Thus begin three parallel lines of inquiry: the cops build their case, tracking down the father of Angela's baby (an unstable drifter who describes Angela as sexily eager) the head doctors work with crazily prim Angela, who at first denies all awareness of the conception, the pregnancy, the birth, or the murder and foul-mouthed reporter Meg Gavin tries to tune in on the real Angela while researching the unnatural sex lives of nuns and brooding on her own restless bedroom action (""Once again she'd let herself go quickly, fiercely, down into the fucking""). Perky, pretty Sister Angela, formerly Gayle Flynn, is found hemorrhaging at her Minnesota convent and is rushed to the hospital (""Something-someone-had ripped this woman open from the vagina to the rectum"") and when the doctors discover clear evidence of a recent birth, the mortified nuns search the convent, finding the gagged-to-death infant (his mouth stuffed with a nightgown) behind a bookcase. Presumably inspired (if that's the word) by a recent real-life case, Breslin has stretched a National Enquirer headline-Nun Murders Newborn Baby-into 600 talky, overwrought pages of ghoulish police-procedural, humdrum courtroom drama, sleazy sex survey, and half-baked psychopathology.
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Walking the Americas, co-produced by October Films and GroupM Entertainment, will see Levison return to Mexico, where he lived for three months and Belize - where he trained as a soldier with the British Army - before stepping into a part of the world he’s never visited before and some of the most diverse, beautiful and unpredictable regions on earth. Walking the Nile and Walking the Himalayas explorer’s next challenge: to trek 1700 miles along the spine of the Americas from Mexico to Colombia.Ĭhannel 4 today announces its third major series with explorer Levison Wood, as he follows up his treks along the entire length of the Nile and the length of the Himalayas.īeginning in the north-eastern tip of Mexico, Levison will walk the entire length of Central America, through eight countries before attempting to cross the treacherous Darien Gap into Colombia and South America. (It also inspired another publishing sensation and then film franchise, albeit one aimed at adult adults: 50 Shades of Grey.) Stephanie Meyer’s Twilight series sold over 100 million books and its film adaptations racked up more than $3.3 billion worldwide. Indeed, there are massive numbers of YA readers. Now? “There’s definitely a lot of adults who read YA.” He felt young adult novels were something to be avoided, recalling the “cheesy-looking books in this really tiny section of my library” and seeking more mature reading material. Growing up, Milman recalls one side of the divide being far more appealing than the other. He cites Emma Cline’s 2016 debut novel The Girls: “That’s technically a YA book but it was marketed as literary fiction.” (Its central character is a teenager, but it follows her as she meets up with Charles Manson.) The basic definition is simple: It’s typically a book with a young central character that is, at least theoretically, aimed at young readers.Įxcept when it isn’t: “Some books do skirt that line.” “It’s a good question,” Derek Milman says when asked to define the genre. You’re to assume that although you can’t control your own circumstances, there’s always a certain amount of space in which to be responsible for yourself and generate changes. “I am I and my circumstance and, if I do not save it, I do not save myself.” This phrase, so representative of José Ortega y Gasset, implied the influence of this scenario. They were gaining a foothold through cultural movements and also consumerism. Unionism with nationalisms, and in turn, with the popular class. The rise of communism confronting fascism. Keep in mind that this famous philosopher developed his work in a highly complex context. They did so to express themselves through art, civic values, and liberal philosophy. Ortega reflected like no other the irruption of the liberated masses that finally left the elite aside. They were about the social and intellectual situation of Europe in the middle of the 20th century. His most representative works, such as Invertebrate Spain (1921), The Dehumanization of Art and Other Essays on Art, Culture, and Literature (1925), and The Revolt of the Masses (1930), described a very relevant page in human history. He belonged to the movement of Noucentisme and the Generation of 14, that also include figures such as Pablo Picasso or Juan Ramón Jiménez. Intellectual, essayist, journalist, speaker… His liberal and regenerative discourse contained the essence of perspectivism and vital reason. José Ortega y Gasset was one of the most outstanding Spanish philosophers. |