Kate, whose care for her terminally ill mother coincides with the birth of her first child in the early months of a young marriage, must, in a single year, come to terms with radiant beginnings and profound loss. This novel explores the spiritual education at the heart of that fundamental transition[...]

This book offers a Story of Love, Murder and Obsession Chicago, 1931. Asta Eicher, a lonely widow with three children, is thrilled when Harry Powers asks her to marry him, and agrees to travel with him to West Virginia. She and her children are never seen alive again. Emily Thornhill, one of the few[...]

Long recognized as one of the main branches of political science, political theory has in recent years burgeoned in many different directions. Close textual analysis of historical texts sits alongside more analytical work on the nature and normative grounds of political values. Continental and post-[...]

A major new novel that depicts the challenges of family life with contemporary force and timeless grace, from the acclaimed author of Machine Dreams and Shelter.

Formerly free-spirited, unattached Kate enters into roles of enormous responsibility: as she takes the first steps into a new [...]

Jayne Anne Phillips has always been a master of portraiture, both in her widely acclaimed novels and in her short fiction. The stories in Fast Lanes demonstrated the breadth of her talent in a "tour de force" of voices, offering elegantly rendered views into the lives of characters torn between the [...]

A collection of short stories and vignettes by the author of Machine Dreams reveals the daily life and loneliness of common people in town and country settings. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.[...]

No one wants to be treated like an object, regarded as an item of property, or put up for sale. Yet many people frame personal autonomy in terms of self-ownership, representing themselves as property owners with the right to do as they wish with their bodies. Others do not use the language of proper[...]

This work explores the broadening out of debates on democracy to address questions of gender, race, ethnicity, the status of minority cultures, and the greater emphasis on what can be achieved through political and cultural interventions.[...]

Magical in detail, these photographs of the people whom Sturges cherishes most are a collaboration of trust and admiration. Phillips's compelling prose both illuminates the images and explores the unending sensuality and complexity of the bond between mother and child. 60 duotone photographs.[...]

A spectacularly riveting novel based on a real life crime by a con man who preyed on widows: "a brilliant fusion of fact and fiction, Jayne Anne Phillips has written the novel of the year" (Stephen King)--"think "In Cold Blood" meets "The Lovely Bones--"but sexy" ("People").
In Chicago in 1931, [...]

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Året är 1931. Trebarnsmodern Asta Eicher är ensam och i penganöd efter att hennes make plötsligt gått bort. Via en kontaktannons börjar hon brevväxla med en charmig man vid namn Cornelius Pierson. Han uppvaktar henne och lovar till slut at[...]

Kräver den representativa demokratin att alla grupper i samhället är närvarande i beslutande församlingar? Denna fråga är för närvarande en av de mest debatterade frågorna inom både de politiskt aktiva organisationerna och inom demokratiteorin. Anne Phillips varnar i[...]