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THOMAS, Donald was born on January 27, 1935 in Redruth, Cornwall. Son of Harold Redvers Thomas and Aimy Thomas (nee Moyle).
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It is a dream of electrifying eroticism and inexplicable violence, recounted by a young woman to her analyst, Sigmund Freud. It is a horrifying yet restrained narrative of the Holocaust. It is a searing vision of the wounds of the twentieth century, and an attempt to heal them. Interweaving poetry and case history, fantasy and historical truth-telling, The White Hotel is a modern classic of enduring emotional power that attempts nothing less than to reconcile the notion of individual destiny with that of historical fate.
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( In Passage to Ararat, which received the National Book ...)
In Passage to Ararat, which received the National Book Award in 1976, Michael J. Arlen goes beyond the portrait of his father, the famous Anglo-Armenian novelist of the 1920s, that he created in Exiles to try to discover what his father had tried to forget: Armenia and what it meant to be an Armenian, a descendant of a proud people whom conquerors had for centuries tried to exterminate. But perhaps most affectingly, Arlen tells a story as large as a whole people yet as personal as the uneasy bond between a father and a son, offering a masterful account of the affirmation and pain of kinship.
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1979 1st Amer ed. Dutton. Fine in Near Fine DJ, tiny wrinkle on spine and very slight wear on lower spine, small circular publisher's sticker which reads 'The author of The White Hotel'.
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(Michael Brown's humorous and titillating new novel pits a...)
Michael Brown's humorous and titillating new novel pits an amorous workaholic couple against some very unexpected challenges. Lisa and Bill, young lovers and roommates, have planned to forego marriage and children to pursue high-end careers. Suddenly, without warning, they lose their jobs! Unemployed and more in debt than the federal government they are forced to embark on a life-altering, calamitous bicycle adventure. Peddling from the tip of Baja California to the U.S.A. they are involved in disastrous accidents, adopt a ‘wild dog’ and help deliver a baby, all while being chased by ungodly monks who plan to murder them to retrieve an undisclosed ‘secret’.
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(1979 1st Amer ed. Dutton. Fine in Near Fine DJ, tiny wrin...)
1979 1st Amer ed. Dutton. Fine in Near Fine DJ, tiny wrinkle on spine and very slight wear on lower spine, small circular publisher's sticker which reads 'The author of The White Hotel'.
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(This books tells the story of history along the Ararat Ri...)
This books tells the story of history along the Ararat River from its beginning at Bell's Spur in Patrick County Virginia until it flows into the Yadkin River in Surry County, North Carolina.
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(A guide to the community of Ararat, Virginia, in southwes...)
A guide to the community of Ararat, Virginia, in southwestern Patrick County from Willis Gap to Kibler Valley. All profit from the sale of this book goes to the Joshua Kerns Fund for the family of a wounded Marine from Ararat.
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(Leaping from 19th century Russia to the Cold War of today...)
Leaping from 19th century Russia to the Cold War of today, and from the comic to the nightmarish to the sublime, Ararat is a brilliant fantasia on the theme of poetic improvisation - and of the soul's tormented quest for pastoral, symbolized by the twin peaks of Ararat, the magic mountain of Armenia.
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( This crime story with Scotland Yard's John Appleby is s...)
This crime story with Scotland Yard's John Appleby is set on a desert island in the Pacific ocean. Michael Innes, who also wrote under his own name, J.I.M.Stewart, and has published numerous novels and short stories featuring John Appleby. Born in Edinburgh in 1906, the son of the city's Director of Education, John Innes Mackintosh Stewart wrote a highly successful series of mystery stories under the pseudonym Michael Innes. Innes was educated at Oriel College, Oxford, where he was presented with the Matthew Arnold Memorial Prize and named a Bishop Frazer's scholar. After graduation he went to Vienna, to study Freudian psychoanalysis for a year and following his first book, an edition of Florio's translation of Montaigne, was offered a lectureship at the University of Leeds. In 1932 he married Margaret Hardwick, a doctor, and they subsequently had five children including Angus, also a novelist. The year 1936 saw Innes as Professor of English at the University of Adelaide, during which tenure he wrote his first mystery story, Death at the President's Lodging. With his second, Hamlet Revenge, Innes firmly established his reputation as a highly entertaining and cultivated writer. After the end of World War II, Innes returned to the UK and spent two years at Queen's University, Belfast where in 1949 he wrote the Journeying Boy, a novel notable for the richly comedic use of an Irish setting. He then settled down as a Reader in English Literature at Christ Church, Oxford, from which he retired in 1973. His most famous character is John Appleby, who inspired a penchant for donnish detective fiction that lasts to this day. Innes's other well-known character is Honeybath, the painter and rather reluctant detective, who first appeared in 1975 in The Mysterious Commission. The last novel, Appleby and the Ospreys, was published in 1986, some eight years before his death in 1994.
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(The tripping notes of a wooden flute echo from the steep ...)
The tripping notes of a wooden flute echo from the steep red walls of a lonely Southwestern canyon. The sounds drift up through the green leaves of the cottonwood trees that line the banks of the rippling canyon stream. But who is playing the flute?
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THOMAS, Donald was born on January 27, 1935 in Redruth, Cornwall. Son of Harold Redvers Thomas and Aimy Thomas (nee Moyle).
Redruth Grammar School, University High School, Melbourne, New College, Oxford.
English teacher Teignmouth, Devon, 1959—1963. Lecturer Hereford College Education, 1963—1978. Full time author, since 1978.
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Author: Two Voices, 1968, Logan Stone, 1971, Love and Other Deaths, 1975, Honeymoon Voyage, 1978, The Flute-Player, 1978, Birthstone, 1980, The White Hotel, 1981, Dreaming in Bronze, 1981, Ararat, 1983, Selected Poems, 1983, Swallow, 1984.
2 children.