From the Corner of His Eye

From the Corner of His Eye

Author: Dean Koontz

Publisher: Bantam

Published: 2012-05-29

Total Pages: 754

ISBN-13: 0553593250

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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A thrilling and emotionally powerful novel from the author of the Jane Hawk series “A literary miracle . . . a tapestry of intrigue and suspense.”—The Boston Globe His birth was marked by wonder and tragedy. He sees beauty and terror beyond our deepest dreams. His story will change the way you see the world. Bartholomew Lampion is born on a day of tragedy and terror that will mark his family forever. All agree that his unusual eyes are the most beautiful they have ever seen. On this same day, a thousand miles away, a ruthless man learns that he has a mortal enemy named Bartholomew. He embarks on a relentless search to find this enemy, a search that will consume his life. And a girl is born from a brutal rape, her destiny mysteriously linked to Barty and the man who stalks him. At the age of three, Barty Lampion is blinded when surgeons remove his eyes to save him from a fast-spreading cancer. As he copes with his blindness and proves to be a prodigy, his mother counsels him that all things happen for a reason and that every person’s life has an effect on every other person’s, in often unknowable ways. At thirteen, Bartholomew regains his sight. How he regains it, why he regains it, and what happens as his amazing life unfolds and entwines with others results in a breathtaking journey of courage, heart-stopping suspense, and high adventure.


Dear Husband, I was Wrong

Dear Husband, I was Wrong

Author: Tian Qin

Publisher: Funstory

Published: 2020-01-12

Total Pages: 1347

ISBN-13: 1647966043

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It was supposed to be a happy ending to the show, but Yang Zhiqin didn't expect there would be people arguing with her over a taxi in the middle of the night. Fighting for a car with a woman?! Are you a man or not? He was indeed just a top quality man with an empty appearance! Alright, she would be wronged if she could sit together with that pair of top-grade beasts.Is there a mistake? This man was actually beautiful in front of her and in her arms. Women acting out scenes that weren't suitable for children? The world was going downhill! She was just reminding him, but he actually got molested by that charming, evil man. Not only did he take away her first kiss, he even ruthlessly insulted her!In this way, she loudly cursed him for dying in a car accident within a month! He would never be able to reincarnate!What she didn't expect was that he would ignore the fact that her stepmother would force him to marry, and instead marry that perverted man who had molested her.The most surprising thing was that the pervert on the wedding day actually accepted her curse and was on the verge of death due to the accident. Oh my god! If he had known earlier that he was such a deity, he would have cursed that he would never be able to marry his wife.Thus, she chose to escape! However, no matter how much she tried to escape, she couldn't escape from his grasp! Oh god! Who could save her?!


The Forms of the Affects

The Forms of the Affects

Author: Eugenie Brinkema

Publisher: Duke University Press

Published: 2014-05-12

Total Pages: 382

ISBN-13: 0822376776

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What is the relationship between a cinematic grid of color and that most visceral of negative affects, disgust? How might anxiety be a matter of an interrupted horizontal line, or grief a figure of blazing light? Offering a bold corrective to the emphasis on embodiment and experience in recent affect theory, Eugenie Brinkema develops a novel mode of criticism that locates the forms of particular affects within the specific details of cinematic and textual construction. Through close readings of works by Roland Barthes, Hollis Frampton, Sigmund Freud, Peter Greenaway, Michael Haneke, Alfred Hitchcock, Søren Kierkegaard, and David Lynch, Brinkema shows that deep attention to form, structure, and aesthetics enables a fundamental rethinking of the study of sensation. In the process, she delves into concepts as diverse as putrescence in French gastronomy, the role of the tear in philosophies of emotion, Nietzschean joy as a wild aesthetic of repetition, and the psychoanalytic theory of embarrassment. Above all, this provocative work is a call to harness the vitality of the affective turn for a renewed exploration of the possibilities of cinematic form.


Domestic Affairs

Domestic Affairs

Author: Bridget Siegel

Publisher: Weinstein Books

Published: 2013-05-14

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 1602862001

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A contemporary novel about politics—Primary Colors meets The Devil Wears Prada--and of campaign corruption, intrigue, adultery, and power.