Then the first chapter is set in 2018 and we meet Byron and Benny (brother and sister). The bold foreign word led me to think there was a glossary somewhere, but I didn't find one. I felt like it should've been parents, wife, daughter - the order that these people came into his life.) Additionally, there is a heavy use of boldface instead of "quotation marks". The narrator complains about their hak gwai wife, daughter, parents. I usually find prologues question-generating and minorly confusing but this one I read twice and still didn't like it, mainly because of sequencing. The book begins with a Prologue set in 1965. ( See what I did there? I put the words in boldface instead of quotes, just like the book does.) This book is what I call a potato chip book the chapters are short so you keep reading because you think, just one more. I read the Large Print version so page numbers may be different. Click " here " to link to this book on Amazon.
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I brought it back to Paris and it proudly adorns my shelves (if not posing for this blog’s pictures). It took me some time to get back there and finally buy this book I was dreaming of. The book in itself is worth buying: large format, clothbound, gilded cover… It is beautiful.įor the little story I first saw it in a Dover Publications shop in London (now closed, RIP), when I was a penniless intern. So who’s Harry Clarke then? He was an Edwardian book illustrator and artist and he did a wonderful work illustrating Poe’s Tales of Mystery and Imagination.Ī few years ago, Calla Editions – an imprint of Dover Publications – edited a reprint of the Tales of Mystery and Imagination with illustrations by Harry Clarke, initially published in a 1923 edition. Usually the title Tales of Mystery and Imagination is associated with Edgar Allan Poe, who wrote these famous dark short stories, now an American literature classic. Ferrer authored the bestseller “Audrey Hepburn: An Elegant Spirit” (2003). This most enchanting look at young Audrey Hepburn when she was a little girl with big dreams, hoping to become a ballerina, was written by her son Sean Hepburn Ferrer (b. She daydreams about what her life will be like after the ward ends into her actual adult life as an actress, mother, and above all, humanitarian. It’s a children’s book that tells her story for a new generation in a delicate way, from her own perspective as a child growing up in Belgium and Holland during World War II as she spends her days in bed due to the lack of food and heating. But unlike the numerous Audrey Hepburn biographies that have seen the light of day up until now, this one is totally different. “Little Audrey’s Daydream: The Life of Audrey Hepburn,” recently published by Princeton Architectural Press, tells the story of one of Hollywood’s most renowned actresses. |