My husband and I recently celebrated our 3rd wedding anniversary and being in a lovey frame of mind, pulled this from my shelves. Yeah, not the romantic tale I was expecting.It starts off with Nina fixing dinner downstairs while her husband, Phillip, is upstairs resting. She calls him down to din...
There is always a tension in reading a historical novel between the "history" and the "fiction". In her author's note, to her National Book Award novel, "The News from Paraguay", Lily Tuck acknowledges this tension and attempts to resolve it by saying: "Nouns always trump adjectives, and in the p...
La Storia. Quella del mondo, dell’umanità tutta che tocca il fondo. Quella di una donna. Quella di una piccola famiglia infelice. La Storia di Ida e Useppe, una madre e un bambinello bastardo, che lottano per restare appigliati a questo mondo. Lottano con la disperazione di chi la vita, tutto som...
“Tuck is a genius.”—Los Angeles Book ReviewLily Tuck has had a wonderful and accomplished career as a National Book Award winning novelist, story writer, essayist and biographer. She is one of our most distinguished contributors to American literature. With The Double Life of Liliane, Tuck writes...
T. Jaynes, Probability Theory: The Logic of Science (Cambridge University Press, 2003, p. 1); on page 26, from Mary-Louise von Franz, Psyche and Matter (Shambala, 1992); on page 40 and again on page 110, from Morris Kline, Mathematics for the Nonmathematician (Dover Publications, 1985, pp. 524–26...