![]() ![]() ![]() Stephen King wrote: “This terrible year has claimed a literary giant and a humanitarian spirit.” Robert Harris said the news had left him “very distressed … one of the great postwar British novelists, and an unforgettable, unique character.” Adrian McKinty described Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy as “quite simply the greatest spy novel ever written”, while historian Simon Sebag Montefiore called him “the titan of English literature up there with the greats … in person, captivating and so kind and generous to me and many others.”īorn as David Cornwell in 1931, Le Carré began working for the secret services while studying German in Switzerland at the end of the 1940s. He defined the cold war era and fearlessly spoke truth to power in the decades that followed … I have lost a mentor, an inspiration and most importantly, a friend. His longtime agent Jonny Geller described him as “an undisputed giant of English literature. ![]()
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Mae and Sarah then move to a shack on the docks, where Mae takes up prostitution to make ends meet. After this man leaves her heartbroken again, a half-drunk Cleo tells a frightened Sarah "God's truth:" that no man ever cares for a woman and all they want is sex. After getting drunk she agrees to sleep with him while Sarah waits in the hall. Cleo takes Sarah with her to a popular brothel where Cleo is well-known and has a male companion. ![]() Later that year, Mae's maid Cleo begrudgingly takes Sarah with her on a trip to the seashore so that Mae can have a private visit with Alex. Sarah begins to think that she is to blame, but she hopes Alex never comes back. Mae was urged to abort the child, but refused to do so, and her decision separated the two and left Mae depressed. Six-year-old Sarah learns that she is the product of Stafford's adulterous affair with her mother, Mae. Sarah, a beautiful young girl, meets her father, Alex Stafford, for the first time. The story starts off in New England, 1835. ( April 2021) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Please help improve it by removing unnecessary details and making it more concise. ![]() This article's plot summary may be too long or excessively detailed. ![]() ![]() ![]() sort by Note: these are all the books on Goodreads for this author. Lefkowitz Average rating 3.96 1,163 ratings 126 reviews shelved 6,172 times Showing 20 distinct works. Revisiting the original chapters as well to incorporate two decades of more recent scholarship, Lefkowitz again shows that what Greek men both feared and valued in women was not their sexuality but their intelligence. Lefkowitz (Author of The Greek Plays) Books by Mary R. ![]() This updated and expanded edition includes six new chapters on such topics as heroic women in Greek epic, seduction and rape in Greek myth, and the parts played by women in ancient rites and festivals. Concentrating on those aspects of women’s experience most often misunderstood-life apart from men, marriage, influence in politics, self-sacrifice and martyrdom, and misogyny-she presented a far less negative account of the role of Greek women, both ordinary and extraordinary, as manifested in the central works of Greek literature. Where some scholars saw the Amazons as the last remnant of a forgotten matriarchy, Clytemnestra as a frustrated individualist, and Antigone as an oppressed revolutionary, Lefkowitz argued that such views were justified neither by the myths themselves nor by the relevant documentary evidence. 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