Sentences with phrase «of her new novel power»

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What makes this novel a powerful description of the dawning new age is the fact that Jim can ward off the power of society to define him, and he does so not by way of a heroic loyalty to conscience (Rousseau, Emerson) or will to power (Nietzsche), but with the inchoate sense of the socially constructed contingency of society's imprisoning walls of honor and shame.

Her latest novel, The Handmaid's Tale (Houghton Mifflin, 1986), is commanding attention as a considerably more ambitious book, part of a new phase of her work that includes the poems in True Stories and the novel Bodily Harm (both published in 1981) Exposing male / female power games within an alarmingly widened field of vision, Atwood bears prophetic witness to the largest, most subtle and most violent manifestations of power in our time.

These novels by McDermott and Hijuelos are meditations on sainthood in the same vein as Graham Greene's The Power and the Glory, but instead of a protagonist as priest hunted by totalitarian thugs, they show us New Yorkers as unlikely saints: an advertising executive and a worker for Con Edison.

Observing devices, either within the region of the dissipative structure or outside of it, may detect regular oscillations caused by variations of components of the structure, or, if their temporal or spatial resolving power is not high enough for that, they may detect only a new, averaged reading, corresponding to a novel state of affairs brought about by the closure of the set of relationships which defines the dissipative structure.

Beyond this, the unique power of GM lies in its ability to incorporate novel genes with useful traits for rice, including genes from plants and organisms unrelated to rice, into new rice varieties that can not be achieved using other breeding methods.

Researchers at The City College of New York - based CUNY Energy Institute announce the development of a novel low cost, rechargeable, high energy density battery that makes the widespread use of solar and wind power possible in the future.

At Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, Viktor Petrenko has developed a novel aircraft de-icing heater that rids surfaces of ice faster while using just 1 per cent of the power consumed by existing systems.

Based on Veronica Roth's # 1 New York Times best - selling novel Insurgent, The Divergent Series: Insurgent raises the stakes for Tris (Shailene Woodley) as she searches for answers and allies in this star - powered, action - packed second installment of the Divergent series.

There's really not much to the plot other than for the protagonists to be chased around by the monster horde, while Stine seeks to write an all - new novel in the manner he wrote his old one (in manuscript form on a Smith - Corona typewriter that may have magic powers) with all of the characters he ever created on the hope that he can capture lightning in a bottle (or, in this case, a book) again.

When one of the novel's moguls — the new boyfriend of Doc's ex, Shasta — tries to change his ways and do good, the sinister powers that be drag him back to a career of gaudy mini-mansions and gleaming neon casinos.

The End of the Affair is the new film written and directed by Oscar winner Neil Jordan (In Dreams, The Butcher Boy) based on the novel by Graham Green (The End of the Road, The Power and the Glory).

A pre-adolescent fantasy of an orphan discovering a secret lineage and magical powers, J.K. Rowling's crafty novel creates a distinct fantasy world with a well - defined set of guidelines while tackling many of the childhood fears (real, imagined, and metaphorical) of making new friends, confronting bullies, and discovering his legacy through the prejudices of others.

While the famous «suicide doors», the avant - garde front grille, the vast expanse of land that it covers, the plush interior setting and the roaring 6.75 - litre V12 power - mill under the hood keeps this ride well - bonded to its ancestral generations, the novel and contemporary headlamp - fog lamp cluster, the gadgetry updates inside the cabin and the new 5 - camera parking assist system brings it at par with its ultra-modern rivals.

Powered by both wit and compassion, and in characteristically vivid prose, Martin Amis's unforgettable new novel excavates the depths and contradictions of the human soul.

Jodi Picoult's new novel is as current as today's sordid headlines: rape, incest, Satanism, hazing, abuse of power and corrupt police departments.

Lauren Wolk, author of the 2017 Newbery Honor Book Wolf Hollow, discusses Beyond the Bright Sea, her new novel about feeling isolated, searching for family, and experiencing the power of love.

