunted Bookshop, in order, but it is certainly not necessary. I suspect that whichever you begin with, you will immediately begin searching for the other. It is no surprise that Christopher Morley, author of more than 50 books, is primarily remembered for these two marvelous stories.
Years ago my wife and I stumbled upon a pleasantly enticing, used bookstore on a narrow street in downtown Mobile. It was appropriately named The Haunted Bookshop.
"A face of fanatical ecstasy.".......2004-10-11
"The Haunted Bookshop" is the sequel to "Parnassus on Wheels." In "Parnassus on Wheels", Roger Mifflin romances spinster Helen McGill. In "The Haunted Bookshop", Roger and Helen have parked the traveling caravan of books, and they've opened a bookshop in Brooklyn. Roger has very definite ideas about books and his role as a bookseller. Roger sees himself as "a specialist in adjusting the book to the human need." So he "prescribes books" for his customers, refuses to sell rubbish or bestsellers, and has a keen eye for the customer whose "mind is ill for lack of books." One day, a young man named Aubrey Gilbert steps inside the Haunted Bookshop in hopes of selling his advertising services to Roger Mifflin. Instead, Roger spots that Aubrey is in desperate need of a few good books, and so they strike up a friendship. Aubrey's relationship with the Mifflins intensifies when Miss Titania Chapman arrives to work in the bookshop. Titania is the precious daughter of Mr. Chapman of Chapman Daintybits Company--one of Aubrey's biggest clients. Titania is sent to the bookshop to divest herself of "absurd, wasteful, snobbish notions." Titania's father believes that she will benefit from "being surrounded by books."
Shortly after the beautiful Titania arrives, Aubrey keeps finding excuses to visit the shop. And he discovers that there are mysterious goings on taking place. Books disappear only to reappear on the shelf within days, and sinister characters lurk in the alley behind the bookshop. Aubrey's curiosity results in a vicious assault, and soon he's on the scent of a great mystery ...
"The Haunted Bookshop" was written in 1919--just after the end of WWI. While not as quaint as "Parnassus on Wheels", it is also much more serious. It's part romance, part mystery, but the best parts of all are the pages jammed packed with Mifflin's (or the author's) philosophy about books. Clearly Morley is a man who understands perfectly the power of good books, and these pages ring out with a joyous truth. Mifflin states: "but there is indeed a heaven on this earth, a heaven which we inhabit when we read a good book." And Mifflin promotes the names of many books within these delightful pages. Many of the titles Mifflin recommends are now almost lost, and several pages are devoted to WWI literature. Mifflin argues that the Truth is "rationed by the government ... I saw the world clawing itself to threads in blind rage. I saw the glutton, the idler, and the fool applauding, while brave and simple men walked into the horrors of hell." The novel's dalliance with espionage is the book's weakest but necessary element. Mifflin's description of the dedicated bibliophile and anti-war sentiments are unforgettable, and make the novel, ultimately, rewarding--displacedhuman
An Unusual and Enjoyable Book.......2003-02-20
This was an unusual little book but I thoroughly enjoyed it. There were a few quirky points I could nitpick about -- the characters are a little mannered and Mr. Mifflin, the eccentric but charming bookseller, is at his best discussing books and less interesting as an anti-war crusader, but these I wrote off to the time period the book was written. For me, they didn't distract much from the overall enjoyment of the book. Even the mystery to the plot turned out better than I'd expected. I haven't read the prior book, "Parnassus on Wheels" but I've added it to my future reading list.
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3 Novels : The Blue Flower, The Bookshop, Offshore [Boxed Set]
Penelope Fitzgerald
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Since 1977, Penelope Fitzgerald has been quietly coming out with small, perfect devastations of human hope and inhuman (i.e., all-too-human) behavior. This special boxed set comprises her two prize winners, The Blue Flower and Offshore , and her tragicomedy of provincial manners, The Bookshop.
The Blue Flower is the story of Friedrich von Hardenberg--Fritz, to his intimates--a young man of the late 18th century who is destined to become one of Germany's great romantic poets. In just over 200 pages, Fitzgerald creates a complete world of family, friends, and lovers, but also an exhilarating evocation of the Romantic era in all its political turmoil, intellectual voracity, and moral ambiguity. A profound exploration of genius, The Blue Flower is also a charming, wry, and witty look at domestic life.
