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UNINA9910785800903321 |
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Autore |
Juchau Mireille |
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Titolo |
Burning in [[electronic resource] /] / Mireille Juchau |
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Artarmon, NSW, : Giramondo, 2007 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (320 p.) |
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Australian fiction |
Australian literature |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Contents; Prologue; PART ONE; Some Slight Magic; Everything Transfigured; Walking Backwards; Visitations; PART TWO; Lost; The Open Secret; Sanctuary; PART THREE; Oblivion; Burning In; Acknowledgements |
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This is a novel about mothers and daughters, about the way the hidden past plays itself out in the present, and the conflicts between professional commitment and the responsibilities of family life. The story is told by a young woman, Martine, who translates the emotional distance she senses in her mother, Lotte, a holocaust survivor, into a passion for photography. Martine leaves Sydney to live in New York, in order to further her career, and has a child of her own. One day, her daughter Ruby goes missing in Central Park, while in the care of a nanny. The disappearance of her daughter throws |
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UNINA9910781850203321 |
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Titolo |
City dreams, country schemes : community and identity in the American West / / edited by Kathleen A. Brosnan and Amy L. Scott |
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Reno, Nevada ; ; Las Vegas, [Nevada] : , : University of Nevada Press, , 2011 |
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©2011 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (273 p.) |
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City and town life - West (U.S.) |
Community life - West (U.S.) |
City planning - West (U.S.) |
Urbanization - West (U.S.) |
Group identity - West (U.S.) |
Rural development - West (U.S.) |
West (U.S.) Social life and customs |
West (U.S.) Social conditions |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Introduction / Amy L. Scott and Kathleen A. Brosnan -- The wishful West / John M. Findlay -- pt. 1. The metropolitan retreat to the eco-urban -- Crafting the good life in Irvine, California / Stephanie Kolberg -- Open-space politics in Boulder, Colorado / Amy L. Scott -- Wilderburbs and Rocky Mountain development / Lincoln Bramwell -- Middle-class migration and rural gentrification in western Montana / Rina Ghose -- pt. 2. Tourism, memory, and Western urban identities -- Urbanity and pastoralism in Napa tourism / Kathleen A. Brosnan -- Family travel, national parks, and the Cold War West / Susan S. Rugh -- Public art, memory, and mobility in 1920s New Mexico / Jeffrey C. Sanders -- Reclaiming Cannery Row's industrial history / Connie Y. Chiang -- Seattle's Pike Place Market / Judy Mattivi Morley -- pt. 3. From cultural and geographic margins to urban centers -- The making of San Francisco's queer urban scene / Nan Alamilla Boyd -- San |
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Francisco, Red power, and the emergence of an "Indian city" / Kent Blansett -- Gay male rural-urban migration in the American West / Peter Boag. |
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