Full of knowing nods to the shivery pleasures of suspense and the transporting power of music, this is a wholly winning new novel from a writer lauded as «charming» (Los Angeles Times), «witty» (O, The Oprah Magazine), and «whimsical» (People).

In his captivating new novel, Spoonbenders, Daryl Gregory presents the eccentric Telemachus family — patriarch Maureen, a psychic so powerful she was tapped to aid the CIA, her con man husband Teddy and their three children, each with supposed psychic powers of their own.

Ultimately, Lisa See's new novel addresses universal themes: the bonds of friendship, the power of words, and the age - old desire of women to be heard.

In her most refreshing novel ever, Fay Weldon has written a farcical story about women who - new politics aside - can't quite see past the allure of power and bad men.

Strout explored the complicated relationships of three brothers in her last book, The Burgess Boys, but in her new novel, she once again explores the mother - daughter bond — the relationship that powered her knockout 1999 debut, Amy & Isabelle.

Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein «Elizabeth Wein's astonishing new World War II novel is a reminder of the power historical fiction can have in the hands of an accomplished author.

Winner of the prestigious PEN / Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction, And West Is West is an inspired novel about two young people who learn, the hard way, about the devastating power of new technology to isolate us from the consequences of our actions.

It is impossible to explain fully the beautiful, haunting emotional power of Elizabeth Strout's new novel, My Name Is Lucy Barton.

In spite of such responses, within a year the story was included in Prize Stories of 1949 and 55 Short Stories from The New Yorker, acknowledging the power of Jackson's storytelling craft and introducing very widely a writer whose first novel, The Road Through the Wall (1948), had disappointing sales but cannily and hauntingly depicted the humorous, horrific and sometimes macabre irony of suburban life.

A moving depiction of the transformative power of first love, Hamann's first novel follows Eveline Auerbach from her high school years in East Hampton, New York, in the 1970s through her early adulthood in the moneyed, high - pressured Manhattan of the 1980s.

After an early publishing career marked by slow progress and rejection, Andre Dubus III combines the empathetic power of his novel House of Sand and Fog with the geography of his memoir, Townie, in his new book, Dirty Love...

Kris has all the rights back and all seven books of the The Fey will be coming out over the next year, and now there is a reason for Kris to write the new Fey novel, actually the three novels in the Third Place of Power series that so many fans have been hoping for.

When a security breach at Hoover Dam takes all the U.S. hydroelectric power stations offline the day after a category five hurricane hits the Gulf of Mexico, cutting off electricity to millions and threatening an already compromised fuel supply, Cash figures it's time to chase those white lines home to Tennessee.By the time he hits Chicago, the lights are out across the country, throwing America into a new dark age in which only the strong and the prepared will survive.READER NOTE: This is Part One of the (separately available) three - part novel Long Haul...

Indeed, if previous sales are any indicator, the new Xbox and its high - fidelity Kinect device, with powers disturbingly similar to «telescreens» out of George Orwell's novel 1984, will soon be infiltrating millions of homes across the globe with little to no resistance.

Last year, when the novelist Martin Amis was asked to comment on the recent exodus from London to New York of British writers of the generation that came of age in the 1970s — Salman Rushdie, the late Christopher Hitchens, the poet James Fenton and now Amis himself — he replied, «There's an odd sense in which the novel follows the power.»

I have left two statements blank above because while they are admirable aspirations the literal nature is difficult for me to support because the transport and agriculture sector can't transition to complete renewables as fast as static power industry and so a ban on new fossil fuel projects may preclude novel ways to mitigate gross levels of emmissions in some instances.

I would have guessed Iceland, but it's actually the U.S.: Beyond the sun, a new wave of clean energy As policymakers promote alternative energy sources to reduce the United States» emissions of greenhouse gases and its dependence on foreign oil, entrepreneurs are becoming increasingly inventive about finding novel ways to power the economy.

City University of New York (CUNY)-- A Novel Storage Method for Concentrating Solar Power Plants Allowing Operation at High Temperatures (New York, N.Y.) Up to $ 1.9 million.