Offshore possesses perfect, very odd pitch. In the wittiest and most melancholy of prose, Penelope Fitzgerald limns the lives of "creatures neither of firm land nor water"--a group of barge-dwellers in London's Battersea Reach, circa 1961. One man, a marine artist whose commissions have dropped off since the war, is attempting to sell his decrepit craft before it sinks. Another, a dutiful businessman with a bored, mutinous wife, knows he should be landlocked but remains drawn to the muddy Thames. A third, Maurice, a male prostitute, doesn't even protest when a criminal acquaintance begins to use his barge as a depot for stolen goods: "The dangerous and the ridiculous were necessary to his life, otherwise tenderness would overwhelm him."
The Bookshop unfolds in a tiny Sussex seaside town, which by 1959 is virtually cut off from the outside English world. Postwar peace and plenty having passed it by, Hardborough is defined chiefly by what it doesn't have. It does have, however, plenty of observant inhabitants, most of whom are keen to see Florence Green's new bookshop fail.
In these three novels, readers will find works of fine prose, fierce intelligence, and perceptive characterization.
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Gathered together for the first time are three of Penelope Fitzgerald's most beloved novels: The Blue Flower, The Bookshop, and Offshore. The Blue Flower: Chosen by the New York Times Book Review as one of the eleven best books of 1997, this magical novel recounts the curious obsession of the Romantic poet Novalis for his one "true philosophy" -- the plain and simple twelve-year-old Sophie. "A masterpiece. . . How does she do it?" (A. S. Byatt) "Quite astonishing . . . Her greatest triumph" (New York Times Book Review). The Bookshop: In 1959, Florence Green, a kindhearted widow with a small inheritance, risks everything to open a bookshop -- the only bookshop -- in the seaside town of Hardborough. She must contend with a leaky roof, a poltergeist, and, what's more, ruthless opposition from the self-proclaimed first lady of culture, Violet Gamart. "A brilliant little book" (Boston Globe). Offshore: Winner of the Booker Prize, this acclaimed novel features an eccentric cast of characters living in houseboats on the Thames, rising and falling with the great river's tides. "The novelistic equivalent of a Turner watercolor" (Washington Post).
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The beauty of economy.......2000-07-25
The world has lost a treasure in Penelope Fitzgerald, who died earlier this year at the age of 83. She had lived for so many years by the time she began writing (her first novel was published when she was 60) that she could see what was important and what wasn't, and she learned never to waste a word. So we have novels like The Bookshop, a powerful but pinched novel that stemmed a lot of its own force, and Offshore, an absolutely perfect work that said a lifetime's worth in only 140 pages.
The Bookshop, Fitzgerald's second novel, concerns Florence Green's struggle to open a bookshop in her small town, and the gentle opposition against the idea by the townspeople. There are great moments of truth and beauty, but often the Fitzgerald limits her own explorations, as if she put on blinders while writing. I love her economic style, how she says so much with so little, but in this case, she merely says "enough" with so little.
With Offshore, written the year after The Bookshop, Penelope Fitzgerald has truly opened up, creating a whole tucked-away world---the houseboats of the Thames River---we feel we've visited our entire lives. It's full of moments of little truths: the cab driver who kindly takes Nenna home, the children selling antique tiles to a curmudgeonly storekeeper, the thing that drives Richard's wife away---and what brings her back. I haven't had the pleasure of reading The Blue Flower, but I promise myself that it's next on my list.
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- Simple, quiet, subtle and good
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Since 1977, Penelope Fitzgerald has been quietly coming out with small, perfect devastations of human hope and inhuman (i.e., all-too-human) behavior. And now we have the opportunity to read "The Bookshop," her tragicomedy of provincial manners first published in 1978 in the U.K., but never available in the U.S. The Bookshop unfolds in a tiny Sussex seaside town, which by 1959 is virtually cut off from the outside English world. Postwar peace and plenty having passed it by, Hardborough is defined chiefly by what it doesn't have. It does have, however, plenty of observant inhabitants, most of whom are keen to see Florence Green's new bookshop fail. But rising damp will not stop Florence, nor will the resident, malevolent poltergeist (or "rapper," in the local patois). Nor will she be thwarted by Violet Gamart, who has designs on Florence's building for her own arts series and will go to any lengths to get it. One of Florence's few allies (who is, unfortunately, a hermit) warns her: "She wants an Arts Centre. How can the arts have a centre? But she thinks they have, and she wishes to dislodge you."
