Yonder Stands Your Orphan

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Barry Hannah has been acclaimed by Larry McMurtry as "the best fiction writer to appear in the South since Flannery O'Connor." In his new novel, the first since 1991's Never Die, he again displays the master craftsmanship and wickedly brilliant storytelling that have earned him a deserved reputation as a modern master. In Yonder Stands Your Orphan, denizens of a lake community near Vicksburg are beset by madness, murder, and sin in the form of one Man Mortimer, a creature of the casinos who resembles dead country singer Conway Twitty. A killer who has turned mean and sick, he will visit upon this town a wreckage of biblical proportions. The young sheriff is confounded by Mortimer and distracted by his passion for a lovely seventy-two-year-old widow. Only Max Raymond, a weak Christian saxophonist, stands between Mortimer and his further depredations. But who will die, who will burn? Yonder Stands Your Orphan is a tour de force that confirms Barry Hannah's reputation -- as William Styron wrote in Salon -- "an original, and one of the most consistently exciting writers of the post-Faulkner generation."

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The first I've put a book down and stopped caring in a long time........2006-07-19

This novel is for self-absorbed pseudo-intellectuals who like to read out in public with the cover facing out. Hannah trades emotion, strong characterization and plot development for flowery, inconsistent writing and not-so-witty asides. Only buy it if you're giving it to someone you don't like.

confused drivel from an egotistical mind.......2006-02-21

Words that describe my impression of this work:
A waste of my time.
Too many characters. Brilliant sentences that become too self-conciously showy.
Lack of attention to basic plot clarity.

In short, this is not Southern fiction. This is Norman Mailer on a Southern vacation on steroids.

Greatest living American stylist.......2005-12-19

Generally, the reviews knocking this book are obviously written by people who simply don't know what they're talking about.

Yonder Stands an Unfinished Book.......2004-06-11

I've enjoyed Barry Hannah's short stories in the past, but this novel put me to sleep 8 nights in a row. There are way too many characters to keep up, the story is confusing, and the characterizations weak. Aside from an amusing quip about former president Clinton (on page 212), this book failed to elicit even a snicker. One of the few books I've started, but not finished. Even an abundance of dogs and an absence of cats couldn't redeem this stinker. Sorry. HHD.

"yawn"-der stands..........2004-06-04

this is my first exposure to barry hannah - and if his other work is anything like this novel, i can do without him. i read this for a class where most people were praising his prose but i found it inconsistent - flowery/harlequin through some passages and gritty/masculine through others. this didn't hold for me. hannah's writing comes across as fake and forced. i'm a big fan of po-mo lit and hannah doesn't hold a candle to delillo.

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Yonder Stands Your Orphan
Barry Hannah
Manufacturer: Atlantic Monthly Press
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Binding: Hardcover
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Barry Hannah. Yonder Stands Your Orphan.(Brief Article): An article from: The Review of Contemporary Fiction

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Barry Hannah. Yonder Stands Your Orphan.(Brief Article): An article from: The Review of Contemporary Fiction
Brian Evenson
Manufacturer: Review of Contemporary Fiction
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Binding: Digital

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Title: Barry Hannah. Yonder Stands Your Orphan.(Brief Article)
Author: Brian Evenson
Publication: The Review of Contemporary Fiction (Refereed)
Date: June 22, 2002
Publisher: Review of Contemporary Fiction
Volume: 22 Issue: 2 Page: 243(1)

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Breadcrumb trails and spider webs: form in Yonder Stands Your Orphan.(Critical essay): An article from: The Mississippi Quarterly

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Breadcrumb trails and spider webs: form in Yonder Stands Your Orphan.(Critical essay): An article from: The Mississippi Quarterly
John B. Kachuba
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Title: Breadcrumb trails and spider webs: form in Yonder Stands Your Orphan.(Critical essay)
Author: John B. Kachuba
Publication: The Mississippi Quarterly (Magazine/Journal)
Date: December 22, 2004
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YONDER STANDS YOUR ORPHAN.
Barry. Hannah
Manufacturer: Atlantic Monthly Press,
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000NYGTZ8

