Other Men's Daughters

Other Men's Daughters
Author: Richard Stern
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2017-08-29
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1681371510

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“Until the day of Merriwether’s departure from the house—a month after his divorce—the Merriwether family looked like an ideally tranquil one” we read on the first page of Other Men’s Daughters. It is the late 1960s, and the streets of Cambridge, Massachusetts, are full of long-haired hippies decked out in colorful garb, but Dr. Robert Merriwether, who teaches at Harvard and has been married for a good long time, hardly takes note. Learned, curious, thoughtful, and a creature of habit, Merriwether is anything but an impulsive man, and yet over the summer, while Sarah, his wife, is away on vacation, he meets a summer student, Cynthia Ryder, and before long the two have fallen into bed and in love. Richard Stern’s novel is an elegant and unnerving examination of just how cold and destructive a thing love, “the origin of so much story and disorder,” can be.

Other Men's Daughters

Other Men's Daughters
Author: Richard G. Stern
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 1985-10-01
Genre:
ISBN: 9780671784331

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The classic novel of a middle-aged man's affair with a worldly younger woman.

Reading Daughters' Fictions 1709-1834

Reading Daughters' Fictions 1709-1834
Author: Caroline Gonda
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 316
Release: 1996-03-14
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780521553957

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It has been argued that the eighteenth century witnessed a decline in paternal authority, and the emergence of more intimate, affectionate relationships between parent and child. In Reading Daughters' Fictions, Caroline Gonda draws on a wide range of novels and non-literary materials from the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, in order to examine changing representations of the father-daughter bond. She shows that heroine-centred novels, aimed at a predominantly female readership, had an important part to play in female socialization and the construction of heterosexuality, in which the father-daughter relationship had a central role. Contemporary diatribes against novels claimed that reading fiction produced rebellious daughters, fallen women, and nervous female wrecks. Gonda's study of novels of family life and courtship suggests that, far from corrupting the female reader, such fictions helped to maintain rather than undermine familial and social order.

Last Orgy of the Divine Hermit

Last Orgy of the Divine Hermit
Author: Mark Leyner
Publisher: Little, Brown
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2021-01-19
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0316560480

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A brilliant and utterly original new novel from Mark Leyner about a father and his intense and devout relationship with his daughter and with alcohol. An anthropologist and his daughter travel to Kermunkachunk, the capitol of Chalazia, to conduct research for an ethnography on the Chalazian Mafia Faction (a splinter group of the Chalazian Children's Theater). The book takes place over the course of a night at the Bar Pulpo, Kermunkachunk's #1 spoken-word karaoke bar, where conversations are actually being read from multiple karaoke screens arrayed around the barroom. Moreover, it's Thursday, "Father/Daughter Nite," when the bar is frequented by actual fathers and daughters as well as couples cosplaying fathers and daughters. ​ Last Orgy of the Divine Hermit is a book about the deep pleasures of reading and drinking, the tumultuous reign of a cabal of mystic mobsters, and, of course, the transcendent love of a father for his daughter.

The Dynamics of Inheritance on the Shakespearean Stage

The Dynamics of Inheritance on the Shakespearean Stage
Author: Michelle M. Dowd
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2015-05-19
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1107099773

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The first full-length study of the ways in which Shakespearean drama influenced and expanded notions of inheritance in early modern England.

Strong Fathers, Strong Daughters

Strong Fathers, Strong Daughters
Author: Meg Meeker
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2006-09-30
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 1596980370

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Inspiration for the motion picture streaming on Pure Flix! Drawing on her thirty years' experience practicing pediatric and adolescent medicine, teen health expert Dr. Meg Meeker explains why an active father figure is maybe the single most important factor in a young woman's development. In this invaluable guide, Meeker shows how a father can be both counsel and protector for his daughter as she grows into a spiritually and mentally strong young woman. From cradling his newborn to walking her down the aisle, a father must relish his paramount responsibility—guiding the course of his daughter’s life. Meeker reveals • how a man can become a "strong father" • how a father's guidance influences every part of a woman's life, from her self-respect to her perspective on drugs, alcohol, and sex • how to lay down ground rules that are respected without creating distance in your relationship with your daughter • why you need to be your daughter's hero • the mistakes most fathers make and their serious consequences • how to help daughters make their own good decisions and avoid disastrous mistakes • how a father's faith will influence his daughter's spiritual development • how to get through to you daughter, even during her toughest don't-talk-to-me years • true stories of daughters who were on the wrong path—and how their fathers helped to bring them back Learn how to grow, strengthen, or rebuild your relationship with your daughter to better both your life and hers in the bestselling Strong Fathers, Strong Daughters: 10 Secrets Every Father Should Know.

The Works of Josephus, Etc

The Works of Josephus, Etc
Author: Flavius Josephus
Publisher:
Total Pages: 914
Release: 1693
Genre:
ISBN:

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