Once the Old House Bookshop is up and running, Florence is subjected to the hilarious perils of running a subscription library, training a 10-year-old assistant, and obtaining the right merchandise for her customers. Men favor works "by former SAS men, who had been parachuted into Europe and greatly influenced the course of the war; they also placed orders for books by Allied commanders who poured scorn on the SAS men, and questioned their credentials." Women fight over a biography of Queen Mary. "This was in spite of the fact that most of them seemed to possess inner knowledge of the court--more, indeed, than the biographer." But it is only when the slippery Milo North suggests Florence sell the Olympia Press edition of "Lolita" that Florence comes under legal and political fire.
Fitzgerald's heroine divides people into "exterminators and exterminatees," a vision she clearly shares with her creator--but the author balances disillusion with grace, wit, and weirdness, favoring the open ending over the moral absolute. Penelope Fitzgerald's internecine if gentle world view even extends to literature--books are living, jostling things. Florence finds that paperbacks, crowding "the shelves in well-disciplined ranks," vie with Everyman editions, which "in their shabby dignity, seemed to confront them with a look of reproach." One senses that classic hardcovers would welcome The Bookshop, despite its status as a paperback original. --Kerry Fried
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In 1959 Florence Green, a kindhearted widow with a small inheritance, risks everything to open a bookshop - the only bookshop - in the seaside town of Hardborough. By making a success of a business so impractical, she invites the hostility of the town's less prosperous shopkeepers. By daring to enlarge her neighbors' lives, she crosses Mrs. Gamart, the local arts doyenne. Florence's warehouse leaks, her cellar seeps, and the shop is apparently haunted. Only too late does she begin to suspect the truth: a town that lacks a bookshop isn't always a town that wants one.
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Simple, quiet, subtle and good.......2006-10-10
I'm not sure what I was expecting when I picked up this book, but reading this after midnight into the early morning hours on a day I had to go to work wasn't one of my expectations. This isn't written like a riveting page-turner. The characters don't do anything you or I couldn't do, nor does the writer seem to show off any spectacular writing ability. And perhaps that's what made this simple story so enjoyable. I could easily have met these people and have lived in this town. Somehow, despite the everyday small-town reality Fitzgerald depicts here, she makes the most of it, efficiently letting a good and simple story tell itself well.
Amazing author I had not heard of! .......2005-10-11
I was very happy that I read this book. I work at a used book store and it caught my eye one day. I didn't know anything about this author but I'm glad I took a chance on her. Her characters were so real you hurt for them and the ghost descriptions were vividly frightening. Florences' feelings of failure at the end is something everyone has felt at one time or another. I can't wait to read more by her.
What good writing should be.......2005-09-13
This is a perfect novel. Fitzgerald, whom I was only recently introduced to, writes with precision and grace. In The Bookshop she exposes the small-mindedness of people in provincial places. In Hardborough the townsfolk are cruelly reminded of their relative irrelevance and, rather than stretch toward loftier horizons, they take aim at the book's protagonist and quash her dreams. A piercing stab at all that is colloquial, this book is also a funny satire of small-minded people. I'm surprised Fitzgerald is not more widely read on these shores (U.S.). What a talent.
A British Kelo decision.......2005-07-03
Florence Green had the good fortune to care deeply about something--books. Old House, the location in Hardborough where Mrs. Green planned a book store, had a poltergeist, rapper. Florence went to a party and learned that the grande dame of the community, Mrs. Gamart, did not approve of her having obtained the lease-hold of Old House for her bookshop. Gamart wanted to place a relative in a postion of running an arts center at that location.
In setting up the property Florence received assistance from some Sea Scouts. In her first week of operation, she took in between seventy and eighty pounds at the Old House Bookshop. She started a lending library through a service after the most dignified and very elderly inhabitant of Hardborough wrote her a note thanking her for opening the shop and stating that he would be a library subscriber.
Mrs. Green acquired a child assistant. (The lending library had to close for a month to become better organized. On its first day it had approximately thirty patrons, all seeking the same one book about Queen Mary.) Florence was betrayed, in buying things for the shop, by her weakness for beauty. In late middle age, it seemed, the upper middle class of Suffolk painted water colors. She was asked to exhibit the works. Florence had no room to mount exhibits. She had to tell the child, Christine, that customers were entitled to browse. The lending library started again. The child was severe. No one was to look at anyone else's selection. Florence had courage because she wanted to survive. She sold LOLITA, attracting passers-by to her shop window.
