Who Slashed Celanire's Throat?: A Fantastical Tale
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  • A Fantastical Tale
  • Who Slashed Celanier's Throat?
  • Outstanding!!
Who Slashed Celanire's Throat?: A Fantastical Tale
Maryse Conde
Manufacturer: Washington Square Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0743482611

Book Description

On one hand, beautiful Celanire -- a woman mutilated at birth and left for dead -- appears today to be a saint; she is a tireless worker who has turned numerous neglected institutions into vibrant schools for motherless children. But she is also a woman apprehended by demons, as death and misfortune seem to follow in her wake. Traveling from Guadeloupe to West Africa to Peru, the mysterious, seductive, and disarming Celanire is driven to uncover the truth of her past at any cost and avenge the crimes committed against her.

With her characteristic blend of magical realism and fantasy, and inspired by a true story, Maryse Conde hauntingly imagines Celanire in an unforgettable novel -- a most dazzling addition to the deeply prolific and widely celebrated author's brilliant body of work.

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"The deeply prolific and widely celebrated author of such books as Segu and Tales from the Heart, Maryse Condé returns with an unforgettable new novel, Who Slashed Celanire's Throat? Inspired by a tragedy in the late twentieth century, Condé sets this fiction in the late nineteenth century with her characteristic blend of magical realism and fantasy. Condé lyrically, hauntingly imagines Celanire: a woman who was mutilated at birth and left for dead. Mysterious, seductive, and disarming, she is driven to uncover the truth of her past at any cost. On one hand, Celanire appears to be a saint; she is a tireless worker who has turned numerous neglected institutions into vibrant schools for motherless children. But she is also a woman apprehended by demons, as death and misfortune seem to follow in her wake. Who Slashed Celanire's Throat? follows both her triumphs and her trials as this survivor becomes a beautiful and powerful woman who travels from Guadeloupe to West Africa to Peru in order to solve the mysteries of her past and avenge the crimes committed against her. This beautifully rendered story, translated by Richard Philcox from the French edition, is sure to be considered the most dazzling addition to Condé's brilliant body of work. "

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars A Fantastical Tale.......2007-04-12

I got this book as a gift; it looked at me from a corner for about six weeks. I finally gave in and picked it up...what a ride!
Read this book and be transported. The writer lures you into a fantastical tale, into a world that is truly beleiavable;Characters so carefully drawn you can smell them. I will be reading more of Maryse Conde.

5 out of 5 stars Who Slashed Celanier's Throat?.......2006-11-10

Outstanding novel. One of the most original, riveting, well written books I have read in a long time. Had a little bit of everything in it.

5 out of 5 stars Outstanding!!.......2006-04-03

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I'm on my second reading of this book, and I agree with all the positive statements written in the editorial reviews above.

The book is "Excellent"!!
Who Slashed Celanires Throat
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    Who Slashed Celanires Throat
    Maryse Conde
    Manufacturer: POCKET BOOKS @
    ProductGroup: Book
    Binding: Hardcover
    ASIN: B000Q1DBZE

    Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle, Volume 6
    Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
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    Release Date: 2005-07-26

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    BE CAREFUL WHEN THE SUN GOES DOWN!

    Syaoran, Sakura, and their companions travel to Ôto, a country where cherry blossoms perfume the days and demons called Oni terrorize the nights. To earn funds, the foursome split up to hunt the wicked creatures. Soon they learn that a new type of Oni has appeared–one that is both mysterious and beautiful . . . and rumored to control the other demons! Will the brave twosome of Big Puppy (Kurogane) and Little Puppy (Syaoran) save the land of Ôto from this frightening foe–and retrieve another piece of Sakura’s fragmented past?

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    4 out of 5 stars Twists and Turns.......2007-06-14

    Tsubasa goes to a dark place with a major twist for one of it's principals in this volume.

    First up is Kurogane and Fai's info-gathering bar excursion. All is going as usual - to wit, Fai driving Kurogane up a wall - until the pair is attacked by Oni. This battle is different though, as without having to worry about the kids being around to see what happens, Fai's reaction outs him to Kurogane as a suicide risk.

