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A carregar... Veils (original 1999; edição 1999)por Pat McGreal
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Adira ao LibraryThing para descobrir se irá gostar deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. 697 The book uses photographs (as well as digital and painted artwork) of elaborate sets and costumed actors to carry the story, presenting a richly textured Victorian colonial style and exuding a lush, Middle Eastern mystique. It's a seamless blend of evocative, sensous photography that merges with digitally generated backgrounds to create a surprisingly real time and place of long ago or far away. In short, it evokes a mythic, Arabian Nights-like landscape of the mind's imaginings. The artwork alone is enough to make you read this graphic novel. Vivian, a young English housewife, accompanies her insufferable husband on a diplomatic mission to an un-named Arabic country. There, they happen upon the local slave market, where Vivian becomes fascinated by a female slave. Later, visiting the sultan along with her husband, Vivian is invited, quite improbably, to visit the royal harem. It really begins, though, when women of the East meet a woman of the West. There she hears the story of Rosalind, a white aristocrat kipnapped into the harem years before. For years, woman are preceived in certain ways and must uphold their appearance and thoughts in a certain way to uphold their status. Well, Veils does the opposite. It allows the protagonist the daring decision to liberate her feminity and desires and in the process, sheds all her outer burdens. Truely literary and deep. Deals with the orient, feminism, and of course male domination on the female body. The story is all about dualities: rank vs. power, public vs. closed societies, and real vs. fable, to name just a few. The dualities are so much sharper for being so close beside each other, as close and as far away as the harem behind the women's door. Veils is a tale of eroticism and intrigue, and also something of a psychological mystery. It's up to you to peel away the veils -- one by one -- to learn the potentially deadly truth. Book Details: Title Veils Author Pat McGreal Reviewed By Purplycookie sem críticas | adicionar uma crítica
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This trade paperback was originally released to great acclaim as a hardcover in Spring of 1999. Reviewed in a diverse range of magazines from Entertainment Weekly to Computer Graphics World, this graphic novel is an historical fiction piece steeped in eroticism and intrigue.Juxtaposing photography, computer-generated effects and backgrounds, and pages of fully-painted artwork, this piece portrays the opulent, but tortured existence of Vivian Pearse-Packard. Vivian is a newlywed whose British husband is an embittered ambassador. During a visit to the Sultan's palace, she must enter a domain of enslaved women and watchful eunuchs: the harem of the Sultan.For mature audiences, this title provides both a thrilling story and incredible, cutting-edge illustration. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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