The lending library closed because, mysteriously, Hardborough was granted a long sought for public library. Next a new book store opened in a neighboring town. Christine's results in the eleven plus exam were poor. She stopped working for Florence. The old historic inhabitant ventured out to go to Mrs. Gamart's, a place he had never gone to before notwithstanding numerous invitations, to tell her to leave Florence Green alone. An order for compulsory purchase of ancient buildings had crawled through Parliament in a private bill. He died on his walk home and Mrs. Gamart lied about the reason for his visit. Florence was dispossessed. No compensation was paid because of the damp.
Not sure what the point was?.......2005-04-12
Without repeating what others have said, I had trouble getting the "point" of the story. The protagonist "crosses" the wrong person and later suffers for it, I guess? The setting is almost too intense, too much foreshadowing of the sad ending. This is one I would not recommend for new readers - get "Golden Child" or "Offshore" instead first.
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One of Carolyn Wells Flemming Stone detective novels. A murderer is stalking among the rare and valuable volumes and a book worth $100,000 is missing.
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They parted in disgrace....But desire would bring them back together.Years ago, in one explosive instant, childhood rivalry turned into wild passion for Jeremy, handsome young Duke of Rawlings, and Maggie Herbert, the object of his affections. Unfortunately, the ensuing scandal found them banished to separate corners of the world.Now fate has joined Jeremy and Maggie again-- for a long-overdue dance of desire as uncompromising as the lovers themselves. Jeremy, a decorated soldier, is determined to claim Maggie at last. And Maggie, engaged to be married to another man, finds her secret fantasies of Jeremy spinning out of control. All that stands between them and the steamy passion the years can no longer chain is the past-- and a present steeped in jealousy, intrigue, and danger....
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hated it...........2006-06-06
Simply put-the story opens on the "hero" letting his Uncle know he's been kicked out of Oxford, for killing another student in a duel. This is after he'd already been kicked out of Eton and Harrow as well. He procedes to blame the Uncle-"because you've made me take the title of Duke". UGH-what a spoiled jerk.
If you like your characters with a bit or moral fortitude then I suggest you skip this-no stars.
One for the keeper shelf!.......2005-08-31
Jeremy, the young and rakish Duke of Rawlings has just been sent down for the final time from Oxford for killing a man in a duel. (Granted, the dead man in question was a cad and hanger-on who deserved his fate, but we digress.) Dueling is illegal and Jeremy must leave the country after being berated and lectured, of course, by his Uncle Edward and saying goodbye to his Aunt Pegeen. Before he leaves, he takes a ride and runs into his old childhood chum, Maggie Herbert. As children, Maggie and Jeremy had been unseparable. His pal Maggie had been a gangly, awkward child. The Maggie he meets has blossomed in all the right places and before you know it, youthful hormones flare and the two end up in the barn. Just as things start getting really heated up, the pair are interrupted, but the ensuing scandal banishes the pair to separate corners of the world: Jeremy in India and Maggie in Paris.
Five years pass and Jeremy is back from India, a decorated soldier whose exploits have titillated Victorian England. Maggie is now a portrait painter engaged to another man. Jeremy's back, he's mad and he wants his Maggie back. This time for good. What follows is a story that is hysterically funny, clever and tender. The interaction between these two stubborn characters is a joy to read. Add to the mix a cast of secondary characters from the devious Indian Princess Usha to Maggie's long suffering fiancé, Augustin, to Jeremy's wonderful family, and you end up with a book that is sure to remain in your keeper shelf!
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Delicate Humor. 3.5 Stars.......2004-02-06
To the author's credit, the book's part one has the feel of adolescence. Two childhood adversaries fantasize. Maggie Herbert dreams of studying art in Paris, where she will be a famous painter. Jeremy Rawlings dreams of mystical India, where he will be a first-rate soldier in the queen's Horse Guards. An embarrassing situation turns fantasy into reality.
Years pass and our two visionaries achieved their dreams. Maggie is an accepted artist and Jeremy is a decorated military hero. Simultaneously, they come back to England, and discover they can no longer deny their denied passion.
First introduced in Cabot's WHERE ROSES GROW WILD, "Mags" and "Jerry" evolve from childhood rivals into sultry lovers. Patricia Cabot paves the road to love using gentle humor, thus rescuing her story. Jeremy Rawlings, the Duke of Rawlings' personality is taxing - the world revolves around him. Maggie is a little dense - HE can't possibly love me. Nevertheless, Cabot fills the pages with effective comedy, and the reader will enjoy the lighter moments.
