1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910480185503321

Autore

Jackson Anna <1967->

Titolo

The gas leak / / Anna Jackson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Auckland, New Zealand : , : Auckland University Press, , 2006

©2006

ISBN

1-77558-646-4

1-77558-184-5

1-86940-612-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (77 p.)

Disciplina

821

821/.914

Soggetti

Families

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; The gas-fitter's marriage; Silence, it means something; So long as they confine themselves to this chore; Sides of the family; A vacuum must have slipped into her then; A master key is easy to procure; Looking to the fittings; Extenuating circumstances; Indeed he can quite freely step inside; Looking at him as if he were a ghost; This sterile promontory; Nothing suggests adulterous proceedings; What? Gas in the tank, I suspect; A family Christmas; Predicates of appreciation; The gas-fitter's daughter

The gas-fitter's daughter wakes upThe gas-fitter's daughter on stage; The gas-fitter's daughter at school; The gas-fitter's daughter leaves the cinema; The gas-fitter's daughter's ghost; The gas-fitter's daughter doesn't ask; The maths lesson solves nothing; While life is just preparing things off-scene; The gas-fitter's daughter at least has browner hair; The gas-fitter's daughter goes out; The gas-fitter's daughter explains the urgency:; The gas-fitter's daughter uses fake ID; The gas-fitter's daughter's curfew; The gas-fitter's daughter shows Shane; Not talking

The gas-fitter's daughter's recurring solutionThe gas-fitter's wife;



Indeed I can quite freely step inside; A master key is easy to procure; The ceiling becomes a marble slab; Nothing suggests adulterous proceedings; 'You know the interest that I take in you.'; As I stand there biting my nails; Life seems to be enclosed in steel and nickel; Looking at me as if I were a ghost; It seems that this time I have been mistaken; I spot the trap here, look again to the fittings; An explanatory wave of the hand; At last the minor leak is traced and sealed; I need not make up stories any more

'Indeed I can quite freely step inside.' (God)Notes; Copyright

Sommario/riassunto

A thoughtful, disturbing and darkly funny new collection by Anna Jackson, The Gas Leak offers a glimpse of the gaps and cracks that can exist between family members in everyday life.  In the first section, a gas-fitter slips in and out of his own and other people's lives with his ?master key', concerned by his strained marriage and his adulterous feelings for his wife's sister. In the second, the ?gothic comedy' and ?epic tragedy' of his daughter's teenage life is deftly and humorously handled, as she deals with friends, boyfriends, her alienated parents. The third section follows the gas

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910458732903321

Autore

Owusu-Bempah Kwame

Titolo

Children and separation : socio-genealogical connectedness perspective / / Kwame Owusu-Bempah

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Routledge, , 2014

ISBN

0-415-64652-9

0-203-69502-X

1-317-60319-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (204 p.)

Disciplina

155.4/18

Soggetti

Parental deprivation

Loss (Psychology) in children

Attachment behavior in children

Personality development

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



Note generali

First published in 2007 by Routledge.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1 Theories of childhood separation: an overview; 2 Socio-genealogical connectedness: in theoretical context; 3 Socio-genealogical knowledge: a missing dimension in Bowlby's 'Forty-Four Juvenile Thieves' study?; 4 Socio-genealogical connectedness and the well-being of children of divorce; 5 Further research evidence: the gender question; 6 Socio-genealogical knowledge and self-identity; 7 Divorce and parental alienation syndrome: socio-genealogical implications

8 Research, policy and practice implicationsBibliography; Author index; Subject index

Sommario/riassunto

Childhood separation and loss have become virtually a way of life for a large number of children throughout the world. Children separated from their genetic parent(s) and consequently their genealogical, social and cultural roots due to processes such as adoption, parental divorce/separation, donor insemination, single parenthood by choice and child trafficking can face social, emotional and psychological difficulties.This book explores the premise that a proper understanding of the complex inner world of modern day separated children and their psycho-social development requires a shift in foc