Abyss: The Cuban Missile Crisis 1962

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I thought this a nicely done book capturing a young girl living in a world more or less defined by the problems and complications of adult life, and at the same time trying to find connection to parents who are both difficult—one too reserved, the other at times so absent that she doesn’t care what is happening. His anger at the affair and the resulting estrangement are not surprising, yet this event also triggers insecurities. But when night falls, they hasten to retrace their steps back to town through a small wood, where they are accosted by three threatening drunkards, who knock Nemovetsky unconscious and start to chase the girl through the underwood.

Her name as a novelist was made by her bestselling Jacobite trilogy, The Flight of the Heron (1925), The Gleam in the North (1927), and The Dark Mile (1929). Haunting, disturbing, disquieting… dark, passionate, pompous, discordant, controversial – whichever word of power you choose, it is likely to describe both Andreyev and his writing. Max Hastings is the author of thirty books, most about conflict, and between 1986 and 2002 served as editor-in-chief of the Daily Telegraph , then editor of the Evening Standard . The affluent west of the city was prosperous and wealthy, but in contrast the east was an area of poverty, crime and disease.Her unhappy mother reads popular magazines and is having an affair; her father is always working and not a big communicator. Ebooks fulfilled through Glose cannot be printed, downloaded as PDF, or read in other digital readers (like Kindle or Nook). Pilar Quintana’s novella manages to tackle, with the light In subtle and brilliant prose, in which nature connects us with the symbolic possibilities of literature, the abysses are both real and intimate. Max Hastings manages to make this a very balanced and exciting read and includes comments through out from many different characters in major to minor roles which adds so much to the information.

This might be my favourite collection of Weird tales yet – a great mix of stories and subjects, with incisive character work … the stories are horrifying for their effects on the people they involve, rather than for the actual supernatural elements – which is not to say the Weirdness isn’t effective and entertaining, because it is, but there’s a deftness of character and a very intense way of description that makes you really empathise with the characters. The opening chapters start with a description of the Bay of Pigs fiasco and continue with the risen to power of Castro, describing the love - hate relationships many Cubans felt towards the USA and the quasi-colonial actions and behaviours of the US Government and many businesses towards Cuba and its citizens.

These well-known images have been frequently reprinted over the years, often to illustrate books about Jack the Ripper and the East End in general. BookBrowse seeks out and recommends the best in contemporary fiction and nonfiction—books that not only engage and entertain but also deepen our understanding of ourselves and the world around us. They help explain Soviet impulsiveness and recklessness in undertaking the Cuba venture at all, and the US hubris and arrogance that also contributed. A crucial contribution to the horror-story genre … her interest [is] in unexpiated guilt and a harking back to gothic or religious themes … the wall between supernatural apparitions and fictions of the human imagination is a thin one. Kirkus, at the time, noted the hoopla over Pyle (Pulitzer, hugely popular syndicated column, BOMC hype) and decided it was all worth it: “the book doesn’t let the reader down.