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![]() ![]() ![]() This confident, perceptive novel follows 18-year-old Natalie as she navigates her first queer relationship, as well as her growing relationship to poetry and to herself as a writer. ![]() The Adult is a masterful debut from Bronwyn Fischer, a graduate of the University of Guelph’s MFA program, who now lives in Toronto. These queer age-gap relationships hold a lasting fascination-three of these titles were made into blockbuster films within the last decade. There is a risk and a discomfort to these age-imbalanced relationships (which appear in literature about young gay men as well- Call Me by Your Name, anyone?). Patricia Highsmith’s The Price of Salt comes immediately to mind, of course, as do more recent classics like Mariko and Jillian Tamaki’s hit graphic novel Skim and, though the age gap involved is smaller, Julie Maroh’s Blue Is the Warmest Colour. ![]() “It’s odd that there’s so much more to you than there is to me Compared to you, I think about almost nothing.” The uncertain young lesbian is a common and often compelling character in fiction, especially when her uncertainty and need for validation lead her to enter into a relationship with an older, more experienced woman. “I think it’s odd that you like me,” Natalie, the 18-year-old protagonist of The Adult tells Nora, her 30-something lover. ![]() ![]() ![]() I argue that the victims that feature in these tales can all be considered a danger to society and the vampire functions to examine, judge and carry out necessary execution where needed. This occurred not only in texts by well-known authors such as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's 'John Barrington Cowles', Robert Louis Stevenson's 'Olalla' and Mary Elizabeth Braddon's 'Good Lady Ducayne' but also in the fiction of less familiar authors such as Count Eric Stenbock's 'A True Story of a Vampire'. This thesis is concerned with the way in which the figure of the vampire is used by some authors of nineteenth century fiction to eugenically test their victims: killing and sterilizing where they find degenerate behaviours that would harm society were the victims allowed to breed. ![]() ![]() ![]() Nevertheless, it quickly and directly damaged or ended the careers and income of scores of individuals working in the film industry. Even during the period of its strictest enforcement, from the late 1940s through to the late 1950s, the blacklist was rarely made explicit or easily verifiable, as it was the result of numerous individual decisions by the studios and was not the result of official legal action. This was usually done on the basis of their membership in, alleged membership in, or sympathy with the Communist Party USA, or on the basis of their refusal to assist Congressional investigations into the party's activities. ![]() Actors, screenwriters, directors, musicians, and other American entertainment professionals were barred from work by the studios. ![]() The blacklist involved the practice of denying employment to entertainment industry professionals believed to be or to have been Communists or sympathizers. ![]() The Hollywood blacklist was an entertainment industry blacklist put in effect in the mid-20th century in the United States during the early years of the Cold War, in Hollywood and elsewhere. Members of the Hollywood Ten and their families in 1950, protesting the impending incarceration of the ten ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But he cannot allow either one of them to forget he is her enemy and she his pawn in the deadly Highland feud between the clans. Jamie expects Emma to be some milksop English miss, not a fiery, defiant beauty whose irresistible charms will tempt him at every turn. Though he is Hepburn s sworn enemy, Emma s mysterious captor is everything her bridegroom is not handsome, virile, dangerous…Īnd a perilous temptation for her yearning heart. Passion sparks in USA Today and New York Times bestselling author Teresa Medeiros’s irresistibly tempting new romance after a sexy Highlander kidnaps his rival s spirited English bride Emmaline Marlowe is about to wed the extremely powerful laird of the Hepburn clan to save her father from debtor s prison when ruffian Jamie Sinclair bursts into the abbey on a magnificent black horse and abducts her in one strong swoop. ![]() |