    Afterwards, Kurogane begins training Syaoran in swordplay as the Oni huntership at large mulls over the recent high level of unusually difficult to kill Oni. The answer to who's behind it will make more than a few long-time CLAMP fans very happy...

    The series has by no means lost all humor - a scene in which Fai and Sakura get drunk together and decide it would be a wonderful idea to amuse themselves by enthusiastically meowing at Kurogane and eachother in stereo has to be seen to be believed - but the new revealation about Fai takes the series to a very different place than where it started. It will be up to each fan to decide if they're happy about that.

    5 out of 5 stars CLAMP still has it..........2005-09-24

    The artwork is fantastic as usual. And the storyline takes an interesting development. I'm not going to go into specifics as to not spoil it for others but needless to say, CLAMP fans are going to be surprised. I can't wait for the next one.

    5 out of 5 stars YAY!!!.......2005-09-17

    tee hee, they all get drunk in this volume!! ^_^ except kuro-rin. i love it. with all my heart.
    and kurogane almost kills fai for REAL!!!! until the clover bartender-san *lol* comes out and saves the day--for asking him pretty much not to kill anybody right in front of the bar XD
    all in all TOTALLY AWSOME VOLUME--rocks my socks off!!!

    5 out of 5 stars They keep getting better.......2005-08-29

    The best thing about CLAMP's work is their characters, you can always find someone to sympathize with or root for, and they always stay true to themselves and grow with the story! This series has been great since some of my favorites from other series have dropped in in each volume. There is sweet poignant moment between Sakura and Saoran and, of course the introduction of the enigmatic Seishiro from X 1999 and Tokyo Babylon. Great Stuff! I can't wait for the next one!

    5 out of 5 stars My Favorite Volume Yet.......2005-08-26

    Oh man guys. Tsubasa RC vol. 6 is probably my favorite volume of the released volumes. There's definitely a missing scene between the end of volume 5 and the beginning of volume 6, but I'm pretty sure it's just a small fight scene with the oni which is where Shaoran gets hurt. Volume 6 has so many crossover (not quite the right term, but oh well) character and references that I was grinning to myself throughout almost the entire volume. Del Rey does a pretty good job of explaining where most of the characters came from originally. Plus, one of my all-time favorite CLAMP characters, Seishiro Sakurazuka, has a big role which I have a feeling will get bigger. He is part of Shaoran's past and has somehow come to Oto and is controlling the oni for some reason yet unknown. It may have something to do with the two vampire twins (I'll give you three guesses as to who the TWINS are)that he was chasing when Seishiro first me Shaoran. As always, there are the heart-wrenchingly cute moments between Shaoran and Sakura, a rather angsty moment for Fai, Kurogane almost killing Fai (what else is new?), and Mokona generally being Mokona. The one scene of Fai angst is really good and although it may crush a few hopes of Fai/Kurogane fans, I think it's about time Fai dropped his mask a little. Oh, and the drunk scene is definitely not to be missed. Sakura and Fai are so funny! All in all, definitely my favorite volume. A lot happens, even though they don't find a feather or change worlds, and it definitely leaves me hungry and anxious for volume 7 this october.
    Oh, CLAMP's kawaii cat shows us too!

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    Average customer rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
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    Gilbert Morris , and Dan Meeks
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    The Daystar Rangers are in a bind. With their favorite Captain Edge assigned to another ship, they end up with a mean and quite troublesome captain. She seems intent on causing problems. With an enemy ship aimed right at the Daystar, what will the crew do? And how will their new leader react? Come aboard with Ringo and friends and find out what God can do in the tightest of spots.

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    5 out of 5 stars Mixed.......2001-07-05

    I loved Chapter 12, and as a whole found the book to be spectacular, but I also found some parts of the book (Chapter 12 again) to differ from what I'd been expecting from reading other books in the series. The Dai-Jerusha relationship (although I was hoping for it) came across as strained because the authors had been setting up a Raina-Dai thing since about the 2nd book. However, I recommend this book to anyone who loves futuristic Christian fiction.

