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My Dream Room
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Penguin Books Ltd My Dream of You
Nuala O'Faolain's <I>My Dream of You</I> takes the old feminist adage one step further: the personal is invariably political in this exquisite first novel, while its politics feel very personal indeed. The heroine, Kathleen de Burca, is an Irish travel writer living in London. Estranged from her homeland and her family, pushing 50 but still living in the same dingy basement flat that's been her home for two decades, Kathleen's is a life gone even and dry. Love has been her traditional panacea: I believed in passion the way other people believed in God: everything fell in place around it. But the only love that comes her way these days takes the form of grim, anonymous sex--and even that grows harder to find. <p> Oddly enough, it is history--her own, and Ireland's--that brings Kathleen back to life. Shattered by a close friend's death, she leaves her job and London to immerse herself in a 150-year-old divorce case. In 1849, according to court documents, the Anglo-Irish landowner Richard Talbot divorced his wife because she committed adultery with their ragged Irish groom. Or did she? The book Kathleen imagines writing about the affair is a classic tale of passion--yet her research turns up a more complicated story, even as love once again makes inroads into her own life.<p> <I>My Dream of You</I> shares some of the same preoccupations as O'Faolain's bestselling memoir <I>Are You Somebody?</I>: a distant and loveless family life and the plight of Irish women. But it's the historical narrative that gives Kathleen's story both context and shape, juxtaposing the affair inside the demesne walls with the Famine outside. The excerpts from her Talbot Book are searing in their intensity, studded with images of great beauty and unimaginable suffering. Some readers might in fact wish the book's balance tipped even further in the Talbot direction. Then, however, we might miss the author's heartbreakingly nuanced portrait of Kathleen's loneliness. The suffering of Irish peasants during the Famine might be a grander subject than a solitary woman's search for passion. Yet one is as real as the other. In the Irish experience, as in Kathleen de Burca's, the movements of history leave ghostly tracks across individual lives. <I>--Mary Park, Amazon.com</I>
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Hodder Children's Books My Dream Bed
<I>My Dream Bed</I> is an absolute gem of a book, combining gently snoozy text with sleepy illustrations designed to tempt tots to sleep. Children will love taking hold of the baby in the book and slotting her into dream beds ranging from oyster shells beneath the ocean to a special place in the sky. The combination of interactivity, gentle, lyrical text designed to tempt even the most reluctant sleeper into doziness makes this a fantastic novelty book, perfect as a gift for restless children and frustrated parents, and is sure to become a bedtime favourite for all. (Ages 2 and over.) <I>--Susan Harrison</I>
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Random House USA Children's Books My Dream of Martin Luther King
Pages: 32, Paperback, Random House USA Children's Books
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Free Press Chasing Matisse: A Year in France Living My Dream
Pages: 270, Hardcover, Free Press
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Eraserhead Press My Dream Date (Rape) with Kathy Acker
Pages: 176, Paperback, Eraserhead Press
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Harrison House My Dream of Heaven
Pages: 192, Hardcover, Harrison House
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Ryland, Peters & Small Ltd My Dream Journal (Interactive Journals)
Pages: 144, Hardcover, Ryland, Peters & Small Ltd
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Dedalus Press My Life, My Dream: Selected Poems (Poetry Europe S.)
Pages: 88, Paperback, Dedalus Press
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