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April 2021Nora Joyce und die Liebe zu den Büchern
Roman
by Nuala O’Connor, Eike Schönfeld
Sie war ihm »Heilige und Hure«: Nora Barnacle ist zwanzig und Zimmermädchen in einem Dubliner Hotel, als sie den zwei Jahre älteren James Joyce kennenlernt. Aus der zunächst körperlichen Beziehung entwickelt sich eine tiefe Liebe. Nora ist bereit, alles für Joyce aufzugeben – verlässt mit ihm sogar ihre Heimat Irland, trotz seiner Weigerung, sie zu heiraten. Schwierige Jahre in Triest, Pula und Zürich folgen, geprägt von großer Armut, von Joyce‘ Trunksucht und von seinem labilen Gesundheitszustand, vor allem aber von seiner Besessenheit: Für ihn zählt nur sein literarisches Werk. Es ist Nora, die die Familie über Wasser hält und als Rückhalt und Muse mit Joyce dem literarischen Durchbruch entgegenfiebert. Die mehrfach ausgezeichnete irische Autorin Nuala O'Connor verleiht in dieser fulminant erzählten Romanbiographie Nora erstmals eine Stimme.
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April 2021Nora Joyce und die Liebe zu den Büchern
Roman
by Eike Schönfeld, Nuala O’Connor
Sie war ihm »Heilige und Hure«: Nora Barnacle ist zwanzig und Zimmermädchen in einem Dubliner Hotel, als sie den zwei Jahre älteren James Joyce kennenlernt. Aus der zunächst körperlichen Beziehung entwickelt sich eine tiefe Liebe. Nora ist bereit, alles für Joyce aufzugeben – verlässt mit ihm sogar ihre Heimat Irland, trotz seiner Weigerung, sie zu heiraten. Schwierige Jahre in Triest, Pula und Zürich folgen, geprägt von großer Armut, von Joyce‘ Trunksucht und von seinem labilen Gesundheitszustand, vor allem aber von seiner Besessenheit: Für ihn zählt nur sein literarisches Werk. Es ist Nora, die die Familie über Wasser hält und als Rückhalt und Muse mit Joyce dem literarischen Durchbruch entgegenfiebert. Die mehrfach ausgezeichnete irische Autorin Nuala O'Connor verleiht in dieser fulminant erzählten Romanbiographie Nora erstmals eine Stimme.
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The ArtsFebruary 2022"I am Jugoslovenka!"
Feminist performance politics during and after Yugoslav Socialism
by Jasmina Tumbas, Amelia Jones, Marsha Meskimmon
"I am Jugoslovenka" argues that queer-feminist artistic and political resistance were paradoxically enabled by socialist Yugoslavia's unique history of patriarchy and women's emancipation. Spanning performance and conceptual art, video works, film and pop music, lesbian activism and press photos of female snipers in the Yugoslav wars, the book analyses feminist resistance in a range of performative actions that manifest the radical embodiment of Yugoslavia's anti-fascist, transnational and feminist legacies. It covers celebrated and lesser-known artists from the 1970s to today, including Marina Abramovic, Sanja Ivekovic, Vlasta Delimar, Tanja Ostojic, Selma Selman and Helena Janecic, along with music legends Lepa Brena and Esma Redzepova. "I am Jugoslovenka" tells a unique story of women's resistance through the intersection of feminism, socialism and nationalism in East European visual culture.
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The Quiet Whispers Never Stop
by Olivia Fitzsimons
A story of love, obsession and escape, an uncompromising, lyrical tour-de-force that marks the arrival of an extraordinary new voice in Irish fiction. In Northern Ireland in 1982, Nuala Malin wants nothing more than to escape – from her brooding husband Patsy, from the farm, from the inevitability of hate and stagnation. She begins an intense, passionate sexual relationship with a 17-year-old, Naoise. Then she disappears from all their lives. Twelve years later, Nuala's daughter Sam can't wait to make her own escape, but she needs to finish school first, and she can't get past the loss of her mother. When Sam meets a jagged, magnetic older man, she is drawn to him, he to her. His name is Naoise.
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Individual actors & performersOn the Beat
My Story
by Graham Cole
Actor Graham Cole pounded the beat in ITV1 police drama The Bill for more than two decades and won plaudits for his carefully crafted portrayal of dependable PC Tony Stamp, the television cop most like the real thing. While on screen Tony Stamp became a Sun Hill stalwart and the sort of old-fashioned policeman you would want on your side, off-screen Graham worked tirelessly with the real police to make sure he's kept up to date with frontline officers. Graham worked in the NHS as a porter before starting his acting career doing summer seasons and working in holiday camps. His television break came as an extra playing monsters in Doctor Who and appearing in episodes of shows such as Only Fools and Horses and Secret Army. Later his skill at stage fighting landed him work as an extra in The Bill and it wasn't long before he was given a full-time job as area car driver and all round good guy Tony Stamp. Now, in a witty and candid memoir, he reveals just what it was like to star in one of television's most enduring series, the key events he's seen during his time on the show and how he really felt about leaving after 25 years. On The Beat is the entertaining autobiography of a likeable star who reveals the inside story behind the scenes of Britain's favourite police drama and the ups and downs of an actor's life.
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Bankruptcy & insolvencySlaves to the Money Lenders.
by James Kilcullen
When the SW bank in Hibernia becomes insolvent its CEO S.W.A. Mullarkey persuades his old friend, Moxy O'Shea, Taoiseach, to guarantee its solvency. Mullarkey is delighted, having passed the problem to the taxpayers; Frank Carney, leader of the opposition, is furious and demands a general election. The EU demand an austerity budget. Frank wins the election and becomes Taoiseach, but how can he save his country?