    4 out of 5 stars Great book, Sad ending.......2001-02-01

    This book was fantastic in the way that it resolved everything and gave you a lot of suspense. The beginning was a bit sad (because of the wedding) and so was the end. I really didn't expect it to end the way it did, and at times it seemed to 'picture perfect' but all in all I adored it and I think that anyone who wants a good, exciting youth-fiction read should get this.

    1 out of 5 stars Disappointing!.......2000-06-09

    I have read all ten books in this series and was eager to see how it would end. Although it was good to see what happened to all of my favorite characters, for the most part this was a disappointing ending to the series. It resolved everything but not the way I had hoped it would. It could have been much more climatic, but it wasn't. If you are dying to read this final book in this series go ahead and buy it. If not, don't waste your money on it.

    Occult Bondage and Deliverance: Counseling the Occultly Oppressed
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    • A powerful, useful book to get free
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    He teaches that even Christians can have problems with demons due to any involvement, knowing or unknowingly, in the occult.

    5 out of 5 stars A must for those in deliverance ministry.......1999-08-05

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    Ministering Freedom from Occult Bondages (Proven Foundations for Deliverance)
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            Big City Junk
            Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
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            Mary Randolph Carter
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            For city dwellers and their visiting country cousins alike, Big City Junk proves that America’s urban streets can be fertile ground indeed for decorators and bargain hunters.

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            5 out of 5 stars Not Your Typical Style Book.......2003-02-07

            BIG CITY JUNK, which was probably in production on September 11, 2001 (it arrived in bookstores a couple of months later), carries a special resonance because of the events of that day. What would otherwise be a lark of a style book appealing to the collectibles crowd becomes a small shrine as well for a piece of the New York lifestyle and psyche. In the course of celebrating the cast aside and disposable, Mary Randolph Carter, the author and photographer caught a lasting, brave, prophetic comment about fear and city living rendered in the temporal medium of a sidewalk chalk message. But she is also onto something else that is so very much a part of the economy and ecology of the city: the cycle of "stuff" in a population intensive, small place. The sociological angle raises this volume in Carter's Junk series above the others.

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            5 out of 5 stars Junker's Dream.......2002-05-12

            Mary Randolph Carter, aka "Carter", is Queen of all things Junk! Others may use that title, but Carter owns it. The fourth (!) book in her "American Junk" series, "Big City Junk", finds our heroine Carter trapsing through the junk yards, stores and flea-markets of more cosmopolitan outposts. As usual, Carter's unique gift is her ability to photograph junk in its "natural state", and giving the discarded, outdated and seemingly unimportant the artistic presence it deserves. Subconciously, every compulsive junker has always understood the "power of junk", and Carter's "Big City Junk" is a celebration of that understanding. Particularly poignent in "Big City Junk" are Carter's photographs of various paintings, sketches and souvenirs of New York and The World Trade Center. Odd and touching how a few photos of humble junk express that which cannot be said in a million words.

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            Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
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            5 out of 5 stars The ultimate source for presidential train information!.......2002-02-04

            This is one of those rare books that can blend two areas of interest into a intriguing cocktail. The books discusses the history of presidential train travel. As such, it can appeal to both railroad buffs and students of the presidency. In fact, the book does such a good job of presenting these topics that a train enthusiast might start studying the presidency and a presidency nut could obtain an interest in trains. From a railroad standpoint, the book discusses one of the most unique topics in train lore. From the details of the Lincoln funeral train to the specifications of FDR's bulletproof railcar, Mr. Withers gives a complete description of how presidential trains work. The itenaries, crews, equipment, and people of presidential trains are given for presidents up to Bill Clinton. From a presidentail history standpoint, the book covers what has been a major tool to chief executives, the train. In the days before Air Force One, trains accomplished the vital the mission of transporting the most powerful man in the world about the nation. This is most easily seen in the whistle stop campaigns of virtually every president. Furthermore, the book gives numerous anecdotes of presidential life on trains. For example, Withers gives the story of how Winston Churchill learned to play poker under the watchful eye of Harry Truman while aboard Private Railcar #1. The book makes for an entertaining and informative read.