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The climactic volume of Turtledove's saga of world war in a world where magic works arry Turtledove's rousing saga of a fantastic world at war, which began in Into the Darkness and continued through several successful volumes, draws to its climactic conclusion in Out of the Darkness. As the Derlavaian War rages into its last and greatest battles, allied nations maneuver for positions against each other in a postwar world. But before that time can come, the forces of Algarve, Unkerlant, and their allies must clash for the final time, countering army with army and battle magic with ever-more-powerful battle magic. In the midst of it all, the people the war has battered and reshaped must struggle to face their greatest individual challenges, as loves are shattered and found, terrible crimes avenged and some journeys ended forever. And the end of the war may not bring peace.

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Final instalment of Turtledove's WW2 Epic.......2007-02-25

"Out of the Darkness" is the sixth and final part of Harry Turtledove's reworking of the World War Two story set on a planet where people use magic instead of technology.

Dragon riders replace aircraft, Behemoths replace tanks, East and West have been transposed, Eurasia has been moved to the Southern hemisphere so that the Finns look like Zulus and the Saraha Desert becomes "the land of the Ice people." And all the names have been changed. But otherwise this is not alternative history at all.

By chance I read Anthony Beevor's "Stalingrad" shortly after reading the earlier voume ("Through the Darkness") in this series which included the events corresponding to that battle, and the same author's "Berlin" just before reading this one. Again and again I found myself recognising the real events on which Turtledove bases the disasters and atrocities in the "Darkness" books.

When reading the earlier books in this series I thought Turtledove's aim was to do was write an account of great evil and how some people were sucked into it, others fought against it, others just tried to live through it, changing some of the details so the reader could leave some of the emotional baggage behind. By the time I reached this book, my mind was instantly translating everything back to real-world equivalents - Algarve as Germany, Kaunians as Jews, Swemmel as Stalin, etc - but the book still has power to make the reader think. As one character explained in the previous book, nobody is the villain in his own story.

It is also a gripping story, not because the reader is in any doubt about what will happen overall, but because you want to know what will happen to the many viewpoint characters, most of whom are fictional creations caught up in real events.

In fact, Turtledove takes one noticeable liberty with history in this book, which I won't spoil by giving it away here, but anyone who wants to explore the point further after they've read this book might also be interested in Barbara Delaplace's short story "No Other Choice" which is included in the collection "Alternate Presidents."

The "Darkness" series is best read in the correct sequence -"Into the Darkness", "Darkness Descending", "Through the Darkness", "Rulers of the Darkness", "Jaws of Darkness" and finally "Out of the Darkness". The mood is as black as the titles indicate, but the series is a very exciting read.

The End?.......2006-03-16

Turteldove's 6 books series of war (almost 4000 pages of it) finally comes to an end. an enjoyable series that does require a pretty heavy investment from the reader. I think we got to know a lot of the characters along the way. Though I was disappointed with a the fairly pointless introduction of a couple of new POV characters for the final book. Because it does parallel our own world so closely it did make the last book rather predictable, personally I would ahve preferred it if the whole series had been built around a different but still detailed history. My only other quibble has been the increase in frankly embarrassing sex scenes.

Anyway the door is left open for a Cold War style series set in the same world.

Excelent take on WW II.......2005-02-08

(Note that's I'm reviewing the entire series.)

We have a version of Germany that unifies with a version of Austria, only several other nations do not wait to be provoked further, they declare war right away. (Equivalents of Poland, France, Netherlands, and Denmark?)

The version of the UK sits out until in a reverse Dunkurg, the small islands are taken over.

