After a sudden, devastating loss, Mara flees her family and ends up adrift in a wealthy coastal town. Mired in her grief, Mara's first few days are spent alone, surviving on what scraps of food she can find, and swimming at night in the ocean. When her money runs out and the tourist season comes to a close, Mara finds a job in a local wine store and meets its owner, Simon, a man whose loneliness she immediately recognises as a mirror to her own. As Mara dances around her growing attraction...

"Brilliant, elegant, and unsparing." —Emma Cline“[S]tarkly beautiful.” — WBUR“Enchanting.” — Publishers Weekly (starred review)An intoxicating, compact debut novel by the winner of Columbia’s Henfield Prize, Tides is an astoundingly powerful portrait of a deeply unpredictable woman who walks out of her life and washes up in a seaside town.After a sudden, devastating loss, M...

Après avoir vécu un épisode douloureux, Mara, désemparée, fuit en direction de la mer, laissant toute sa vie derrière elle. Elle arrive dans une station balnéaire en fin de saison. La ville se vide et Mara traîne sa solitude et son chagrin dans les rues désertes et sur les plages oubliées. Elle survit. Lorsque l'argent vient à manquer, elle trouve un job dans une des rares boutiques restées ouvertes. Les mois passent, le quotidien se pose et, tandis qu'elle effleure de nouveau une certaine...

Theatre has come back to text, but with perspectives shifted by the experimental practices of the twentieth century across performance forms. Contemporary playwriting brings its scenographic engagement to the foreground of the text, reflecting the spatial turn in theory and practice. In production, this spatiality has renewed and enlivened the status and impact of text-based theatre. Theatre studies needs to better describe the artfulness of contemporary text-based theatre, bringing to it ...

Henfield Prize–winner and brilliant newcomer Sara Freeman debuts with an intoxicating, compact novel about a woman who walks out of her life and washes up in a seaside town.After a sudden, devastating loss, Mara flees her family and ends up adrift in a wealthy seaside town. Mired in her grief, Mara detaches from the outside world and spends her days of self-imposed exile scrounging for food and swimming inthe ocean at night. As her money runs out and the tourist season comes...

After a sudden, devastating loss, Mara flees her family and ends up adrift in a wealthy coastal town. Mired in her grief, Mara's first few days are spent alone, surviving on what scraps of food she can find, and swimming at night in the ocean. When her money runs out and the tourist season comes to a close, Mara finds a job in a local wine store and meets its owner, Simon, a man whose loneliness she immediately recognises as a mirror to her own. As Mara dances around her growing attraction...

This book will inspire you to understand and achieve your purpose in your career goals and life. It features a personal journal and planner. You will learn:- Use a simple proven system to succeed in your career goals- Regain your self-esteem and faith to achieve your dreams- Take advantage of valuable tools to help you discover your talents

Essays in part one of Theatre History Studies, Vol. 35 address theatrical production in very specific historical contexts, among them German theatre “from the rubble of Berlin” and German nationalist mass spectacles. Essays in part two are devoted to the theme of “Rethinking the Maternal” in contemporary and historical theatre. Also included is the Robert A. Schanke Award-winning essay “Whispers from a Silent Past: Inspiration and Memory in Natasha Tretheway’s Native Guard

Volume 33 of Theatre History Studies explores war. War is a paradox—horrifying and compelling, galvanizing and devastating, a phenomenon that separates and decimates while at the same time creating and strengthening national identity and community bonds. War is the stuff of great drama.War and theatre is a subject of increasing popularity among scholars of theatre. The essays in this special edition of Theatre History Studies brings together a unique collection of...

A Nation Without is a bold and timely novel that reimagines a familiar redemption story on moral reckoning for modern America. When a man immersed in prejudice is confronted with undeniable truths about the world around him, he discovers that everything he takes for granted-his daily comforts, his freedoms, the very fabric of his life-rests on centuries of minority and immigrant labor, ingenuity, and resilience he's never acknowledged.Through a journey tha...

Theatre has long been an art form of subterfuge and concealment. Working in the Wings: New Perspectives on Theatre History and Labor, edited by Elizabeth A. Osborne and Christine Woodworth, brings attention to what goes on behind the scenes, challenging, and revising our understanding of work, theatre, and history.Essays consider a range of historic moments and geographic locations—from African Americans’ performance of the cakewalk in Florida’s resort hotels during the Gi...

Après la mort de sa grand-mère, Hadley Freeman trouve dans ses affaires une boîte à chaussures contenant les photos de mystérieux inconnus, un télégramme de la Croix-Rouge ou encore un dessin signé de la main de Picasso.C’est pour l’autrice le début d’une enquête passionnante sur les traces de cette femme et de ses trois frères, Juifs ashkénazes qui ont fui les pogroms en Pologne dans les années vingt afin de trouver refuge à Paris. Tandis que certains membres de la famille connaît...