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David Lean's Film of Doctor Zhivago
DVD - 2010
Traces the life of surgeon-poet Yury Zhivago before and during the Russian Revolution. Married to an upper-class girl who is devoted to him, yet he finds himself in love with an unfortunate woman who becomes his muse. Zhivago becomes torn between...
Elfrieda, a world-renowned pianist, glamorous, wealthy, happily married: she wants to die. Yolandi, divorced, broke, sleeping with the wrong men as she tries to find true love: she desperately wants to keep her older sister alive. But Elf's latest...
"Girl, Woman, Other is a celebration of the diversity of Black British experience. Moving, hopeful, and inventive, this extraordinary novel is a vivid portrait of the state of contemporary Britain and the legacy of Britain's colonial history in...
"Dan Chaon's Ill Will blew me away. I found the story reminiscent of Palahniuk's Fight Club, but with much deeper psychological portraits. The book is not for the faint of heart, though--Dan piles tragedy on top of tragedy. He turns his characte..."
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