The equivalent of Germany and the USSR divide Poland and wipe it off the map, and then the other powers on the land mass fall to Germany. In the mean time, This equivelent to Germany has been sending out literature painting blondes in a very bad light [who is this version had an empire 1000 years ago.] And they wait for those countries to fall before rounding up the local blondes in their empire and pass a law making red hair dye illegal for blondes to wear as well.

The equivalents of the USSR and Germany then decide to sneak attack each other on the very same day. Only the equivalent of Germans is much better trained. However the winter is Ukerlant's best ally, and so the life energy of blondes is expended to break a stalemate, but it doesn't take long for Ukerlant to use peasents life energy the same way. The eye witness accounts of historical Germans seeing the towers of the Kerlim match up this fictional account. The equivalent of the US joined the war and is obviously working on a version of the MP. They've been fighting this realities version of Japan for a while though.

Later in the series, the historical story of two sharp shooters going after each other (USSR & German) is retold, but with the twist of them both killing each other in this novel.

And the equailvent of Italy gets the equivlent of Germany side tracked just like histroically. (Only in Tundra instead of the Desert)

I'm not sure how to place this country where people wear nothing between their Sandels and Top Hats other than Jewerly, only that I probably wouldn't be able to get any work done at all in such a place.

Later on this version of allies start scoring victories, and an exiled character finds himself treated as a big rat by his ex wife.

A historic Japense inovation that didn't work for them is used quite successfully and was given the same name in this novel only as a combo equivalent to US & UK product. (Combination of a submarine and air craft carrier.) It works better in this book because it's holds more than four Dragons/planes.

In this novel, we see the equivlent of Germany on it's last legs and the equivlent as the equivlent to the USSR completes taking Ukraine back + taking Austria and Poland while the equivlents to the US/UK land in one of these nations and the German equivlent pulls out of the other but then finds US/UK landing troops there to go at them from there as well.

At the wars end we see what is obviously going to be their equivlent to our Cold war going so far as to match diviving Germany into two occuplied countries with figure head puppets, while the equivlent of Tokyo is hit with the equivalent of a nuclear bomb after failing to surrender seeing a demonstartion.

I think the immedate future looks much brighter for the citizens of this version of the US & UK than any place else in this novel.

Yes, Darkness still covers those countries the equivlent of the USSR rules (both directly and indirectly) and even one of the countries on the US/UK side is one large prision.

War is over, darkness remains.......2004-11-08

Harry Turtledove's magical allegory of World War Two concludes with Out of the Darkness, and much like in the real world, when the war ends, peace doesn't necessarily begin.

Algarve has been crushed and occupied. King Mezentio is shot down at the request of one of his fighters. In the far west, Gyongvar has been obliterated by a magical weapon of mass destruction. Unkerlant has taken Forthweg and installed its own puppet king.

As the war winds down, characters are also trying to pick up the pieces of their lives. Some of them have happy endings, others do not. Garivald finds himself in a mercury mine with Oraste and Ceorl after leaving the war. Bembo loses his girlfriend. Pekka and Fearno get married. Ealstan comes home to his family.

Readers will wonder what happens next in the fantasy world. Will Kuusamo and Unkerlant face down in a Cold War of their own? Will Algarve return to power, or will the Kaunian people ever be free?

History buffs and fantasy fans alike will enjoy the saga. It remains to be seen if Turtledove will revive it for the next generation, like the Return Engagement or Colonization series.

Admirable, but unenjoyable.......2004-08-02

I chose 2 stars, out of guilt for having not read the earlier books in this series. I suppose those books would have made the large number of characters, races, countries and thier complex relationships easier to track, but I somehow don't think it would have mattered that much. The book seemed to be a very successful exercise in writting about WWII under the fantasy fiction genre, but it didn't grab me or entertain me at all. It didn't say anything new about WWII. If looking for a new take on the war, look elsewhere, there are hundreds of great works on WWII. There were so many countries and characters that it all got watered down, and I ended up not caring about any. Since it is a WWII fantasy-historical fiction novel it also has an understandably predictable ending. I will look for another Turteldove novel, but would not reccomend this one, especially if you have not read the other in the series.