            5 out of 5 stars A superb blend of presidential history and railroad lore........1997-09-10

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            The descriptions of presidential travel by Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman, our most railroader-friendly chief executives, provide a look at travel in a more relaxed time. Withers's details and the photographs of the presidential railcar Ferdinand Magellan are worth the price of the book by themselves.

            If you can imagine Harry Truman climbing into the cab of a heavy Pacific to wrangle a ride on the engineer's side, click on the order button now!
            The President Travels by Train: Politics and Pullmans
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                    Eugene O'Neill: Beyond Mourning and Tragedy
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                    • O'Neill's long day's journey on Black's couch.
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                    Stricken with guilt and grief when his father, mother, and brother died in quick succession, young playwright Eugene O'Neill mourned deeply for two decades. This enlightening critical biography presents a remarkable new understanding of the playwright's life, work, and slow grieving. Stephen A. Black argues that O'Neill's writing was a form of self-psychoanalysis and that his plays reflect his psychological and artistic growth. Selected by Choice as an outstanding academic title for 2000

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                    4 out of 5 stars O'Neill's long day's journey on Black's couch........2000-08-04

                    It has been nearly fifty years since Eugene O'Neill's death. Much has been written about him since that time. In his new biography, Stephen Black insightfully analyzes the Pulitzer and Nobel Prize winning dramatist and his work. Black is an English professor with training as a psychoanalytic therapist. The "thesis" of his biography, Black writes, "is that O'Neill spent most of his writing life in mourning" (p. xvi). O'Neill, he contends, used playwriting as a means of self-therapy.

                    Black's 543-page biography is filled with interesting information about his subject's troubled life. We learn, for instance, O'Neill was born in a hotel room in 1888, and died in a hotel room in 1953. In between, he lived "a life of earthly and psychic wandering" (p. 43). At the time of his birth, O'Neill's mother became addicted to morphine, for which he blamed himself. As a mother, Ella O'Neill was "lonely" and "inadequate" (pp. 48, 51). O'Neill's father, an actor, was "revered," though "distant" (p. 47). O'Neill's estranged daughter, Oona, married Charlie Chaplin when she was 17. Chaplin was 54, and two month's younger than O'Neill. We learn that O'Neill's life was plagued with, among other things (and the list is long), illness, depression, alcoholism, family tension, unhappy marriages, and one devastating death after another. Truly, it is a wonder O'Neill ever found his way through the obstacles in his life to write four Pulitzer Prize winning plays, and to win the Nobel Prize in literature in 1936.

                    Black's book also contains plenty of perceptive commentary about O'Neill's plays. It ends with an impressive bibliography. Although I occasionally found O'Neill spending too much time on Black's couch in this psychoanalytical biography, this is nevertheless a worthwhile book for anyone interested in the playwright or his writing.

                    G. Merritt

                    5 out of 5 stars outstanding psychoanalytic interpretation.......2000-07-01

                    Stephen A. Black has assembled an extraordinary range of materials to provide the first comprehensive psychoanalysis of O'Neill. Others have offered fragmentary perspectives, or analyses based on a little reading in psychoanalytic theory, but Black brings his experience as a trained analyst (as well as a literary scholar) to a through review of the historical documents. It must have been harrowing work for him, but we all stand to benefit from his having gone into the very mouth of a hellish psyche. (Hmmm... not so sure about that metaphor.) Anyway, it's a terrific book.
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                      Eugene O'Neill: Beyond Mourning and Tragedy.(Review) (book review): An article from: New Criterion
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                        Eugene O'Neill: Beyond Mourning and Tragedy.(Review) (book review): An article from: New Criterion
                        Herb Greer
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                        Title: Eugene O'Neill: Beyond Mourning and Tragedy.(Review) (book review)
                        Author: Herb Greer
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                        Date: October 1, 2000
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