Problem areas:
* Jeremy's insane obsession to get Maggie into his bed.
* Maggie's inability to accept Jeremy's surrender.
* The entire business surrounding the mistaken "Jewel of Jaipur".
MaryGrace Meloche.
Worth reading....(3 1/2 stars).......2003-05-07
"Portrait of My Heart" was a fun read. I enjoyed the characters very much. I have never read its prequel "Where Roses Grow Wild", but after being introduced to them in this story I find that Im curious and may have to go back and read Edward and Pegeen's story as well. While I found this book to be enjoyable..it isnt a keeper for me. First of all I found it bothersome that while we are told that the characters do in fact love eachother, they never actually get around to telling one another..this is a small thing I realize, but it bothered me regardless. I also felt that towards the middle it dragged a bit and that the tension and the conflict that held the story together was so annoying because if these people had only communicated to eachother a bit more it could have been avoided..but then there wouldnt have been a story at all ...all in all a fun read, but not my favorite.
Don't be misled!.......2002-12-10
This wonderful story picks up some characters from a previous story, Where the Roses Grow Wild. I almost didn't read it because of the other reviews, but they are wrong! The characters are fully developed, and there are innocent misunderstandings that cause all kinds of mayhem (naturally), there's some great humor; just a charming and delightful story as delicious as her others. (I did think the Star of Jaipur subplot was a little dopey, but hey, the rest of the book was great!)
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Piece of My Heart Tugs at Heartstrings.......2007-05-20
this book seems to be haven written at the time the author was traveling with the artist rather than after the fact. Most interesting piece were the recorded conversations Janis had with others. A good read.
Soulful Mama.......2000-07-30
This book gives a glimpse into the fascinating life of Pearl herself. You can see the troubles that led her to drink, and led her to sing with her soul. I loved this book and would say to any Joplin fan, it's totally worth the read.
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Emmanuelle Antille: Tornadoes of My Heart (Christoph Keller Editions)
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A series of photographic portraits of the tribe of teenagers who acted in Antille's feature-length film of the same title, this collection studies the group's intimate rituals and isolated moments. Located between fiction and documentary, the work investigates adolescent codes and languages within the no-man's-land of a generic, abject suburbia.
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Fifty-eight stunning portraits of Country Musics Heart & Soul Photographed by Kenny Rogers This one of a kind photography book includes photos of some of country greats performers. Featuring: Faith Hill, Reba McEntire, Jo Dee Messina, Willie Nelson, Tim McGraw, Alan Jackson, Dolly Parton, Roy Acuff, Lee Ann Womack, Billy Dean, Tammy Wynette, Linda Davis & Brad Paisley, just to name a few. These studio black and white photographs are striking with exquisite lighting and superfine grain. Kenny Rogers studied with one of the greatest portrait photographers of all time, Yousuf Karsh -- also known as Karsh of Ottawa. He has also associated with John Sexton and Ansel Adams.This is an oversized, coffee-table style paperback book.
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My Heart on the Yukon River: Portraits from Alaska and the Yukon
Monique Dykstra
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My Heart on the Yukon River is a a carefree romp.......1997-12-05
My Heart on the Yukon River is more than a collection of black and white portraits of people who live in remote places: It's the story of a woman who knew what she wanted out of life and had the courage to go after it.... In nearly every photograph, people are leaughing or smiling. No one seems to be taking themselves too seriously. Yet, Dykstra affords each person a sense of dignity. In one photograph of a woman, Suzanne Picot from Whitehorse, she poses in front of her car- painted to look like a car. Picot, who reveals in her interview that she's in love with a man who grew up on a dairy farm, is dressed like a dairy cow. She wears a black and white spotted jump suit, complete with rubber udders, horns and a cowbell necklace. Oddly, she doesn't look ridiculous. She just looks happy. For 2,000 miles, Dykstra remains optimistic and never stoops to exploit poverty, lonliness or human tragedy.... Dykstra's images are visually interesting and her text is a pleaure to read.... My Heart on the Yukon River is a a carefree romp- a lighthearted journal of a road trip Lorrie Blair for Hour Magazine
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- Chapters: Confessions of a Military/CIA Retiree