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Not Egan's best

Amok evolution

Not what I expected

My first Greg Egan book.

Teranesia
Greg Egan
Manufacturer: EOS
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Binding: Paperback

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Nine-year-old Prabir Suresh lives alone with his baby sister, Madhusree, and his biologist parents on a tropical Indonesian isle. Teranesia is so small and remote, it's not on the maps, and its strange native species of butterfly remained undiscovered until the 21st century. Prabir never wants to leave, but war forces him to flee with Madhusree. He believes he has saved his sister--until she returns to Indonesia, a grad student seeking to carry on their parents' forgotten work, pursuing reports of strange new plant and animal species. Prabir follows, to discover birds and orchids even stranger than the butterflies: mutants that are evidence of frightfully sped-up evolutionary changes with no discernable cause.

Greg Egan has received the Hugo Award and the John W. Campbell Memorial Award. He was widely considered the best SF author of the '90s, and one publication (Science Fiction Weekly) has named him "perhaps the most important SF writer in the world"--high praise, but not unjustified. For evidence, check out not only Teranesia, but works like Diaspora, Distress, and Quarantine. --Cynthia Ward

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Prabir Suresh and his younger sister, Madhursee, live in a remote paradise called Teranesia, where their biologist parents are studying an unexplained genetic mutation among the island's butterflies. Then civil war erupts across Indonesia, shattering their idyllic world and their lives.

Twenty years later, Prabir is still plagued by feelings of guilt and an overwhelming responsiblity for his sister, now a biologist herself. Against his advice, Madhurse is returning to Teranesia to solve the mystery of the butterflies and study strange new plant and animal species that have been emerging throughout the region-species seperated from their known cousins by dramatic mutations that seem far too efficient to have arisen by chance.

Afraid for her safety, Prabir joins forces with independant scientist Martha Grant to find her. But what he will discover on Teranesia is far more dangerous and wondrous than he can ever fear--or imagine..

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Australian SF Reader.......2007-08-01

Mutants amok. Or there will be, by the end of this. A couple of kids grow up on their own idyllic not yet Island of Dr Moreau.

Their parents are top-line biological researchers looking intro strange goings on in the local butterfly population.

It appears evolution is going nuts, and mutations happen almost in reverse.

As far as people go, this can be bad things, man. I definitely didn't like this one as much as most of his other work.

Not Egan's best.......2006-06-14

I'm a big fan of Greg Egan, so I was looking forward to reading Teranesia. The novel relies less heavily on technobabble than Egan's other work, so the author is forced to explore his characters more deeply than he has in the past. For the most part, Egan pulls this off, though some of Prabir's actions towards the end of the novel stretch the reader's credibility. The author's handling of Prabir's sexuality is also the most well-done I've ever seen in a sci-fi novel. The novel tends to suffer in its conclusion, however, which seems rushed and ultimately unsatisfying. Egan may have resolved Prabir's problems, for the most part, but exactly what is going on with the island is never really explained. If the author was going for a sense of mystery, he didn't really pull it off. I can almost recommend the whole book, though, on the strength of its hilarious satire of postmodernism. It would be even more amusing if so many of the ideas he satirizes didn't sound like they were lifted from papers delivered at last year's Modern Language Association convention.

Amok evolution.......2006-05-11

Poor Prahir grows up with fosterparents Keith and Amita.
People who do dodgy Science - Keith
with a Ph.D. in X-Files studies and Amita
with a Masters in Diana studies -
surely making a mockery of science and
degrees in science.
And Egan makes it pretty clear what we are to
think about Keith and Amita - before
we leave for the Amok Evolution on the
indonesian island of Teranesia.

