Girl bedroom furniture > Sweet Days of Discipline by Fleur Jaeggy, ISBN 0811212351

Sweet Days of Discipline by Fleur Jaeggy, ISBN 0811212351

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Set in postwar Switzerland, Fleur Jaeggy's eerily beautiful novel begins simply and innocently enough: "At fourteen I was a boarder in a school in the Appenzell". But there is nothing truly simple or innocent here. With the off-handed knowingness of a remorseless young Eve, the narrator describes life as a captive of the school and her designs to win the affections of the apparently perfect new girl, Frederique. As she broods over her schemes as well as on the nature of control and madness, the novel gathers a suspended, unsettling energy. Now translated into six languages, I beati anni del castigo in its Italian original won the 1990 Premio Bagutta and the 1990 Premio Speciale Rapallo. In Tim Parks' consummate translation (with its "spare, haunting quality of a prose poem"), Sweet Days of Discipline was selected as one of the London Times Literary Supplement's Notable Books of 1992: "In a period when novels are generally over-blown and scarcely portable, it is good to be able to recommend (one that is) miraculously short and beautifully written".

Maine Antique Digest: The Americana Chronicles: 30 Years of Stories, Sales, Personalities, and Scandals

"Maine Antique Digest" covers the years 1973 through 2003, with more than 45 stories that introduce unforgettable people, revisit landmark sales of silver, art, pottery, paintings, and furniture, and recount famous frauds, forgeries, and crimes of passion. 200+ photos. Maine Antique Digest: The Americana Chronicles: 30 Years of Stories, Sales, Personalities, and Scandals
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Abuela by Arthur Dorros, ISBN 0140562265

While riding on a bus with her grandmother, a little girl imagines that they are carried up into the sky and fly over the sights of New York City. Abuela by Arthur Dorros, ISBN 0140562265
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Betsey Brown by Ntozake Shange, ISBN 0312134347

This is a unique and vividly told novel about a girl named Betsey Brown, an African American seventh-grader growing up in St. Louis, Missouri. While rendering a complete portrait of this girl, author Ntozake Shange also profiles her friends, her family, her home, her school, and her world. This world, though a work of fiction, is based closely and carefully on actual history, specifically on the nationwide school desegregation events of the Civil Rights movement in America's recent past. As such, Betsey Brown is a historical novel that will speak to and broaden the perspectives of readers both familiar with and unaware of America's domestic affairs of 1950s and 1960s.
Shange has set her story in the autumn of 1959, the year St. Louis started to desegregate its schools. In May of 1954, in its ruling on Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka--a verdict now seen by many as the origin of the Civil Rights movement--the United States Supreme Court outlawed school segregation. The novel is... Betsey Brown by Ntozake Shange, ISBN 0312134347
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Abuela by Arthur Dorros, ISBN 0140562265