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  • Eyes of Horus
    Joan Grant
    The third of Joan Grant’s 'Far Memory' novels, Eyes of Horus, set in Egypt at the close of the dark XIth Dynasty, is a profound commentary on the power of fear and the unlimited ability of light to shatter it.Eyes of Horus is the story, told in the first person, of Ra-ab, heir to the Nomarch of the Oryx, one of eighteen provinces in Egypt. He comes to learn that the Oryx is dif...
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  • Lord of the Horizon
    Joan Grant
    The fourth of Joan Grant’s 'Far Memory' novels, Lord of the Horizon, set in Egypt at the close of the dark XIth Dynasty, is a profound commentary on the power of fear and the unlimited ability of light to shatter it. It is the sequel to Eyes of Horus.Lord of the Horizon is the story, told in the first person, of Ra-ab, heir to the Nomarch of the Oryx. Ra-ab is twenty-one as the...
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  • So Moses Was Born
    Joan Grant
    The seventh of Joan Grant’s 'Far Memory' novels, So Moses Was Born is set in Egypt, in the time just before the birth of Moses.The story of Moses is a familiar one: found in the bull rushes, Moses’ upbringing in the court of Egypt gave him the influence and power to set the Israelites free. Joan Grant enlarges the picture by depicting the events that lead up to the discovery of...
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  • Life as Carola
    Joan Grant
    The second of Joan Grant’s 'Far Memory' novels, Life as Carola gives a fascinating glimpse into life in Italy just before the advent of the Renaissance. Through Carola’s eyes, we see the beginnings of modern theater, and the tremendous extremes between the life of nobility and the common man.Carola was the illegitimate daughter of an Italian nobleman, the Lord of the Griffin, i...
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  • Far Memory
    Joan Grant
    During the last twenty years, seven books of mine have been published as historical novels which to me are biographies of previous lives I have known. Far Memory is the autobiography of my first thirty years in the twentieth century.From early childhood, often to my extreme discomfort, I was sometimes aware beyond the usual range of the five senses. I tried to ignore the implicat...
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  • Return to Elysium
    Joan Grant
    The sixth of Joan Grant’s 'Far Memory' novels, Return to Elysium is set in the second century BC among the islands of Ancient Greece as well as in Rome before its rise to imperial power.Lucina of Greece was orphaned at a young age and brought up by foster parents. The story begins when she is 13 and is sent to a place called Elysium for study under the tutelage of her philosoph...
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  • Pornography Embodied
    Joan Mason-Grant
    What does it mean to re-conceptualize pornography as a material practice rather than as speech? Sidestepping the legal debates over their civil ordinance, and drawing on phenomenology of the lived body, Mason-Grant returns to the innovative core of the Dworkin-MacKinnon critique of mainstream pornography. She develops a ’practice paradigm’ that captures and extends their insigh...
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    68,46 €