But somehow Egan doesn't manage to make the
Teranesia amok evolution
anymore plausible than Keith and
Amitas X files studies. I miss the
outrageous idea, that you find in so many of
his other books, that makes you go
"yeah, thats it. Thats right. Thats how it is going to be".
Here it is just plausible, but nothing more.
You doubt the amok evolution plot a little as we go along,
but are interested in the characters.
Perhaps evolution in itself without the Egan
augmentation is simply more than weird enough?

But still the book is an exciting read and would
make an excellent movie.

-Simon

Not what I expected.......2005-01-16

I have read a few books by Greg Egan, such as Distress. I expect some serious science and good character development.

This book did not impress me at all. The story was somewhat interesting, but the conclusion was unsatisfying.

The main theme seemed to be built on a guilt complex. I found the rationale for the character quite illogical, and I did not like it much.

My first Greg Egan book........2004-01-16

If I had my druthers, I'd give this a 3.5, rather than a 3. I agree with other reviewers who commented on how good this book was for the first three quarters and how mind-bogglingly obtuse it became in the last quarter. I really enjoyed the development of Prabir's character, and I liked him so much, despite his quirks, which I attributed to the incredible loss he suffered. This made the revelations later on about his feelings of guilt and perfidy even more interesting, because I had seen (and continued to see) him as a remarkably heroic character.

Then the book moves past the complex and compelling human interest portion of the story and goes into a nearly orgiastic recitation of genetic gobbledygook that, quite frankly, made my head hurt. I read it, but I didn't understand it, and all I wanted to do was get through it, in the hope that all that was so human and appealing about the story would return.

Unfortunately, I was disappointed. Still, the first three/fourths of this story were marvelous, and I took enough of a good impression away to be willing to read another Greg Egan book.

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Teranesia by Egan, Greg
Greg Egan
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OEXMHA

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TERANESIA.

Manufacturer: Victor Gollancz, London, 1999.
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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Teranesia
Greg Egan
Manufacturer: Grupo Editorial AJEC
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ASIN: 8496013065

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Illustrated Introduction on the Teachings of the 7 Rays.......2000-06-07

An essential illustrated guide to the teachings on the Seven Rays as given to Alice Bailey by the Tibetan master Djwhal Khul. Further recommended reading- "KYBALION" by Three Initiates ; "ZELATOR" by Mark Hedsel ; "What The Ancient Wisdom Expects of its Disciples" by Manly P. Hall ; "The Initiation of the World" by Vera Alder Stanley ; and the books by Alice Bailey and Rudolph Steiner. Then, advanced students on the path can join the Rosicrucians (AMORC).

A MUST prior to reading all Alice Bailey s books.......1998-07-30

This book gives you a visual understanding and better comprehension of all Alice Bailey series. Without this book you would feel lost at times trying to understand the concept.

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Thyme and the river: Recipes from Oregon's Steamboat Inn
Sharon Van Loan
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Thyme And The River - Recipes From Oregon's Steamboat Inn
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This beautifully photographed volume surveys the Japanese motorcycles which have helped steer the American cycling habit since the late 1950s. Examples of first models, last models, and the most unusual Japanese machines to hit American shores are covered in detail with over 450 color photos and accompanying text. Almost every cycle shown is 100 percent original or has been painstakingly returned to its original form. The first machines from Japan were simple, lightweight units that could be ridden by anyone, and opened up new roads for the neophyte rider. As the years progressed, the offerings from the Japanese makers became the ones to beat.

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Memorable Japanese Motorcycles - 1959-1996
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Correction!

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Digital Decorating

Digital Decorating: Designs and Projects from Your Home Computer
Tami D. Peterson
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Digital Decorating
Designs and Projects from Your Home Computer
By Tami D. Peterson

Let your computer dress up your decor!

This inspiration-packed volume offers an exciting new way to decorate, using your personal computer as a design tool! Learn to manipulate clip art, photos, and other images and then feature them in fabulous home furnishings, all fashioned with the help of a common home computer.

