Clara Callan: A NovelHarper Collins, 2009 M03 17 - 432 páginas In a small town in Canada, Clara Callan reluctantly takes leave of her sister, Nora, who is bound for New York. It's a time when the growing threat of fascism in Europe is a constant worry, and people escape from reality through radio and the movies. Meanwhile, the two sisters -- vastly different in personality, yet inextricably linked by a shared past -- try to find their places within the complex web of social expectations for young women in the 1930s. While Nora embarks on a glamorous career as a radio-soap opera star, Clara, a strong and independent-minded woman, struggles to observe the traditional boundaries of a small and tight-knit community without relinquishing her dreams of love, freedom, and adventure. However, things aren't as simple as they appear -- Nora's letters eventually reveal life in the big city is less exotic than it seems, and the tranquil solitude of Clara's life is shattered by a series of unforeseeable events. These twists of fate require all of Clara's courage and strength, and finally put the seemingly unbreakable bond between the sisters to the test. |
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Términos y frases comunes
A. J. Cronin afternoon Anyway asked Aunt band music believe Bryden Central Park West child Christmas church Clara Callan course dark Dear Clara Dear Nora dinner East 33rd Street Evelyn everything face Father feel felt Ferris wheel Frank Friday girl going happened happy hear Helen Jackson Henry Hill hope hour imagine Italy kind kisses letter Lewis Linden listening live look Marion married Meadowvale Milton Miss Callan Monday morning mother movie never Nora's o'clock Ontario Sunday perhaps phantom lover radio remember Rudy Vallee Saturday seems sister someone sorry sound staring Street New York summer suppose sure talk telephone tell thank things thought told Toronto train Uxbridge station village walked watched Wednesday week weekend Whitfield window winter woman women wonder words worry write yesterday young وو
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Página 94 - My tables, — meet it is, I set it down, That one may smile, and smile, and be a villain; At least, I am sure, it may be so in Denmark : [ Writing. So, uncle, there you are. Now to my word ; It is, Adieu, adieu ! remember me.
Página 49 - I saw eternity the other night Like a great ring of pure and endless light, All calm as it was bright; And round beneath it, time in hours, days, years, Driv'n by the spheres, Like a vast shadow moved, in which the world And all her train were hurled...
Página 103 - WHITHER, O splendid ship, thy white sails crowding, Leaning across the bosom of the urgent West, That fearest nor sea rising, nor sky clouding, Whither away, fair rover, and what thy quest? Ah ! soon, when Winter has all our vales opprest, When skies are cold and misty, and hail is hurling, Wilt thou glide on the blue Pacific, or rest In a summer haven asleep, thy white sails furling. I there before thee, in the country that well thou knowest, Already arrived am inhaling...
Página 49 - I shall know why, when time is over, And I have ceased to wonder why; Christ will explain each separate anguish In the fair schoolroom of the sky.
Página 155 - ... against the bank in a calm regular rhythm. The experiences of a man who lives alone and in silence are both vaguer and more penetrating than those of people in society; his thoughts are heavier, more odd, and touched always with melancholy. Images and observations which could easily be disposed of by a glance, a smile, an exchange of opinion, will occupy him unbearably, sink deep into the silence, become full of meaning, become life, adventure, emotion. Loneliness ripens the eccentric, the daringly...
Página 73 - A week had passed since they had struck up an acquaintance. It was a holiday. It was close indoors, while in the street the wind whirled the dust about and blew people's hats off. One was thirsty all day, and Gurov often went into the restaurant and offered Anna Sergeyevna a soft drink or ice cream. One did not know what to do with oneself. In the evening when the wind had abated they went out on the pier to watch the steamer come in. There were a great many people walking about the dock; they had...
Página 65 - UNTO thee will I cry, O LORD my rock ; be not silent to me : lest, if thou be silent to me, I become like them that go down into the pit.
Página 175 - Severn — I — lift me up — I am dying — I shall die easy ; don't be frightened — be firm, and thank God it has come.
Página 54 - Unto the hills around do I lift up My longing eyes; O whence for me shall my salvation come, From whence arise? From God the Lord doth come my certain aid. From God the Lord who heaven and earth hath made.
Página 85 - One, two, Buckle my shoe; Three, four, Shut the door; Five, six, Pick up sticks; Seven, eight, Lay them straight; Nine, ten, A good fat hen; Eleven, twelve, Who will delve?
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Setting the Agenda: Jean Royce and the Shaping of Queen's University Roberta Hamilton Vista previa limitada - 2002 |