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The Good People
From the multi-award-winning author of Burial Rites with new novel Devotion out now In 1825, in a remote valley in Ireland, three women are brought together by troubling events. Nóra cares for her orphaned four-year-old grandson, who can neither walk nor speak. She hires a servant girl, Mary, to help her. Soon, Mary hears rumours in the valley about the dark powers of this strange little boy. In desperation, Nóra and Mary turn to Nance Roche, a woman who locals say has the knowledge. That she consorts with the Good People, and only Nance can return those whom they have taken ... PRAISE FOR THE GOOD PEOPLE 'A thoroughly engrossing entrée into the macabre nature of a vanished society' Tom Keneally 'Dark, poetic and intense' Kate Forsyth 'A serious and compelling novel about how those in desperate circumstances cling to ritual as a bulwark against their own powerlessness' THE GUARDIAN 'A gripping, adept and intelligent reconstruction of the past' SYDNEY MORNING HERALD
Voices
Bestselling author Elliott ("In the Wild") explores how Joan of Arc changed the course of history and remains a figure of fascination centuries after her extraordinary life and death in this evocative novel that gives her the "Hamilton" treatment.
Tragic Rites
Author: Adriana E. Brook
language: en
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Pres
Release Date: 2018
An analysis of the literary and dramatic function of ritual within the world of Sophocles' plays, for scholars of Greek tragedy, ancient theater, and poetics.