· Includes more than 20 stylish projects--such as pillows, towels, lampshades, curtains, furniture, and one-of-a-kind wall treatments--to personalize with any image

· Easy-to-learn techniques require only a home computer, a color printer, and a few popular software programs

· Chapters offer decorating ideas for every room in the home, including the family room, bedroom, kitchen, bath, and garden room

· Covers the latest computer gadgets for computer-savvy stitchers and crafters, from scanners and digital cameras to specialty printer papers

Get creative with your home computer and discover an infinite number of designs to decorate your home!

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Correction!.......2002-05-07

Hello Digital Decorators!

Pardon my publisher's editor note, which stated only over 20 projects in my book. There are actually over 40! I hope you like them all, and try your own! (Check out HGTV.com, as well, for several of my projects seen on "Decorating with Style" and "The Carol Duvall Show".)

Best regards,

--Tami Peterson
author, "Digital Decorating"

Projects using a personal computer as a design tool.......2001-07-06

Tami Peterson's Digital Decorating offers designs and projects using a personal computer as a design tool. From manipulating clip art and photo images to translating them to home furnishing projects from pillows to lampshades, this provides techniques which require only a home computer, color printer and easily-used software programs.

Digital Decorating.......2001-03-16

Ms. Peterson has a unique and talented approach to home design targeted to the pc friendly community. Her ideas are refreshing and spur the mind to think of limitless ideas for home projects. I will be sure to purchase her sequel to this excellent first time authored book. I look forward to testing out many of her fun and attractive projects.

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Legal issues of personal status -- including those implicating women's rights -- continue to be a focal area of shari'a judicial practice in the Muslim world. Changing ideas of marriage, relations between the spouses, divorce, and the rights of divorcees and widows challenge the courts around the Arab world. In this context, the areas that came under the Palestinian Authority in 1994 command particular attention: the particular political and socio-economic circumstances that surround Palestine's progress toward full statehood have created a remarkable crucible for the synthesis of a new family law in the Arab world.

This rigorous study of the interpretation and application of personal status law in the Palestinian West Bank (and to a lesser extent in the Gaza Strip) is the most extensive yet attempted. It presents a systematic analysis of the application of Islamic family law in nearly 10,000 marriage contracts, 1000 deeds of talaq (unilateral divorce) or khul' (divorce with renunciation), and 2000 judicial rulings over a time span that includes Jordanian rule and Israeli military occupation, updating this with material from the beginning of the jurisdiction of the Palestinian Authority.

Taken into account are the sources of law used in the shari'a courts of the West Bank: the successive codes of family law (the Jordanian Law of Personal Status 1976 and its predecessor the Jordanian Law of Family Rights 1951), and traditional Hanafi rules and texts, along with commentaries by prominent contemporary shari'a scholars and Appeal Court decisions -- as well as the amendments and modifications being sought by civil society actors (notably women's groups) in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, as well as in Jordan. Beyond the Code is a rich resource for anyone wishing to understand the present disposition of Islamic family law in this particularly compelling context and to consider its possible future development. In addition, for practitioners and academics in family law, it is an important source of information and insight into the personal status law that affects this part of the world's Arab community, and the expectations and aspirations held of it in a changing world.

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Dennis Potter was a most remarkable, idiosyncratic, and influential screen playwright, writing such shows as "The Singing Detective" and "Pennies From Heaven" for British TV during the last half of the 20th century. In dramatizing the anxiety of his own inner journey, he articulated for the millions watching his shows their own distresses about the fast-changing cultural environment. The Passion of Dennis Potter represents the first collection of international essays on this celebrated playwright. Along with essays from the world's leading scholars and experts on Potter, there are personal memoirs from friends and colleagues who knew and worked with him. The result is an impressive collection which expertly dissects the themes and oeuvre of one of the major contemporary figures of British drama and literature, tracing his changing class, religious, and personal values from his debut in 1965 right up to his death from cancer in 1994.

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