The Blue Room
Title | The Blue Room PDF eBook |
Author | Hanne Ørstavik |
Publisher | Peirene Press |
Total Pages | 121 |
Release | 2014-06-15 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1908670185 |
A novel about a mother-daughter relationship that will send a chill down your spine. Johanne is a young woman in her twenties who lives with her mother. When she falls in love with Ivar, she finally feels ready to leave home. The couple plan a trip to America. But the morning of her departure, Johanne wakes up to find the door locked. Can she overcome her fears? Will she shout for help? Will she climb out of her fourth floor window? Why Peirene chose to publish this book: 'Everyone who has read Fifty Shades of Grey should read this book. Why? The Blue Room holds up a mirror to a part of the female psyche that yearns for submission. The story shows how erotic fantasies are formed by the relationship with our parents. It then delves further to analyse the struggle of women to separate from their mothers - a struggle that is rarely addressed in either literature or society.' Meike Ziervogel 'A masterpiece of unreliable narration.' Nicholas Lezard, Guardian 'A highly unusual, coolly daring psychological thriller that explores emotional pain and indifference with an unsettling detachment.' Eileen Battersby, Irish Times 'A work of chilling, masterly control.' Laura Profumo, Times Literary Supplement 'Nothing is certain, no motive is clear and no person is above suspicion in Ørstavik's perfectly pitched, tightly stitched and captivating brain-teaser.' Pam Norfolk, Lancashire Evening Post 'Ørstavik treats the everyday and existential with intensity.' Max Liu, Independent 'Psychologically astute and deftly translated . . . A brilliant examination of a woman struggling to own her sexuality, to break free from the guilt and forge her own identity.' Lucy Popescu, Tablet GUARDIAN PAPERBACKS OF THE YEAR 2014
The Blue Room
Title | The Blue Room PDF eBook |
Author | Georges Simenon |
Publisher | Penguin |
Total Pages | 133 |
Release | 2016-02-16 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0698409221 |
“A writer as comfortable with reality as with fiction, with passion as with reason.” —John Le Carré Master novelist Georges Simenon’s critically acclaimed tale of the destructive power of lust and guilt “He felt no resentment towards Andree for biting his lip. In the context of their lovemaking, it had its place.” For Tony and Andree, there are no rules when they meet in the blue room at the Hotel des Voyageurs. Their adulterous affair is intoxicating, passionate—and dangerous. It soon turns into a nightmare from which there can be no escape. Heart-pounding and high-stakes, The Blue Room is a stylish and sensual psychological thriller that weaves a story of cruelty, reckless lust, and relentless guilt.
In a Blue Room
Title | In a Blue Room PDF eBook |
Author | Jim Averbeck |
Publisher | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | 40 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 9780152059927 |
Alice wants everything in her bedroom to be blue before she falls asleep.
The Blue Room
Title | The Blue Room PDF eBook |
Author | Eugene Richards |
Publisher | Phaidon Press |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2008-11-05 |
Genre | Photography |
ISBN | 9780714848327 |
Colour works by one of America's greatest social documentary photographers.
Dream of the Blue Room
Title | Dream of the Blue Room PDF eBook |
Author | Michelle Richmond |
Publisher | Bantam |
Total Pages | 322 |
Release | 2010-02-16 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 055390700X |
Jenny and Amanda Ruth were best friends in a small Alabama town until eighteen-years-old Amanda Ruth was murdered. Now, fourteen years later, Jenny has traveled with her husband to China to scatter Amanda Ruth’s ashes and finally fulfill her friend’s dream of visiting her Chinese father’s homeland. It’s also, Jenny hopes, an opportunity to repair her own troubled marriage. But as she journeys through a foreign landscape, the guilty secrets of Jenny’s past rise up and her life will be inexorably altered. From the New York Times bestselling author of The Year of Fog (“Highly recommended [for fans of] authors like Jodi Picoult and Jacquelyn Mitchard” —Library Journal, starred review) and No One You Know (“Luminous . . . will keep you thinking long after the last page has been turned”—Family Circle), Michelle Richmond’s stunning novel captivates with its depiction of the powerful intimacies of marriage, friendship, and family that shape our paths and the bonds of home that buoy us—wherever home may be.
The Blue Room
Title | The Blue Room PDF eBook |
Author | David Hare |
Publisher | Baker's Plays |
Total Pages | 84 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | Betrayal |
ISBN | 9780573627057 |
A sensation in London and on Broadway, The Blue Room depicts a daisy chain of ten sexual encounters between five women and five men all played by one actor and actress portraying the hypocrisy, the folly and the loneliness of this roundelay. Freely adapting the original play, Hare has moved the action from turn-of-the-century Vienna to modern London and infused the sketches with witty and provocative modern nuances. -- Publisher's website.
Christmas in Blue's Room
Title | Christmas in Blue's Room PDF eBook |
Author | Lauryn Silverhardt |
Publisher | Simon Spotlight/Nickelodeon |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2006-10-03 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 9781416915690 |
Young readers are invited to find out what Blue and her friends like most about this special holiday by reading along and peeking under the flaps. Full color.