My Favourite Wife is a book about the men and women of our time -- their struggles, their joys and their secret longings. Above all it is a book about where sex, romance and obsession ends, and where true love begins. My Favourite Wife is a book about the men and women of our time -- their struggles, their joys and their secret longings. Above all it is a book about where sex, romance and obsession ends, and where true love begins. Hot shot young lawyer Bill Holden and his wife Becca move with their four year old daughter to the booming, gold-rush city of Shanghai, a place of enormous wealth and crushing poverty, where fortunes are made and foreign marriages come apart in spectacular fashion. Bill's law firm houses the Holden family in Paradise Mansions -- a luxury apartment block where newly rich Chinese men install their second wives: fabulous young beauties like JinJin Li, ex-school teacher, crossword addict and the Holdens' neighbour. After Becca witnesses a tragedy that awakens her to the reality of life beyond the glitzy surface of the city, she returns temporarily to London with Holly -- and Bill and JinJin are thrown together. Bill wants to be a better man than the millionaire who keeps JinJin Li as a second wife on the side. A better man than anyone who cheats. Becca is his best friend.And, in the end, adrift without his young family, can he give JinJin anything better than she had before? My Favourite Wife is a book about where sex, romance and obsession ends, and where true love begins.

"Every writer, unpublished to bestselling, faces rejection from literary agents, editors, publishers, critics, even loved ones. In this collection of lively conversations, twenty-three successful authors talk about these experiences. Rich with personal anecdotes and stories of the publishing world, these interviews journey through the thorny thickets of rejection, criticism, and frustration and into the heart of the creative process itself. From those who know best, here are insight, inspiration, and strategies that work."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

A systematic evaluation of how top photographers approach their field for optimal results draws on in-depth interviews with successful photographers from a variety of disciplines, in a study that considers such topics as the sources of photographer inspiration, the development of a signature style, and the role of postproduction. Original.

Mariée depuis six ans à Jean, Marie considère son existence comme heureuse. Et pourtant... le bonheur n'est-il qu'une douce routine baignée d'ennui et de vide ? Marie prend soin de Jean comme si elle était sa mère, Jean lui parle comme à une enfant. Est-elle encore femme ? Oui, elle l'est tout à coup, pour un autre qui enflamme son désir, un tout jeune homme qui lui a demandé "Vous aimez l'aventure ?" et qui lui laisse son numéro de téléphone. Marie, cette eau qui dort, rêve de tempêtes. Marie la patiente, la silencieuse, ouvre les yeux et se rend disponible au monde. Histoire d'un voyage introspectif et d'un retour à la lumière, A la recherche de Marie évoque les tourments de l'âme et du cœur avec une sensualité fraîche pleine de pudeur. Dans une langue épurée, légère et précise, Madeleine Bourdouxhe célèbre l'écoute intime et l'émancipation des prisons bâties par la tradition, la famille, l'habitude - et par soi-même.

Thriving on its long-term collective memory of possessing futurity, the mega city of Shanghai on the Eastern seaboard of China is once more jockeying for the position as Asia's foremost modern place. An essential part of the regeneration of contemporary Shanghai has been the return, not only of foreign direct investment, but of 'Westerners' to the city since the 1990s. Contributing to current debates about the globality and mediatization of memories, Lagerkvist critically interrogates Shanghai's spectacular resurrection into an emergent world center from the vantage point of how Western elites (tourists, expatriates and travel bloggers) partake in the production of New Shanghai. Through performances of memory, Westerners consume the regenerative nostalgia of the city. This book shows that these mediatized memory practices become essential for the city and tie in with how the municipal government (in tandem with international scriptings of the city in for example films and travel journalism) is currently theming Shanghai by situating memories of futures past and visions for the future in a coherent narrative and sensory-emotive realm of experience.

Describes the experiences of women attending Oxford shortly before and after World War I and examines these experiences in the works of major novelists.

This book examines the lives and careers of four American women--Sophonisba Breckinridge, Edith Abbott, Katharine Bement Davis, and Frances Kellor--who played decisive roles in early twentieth-century reform crusades. Breckinridge and Abbott used their educations in political science and political economy to expose the tragic conditions endured by the urban poor. Davis became the first superintendent of the New York State Reformatory at Bedford Hills and was a leading figure in prison reform. Kellor's sociological training gained her admittance to the smoke-filled rooms of national party politics and eventually to a high-ranking position in the Progressive Party. In Endless Crusade, Fitzpatrick follows these four women from their collective experience as University of Chicago graduate students at the turn of the century to their extraordinary careers as early-twentieth-century social activists, exploring the impact of their academic training and their experiences as professional women on issues ranging from prison reform to Progressive Party politics. Fitzpatrick examines how each woman struggled, in various settings, to promote effective social reform. Their shared commitment to social knowledge and social change, she shows, helped to shape the character of early-twentieth-century reform.

In Dawn Powell: A Biography, Tim Page explores the fascinating ironies and sad complexities of Powell's life and work. Gore Vidal once referred to her as our best comic novelist, deserving to be as widely read as Hemingway and Fitzgerald. This biography is a celebration of her triumphant rise from the ashes of near oblivion to her establishment among the giants of twentieth-century American literature. Dawn Powell lived in New York City for forty-seven years but always maintained the perspective of a "permanent visitor." She distilled this into her many poems, stories, articles, plays, and her dizzying and inventive novels.