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A Glimpse of Stocking: A Novel

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This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use. There, one successfully wooed by comparing a girl to the Coliseum, the Louvre Museum, a Bendel’s bonnet, and a Shakespeare sonnet—two couplets that encompass architecture, painting, fashion and poetry in Rome, Paris, Manhattan and London! It really dug deep into the motivations and psychology behind the two central figures at the heart of the novel: Annie and Christine. In his offhand manner, Porter was revealing that somewhere out there was a place where “old hymns” rhymed with “bare limbs” and where all young men and women were knowing, wry, blasé and bold. So over the years, even though my father’s practical suburban self has inevitably encouraged me to pursue conventional aspirations, he had already tipped his hand: secretly, I knew that a part of him was hoping I just pursued my dreams.

After an incident, Annie spends time recovering from it; following that, Damon hires Annie to act in his last movie, The Fertile Crescent.It's been conniptions and collywobbles all around since Mr Underwood misplaced some important 'artistic' documents. La estructura narrativa de la obra, si bien armónicamente compuesta, carece de ese grado de complejidad intrincada que hubiera permitido a los personajes y a la trama alcanzar una resonancia más profunda con el lector perspicaz.

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Like a Depression era American watching a Fred Astaire film, I was prepared to take the whole folly at face value. Although parts of the book were a bit disturbing, it is a very good story and the characters are well-written.

Christmas Album' gathering eight songs from '93 to 2006 that mostly appeared on fan club CDs, long deleted, and [adding] seven brand new songs, in numbered digipak.For a young, uninformed listener, Porter’s lyrics weren’t emblematic of an era, or a specific locale; they were emblematic of a sensibility. I raised the question with Better World Books and although they could not supply a hardcover version they were extremely generous in making up for the descepency. It transpires that the band are unafraid to revel in the cheesier side of Christmas: several songs are cover versions of positively painful seasonal tracks by the likes of Cliff Richard, Chris Rea and Claudine Longet. I liked the stars of the narrative, like Annie and Damon, but I don't understand the need for other POVs from insignificant players in the fictional work.

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