“absence triology”

Absence sees the British medical world through the eyes of Nick Page, a young doctor in free fall into despair due to his failure to seduce the object of his desire. Beneath the comic surface of the novel is a serious investigation into human nature and love?its desires, its prejudices, its unhappin... More

The time is an unspecified modernity, the place possibly Europe. "Absence "follows four nameless people -- the old man, the woman, the soldier, and the gambler -- as they journey to a desolate wasteland beyond the limits of an unnamed city.... More

Mrinal Sen's films Ekdin Pratidin, Kharij and Ekdin Achanak, considered amongst his most highly thought-of works, are sensitive portrayals of the middle-class psyche. This volume contains shot-by-shot reconstructions-post production filmscripts-of all three films, as well as a comprehensive introduc... More

PART ONE An attempt to return home is transformed into an epic quest to save a planet. Four kids board a subway that takes them to another planet. What starts as a journey to the Nightmare Mountains and to a pathway back home becomes a quest to save a planet from destruction. Along the way, the kids... More

This collection of 12 stories by some of today's most celebrated authors of teen fiction explores the many facets of loss, the common thread they share, and of the hope born through change. Includes stories by Avi, James Howe, Walter Dean Myers, Jacqueline Woodson, and others.""In adolescence we fee... More

"Part mystery, part comedy of manners. . . . The Flaubert of "Madame Bovary" and the Henry James of "The Turn of the Screw" meet in the unresolved enigma of "In Her Absence,"" --"Le Point" During working hours, Mario is a dutiful bureaucrat, scrupulously earning his paycheck as an employee of the pr... More

Mander goes beyond television (which he proclaimed as being dangerous to personal health and sanity in Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television) to critique our technological society as a whole, challenge its utopian promises, and track its devastating impact on native cultures worldwide. "W... More